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it has been [63] days since I last got way too fucking confused by IBM’s unhinged bit numbering
Will people in #fosdem26 make fun of me for using windows in my talk?
I have not presented in FOSS conferences for a time, and the most lightweight computer at home that could take to travel have windows.
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@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@vagrantcVagrant Cascadian That's kexec, yeah. It's usable from a technical standpoint, though I think it can be a bit fiddly to set up. That's what Heads uses to load the OS kernel: https://github.com/linuxboot/heads/blob/master/initrd/bin/kexec-boot
(...and it's used sometimes for faster reboots as well: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kexec)
@jfredJonathan Frederickson @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber
Yeah, kexec exists, and "guix system reconfigure ..." even generates a kexec script to reboot without going all the way into the bootloader... and sometimes even suceeds!
Maybe for some systems it is quite reliable; I have had mixed results, so not sure I would want to rely on kexec without a lot of testing...
Off the top of my head, petitboot implemented a "boot to minimal linux and kexec to full system" sort of interface... there may be other projects in this space as well.
Trump impeachment whistleblower Alex Vindman, twin brother of Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-Virginia), announces a run for the US Senate in Florida. https://open.substack.com/pub/alexandervindman/p/friends-i-am-taking-the-fight-to?r=1g77q&utm_medium=ios&shareImageVariant=overlay
🇫🇷 French government accounts to follow:
(All in French)
@cnes - CNES / Centre National d’Études Spatiales
@cnrsCNRS 🌍 - CNRS / Centre national de la recherche scientifique
@CNRS_INSUCNRS Terre & Univers - CNRS Terre & Univers
@CNRSingenierieCNRS Ingénierie - CNRS Ingénierie
@ouvrirlascienceComité pour la science ouverte - Comité pour la science ouverte
@cnil - CNIL / Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés
@cert_fr - CERT-FR / Computer Emergency Response Team France
@numerique_gouvDir. interminist. du Numérique - DINUM / Direction interministérielle du Numérique
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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115967732962607939
These people are messed up! What do they think they're going to find on a bus stop? Ridiculous freaks.
The obvious and horrifying answer to that question is the correct one: they think they’re going to find brown and Black children and their parents
Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop disassociating.
On meurt dans mon université. https://affordance.framasoft.org/2026/01/on-meurt-dans-mon-universite/
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Unfortunately we have to announce a #gnupg #security #advisory:
Please update to GnuPG to the new 2.5.17 or #gpg4win to 5.0.1
The details are here:
https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-announce/2026q1/000501.html
I would like to thank anyone who named the Material UI React framework "MUI" for giving me the opportunity to meow in the office, because I've decided it will be knows as the "Meeeeww Framework", since I've zero attention span and always read it "MIU" in my head.
채용 지원한 오픈소스 해외 기업에서 여태까지 한 오픈 프로젝트 내역을 내 개인 오너쉽에 맞춰 공유해달라는 요청을 받아서 정리했습니다. https://gist.github.com/mu-hun/1d9a9ac8b72485d77ff90cabed595a49
Twelve years. I started this project twelve years ago, and today I hold the result in my hand. It’s a book that combines bead weaving with math called, “Beading with Algorithms: Cellular Automata in Peyote Stitch.” With help from mathematician and artist Roger Antonsen, graphic designer Zelda Lin, a handful of talented proof readers, and the good people from World Scientific Publishing Company, my dream of combining my loves of math, art, and teaching into a book is finally a reality.
This book is the first of its kind, a recipe book of algorithms that can be used and combined to generate colorful patterns in peyote stitch beadwork in any size and shape you desire. These algorithms could also be applied to other pixelated art forms like tile laying, embroidery, crochet, and quilts. We included projects like bracelets, pill pouches, pendants, beaded beads, and key chains. We also included a bunch of different grids that you can photocopy and color with markers.
Of course I’m biased, but I think it’s a really beautiful book. We included multiple colorful images on almost every page, 172 pages in all. It was a huge layout challenge, but Zelda nailed it. My original goal was to write 128 pages on how to use algorithms to make beaded jewelry, but the more we explored the space, the more we found. Not just millions of algorithms, the space of possibilities is infinite. So of course, we couldn’t include them all. But we used math and Roger’s custom software that he wrote for this project to help us find dozens of the easiest algorithms and more than a hundred more in increasing levels of complexity. We included all of our favorites. 1/2
Concernant les vérifications de majorité pour les services en ligne (porn, réseaux sociaux, ...), ça me saoule tellement que les seules solutions envisagées consistent toutes à devoir passer par des prestataires (privés ou non)... On impose ça à toustes pour gérer l'exception (on est mineur·e quelques années seulement, et majeur·e la majorité de notre vie).
