Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

It's interesting working on a website for a long period of time because you get to see trends and hype come and go.

For example, there was a specific period around 2010-2016 where I was constantly asked when DistroWatch would gets its own mobile app. "Everyone should have their own app; the web is dying", I was told. No one has asked me about apps in years.
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Biggest threat from AI is ppl believing the hype about it and making decisions based on the hype

Enforcing existing laws preventing tech oligarchs from lying openly about their products to inflate their stock value would be nice

At this point I would settle for governments not handing over astronomical amounts of money with essentially no expectations

We get our writing/art/etc fed into a model w/o compensation that we would have to subscribe to even use, & oligarchs get public money to do it

Given the #DigitalCoup and the urgency to transition to #DigitalAutonomy, we’re building up the https://DemocraticTech.Fund. It is a networked approach, aiming to increase our collective capacity, to discover the tech that is already available to us, to deploy it in ways that we can own it, to share learnings of the transition, to move there together, so we can overcome network effects.

It is our intention to identify together the gaps of what is needed to make the transition, to fund that collectively. This can be tech, media to raise awareness for the positive alternatives already out there, and federating our communities. We’re starting as civil society, and we intent to invite institutions – public and private – to chip in and multiply the contributions. Together we can make the impact that is needed.

#DemocraticTechFund #dtf

@thomasfuchs I don't think this is the entire story. Tools and techniques like RAD/OOP/Expert Systems/4GL can definitely save time when used correctly. Abstracting or automating boring parts leaves more time and headpsace for the complicated parts -- which are typically the business rules and the non-functionals.

The way LLMs generate code is the exact opposite: they make it harder to focus on the hard parts by trying to generate "everything".

@thomasfuchs The devs Ive worked with who think in systems never had to be forced. I think it's more about identity than discipline. Some people see themselves as "i write code" and some see themselves as "I solve problems". The first group will struggle with systems thinking regardless of skill level. The second group has been waiting for it.

An excellent explanation on why the hype about LNG and the claim from conservatives that 'renewables raise electricity prices"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk0Zm_xpk3c Interesting to hear about this from the US side. And yeah, who's to blame? Yup. Private power corporations, power monopolies, and fossil fuel interests.

Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/25/hackers-expose-the-massive-surveillance-stack-hiding-inside-your-age-verification-check/

Does anyone know auditd?
Log files on my #Fedora are spammed with failed SSH logins.

But I don't care, I disabled passwords.

How to disable the reports?

Auditctl docs are useless, the search command syntax is completely different -_-

true HOLY FUCKING SHIT moment this morning: over the holidays, my sticker guys were having a special on red octagons, so I designed and ordered 250 "Slop Sign" stickers — but while I was in China, someone stole them out of my mailbox. Bummer, I figured; they probably trashed them as worthless. anyway while walking to the subway I FOUND ONE OF MY STICKERS STUCK TO A MAILBOX! Whoever swiped my stickers is sticking them up around the neighborhood! This is the best thing that could have happened!

Co-op Cloud Kite-flying TOMORROW Thursday 26th February: The Return of The 12 UTC Slot 🤩

Join @amras for their first time facilitating kite-flying, the weekly(ish) drop-in for anything and everything Coop-Cloud-related 🪁

2pm CET / 1pm GMT / find the time in your own timezone here: https://time.is/compare/1200_26_Feb_2026_in_UTC

Same agenda / notes pad: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit#

Same call link: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying#config.disableAudioLevels=true

#LibreSoftware

The Trump admin "has a long track record of falsely claiming national security threats to protect itself from embarrassment," FPF's Seth Stern told USA Today.

The DOJ has earned zero judicial deference when it comes to national security claims.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/25/trump-administration-search-washington-post-reporter-devices/88858242007/

🔴 Brand new comic now up on Boing Boing
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Hey, kids! Welcome to Camp Detention!
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https://boingboing.net/2026/02/25/tom-the-dancing-bug-hey-kids-welcome-to-camp-detention.html

"My eyes saw ingenuity and cleverness, hallmarks of determined people to find a way. Your letters and shared stories, from Minneapolis to Gaza, upheld this heart in which our new world is carried. "

https://freepeppyandkrystal.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/24/unwavering-faith-in-collective-power/

How many people know that #WordPress was co-founded by a black man, Mike Little?

Or that he's from the north of England? A self-taught coder from Stockport, just south of Manchester? Or that he never received so much as a share, cent or job offer from the $7bn+ valued Automattic after spending five months working exclusively with Matt Mullenweg on the B2 fork?

After @bevangelist told me about @mikelittle I interviewed him for a documentary I never got round to making. Back then I was left with two certainties: he's Wozniak to Mullenweg's Jobs. Among other things he added the one-click upgrade that's been central to WP's bonkers 45%-of-the-web-success. And he's one of the nicest people I've ever interviewed, which is also bonkers given that he not only didn't share in WP's financial success, but that he's barely known.

But he should be - so, better late than never - please meet #MikeLittle, perhaps the most-influential-least-known person in #foss… https://25.netribution.co.uk/nic/mike-little-the-british-co-founder-of-wordpress-youve-probably-never-heard-of/

It is 222 A.D. You are the transgender Empress Elagabalus, "call me not a man for I am a woman". Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1776. You are "Public Universal Friend", a transmasculine Quaker. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1906. You are Karl M. Baer, a trans man undergoing sex reassignment. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1930. You are Lili Elbe. Transitioning is new and experimental. (to be fair you did get a uterus transplant.)

It is 1966. You are in Compton's Cafeteria with a bunch of other trans people when the owners call the cops to throw you all out. You riot. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 1969. You are Marsha "pay it no mind" Johnson. You are in a mob-run gay bar when the cops attack. You throw a brick. There is a bit of a scuffle. Transitioning is new and experimental.

It is 2026. You are a transgender adult or child listening to the NYT and British Guardian claim this is the first generation anyone has tried transitioning in. Transitioning is new and experimental.

Brendan Carr is your TV Guide. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Final touches on a project always require patience. Practicing patience is challenging sometimes, but so far so good.

Tip to CISOs - every time you hear the phrase "defenders need to move at machine speed", drink. It's AI sales speak for "buy our magic box".

We plan to decrease operational costs for our AI model by building custom servers that are immune to cosmic radiation, then spending trillions of dollars launching them into space. Yes, our CFO did tech themselves math using ChatGPT, why do you ask?

@Rainer_Rehak @jwcph @cwebber
In reality, LLMs invent 100% of their answers, it's just that what they make up turns out to be true approximately half the time, and they're only that good because they're mostly just copying other sources without attribution.