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Oof the latest Laracasts Snippet podcast from Jeffery Way is the most depressing thing. Hearing him open by talking about all the staff he had to lay off... then gush about the #AI #coding agents being his 'buddy' that pumps out code so fast & he spends his time sanity checking it... is so heartbreaking.
일론 머스크의 인공지능 스타트업 xAI는 챗봇 ‘그록(Grok)’ 개발 과정에서 윤리적 고려보다 사용자 참여를 우선시했음이 드러남
머스크가 2025년 DOGE(정부효율부)에서 복귀 후 직원들은 인사팀에서 성적 내용을 포함한 비속어 콘텐츠 작업에 동의하겠다는 서약이 담긴 면책 조항에 동의를 받기도 했으며 회사의 AI 안전팀은 2025년에 2~3명의 인원으로만 이루어져 있어 이러한 위험을 제대로 평가하지 못하기도 했음 (1/3)
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:pv7fudnt4dspurzdnyq73pfe/post/3mdut62trdy2c
** Workshop announcement ** Learn (more) Rust at RustWeek 2026!
Workshop: Bevy in Action: Build, Polish, and Deploy a Match‑Three Game
Trainers: Alice Ivy Cecile, François Mockers
Details & tickets: https://2026.rustweek.org/workshops/bevy-in-action/
See you in Utrecht 18-23 May, 2026!
Just experienced a Mac keyboard bug I've *never* seen before. I've had caps lock remapped to escape for *years*, but for some reason it's acting as caps lock right now even though the setting is still set to escape. Bizarre.
Flipping Is Illegal
I remember a time where (unless it was a festival going on) there were maybe maximum 2-3 events listed at the 
@relay#fediwave calendar at a time. And at least one of those would be Gravitons very own 
@meljoann of course.
Well look at the calendar now! It is full of different #fediwave events!
Like have a look at https://cal.gravitons.org/ or for the even more dramatic effect look at it in list form at https://gravitons.org/posts/calendar/
This is a FediWave appreciation post I guess.
Cc: 
@owncast
The very first radiation symbol
The output of "zfs list" can be sorted by a specific column using -s. To
sort the datasets by the "used" column in ascending order, run this command:
zfs list -s used
To sort in descending order instead, use -S:
zfs list -S used
-- Benedict Reuschling <bcr@FreeBSD.org>
먼 옛날 메모장코딩을 하던 운둔 고수들이 있었으니 무림 한편에는 메모장디자인을 하는.......
I just
I'm not actually in the habit of reading academic research papers like this. Is it normal to begin these things by confidently asserting your priors as fact, unsupported by anything in the study?
I suppose I should do the same, because there's no way it's not going to inform my read on this
"AI" is not actually a technology, in the way people would commonly understand that term.
If you're feeling extremely generous, you could say that AI is a marketing term for a loose and shifting bundle of technologies that have specific useful applications.
I am not feeling so generous.
AI is a technocratic political project for the purpose of industrializing knowledge work. The details of how it works are a distant secondary concern to the effect it has, which is to enclose and capture all knowledge work and make it dependent on capital.
Would you like to relive this day, Feb 2 2026, over and over again?
I’m pretty sure Minion thinks we can’t see him through the railing.
Moonlit clouds
in the future when you hear a little bird singing in a tree, you'll be able to hold your phone up in the air and it'll identify the bird based on its song. and a big red flashing message will appear on your phone like "CRIMINAL BIRD DETECTED. THANK YOU FOR IDENTIFYING THIS BIRD" and you'll hear a distant buzzing as three police quadcopters converge on your location to arrest the bird
Labubu vending machine at the Montreal Gare Central
最近こういうgitの中身マウントする前提のcomposeファイルばっかり見てて嫌気がさしてる
Toshiba Pasopia IQ
HX-10 MSX (1984)
The Anachronistic Internet: When Cat Videos Actually Mattered
Summary: A late-night, sleep-deprived rant about how the internet used to work, triggered by watching 2 Broke Girls and realizing how anachronistic everything feels now.
So here I am, 3 AM, can’t sleep, supposed to give a talk at FOSDEM in a few hours, and I’m pretty sure I’m getting sick after three weeks of travel. What does any rational human do in this situation? Watch 2 Broke Girls, obviously.
And holy shit, does that show feel anachronistic now.
First off, the hipster jokes. Nobody makes hipster jokes anymore because hipsters either don’t exist or became less culturally relevant than emos. Remember emos? Yeah, that’s how dead hipsters are.
But it wasn’t just the cultural references that felt ancient. It was the internet itself.
