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La Guaira, #Venezuela
Children watch a pro-government march to demand the release of Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. Before the US military snatched Venezuela’s president earlier this month, Delcy Rodríguez and her powerful brother pledged to cooperate with the Trump administration once the strongman was gone.
Photograph: Matias Delacroix/AP
5 kilogramms of cat ready to #caturday 🚀
So former Dutch Minister and 
@D66 leader Sigrid Kaag is not part of Trump's "Board of Peace", but of his closely related "Gaza Executive Board", which has 4 members in common with the founding Executive Board of Trump's "Board of Peace": Witkoff, Kushner, Blair, Rowan
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/2026/01/statement-on-president-trumps-comprehensive-plan-to-end-the-gaza-conflict/
Today in e-waste news, I just learned that electronic pregnancy tests are the paper pregnancy tests wrapped in a scanner that tells you what the paper says.
Fire in the sky: one awesome cover for a lovely issue of Dragon magazine.
This is easily my favourite cover of all the ones I've seen of the sadly long-departed Dragon. March 1989's spectacular cover always evokes images of Shadowrun's Awakening event, especially of the air battles with Fierschwinge as she appeared over Germany.
But yeah, gorgeous stuff from artist Denis Beauvais.
There's also a bit of a landmark article on Pools of Radiance, with AD&D video games truly coming of age to the mag's delight.
#Minneapolis, #Minnesota
A man walks past a series of posters of Renee Good. A private autopsy has determined that Good, the unarmed US citizen and mother killed by an ICE officer earlier this month, was shot three times, in her forearm, breast and head.
Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty Images
Ghostty has a really well-balanced AI usage policy. It doesn't ban AI tools outright, but it sets clear boundaries to prevent the common problems we're seeing in open source contributions these days.
What stands out is that it's not about being anti-AI. The policy explicitly says the maintainers use AI themselves. The rules are there because too many people treat AI as a magic button that lets them contribute without actually understanding or testing what they're submitting. The requirement that AI-generated PRs must be for accepted issues only, fully tested by humans, and properly disclosed feels like basic respect for maintainers' time.
I'm thinking of adopting something similar for my projects, even though they're not at Ghostty's scale yet. Better to set expectations early.
What I'm listening to today: "It’s techno time", Marie Ann Hedonia
It's techno time!!!!!!!!!
What I'm listening to today: "Sarah Belle Reid plays the Buchla Touché"
I think of myself as pretty informed on "weird" synths and this one is, to me, REALLY WEIRD.
This is a hyper-rare (they made four. ever) synth, one of the earliest computer-controlled synths, you could reprogram its behaviour using a one-off Forth-like developed just for this device and for this track they made it… not… act like… a piano.
It's… otherworldly. IMO remove all distractions to watch it
can pol
An ocean scientist I know lost her federal government job this week. Canada should be scooping up American scientists left and right, not firing our scientists!! She works on carbon observation in the ocean, which is, you know, really fucking important. Everyone else who works on it on the west coast also got cut
Maybe a good time to reach out to your MPs and ask how the fuck we're supposed to be a world leader or whatever if federal scientists are fired and univerities are all drowning?
#Minneapolis, #Minnesota
The photographer John Abernathy is pushed to the ground as federal immigration officers confront protesters in Minneapolis. Community leaders, faith leaders and labour unions held a ‘no work, no school, no shopping’ blackout day on Friday in protest against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids in the state.
Photograph: John Locher/AP
x.com/chal_footley... 읍내에서 본 웃긴 영상 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
my husband's new Windows 11 computer suddenly stopped outputting audio to the 3.5mm headphones.
I clicked the audio troubleshooting button in Settings. It did not send me to the troubleshooter, but instead redirected me to install a help app. (yes, it wasn't even pre-installed.)
The help app told me to click the audio troubleshooter button.
Satya Nadella owes me three billion dollars in emotional damages.
(we've fixed the audio problem by unplugging the USB microphone and rebooting. before you @ me self-righteously about someone else's operating system which was chosen in accordance with THEIR needs and not mine and certainly not yours, consider whether I might react with the fury of ten thousand suns)
I feel like everyone in the Forkiverse needs to know this: David Byrne has covered Olivia Rodrigo's Drivers License https://open.spotify.com/track/2MTz9AjGhnRvZi4agwP6BG?si=59432b482ac041ef
Hacker pro tip:
If you get someone's creds and try to attach to their Entra account, maybe change the user agent string to something other than 'AADInternals'.
