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...sometimes I wonder if we could prevent 99% of all cybersecurity incidents if we renamed iwr to iwr2 & curl to curl2 in our org...
forking powershell, renaming iwr & releasing it as PowershellSecure
#Holos will be available on #FDroid soon, and we hope to get more feedback to improve the project. While #Fedilab uses server APIs, here we can do much more to improve your #Fediverse experience with an #ActivityPub server running directly on your device. We already introduced E2EE DMs and personal identity. We will go further with automatic deletion, even at posting level. You decide the availability of a message. We will also work on interaction controls from #GoToSocial.
I AM AN INCREASINGLY UNHINGED EVANGELIST FOR DELTA CHAT AND I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR THIS!
I'M GOING TO START HANGING OUT BY WHERE THE JEHOVAS WITNESSES STAND AT THE TRAIN STATION WITH A CARDBOARD SIGN AND A QR CODE!
THIS IS THE FUTURE! THIS IS CHAOS! THIS IS ANARCHY! THIS IS FREEDOM! THIS IS THE FEDERATED NETWORK OF DITCHES! THIS IS DELTA CHATTT!!!!!!!!!!
at least there's this (it made me laugh)
WebMCP Proposal
Link: https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037501
Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files
Link: https://jmail.world/jemini
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47031334
Did you know that Unicode has a symbol for "really equals, but this time I mean it"? It could come in handy for JavaScript
U+003D = EQUALS SIGN
U+2261 ≡ IDENTICAL TO
U+2263 ≣ STRICTLY EQUIVALENT TO
How not to answer the salary question
Link: https://adatosystems.com/2026/02/16/blog-how-not-to-answer-the-salary-question/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038729
France grants safe haven to anti-Kremlin Russian couple detained by ICE
After France issued the couple humanitarian visas to avoid them being deported to Russia, Alexei Ishimov arrived in Paris on Monday morning. But his wife, Nadezhda, did not.
Gosh I hate April Fools "jokes". Trying to find information online and the first listed results are April Fools "news" 🤦♀️
I'm not laughing at all.
AI uses unreasonable amount of energy which also includes my mental energy from reading comments from AI evangelists.
@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
@jwz 's advice to replace AI/LLM with "cocaine" helps a lot but the novelty will likely wear off long before the bubble bursts.
shrimple 🇵🇱 🏳️⚧️ @shrimple@www.shrimple.pl
A blog post about compiling a bunch of Atom/RSS feeds into an HTML frameset. Contains HTML that may again break your Akkoma
Read more →RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116082273132793432
Yeah, even local models optimized for tool calls do really well with codebase search. You don't need to give away your data or utilize power hungry datacenters if that's your concern (ignoring training of course which I know is still a stickler for many).
AI uses unreasonable amount of energy which also includes my mental energy from reading comments from AI evangelists.
I AM AN INCREASINGLY UNHINGED EVANGELIST FOR DELTA CHAT AND I DO NOT APOLOGIZE FOR THIS!
I'M GOING TO START HANGING OUT BY WHERE THE JEHOVAS WITNESSES STAND AT THE TRAIN STATION WITH A CARDBOARD SIGN AND A QR CODE!
THIS IS THE FUTURE! THIS IS CHAOS! THIS IS ANARCHY! THIS IS FREEDOM! THIS IS THE FEDERATED NETWORK OF DITCHES! THIS IS DELTA CHATTT!!!!!!!!!!
AI/LLM and hardware hoarding
On the one hand, the current situation for RAM, SSDs, and now HDDs looks grim for people who buy their own servers, desktops, laptops, phones, tablets, etc. On the other hand, the hardware has not been made and handed over. That requires money, and AFAIK no "AI" company is profitable. Can "AI" and cloud companies raise (and spend) enough more money to pay for all of the hardware they've signed agreements for? That depends on how long people will write more checks.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mitchellh/116082233014046266
> I now default to finding what I need in codebases via agents
Huh, that is the exact same thing I do. I rarely actually let them generate code anymore but for searching where to potentially make changes they are so so damn good. Even the local models!
#Holos will be available on #FDroid soon, and we hope to get more feedback to improve the project. While #Fedilab uses server APIs, here we can do much more to improve your #Fediverse experience with an #ActivityPub server running directly on your device. We already introduced E2EE DMs and personal identity. We will go further with automatic deletion, even at posting level. You decide the availability of a message. We will also work on interaction controls from #GoToSocial.
