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$99 BeaglePlay Board Achieves "100% Open-Source" Upstream PowerVR Graphics
Going back many years Imagination PowerVR graphics were widely despised by open-source enthusiasts and Linux desktop users for their lack of an open-source GPU driver. But over the past few years the Imagination PowerVR driver focused on their Rogue graphics IP has matured nicely within the Linux kernel and the PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa taking shape too. Paired with Zink for OpenGL over Vulka…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/BeaglePlay-PowerVR-Success
🚨 a CVE for `devalue` has been published we use devalue in @nuxt.com@bsky.brid.gy to send payloads to the client - so you'll get automated warnings. 👉 BUT nuxt users are not vulnerable to this particular issue still, it's an important reminder to refresh your lockfile to update your transitive dependencies.
"FASCISM! An Army Orientation Fact Sheet, 1945
Fascism is a way to run a country—it’s the way Italy was run, and the way Germany and Japan are run. Fascism is the precise opposite of democracy. The people run democratic governments, but fascist governments run the people.
Fascism is government by the few and for the few. The objective is seizure and control of the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the state.
Why? The democratic way of life interferes with their methods and desires for: (1) conducting business; (2) living with their fellow-men; (3) having the final say in matters concerning others, as well as themselves.
The basic principles of democracy stand in the way of their desires; hence — democracy must go! Anyone who is not a member of their inner gang has to do what he’s told.
They permit no civil liberties, no equality before the law. They make their own rules and change them when they choose. If you don’t like it, it’s 'T.S.' [tough shit].
They maintain themselves in power by use of force combined with propaganda based on primitive ideas of 'blood' and 'race,' by skillful manipulation of fear and hate, and by false promise of security. The propaganda glorifies war and insists it is smart and 'realistic”to be pitiless and violent.
How It Starts
Fascism came to power in Germany, Italy, and Japan at a time of social and economic unrest. A small group of men, supported in secret by powerful financial and military interests, convinced enough insecure people that fascism would give them the things they wanted.
They did so partly by clever propaganda and deception. They promised the people that fascism would bring them great power and prosperity. The details differed from country to country but the general pattern was the same.
(. . .)
To big business men and the industrialists they secretly promised greater security and profits through the elimination of small business competitors and trade unions and the crushing of socialists and communists. To the whole nation they promised glory and wealth by conquest. They asserted it was their right, as a 'superior people,' to rule the world.
As soon as these methods had won them enough of a following to form their Storm Troops, the fascists began using force to stifle and wipe out any opposition. Those who saw through the false front of fascism and opposed them were beaten, tortured, and killed.
The fascists knew that all believers in democracy were their enemies. They knew that the fundamental principle of democracy — faith in the common sense of the common people — was the direct opposite of the fascist principle of rule by the elite few. So they fought democracy in all its phases.
How It Works
It was easy enough for the fascists to promise all things to all people before they were in power. Once they were actually in power, they could not, of course, keep their contradictory promises. They had intended in advance to break some, and they did break those they had made to the middle classes, the workers, and the farmers.
As soon as the fascists were in control of the government, the torturings and the killings were no longer the unlawful acts of a political party and its hoodlum gangs. They became official government policy.
Among the first victims of this official policy were those farmers, workers, and small business men who had believed the promises that had been made to them and who complained that they had been .sucked in.'
Some simply vanished. Often they came home to their families by return mail in little jars of ashes.
The concentration camps and graves filled with the opponents of fascism. Out went equality before the law, free elections and free political parties, independent trade unions and independent schools, freedom of speech and freedom of the press, and, in time, freedom of religion."
https://www.newyorkalmanack.com/2026/01/fascism-army-orientation-1945/
*endless screaming*
Many health information websites leak page visit data to third parties such as #google. These websites include Canadian and provincial health portals. According to the Blacklight Privacy Inspector, only #Ontario, #BritishColumbia, and the #Canada health portal were free of 3rd-party tracking when we collected the data.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.04485
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The podcast episode that told me to join the forkiverse also told me to add a picture, but I'm anxious about taking more than my fair share of pixels. So I'll just let everyone know I'm in my home office, avoiding work, and watching my dog take an afternoon nap.
every time I get thinking about the Voynich I get temporarily banned from the Yale University document viewer because they think my frantic obsessive clicking is a scraper bot this is not a joke
The new #FreeBSDJournal is out! Includes my Letters column, where someone calls out my bullshit. Or tries to.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/
met some unexpected mushroom friends on my morning walk
v14 but only just learned how to do database... mildly scary https://forgejo.org/2026-01-release-v14-0/#database-foreign-keys
i've been reading and loving marcus aurelius, but the most stoic and humbling thing that happens is that you say hi to your cat with a little forehead bump then, by the time you open your eyes, they've turned their butthole toward you instead. truly i am an earthly body of limited time
at this rate by the end of 2026, Bluesky will be 80% features that are not supported by ATProto and will never become decentralized in any way, yet tech pundits will still be calling it a decentralized platform for some reason
I'm glad I found #Mastodon before civilization collapsed.
