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GrapheneOS version 2026012800 released:
https://grapheneos.org/releases#2026012800
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release.
Forum discussion thread:
https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/31269-grapheneos-version-2026012800-released
The recording of the January 29th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the FreeBSD Build Option Survey, illumos transitional VirtIO device support, FreeBSD virtiofs updates, user-friendly CPU pinning, a Prometheus exporter for Sylve, the bhyvemgr desktop bhyve manager, user management without /etc/passwd, upcoming Zelta features, best practices for quiescing VMs for ZFS snapshotting, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
Heating homes with the largest particle accelerator
Link: https://home.cern/news/news/cern/heating-homes-worlds-largest-particle-accelerator
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46811762
sometimes i wish i was born circa 30 years ago and got into programming at the peak of the home computer revolution.
me, some guy i met in uni who calls himself Gibby "The Splice" Ronnalds, and a random executive from a AAA publisher who decided to give us $15,000 based on a newspaper ad we bought as a joke. we're given twelve weeks to make the top down shooter we promised we'd been able to do. all i have is a C compiler i got on a floppy from a garage sale, and all gibby has is an amiga with a cracked copy of the ultimate soundtracker. we don't have an artist, but i notice my mum's cross stitching patterns look remarkably similar to pixel art, and i give her a stack of grid paper and a box of coloured pencils and tell her to have at it.
the game is looking to be pure unadulterated dogshit right up until nine days before release, where a bug that causes the AI planes to go hyperspeed inspires us to add a "nitrous" mechanic. we rename Flyin' High with Gibby to Aeronauts! and rework the entire game from a WWII dogfighter to a racer. the publisher is furious, but we sneak into their office after hours to write a bunch of floppies and distribute them to Computer Gaming Madness magazine. the guerilla reviews are phenomenal, we get the green light. critics call out the sprite art as the highlight of the game.
the publisher was trying to scam us by giving us 10% royalties on a game they thought would bomb, but we become millionaires. they can't write floppies fast enough to keep up with sales.
thirty years later, in the present day, we're bought out by activision to make a battle royale mode for Call of Duty: Samsung Smart Glasses Edition with Bixby.
@karotteLukas this image implies that you can insert merci into SFP slots. which are usually quite warm. I did NOT want to know this. please take this thought out of my brain, quickly! aaaaaaaa!
@nor4nora 🐭 (she/her) There you go.
“구룡마을이 1960년대에 머문 이유는 직접 배제와 간접 배제가 겹치면서 방치가 제도화됐기 때문이다. 그래서 지금 주민들의 재난지역 선포 주장은 국가의 책임을 확정하라는 요구다. 인명 피해가 없다는 건 다행이지만, 30년 넘는 야만의 시간을 보상해야 한다. 늦더라도 그게 문명이다.”
화마 입은 구룡마을 ‘재난지역’ 주장하는 이유 [왜냐면...
old man yells at could
why majority of activitypub servers need systems with least 1gb of ram? one gigabyte is a lot of ram and that's just baseline. some require 8gb...
how can we write software that is less bloated?
old man yells at could
why majority of activitypub servers need systems with least 1gb of ram? one gigabyte is a lot of ram and that's just baseline. some require 8gb...
how can we write software that is less bloated?
Ich finde es erschreckend, dass gerade überall über "Europäische Alternativen" gesprochen wird und dass wir "was eigenes neues brauchen" und keiner von den Holzköpfen merkt, dass das alles längst existiert: #Mastodon, #Pixelfed, #Loops - alles schon da, alles dezentral, kein "W" statt "X" oder eigenes TikTok - man muss sich einfach nur mal umschauen. Recherchiert doch mal ordentlich!
심지어 가격도 한국에 비해 훨씬 쌈
I regret to inform you that you missed your chance to own this
유담 탈락하자 '교수 채용 중단'…다음 학기 바로 임용 v.daum.net/v/2026013005... 인천대, 유효 지원자 2명 있었는데도 이후 채용 절차 중단
[단독]유담 탈락하자 '교수 채용 중단'…다음 학기 바...
걍 버터에 빵이랑 계란만 구워먹었는데 진짜 맛있음 유제품은 진짜 무조건 유럽산 써야한다...
The recording of the January 29th, 2026 #bhyve Production User Call is up:
We discussed the FreeBSD Build Option Survey, illumos transitional VirtIO device support, FreeBSD virtiofs updates, user-friendly CPU pinning, a Prometheus exporter for Sylve, the bhyvemgr desktop bhyve manager, user management without /etc/passwd, upcoming Zelta features, best practices for quiescing VMs for ZFS snapshotting, and more!
"Don't forget to slam those Like and Subscribe buttons."
You can support all Call For Testing efforts via BSD Fund: https://bsdfund.org
County pays $600k to pentesters it arrested for assessing courthouse security
Link: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/01/county-pays-600000-to-pentesters-it-arrested-for-assessing-courthouse-security/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814614
talk about a support chatbot
I spy on the dev support channels at work (a ticket is created for every top level thread), and they connected a bot that attempts to answer questions by matching against previous problems and our internal documentation, and tbh it works really well. I've seen it give the correct answers a lot of the time. (And irrelevant ones occasionally.)
mh-
this week has already been a month both personally and professionally so FOSDEM is gonna be so very, very overwhelming 😭
Swift for Wasm January 2026 Updates is out, lots of great stuff done by the community this month! https://forums.swift.org/t/swift-for-wasm-january-2026-updates/84458
ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ
Thanks, Quansight for supporting open source so forcefully!