There’s this scene where Caroline (the blonde one) takes Max’s laptop to do some business stuff and stumbles upon her browser history. Not search history—browser history. And what’s in there? Cat videos. A cat ringing a doorbell. A kitten doing funny stuff. She rattles off 5 or 6 different videos.
And I’m sitting there, exhausted and probably feverish, thinking: “Holy crap, that’s how we used to consume content.”
Remember when a video with a million views was a big deal? Not just numerically, but culturally? It meant millions of people actively sought that thing out. Someone told them about it—word of mouth, in real life—and they went home, opened their browser, fired up YouTube or Google, and searched for “cat ringing doorbell” or whatever.
They made a conscious choice to watch it.
That’s so radically different from today it might as well be from a different species of internet.
Today, a million views means an algorithm shoved something in front of a million eyeballs. Half those people probably didn’t even want to see it. They were just scrolling, trapped in the engagement machine, and the algorithm decided their attention belonged to that video for the next 30 seconds.
Let’s talk about browser history for a second. When was the last time you checked yours? I mean really looked at it?
Back in the day? Browser history was like an archaeological dig of your curiosity. It told the story of how you discovered things, how you followed rabbit holes from one interesting thing to another. You’d see the path from “funny cat videos” to “how do cats see color” to “are cats colorblind” to “evolution of feline vision” to “why are my eyes dry” to “computer screen blue light” to “buying blue light glasses”
That was the internet. A web of curiosity, not a feed of algorithmic manipulation.
Today, that same cat video discovery journey happens inside TikTok or Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts. It’s all contained within one app, one ecosystem, one company’s idea of what you should see next.
The browser? It’s basically just a container for apps now. Gmail, Slack, whatever productivity tool your company forces you to use. The actual web—the place where you could stumble upon weird personal blogs and random forums and people’s actual thoughts—that’s mostly dead.
We traded the open web for engagement algorithms and dopamine slot machines.
Here’s another thing that hit me during my 2 Broke Girls insomnia spiral: sharing used to require effort.
If I wanted to show you a video, I had to copy the URL, paste it in an email or IM, and send it to you. You had to click it, wait for it to load, and make the conscious decision to watch it. There was friction, and that friction meant something.
Now? I can “share” something by double-tapping it, and it gets blasted to everyone who follows me, whether they want it or not. The algorithm decides who sees it and when. There’s no intentionality, no curation, no thought.
We optimized the friction out of sharing and accidentally optimized the meaning out of it too.
This is what really gets me: somewhere along the way, we agreed to let algorithms decide what deserves our attention. We handed over one of the most precious resources we have—our focus—to systems designed to extract maximum engagement, not deliver maximum value.
In the old internet, your attention was yours. You decided to search for something. You decided to click on a link. You decided to bookmark something for later. You were the curator of your own experience.
Now? Your attention is a commodity being traded in real-time auctions you don’t even know are happening.
The really messed up part is how normalized this has become. We act like this is just how the internet works, like it’s some natural law. But it’s not. It’s a business model. A very specific, very recent business model that prioritizes engagement over everything else.
Quality? Doesn’t matter as long as people keep scrolling. Truth? Secondary to virality. Your mental health? Not their problem. Your time? Their most valuable asset.
We’re not users anymore. We’re the product. And we’re being sold to advertisers who want to influence our behavior.
Speaking of influencing behavior—I’m supposed to talk about social web and community building at FOSDEM in a few hours. And maybe that’s the connection here. The old internet was more like open source: decentralized, community-driven, built by people who cared about the craft, not the profit.
The new internet is more like proprietary software: controlled by a few big players, optimized for their benefit, not yours, and increasingly hostile to alternatives.
Maybe that’s why I’m feeling so nostalgic for browser histories and intentional sharing and cat videos that people actually searched for. It wasn’t just a different internet—it was a different philosophy about how technology should work.
I don’t have a grand solution here. I’m literally writing this at 5 AM while probably getting sick and definitely procastinating.
But maybe awareness is the first step? Maybe we can start making more intentional choices about where we spend our attention? Maybe we can support platforms and tools that respect our agency instead of exploiting it?
Or maybe I’m just being an old man yelling at algorithmic clouds.
Either way, I should probably try to get some sleep before I have to explain why social web matters to a room full of people who already know why social web matters.
At least that’s one thing that hasn’t changed: programmers still love stating the obvious to each other at conferences.
Update: The FOSDEM talk will be fine. Caffeine is a hell of a drug.
Also readable in: https://maho.dev/2026/01/the-anachronistic-internet-when-cat-videos-actually-mattered/ by 
@mapacheMaho 🦝🍻:
Think there might be some truth in this matrix...
