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@homelabRun your own homelab Can we discuss our self-hosting endeavors in this group channel?
NEW: The developer of the long-running and popular open source text editor Notepad++ has confirmed that China government-backed hackers hijacked the software's update feature for months during 2025.
The hackers could access computers of victims who were running hijacked versions of Notepad++.
Notepad++ says Chinese government hackers hijacked its software updates for months | TechCrunch
The developer of the popular text editor Notepad++ said hackers associated with the Chinese government hijacked its software update mechanism to deliver tainted software to users for months.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
🦆 line going back from #FOSDEM.
First leg: so good so far. Hope to wake up in Salzburg.
As always, FOSDEM and its fringe was great, but exhausting.
#HackerTrain from #FOSDEM2026 (@ NJ ➜ Salzburg Hbf) #NowTräwelling https://traewelling.de/status/6948579
totally random of-topic but I was surprised to see that Apple officially has an app in the Korean owned Galaxy Store
実質的に中央集権のまましょーもな
「インターネットを再び良くすることができるはず」、Blueskyが2026年の予測と展望を発表 - INTERNET Watch
https://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/2082539.html
Ich habe wieder (leicht seltsame) Ideen für Talks.
Würde sich jemand dafür interessieren, wie der öffentlich rechtliche Rundfunk aufgebaut ist und wie das funktioniert?
잘할 수 있을까
Immich is amazing.
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Notepad++'s update mechanism was compromised from June to December 2025. They believe it was a state actor practicing selective targeting and not a no-hosts-refused malware gang situation. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
Interestingly, 
@GossiTheDogKevin Beaumont was pretty on top of this in December weeks before Notepad++ formally disclosed. I agree with the assessment that, while Notepad++’s update situation was a little shaky, fundamentally it wasn’t gross negligence on their part but attracting powerful attention. (The developer is very openly pro-Taiwan and pro-Ukraine, and the state actors may have reasoned it was a good way to gain access to orgs with aligned views)
Notepad++'s update mechanism was compromised from June to December 2025. They believe it was a state actor practicing selective targeting and not a no-hosts-refused malware gang situation. https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
#FOSDEM: Wo das "Herz der freien Welt" schlägt - Golem.de
#FOSDEM26 #opensource #linux
https://www.golem.de/news/fosdem-2026-wo-das-herz-der-freien-welt-schlaegt-2602-204902.html
I may regret this at some point, but I felt the need to put down in writing how I feel about this moment in the tech industry.
It is not kind. You may well be insulted by it. If you are... then you really should question yourself.
Write.as Blog @blog@write.as
<p>Today, February 2, marks <strong>11</strong> years since we officially launched Write.as! What started as a minimal, anonymous article publishing platform in 2015 has since grown into an ecosystem of apps, a community of writers, and an open source platform called <a href="https://writefreely.org" rel="nofollow">WriteFreely</a> powering it all.</p> <p>To celebrate, for the next two weeks ending February 16th, we're having a sale on our long-term, <a href="https://write.as/5years" rel="nofollow">5-year Pro plan</a>, and <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/writefreely/id1531530896" rel="nofollow">iOS app</a>. You can read all about it on <a href="https://write.as/deals/celebrating-11-years-on-the-web" rel="nofollow">our Write.as Deals newsletter</a>.</p> <p> [...]</p>
Read more →I might offend some folks with this poll… but I think it's kind of the elephant in the room, my friends.
Q: Is the biggest problem with #Mastodon in general actually the moderation of its biggest instance: mastodon.social?
This is not directed at anyone personally, rather, it's directed at a toxic culture that I see innocent people/victims posting about over and over again.
(mastodon.social is 300K MAU, next one is 12K)
Ratchets in software development (2021)
Link: https://qntm.org/ratchet
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46814340
good morning
Ah, RideWithGPS, so nice of you to send me my monthly recap for January to remind me of how Toronto's deluge of snow has resulted in almost no biking for me in January.
(I got to look at the Bloor bike lanes at St George this morning, due to a TTC power issue, and yeah pretty much not plowed, good luck any time soon.)
Microsoft's former Windows 8 boss, Steven Sinofsky, recruited Epstein to help negotiate his Microsoft exit. The emails include confidential details about the Surface RT failure, Sinofsky meeting with Apple CEO Tim Cook, and much more. Full details here 👇 www.theverge.com/report/87207...
Former Windows 8 boss recruite...
Frage in die Runde: Kennt jemand ein gutes deutschsprachiges Video auf PeerTube, das Meshtastic in ein paar Minuten gut erklärt?
Ich konnte bisher nur wenig finden, suche aber vielleicht auch falsch.
Danke!
RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/115952183460649167
I could use a little help getting the word out about this little #fediverse themed meetup at 
@offline I am organizing TOMORROW with 
@hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) 
! I know there are many fedi (probably dev oriented) people in #Berlin who didn't make it all the way to brussels this last week and could use a little dose of stimuli, so if you know anyone who you think would enjoy please pass on the word or tag them here.
Home from a wild #Fosdem, expect picture dumps and blogs this week... but for now tea and sleep are the priority. For now though please enjoy my favourite sticker of the many I was given! #GenAINeinDanke #fosdem2026
RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/115952183460649167
I could use a little help getting the word out about this little #fediverse themed meetup at @offline I am organizing TOMORROW with @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) ! I know there are many fedi (probably dev oriented) people in #Berlin who didn't make it all the way to brussels this last week and could use a little dose of stimuli, so if you know anyone who you think would enjoy please pass on the word or tag them here.
Home from a wild #Fosdem, expect picture dumps and blogs this week... but for now tea and sleep are the priority. For now though please enjoy my favourite sticker of the many I was given! #GenAINeinDanke #fosdem2026
Today's accomplishment: got sufficiently irritated by Go failing self-tests on stock FreeBSD systems that I finally filed a report on the second issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77411
The first issue on stock FreeBSD is https://github.com/golang/go/issues/70702
It's very obvious that approximately nobody runs Go's all.bash on real FreeBSD systems. At best it is "tested" on Go's builder machines, which are clearly non-standard in multiple ways.
What the heck is a bonfire and why would anyone go to one?
URGENT MASTODON HOSTING HELP NEEDED:
Mstdn.games is searching for a new hosting company after our host has not responded to technical help requests and the instance has been slowing and having technical issues for over a month. Auto payments have continued to be taken out.
If you know of anyone who could help with this, please contact me asap.
We are on Mastodon 4.5.5 with Elasticsearch.
Our database is 132 GB
Our media storage is 200 GB
Please help! #MastoAdmin #Admin
Edit: I’m located in Canada and prefer a Canadian or EU host.
そうならその時連絡すっか。今日は出るので不具合等いろいろありました～ 来てくださった方ありがとうございました！！！！
Labubu vending machine at the Montreal Gare Central
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)
Misty
Chris Siebenmann
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Dr. Anna Latour
Alice I. Cecile
Ael Yokan
