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1/ Hi Mastodon community!
A quick update from me. While some might have said, “entering the Fediverse with its unique and engaged culture is totally bonkers when you’re in the middle of a federal leadership race”, we said, “sure, why not? It’s the only platform that really corresponds to our values, and it’s worth trying at least.”
Shoutout to 
@ZebKingZeb King 🇨🇦 who lobbied with relentless grace for this to happen.
This means that yes, the campaign and I are here now. But also, that we’re spread really thin and are not going to be able to engage to the level of engagement that Fediverse culture expects, at least not in the short term.
I’m not a fan of just broadcasting here, but for the next couple of months, that’s mostly what we’ll be doing.
Our young staffer who posts on every social media platform has enthusiastically learned as much as possible about Fediverse practices, and is doing a hell of a job here at posting in a thoughtful way (as some of you have noted).
Every elected Republican and everyone running for office needs to be asked what they will do to stop this. It’s not enough to ask whether they support it or not. What will they do, that's the question to be asked, with video running, so they know it’s recorded and will be played back as often as needed, for every political and judicial purpose.
President Trump said Republicans should try to "nationalize" elections as he keeps levelling unfounded claims of voter fraud
짜증이 나는구나
If you want to learn more about the new agentic coding features in Xcode 26.3, here’s a short tech talk by Apple:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/111428/
하 열뻗쳐
Our University of Groningen Press colleagues were also at the #DigitalAutonomy Fair today.
At UGP, we work with Open Journal Systems by 
@PublicKnowledgeProject. We help academic staff take back control of the #academic #publishing infrastructure, for example by supporting them in setting up their own journal.
#OpenScience #OpenAccess
Interested in helping #FreeSoftware users find freedom-respecting programs by updating the Free Software Directory (FSD)? Please consider joining the FSD meeting this Friday on IRC. Read more at: https://www.fsf.org/events/fsd-2026-02-06-irc #FreeSoftwareDirectory #FSF
Toshiba Pasopia IQ HX-10 MSX (1984)
I got this for £20 (as untested), when I first got it I was happy it booted to basic, but that was the only thing it did.
'LIST' makes it reboot
10 PRINT "Hello World" RUN
gives me a syntax error.
LET'S FIX IT! 🪛 🧵
Wouldn't it be amazing if suddenly a second video appeared on this channel, right before the midterm elections? 🤔
Interesting perspective.
"The rush to vilify and eliminate the comment section ignored, as Ben notes, that a subscription to news outlets doesn’t just have to provide access to journalism, it can feature participation in journalism."
Via https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/post/3mdxqtevkxc2x
Taking the late bus.
Since my home server not intended for use by any people outside of my city (plus some VPN endpoints in other countries) — it is ok to ban some unwanted countries and cities from which I don't expect anything good, except attempts to hack my box to use my resources or set me up 
.
So I added some GeoIP blocking to the npf with script to update GeoIP list — I blocked China, Iran, North Korea, etc and Moscow (because there are a lot of government and commercial backed bots coming from here). Results are good — the bots don't disappeared completely but the speed of adding new IPs to the blacklist is decreased 
Sadly, I was unable to add USA and UK to the list, because looks like there are some limits (not found how to increase them 
), which disallows to load a lot of CIDRs for these countries to the blacklist.
![Part of the script to update npf blacklists. Script contents:
# List of blocked countries:
# AE - United Arab Emirates
# AF - Afganistan
# BY - Belarus
# CN - China
# CU - Cuba
# HK - Hong Kong
# HU - Hungary
# IR - Iran
# KP - North Korea
# KW - Kuwait
# PK - Pakistan
# PS - Palestine
# TW - Taiwan
# UA - Ukraine
/usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \
--retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \
--show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \
-o - "$GEOIP_COUNTRIES_SOURCE" | \
/usr/bin/egrep '^[0-9.,]+((AE)|(AF)|(BY)|(CN)|(CU)|(HK)|(HU)|(IR)|(KP)|(KW)|(PK)|(PS)|(TW)|(UA))$' | \
/usr/bin/awk -F, '{ print $1, "-", $2 }' | \
/usr/pkg/bin/iprange > /usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new
if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
echo "Failed to update countries blacklist"
rm -f /usr/share/npf/blacklist.netset.new \
/usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new
exit 3
fi
# List of blocked cities:
# Moscow
/usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \
--retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \
--show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \
-o - "$GEOIP_CITIES_SOURCE" | \
gzip -d | \](https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/116/008/301/480/033/592/original/d5334833be4a13cd.png)
Xcode 26.3 unlocks the power of agentic coding
Link: https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/xcode-26-point-3-unlocks-the-power-of-agentic-coding/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46874619
Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%
Link: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adz1187
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46845650
そろそろ寝ちゃいますね…！
明日もまた頑張ろう…描きたいものがありすぎる…！
#mrsCleyton 2026—
Some suggestions for fighting bigotry on the Fediverse:
- Challenge and report bigotry even if you're not the target, don't leave it to victims
- Listen to victims, don't question their honesty or demand a solution from them
- Don't remain neutral, take a stand
- If you're an admin, defederate servers that knowingly tolerate bigotry
- If you're comfortable using Microsoft Github, give thumbs up for reply controls (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565) & keyword flagging (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21306) on Mastodon
Some suggestions for fighting bigotry on the Fediverse:
- Challenge and report bigotry even if you're not the target, don't leave it to victims
- Listen to victims, don't question their honesty or demand a solution from them
- Don't remain neutral, take a stand
- If you're an admin, defederate servers that knowingly tolerate bigotry
- If you're comfortable using Microsoft Github, give thumbs up for reply controls (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/8565) & keyword flagging (https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21306) on Mastodon
Back to business
221 Cannon Road Is Not for Sale
Link: https://fredbenenson.com/blog/2026/02/03/221-cannon-is-not-for-sale/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873574
I think it's really funny when people are like "education is broken" and then you ask "so how and what do you think we should teach" and they're like, "I don't know, how dare you" 💀
What do you think is currently the most interesting decentralized messaging system when Signal and its server infrastructure would be more severely disrupted tomorrow?
