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Packing for #FOSDEM 🥳

I have so many items of clothing promoting the Fediverse that I could change outfits multiple times a day 😂

If anyone is interested in a forest green sweatshirt that says "the future is federated" (size small, unisex) let me know. I had it remade (comped) because v1 came out differently than my mockup.

I'll have it with me tomorrow, just ask.

See you around! I'm sooo exciteeeeeed

@boltsBoltsMag.org still laughing at the double meaning of "white noise" in this. {chef's kiss}

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울렁울렁...울렁울렁... 토할거같구... 소화제 먹었는데 안 통한다 머리도 아프구... 가슴이 계속 눌리는 느낌이야

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왤케 가슴이 쭉쭉 짜내는거처럼 아프고 속이 메스껍지.......... 가라앉나 싶더니 계속 그러네

Truly there is truth in jest.
#FOSDEM #HomeAssistant

maybe in the next hour or so i will attempt a video stream (of the interesting-im-told second Castlevania game for Nintendo 64)

Google Cloud suspended my account for 2 years, only automated replies

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46839375

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The last two years I was fortunate enough to be able to test and use the U.S. Direct File system that was developed by the USDS and 18F.

Of course, since it was a massive threat to a number of highly lucrative for-profit Tax Service providers, it was high on the DOGE list.

As a consequence, the initiative is now dead.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_Direct_File

The Austrian Data Protection Authority ruled that the use of tracking cookies in Microsoft's 365 Education products violates data protection law.

Austria is paying Microsoft an obscene amount of money per year for the "privilege" of exposing children to digital exploitation. Microsoft, on the other side, is cashing in twice - by selling user licenses and by selling their users.

That's how techno-capitalism works. Not for us, but for someone else.
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#privacy #DataProtection #GDPR

sometimes i think about unity's scene file format and what a disaster it is and what an alternative would look like. i generally prefer to have everything defined by code as that presents the fewest assumptions but sometimes i noodle around with the idea of an XML file that straightforwardly compiles into C#, a little like e.g. Vue components. i am not sure if this is a good idea or worth exploring.

I've got my paws on "Stop! Hibari-kun!!" - a queer (or, rather, trans?) rom-com manga written for normies, back from 1981. The manga is really, truly problematic in many ways. But it also shows me that despite right-wing folks crying "oh no! but the pro-LGBT agenda!" for years, LGBT folks in 2026 are still facing generally the same class of problems are LGBT folks did in 1981.

Some things got a bit better, sure, but the stuff (violently) depicted in this comedy book still happens today even in the most progressive countries.

Somewhat off-topic: Hibari is very pretty, and has a good style. I should learn a few things from her.

Also: I should read more LGBTQ stuff. Ideally LGBTQ stuff made by LGBTQ creators.

Courts should treat biometric locks as equivalent to password protection, EFF’s Andrew Crocker told @theintercept. “Your constitutional right against self-incrimination should not be dependent on technical convenience or lack thereof.”
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/30/washington-post-hannah-natanson-fbi-biometrics-unlock-phone/

@jenniferplusplus
…and good struggles, which are what good instructors help create

Today, 2035-02-01 the CEOs of Amazon-X, Sir Weyland and the CEO of Apple-Tata, Mr. Yutani, announced the biggest ever fusion of corporate power and decided to call the new global conglomerate The Weyland-Yutani Corporation. Their main goal is to mine the asteroid belt to garantuee energy and rare metals to Earth, the moon and Mars. Governments all over the three worlds congratulated them and expressed their willingness to support.

#Microfiction

I'll never not love seeing #coreboot and #nixos logos on a #chromebook

#nixbook loading...

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#ScummVM has just released a stable version that supports a game I made a while ago. Does that mean I'm officially old...err, retro now? 😓🧓

Congrats @scummvm! 🎉

ICE is disappearing people.

This is a grim and difficult piece, but it is heartening to read it one particular way: the broader national and global conversation is finally, finally starting to pick up on what so many of us have been yelling for weeks and months: the Department of Homeland Security is acting as Trump’s secret police, a group of Brownshirts with a military-sized budget whose horrors extend far beyond two murders.

https://emptywheel.net/2026/01/29/the-disappearances-in-minnesota/

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'Sanford and Son' co-star Demond Wilson dies at 79
https://www.npr.org/2026/01/31/nx-s1-5695232/demond-wilson-obituary-sanford-and-son?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Arts & Life @arts-life-nprArts & Life

My toxic trait is that I believe I can look right at the sun in January

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father from U.S. immigration detention. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172886492/gov.uscourts.txwd.1172886492.9.0.pdf

My lovely void 🐈‍⬛
#caturday

Die @linuxtageGrazer Linuxtage so: "... nehmen wir voraussichtlich maximal eine Einreichung pro einreichender Person an ... lass dich deswegen aber nicht davon abhalten, mehrere Themen einzureichen. Wir wählen jene Einreichung, die unserer Einschätzung nach am besten ins restliche Programm passt."