Ghostty has a really well-balanced AI usage policy. It doesn't ban AI tools outright, but it sets clear boundaries to prevent the common problems we're seeing in open source contributions these days.
What stands out is that it's not about being anti-AI. The policy explicitly says the maintainers use AI themselves. The rules are there because too many people treat AI as a magic button that lets them contribute without actually understanding or testing what they're submitting. The requirement that AI-generated PRs must be for accepted issues only, fully tested by humans, and properly disclosed feels like basic respect for maintainers' time.
I'm thinking of adopting something similar for my projects, even though they're not at Ghostty's scale yet. Better to set expectations early.
I love relational databases, but oh boy do I dislike writing SQL.
Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way.
The Crimean Tatar movement trying to ruin Russia’s army from within
On the weekend, a power cut shut down a train line carrying Russian weapons and supplies to the front line through the region of Bryansk in western Russia near the Ukrainian border.
But this was no ordinary blackout. It was caused by a fire at a nearby substation set by an agent of the Ukrainian resistance movement, #Atesh.
Lol, even the open source LLM projects are banning vibe coded contributions: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/master/AGENTS.md
They had previously had a policy of "all AI assisted contributions need to be human reviewed before submitting them", but got too many people breaking that rule and submitting fully vibe coded contributions, and even trying to use their chatbots to answer questions about the PRs, so are now actively using the AGENTS.md file to instruct the chatbots to not write code for them and warn them about the policy.
This is Max, when he was a kitten
I took this picture just after explaining what the vet was planning to do to him when he reached the grand old age of six months
End of my 3rd week on #Mastodon
I've not experienced social media like this before. People seeing my posts? And replying? Madness! And no robot deciding that my #cats won’t infuriate anyone and so hiding them?
The people here have been super nice too. Sharing their own cats, giving me helpful tips, and replying with positivity. You're a real likeable bunch of weirdos
So I'll probably stick around, if that's okay….?
Here's another picture of Max sleeping... OR IS HE?
@rufustheduckRufus If there's a better description of Mastodon than "You're a real likeable bunch of weirdos" then I'm yet to hear it 😄
お仕事iPhoneさんときどき起こしてMDMを黙らせないといけないんだけどiOS 26.2に触るの乗り物酔いになってすんごい苦痛なんだよなあ…
#VendrediLecture #VendrediEcoute sur les #Printeurs de 
@ploum.
Ce long roman de science-fiction lu tout seul par l'incroyable Loïc Richard (https://www.loicrichard.com/biographie-cv), qui donne ses voix à tous les personnages du livre. Un talent fou, écouté en livre audio proposé par 
@pvheditionsPVH éditions (https://pvh-editions.com/product/printeurs-audio-m-p3).
Un autre talent fou mais brut, celui de @ploum dont je lis tous les articles sur https://ploum.net, via son fil RSS (https://ploum.net/atom_fr.xml).
#Printeurs est dur, violent, dérangeant parce que tellement proche de ce je crains pour l'avenir et celui de ma fille. Il est aussi une évolution possible de notre présent.
Europe’s lack of will allows oil fleet carrying Russian oil to fund Ukraine war
Political reluctance in Europe is allowing shadow fleets carrying Russian oil to keep funding the war in Ukraine despite long-discussed sanctions enforcement.
Hundreds of tankers continue to move Russian oil in defiance of sanctions.
Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee
Link: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/01/tesla-wants-recurring-revenue-discontinues-autopilot-in-favor-of-fsd/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736683
Anybody still on MS Windows around here? Just to be sure that you cannot trust your own computer if it is under their control. They share your encryption keys with the FBI upon request ("is standard procedure").
@bigzaphodSean Heber 
@jamesthomson i have both, but I think codex is vastly better.
I write code, debug, plan, but man, the amount of stuff I delegate is insane. It feels like I get like 10 times more done.
@MigueldeicazaMiguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @bigzaphodSean Heber @jamesthomson "I feel like I get 10x more done" is the new "I think the stripper really likes me".
너무 일찍 일어났습니다. 
Hacker pro tip:
If you get someone's creds and try to attach to their Entra account, maybe change the user agent string to something other than 'AADInternals'.
Yellow Line
Israel moves Yellow Line deeper into Gaza, satellite images show.
via fadel-dani
so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands.
maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back
apparently malware gangs have exploited this by offering software engineers “interviews” with a “take-home assignment” so keep that in mind the next time VS Code annoys you with the “do you trust this folder” popup
so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands.
maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back
Never use a cheap designer
WORK, it says work
Fuck, I have to change my opinion on leaf blowers.
