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Huge thanks to everyone who dropped in to the chat for our Pilot Episode of Sound Table on #TIBtv.
If you missed it it’s now available on demand on 
@peertube via 
@spectraSpectra Video: https://spectra.video/w/4AgQugdHWn6Q1RVdoaCip6
It’ll also be popping up again on TIBtv during some of the NHAM Talk hours (https://nham.co.uk/tv/), as well as on NHAM radio on ‘Talk Tuesdays’! (https://nham.co.uk/listen/)
Feedback on the pilot episode gratefully received for improved future shows. 👍
Cybersecurity professionals 🤜🏻🤛🏾 Tech journalists
Spontaneously being unemployed en masse by billionaires, landing in the resistance, and yelling about the fascists
チャンネル登録者さん500人超えました！！！！！！！
Having been through the US immigration process (I got my first work visa more than 25 years ago and became a citizen in 2022), it's obvious to me that Americans have *no idea* how weird and tortuous their immigration system is:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/52177745821/
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/doge-ball/#n-600
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@sethmlarsonSeth Larson "transparency!" I say, as I show off my shiny new "Member: PRST" medal that I'm wearing for some reason 😉
git-lfs support in jiujitsu is landing so soon. SO SO soon
RE: https://glammr.us/@spagotto/116024075867770850
As another commenter pointed out, this is likely a change made in response to scraping of metadata (see: OCLC lawsuit against Anna's Archive, etc). However I suspect it would be trivial for a scraper to create a WorldCat account and then proceed with harvesting metadata from the site. Maybe this change is just to establish the context that the metadata is not a free resource for anyone to access online?
Thermian underwear
Thermian underwear
Thermian underwear
The Python Security Response Team membership is now public with a documented nomination process 🥳
Fancy dress day am #40c3?
Ok, I am not really a fan of these inears but the way they "plop" the mastodon notification sound inside my head gives me happy feels
夕方の見晴らし、仙台市
Nikon D4s + Nikon AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 #Misskey写真部
🎉We had a great time co-hosting this year's Public Domain Day in Brussels.
In case you couldn't join us or if you simpy want to reminisce, an overview of the day as well as the recordings are now available on our blog.
👀Have a look: https://communia-association.org/2026/02/05/looking-back-at-the-european-public-domain-day-2026/
Set up a Bazel build that targets an MCU https://lobste.rs/s/wmlxsc #hardware
https://pigweed.dev/build/bazel/mcu-setup.html
Learning from context is harder than we thought
Link: https://hy.tencent.com/research/100025?langVersion=en
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46870514
I hate making predictions based on the past but it's so easy
Huge thanks to everyone who dropped in to the chat for our Pilot Episode of Sound Table on #TIBtv.
If you missed it it’s now available on demand on @peertube via @spectraSpectra Video: https://spectra.video/w/4AgQugdHWn6Q1RVdoaCip6
It’ll also be popping up again on TIBtv during some of the NHAM Talk hours (https://nham.co.uk/tv/), as well as on NHAM radio on ‘Talk Tuesdays’! (https://nham.co.uk/listen/)
Feedback on the pilot episode gratefully received for improved future shows. 👍
Ok, I am not really a fan of these inears but the way they "plop" the mastodon notification sound inside my head gives me happy feels
Committing the cardinal sin of posting _about_ my website instead of posting _on_ it, but I added lightbox functionality the other day!! This was a super fun way to stretch my JS muscles a bit, and I got to make use of the backdrop-filter CSS property which is super fun :)
My website has been more of a vehicle for learning scripting than writing posts lately, but it's so nice to have the outlet and feel like I'm improving at code despite not having much of a Posting output.
Check it out if you like:
https://lexfeathers.ca
Gen-X meets Gen-Z at "The Pitt", S02E05:
Gen-Z1: What say you, Dr. Robby?
Gen-X: Great. MacGyver move. Go for it.
Gen-Z2: Does a Dr. MacGyver work here?
Gen-Z1: I don't know.
TikTok's 'Addictive Design' Found to Be Illegal in Europe
Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/business/tiktok-addictive-design-europe.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46911869
Show HN: I spent 4 years building a UI design tool with only the features I use
Link: https://vecti.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46917033
Do you have any questions about how to use Mastodon or the wider Fediverse? Feel free to ask in the replies, or DM me if you want to ask in private.
No question is stupid or silly, I'm especially trying to help new people 🙂
(If you prefer to look stuff up without asking, there is lots of help for new people on the website at https://fedi.tips )
Next up Deftones. Lets fucking go.
