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Data Privacy Day feels more important in 2026 than ever before. 🛡️🔐
Together we can spread privacy. Like, share, comment and spread awareness this #DataPrivacyDay
Find out what other DeGoogled apps our community recommends 👉https://tuta.com/blog/degoogle-list
TAKE ACTION: No tech for ICE!
Today we're launching an action aimed at 🇨🇦 company Hootsuite 🦉, a registered B corp required by its certification to respect human rights... and a company actively seeking a billion dollar "social listening" contract with ICE.
If you want to tell them to tear those contracts up and permanently guarantee they will never provide their tools to ICE or DHS, take 30 seconds to speak up here!
To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping.
If you need OSM data, please don't scrape the website - use the official downloads at https://planet.openstreetmap.org
🙏🌍 #AI #Bots #Abuse
Hardware design should be SAFER!
Memory-safe software languages changed the world and allowed to us to build massively larger systems. At their heart, memory-safe languages eliminate a category of bugs that pointer-manipulating programs suffer from.
Hardware design needs its own safe programming models but instead of memory, the problem is time! Synchronous hardware design needs to deal with a clock signal which creates discrete time steps. Every hardware module needs to think about how time affects its own logic and everything it communicates with. Getting it wrong leads to all sorts of logical bugs: reading meaningless values and using resources that are unavailable.
Our work on Filament (https://filamentHDL.com) defined a criteria for safe hardware description languages (HDLs) and showed that you can enforce it using a type system and introduce no overheads. Safe HDLs have become an interesting area of research and this year's ASPLOS features two papers exploring different threads:
- Lilac (https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.02570): Builds upon Filament applies its safety guarantees to parameterized designs. A cool outcome of this work was to show that, in addition to helping with verification, safe HDLs enable the design of fundamentally new abstractions!
- Anvil (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19447): Explores how Filament's verification abstractions can be applied to a higher-level, message-passing HDL and enforce safety properties!
I'm really excited to see where this line of work goes and what we can build with it! If you're around at ASPLOS and interested in this kind of work, come say hi and go watch the talks!!
A friend (sadly not on Mastodon) at the FabLab crafted this masterpiece with a photocopier and a smol blahaj.
helpful heuristic: actual active user statistics for Bluesky that accounts for lurkers is firehose-visible active users times two
so actual MAU is around 12M, DAU around 3M
bskycharts.edavis.dev/edavis.dev/b...
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ragtjsm2j2vknwkz3zp4oxrd/post/3mdinjdne5k2o
thinking about that time i complained at work about difficulty showering with little hot water and my employer told me "oh, just get one of those suicide showers"
It looks like Swift 6.3 will be getting a new `anyAppleOS` platform name for use in availability annotations (experimental, for now). Eventually, this will allow:
@available(anyAppleOS 26.0, *)
instead of:
@available(iOS 26.0, macOS 26.0, tvOS 26.0, watchOS 26.0, visionOS 26.0, *)
Wrote up how I ended up with four machines in my closet running nightly JIT benchmarks.
The answer to "does JIT go brrr?" is roughly "yes, YMMV... about 2-15% faster depending on your hardware" 🤠
https://savannah.dev/posts/i-run-a-server-farm-in-my-closet/
“My name is Alex Vindman, and I have made the decision to run for the United States Senate in Florida.
Over two decades ago, I swore an oath to protect this country when I joined the U.S. Army.
I honored that oath in 2019 by blowing the whistle on Donald Trump’s corrupt phone call with Ukraine, an act that led to Trump’s first impeachment and cost me my military career.”
Opinion.
zram0: detected capacity change from 3752960 to 0
Sounds like one of my servers is pretty unhappy 😔
📡 We’re spending the week in Brussels, with 
@NGICommons present day by day.
Listening, sharing, and connecting around open source, public digital infrastructure, and the future of the digital commons in Europe. These spaces matter. Because collaboration, is how sustainable digital ecosystems grow.
