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Happy Privacy Day to all of you!

Don't forget to celebrate even the smallest victories - the big tech services you've ditched, every single person you've taught how to protect their privacy, the talks you've given, the blog posts you've written.

We still have much to do, and the situation right now is going from bad to worse. But we must not forget that everything we do can make a difference!

Thank you all for what you're doing! And please keep doing it!
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#privacy #DataProtection

⚙️ Towards a reference QEMU for CHERI platform emulation: An update from the CHERI QEMU Working Group ⚙️

QEMU is one of the most popular open source machine emulators, with support for many CPU architectures, including x86_64, Arm and RISC-V.

As of January 2026, we are excited to announce that the CHERI Alliance hosts a reference QEMU implementation that supports multiple modern hashtag#CHERI platforms based on Arm and RISC-V. These include the Arm Morello platform, the CHERI RISC-V standard draft 0.9.3 and the University of Cambridge RISC-V ISA v9. The CHERI Alliance reference implementation is an important milestone for future development and integration of CHERI support in QEMU.

We expect 2026 to be an exciting year for the CHERI Alliance and the CHERI QEMU community as a whole. With no shortage of work in sight, we would like to encourage members of the Alliance and any other organisation interested in CHERI to check out the latest developments.

🔗 Find out more: https://cheri-alliance.org/towards-a-reference-qemu-for-cheri-platform-emulation/

#GiftArticle

First Comes #ICE, Then Come Lawsuits

When a direct path to #justice is blocked, #states must look for a legal work-around.

By Aziz Huq

#law #Trump #immigration #Constitution #CivilRights #FirstAmendment #DueProcess #UseOfForce #ExcessiveForce #PoliceBrutality #ExtraJudicialKillings #murder #ICE #CBP #Sturmabteilung #MafiaState #StateSponsoredTerrorism #AbuseOfPower #authoritarianism #autocracy #fascism #tyranny
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/minnesota-legal-response/685768/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxVsH1rIkGX0WmxVlNt4rHH0

"In the beginning, the Web was simple. When I first encountered it in early 1993 (working for O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator[...]), there was only one browser for viewing web pages and it ran exclusively on the Unix platform. There were about a dozen tags that made any difference. Designing a web page was a relatively simple task."

https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-global-network-navigator/

#internet #TheWeb #cyberculture #technology #essay

Today is Data Privacy Day 🔒✨

On this day, remember that privacy isn't some luxury we can live without.

Privacy is a fundamental right that
is essential to safety, to community, to freedom of speech, and to democracy.

Authoritarians are trying to
undermine our privacy rights because they are well aware of this. Do not let them ✊

This year, let's fight for our privacy rights like we never did before. So many of our other human rights depend on it 🔒💚

#DataPrivacyDay #Privacy #Democracy #DigitalRights #HumanRights

all my apes gone (the movers took all my boxes Somewhere and i will see them again in three months)

I quit Spotify because I'd guess that around 25% of songs they put on my playlists are AI slop. I'm not rabidly anti-AI, but there's enough music out there that I'd rather patronize humans who put their heart into it. I'm less interested in supporting "prompt engineers" who type in single sentences into Suno.

And looks like my guess wasn't wrong: https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/09/15/french-streamer-deezer-reveals-that-28-per-cent-of-music-uploaded-to-platform-is-ai-genera

+++++ DAD NEWS +++++

@dgar@aus.social Stands accused of boosting dad jokes. According to our sources, the perpetrator posted more than ten dad jokes in a single day.

FNR - All the Fedi News you need!

Amazon axes 16,000 jobs as it pushes AI and efficiency

Link: https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/amazon-cuts-16000-jobs-globally-broader-restructuring-2026-01-28/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46796745

14. VVVVVV 이름값. 좌 우 이동에, 점프 없이 중력반전밖에 할 수 없는 함장이 되어서, 그 중력반전조차 할 수 없는 크루들을 구하는 게임입니다. 이름마냥 사방에 가시가 널려있는 직관적인 게임이고, 정말 토나오게 어렵습니다. 저도 그냥 한 번 깨기만 했고, 크링캣 모우기랑 업적작... 절대 못해....... 그보다 크루들은 이름이 다 P로 시작한다더라구요. 크루들 첫글자만 따면 PPPPPP임.

Loops is fully open source. The For You algorithm too.

I haven't found a Tiktok alternative that can claim the same 😎 ✌️

https://joinloops.org/our-mission

For @drupal's 25th anniversary, I spoke with founder @driesDries Buytaert. Of interest to Mastodon readers will be Dries' advice for building a long-term open source community: “Don’t expect overnight success. I think anything successful in life usually takes 10 years.” https://thenewstack.io/drupal-turns-25-from-simple-to-complex-then-simple-again/ #OpenSource

For @drupal's 25th anniversary, I spoke with founder @driesDries Buytaert. Of interest to Mastodon readers will be Dries' advice for building a long-term open source community: “Don’t expect overnight success. I think anything successful in life usually takes 10 years.” https://thenewstack.io/drupal-turns-25-from-simple-to-complex-then-simple-again/ #OpenSource

계간S 1월호는 아이돌 특집인가보네? 표지 일러스트는 시로미자카나인데 그림 모델이 아이돌 그룹이구나.

