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Meow meow indeed

The gTLD .meow is almost funded

Let's get @dotmeow.meow ∙ see ya around ^-^' over the line

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dotmeow/meow-next-round-gtld-application

#dotmeow

Okay, because things escalated quickly...

What is your favourite HTML element and why?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/115888902483562590

❝the Fediverse is generally perceived to be a joyless hellscape❞ -Casey Newton, 2026

Google is trashing the Tenor API frustratingly, which means GiphyMaubot will need to be updated (despite being called Giphy, it also supports tenor and tenor was the more reliable one)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46603473

https://github.com/TomCasavant/GiphyMaubot/issues/17

Looks like potentially I can use https://klipy.com/developers as a drop-in replacement

Forklifts, Facts, and Functions: Building a Warehouse Management System with Clojure+Datomic - Pote https://lobste.rs/s/zymqza #video #clojure #scaling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV02r1Y1B-8

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@catsaladCat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) ⁠ i don't get to use this enough anymore. but then the film is some 20 years old…

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/115888974063630036

bot that turns short @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber posts into #b3d candy hearts ❤️

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/115887691185844339

Oh well. They got to Moxie also. 🙁

It’s a travesty of a headline because “it just works” is not the topic of the article. How this LLM “works” any better than any other LLM is not discussed. Like Signal, it’s e2e encrypted. It’s private. But the privacy violations aren’t the reason LLMs do or don’t “work.” The privacy violations are by-the-by. Taking them away doesn’t mean the LLM’s results or performance will change.

This LLM will still be confidently—and now very privately and privacy-preservingly—wrong.

このぐらいらしい。
だいたいあってると思う。

なお、猫のサイズを測る画像のハッシュタグはないらしい。

#chacha_cat #cat

#特に意味をなさない猫の計測

New blog post: GeoIP-Aware Firewalling with PF on FreeBSD

Running a mail server means constant brute-force attempts. My solution: geographic filtering. SMTP stays open for global mail delivery, but client ports (IMAP, Submission, webmail) are restricted to Central European IP ranges only.

Result: ~90% reduction in attack logs, cleaner signal-to-noise ratio, smaller attack surface.

Using MaxMind GeoLite2 + PF tables with ~273k CIDR blocks.

https://blog.hofstede.it/geoip-aware-firewalling-with-pf-on-freebsd/

#FreeBSD #InfoSec #SysAdmin #pf #DevOps

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Status of four #NativeAmericans detained by #ICE in #Minneapolis still unknown, officials say

https://www.inforum.com/news/minnesota/status-of-four-native-americans-detained-by-ice-in-minneapolis-still-unknown-officials-say

The whereabouts of four members of the Oglala #Sioux Tribe are still unknown five days after they were reportedly detained by ICE agents in Minneapolis, according to tribal and state leaders.

@geekysteven

and don't forget:

All Cats Are Beautiful

이탈리아어에서는 ultimo(마지막), penultimo(2번째), terzultimo(3번째), quartultimo(4번째), quintultimo(5번째), sestultimo(6번째) 이렇게 나름 깔끔하던데 영어는 그게 안 되어서 저렇게 접두사 범벅이라니, 영어가 영어한 듯 합니다 출처는 bos-sozial.musin.de/Service/Intr...

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ppk763j7o2wkinvzuqx4orrb/post/3mcczdqdvmc2m

I numerali

My little brother (lives close to where Renee Good was shot & killed in Minneapolis) has been 3D printing ICE whistles & handing them out to neighbors & giving some to local businesses & churches to hand out. I'm really proud that his response is action, not fear.

The George Floyd protests play a part in this. The local places he knows will gladly hand out whistles are people he knows from 2020. All that commotion was NOT for nothing. A lot of people learned about organizing for the 1st time.

#FF14 #BruteBomber #ブルートボンバー 🐱

Il y a 14 ans, déjà…

https://ploum.net/le-platerrisme/index.html

#retroploum

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RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ppk763j7o2wkinvzuqx4orrb/post/3mcczdqdvmc2m

I numerali

don't read into this

윤석열 전 대통령의 내란우두머리 사건 선고 공판이 2월19일 이뤄질 예정입니다. 이날 조은석 특별검사팀은 윤 전 대통령에게 사형을 구형했습니다.

[속보] 윤석열 내란우두머리 사건 선고 2일19일 나온...

#特に意味をなさない猫の計測 #ふふ子 #cat

윤석열 전 대통령의 내란우두머리 사건 선고 공판이 2월19일 이뤄질 예정입니다. 이날 조은석 특별검사팀은 윤 전 대통령에게 사형을 구형했습니다. www.hani.co.kr/arti/society...

