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Puppy's first snow.

Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking

Link: https://netbird.io/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844870

Made a running track for the puppy, he's loving it.

추가정보를 “Conducts unauthorized AI learning of a wide range of contents. In addition, it transmits an invisible message that is automatically generated pretending to have obtained consent to provide content. (This report used a translator.)” 로 적어 제출하면 좋을거같긴 한데요, 저는 이거보단 짧게 보냈구요. 어 음... 스팸으로 신고했답니다.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ppk763j7o2wkinvzuqx4orrb/post/3mdsjbdeb7c2a

building a microblogging platform for fun over the last few days using atproto, and the number of open source tools that you can jump on and easily use is pretty astounding 🤯

third-party apis: community in...

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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/

VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code

Link: https://www.visualjj.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46799435

I found our cat laying in a sunbeam

People not in the Epstein files:

- drag queens
- transgender athletes
- librarians
- Black journalists
- “radical leftist scum”
- hungry family needing SNAP benefits
- workers on strike
- immigrants
- the poor
- the cast of Sesame Street
...

I'm a simple man, I see a local Brussels Star Wars inspired beer, I order it. En Stoemelings Jawa IPA

#FOSDEM #beer #CraftBeer #Brussels #microbrewery #StarWars #BeersOfMastodon #Beerstodon #BeerGeek

my boy is ZOOMIN'

don't you love black kitties? 💙

https://www.tyiart.eu/p/zoomies-vinyl-stickers/

#cats #cat #kitty #blackcat #catart #catdrawing #drawing #art #mastoart #artistsonmastodon #humanartist #humanart #cuteart

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda

我今天在 X 上追蹤了好幾個有 "ベトナム" 關鍵字的帳號，好有趣
在日越南人，在越日本人，或日越聯姻

另個發現是，自從基本上不關注印尼之後，我的心智頻寬真他X 有夠多

@_L1vY_Mother Bones Going to post this at you because I think you'll get broader reach on it: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-foia-litigation-reveals-ice-actively-considering-opening-six-new-immigration-detention-centers

I know that one of those is actually in a community near schools, homes, etc. Not sure about the others. Its bad regardless but I'd guess it comes with occupying force.

Please remember them. Remember them, and then remember what they died for: fighting a much larger danger. Remember what they were fighting, •see• it, and •act•.

Do not let their deaths be in vain by making their deaths the only thing you see.

/end

《朝日新聞》週日發佈2月8日日本眾議院大選的各黨議席預測數字，自民黨不單有望獨自超過過半議席的233席，而且迫近300席

如果民調預測成真，首相高市早苗將超越2005年小泉純一郎「郵政解散」的成績

https://europechinese.blogspot.com/2026/02/300.html

timeline cleanse

All of what’s happening in Minneapolis is deeply rooted in US history. And in Minneapolis and St. Paul history specifically: Read about the Rondo neighborhood, for example. It’s no accident the the flagship lake in the City of Lakes was named after the vice president of the Confederacy until just a few years ago. Don’t get too excited about making saints of us all here.

It’s crucial for us to recognize that historical precedent. It’s also crucial for us to recognize the extreme new danger of the present moment.

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This face deserves everything.
#cats

My neighbors definitely do not think this is more of the same. You don’t have to take my word for it. Look at how many Somali and Latin-American restaurants were thriving in November and now are closed, or getting almost no business if they are taking the risk of staying open. Look at how many kids are staying home from school — regardless of legal status, just because of the color of their family’s skin. Look at how many families are living in houses filled with dirty laundry because they won’t even take the risk of leaving the house to go to the laundromat.

My neighbors are living in •terror•.

If it’s more of the same, why did all of this suddenly change in the last two months?

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@veronicaVeronica gives hugs&petpats It's hard to explain. But this image summarizes it:

I found our cat laying in a sunbeam

Precedented, but not the same:

If ICE and CBP are basically the reincarnation of the KKK, it’s the KKK with a budget the size of Russia’s entire military.

Literally. In the literal sense of “literally.” The incoming ICE + CBP budget is ~$140 billion.[1] Russia’s military budget is ~$145 billion.[2]

(If I’m misreading these numbers, please correct me.)

[1] https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy26_homeland_security_conference_bill_summary.pdf

[2] https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-hikes-national-defence-spending-by-23-2025-2024-09-30/

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If you need a reminder to leave your terminal, type "leave +hhmm" where
"hhmm" represents in how many hours and minutes you need to leave.
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>

This isn’t just “owning the libs” — this is the highest office in the nation using technology to lie to the entire world. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/beware-government-using-image-manipulation-propaganda

@fosdem (belated) photo from the #FOSDEM opening keynote yesterday

I see that misguided narrative in the gutless business leaders who talk about “de-escalation” and “finding real solutions” — as if the problem is just that a few ICE murdered two people, not that all the ICE agents are an authoritarian secret police in the making.

