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Happy Friday / Friyay to all the #BSD folks!

I'm thinking in building a HomeAssistant compatible stack for FreeBSD.

I want HA in my router, not in a dedicated machine.

What should i name the fork ?

It going to be compatible , but with a more civilized architecture.

寒すぎる

Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time

Link: https://ztechtalk.com/microsoft-teams
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827003

I recently posted about not wanting to CW certain political posts, and someone gave me a bunch of shit about it. This post I quoted is one of the most relatable, meaningful things I've read in quite a while, and I skipped it the first time I saw it because it was CW'ed and I just didn't feel like reading about age verification. Had it not had a CW, I'd have read it the first time. I only even clicked it because I'm super bored and can't sleep.

I can't overstate how meaningful it is to me. I want to make everyone I meet read it. "Look, fuckers. It's a god damn miracle that anyone queer even makes it. Look at this. We are alone, scratching out our existence despite your weird, vague hatred. Cobbling ourselves together out of bits and pieces of flourish, weird sex stuff, and yarn that we've accumulated over decades. Fuck outta here with your genocidal age-gate."

@thatfrisiangirlish https://blahaj.zone/notes/ai1ja7r2j44f02a9

I'm enjoying every single one of these moments, for I know they will be over some time in the future*

*When Winter is over, i.e. when it's not cold anymore

#Fariña #catsofmastodon #allcatsarebeautiful

Want to run the same command again?
In many shells (e.g., tcsh, zsh, bash) you can type "!!".

이 책 20000원에 팔면 사실 분 계신가요 한 두번 읽어보고 안 읽은 책이라 상태도 괜찮은데 제가 안 읽을 것 같아서요..... #하늘장터 #블스하늘장터 #중고도서 #중고판매 #중고거래

This week, we discuss a trip to Kenya, reconstructing images, and lying developers.

https://www.404media.co/behind-the-blog-own-goals-and-lying-devs/

終於來到 #每日一詩 最後一天。雖然就這麼草草結束感覺非常虎頭蛇尾，但是江韻根本是古人幫 007 量身打造的韻目吧？反正我看到「龐」就想到龐德，懶得再想別的了。雖然我不確定 007 有沒有破窗的劇情……反正動作片都差不多吧……

驍勇智無雙，零零七姓龐。
香車調美女，間諜入危邦。
爆炸連飛彈，迴旋又破窗。
矢言擒賊寇，永遠不投降。

#詩 #每日一詩

WooHoo! DisplayCAL GUI for ArgyllCMS (color management system) is back in the Ubuntu/Mint repositories! The original developer of DisplayCAL, Florian Höch, who for years did a fantastic job of building & maintaining DisplayCAL ceased development when Debian & its derivatives migrated from Python2 to 3. Erkan Yilmaz & team picked it up & ported it to Python3 a few years ago. It was very much an alpha patch, but it worked. Now it's fully functional & in the repositories again--nice! 👏 👏

@gnomonBen Zanin and:

export PS4='${LINENO}: '

Want to run the same command again?
In many shells (e.g., tcsh, zsh, bash) you can type "!!".

When committing bash crimes..:

👎 set -euo pipefail

👍 set -o errexit -o nounset -o pipefail

(Give the person reading your script a fighting chance at being able to search the manual for exactly how the heck the cryptic header incantations are influencing shell behaviour in crucial and subtle ways. Greybeards will already know, but it may give a new learner just a bit more of a chance to learn the old magic more easily. Help maintain the front door as well as the foundations and plumbing.)

trying something out

The finances of South East Water were exposed at a public meeting in Tunbridge Wells, where the audience heard about the firm's multi-million loss last year.

SEW was forced to say that there was £74 million interest on its debt in the last financial year and a pre-tax loss of £19.8m.

#NationaliseWaterNow

M.2 SSD、今1TBで2万円超えてて吐きそう。数ヶ月前まで2TBで2万円切ってたじゃん……。

undo rm -rf /

Happy Threshold day everyone.

🦎 💨

(And for the love of God ignore anyone who's telling you not to use Signal right now, every alternative is meaningfully worse for the vast majority of people)

Picard management tip: If you never fail, you aren't going boldly enough.

drunk history darmok and jalad at tanagra

TWO HAMMERS https://www.yellow5.com/pokey

#NEWPOKEYCOMIC

With traditional/domain-specific ML, you can optimise your models to reduce the rate of that inevitable decay (you may also settle into a local optimum if the model allows it). So what happens if the model is not tuned to the problem domain (which an LLM really can't be)?

I'm taking a bunch of mental notes about the utility of LLMs, and one thing I keep coming back to is how they evade any means of measurement of effectiveness. NOW: We know that for any probablistic process, if you compose it repeatedly, the probability of the "right answer" approaches 0.

2007年の桐（猫）
#cat

#Strike today.

PLEASE join if you can.

Especially in #Minnesota.

寝落ちからの覚醒でもう一度寝れないやつをやってる

ep229 of Whiskey Web and Whatnot
Is AI just stealing with extra steps?

https://nerdy.dev/www-ep229-is-AI-just-stealing-with-extra-steps

Bufff... you don't wanna know

Brian May says US is currently too dangerous for Queen to tour there (Ben Beaumont-Thomas/The Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/30/brian-may-says-us-is-currently-too-dangerous-for-queen-to-tour-there
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p84#a260130p84

ICE plans mega-concentration camps. If in your state, do all you can to prevent them from happening. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers 1/2

Show HN: Kolibri, a DIY music club in Sweden

Link: https://kolibrinkpg.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46812285

Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time

Link: https://ztechtalk.com/microsoft-teams
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46827003

Track Your Routine – Open-source app for task management

Link: https://github.com/MSF01/TYR
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823358

Doin' It with a 555: One Chip to Rule Them All

Link: https://aashvik.com/posts/555-revolution/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780891

Ingress NGINX: Statement from the Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees https://lobste.rs/s/bhoyfm #devops #distributed #release
https://kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01/29/ingress-nginx-statement/

#3201 - Proof Without Content

@mapacheMaho 🦝🍻 I had a nice belgian sampler in Le Vintage - it was real tasty, bit on the pricier side with 28 tho.

Nearby C'est bon, c'est belge seemed good too - though so did most of the international options in the city centre.

深夜散歩

그렇지만 이것이 한국어만의 문제인가? 아니! 놀랍게도 딸기(스트로베리)는 베리가 아니다!! 파인애플은 또 어떻고!!

Greetings from the emergency response team in trains and buses to #FOSDEM2026! Looking forward to seeing you soon.