(creator: unknown)
Then put your little hand in mine
There ain't no hill or mountain we can't climb
RE: https://mastodon.social/@by_caballero/115968453192473247
interesting writeup about federated package management by 
@andrewnezAndrew Nesbitt
#fedidev
Then put your little hand in mine
There ain't no hill or mountain we can't climb
llms prove the elite do not believe in a meritocracy, they believe in mediocrity elevated by privilege
I consulted the official #GAYINT threat actor mapping chart and made this diagram for Notepad++ hack attribution
Notepad++ have today confirmed their auto process was compromised by Chinese nation state threat actors, in a supply chain hack: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
This backs up my blog from late last year, with #GAYINT threat actor mapping to Funky Stamen.
The infrastructure and update mechanisms have since been tightened. For what it’s worth - entry was to telcos and financial services with interests aligned to China. Notepad++ dev did a great job treating issue seriously.
My fast zero-allocation webserver using OxCaml
Link: https://anil.recoil.org/notes/oxcaml-httpz
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854534
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2026)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857488
I showed my 12-year-old daughter how to chat to Claude using Xcode's Coding Assistant tab, and she spent the next two weeks building a game. It's out now on the App Store, and she's feeling very proud of herself ✨ https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/scramblet-word-puzzle-game/id6758466548
this ICE train is underwhelming compared to TGV, it is going like 100kph
🗺️ Ihr habt ja vielleicht mitbekommen, dass ich die Fedikarte wiederbelebt habe!
Neu findet ihr sie unter https://fedimap.de.
Ich würde mich freuen, wenn auch du dich dort einträgst. Wie das geht, steht auf der Webseite. 💫
🌍 You might have heard that I’ve brought the Fedimap back to life!
You can now find it at https://fedimap.de.
I’d love for you to add yourself to the map. The instructions are on the website. 🙌
🦊 Firefox 147 is here! What's new?
✨ CSS Anchor Positioning enabled by default
🚀 WebGPU on all macOS with Apple Silicon
🧭 Navigation API for better SPA control
🎨 DevTools improvements for pseudo-elements & animations
and more...
Release notes 👇
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/147
今更ですが登録してみました
惚気たり、壁打ちしたりすると思います
よろしくお願いします
TFW you are told to implement harfbuzz but instead implement fizzbuzz or, perhaps more dangerously, the reverse
TFW you are told to implement harfbuzz but instead implement fizzbuzz or, perhaps more dangerously, the reverse
@mcc So the other day, I, for reasons that make sense, bought a book from the eighties about one-person games, written by of all people Gyles Brandreth. It lists fizzbuzz as a game to actually play by reading it out loud, but using divisors 5 and 7.
This has nothing to do with anything, I just had to get this extremely strange experience out of my head.
there's a whole youtube.... genre? of videos documenting or exposing people for cheating at competitions, speedruns, games, etc.
It's an honestly bizarre microcosm. There's channels that are dedicated to doing only that.
Add `Select` component (#37702) by diondiondion has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/ceb4a878fb3ea9a4c8cafaf5bfedfab8dc2622e1
Come to Montreal the food's amazing. The *hospital food's* amazing. The *hospital food alternate menu for people with food sensitivities* is amazing. They invented a version of "drunk 3 AM post-bar-hop greasy french fries" but gourmet. Right now I'm in the train station (sorry, "Gare") eating… whatever this is, from a cubicle next to the Subway. I literally don't know what this is. It's incredible
path-dependent types (the program behaves differently depending on which directory the source is stored in)
Learn about WinAppCLI with Noraa!
寝るのだ！
You can download PDFs of 
@feed404 Media's zine about ICE surveillance.
ねよ
TFW you are told to implement harfbuzz but instead implement fizzbuzz or, perhaps more dangerously, the reverse
Hey 
@stefanoStefano Marinelli I'm trying to figure out how to establish a presence on bsd.cafe's DeltaChat. I have no idea what to do and could use a little help. Would you mind pointing me in the right direction?
Call for Mugs
For our new building, we need mugs. So grap the opportunity to promote your open source project among our foss students and send us max three mugs! We will use the mugs to serve our students coffee and tea. OS-SCi Spoorlaan 400, 5038 CG Tilburg The Netherlands
Hoy me ha llegado esto de 
@prahouTomáš 💜
Justo para el #LunesDeCamisetas
Holy shit. TIL that Janet Jackson is the only Grammy-winning artist with a CVE.
CVE-2022-38392 indicates that playing Rhythm Nation near certain hard drives will cause a crash, because the song contains a resonate frequency with a 5400RPM spinning disk of a certain diameter and construction.
Neat.
Alice I. Cecile
Ael Yokan
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Alvin Ashcraft 🐿️
