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02時45分だからよねよよ
Unsurprisingly, a social media site written by AI for AI agents to do whatever AI agents do on a social media site had bad security that apparently allowed access to any of the agents that joined: https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/
At first, I was amazed at the idea of a social media site for AI bots, but then I remembered that LinkedIn has been around for a long time.
Hi tech reclaimers! It's once again time to #StopTheScroll. Let's step away from Big Tech social media and rebuild our own digital independence.
This month our focus is on Forums. Remember those before Facebook swallowed up many of our favorite communities?
There's still some great forums online.
What are your favorites?
What forums do you miss?
Do you currently, or have you ever run a forum? How was the experience?
Are you interested in setting up a forum now?
Let's take it all back!
#Via Joaquin Castro
@JoaquincastrotxJoaquin Castro
10:49 AM · Feb 1, 2026
"Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.
Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack."
#Via ashley fairbanks
@ziibiingashley fairbanks
11:36 AM · Feb 1, 2026
"liam and his dad are home!
and someone please get rep. castro a coat!
also how did i miss that his name is liam *conejo* ramos? 😭"
[From Rep. Omar's IG]
Made a running track for the puppy, he's loving it.
who called it "ASIC design" and not "the linter-industrial complex"
The more I practice my chosen career of software wizard, the more I dream of becoming a software witch instead.
New blogpost:
"Flo Mask Pro thoughts"
I wore a Flo Mask Pro whenever I went inside a building at FOSDEM, and I've written up some brief thoughts about it.
Jesus Christ 😱
Jesus Christ 😱
If you attended the 2026 Social Web Developers Room or watched online, how would you rate it?
I wrote a poem during meeting for worship today. I haven’t been sharing much of my poetry lately but this one is timely
With Encrypt It Already, we’re pushing on tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. https://www.encryptitalready.org
If you attended the 2026 Social Web Developers Room or watched online, how would you rate it?
English professors double down on requiring printed copies of readings
Link: https://yaledailynews.com/articles/english-professors-double-down-on-requiring-printed-copies-of-readings
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847039
I wanna go back to 2013 
조금 슬플수도 있는데, 이게 한국에서만 나오는 현상도 아니고 한국이라고 특별히 심하게 나오는 현상도 아닙니다
현재 노동계급은 자본가계급에게 포위된 상태이고, 전체 인민의 대부분을 차지하는 노동계급에게 자본주의 지배 이데올로기를 주입시키고 있으니 이러한 현상이 이상한 것은 아닙니다
너희가 힘든 이유는 약자들 돕는다는 진보 정치인 때문이다 라는 선동이 지금도 잘 먹히고 있잖아요
힘든 조건에 놓여있다고 자연적으로 진보적 이념을 가지게 될 가능성은 매우 낮습니다
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:e5xtwdmjyalr42yjazta5ucm/post/3mdsimsngls2k
If you take just one thing away from #FOSDEM this is it.
👇🏽
“If we lose our democracies, Open Source is irrelevant and goes away”
or putting it another way:
If we don’t apply, enforce, adopt and embrace Open Source in our public and government institutions we risk to lose our democracies.
#OpenSource #SaveDemocracy
Boost if you agree!
👍🏾
Loops now includes Likes and Share collections on Video Objects ✨
https://browser.pub/https://loops.video/ap/users/1/video/107099161459215690
라면 먹을까 말까 생각해보니 저녁에도 먹었네
어제는 글케 병든 닭처럼 자더니 오늘욘 미묘하게 쌩쌩하네
New blogpost:
"Flo Mask Pro thoughts"
I wore a Flo Mask Pro whenever I went inside a building at FOSDEM, and I've written up some brief thoughts about it.
REPOST Deffnotant
Black History you need to know about
Adventure Game Studio: OSS software for creating adventure games
Link: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846252
Code signing Windows apps with Azure Artifact service https://lobste.rs/s/vkvr2e #cryptography #windows
https://devclass.com/2026/01/14/code-signing-windows-apps-may-be-easier-and-more-secure-with-new-azure-artifact-service/
RE: https://tomkahe.com/@tom/115991043363824507
We should really get 
@matrixThe Matrix.org Foundation, 
@deltaDelta Chat @swf 
@Bonfire and 
@xmppXSF: XMPP Standards Foundation people in a room to discuss how to move e2ee overlap work forward this year. It's time...
youtubeに自民党の宣伝流れてきたな
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/115996451312302984
Wouldn’t it be cool if you could send encrypted DM’s on the Fediverse BEFORE you could do it in Bluesky? #JustBetweenUs
この3日間で完全に生活リズムがぶっ壊れてしまった…寝なきゃ… 
Goal for next year: attend #FOSDEM
슬슬 피곤하고 배고프네
On August 15, 1998, Apple introduced its brightly colored iMac G3.
