Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I started an art project, and here’s a write-up I did on experimentation I did for the project. https://manchicken.com/2026/02/15/welding-rubber-chickens-lessons-learned/

Roblox, Reddit and Discord users must use biometric #ageverification tool backed by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel

@JamesBaker says:

“People are worried, and angry, about having to hand over biometric scans of their face to overseas companies just to access online platforms. This includes children.

“Users deserve to know who is behind these systems, how their data is being used, and to have a real choice about who verifies their identity online.”

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/roblox-reddit-and-discord-users-compelled-to-use-biometric-id-system-backed-by-palantir-co-founder-peter-thiel/

The idea that Donald Trump was a temporary anomaly in American politics that will go back to normal when he’s gone is sadly mistaken. He is a symptom, not the cause.

He recognized that 40% of the electorate loves white supremacy and if you throw in homophobia/transphobia and low taxes, you could get up to 50%.

Now the masks are off and they aren’t going back on.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/12/elon-musk-posts-january-white-supremacists

New video about. This one's about:

-The 20ish% of US farmers who aren't right-wing

-Why we'll probably stay a minority

-And what our existence can tell us about deep-red politics.

the 20ish% of farmers who aren't right-wing. Why we'll probably stay a minority. And what our existence can tell us about deep-red politics.

Happy #ilovefs #ilovefreesoftwareday!

Switching to #opensource is the best thing you can gift your organization, your colleagues, your users, and us, the citizens.

This is a hard work, but necessary work. You're not just migrating software - you're building democracy and freedom for future generations.

In case you would like to learn more about leading change from closed source to FOSS, I shared my best practices recently with the audience at #fosdem https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/7YMJST-how-to-lead-change-to-open-source/

So many evil aspects of the Trump regime, but normalizing sexual abuse of minors by rich white men has to be near the top.

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 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"