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โ๏ธ whining
As always these days, I'm the only person ๐ท'd on my flight.
The air is awful on this equipment: 1925 ppm of COโ at my seat.
Person next to me has a productive cough โฆ๐ฎโ๐จโฆ (can tell by sound), yet she isn't masked. ๐
Welp, whatever ๐ฆ she's spewing on this row, I guess I'm bringing it to #FOSDEM.๐
As a reminder for those coming to 
@fosdem โฆ please mask! It's not life-or-death anymore for most, but I lost a month of work (& missed my OWN keynote) last year when I got #COVID at FODSEM.
NGC 55: A Galaxy of Nebulas
Can you see nebulas in other galaxies? Yes, some nebulas shine brightly enough -- if you know how to look. Clouds of hydrogen and oxygen emit light at very specific colors, and by isolating them, astronomers and astrophotographers can reveal structures that would otherwise be too faint to notice.
Image Credit & Copyright: Wolfgang Promper; Text: Ogetay Kayali (MTU)
in its defence, the current โpds proxies request to appviewโ setup is very unintuitive imo
Goodbye to the idea that solar panels โdieโ after 25 years. A new study says the warranty does not mark the end, and real-world performance can last for decades
https://www.ecoticias.com/en/goodbye-to-the-idea-that-solar-panels-die-after-25-years-a-new-study-says-the-warranty-does-not-mark-the-end-and-real-world-performance-can-last-for-decades/26007/
Read original research paper here https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2025/el/d4el00040d
Al Jazeera journalist Nour Odeh explains that babies born in Gaza since 2023 have not been registered, leaving them unrecognized by Israel and creating serious legal complications.
With no official registration, their status remains undefined: it is unclear how these children could leave Gaza, what documents they would be able to travel with, or whether Israel would permit their return if they ever managed to exit.
incredible: today's date is 26/26/26, this phenomenon only happens once every ten thousand years
"Der traurigste Aspekt des Lebens ist derzeit, dass die Wissenschaft schneller Wissen sammelt als die Gesellschaft Weisheit.โ
-- Isaac Asimov
โโ์ข์์ ํ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์์.โ
์ด ๋ง์ ๋ง์น ์ฃผ๋ฌธ์ฒ๋ผ ๋ชจ๋ ๋ถ๋นํจ์ ์ ๋นํํ๋ค. ์ข์์ ํ๋ค๋ ์ด์ ๋ก ์ ๋นํ ๋๊ฐ๋ฅผ ํฌ๊ธฐํด์ผ ํ๋ค๋ ๋
ผ๋ฆฌ. ์์ ์ ์ง์
์ด ์๋๋ผ ์ทจ๋ฏธ๋ผ๋ ๋ฏ, ์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ์๊ฐ๊ณผ ๋
ธ๋์ ๋ฌด๊ฐ์นํ๊ฒ ๋ง๋๋ ์ด ๋ง์ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํญ๋ ฅ์ด๋ค.โ
โ์ข์์ ํ๋ ์ผ์ด์์โ๋ผ๋ ๋ง์ ํญ๋ ฅ์ฑ
Former jihadists in full harmony with Israel and the US
- Syriaโs government has BANNED Palestinian passport holders from entering the country.
- Previously, Syria was one of the ONLY in the world to allow Palestinians in.
I just got a message from somebody saying I should read his book that he got AI to write about about how to get the most out of AI.
At least when a tree falls in a forest you can definitely say something happened.
Al Jazeera journalist Nour Odeh explains that babies born in Gaza since 2023 have not been registered, leaving them unrecognized by Israel and creating serious legal complications.
With no official registration, their status remains undefined: it is unclear how these children could leave Gaza, what documents they would be able to travel with, or whether Israel would permit their return if they ever managed to exit.
The algorithm is driving AI-generated influencers to increasingly weird niches.
https://www.404media.co/two-heads-three-boobs-the-ai-babe-meta-is-getting-surreal/
incredible: today's date is 26/26/26, this phenomenon only happens once every ten thousand years
I am working on a new project, called minimitra.
It's a FEP-ae97 client that implements Mastodon API. Minimitra is similar to Mitra, but it is designed to run as a desktop application and supports portable accounts. That means: offline-first, full identity/data ownership, Tor/I2P friendly.
Currently minimitra can only send and receive public messages, but I expect that porting features will not be difficult because most of the code will be shared.
Other limitations / downsides:
- Requires postgresql server.
- Can't post to multiple gateways.
- No cross-client portability.
Fortunately, all of that can be fixed!
PSA: Hoping that your IT is too old for a crypto trojan to do damage is not a valid strategy in a corporate environment.
Apple just announced a new AirTag with more range and a better speaker. It now includes an upgraded ultra wideband chip, which lets you precisely track items up 50 percent further away www.theverge.com/news/867757/...