Pentax LX #ペンタックス #fediverse写真部 #photography
#Palentir and domestic #surveillance in the US.
And #Starmer has handed them the keys to the (English) #NHS as well as trying the UK military.
Don’t be surprised if this comes to UK (well English and Welsh anyway) streets.
You have been warned.
https://www.bylinesupplement.com/p/domestic-terrorism-ice-contractor
ぷっぷっぷー
にゃんぷっぷー
偉業が欲しいか
そらやるぞー
ABSTRACT/ARCADE.GIF
Dieses Jahr sind durch die ICE-Truppen in den USA bisher neun Menschen ums Leben gekommen. Zwei Namen kennt Ihr: Alex Pretti und Renee Nicole Good. Die übrigen sieben waren schwarz.
Minnesota Dems are trying to elect as governor, the County Attorney that refused to charge Derek Chauvin for his entire career of brutality against Black Minnesotans, and refused to charge almost every cop in the police department that is on the most racist 1% of police departments in North America?
Then if Black Minnesotans don't turn out to vote for her in record numbers, a bunch of white people are going to jump on BlueSky and Twitter and Mastodon and Facebook to curse out Black people, and express their homicidal fantasies about how Black men and Somali immigrants now deserve whatever is about to happen to them.
Every state in the U.S. should pass a law like the one now proposed in California, disqualifying ICE agents from working in state law enforcement and public schools. https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/california-bill-ice-teachers-21318405.php
i think a lot of devs just can't really comprehend the kind of relationships non-devs have with computing. which like, fair, it's difficult. but i think there's a lot of weird beliefs that come out of this for sure. anyway just to be clear, agreeing with you, just in a rambly way
Did you know that Alameda County has a Guaranteed Ride Home Program in case something unexpected disrupts your bike/walk/transit/carpool commute? Learn more and sign up here: https://grh.alamedactc.org/
Someone, some time ago, made a web "app" to play music or maybe video, I think, with iframes, and web standards - no funky Frameworks or YouTube embeds.
Does that sound familiar? I'm sure there was either a good string of posts or an article about it.
C++ Modules Are Here to Stay
Link: https://faresbakhit.github.io/e/cpp-modules/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46741602
1. Managed to get Pebbles the (Formerly) Semi-Feral Cat off to the vet to check on a gunky eye. She didn't even scratch me which is a first
2. The eye isn't too serious (good) and can be treated with eyedrops. I was worried it might be something worse as weepy eyes are often first sign of that.
3. I managed to administer Pebbles eye drops all by myself tonight. Again, she didn't scratch me and she seems quite chipper
(Photo is a before photo because she really doesn't need people seeing her gunky eye tonight)
Does anybody remember when the Amazon algorithm used to be really good at suggesting things? I'm talking back before you'd look at one back scratcher and then the whole For You page would be nothing but back scratchers? Like, I remember a time where like my entire purchase history was clearly being used and I was getting suggestions that were basically "people like you were also interested in..." and it regularly had stuff I didn't know existed and was interested in seeing. Now...yeesh.
carposting, money (lots of it)
There will be live video streams of FOSDEM 2026 via PeerTube, you can find out more details via @schmaker at:
➡️ https://schmaker.eu/display/c83e3896-2169-6d53-c71f-64c343942764
There are playlists for the event streams on PeerTube at these links:
➡️ https://makertube.net/w/p/tH91FM3JdSe7b3cnqsfhmW
➡️ https://vhsky.cz/w/p/ixCUdbv6dmPVgeWLcKxLLG
You can follow these channels to see the streams pop up in your timeline on Mastodon etc:
➡️ 
@fosdem@makertube.net
➡️ 
@fosdem@vhsky.cz
(PeerTube admins wanting to federate these, you need to federate these specific channels.)
그래서 내가….이걸 사업으로 키울 수도 있겠지만 걍 프리로만 지내는….
I made it halfway through #WaniKani 🙌 🇯🇵
Just another few years and I'll get to the end. I just have to live long enough. And I already know what 地獄 means. 😂
just did some searches on postgresql upsert to check on some details.
saw some tutorials talking about `MERGE` as an alternative to `ON CONFLICT DO`
thought "what is this? postgres doesn't have something called `MERGE`, great i must be reading LLM-hallucinated tutorials"
look around some more... huh... postgres added MERGE in version 15 🤯
Unless the "AI" bubble bursts in the next six months, I don't know if I can stay in tech any longer.
Yeah, the code is going to keep getting worse, so there will be opportunities to do secure code review.
But how many people are going to have their brains addled by "AI psychosis" and will be even more insufferable than they are today?
I understand more and more every day why people leave tech and become farmers.
Unless the "AI" bubble bursts in the next six months, I don't know if I can stay in tech any longer.
Yeah, the code is going to keep getting worse, so there will be opportunities to do secure code review.
But how many people are going to have their brains addled by "AI psychosis" and will be even more insufferable than they are today?
I understand more and more every day why people leave tech and become farmers.
Time flies when yer having fun!
Today marks 8 years of Point-Free: hundreds of hours of educational video, dozens of open source projects, and tens of thousands of developers reached.
We couldn’t do it without the support of our community. Here’s to 8 more!
https://www.pointfree.co/blog/posts/199-point-free-turns-8
RE: https://mastodon.social/@davebauerart/115978434303703479
This was a really fun conversation! Thanks for having me on, 
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