Avec à la clé, d'énormes risques de fuite (c'est déjà arrivé), ou de dérives liberticides (fichage généralisé).
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Given all the news about ICE in the past few weeks, can I kindly remind you all that RELX (owners of Elsevier & LexisNexis) is "mission-critical" to ICE.
ICE pays RELX Group and Thomson Reuters millions of dollars for the personal data it needs to fuel its big data policing program.
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/
see also the book 'Data Cartels' (2022) by Sarah Lamdan.
@rmounceRoss Mounce 
@inthehandsPaul Cantrell Awesome that people are pointing this out. "For years, ICE has used the legal research and public records data broker #LexisNexis to support its investigations.
In 2022, two non-profits obtained documents via Freedom of Information Act requests, which revealed that ICE performed more than 1.2 million searches over seven months using a tool called Accurint Virtual Crime Centerx
"This year, ICE has paid $4.7 million to subscribe to the service."
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/26/heres-the-tech-powering-ices-deportation-crackdown/
Here's the tech powering ICE's deportation crackdown | TechCrunch
From phone spyware and facial recognition to phone unlocking technology and databases and more, this tech powers Trump's deportation machine.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai@lorenzofb@infosec.exchange
Some Atari STe fun tonight!
Come see me and my #spritely colleagues speak at #FOSDEM this year! https://community.spritely.institute/t/spritely-fosdem/796
Coming to #FOSDEM? Come see the #Spritely crew speak! We've got a whole bunch of exciting talks lined up this year! https://community.spritely.institute/t/spritely-fosdem/796
like the problem is if you start fighting against productivity improvements, you're in a fundamentally conservative position. "we can't make things better if it helps our enemies too" is just not a position i can personally get behind.
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Coming to #FOSDEM? Come see the #Spritely crew speak! We've got a whole bunch of exciting talks lined up this year! https://community.spritely.institute/t/spritely-fosdem/796
The usual suspects said that this would fail
Once again, they were wrong
https://lgug2z.com/articles/i-started-identifying-corporate-devices-in-my-software/
#software #licensing #mdm #windows #macos #opensource #postopensource
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115967732962607939
This is how Schumer will snatch defeat from the jaws of victory....he will saw they demoted the bad guy. Wait for it.
this doesn't mean i disagree with you that there's the possibility this helps capital more than labor. but the solution isn't to be against productivity, but instead to be trying to get those benefits for us rather than them. i agree that labor has been on the losing side of this for a long time now
Prediction:
Pinterest, as people have known it, will be dead within five years. I honestly don't think the leadership there has any idea what their userbase actually wants. The End of UX continues…
(I wonder if it's time for a #Fediverse version of Pinterest. Scratch that, it is definitely time!)
https://www.theverge.com/news/868531/pinterest-layoffs-cuts-15-percent-ai-transformation
German police¹ is using ChatGPT to fake images of injured police officers.
After a soccer match with believable hooligan violence against police officers, the German union of police officers (GdP) rightly condemns violence against police officers.
However, instead of using real footage for their press release² of the actual violence that was actually committed, they used some AI-generated fake image and denoted that fact only with a teeny-tiny note in the corner, saying "AI-generated: ChatGPT".
I find this very problematic.
The news report mentioned several injured police officers, some badly injured, and the fake image shows an officer bleeding from his forehead. I have no way to know if any officer was actually bleeding from his head or if this is an exaggeration to make a point. In a time when politicians call for ever more surveillance and ever more power for police officers, this can function as dangerous misinformation.
Especially considering that the Nazis are growing ever stronger and our so-called democratic political parties are building a police state for them. Manufacturing consent using fake images of violence against police officers is dangerous.
Although this was a soccer match, not an anti-genocide protest, and soccer matches occasionally attract violent hooligans, protests are almost always peaceful. At least until the police starts the violence and beats up anyone who protests against fossil fuels or genocide. If we allow police to use AI-generated images in their press releases, then we cannot believe them anything anymore at all. If people still believe them, anyway.