I see that misguided narrative in the elected officials who decry ICE, but then talk about “better training” and “more oversight” — as if the secret police will become humane if they just get a few new rules to ignore and have to sit through a Powerpoint about them.

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According to the Epstein files, he had a "personal hacker" working for him. The FBI document says Epstein's personal hacker was an "Italian citizen born in Calabria who developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold the tools to governments."

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01683874.pdf

"[Redacted] sold a zero-day to Hebollah. [Redacted] was known as the first person to hack and find vulnerabilities in Blackberries and iOS. He was known for finding Firefox vulnerabilities. [Redacted] former company was acquired by CrowdStrike in fall of 2017 and was currently a vice president there."

"S//NF= was very good at finding vulnerabilities was friends with "old school" European hackers. "Received a trunk of cash from Hezbollah when was in Italy; drove the money to Switzerland and deposited it in another ba [redacted]. [redacted] owned a theater company in California and he used the theater company to launder his zeroday money

"Made six figures from the sale of his zero-days. He sold his tools to United Kingdom GCHQ and provided training to the organization. He also sold his zero-days to a Central African government, as well as Hezbollah for political reasons. The Italian Government asked for help, but [redacted] declined because he felt the Government was incompetent. Calabria was mob-controlled an did not have much loyalty for his birth country.

"[Redacted] sold his exploits to the United States and United Kingdom, but he would not sell to Asian countries because he a is racist. He was also anti-Semitic. [Redacted] was terrified of Russia, however, and would never travel there. He lived in Dubai at one time, and was acquainted with the [redacted] lived in Oman as well. He may have an Iranian and Israeli passport, in addition to his Vatican City passport"

Looks likely the top commenter here is correct about "Epstein's hacker":

https://www.reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1qsi6ds/informant_told_fbi_that_jeffrey_epstein_had_a/

White people did not start protesting because ICE murdered Good and Pretti.

ICE murdered Good and Pretti •because• white people were protesting — and fighting back.

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@_L1vY_Mother Bones Going to post this at you because I think you'll get broader reach on it: https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-foia-litigation-reveals-ice-actively-considering-opening-six-new-immigration-detention-centers

I know that one of those is actually in a community near schools, homes, etc. Not sure about the others. Its bad regardless but I'd guess it comes with occupying force.

It was the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti that punctured the bubble of the comfortable and launched Minneapolis to the top of international news. I understand why that is: the whiteness of the victims combined with unbelievably damning, stomach-churning video were something that a whole lot of people who’d been tuned out simply could not ignore. And those murders alone are so horrific that either one •should• be sufficient to pop the bubble of comfort — but they’re just the tip of an iceberg here.

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Updated my laptop with @europython.eu stickers from #fosdem, in preparation for this years conference season 🐍 (with a custom one from @cheukting_hoCheuk Ting Ho (stand with 🇺🇦) as well!)

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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If you need a reminder to leave your terminal, type "leave +hhmm" where
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-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>

FOSDEM 2026 – Open-Source Conference in Brussels – Day#1 Recap

Link: https://gyptazy.com/blog/fosdem-2026-opensource-conference-brussels/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845103

A web server on a single floppy disk

Link: http://floppy.ddns.net/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46804754

I cant reproduce the bug of the duplicated posts from bridgy waaaaa

Molly (Greater London, UK) likes lying on a heated mat. There are two heated mats, one for each cat. She especially likes lying on Max's mat. The mats are identical, but she takes every opportunity to steal his.

#cats #cat #CatNews #CatsOfMastodon

https://cat-news.news/

https://www.jonaharagon.com/badges/

Part of what makes me think this is that teaching folk to build using LLMs means they'd get inconsistent results to their inputs, which would be a disastrous situation when learning to code, you can't build a foundation skillset without seeing consistent results for the same actions.

Honestly I think there is a lot to this, when I see some of the guides to using LLMs for folk without coding skills I think I could more easily just teach them to code. The mystification of coding is also a huge part of the appeal of this stuff for lots of people.

Apple made $117.8bn in total profit (not revenue, of course) over the past four quarters, which is an average of $323 million per day. So when they loudly donate $1m to a charity or a disaster relief fund, they're giving 0.3% of their profits for that single day.

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.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/02/flo-mask-pro-thoughts/

#FOSDEM #COVID

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.

@dansup so sorry about that hunnie ❤️ can we be friends