"ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition
Senator: ICE and CBP "have built an arsenal of surveillance technologies."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/ice-out-of-our-faces-act-would-ban-ice-and-cbp-use-of-facial-recognition/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

HPE Juniper Networks is hiring a FreeBSD developer/engineer to contribute to the development of Junos, the FreeBSD-based platform used in their networking products.

The role focuses on designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining system software in a production environment.

Learn more and apply: https://careers.hpe.com/us/en/job/1200521/Senior-Software-Engineer-FreeBSD

It's always encouraging to see continued investment in FreeBSD expertise across industry deployments.
#FreeBSD

⏰ Last call for #PyConUS 2026 Community Booth applications!! Deadline to apply is tomorrow, February 6th.

Show off your project, meet the community, and be part of PyCon US! Don't wait - submit now while there's still time!

👉 https://us.pycon.org/2026/attend/community-booths/

Elisabeth McDonnell suggests it would be good to have a more in-depth, strategic analysis of where we’re falling short from a growth and engagement perspective. From their submission to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop .

Join us March 2?

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

HPE Juniper Networks is hiring a FreeBSD developer/engineer to contribute to the development of Junos, the FreeBSD-based platform used in their networking products.

The role focuses on designing, developing, debugging, and maintaining system software in a production environment.

Learn more and apply: https://careers.hpe.com/us/en/job/1200521/Senior-Software-Engineer-FreeBSD

It's always encouraging to see continued investment in FreeBSD expertise across industry deployments.
#FreeBSD

🤔 Friends, I have told you all for a decade+ that mocking is never the answer...

Today, I am sad to report that we ran into the one use case where mocking is the right solution. 🍿

"들고 다니기 좋아요"…국립특수교육원, 'A4 확대 교과서' 제작
(서울=연합뉴스) 노재현 기자 = 국립특수교육원은 올해부터 희망하는 시각장애 초등학생들에게 들고 다니기 편리한 'A4 확대 교과서'를 보급한다고...
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260205154800530

#news #뉴스

Toybox Tractor: Plywood, Lathe Hacks, and 350W of Fun

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/05/toybox-tractor-plywood-lathe-hacks-and-350w-of-fun/

아니 글쎄 우리집에 크툴루가 있다니까요

@ricferrerRicardo Ferrer Rivero🇪🇺 @julian @rimu We already have an URI scheme for ActivityPub objects; it's https: .

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URGE TO MIGRATE THE WORK CHAT TO ZULIP RISING

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⏰ Last call for #PyConUS 2026 Community Booth applications!! Deadline to apply is tomorrow, February 6th.

Show off your project, meet the community, and be part of PyCon US! Don't wait - submit now while there's still time!

👉 https://us.pycon.org/2026/attend/community-booths/

ohhh a bunch of the interface for starter packs got merged
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/37731

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さて起きる

200ページくらいブラウザで確認しなくちゃいけなくなってsleepしてexo-openするループ書いたらうざいなw

150 MB Minimal FreeBSD Installation

Link: https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2026/02/01/150-mb-minimal-freebsd-installation/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46841897

@steveSteve Bate (how) can I test Flowz?

I would love to implement C2S in WordPress and need a test client 🤭 😊

https://github.com/Automattic/wordpress-activitypub/pull/2851

To follow up on my #ActivityPub C2S post from a few days ago, I wrote a blog article on my thoughts about improving the C2S protocol and a description of some related experimentation I've been doing.
https://www.stevebate.net/activitypub-client-api-a-way-forward/

I end the talk with an invitation for devs and non-developers alike to submit some user-stories about what they would want from a general AP client

https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api

[샷!] "AI 다 폭파하고 옛날로 돌아가자"
(서울=연합뉴스) 이진주 인턴기자 = "신기하지만 한편으로는 섬뜩하다"(oh***), "지들끼리 나눈 대화 보니 정말 소름이더라"(mi***)
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260204071000505

#news #뉴스

It’s really surprising to me that the #fediverse hasn’t agreed on a standardized way to open cross-instance #activitypub objects and instead relies on links that open in the browser. #urischeme

I found this proposal and what’s thinking… https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/07d7/fep-07d7.md Which one would be your favorite?

(If anyone has updates on the progress, feel free to point me in the right direction)

"ICE Out of Our Faces Act" would ban ICE and CBP use of facial recognition
Senator: ICE and CBP "have built an arsenal of surveillance technologies."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/ice-out-of-our-faces-act-would-ban-ice-and-cbp-use-of-facial-recognition/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a bee should be able to fly.
Its wings are too small to get its fat little body off the ground.
The bee, of course, flies anyway because bees don't care what humans think is impossible. #glassart

My AI Adoption Journey

Link: https://mitchellh.com/writing/my-ai-adoption-journey
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46903558

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Hei! 👋🏻 I know a few of my followers are from or have lived in Norway 🇳🇴 - seeking your advice!

Curious if anyone has advice on how to find a new fastlege (primary care doctor). The one I was assigned upon moving here is very much not a fit. 😢 I'm looking at reviews on legelisten.no but curious if there are other things I should be looking at/for!

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Keep asking. He’s unraveling over it.

Keep asking. He’s unraveling over it.

Heya! 🥳 Super thrilled to announce XenoAtom.Terminal.UI is out in public preview: https://xenoatom.github.io/terminal/ 🚀

It's a modern, reactive retained-mode terminal UI framework for .NET - composable visuals, binding-first state updates, proper measure/arrange layout, and a fast cell-buffer renderer with alpha-blended theming (truecolor 🎨 terminals look gorgeous!).

Demos + docs are live - feedback welcome! 🙌

#dotnet #csharp #tui

Thesis:

Bitcoin will not die from technology or regulation, but from the fact that AI consumes the same fuel while promising a higher return.

Or, more polemically:

Bitcoin burns electricity to cosplay as money.

AI burns electricity to generate power.

Molly is really nice Signal client for Android

#signal #fdroid

I finally had to install Tahoe on my work computer and was immediately assaulted by corner radii

My fosdem talk is up!

I make a case for more platforms to support the ActivityPub client API, and how we should look beyond microblogging for future growth of the ‘verse

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/QK7XSV-activitypub-c2s/

#c2s #fosdem #fediverse #ActivityPub

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山梨県甲州市

#クルマ旅
#風景写真
#photography

撮影日　2026/01/24

For anyone who missed it, the recording 📹 of the talk 💬 at @fosdem by @martymichalOndřej Míchal (#GIMP team member) is now available on their website: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/BKTC3Z-wheres_gimp_going_after_3_2/

(same link as given a few days ago; this one with the embedded video in it!)

LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

Link: https://github.com/mdp/linkedin-extension-fingerprinting
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46904361

There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]

Link: https://www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847297

I end the talk with an invitation for devs and non-developers alike to submit some user-stories about what they would want from a general AP client

https://github.com/swicg/activitypub-api

Heya! 🥳 Super thrilled to announce XenoAtom.Terminal.UI is out in public preview: https://xenoatom.github.io/terminal/ 🚀

It's a modern, reactive retained-mode terminal UI framework for .NET - composable visuals, binding-first state updates, proper measure/arrange layout, and a fast cell-buffer renderer with alpha-blended theming (truecolor 🎨 terminals look gorgeous!).

Demos + docs are live - feedback welcome! 🙌

#dotnet #csharp #tui