@GustodonΩ 🌍 Gus Posey can Mastodon outlast it? Stay tuned!
Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46635345
Building a Carousel Autosampler
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/15/building-a-carousel-autosampler/
The new #FreeBSDJournal is out! Includes my Letters column, where someone calls out my bullshit. Or tries to.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/our-work/journal/browser-based-edition/freebsd-15-0/
me picking up my cat and kissing her on her head repeatedly 🥰
my cat: this is a war crime 💢
First impressions of Claude Cowork
Link: https://simonw.substack.com/p/first-impressions-of-claude-cowork
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612919
too soon?
Één voor allen, alleen voor één.
i've been reading and loving marcus aurelius, but the most stoic and humbling thing that happens is that you say hi to your cat with a little forehead bump then, by the time you open your eyes, they've turned their butthole toward you instead. truly i am an earthly body of limited time
Just an FYI in case anyone was interested: if you're printing something potentially clandestine, be careful about where you print it.
#California Investigates Elon Musk’s #xAI Over #Sexualized Images Generated by #Grok
The state will examine whether xAI, which owns the social media platform X and created the A.I. #chatbot Grok, violated state law.
#socialmedia #ai #csam #privacy #security
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/14/technology/grok-ai-x-investigation-california.html
If anyone is looking to help out folks in MPLS as they're under siege, a trusted comrade has created this fundraiser.
'Elite': The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Link: https://werd.io/elite-the-palantir-app-ice-uses-to-find-neighborhoods-to-raid/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637127
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
"Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground."
werd.io · Ben Werdmuller
Link author: 
Ben Werdmuller@ben@werd.social
Show HN: Tabstack – Browser infrastructure for AI agents (by Mozilla)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620358
Happy birthday 
@wikipedia
25 years of Wikipedia -- a decades-long story of language communities growing together
https://www.wikifunctions.org/wiki/Wikifunctions:Status_updates/2026-01-15
걍 나보다 멍청한 사람을 보는게 너무너무 싫음 남이 볼 때는 나도 멍청하게 보이겠지만 아무튼 너무너무너무 싫음...
It should go without saying that Gavin Newsom does not have what it takes to fix the country, but he also absolutely does not have what it takes to win a national election.
Pandering to the far right only serves to legitimize the far right candidate he will inevitably have to run against.
He. Is. Absolutely. Not. The. Guy.
There are two kinds of California Voters, people who hate Gavin and won't vote for him, and people who hate Gavin and vote him because he's the only game in town.
He does not have the juice. No podcast can save him.
It should go without saying that Gavin Newsom does not have what it takes to fix the country, but he also absolutely does not have what it takes to win a national election.
Pandering to the far right only serves to legitimize the far right candidate he will inevitably have to run against.
He. Is. Absolutely. Not. The. Guy.
Lol, #GitHub is so funny — #Microsoft disabled code search if you are not logged in.
Before, I successfully searched in some project's code without login, but looks like since 2026 #Microslop desided to make things worse.
Thankfully, "git clone" through HTTPS and good old grep still working without GitHub account, lol
Suddenly feeling sentimental about User Friendly the comic strip. No idea why.
Google: "We found that this gambling ad doesn't violate our policies against gambling ads, but you can personalise your ad experience to block the kinds of ads you don't want."
Me: "So, can I block gambling ads?"
Google: "No, we don't allow gambling ads so a toggle to block gambling ads doesn't make sense. What are you talking about?"
나: 엠벼사주별자리타로점 따위의 미신이 너무 싫다
남: 에이 누가 그런걸 진짜로 믿어요 그냥 좀 선택할 때 도움 받거나 마음 기대려고 하는 거지
나: 하하 그렇죠? 설마 이런걸 진심으로 믿을리가
(진심으로 믿는 사람을 봄)
나:
a close up of a stuffed animal...
色々売ったから今ちょっと金持ち
I'm not the main character here, but I'm really hoping the 
@Codeberg downtime that started about five minutes ago doesn't have anything to do with the Forgejo Actions workflows I was in the midst of kicking off…
😬
(I'm using a self-hosted runner and was testing out the v14 changes that improve the picking up of jobs by the runner.)
Never underestimate a cat's ability to ignore something.
Lol, #GitHub is so funny — #Microsoft disabled code search if you are not logged in.
Before, I successfully searched in some project's code without login, but looks like since 2026 #Microslop desided to make things worse.
Thankfully, "git clone" through HTTPS and good old grep still working without GitHub account, lol
I think it’s good actually to detangle yourself from nostalgia traps, doesn’t matter if it’s Star Trek or Star Wars or Harry Potter.
https://aftermath.site/star-trek-skydance-trump-paramount-ellison/
タンパク質はいいぞ
This is ICE assaulting and arresting people simply because they are brown skinned.
엄마를 지켜보고 있다.
mcc
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Stefano Marinelli
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Ael Yokan
Misty