Appleโs new AirTag has more ra...
the one thing i hate about these articles is how it's specifically framed in that only bluesky suffers from this
yes a public firehose makes things easier but do you not see the many nitter or fix twitter-like software and instances out there
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:izc4epknbvpf2hk3gq7evk4k/post/3mdcrkaq2c22l
incredible: today's date is 26/26/26, this phenomenon only happens once every ten thousand years
PSA for EU fediverse admins! Import tax will soon be applied to every post coming from instances hosted in the USA, at a rate of 25 Euro cent per post (or 40 Euro cent if it's really really funny)
Well I guess at least it's one of those rare days you can successfully understand a written date despite being in Canada
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anewsocial/115939927948540108
We're now live! Join us at https://stream.place/quillmatiq.com
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja The W3C has chartered a new working group to revise and improve ActivityPub. Will A New Social be participating?
โOnce men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.โ
โ Frank Herbert, _Dune_
I feel like people who are using LLMs for their work are not considering the motives and impact of the corporations hosting and serving the model. The goal isn't to make you a better developer, or even a more productive developer, its to make you dependent on their service and start driving up the rents to access it.
The goal is to extract your time, your money, and your knowledge feeding these models your plans for the work you want to achieve. They are not benevolent.
that moment when you realize you have been stupid for the last hour or two
Reggae Drum Pioneer Sly Dunbar Dies At 73 - SPIN
https://www.spin.com/2026/01/sly-dunbar-obituary/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into SPIN 
@spin-SPINMagSPIN
but with the aud check in Good, the only way a Bad feed could do this is by asking user to oauth into Bad feed itself (and thus giving it enough authority to call PDS and then call Good feed with a token)
LISTEN TO BLACK PEOPLE. ESPECIALLY LISTEN TO BLACK WOMEN.
A company claimed it built a web browser from scratch using AI. It wasn't true.
> ...for all that time and money, independent developers who cloned the repo reported that the codebase is very far from a functional browser. Recent commits do not compile cleanly, GitHub Actions runs on main are failing, and reviewers could not find a single recent commit that was built without errors.
> Where builds succeeded after manual patching, performance was abysmal, with reports of pages taking around a minute to load and a heavy reliance on existing projects like Servo, a Rust-based web rendering engine, and QuickJS, a JavaScript engine, despite "from scratch" claims.
Tried and failed to login to stream.place, but enjoying the anew.social stream @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja
Microsoft is announcing its own Maia 200 AI chip today. It goes head-to-head in performance against Google and Amazon's AI chips, and Microsoft is using Maia 200 to host GPT-5.2 and others for Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot. Details here ๐ www.theverge.com/news/867670/...
Microsoftโs latest AI chip goe...
Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Imprisonment Surpasses 1 Million Copies Sold.
Hyrule Warriors: Age Of Impris...
our Intel Panther Lake laptop CPU review is live. The first chip of Intelโs 18A process is speedy, even on battery power, and a solid option for 1080p gaming www.theverge.com/tech/867214/...
Intel Panther Lake laptop CPU ...
TikTok alternative Skylight soars to 380K+ users after TikTok U.S. deal finalized https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/tiktok-alternative-skylight-soars-to-380k-users-after-tiktok-u-s-deal-finalized/
Just so you know, we need to push back against privacy-invasive regulations.
Each and every time.
Shrugging and using a VPN will not save you. They will come for the VPNs next.
Then the ISPs.
Then more.
Pushing against unjust laws matters.
The tools alone will not save you in the long run.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@FirewallDragons/115962131540094840
Thank you to 
@FirewallDragonsFirewalls Don't Stop Dragons for covering the AI age verification bill being considered in the Florida Legislature! Between this and the Florida App Stores Accountability Act, we have our work cut out for us.
If you live in Florida, please call your state legislators and tell them you oppose these age verification bills!
#Florida #Privacy #Cybersecurity #AgeVerification #InfoSec #DigitalRights #Miami
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/115962701645642008
Join 
@loops instead
Payment processors were against CSAM until Grok started making it https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/867874/stripe-visa-mastercard-amex-csam-grok
Hootsuite signing a contract with ICE in this environment is profoundly shameful.
They know very well their social media monitoring tools will be misused to attempt to punish ICE's targets and citizen protestors.
We deleted our account with them, others should too!
@aeva still I admire that "gamer" is more of an insult now than "gay" is (even though I am both)
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber using gamer as an insult is transphobia, probably
There is a #neovim 0.11.6 maintenance release to lift up your mood during this time of the year. It mostly focuses on small fixes, but it is an honest work.
Release: github.com/neovim/neovi...
Changelog: github.com/neovim/neovi...
Release Nvim release build ยท n...
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@jfredJonathan Frederickson 
@vagrantcVagrant Cascadian you could have another minimal kernel + initramfs that decrypts /boot and then loads guix's kernel with kexec (something like u-root, except u-root doesn't support LUKS (but if disk space isn't an issue you could probably include a cryptsetup binary with u-root if you wanted to use that))@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @jfredJonathan Frederickson @vagrantcVagrant Cascadian this also has the advantage that it wouldn't be as slow as GRUB to decrypt your disk, and if you wanted to you could avoid entering your disk encryption password twice by either putting the key into the second (encrypted) initramfs (although this has security implications for LUKS2 because it makes the key accessible from userspace) or possibly using kexec handover (which I'm not sure how to do, or if it would require kernel modifications, but that is a thing)Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3
Link: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:okydh7e54e2nok65kjxdklvd/post/3mdd55paffk2o
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46769051
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