[Read this before you think about doing something like this yourself! https://infosec.exchange/@0x00string/115947908469913564 ]
{Attention, attention, attention. The following image is not real. It was created by the Mafia, who will kill us all, using their AI monsters. Despite this, these weapons of resistance were actually used in Portland in 2020. Use at your own risk.}
「あなたの人生の物語」みたいになってる。すてきだなあ
葬送のフリーレン 第2期
第30話 南の勇者
https://tver.jp/episodes/epu7zzo685
I am curious...
I know I have a lot of followers who are blind, but I'd like to see how many of you are out there that this post will reach!
Including some additional demographics for interest's sake.
Please respond and boost if you don't mind!
Coprolites aren't my favorite fossil but they're a solid number two.
FYI Canadians - looks like Canada Computers may have had a credit card skimmer on their site from December 8th through January 22nd. If you bought anything online with a credit card during that time period, I guess watch out for fraudulent-looking transactions. https://old.reddit.com/r/bapccanada/comments/1qk4axy/canada_computers_online_card_skimmer/
You uploaded your secret bitlocker keys to the Microsoft cloud? And now you complain that they might share your keys with US authorities?
A polar bear family by Abhilash Sebastian
https://500px.com/photo/86737763/a-polar-bear-family-by-abhilash-sebastian
via alecsgrg
熟練クソネミオフトゥン職人の朝はねむい
디스코드 기능 잘 모르겠음... 내가 누구를 차단하면 그 사람 메시지가 나한테 필터링되어 바로 노출되지 않는 건 알겠는데... 내가 차단한 상대방에게도 내 채팅이나 올린 파일이 아예 안 보이게 할 수 있는가? 검색해도 앞선 경우에 대해서만 나오고 후자 안나와서 아리까리함... 이모지 달기 DM이 안 되는 정도라는데... 혹시 아시는 분 계시면 알려주쉴... (Q. 내가 A차단하면 A가 서버의 내 메시지와 파일 사진등을 아예 못 보게 할 수 있나요?)
【支聯會國安案 第2日｜鄒幸彤申呈專家報告 涵蓋全球民主運動有否類似「結束一黨專政」口號 官問為何要理解其他地方對口號之含意】
已解散的支聯會被指煽動顛覆國家政權案，支聯會、前主席李卓人及前副主席鄒幸彤不認罪，鄒幸彤欲呈遞國立臺灣大學社會系教授何明修的專家報告，法庭今（23日）在西九龍法院（暫代高等法院）開庭處理申請。
就報告中涵蓋全球民主運動有否提出類似「結束一黨專政」口號及含意，法官李運騰指本案涉口號在港的含意，不解為何要理解其他地方對口號的含意，又問報告有否提到港人理解該口號時，亦會考慮世界各地民眾的理解。鄒表示沒有，但指民主化是世界通用字眼，「始終中國未發生民主化嘅時候，我哋參考學習對象必定係國際對象」。
報道由《庭刊》採訪撰寫，《獨立媒體》特約分享。
#支聯會國安案 #庭刊
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庭刊第11期【告別大坑西邨】專題： https://bit.ly/49e9SyV
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請訂...
#法庭 #民主 #案件 #香港
https://www.instagram.com/p/DT2zC9HF4T7/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@alexgmin/115945187456035124
Reminder: No Office hours today. I'm out with the flu, but 
@alexgminAlex Gómez is hosting. Message Alex for the Google Meet link and other details.
I'll see everyone next week.
The #Django website is down?
Claude.ai silently failing since Jan 14, no official acknowledgment
Link: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18866
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46736091
To that end, I've teamed up with my friend @j12t.org@bsky.brid.gyJohannes Ernst, who runs
@fediforum.org@bsky.brid.gyFediForum to put together an online "un-workshop" to explore different ways of growing the open social web! fediforum.org/2026-03-grow...
FediForum | Growing the Open S...
Find out more about the open-source community platform Zulip in our latest blog post, a recap of the Tools Trial we held on Wednesday: https://www.cscce.org/2026/01/23/zulip-tools-trial-recap-find-out-more-about-this-open-source-community-platform/
Fullmetal Alejandro
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Misty
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Tom Casavant
Christine Lemmer-Webber
Jan Lehnardt 
jnkrtech
Stefano Marinelli
Glyph
Danny Garside