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よし、ほんのちょっとだけ早めの朝ごはん食べるか！
Jan 2022
Too many servers made me...electric!
Barista - Fester Addams style
Install party to set up #DeltaChat servers, created several local test servers, and promoted it.
This was our community's final in-person gathering of the year for free software enthusiasts, held privately.
We designated the year 1404 (in the Persian calendar) as the year for promoting free software culture.
Based on this, we organized various events and conferences to introduce this culture, and similarly pursued diverse promotional approaches to amplify the voice of free software.
The adoption of free software has had positive impacts in Iran.
Now, with a record of 500 active Delta Chat servers during Iran's internet blackout period, we made an effort to hold this final gathering.
We have named the new year as the year for promoting decentralized #free_software tools and will continue to pursue it.
May the new year in a free Iran allow us to both host events introducing books like #Ada and #Zangemann, and promote free, decentralized tools.
We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:
"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."
"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."
PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:
-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’
-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.
The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than February 9, 2026) to be assured of consideration.
Federal Register entry: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf
早起き組が起きてきた
寝る準備完了…です
日曜日は投票も行かないとですね！
Hey #FreeBSD folks!
Ten years ago, disk ID labels (/dev/diskid) were often painfully encoded.
Today, my WD drives show up cleanly. Is that just a WD thing? Do other vendors show up as encoded crud?
If you could look in /dev/diskid and see what you have, I'd appreciate it.
(diskID is disabled in 15, you'd need to uncomment kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" in /boot/loader.conf)
TLDR: can I now recommend diskID labels as reasonable, or am I just lucky in my hard drives? #sysadmin
Since we've been here for a minute, time for an #introduction
We are a #NewMexico based org, with a strong focus on the environment & energy, reproductive justice, immigrant & LGBTQIA2S+ communities, and good governance & transparent elections
Our crew is small but mighty, with nearly a dozen people around the state incl. Northern NM, Southern NM, and in Albuquerque & Santa Fe
You'll find us talkin' bout policy, accountability, and doing the hard work of improving our community
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DNS Explained – How Domain Names Get Resolved
Link: https://www.bhusalmanish.com.np/blog/posts/dns-explained.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46868803
did you know you can write your #HTML like this?
```html
<button
type
=
button
class
=
cursed
>
Hello
</button>
```
Posted into Columbus photos 
@columbus-photos-ColumbusDispatcColumbus photos
i do not value your privacy, which is why my website does not have any trackers on it what so ever. i have positively no idea if any human being besides myself has ever actually opened my website. your privacy is worth zero dollars to me. you couldn't even pay me to take it away.
Who owns Bluesky?
The curious mystery of the Bluesky Series B funding round.
Did it happen?
If you look at pitchbook (https://pitchbook.com/profiles/company/484831-81) it seems Bluesky closed a whopping $97 million funding round resulting in a $700M valuation in January 2025. VCpedia lists Greylock, alumni ventures and Skyseed as participants (https://vcpedia.com/rounds/5195).
The interesting thing is there are no press releases or other media coverage confirming this financing.
Read on...
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よっこらいっこいしょ 
2e30044a37 (upstream/main) Profile redesign: Pinned posts (#37761)
1310628a60 Bust relationship cache key (#37760)
7e27ba990e Move account search into hook (#37762)
2768ab77e5 Add new components `Combobox` and `EmptyState` (#37748)
5b24f4097d Fix processing of object updates with duplicate hashtags (#37756)
b1d4459267 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37755)
96de28dd6f Enable coexistence of horizontal and vertical posts (#37204)
7a4945c0d3 Show mute end date in badge (#37747)
There are lots of satellites here in the southern skies too. But the stars behind the satellites are absolutely incredible! The Milky Way was absurdly bright! The Magellenic Clouds were so easy to see! WOOOOWWWWW
PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?
Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example
Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!
This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.
Can any #python folks develop an opinion about https://github.com/glyph/Fritter/pull/10 ? I don't need a full code review but it would be really useful to have thoughts about whether it's clear when this would be useful, if it would in fact be useful, or if "discrete" is both a correct and useful shorthand for what it's doing.
I'll need some mindless fluff TV otherwise I'm going to read news
Oooooh SNAP!!! 💥
Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez of Spain:
“First, we will change the law in Spain to hold platform executives legally accountable for many infringements taking place on their sites. This means that CEOs of these tech platforms will face criminal liability […]
Second, we will turn algorithmic manipulation and amplification of illegal content into a new criminal offense. […]
spreading hate must come at a cost.”