What I'm listening to today: "moog mother-32 + Subharmonicon + DFAM Jam by Saya 'zonbi' Nishida"
This short downtempo piece is based around Moog's generative-rhythm-and-chords machine, the Subharmonicon. (Actually this piece uses the same desktop Moog gear as the distant-howling piece I posted Monday, though *that* one was so drowned in distortion and echo you weren't likely to distinguish any one element). I really like the groove on this one.
What I'm listening to today: "Mutable Instruments Rings triggered by drums"
This is a drum solo with a physical trigger on the bass drum so every time the bass drum hits it advances a sequence on a modular synthesizer. In other words the drummer controls the entire piece, the synth conforms its tempo to the drumming and when the drummer starts switching the rhythm up the music adjusts to it in a really natural way. Technically interesting, but also an incredible mood!
Later this year, Apple plans to release the first folding iPhone, a follow-up to 2025’s folding CEO.
it's such a shame that no one has been brave enough to make a period appropriate retrofuturistic show or film based on Asimov's work since the 1960s
New, by me: I wrote some words for TechCrunch about Sen. Ron Wyden's recent unclassified letter to the CIA director, citing his "deep concerns" about the agency's activities. This isn't the first time Wyden has sounded his "siren" — and history tells us why this new letter is likely a big deal.
Senator, who has repeatedly warned about secret US government surveillance, sounds new alarm over 'CIA activities' | TechCrunch
The two-line letter to the CIA's director is the latest warning in recent years from a long-serving Democratic senator with knowledge of secret government programs and intelligence operations.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
Happening Now: Six people have chained themselves together outside Morrill Hall at the University of Minnesota, saying they won’t leave until President Rebecca Cunningham meets with them and declares the campus a sanctuary and ends all cooperation with ICE.
I’ve been asked on TV hits and interviews lately to explain why decentralized social media is better, especially re: Mastodon.
How would you explain the benefits of a platform like Mastodon and the fediverse to someone in just a few sentences? How would you make the argument that platforms like Mastodon allow for more free expression than big tech controlled apps?
Would love to hear people’s thoughts! Trying to make my arguments most effective
The Zine from 404media About ICE Surveillance Is Here!
https://www.404media.co/icezine/
"You are holding a zine about the surveillance tools used by ICE, and what we have learned so far about how you can resist this technology.
This zine was reported and written by 404 Media, a journalist-owned investigative website and now, we suppose, a print publication. Our status as a small outfit of reporters who own the means of production (a website), means that we have the freedom to report on the topics we believe are the most important. For the last year, that has been Donald Trumpʼs mass deportation
campaign, and the technology powering it."
PDF Zine: https://www.404media.co/content/files/2026/02/404ICEZINE.pdf
ICE and CBP’s Face-Recognition App Can’t Actually Verify Who People Are
„ICE has used #MobileFortify to identify immigrants and citizens alike over 100,000 times, by one estimate. It wasn't built to work like that—and only got approved after #DHS abandoned its own #privacy rules….“
https://www.wired.com/story/cbp-ice-dhs-mobile-fortify-face-recognition-verify-identity/
The best thing about philosophy is that all the great philosophers in history were basically wrong about almost everything, so there's really not that much pressure to be right.
did anyone want to hear a #Shakespeare speech castigating nativist cruelty against #immigration?
of course such a speech exists: bigoted malice against #immigrants is not new. the wicked have long yoked the ignorant and indecent for power
it refers to a real event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_May_Day
it is called "The Strangers' Case" speech
from the play "Sir Thomas More"
here delivered by #IanMcKellen from memory
on "The Late Show With #StephenColbert"
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.
Don't use 3 or 4 letter acronyms without spelling them out at least once. The Fediverse is global. Context matters. Every 3-4 letter acronym has on average 58 different meanings. Help your followers and friends. Spell it out.
Vet: And what breed is Minna?
Me: She is smol void baby.
Vet: Excuse me?
Me: Sorry. Domestic short hair. Black.
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon
“For the first time in a very long time, #Democrats were operating as a team, moving in the same direction with the same goal, and that’s to win an election.”
New from Tyler Hicks: What can we learn from the historic upset in Tarrant County? https://www.texasobserver.org/taylor-rehmet-special-election-upset-anti-maga-wave/
I’ve been asked on TV hits and interviews lately to explain why decentralized social media is better, especially re: Mastodon.
How would you explain the benefits of a platform like Mastodon and the fediverse to someone in just a few sentences? How would you make the argument that platforms like Mastodon allow for more free expression than big tech controlled apps?
Would love to hear people’s thoughts! Trying to make my arguments most effective
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“For the first time in a very long time, #Democrats were operating as a team, moving in the same direction with the same goal, and that’s to win an election.”
New from Tyler Hicks: What can we learn from the historic upset in Tarrant County? https://www.texasobserver.org/taylor-rehmet-special-election-upset-anti-maga-wave/
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