Yum.
Some interesting (to me) stats from #FOSDEM
Talks about NFTs: 0.
Presentations about the Metaverse: None.
Cryptobros inviting me to a party in order to schill their coin: Zip.
Really enthusiastic LLM users describing how AI has improved their OSS codebase: Zilch.
People complaining about pronouns and codes of conduct: Nada.
"Ironic" hats saying "Make xyz Great Again": Conspicuous by their absence.
What did *you* think was missing from FOSDEM?
Kdyby Mikuláš Minář neměl Macinku, musel by si ho nejspíš vymyslet... nicméně, v dané situaci je tohle správná věc a podporu prezidentovi bylo nutné vyjádřit!
Kdo jste se nestihli zúčastnit, můžete podepsat petici https://stojimezaprezidentem.cz/
Goodbye #FOSDEM see you next year
おやすみThis pic kind of shows about what I've been saying ab out it.
It's all very ~big~, but it's actually really fine rather than being thick hair. I just have inordinately large quantities of it.
Only way I can stop it all breaking all the times is to keep it wrapped up in silks or in plaits, else I'm going to look like I've been dragged through a hedge backwards within a week
And back under control
Software Listing Redesign is now live on FediDB.com ✨
https://fedidb.com/software/mastodon
Before vs After
5-yr-old #LiamRamos & father return to #Minnesota from #Texas #ICE “detention facility” [#ConcentrationCamp] following a judge’s order, acc/to TX Rep #JoaquinCastro. The 2 were detained in a #Minneapolis suburb on Jan 20.
A spox for the Democratic congressman, confirmed the 2 had arrived home. She said Castro picked them up from Dilley on Saturday night & escorted them home on Sunday to Minnesota.
#law #ChildEndangerment #ChildAbuse #Trump #TheCrueltyIsThePoint
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-boy-liam-conejo-ramos-fc958185cd2b4e946b82081be11bc0f6?utm_source=onesignal&utm_medium=push&utm_campaign=2026-02-01-Breaking+News
#SocialWebFOSDEM if you're out in Brussels tonight, try to pass through À la Bécasse. I'll be there around 9 or 10. Not a scheduled or organized event; just a slightly higher probability of running into people from the Fediverse. Warning: it can get crowded! #fosdem2026
#SocialWebFOSDEM if you're out in Brussels tonight, try to pass through À la Bécasse. I'll be there around 9 or 10. Not a scheduled or organized event; just a slightly higher probability of running into people from the Fediverse. Warning: it can get crowded! #fosdem2026
~Let's make 30-year-old pocket organiser Casio Business Navigator BN-20 run some new software, part 4~
Recap of the previous episodes: our friend gave us a pocket organiser. As it happens, the organiser is based on Intel 8086-compatible core. It is related to Casio Pocket Viewer series, but unlike the PV, it doesn't have a way to "side-load" the applications.
So far we've dumped the ROM and tried to use it with Casio PV SDK. PV is compatible enough to kick-start the boot process, but the simulated OS crashes before it can even draw anything.
One interesting lead I decided to follow was the discrepancy between the CPU models in BN-20 and PV series: BN-20 runs on NC3020, and PV runs on NC3022. The documentation for Casio PV SDK mentions that a publicly-available simulator for NC3020 was a thing, too.
Can we find it? Can we run it? Yes we can!
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To compete with #Adobe Creative Suites, #Microsoft Office 365, & #Google Workspace, should we have a universal #OpenSource account for all #FOSS & #privacy -focused apps for an easy workflow?
This would allow a #GIMP user to switch smoothly among #Krita, #Inkscape, #LibreOffice #Kdenlive, #Blender, #ProtonDrive, #Joplin, & #NextCloud on #Linux.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109789295728917242
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Feb 1.
We even have quote posts this year!
This Statue of Liberty thread is especially relevant this year, when everyone is trying to pretend that US fascism against immigrants is something new, by ignoring the ongoing US fascism against Black people. People love to erase or ignore Black suffering. But we're still here, and we stubbornly refuse to be erased or ignored.
Read the whole thread if you haven't read it before.
Tom Casavant
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Em 
洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
Maho 🦝🍻
Ian Wagner
Inside Fediverse
Gabriele Svelto
Stefan Bohacek