Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If you pay Proton Mail for a service, they may hand over the payment data in response to a court order: https://www.404media.co/proton-mail-helped-fbi-unmask-anonymous-stop-cop-city-protestor/

For nearly a year, DHS tried to keep secret that it had killed a U.S. citizen.

Then came a FOIA request from American Oversight.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2026/03/05/texas-dhs-shooting-citizen-killed/

@cdarwin

Joe Neguse is spectacular!

Here he is questioning Kristi Nome today...

Neguse: Where is this company headquartered?

Noem: I don’t know.

Neguse: I don’t know either. We can’t find it. We did find an address that’s registered to a political operative. This company that received 143 million dollars was incorporated 8 days before this contract went out. You want the American people to believe that this is all above board...

#Primary2026

DOJ took #Epstein victims' testimony, then did nothing - https://boingboing.net/2026/03/02/doj-took-epstein-victims-testimony-then-did-nothing.html hiding something? #trump

‘What happened in Texas is a warning’: advocates say Republicans suppressed votes in the primaries - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/05/voter-suppression-texas-primaries shabby stuff

Vaccines are free. #Measles now costs $1.5 billion a year - https://boingboing.net/2026/03/02/vaccines-are-free-measles-now-costs-1-5-billion-a-year.html not to mention the pain; well done #antivaxxers

The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.

The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late.

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access

I am convinced we are on the verge of the first "AI agent worm". This looks like the closest hint of it, though it isn't it quite itself: an attack on a PR agent that got it to set up to install openclaw with full access on 4k machines https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

But, the agents installed weren't given instructions to *do* anything yet.

Soon they will be. And when they are, the havoc will be massive. Unlike traditional worms, where you're looking for the typically byte-for-byte identical worm embedded in the system, an agent worm can do different, nondeterministic things on every install, and carry out a global action.

I suspect we're months away from seeing the first agent worm, *if* that. There may already be some happening right now in FOSS projects, undetected.

Bottom line on the DHS "changes":

Noem, Mullin, and their boss all belong in prison.

The good news: Kristi Noem has been fired as Secretary of Homeland Security.

The bad news: the person our big wet president has tapped to replace her is Sen. Markwayne Mullin, who is a strong candidate for the dumbest member of the United States Senate

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116178030946996760

#USPol

I wrote a blogpost on this: "The first AI agent worm is months away, if that" https://dustycloud.org/blog/the-first-ai-agent-worm-is-months-away-if-that/

People who are using LLM agents for their coding, review systems, etc will probably be the first ones hit. But once agents start installing agents into other systems, we could be off to the races.

#FTC Admits #AgeVerification Violates Children’s #Privacy Law, Decides To Just Ignore That - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/04/ftc-admits-age-verification-violates-childrens-privacy-law-decides-to-just-ignore-that/

Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset
- https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/757426 uk gov petition

hf.space is a hosting service for "AI Apps" and is currently being used to generate large amounts of #Spam on federated networks. The subdomain seen in use is ali525-q.hf.space - however, numerous spam activities are paused, running, or being stopped by HuggingFace and at this time we recommend suspending federation with the hf.space domain entirely.

ref: https://huggingface.co/ali525/spaces

to report the HF user see https://huggingface.co/content-policy

@alda @baldur In my previous workplace, e-health, I pointed out that certain corner-cutting would cause patients to die.

My team lead: "You should come to the office to get COVID, so that you think less."

Few devs have a reference point for genuinely working software. Usability labs were disbanded over 20 years ago. Very few companies do actual user research, so their designs are based on fiction. Bugs are the norm

Alienation is also the norm for devs, both socially and organisationally. Whether it works for the end user doesn't cross their mind. Whether the design fulfils business needs is not their problem. Bugs are a future problem. Ship insecure software and patch it as user data gets stolen

I just performed the world's first rubberchickenbowtiectomy, and I am exhausted. The patient is in recovery doing well waiting for adhesives to dry. We've scheduled a secondary procedure for later today, a mostly cosmetic procedure to reduce scarring.

The Lancet still refuses to publish my study related to this dangerous but life-saving procedure, mostly because I haven't written or submitted one, which is an outrage.

(Translated here into English, but discussion was in German)

First, to make it clear, these were Polizei Bayern, NOT Bundespolizei

Police, showing his ID: "Gruß Gott!" (Bavarian hello, means Greet God! - always makes this atheist annoyed). "Identity check!"

Me: "Could I ask, why are you controlling?"

P: "This is a train to Austria!"

M: "Yes, we are LEAVING Germany!"

P: "Yes, but it is still a border!"

M: "But sorry, I am leaving. Why are you checking?"

Dear friends of #BSDCafe - the BSD Cafe Journal needs some attention.

This isn't the best time for me to revive it myself, and that's exactly why I'm counting on you!

I'm sure you have great ideas, thoughts, projects, and articles that would fit perfectly in that space.

So don’t be shy 🙂
The BSD Cafe Journal is waiting for you!

#BSDCafeJournal #Blogging #RunBSD #FreeBSD #NetBSD #OpenBSD #DragonFlyBSD

#Vanuatu moves forward with #UN climate resolution despite Trump opposition - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/05/vanuatu-un-climate-crisis-trump "US weakened its proposal to advance a key climate ruling but vows to hold major polluters accountable" slap #trump in the face