Der Leyrer so: OK :D

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埼玉県東秩父村　淨蓮寺

#風景写真
#photography

Todd C. Miller has been maintaining the #sudo codebase for over 30 years. This is exactly one of those cases where an entire critical infrastructure is held together by the work of a single volunteer who apparently can’t find anyone willing to sponsor him for some financial support. #opensource #linux #foss #GNU

The front of our house, before and after... The scaffolding finally came off today, and pretty happy how it turned out. Definitely think it was worth getting done (even though it took months)! 😊

Mit diesen Einschränkungen der @linuxtageGrazer Linuxtage kann ich nicht arbeiten !!!! #drama #linuxtage

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What's the most common complaint I've heard about Linux?

Not the installation process.
Not finding a distro.
Not getting programs to work.
Not troubleshooting.
Not hardware compatibility.

The most common complaint about Linux I've seen is this:
For a normal computer user, asking for help is just about impossible.

They ask a simple question and:
People respond "Did you Google it?"
People complain that the question wasn't asked "correctly".
People respond "RTFM"
People get mad??? at them for making an easy mistake.

We can't expect normal people to know to, or even know how to deal with any of that stuff.

Search engines these days are awful, manuals are hard to read for most people (especially stuff like ArchWiki), and normal people make mistakes we think are easily avoidable.

The solution to making Linux more popular is not ruthless promotion. The solution is to actually help the people who are trying to use it.

#Linux

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115989801184595302

The replies on this thread are wild.

"This is a conspiracy by Big Signup to make mastodon.social even bigger"

"I cannot tell the difference between using Google Docs for a survey and being owned by the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund"

“Remember when we said ‘Infrastructure as Code’? Somehow, the industry heard ‘Infrastructure as YAML’ and ran with it. Now we're drowning in a sea of indentation-sensitive, template-riddled, Jinja2-abused configuration files that make even the most battle-hardened sysadmins weep into their mechanical keyboards.”

Enter PyInfra

https://marp.kalvad.com/fosdem_2026

edit: add link to FOSDEM talk which has probably been recorded https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/VEQTLH-infrastructure-as-python/

/via @pfhllntsPieter

All Democrats and two Republican senators voted for this. We need two more GOP senators to join. Fund healthcare, not the gestapo.

x.com/AnkitPrjpti/... 인도 은 선물거래소에서 마진을 60%로 올림 ㅋㅋㅋㅋ 은가지고 장난치지 말라는것인데 ChatGPT님의 해석은 이정도면 (거래)하지 마라 수준이라고 이런거보면 추세가 무서운데 뭐가 오른다? 부족하다 싶으면 다들 개미떼처럼 달려들다보니...

The Trumpists will continue to escalate. But in Minneapolis, we can see the limits of MAGA’s assault.

Trump’s authoritarian desires are limitless. But his ability to impose them on America is not.

Some thoughts from my new piece for Zeit Online (gift link):

https://www.zeit.de/digital/2026-01/us-regierung-maga-widerstand-ice-donald-trump?freebie=ab9d76f6

I do appreciate the future proofing of gnu coreutils's "free" command having a --pebi (show output (of RAM) in pebibytes), at the current right I think that might be a little preemptive

# free --pebi
               total        used        free 
Mem:               0           0           0 
Swap:              0           0           0

Suppose you could probably(?) configure a PiB of Swap though...

A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: A Philosophy on AI in Dev https://lobste.rs/s/jpn821 #vibecoding
https://somehowmanage.com/2026/01/22/a-step-behind-the-bleeding-edge-monarchs-philosophy-on-ai-in-dev/

RE: https://dice.camp/@artemis/115940417506927656

Survival is resistance.
Survival is solidarity.

Do you know how many people are devoting their time, talent, and treasure to making sure people (esp but not exclusively those *being targeted by the regime*) SURVIVE? Every one of us who keeps going is a WIN for all of us.

*We* are who will win this.
*We* have to outlast them.

Take care, my friends.

Bryan Cantrill: Andreessen’s Folly - The False Dichotomy of Software and Hardware https://lobste.rs/s/w2xy0f #video #debugging #hardware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0JjG0Qfwi8

What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?

Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK

https://au.pcmag.com/networking/115649/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

I appreciate @scummvm updates because there's always a weird game or multimedia cd-rom I never heard of that I can now easily run on my computer. Features of National Fishing? Sure, I'll go track down whatever that is

https://www.scummvm.org/news/20260131/

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Okay, I'm calling it. Musk is an agent of the Great Filter, sent here to trigger a Kessler Syndrome and trap us on this planet.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-eyes-1-million-satellites-for-orbital-data-center-push

I feel like every person who insisted that no, moot is secretly a nice guy who regretted what he made owes me a huge apology right now

이상한 거
https://x.com/i/status/2017464112582987905

#ICE agents🚨initially claimed Mondragón had tried to flee while handcuffed & “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.”

But staff mems at Hennepin Co Med Center determined *couldn’t possibly acct💔for the fractures & bleeding throughout the man’s 31-yr-old’s brain… A CT scan revealed at least 8 skull fractures & life-threatening…

He entered the US in 2022 with valid IMM docs -appears to have no crim record *a bus owner.
#AbolishICE #Protest #Sadism #Racism #USPol
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minneapolis-hospitals-dc033249051cd5b72a900ca533a3718b#