More info here: https://commons.ngi.eu/2026/01/27/ngi-commons-at-the-heart-of-eu-open-source-week-in-brussels/
#NGICommons #EUOpenSourceWeek #OpenSource #DigitalCommons
@openfutureOpen Future Foundation 
@OpenForumEurope 
@martelinnovate 
@cnrsCNRS 🌍 
@linuxfoundationThe Linux Foundation 
@EC_NGINext Generation Internet
誰かのせいにしたいが
@Nadir_RLNadir/なでぃる
の顔しか思いつかない
RE: https://misskey.io/notes/ai1v5dnqnhhn00wo
32 People Died in ICE Custody in 2025, as #Minneapolis Killings Spark Outrage
“Of those who died in #ICE custody last year include Geraldo Lunas Campos, whose death in #Texas has been ruled a homicide.
Also Wael Tarabishi, who died of a rare genetic disease thirty days after his father, Wael’s primary caregiver, was detained by ICE after a routine check-in at an immigration facility in Dallas.”
https://people.com/deaths-ice-custody-last-year-as-fatal-shootings-spur-outrage-11890261
#DataPrivacyDay is now trending across Mastodon
500Hz OLED 모니터 AOC Q27G4KD 초간단 후기
85만원을 태워서 500Hz 호기심을 해결했습니다. 
In response to the increase in ICE violence across the country and in Minnesota, the Executive Board of the Alphabet (i.e. Google) Workers Union released this statement
www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphab...
https://www.alphabetworkersunion.org/press/alphabet-workers-union-statement-condemning-ice
Secret Panel HERE 🧠 https://tapas.io/episode/2175990
On #DataPrivacyDay, we’re reflecting on a year of CDT’s work to protect privacy, civil rights, and democratic values in an increasingly data-driven world. https://cdt.org/area-of-focus/privacy-data/
GOG now using AI generated images on their store https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-now-using-ai-generated-images-on-their-store/
全部自分が悪いんや…
The regime is trying to dissuade people from doing what Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and thousands of patriots are doing: Exercising their First Amendment rights to protect their communities from DHS.
Join the next ICE watch training and get the tools to exercise your rights as federal agents terrorize our communities: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/892452/?utm_source=indivisible
Here is a list of my demands. #CatsOfMastodon
Trump has hung a picture of him and Putin, in the public part of the White House. I’m grossed out. https://www.thetimes.com/article/e9fd64e6-07a7-46f9-a60f-4d3793d25e79
BLASPHEMY!
The site lets you play Infocom's legendary Zork trilogy with an AI assistant that understands the games and so you can enter natural language commands without having to worry about the finicky syntax requirements
https://infocom.tambo.co/
Meta blocks links to ICE List across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads
Mark Zuckerberg's social media platforms are assisting the Trump administration.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/meta-blocks-links-to-ice-list-across-facebook-instagram-and-threads/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
If you're storing data, it's likely that you'll have to do a migration at some point. And that can be scary! That's why I wrote a whole guide outlining different migration strategies for your SwiftData apps: https://www.donnywals.com/a-deep-dive-into-swiftdata-migrations/
저는 가습기에도 브리타로 정수된 물을 넣어요 
석회도 조금 덜생기고 기화식 가습기에서 수돗물 염소 남새 안나서 좋아요
I successfully replaced my first MIPI DSI connector today on an MNT Pocket motherboard after 
@mntmnminute showed me the ropes. I had been nervous to try this component so far cause of how delecate the plastic connector but went surprisingly well. #mnt
ママー！遊んでー！
痛い
It was interesting to read up on the AI assisted code review at https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7aJwgbMEiKq5egQbd/ai-found-12-of-12-openssl-zero-days-while-curl-cancelled-its
For context: I'm personally responsible for at least 29 curl CVEs. Out of the recent 6 CVEs mentioned in the blog post I found two. This gives me some perspective, I think.
I do not utilise AI tools in my vulnerability research. I am also fiercely critical of harmful proliferation of AI. This is due to the unsustainable way it is currently pushed, and use of as marketing ploy and gimmick rather than producing measurable benefit to users. This leads to negative impacts on economy, education & learning, not to mention impacts to nature due to wasteful use of energy.
