Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

here’s a worked example of why nobody believes firefox’s AI kill switch will be anything but a marketing wedge

these showed up in my File menu, displacing the New Private Window item and fucking up my muscle memory, in spite of having browser.ml.enabled set to false. the setting for this is a new nonsensically named option, extensions.ml.enabled. a merry fuck you to the guys who showed up in my replies telling me to just disable the config flag I already disabled months ago.

Obviously going to have to mute a bunch of tech people who've had their brains rotted by the ELIZA effect. smdh.

I suppose I could add this to the blog post as Exhibit A

If this sounds familiar, it's likely because these kinds of mutations are a great way of testing your unit tests. There are some neat libraries out there for doing that! See cargo-mutants for instance.

But this one doesn't just modify the AST—it performs surgery on the raw text, preserving comments and whitespace structure.

It was really fun to write!

I made a tool that converts open source code into LLM poison: https://codeberg.org/timmc/scraggle

It mutates Rust source code in ways that *preserve* the ability to compile the code. (That is, you can't detect the changes by looking for compiler errors.) For example, it switches `+` and `*`, or `==` and `!=`.

If you fork a Rust repo, run this tool on it, and push it somewhere, then crawlers will end up ingesting all sorts of incorrect code.

#scraggle #RustLang #LLMPoisoning

STOP KILLER COPS
STOP ICE DEPORTATIONS
STOP PAYING YOUR RENT
STOP FUNDING GENOCIDE
STOP THE TERF AGENDA

9" x 2" red vinyl stickers with glossy laminate. Made with durable materials to handle the elements sun, snow, rain, pepper spray, sleet, etc. https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_list&c=247

I wrote on Boing Boing about the cool new exhibit at NYC's Society of Illustrators on the show poster king, Mike King.
https://boingboing.net/2026/02/16/from-punk-rocker-to-poster-king-mike-kings-5-decade-journey.html

Celebrate Presidents Day with President Deals' Discount Prescriptions! https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/02/16

AI productivity gains are being to show up in economic metrics.

According to the Financial Times, US productivity increased of 2.7% for 2025. This is a nearly doubling the 1.4% annual average that characterised the past decade.

TL;DR The job market is shrinking while GDP is going up. The K-shaped economy is accelerating.

https://www.ft.com/content/4b51d0b4-bbfe-4f05-b50a-1d485d419dc5

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Danke an den @FediPunkGuide dafür <3
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New post:

"A newbie's guide to self-hosting with #YunoHost. Part 4: backups"

🔗 : https://blog.elenarossini.com/a-newbies-guide-to-self-hosting-with-yunohost-part-4-backups/

Or: this is how newbies do it.

Dear sysadmins, you have all my respect and admiration, truly. One day I will learn how to do incremental backups with Borg, I promise.

#blog #sysadmin #selfhosting

"In a world in which lies replace truth and black becomes white, we need something to hang on to. A line that we do not cross. And that line, if it’s anything, is surely the rape and abuse of children? In Europe, at least, that line is holding. The revelations in these documents have caused political noise and heat and actual consequences."

~ Carole Cadwalladr

#Epstein #Trump #EconomicElites #pedophiles #coverup #media
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https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-us-coup-one-year-on

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/

Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

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

Back in the 90s we had a great term for stuff like “building AI satellite factories on the Moon” and “we’ll just envelop the solar system with a Dyson Sphere”.

It’s pretty technical and I forgive you if you’ve never heard of it, the term is “investment scam”.

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.