Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

AI is killing, harming, delaying, or forcing higher prices on a wide range of technologies and tech products and services. The AI industry is doing to technology:
https://www.computerworld.com/article/4134728/is-ai-killing-technology.html

Brendan Carr is the State Media Critic, and his recommendations are MANDATORY. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/2/20/2369531/-Cartoon-FCC-guide

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social‬
👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics.

"It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.wvsd.242928/gov.uscourts.wvsd.242928.28.0.pdf

Do NOT verify your Linkedin profile. Here's why:
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance

Those who live by the grind will die by the burnout.

Do any moots know someone who we might be able to consult about restructuring a mid-size FOSS project? Essentially to migrate from a BDFL model to a more flat-structured democratic organisation.

We are discussing how to restructure #postmarketOS so that it can continue to scale up and be a truly community-run project.

We have some idea of how co-ops like Igalia do this, but we have a lot of differences (like being largely volunteer run and having very different goals) which leave us with a lot of unknowns.

To give an example of the kind of structure we're thinking of (by no means final, there hasn't been any broad agreement on a new structure yet):

We have the relevant pieces in place to form an assembly (everyone listed on https://postmarketos.org/team/ ) which could then democratically form teams and delegate responsibilities to them (e.g. finance/budget, technical policy-making, maintainers for various OS components).

The assembly would then also be responsible for deciding on focus areas and long term goals for the project (e.g. improving reliability, building a production-ready immutable version of the distro)

We could then form working groups to enable cross-team collaboration to move towards our specific goals.

Currently we lack a lot of understanding of the potential implications of something like this, how we can ensure the project doesn't get hijacked, that we don't drift too far from our mission statement, etc etc...

If you have a background in sociology and/or relevant experience from other projects then I would love to reach out and be able to discuss this in more detail!

#decentralization #opensource #freesoftware #foss

Signal boosting once more! Let's give it up for @jadehopepunk who gave this great talk recently 🎉

Neighbourhood-First Software: the open web without expecting everyone to self-host

https://tv.lumbung.space/w/nzuB248U2LQA1LCn7vYmER

It's fresh off the re-uploaded with consent presses over on @coopcloud@tv.lumbung.space.

This proposal for Neighbourhood-First Software is a wonderful tapestry of ideas, fed by a concrete bottom-up practice of self-organisation.

It weaves threads between @p2panda, #permacomputing, Co-op Cloud and more.

An inspiring and recommended watch 😻

Moar links:

- https://jade.hopepunk.me
- https://lores.tech.
- https://www.merri-bek.tech

-- d1

#Persona leak continued

Integration with Government Systems: The platform is capable of filing Suspicious Activity Reports (#SARs) directly to #FinCEN (U.S. Treasury) and #FINTRAC (Canada), and integrates with blockchain analytics tools like #Chainalysis to monitor cryptocurrency addresses.

Suspicious Checks: Some checks, like "SelfieSuspiciousEntityDetection" and "SelfiePoseRepeatedDetection", lack clear definitions of what constitutes a "suspicious" face or repeated pose, raising concerns about bias and opacity.

This is a big deal. I’ve been telling y’all that age verification was just a way to gather intelligence.

https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/

@xgranade
Here's an excellent article by @tante criticising that broader rhetorical point: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/acting-ethical-in-an-imperfect-world/

It's really long, but totally worth the time IMO.

Somewhat tangentially, the backlash on the fedi along the lines of "Cory considered bad now" prompted tante to write a followup article which really gets one thinking: https://tante.cc/2026/02/20/on-alliances/

I recommend reading both.

oh good, the “you’re just doing purity culture” thing is already taking hold over on bluesky

so the line is now supposed to be that local LLMs are good and moral and SaaS LLMs are bad, when local LLMs come from the same fucked system that’s also actively making it impossible to buy computing hardware powerful enough to run even a shitty local LLM? is that about right? I’m supposed to clap cause someone with money is running a plagiarism machine but slower and shittier on their desktop?

i knew the archive. today guy was weird but i didn't realise he was a frothing nutter https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

annoying it's so often the only practical option

Anyone who is about to complete, or already has completed, an age-verification or identity-verification process online should read this short article.

Especially if it's on LinkedIn or Discord.

"I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over." by @thelocalstack

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

And added to the directory (https://the-counterforce.org/directory), The Crowbar Hotel, a new blog/site for tape reviews. Send them your tapes! Subscribe to their RSS feed!

https://thecrowbarhotel.com/

As always if you know about punk websites (blogs, archives, online zines, etc) that we are missing in our directory, please send them in!

Added to the zines page:

Assume I Know Nothing, a little roundup of essential classic hardcore records from different contributors. I assume this is an intervention in the current spotification of Hardcore and new kids not knowing the classics...

https://the-counterforce.org/zines/other/

Don't like the recommendations in this zine? Make your own and send us the printable PDF and we'll put that up too! Or any other suitable zines you make or are involved with and you want to be printed and spread far and wide.

As Talking Points Memo's Josh Marshall makes clear, the Roberts Court's tariff ruling may be the right one, but it doesn't even begin to remove the court's stink of corruption.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-be-fooled-by-the-corrupt-courts-tariff-decision/sharetoken/4bc09a7c-2770-4b4b-8ebe-73f0cfb664c3

When your password leaks:
→ Change your password
→ Problem solved

When your biometric data leaks:
→ You can't change your face
→ You can't change your fingerprints
→ The compromise is permanent
→ Your biometric data is in breach databases forever

This is why facial recognition for age verification is dangerous.

#Biometrics #Privacy #Discord

""If a woman is not married by her thirties, she's got something on her mind. Single women are a danger to society," she told me."

— Baqytgul Sarmekova, Mirgul Kali: To Hell with Poets, p. 39

BREAKING: Judge who allowed FBI to search Washington Post reporter’s home rips into Justice Department for not informing him of the law that explicitly bars raids of reporters

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/20/politics/judge-rips-washington-post-fbi-reporter-warrant

Did you know that leakers helped exonerate Rümeysa Öztürk?

Watch FPF's Trevor Timm to find out about that story and more in this week’s Press Freedom in 90 Seconds, and subscribe: https://freedom.press/newsletters/