Have a great weekend, Elon! 😘
https://www.youtube.com/live/NElqgJ1aXFA?si=M52qiZYBt55KRamm
Hachyderm is the El Paso of the Fediverse
It can be kind of hard to understand how big a server (instance) on the Fediverse really is. I know mastodon.social is much bigger than the server I'm on, but how much bigger, really?
So what if we compare the populations of servers to cities?
I built a tool for that! https://arewedecentralizedyet.online/fedicities/
Let's compare mastodon.social, the biggest server on the Fediverse, to the biggest city in the world, Shanghai (pop 24.9M). In comparison, pixelfed.social is like Ahmedabad, India (pop 6.4M). hachyderm.io is like El Paso, Texas (pop 679K). The server I'm on, discuss.systems, is like Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany (pop 32.1K).
Cool but maybe I'm not so familiar with some of those cities. What if we compare to cities in Mexico? (mastodon.social is Mexico City, Hachyderm is Tepic) Or Ontario? (mastodon.social is Toronto, Hachyderm is Caledon).
Play around with this tool, select an area of the world you're familiar with, and get a better sense for how big all these servers really are! Check out what your own server is comparable to!
bandcamp friday type stuff, im trying to stay financially afloat feel free to grab some releases, everything stays nyp either way
All the Adventures dips back to 1982 for a space sim-adventure game hybrid from Japan. I give the history of how a music company switched to games and the workings behind the space-combat section:
https://bluerenga.blog/2026/02/06/cosmo-cross-1982/
#retrogaming #adventuregame #videogames #japan #space #adventuregame #pc88 #sharp
In this week's roundup: Lockdown Mode FTW, why Bezos is killing WaPo, and more.
https://www.404media.co/darkness-democracy-and-locking-it-down-2/
ICYMI: I redesigned FediDB software pages!
Pretty sure Americans won't know this, because it's Europe. You're welcome, I'll be here all week, remember to tip your waitress!
Love how they list the equipment used on the inside sleeve. Classy!
Europe - Europe LP (1985 Scandinavian press)
How do I explain to people that some criticism is illegitimate from the beginning and is not entitled to a debate?
If you know, you know. Work in progress.
Today we woke up with the news that #Salesforce has decided to change #Heroku from IaaS (2007) to Stale as a Service (SaaS), planning ahead of their move to RIP as a Service in 2027.
https://www.heroku.com/blog/an-update-on-heroku/
we had a good run, that was for sure.
⏳ The RustConf 2026 CFP closes Feb 16!
Our program is shaped by the community — by the problems Rustaceans are working through, the tradeoffs they’ve faced, & the perspectives they have.
If you have a story you think should be part of that convo, now’s the time to submit. https://bit.ly/3NRr5Hm
Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything!
Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns.
My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop:
https://buttondown.com/charliejane/archive/the-death-and-rebirth-of-the-queer-bookstore/
Friday vibe
For #PublicDomainFriday, we're sharing this banner used by the Oklahoma Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, founded 1910. This image is part of the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/initiatives/nmaahc-open-access
that really is 
moment
Sheldon Brown's Bicycle Technical Info
Link: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46914159
Hey #FreeBSD folks!
Ten years ago, disk ID labels (/dev/diskid) were often painfully encoded.
Today, my WD drives show up cleanly. Is that just a WD thing? Do other vendors show up as encoded crud?
If you could look in /dev/diskid and see what you have, I'd appreciate it.
(diskID is disabled in 15, you'd need to uncomment kern.geom.label.disk_ident.enable="0" in /boot/loader.conf)
TLDR: can I now recommend diskID labels as reasonable, or am I just lucky in my hard drives? #sysadmin
Complete the rest of the sentence:
We value your privacy ____
About a year ago we setup our own Mastodon instance
Our team is not highly technical, but with Masto.host we were able to do it fairly easy – we may even self host eventually (TBD on that)
We have not regretted the decision, because even though Big Tech's social media apps & platforms can be hard to leave, they have only gotten worse in the last 12 months
Meta/FB/Instagram are over run with fake profiles, bots and #AISlop, TikTok is now suppressing our content, etc.
I don't want to laugh at someone's real distress but this IS very funny ...
If you are enabling and coming to rely on AI workflows in production, you better have a plan for how to maintain operations when (not if) they disappear. Either through temporary service outage or a company that disappears overnight, you're exposed to significant risk without a tested backup plan.
This isn't really different than any other dependency, except that the reality distortion field around AI seems to accelerate adoption without consideration of failure modes in a way I've not seen before.
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