Condemning violence only when it hits them is also hypocritical.
Police is already instigating and inciting against imagined "violent radical leftists", even before/without the use of AI fakes.
The GdP isn't innocent. Just two months ago when the modern NSDAP wanted to start their Hitler Youth equivalent and people peacefully blocked the roads, whereafter the police played taxi for officially recognized Nazis, the GdP said "the radical leftists showed their ugly face and violence".
It's inacceptable for the police to fake images of violence against police.
¹ Sachsen, not even the infamous Berlin police
² https://www.gdp.de/sachsen/de/stories/2026/01/gewalt-im-fussballspiel-magdeburg-gegen-dresden
430k-year-old well-preserved wooden tools are the oldest ever found
Link: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/430000-year-old-wooden-tools-marathousa/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781530
hopefully, we as a society can work to mitigate the harms while also reaping the benefits. i think that's important, just as i always did.
anyway yeah: not gonna pretend that there aren't issues, or that i'm not sympathetic to many of them. but i'm also not gonna pretend these things are useless or that they're gonna go away any time soon, or that i don't really enjoy using them.
oh yeah and i'm certainly worried about things like disinfo, etc. huge problems. already were huge problems, this pours gasoline on the fire. unsure what we are to do there.
남의 우울을 핥아먹는 자
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar
https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it's littered with 'TODO: Check authorisation' and similar
https://blog.cloudflare.com/serverless-matrix-homeserver-workers/
그 외: 동양권분들은 특히 흑인/ 비만체형에 대한 이해도가 떨어지는 경우가 발생하실 수 있는데, 해외분들 중에선 이런 다양성에 예민하신 부분이 많아서 미리 연습하셔도 되게 좋은 기회 같습니다. 사실 이건 다양성이 매우 부족한 동아시아 국가권의 사회적 특징이지, 개인탓으로 돌릴건 아니지만 고객의 니즈에 맞춘다면 연습해야겠죠? 정도임...
Concernant les vérifications de majorité pour les services en ligne (porn, réseaux sociaux, ...), ça me saoule tellement que les seules solutions envisagées consistent toutes à devoir passer par des prestataires (privés ou non)... On impose ça à toustes pour gérer l'exception (on est mineur·e quelques années seulement, et majeur·e la majorité de notre vie).
Avec à la clé, d'énormes risques de fuite (c'est déjà arrivé), ou de dérives liberticides (fichage généralisé).
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Communication, entertainment, everything in between - another great post by 
@ploum that will inspire you, offend you, educate you- all the things great writing should do. It'll make you think, challenge your assumptions- there are too many great quotable parts of this, I couldn't even pick one to use as a blurb here. Worth it to just read the full deal 🔥: https://ploum.net/2025-12-15-communication-entertainment.html
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/115959699952313351
Damn 
@dragonarmpitty bourgeois is RIGHT! The rise of puppygirls and catboys is beating the kiki / bouba duality and THUS overthrowing the gender binary!
Observe!!!!
- Girls are Kiki and Boys are Bouba https://social.coop/@cwebber/115962154894837428
- AND YET Puppygirls are Bouba and Catboys are Kiki https://loci.onl/@morix/115959769246780594
people look at me weird when I say that I don't go to fosdem, because I don't like the conference.
i *do* want to be writing one more blog post about all of this stuff and other things. but i'm probably gonna be keeping it to that because i don't think that public debate is having any effect other than making us all upset at each other rather than capital.
ai also deserves better critics, because there's a lot to legitimately criticize. but i am not gonna be that person, because frankly i do not want to be associated with ai's current most strident critics. and that's most of what ai criticism is right now. unfortunate.
the super booster people will eventually meet with reality and it'll go away. they'll chase whatever new fancy thing sv gets obsessed with
i find a lot of ai booster people annoying. i've long found silicon valley "whatever the latest tech is" boosters annoying. i find a lot of the ai criticism annoying. they refuse to engage with the world as it is, rather than as they want it to be, and often harm their cause with how they act
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/115967732962607939
These people are messed up! What do they think they're going to find on a bus stop? Ridiculous freaks.
zlib-rs: a stable API and 30M downloads https://lobste.rs/s/twpbyo #rust #security
https://trifectatech.org/blog/zlib-rs-stable-api/
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