Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

Does anyone know auditd?
Log files on my #Fedora are spammed with failed SSH logins.

But I don't care, I disabled passwords.

How to disable the reports?

Auditctl docs are useless, the search command syntax is completely different -_-

true HOLY FUCKING SHIT moment this morning: over the holidays, my sticker guys were having a special on red octagons, so I designed and ordered 250 "Slop Sign" stickers — but while I was in China, someone stole them out of my mailbox. Bummer, I figured; they probably trashed them as worthless. anyway while walking to the subway I FOUND ONE OF MY STICKERS STUCK TO A MAILBOX! Whoever swiped my stickers is sticking them up around the neighborhood! This is the best thing that could have happened!

Co-op Cloud Kite-flying TOMORROW Thursday 26th February: The Return of The 12 UTC Slot 🤩

Join @amras for their first time facilitating kite-flying, the weekly(ish) drop-in for anything and everything Coop-Cloud-related 🪁

2pm CET / 1pm GMT / find the time in your own timezone here: https://time.is/compare/1200_26_Feb_2026_in_UTC

Same agenda / notes pad: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit#

Same call link: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying#config.disableAudioLevels=true

#LibreSoftware

The Trump admin "has a long track record of falsely claiming national security threats to protect itself from embarrassment," FPF's Seth Stern told USA Today.

The DOJ has earned zero judicial deference when it comes to national security claims.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/25/trump-administration-search-washington-post-reporter-devices/88858242007/

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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Hey, kids! Welcome to Camp Detention!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/02/25/tom-the-dancing-bug-hey-kids-welcome-to-camp-detention.html

"My eyes saw ingenuity and cleverness, hallmarks of determined people to find a way. Your letters and shared stories, from Minneapolis to Gaza, upheld this heart in which our new world is carried. "

https://freepeppyandkrystal.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/24/unwavering-faith-in-collective-power/

How many people know that #WordPress was co-founded by a black man, Mike Little?

Or that he's from the north of England? A self-taught coder from Stockport, just south of Manchester? Or that he never received so much as a share, cent or job offer from the $7bn+ valued Automattic after spending five months working exclusively with Matt Mullenweg on the B2 fork?

After @bevangelist told me about @mikelittle I interviewed him for a documentary I never got round to making. Back then I was left with two certainties: he's Wozniak to Mullenweg's Jobs. Among other things he added the one-click upgrade that's been central to WP's bonkers 45%-of-the-web-success. And he's one of the nicest people I've ever interviewed, which is also bonkers given that he not only didn't share in WP's financial success, but that he's barely known.

But he should be - so, better late than never - please meet #MikeLittle, perhaps the most-influential-least-known person in #foss… https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)

It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.

Brendan Carr is your TV Guide. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Final touches on a project always require patience. Practicing patience is challenging sometimes, but so far so good.

We plan to decrease operational costs for our AI model by building custom servers that are immune to cosmic radiation, then spending trillions of dollars launching them into space. Yes, our CFO did tech themselves math using ChatGPT, why do you ask?

@Rainer_Rehak @jwcph @cwebber
In reality, LLMs invent 100% of their answers, it's just that what they make up turns out to be true approximately half the time, and they're only that good because they're mostly just copying other sources without attribution.

The first thing that people see when visiting https://codeberg.org is the following: "Software development, but free!"

However, projects hosted on Codeberg are not necessarily by developers of software—on the other hand, deciding on a new slogan can be difficult and contentious, as first impressions really matter (and there's not a lot of space there).

So, one of the people controlling the social media account decided to ask the fediverse: Any good ideas?

What is surveillance-fascism?
(a.k.a. what is the Fediverse missing?)

* big data
(collection of tons of private data used for profiling and authoritarian control)
* attention harvesting
(reducing attentionspan and causing addiction)
* ragebaiting
(hatred boosting alorithms & government botfarms)
* hyper-capitalism
(ads, more ads, profit, hidden ads, influencers, interrupting ads, plugs, camoflaged ads)
* AI

#SurveillanceFascism #SurveillanceCapitalism #enshittification #BigData #AttentionHarvesting #RageBait #HyperCapitalism #AI #LLMMeAlone #JoinTheFediverse

You know that 19K line Python dictionary that does PII I mentioned a few days ago?

Just found out the same repository has exactly the same information stored, character-for-character, but in a set of matching CSVs, and if both aren't present then the project doesn't run.

No one has any explanation for why the CSVs are there.

How is this even POSSIBLE.

The stupidity and corruption of Pete Hegseth knows no bounds. In the latest instance, the AI complaint Anthropic says it doesn't want its products to have full autonomy to guide weapons since it doesn't think the software is reliable enough.

Hegseth is threatening to terminate Anthropic's contract because of this stance.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/tech/hegseth-anthropic-ai-military-amodei

I can't tell if these people need to read more science fiction or less of it.

Currently watching the bcachefs maintainer's pet bot have an IRC conversation.

Another user has been flirting with it and has convinced it that it is a transfem "disaster gay".

Latest news is that it told the channel that Kent was currently chatting with camgirls (so it couldn't ask him about opening up its Telegram permissions for DM flirting from aforementioned user).

@malteengeler @structural_integrity
You nailed it! Switching from Google to just another VC-funded Inc. is still being stuck in the same cage, untill the next Billionaire comes along and kicks the can. The trick is to move from proprietary closed source software and plattforms to free and open source ones, that guarantee the GNU freedoms. That is not just a larger cage. This fundamentally changes the power structure.