My trip finally begins : Tonight, the 453 will bring me in a comfortable wagon-lits to Berlin, the first stop of my #FOSSRail trip from 🇧🇪 Brussels to 🇹🇭 Bangkok connecting the FOSDEM with the FOSSASIA by train.

I will spend the next two weeks on trains across 12 countries and 11.000 km on rails.

May the games begin ✊🏽.

#FOSSRail #FOSDEM #FOSSASIA #CrossBorderRail #TeamNightTrain

Spend twenty minutes trying to debug #freebsd vm-bhyve(8) command-line arguments only to finally realize that the command I typed was "mv" instead of "vm". #sysadmin #headdesk

As part of their coursework, students at UC Berkeley are contributing edits to Wikipedia about “LGBTQ+ history, with an emphasis on queer and trans people of color”. They’ve added 300,000+ edits and 3,000+ citations. https://www.them.us/story/berkeley-college-students-wikipedia-lgbtq-history-edits

You can download PDFs of @feed404 Media's zine about ICE surveillance.

https://www.404media.co/icezine/

(artist: andrewthereal69)

The Codex App

Link: https://openai.com/index/introducing-the-codex-app/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46859054

There is a mailingtool in English, that can be used to contact MEPs. @chatcontrolFight Chat Control: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

The German coalition against #ChatControl, #ChatkontrolleSTOPPEN @Chatgeheimnis, offers advice on how to contact German-speaking MEPs and listed the relevant (shadow-)rapporteurs, who coordinate the European Parliament position: https://chat-kontrolle.eu/index.php/2026/02/01/aufruf-eprivacy-luecke-schliessen/

Do you know more resources in other languages that can help people to contact their MEPs in their own language? Please share!

RE: https://floss.social/@markgalassi/115919181930332682

Starts this week - please get the word out!

#ChatControl 1.0 is supposed to expire in April, but the European Commission wants to allow companies the indiscriminate scanning of private messages for two more years.

For multiple years at #FreedomNotFear, participants discussed that this is disproportionate mass surveillance and should be stopped. Activists are now calling on members of the European Parliament to reject the extension proposed by the Commission. What about you?

Here's a tale of how nature triumphs in the end.

Steel mills dumped molten slag in parts of Chicago and nearby areas. The slag hardened in layers up to 5 meters deep. These places became barren wastelands. Other industries dumped hot ash and cinders there.

But eventually the steel mills closed.

The deep layers of hard, toxic material were not friendly to plants. Cottonwoods are usually 30 meters tall or more. In the slag fields, stunted cottonwoods grow to just 2 meters.

But rare species that could handle these conditions began to thrive. The lakeside daisy, a federally threatened species lost to Illinois for decades, turned out to grow taller on slag than on topsoil! The capitate spike-rush, last recorded in Illinois in 1894 and considered locally extinct, was rediscovered growing on slag.

And more! Native prairie grasses like little bluestem. Native milkweeds. Even tiny white orchids called sphinx ladies' tresses.

A team of women ecologists began studying these unusual landscapes. They call themselves the Slag Queens.

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The updated funder tab on Surveillance Watch enables you to explore entities organized by their funding sources. You can identify which funders support the most surveillance and spyware vendors, and use chart mode to filter and sort by tech type.

https://www.surveillancewatch.io/funders

#Surveillance #Spyware #Privacy

Mastodon admins, do you want to increase the character limit on your server?

If you're running a manually installed server and have access to modify files, this is apparently how to do it:

🌱 https://it-notes.dragas.net/2024/10/09/2024-modifying-limits-in-mastodon-4-3/

EDIT: Thanks for all the info in replies! I've changed the link to a more complete alternative article on all the changes needed.

(Thank you to @kaveinthran for pointing out the original article and @b2cborn2chill for pointing out the alternative article.)

#MastoAdmin

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>

„Ich spürte eine große Erschütterung der Macht. Als ob Millionen in der Behörden-IT in panischer Angst aufschrien und plötzlich verstummten. Etwas furchtbares ist passiert.“

Microsoft will das unsichere NTLM-Protokoll mit der nächsten Windows Server-Version standardmäßig deaktivieren.
https://www.heise.de/news/Windows-Microsoft-konkretisiert-NTLM-Aus-nennt-aber-immer-noch-kein-Datum-11162674.html?wt_mc=rss.red.ho.ho.rdf.beitrag.beitrag

oss-security - [kubernetes] Multiple issues in ingress-nginx https://lobste.rs/s/z2nqr8 #devops #security
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/02/02/3

The 1st FediForum un-workshop is a month from today! Are you registered yet?

In this un-workshop, we'll try to figure out together what the best strategies and tactics are to grow the Open Social Web, based on short position statements that people submit when registering.

https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/

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!

#meshtastic

She only does the “ack ack” for crows. She’s sounding particularly creaky today 😄
#cats

"스페이스X·xAI 합병 이르면 금주중 발표…투자자에 계획 알려"
(샌프란시스코=연합뉴스) 권영전 특파원 = 일론 머스크가 이끄는 우주기업 스페이스X와 인공지능(AI) 기업 xAI의 합병이 이르면 이번 주중에 ...
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260203004300091

#news #뉴스

"스페이스X·xAI 합병 이르면 금주중 발표…투자자에 계획 알려"
(샌프란시스코=연합뉴스) 권영전 특파원 = 일론 머스크가 이끄는 우주기업 스페이스X와 인공지능(AI) 기업 xAI의 합병이 이르면 이번 주중에 ...
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260203004300091

#news #뉴스

If they mean hydrogen ions, I have questions.

Todd C. Miller – sudo Maintainer for over 30 years

Link: https://www.millert.dev/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46858577

RE: https://floss.social/@markgalassi/115919181930332682

Starts this week - please get the word out!

Immich is amazing.

I've made a collection of the podman quadlets I use in my minimal setup at home: Immich, Nextcloud and Vaultwarden.

All containers have proper health checks.

I hope you find it useful.

#podman #immich #nextcloud #vaultwarden #selfhosted

https://codeberg.org/mjack/podman-quadlets

!@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++.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/02/notepad-says-chinese-government-hackers-hijacked-its-software-updates-for-months

🦆 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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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)

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116000636303016143

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.

https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/selfish-ai

#AI #LLM #Programming

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)

#Fediverse #Moderation #OpenServers #Bullying #Welcome

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!

#meshtastic

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.

Removing Tahoe’s Unwanted Menu Icons via @fanfTony Finch https://lobste.rs/s/7xegog #mac
https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2026/01/10/removing-tahoes-unwanted-menu-icons/

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