[속보] 윤석열 내란우두머리 사건 선고 2일19일 나온...

oh uhuh mhm is that right

RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@pj/115888532620954856

I am quite excited about what #TheForkiverse is doing and to see how it goes.

It seems to be going very well.

This is exactly what fedi was built for and what can make fedi stronger: an independent instance created and run for a specific community, pulling people in.

If you're as confused as I initially was: The Forkiverse is a fedi instance set up by hosts of two podcasts (Search Engine and Hard Fork), the name references the latter:
https://www.searchengine.show/the-fediverse-experiment/

decent growth rate on the forkiverse this week. if it continues at this rate (i think it almost certainly will) we should be at 213 million users by next year. although obviously this is an estimate, and it's possible that the growth rate increases.

🗑️ I've been working on a read later app over the last few years and it's getting closer to launch.

It archives every page you save so you never lose anything, and renders the original site beautifully. There's also a clean reader mode when you just want the content. Nested tags, auto-tagging, and shortcuts support for the automation nerds.

Sign up to be notified when it launches, I'll also be adding some people to the beta.

https://shelf-links.app/

I'm internet

way to tell me you're a bleepbloop without saying "I'm a bleepbloop" smh

Like all the best Americans, I'm Canadian, and while I have lived abroad for most of this century, I still hew faithfully to our folkways, which is why I'd like to start this essay by apologizing.

I'm sorry.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/#mere-billions

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I did some volunteering at a local school to help gather supplies for families who are staying home from school because of the invasion.

In the school office, a parent was checking in with one of the school staff whose family member was recently abducted. He was able to call once. He thinks he’s in Texas, but he’s not sure. She hasn’t heard from him for over a day. Then she turned back to coordinating volunteers, running the school office.

I did my work getting the supplies assembled and distributed. Then on the way out, I passed I room full of 1st / 2nd / 3rd graders, with the mellow happy buzz of kids at work, kids of every race and ancestry, just having a normal one, and

I just

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Been on a mission, boy, they call me catch-and-kill I'm stealin' diamonds, make them chase me for the thrill #mynoise

I worked at Microsoft in the 1990s. One of our customers was Pacific Bell, the local telephone company. Dilbert author Scott Adams still worked at PacBell at the time, although he was rarely there. His mostly unused cubicle was in the same area that my contacts there worked, and it was a big ritual to bring newcomers to see his desk.

New blog post time!

This week's game is Spark World, a Bomberman-like where the characters are sentient vehicles and the bombs are batteries. Its aggressive take on the formula and breakneck pace make it an appealing multiplayer option, but its choices make driving solo kind of a huge pain:

https://ephemeralenigmascom.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/spark-world/

#blog #gaming #superfamicom #videogames #retrogaming #writing

Neighbourhood watch. #CatsOfMastodon #RipleyAndJonesy

As hyped as Claude Code + Obsidian is, I have no desire to upload my personal unencrypted vault data to Anthropic or anyone else.

I hope that the ideas of private inference and confidential computing that Moxie described take off. It's how all LLMs should work.

I was today years old when I saw this gag in the @FreeCAD brand guidance documentation! #freecad

Does anyone happen to own an ATM that they’re willing to sell? Preferably NCR or Wincor/Diebold Nixdorf. I‘m based in Hamburg and the ATM is mainly intended for #40C3. Will also take only parts or broken or ancient ATMs as well. Very long shot but worth a try :)

#39C3

RE: https://theforkiverse.com/@pj/115888532620954856

this makes this the 29th biggest server on the fediverse which I guess just highlights how centralized and small the whole fediverse operation is.

https://fedidb.com/servers

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meow

live life to the fullest. write code that will make others go "well that shit (derogatory) couldn't have been written by an LLM".

Palestinian students accepted into Canadian universities remain ‘trapped’ in Gaza by visa delays
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/palestinian-student-accepted-to-canadian-university-stuck-in-gaza-9.7042613?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

⏰ Reminder! Fact-checking with Wikidata workshop

📆 20 January 2026 | 🕟 16:30–18:00 (UTC+1)

Philippe Saadé (Wikimedia Germany) and @DataTalks.Club host a hands-on workshop using the Wikidata Model Context Protocol (MCP) for fact-checking beyond generative AI.

✔ Wikidata intro
✔ Fact-checking with MCP, Large Language Models (LLM) & semantic search
✔ Build a small fact-checking pipeline

👉 Register now: https://luma.com/7fs5v7os

#Wikidata #FactChecking #OpenKnowledge #LLM #GenAI #Workshop

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