Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

hot take: vibe coders are just wannabe managers who enjoy micromanaging and gambling

Do you hate #passwords as much as I do?
Can't we have public key #authentication everywhere? Like in my #email client?

Yes we can! Without #authkeys!

Because #TLS supports not just #server side #certificates , but also the client can be verified.

My #Dovecot now logs me in without a password :D I just need to possess a valid (unlocked) private key. The secret never crosses the network.

Next step: make sure the decrypted key is never written to #swap .

#networking #security

Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them - https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/internet_history_initiative/ "The Internet History Initiative wants future historians to have a chance to understand how human progress and technical progress align"

Don't anthropomorphize LLMs, language is important. Say "the bot generated some text" not "the AI replied". Use "this document contains machine-generated text" not "this work is AI-assisted". See how people squirm when you call out their slop this way.

AP: Nonprofit libraries ordered by State Department to stop processing passport applications
Politics Feb 13, 2026 7:51 PM EST

NORWICH, Conn. (AP) — The U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide to cease processing passport applications, disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on and that has run smoothly for years....

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/nonprofit-libraries-ordered-by-state-department-to-stop-processing-passport-applications

#passports #libraries

This is not an accidental thing. You don't get random spots on your screenshots by accident. It's the company deliberately bloating people's storage for their own data.

As for the article itself: https://nostalgebraist.tumblr.com/post/785766737747574784/the-void

The Firefox extension I used to archive that web page: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

#digitalarchiving

The Swiss government has ended its contract with American analytics company Palantir, after federal agencies in the country rejected Palantir at least nine times over seven years. The reason? Security concerns that should make other countries think carefully:

- Risk of US intelligence gaining access to sensitive data
- Potential loss of national sovereignty
- Dependence upon foreign specialists in crisis situations

Swiss authorities won't touch their software with a bargepole.

1/2

@aj I like this:

"a place to have conversations online without algorithms, AI, and ads getting in the way."

Can I use it as a tagline on piefed.social?

Not quite the final chapter! Benj Edwards has taken responsiblity in this Bluesky post:

https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p

For those who won't head over there, a summary:

First, this happened while sick with COVID. Second, Edwards claims this was a new experiment using Claude Code to extract source material. Claude refused to process the blog post (because Shambaugh mentions harassment). Edwards then took the blog post text and pasted it into ChatGPT, which evidently is the source of the fictitious quotes. Edwards takes full responsibility and apologizes, recognizing the irony of an AI reporter falling prey to this kind of mistake.

The final chapter? The statement from Ars:

On Friday afternoon, Ars Technica published an article containing fabricated quotations generated by an AI tool and attributed to a source who did not say them. That is a serious failure of our standards. Direct quotations must always reflect what a source actually said.

https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/editors-note-retraction-of-article-containing-fabricated-quotations

While Flock claims ALPR (Automated License Plate Reader) cameras keep neighborhoods safe, the evidence tells a different story. Join our livestream "Get the Flock Out of Our City" on 2/19 at 12pm PT to find out more! https://www.eff.org/livestream-flock

Codeberg Pages documentation now lists git-pages as the deployment method to use going forward! https://docs.codeberg.org/codeberg-pages/

thanks to everyone on the @Codeberg team for making this collaboration possible

I can be angry about rising fascism and also angry about facial recognition built into surveillance glasses at the same time, not only because these things are directly related, but because I contain fucking multitudes and all them are mad all the goddamn time.

Which email service (not self hosted for 2 reasons, effort, and deny-listing) do you recommend for own domain addresses, that has IMAP access and is not US nor EU (not crazy about Russia either, but perhaps distributing my data over different dictatorships is not the worst idea, they will never work together to get the full picture)?

I currently use Zoho, the free one, no IMAP, just web mail, no PGP, so I encrypt a text file with what I would normally write in the email body and attach, but that makes communication with non-IT people difficult. Now I want something I can simply use in Thunderbird and I am willing to pay.

Fastmail?

#email #emailEncryption #fastmail #bigtech #privacy

This is quite a good interview with Prof Carl Bergstrom (from my alma mater, University of Washington) on 'AI' https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturday/audio/2019023013/professor-carl-bergstrom-living-with-ai

This is the first in-depth study to trace the political trajectory of punk in post-Franco Spain.

Use coupon code "February" at check-out to get a discount and listen to the full Spanish Punk playlist (curated by the author) at the link in our bio. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1770

🔵 This week's comic,
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Hey friends; if you know someone who needs help (paid) modernizing an older application please let me know.

I really wish that people who made automated code tests part of their hiring process would have people test them before handing them off to candidates. Maybe test them with people who haven't been involved in coming up with the question.

Typos and difficult-to-understand language are huge accessibility problems for applicants with disabilities.

Some impressions from this years #FOSDEM : https://ev.phosh.mobi/de/blog/fosdem-2026/

#Phosh #LinuxMobile