This doesn't mean I am against AI. I have written by own AI tooling (fully local RAG with support for arbitrary number of models running on local nodes, implemented in python). I found the usefulness of such tool to be limited at best. It is somewhat useful in mass analysis of large document bases, but the level of analysis is superficial at best. These AI models are after all just language models, and do not have any true understanding or intelligence.
And here is the gist of it: The current tools are not intelligent. Understanding this limitation is the key of successful deployment and utilisation of AI tools. The tools can be useful in certain tasks, but they do not replace true intelligence.
The AI tooling AISLE are developing certainly is one of the better uses of AI, and definitely surpasses all my personal dabbling around it. It is clear that the tool does find vulnerabilities. The key question is how much hallucinations and false positives it produces: If the tool generates thousands of FPs and the true findings are hidden among them this limits the value and usefulness of the tool (of course it doesn't entirely negate it, many tools produce false positives). In short: The quality of the findings is key, and poor signal-to-noise ratio is highly undesirable.
Either way, I think there is a future for AI tools and they definitely will be helpful in vulnerability research.
I personally will keep exercising my wetware for this work, however.
#cybersecurity #infosec #vulnerabilityresearch #thoughtoftheday
Brian Stelter on CNN raises TikTok censorship concerns.
[h/t The Tennessee Holler on Bsky]
ふぁぼられはデータベースに記録されてそうだからSQLにお願いして数えられるかもよね
Just found some game design idea notes of mine for an automation/factory game and the top two notes are "should be optimistic" and "anti-colonialist". Not bad.
Wrote up how I ended up with four machines in my closet running nightly JIT benchmarks.
The answer to "does JIT go brrr?" is roughly "yes, YMMV... about 2-15% faster depending on your hardware" 🤠
https://savannah.dev/posts/i-run-a-server-farm-in-my-closet/
土岐綾乃と志摩リンのツーリング
@haroldHarold Jarche if you want Visio, the open source video conf platform from the French government's DINUM, here's the repo: github.com/suitenumerique/meet
Otherwise there's the cooperative BBB by meet.coop for members for 9 GBP/month.
每天睡前把 Claude Code 模型切換到 Opus，大手筆的讓它去掃描 source code、製作 skills 什麼的，把使用額度榨乾
Verfassungsschützer: Viele Beschwerden vor Suspendierung
Der vorläufigen Suspendierung liege eine zweistellige Anzahl schriftlicher Eingaben von Bediensteten dieser Organisationseinheit zugrunde.
https://salzburg.orf.at/stories/3339656/
#pol #polat
Just uploaded my bachelor's thesis to GitHub!
In it, I detail how I created a bootstrap chain for 
@nixos_orgNixOS which builds the whole system from a small hand-auditable binary seed.
Read the thesis: https://nzbr.github.io/nixos-full-source-bootstrap/thesis.pdf
Check out the code: https://github.com/nzbr/nixos-full-source-bootstrap
My post on the NixOS discourse: https://discourse.nixos.org/t/a-full-source-bootstrap-for-nixos/74801
서울 근처에 안 살아도 된다면 어디가 좋을까
that said, i'm realizing i'm missing a truly good post on this, maybe simon or david has one handy (which is why i'm at-ing them)
morgan stanley thinks anthropic's gross profit margin is 60% archive.is/VsrU1
archive.is/VsrU1
okay so here's @simonwillison.net@bsky.brid.gy and @davidcrespo.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4505...
starting with altman, adding amodei. deepseek claims cost profit margin of 545% github.com/deepseek-ai/...
posts like martinalderson.com/posts/are-op... match what i've seen elsewhere.
github.com/deepseek-ai/op...
I'm dead against the proposed new housing development near us but the group formed in opposition to it is so full of flag-shaggers, illiterates, reactionaries and general numpties that I'm actually coming around to the idea that some new neighbours might be a good thing.
빈손으로 가긴 그러니 최근에 낙서했던 것 올리고 가기
ZWEI WEITERE !?!?!?!?!?!?
Zwei weitere Höfe wegen TBC-Verdachts gesperrt
https://vorarlberg.orf.at/stories/3339665/
Em 
✧✦Catherine✦✧
Hugo van Kemenade
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
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홍조은
(本物)
Tom Casavant
@
phildini