Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

After action report: Done (for you)
After action report for the client: Almost done.

I want to thank @deviantollam and @tinker for their help, guidance and tips along the way. You made this happen. It is thanks to you that the client is crying in their coffee now.

https://m4iler.cloud/posts/lets-get-physical/

Let's do drugs. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/2/13/2368482/-Cartoon-New-from-Trump-RX

Meta adding face recognition technology to its smart glasses would violate the privacy rights of millions of people and cost the company billions of dollars in legal battles. It should abandon its plans. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans

If your glasses are recording me I feel that gives me the right to punch them off your face.

This story shows that Pete Hegseth is as qualified to be defense secretary as I am to be a neurosurgeon.

“It was the first known domestic use of the weapon by federal officials outside of a controlled environment, according to two people with knowledge of the technology, and it was done without the F.A.A.’s approval, in a possible violation of the law.”

(Gift link)

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/14/us/politics/el-paso-airspace-closure-faa-pentagon.html?unlocked_article_code=1.MFA.Zuy_.4Ijl9nL_AI1S&smid=nytcore-ios-share

This study is over 6 months old but it still resonates. AI tools can feel more productive but devs tend to ignore the time spent prompting, waiting for results and refining.

Claude Code took 10 minutes to summarize my unread chats and email today. It would have been faster by hand.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/using-ai-might-actually-slow-down-experienced-devs

Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past 👓🔴

Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/meta-wants-to-scan-every-face-you-walk-past/

I could see he was curious, but I knew he had no interest in lengthy history lessons, so I said, “I can do it in 15 minutes. I can give you a 15-minute history lesson that will explain ICE and our current politics.”

“Can I use a timer?” he asked.

I said certainly.

I prepared the lesson, and my nephew started the timer.

For what I told him, click here: https://terikanefield.com/let-my-people-in/

My sixteen-year-old Chilean nephew was curious about what’s going on with ICE.

In Chile, the word “conservative” is associated with capitalism, and the word “liberal” is associated with communism. He observed that Donald Trump says he’s a capitalist but doesn’t act like one.

I told him things are different here and labels have different meanings because we have a different history.

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Kansas City Woman sets fire to warehouse scheduled to be a concentration camp.
https://youtu.be/6QDAxEv_1dE

#resistance #usa #ICE

Report: Workers halt production at Belgian arms factory over Gaza

Employees “stopped the machines & walked out after learning that an Israeli military officer had been received at the factory."

Workers said the action was “a clear message against arms-industry complicity" with Israel.

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260214-workers-halt-production-at-belgian-arms-factory-over-israeli-officer-visit/

#USPol #Belgium #EUPol #StopArmingIsrael #Strike #news #Palestine .

Obviously we at XR would like to congratulate President Trump on his receipt of the inaugural 'Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal ward, which is almost as prestigious as the FIFA Peace Prize and neither are made up by sycophants to appease a tyrant at all.

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.

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@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?