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This is fine 🔥
After nearly 20 years using Lenovo laptops, they have reversed the positions of the Ctrl and Function keys on the left of the keyboard, and I have rarely felt so betrayed.
We are cooking 
@fedoraFedora Project 44, and we could use some help testing it before it is ready for prime time!
From February 11 to 13 we will have the Fedora 
@gnome@floss.social 50 Desktop Test Days!
Check https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2026-02-11_GNOME_50_Desktop to find out how you can participate. #fedora #gnome
Vibe coding with agents on Xcode 26.3 😌
Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org
The European Union solicited feedback from stakeholders on Open Source software's position with respect to digital sovereignty, security, and competitiveness. The Social Web Foundation worked with allied organizations like Newsmast Foundation, SABOA, FediVariety and Save Social to encourage the support and adoption of Open Source Fediverse technologies in Europe. The text of our letter follows.We are a coalition of civil society organisations operating in Europe and globally. We are […]
Read more →RE: https://pnw.zone/@waprivacy/116008188639208748
I testified live on HB 2599, and sent in extensive written testimony -- thanks @Wolven 
@histoftechMar Hicks 
@emilymbenderProf. Emily M. Bender(she/her) and 
@anthropunkAnthropunk (Dr. SA Applin) for all the feedback on that!
https://privacy.thenexus.today/hb-2599-hw/ is my testimony, and here's the Blacksky thread with the very very helpful discussion https://blacksky.community/profile/did:plc:7ax27mj5qwhqaa3ite2ezlzy/post/3mddvm4g3pk24 Decentralized social networks FTW!
Der Untergang ist bedauerlich, aber gut ausgeleuchtet.
"you don’t defeat authoritarians by being more reasonable. You defeat them by being more determined and by uniting the country against their most visible vulnerability: their corruption. History won’t judge Democrats on whether they were moderate enough. It will judge them on whether they fought"
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/post/3mdxrvjax7s2r
My new physical keyboard has a key for virtual keyboard.
Wild.
As far as I can tell the whole premise is this horrible little boy engages in various adorable activities and never, ever enjoys himself
After nearly 20 years using Lenovo laptops, they have reversed the positions of the Ctrl and Function keys on the left of the keyboard, and I have rarely felt so betrayed.
X offices raided in France
Link: https://apnews.com/article/france-x-investigation-seach-elon-musk-1116be84d84201011219086ecfd4e0bc
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46872894
また腹痛になったから休みます
It really is a little absurd that “I’m considering switching to Linux on my laptop for better availability of games” is a real thought in my head. Valve have made strange things happen
Around the world in 80 shitposts.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115350805562695070
Still thinking about Him
AWS is 10x slower than a dedicated server for the same price -
Tom Delalande:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps3AI1kTIR4 (YouTube)
Kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes
Link: https://waspdev.com/articles/2026-01-11/kilobyte-is-1000-bytes
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873539
Bud puts his best foot forward.
All of them.
#BudBudTheSpud #ToebeanTuesday #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfTheFediverse #Catstodon #CatLovers #CatAppreciators #Humane #Rescue
David Montague's article on genetic prompt optimization is the one MUST READ AI article of the last few weeks. https://pydantic.dev/articles/prompt-optimization-with-gepa
This afternoon we took Emo in to the emergency vet, but sadly the blood clot we knew would eventually come had arrived.
We are obviously devastated, he was born on my foot, was loving, cuddly, demanding and such a personality. But we also know he had the best life a cat could wish for and was greatly loved by many more than just us.
We're taking some time offline for a bit, cuddling Davina and generally allowing ourselves to be sad
Boston area old tech people: my partner has two 8-track cassettes that he'd like to listen to and/or see if he can digitize. We're looking for a place or person who has an eight track player locallish to him, optimally.
This is a one-time thing, we do not want to buy a player. We might pay for a digitizing service.
Ideas or leads? Harvard's library system does not have what we need, amazingly.
For the youth: these things...
How do you pronounce zsh?
Firefox uses on-device downloaded-on-demand ML models for privacy-preserving translation.
They're not LLMs. They're trained on open data.
Should translation be disabled if the AI 'kill switch' is active?
Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust
Link: https://github.com/j178/prek
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46873138
It's curious how, when I try software made by others, I always feel like I'm experiencing something clean and well done.
When I try my own, it always feels like I haven't done enough.
to make this one concrete, the argument, as I understand it, re: transhumanism is basically "improvement requires comparison, comparison requires hierarchy, improvement implies replacement pressure. also the people who came up with transhumanism called it eugenics"
So apparently Pop Mart's next big success after Labubu is something called "Hirono Dolls" and I looked it up and… these are actually incredibly cute
As far as I can tell the whole premise is this horrible little boy engages in various adorable activities and never, ever enjoys himself
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/115350805562695070
Still thinking about Him
I can't see any problems with this plan
Factory 95 is a retro Windows inspired automation sim about making a slide-show factory https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/02/factory-95-is-a-retro-windows-inspired-automation-sim-about-making-a-slide-show-factory/
Factory 95 is a retro Windows inspired automation sim about making a slide-show factory
Anyone have fond memories of retro Windows? Well, now you can make a slide show factory in this automation sim that has a demo available.
www.gamingonlinux.com · GamingOnLinux
Link author: 
Liam@ThePlant@mastodon.social
Congrats to 
@hopeconfHOPE - Hackers On Planet Earth on their 501(c)(3) not-for-profit status!
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
Why haven't there been significant Clyfford Still memes?
#ClyffordStill #AbstractExpressionism #KeepinItStill
And a third rainbow 🌈 -post.
… in something that is becoming a ‘we need more rainbows 🌈’-week?
Oct 2022
What's up with all those equals signs anyway?
Link: https://lars.ingebrigtsen.no/2026/02/02/whats-up-with-all-those-equals-signs-anyway/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868759
Quick question. When someone tries to shame you into obedience, does that ever work on you?
Maxine now has a new stats overview that shows you the total number of sets you performed as well as the total amount of weight you've moved. It's pretty cool to see that you've moved a couple thousand kgs worth of metal during your workout 😁
https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/maxine-one-rep-max-tracker/id6615073254
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)
Back to business
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)
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).
2/ But yes, we are still on The Website of Undiluted Vileness, as we are on all the others. Our team debates this constantly, and I personally would love to get off the most toxic one (though if we’re honest, the owners of all the big platforms are equally craven in their extractive practices, their eager surveillance, and enthusiastic embrace of rising fascism in our time).
For now, we’ll continue to reach people wherever they are. And if we win leadership of the NDP, our community will take our vigorous internal debate about how to square our values with our online activities - and do what we can not just on policy, but on practice.
I know there will be many of you who are unsatisfied with this position. But I think the Fediverse is one of the last public spaces where transparency and honesty are the minimum standard, and I want to honour that culture by sharing where our campaign is at right now.
It is a cosmic relief to finally be here, and I’ll check in and chat whenever I can.
ATProto is now in IETF standardization process. BOF stage passed at IETF 124 Dublin. Working group formation is next. datatracker.ietf.org/wg/atp/about/
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Paul Cantrell
竹鳥すばる
Jenniferplusplus
Olivier Forget
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Kagami is they/them 🏳️⚧️
Gabriele Svelto
Em 
+ 
Tom Casavant