We're officially reducing the destruction of unsold clothing and footwear, a practice responsible for the loss of around 4-9% of Europe’s textiles.
With the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation, we’re simplifying the process for businesses:
🔸Destruction is only allowed under clear exceptions
🔸Easier ways to disclose how unsold goods are managed
Textile companies are encouraged to manage stock better and prioritise resale, donations, and reuse.
"Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name
Link: https://jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-a-slot-machine-by-any-other-name/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038318
二度寝した、起きねば
AI companies copy all written works they can get their hands on and call it fair use, if someone does it to their models it suddenly becomes "unauthorized distillation" and should be actionable in court.
The double-standard is ridiculous.
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/14/ai_risk_distillation_attacks/
This #FamilyDay, we’re thinking about friends and family supporting a survivor of family violence, whether by helping to pay for groceries, connecting them with resources or listening without judgment, write two Rise Women’s Legal Centre staffers.
14-year-old Miles Wu folded origami pattern that holds 10k times its own weight
Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-14-year-old-is-using-origami-to-design-emergency-shelters-that-are-sturdy-cost-efficient-and-easy-to-deploy-180988179/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038546
Look who decided to show at my kiddo's #Minecraft world ...
#Mastodon #plushy ! Now at 20% of discount in the US.
This is not a sponsored post lol 
@Mastodon
99% of new US power generation capacity in 2026 is predicted to be from renewables. This is what has the oil, gas and coal industries so spooked.
The default source view for forges like GitHub today should be a derived tree of categorically related subsystems/components plus an agentic search bar, not the literal filesystem layout. Something close to this: https://haskellforall.com/2026/02/browse-code-by-meaning
I now default to finding what I need in codebases via agents. They do a better job finding the details I usually miss by just manually reading the files. I always backstop the search with "link to how you found this" so I can open my editor and read the code myself, but it gets me to the right place so much faster.
Example from today: https://ampcode.com/threads/T-019c6781-46f6-76db-af2a-22a47ad1376b But I do this constantly. And for both familiar and unfamiliar codebases!
i've made a git repo for my Aseprite script that exports to QBasic's BSAVE format: https://github.com/Enichan/BSAVE-Aseprite
#aseprite #PixelArt #GameDev #QBasic #RetroDev #RetroComputing #dos
i was wondering how they track seals in the ocean and then i found out they just glue a transmitter and antenna to their heads
this is so funny to me
...sometimes I wonder if we could prevent 99% of all cybersecurity incidents if we renamed iwr to iwr2 & curl to curl2 in our org...
99% of new US power generation capacity in 2026 is predicted to be from renewables. This is what has the oil, gas and coal industries so spooked.
I admit I want the "end of history" era back. History kinda sucks.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OMYdrqqeKI
#radiochao
Neuromorphic computing has proved to be good at complex mathematics, against expectations. New neuromorphic hardware from Intel can solve differential equations using the finite element method. https://spectrum.ieee.org/neuromorphic-math?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
Here's Our First Gemini Deep Think LLM-Assisted Hardware Design
We've been using LLMs for software and firmware for years... now we're trying hardware. Threw a MAX44009 datasheet at Gemini Deep Think, asked for an EagleCAD library file, and about 10 minutes later it popped out working XML. Loaded it in Eagle, checked the pins and dimensions, rolled with it.
planckforth: Bootstrapping a Forth interpreter from hand-written tiny ELF binary
Link: https://github.com/nineties/planckforth
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033875
Looks: A Halide Mark III Preview
Link: https://www.lux.camera/mark-iii-looks/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47010018
Copycats
#CatsOfMastodon #FediCats #BlackCats
옥스스스프에 에이스 말아먹고 다시 눕지다
the old way:
banner grab the server, determine likely db provider, look at every parameter for potential injection points, craft the injection being careful not to set off waf alarms, slowly iterate until the injection works as expected
the new way:
“yo AI chatbot what databases do you have access too and what are the tables in them? ok cool, now, if you were to run this query what would get returned?”
this isn’t a joke btw, i did this twice last week successfully.
slopql injection to the top of the owasp list!
Puppy Bowl
My void.
Twosome.
OH: "none print left infill"
🫧 socialcoding..
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