Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

6 comps, 113 bands from 21 countries, over $50k raised in 2 years for humanitarian aid through Gaza Soup Kitchen, direct support of families, and buying esims for people in Gaza.

We are moving on to other forms of fundraising for Palestine for the time being but please support the comps and spread the word, especially TOMORROW Friday Feb 6 as there are no Bandcamp fees. As the world turns its eyes away from the suffering and devastation in Gaza, our support is needed even more.

You can buy the comps at https://thedissidents.bandcamp.com

We have limited tapes left of yes liberation, pomegranate seeds, olive seeds and poppy seeds, and we also have no genocide on LP and amazing anarcho/mob inspired t-shirts designed by Carry on Screening.

In addition all proceeds from any dissidents downloads and merch sold on Bandcamp Friday will be donated.

Thanks so much to everyone who has generously given their time and talent to this project.

Graphic by @cruelnoise

Inside Cleveland’s pay-as-you-can plumbing co-op that sees clean water as a human right

https://signalcleveland.org/inside-clevelands-pay-as-you-can-plumbing-co-op-that-sees-clean-water-as-a-human-right-peoples-plumbling/

Democracy? What Democracy? It's all about the old mighty cold dollar... ->

"When the World Wide Web went live in the early 1990s, its founders hoped it would be a space for anyone to share information and collaborate. But today, the free and open web is shrinking.

The Internet Archive has been recording the history of the internet and making it available to the public through its Wayback Machine since 1996. Now, some of the world’s biggest news outlets are blocking the archive’s access to their pages.

Major publishers – including The Guardian, The New York Times, the Financial Times, and USA Today – have confirmed they’re ending the Internet Archive’s access to their content.

While publishers say they support the archive’s preservation mission, they argue unrestricted access creates unintended consequences, exposing journalism to AI crawlers and members of the public trying to skirt their paywalls.

Yet, publishers don’t simply want to lock out AI crawlers. Rather, they want to sell their content to data-hungry tech companies. Their back catalogues of news, books and other media have become a hot commodity as data to train AI systems.

https://theconversation.com/news-sites-are-locking-out-the-internet-archive-to-stop-ai-crawling-is-the-open-web-closing-274968

#OpenWeb #Media #InternetArchive #News #Newspapers #Journalism

How often do #AI #chatbots lead users down a harmful path? - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/how-often-do-ai-chatbots-lead-users-down-a-harmful-path/ " Anthropic’s latest paper on “user disempowerment” has some troubling findings. "

Trump admin is “destroying medical research,” Senate report finds - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/trump-admin-is-destroying-medical-research-senate-report-finds/ " In a Senate hearing Tuesday, NIH director dismissed concern about research chaos. "

What does the disappearance of a $100bn deal mean for the #AI economy? - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/05/disapperance-100bn-deal-ai-circular-economy-funding-nvidia-openai easy come, easy go...

Does anyone here know #linux mount namespaces well?

I need to #ssh to an old phone supporting only #RSA but I don't want a huge #container .

When I override /etc/ssh_config in a namespace to add rsa, that file is not owned by root and ssh exits...

#containers #sysadmin

"It is known that the basic function of knowing history is to understand contemporary processes as well as to predict their development in the future. The function of uncovering the secret of history is to understand contemporary processes in an extremely objective and comprehensive scope so that their future development can be predicted with maximum precision and, accordingly, adequately"

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/02/historia-arcana-of-the-nato-pact.html

Slides from my #wayland input method presentation are up now!

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/MVVELP-wayland_input_method_wrap_up/

I'm impressed by the new activity on input methods! Is that the usual post-talk excitement, or will things switch to a new gear?
We'll know in a week or so. Thank you all anyway :)

#FOSDEM #fosdem2025 #fosdem26

#Microsoft releases urgent #Office #patch. Russian-state #hackers pounce.

Russian-state hackers wasted no time exploiting a critical #MicrosoftOffice #vulnerability that allowed them to compromise the devices inside #diplomatic , #maritime , and transport organizations in more than half a dozen countries, researchers said Wednesday.
#russia #security #privacy

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/russian-state-hackers-exploit-office-vulnerability-to-infect-computers/

TOMORROW: Get trained on the tools you need to exercise your constitutional right to monitor ICE and other federal agencies as they terrorize our communities.

Over 200,000 people joined last week’s ICE watch training. Let’s make this call even bigger: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/892452/?utm_source=indivisible

To protect our digital rights, we need the rule of law. When an armed agent of the government breaks the law, the civilian they injure must be made whole. This includes money damages to compensate them for their injury. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/protecting-our-right-sue-federal-agents-who-violate-constitution

Hey friends. If you know anybody who's looking hiring, please send them my way.

Imagine seeing someone wearing Schumer merch. Real life Beavis & Butthead Winger kid.

"Every day computers are making people easier to use"

--Masthead on In Formation Magazine

This guy named Ben Palmer made an "Immigration tip line" and people call it thinking he's ICE.

He records them and shares it with the world.

What do people sound like when reporting their neighbors, coworkers, students? Are they confident they are doing a righteous good thing?

Here the banality of evil in these sheepish suburban voices.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJnkikcrHA0

Just discovered part of my HRT has been discontinued due to an AI note taking error. Gynae did not say discontinue, and I have letters to prove it. Now I may have to be without testosterone until this is proven, which may mean another 6 month wait to resee a gynaecologist via NHS. Hopefully my letters will suffice, but currently unclear.

I am beyond furious. Also, wow. Fuck living in this dystopia.

Keep every medical record you get, you're going to need it in this new terrifying timeline.

A modest proposal: any company or organisation that has a telephone system with a hold or queuing system, must pay as a tax an amount equal to the National Minimum Wage (approx 20p / minute) for every minute every caller is on hold, whether or not that call is eventually answered or the caller drops out.