I'm not able to post to #pixelfed currently..keeps saying "can't load some photos. Try again later"

일을 해야…. ………… ..

그리고 최근에 운영 시작했다던 안전 요원 없는 로보택시도 이렇게 뒤에서 안전요원이 탄 차가 따라다닌다. 🤣

Game & Watch Emulator for the Commodore 64 https://lobste.rs/s/evrzdi #retrocomputing
https://github.com/Sabbi/GNW64

Our NEW Convergence Hub is now available. https://furilabs.com/shop/convergence-hub/

#Convergence #furilabs #FLX1 #FLX1S #linuxonmobile #furiOS

Wow.

You've spent 1452 hours or 60+ days of cumulative continuous watch time on https://loops.video For You Feed.

Let this be known, people do want and use algorithmic feeds on the fediverse.

https://joinloops.org/join-the-beta

#Loops

"Himmel, wie viel Butter ist denn da drin?"

"Nicht genug."

„Humor ist der Despoten Feind.“

Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.

https://www.404media.co/app-for-quitting-porn-leaked-users-masturbation-habits/

Hundreds of thousands of users told the app intimate details about their sexual urges, which are now exposed.

https://www.404media.co/app-for-quitting-porn-leaked-users-masturbation-habits/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/115973537749091933

I wrote https://mastodon.social/@dansup/115973550177888860 in response to this.

Like, let's do better for humanity. We all saw what happened with Twitter.

If your project can be sold, it's not better.

[결혼일기] ⓶ 내 여자친구는 결미새 2026-01-28 14:21 [편집자주] 대구에서 서로 사랑하며, 함께하는 미래를 준비하는 동성 커플 임아현, 최진아가 결혼을 준비하는 과정을 기록합니다. 두 사람이 격주로 번갈아 일상과 관계, 삶에 대한 생각을 전합니다. www.newsmin.co.kr/news/128573/

newsmin.co.kr/news/128573

PC Gamer on the scx_horoscope scheduler

https://lwn.net/Articles/1056354/ #LWN

Huh.

"In addition to excluding neocities.org from search results, when we discovered the block, Bing was also placing what appeared to be a phishing attack against Neocities on the first page of search results."

https://blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01/27/bing-block

#neocities #indieweb #websites #tech #technology #microsoft #bing #search

Google Cloud console just got a dark theme and this may be the most exciting thing that happened at work today. 😝

Scandium over ActivityPub

@a_watchabgeordnetenwatch
Politische Grabpflege

This is priceless! Republican Denver Riggleman takes a selfie in front of the now famous poster in Nuuk, Greenland, that says yes to NATO, no to the pedo, with a picture of Epstein and Trump.

I love it!

Wenn du für ein YouTube-Video länger als 15 Sekunden das eigene Gesicht in die Kamera halten musst, hast du zu wenig interessanten Content.

남자가 여자화장실 들어온다? 동성애 싫다고 말하면 처벌받는다? ‘차별금지법 괴담’ 팩트체크 수정 2026.01.27 10:03 www.khan.co.kr/article/2026...

[다시, 차별금지법] 남자가 여자화장실 들어온다? 동성...

I'm not sorry for advocating against VC-funded alternatives like Skylight and Upscrolled

We don't need more dangerous exits (see Elon Musk and Twitter), we need more open platforms, that can't be bought.

Period.

See https://joinloops.org/why-loops-matters

Wenn du für ein YouTube-Video länger als 15 Sekunden das eigene Gesicht in die Kamera halten musst, hast du zu wenig interessanten Content.

“No human is illegal. Borders are imaginary. The blood of the innocent is real”

Seen Chicago, Illinois.

애초에 불가능한 꿈이었는데 이걸 믿었던 팬보이들은 무슨 변명을 할까 궁금하다. 사진은 기존 판매중인 테슬라 차량과 달리 로보택시용 차량에 카메라 세척 부품이 들어간 사진. 기존 로보택시용 차량도 오디오 감지 센서라던지 기존 차량과 하드웨어 면에서 달랐는데 일론이 약속한 기존 차량으로 로보택시로 운용하는 일은 없을듯 😂 이렇게 되면 또 테슬라는 자가당착에 빠지는 셈인데 기존 고객들 차량은 자율주행이 불가능하다는 뜻이기도 하다. 애초에 자율주행도 아니였지만..

Sitting in stand-up while I watch from across the room as my cat sticks his entire paw into my tea while maintaining eye contact

2026 continues to be a good year for BastilleBSD!

We've onboarded our third training cohort this month, API development continues to mature and the UI is nearly ready for wider testing.

Let us know here if you'd like to help beta test the API and web interface on your Bastille hosts.

#BastilleBSD #FreeBSD #2026 #Training #API

I'm sorry if people who push new apps to adopt the open social web are your least favorite people.

My least favorite people are billionaires who want to take control of our media, but that's just me.

Loops for Android v1.0.1.24 is now available ✌️

- Added in-app account deactivation and deletion
- Fixed Composer permission bugs
- Fixed Comment submit bug that refreshed timelines
- Fixed Comment Text Input bug on Android

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-expo/releases/tag/v1.0.1.24

#Loops

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