Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

What to do when a Li-ion #battery smells of fruit?

Run away. Throw it away. Duck and cover.

Lithium fire is no fun!

Single-use vapes should be banned, but while they aren't, I'll clean them up and put them to use.

Just the smells make it really confusing :S

The battery doesn't look bloated. Regardless, it is quarantined outside, in a concrete tiles area.

#electronics #chemistry #upcycling #vaping

Reform have suspended Adam Mitula, who was working as Matt Goodwin's campaign manager in the Gorton by-election.

This comes two days after Mitula was revealed to have posted anti-black racism, claims that most trans people are paedophiles, Holocaust revision, and comments about how he "would never touch a Jewish woman".

Goodwin meanwhile has been called out by racist commentator Connor Tomlinson, over trying to distance himself in public but support white nationalists like him in private.

Having to hear about the royals AND Trump constantly is a well-deserved punishment to for the United States' 250th.

lol, AWS vibe coded itself an outage

https://www.ft.com/content/00c282de-ed14-4acd-a948-bc8d6bdb339d

"I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid."

https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/

We need more stories like this being shared in the open. You can criticise some parts of the decisions here, but that's not the point. Someone tried and shared. That's the point.

#DigitalSovereignty #SelfHost #Cloudless

(reminder, Linux users make up 20% of Fedi and 2% of the real world, never forget how poorly we represent humanity in general)

Wikimedia and the new knowledge loop – report from a Wikimedia CH roundtable - https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/02/20/wikimedia-and-the-new-knowledge-loop-report-from-a-wikimedia-ch-roundtable-2/ "The future threat is not that #AI uses #Wikipedia, but that Wikipedia becomes invisible to humans."

A preventable virus, a paralyzed child, and zero regrets - https://boingboing.net/2026/02/19/a-preventable-virus-a-paralyzed-child-and-zero-regrets.html "A South Carolina mother has no regrets about denying her child the measles vaccine, even though her lucky-to-be-alive son has suffered measles encephalitis and will have trouble walking." she's a monster #antivaxxers

Now — still!— in the Twin Cities, there are thousands of people who are living in hiding, terrified (justifiably so) of an authoritarian secret police kidnapping them off the street because of the way they look.

For these people, full-on fascism is already here. Still.

MPR shares their voices:

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/02/19/during-ice-surge-minnesota-immigrants-share-their-stories-from-hiding

I KNOW somebody in this community can win this money.

“Fulu’s latest bounty is for Ring’s video doorbell cameras, meant to encourage hackers and tinkerers to disable software features that require the devices to send data to Amazon. The reward is a potential payout of $10,000 or more.” https://www.wired.com/story/a-10k-bounty-awaits-anyone-who-can-hack-ring-cameras-to-stop-sharing-data-with-amazon/

Germany's leader wants to end anonymity online, demonstrating ignorance of both technology and the manifestly good reasons for anonymity (e.g. person with views govt doesn't like, whistle-blowers, etc.).

He, like so many before him, wants you to get a license to speak.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/germanys-merz-calls-real-names-211340863.html

No comment needed

there is no solution to the fascist international that doesn't start with stopping the massive redistribution of wealth and land to a small elite

but stopping it is not enough, it must be followed by reversing that redistribution of land and wealth, to flow from the small elite to everyone else

and this isn't unrealistic

whats unrealistic is burning the planet to build an AI god, to ask it how to save the planet. not only is it unrealistic is deeply anti-human

Microsoft Uses Plagiarized AI Slop Flowchart to Explain How Git Works

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/19/microsoft-uses-plagiarized-ai-slop-flowchart-to-explain-how-git-works/

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward
L: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-wrote-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-4/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47083145
posted on 2026.02.19 at 22:05:08 (c=0, p=5)

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116100144361015072

Crime-infested Trump regime welcomes criminals -- of the right sort -- to America.

Kentucky, for goodness' sake.

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a measure establishing public funding for charter schools is unconstitutional, affirming that state funds “are for common schools and for nothing else.”

The state’s high court ruled the “Constitution as it stands is clear that it does not permit funneling public education funds outside the common public school system,” Justice Michelle M. Keller wrote in a unanimous opinion.
https://apnews.com/article/charter-schools-kentucky-supreme-court-dca91480d26e4546bfc055acd063ea5a

#PublicSchools #kypol #PublicEducation