Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as CBP and the DEA to put automated license plate readers along border highways, a coalition of 38 groups led by EFF and the Imperial Valley Equity & Justice Coalition demanded today of Governor Gavin Newsom and the CA Dept of Transportation. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/coalition-urges-california-revoke-permits-federal-license-plate-reader-surveillance

Rümeysa Öztürk’s case is arguably the most blatant press freedom violation of this century.

The admin didn't even bother to present a pretext — it jailed her and sought to expel her for expressing views about one of the most important issues of our time.

https://freedom.press/issues/fpf-statement-on-dismissal-of-r%C3%BCmeysa-%C3%B6zt%C3%BCrks-deportation-case/

Some of my old comics have aged well!
#discord

https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy/115022420121912435

It's cool and neat that most available writer/illustrator jobs are babysitting A.I. output to train them to replace you.

Love doesn't stink, but these bozos do. https://www.gocomics.com/brian-mcfadden/2026/02/10

Unfortunately Chuck Schumer's list of DHS "reform" demands have been irretrievably lost after Tom Homan tucked them into his shirt like a bib before eating another child.

Found yet another gaping hole in yet another enterprise security tool. It requires a specific set of conditions in which a disgruntled employee would be able to retain access to highly sensitive systems indefinitely, beyond separation.

I’d write it up, but for some reason vendors always quibble about shit like this. They don’t want vulns for their products which require physical access, or machine compromise, or insider threat conditions.

Enterprise features like SAML are _why_ many smaller businesses pay for enterprise licenses.

Let me ask you: If these products don’t protect the organization in those cases, even with those enterprise features, why buy?

#AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It - https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/ "This captures an effect I've been observing in my own work with #LLMs: the productivity boost these things can provide is exhausting."

did my civic duty today:
went to a local donut shop
noticed they had a new ring camera up.
i ask the nice hispanic girl behind the counter "hey you know ice can see through that ring camera, right?"
she goes UHHHH NO WTF I HAVE ONE AT HOME
"tear it out of the wall. yank the power. ring gives ice free access to those"

Hm, did something happen over at Discord?

My favourite IT magazine is contracting far fewer illustrators than it did in the past and now uses an in-house generative AI instead. The editor explains in a podcast how the graphics department team is doing "lovingly crafted prompting" to get "really beautiful" results.

Meanwhile, my favourite graphic novel artist is posting on social media about depression and imminent poverty and is currently begging readers to buy their used LEGO sets and other stuff to make ends meet.

But who's to say if generative AI has bad consequences or not?

Trump has so thoroughly brought Big Journalism to heel that NBC makes a transparently hollow denial that it covered up the Olympic audience's booing of JD Vance. The denial is a pathetic but telling lie. It tells us a lot about the network's disintegrating integrity.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/09/nbc-hid-the-boos-for-jd-vance-wheres-trumps-unfair-editing-lawsuit/

Report Back: The 2025 Union Co-op Symposium

"Much of the information provided on the matter of the union contract came from one of the sponsors of the event, the United Steelworkers (USW). While advocating for an atypical collective bargaining agreement, where worker owners are distinguished from an often elected management of some kind, the main reason for sourcing these contracts with unions like USW came down to 2 main reasons."

https://industrialworker.org/report-back-the-2025-union-co-op-symposium/

Seize the Means: A Leftist Television Collective

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuLlDewv3bk

Does anybody know someone hiring Perl devs?

Not that it will be really big, but in Gtk 4.22, moving the cursor using routing keys of a braille display will finally work.

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/115975854104280463

Final call: help us figure out some new time-slots for Co-op Cloud Kite-flying, our informal weekly(-ish) drop-in call 🪁

Poll closing this Wednesday (in 2 days) 🗳️

­– 3wordchant

I tried @slint again. For real.
Hey, I can finally write #GUI apps in #Rust ! It's like QML, just without C++ to Rust conversion difficulties. All right!

No tearing my hair out!

...unless I want to modify data in a table. Just not possible in a generic way.
Sadly, most GUI apps I write because I need a comfy custom table. #Slint, you were so close!

I'm back on the search for the One Perfect Rust GUI Library.

(Unless a Slint dev wants to handhold me through fixing tables upstream.)

"Papers, we never said 'please.'" doesn't work when the goon army can't/won't read and will toss your documents in the trash. Unless you eat your passport, that's not going with you to the warehouse gulag. https://www.irishtimes.com/world/us/2026/02/09/absolute-hell-irish-man-with-valid-us-work-permit-held-by-ice-since-september/