If you want to learn more about the new agentic coding features in Xcode 26.3, here’s a short tech talk by Apple:
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/tech-talks/111428/
Snowed In #oldknees
What do you think is currently the most interesting decentralized messaging system when Signal and its server infrastructure would be more severely disrupted tomorrow?
Unlike the United States, European regulators don’t think porn deepfakes as a service is a valuable feature of a social media app.
マジカルスズミ＆レイサ
#ブルアカ
선화/폰 그림/원래 캔버스가 작은 그림/캡쳐 등 개인환경에 따라 편차가 있을 수 있으니 성급한 일반화는 하지 말아주시길 바랍니다... 그리고 트위터는 그록 때문에 해당되지 않을 것 같아요 AI 생성물의 경우 캔버스 크기 및 용량이 한정되어 있기 때문에 규모가 있는 그림들은 블스한정 판별용으로 적용해볼만하다 생각합니다
https://michal.sapka.pl/weblog/2026/what-i-mean-when-i-say-that-i-hate-genai/index.html
gemni://michal.sapka.pl/weblog/2026/what-i-mean-when-i-say-that-i-hate-genai/
(I may remove the post. I want to have a happy site and this is the opposite)
Ich möchte lösen: "Was ist eine Email mit Excel-Anhang?"
Als eines der ersten Bundesländer bekommt Salzburg Daten vom Österreichischen Integrationsfonds digital übermittelt.
https://salzburg.orf.at/stories/3340516/
#pol #polat #itfails #itfailsat
Congrats to 
@hopeconfHOPE - Hackers On Planet Earth on their 501(c)(3) not-for-profit status!
So Xcode just builds entire apps without you now
[탄원서 연명 요청] 세종호텔 고진수 해고자에 대한 영장기각 요청
2026년 2월 2일, 식음료사업장을 운영하지 않아서 복직을 시킬 수 없다는 세종호텔이 미가궁(1층 식당 임차업자)에 3층 연회장 사용하게 하는 현장을 목격해 이에 대해 항의하다가 연행되었습니다. 2월 3일 고진수 지부장에게 구속영장이 청구돼 2월 4일 영장 실질 심사를 앞두고 있어 구속영장 기각을 요청하는 탄원서에 연명을 부탁드립니다.
🍉의견서 마감일 : 2026.2.4. 정오
✍️의견서 연명 링크 : forms.gle/7sScSH4YKLN7...
세종호텔 해고노동자 고진수 구속영장 실질심사 기각 청구...
@fooneFoone🏳️⚧️ This is very relevant to your interests, with a link to a disassembler that focuses on 16 bit real mode executables.
https://dmitrybrant.com/2026/02/01/defeating-a-40-year-old-copy-protection-dongle
트위터는 안 해서 몰라요ㅠ 퍼가지맛세요
아직 완전 확실하진 않은데요 제가 AI그림으로 의심되는 그림, 실제 AI 그림, 제 그림 모두 블스에 올라온걸 다시 저장 했을 때 뭔가 차이가 있나 싶어서 확인을 해봤습니다...이유는 생성형 AI 특성상 이미지 정보가 표준화 되어있을 것 같아서 근데 정말 파일 크기에서 유의미한 편차가 드러났습니다 동일한 화질저하 및 해상도 조건을 맞추기 위해 모두 블스에 올라온 이미지를 사용했습니다 모든 캔버스 사이즈를 동일하게 통일했음에도 AI 생성물들의 용량이 작게 나타났습니다. 여러개 해봤음에도 200KB 넘는 이미지가 없어요!!
#Exercitium: Diagonales principales de una matriz. https://jaalonso.github.io/exercitium/posts/2015/02/11-diagonales_principales/ #Haskell #FunctionalProgramming #Math
A company that is worth a billion, let alone a trillion, that doesn’t pay enough that ALL employees can afford houses, university education for children, have daycare for employees, great health insurance & sick leave, good holiday time, is not successful but exploitive. Time to shame the CEOs, not revere them.
Em 
v4rd4453n
Stefano Marinelli
Arend van Beelen
Inside Fediverse
雨宮凪沙/nagiko
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