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ABC7: Mountain View suspends license plate readers; agencies accessed flock camera data without consent
"MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) -- The city of Mountain View is shutting down their license plate reader system, for now.
City officials say an audit discovered that for several months in 2024 - multiple federal agencies accessed data from a Flock license plate reader...."
@evanEvan Prodromou yes! The primaries are super important to focus on, since they're when we have a chance to replace ineffective (or even collaborating) neoliberals with progressives. THIS is the time to fight like hell for the best candidates, not by withholding votes in the general.
IMO if the Democratic party stays under the forceful control of neoliberals, they will keep losing important elections. When polled on individual issues, US voters strongly support progressive policies.
This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word
NPR: Lenexa police investigated author of column criticizing the department. He's 'pissed off'
"...A KCUR investigation discovered the department used the city’s license plate readers to track the writer’s movements and it issued a “be on the lookout” for him.
On Oct. 21 the entire Lenexa, Kansas police patrol division was hunting Canyen Ashworth.
At 1:50 that afternoon, the department issued a BOLO — police shorthand for “be on the lookout” — for the 28-year-old information technology consultant and sometimes writer.
There were two problems. They didn’t have a charge, and he was the wrong man....."
romance novel about two gay episcopalians working at a nuclear plant who fall in love after bumping into each other at church.
we could call it Critical Mass
RE: https://mastodon.social/@webintents/116028982466167234
Imagine being able to share your fediverse account on other platforms using this powerful new service that makes it super easy for them to follow you no matter what server they are on, and if they don't have an account yet, we can onboard them by leveraging the vast and community curated data from FediDB + CommunityDB.
Follow anyone. Any software. Any account. One link or self-hosted html button ✨
We need better UX and this is a huge step in the right direction.
Fedi Devs: Let's chat ✨
"Democracy is now back to 1985 levels according to some metrics, with 72 percent of the world’s population now living under autocracy. Russia and China are less free today than 20 years ago. And so is the United States".
-Human Rights Watch, World Report 2026
A problem with Bitcoin is the design resists understanding. The design is convoluted and contains many elements which are either present for solely ideological, not practical reasons, as well as elements which are extraneous altogether. Conversations about Bitcoin as a social entity get bogged down in everyone trying to hash out how it even works. I now believe if you're going to make a strongly used system there's a moral imperative to make it graspable by a human mind. Otherwise u get Bitcoin
I don't actually know if cigarettes already meant _that_ in the 30s, but I'm gonna use future knowledge and just assume it does, and that they knew it did
These words mean, different things now
I’m certain I go to Fruitvale more than I go to the Sunset, which is maybe surprising for someone who lives in the city. Fruitvale just has all of my favorite things.
My phone addiction is out of hand. It's not that I spend a huge amount of time on my phone but I have a very limited amount of free time and I spend most of it scrolling. So, I ordered a flip phone. It's not really dumb. It has navigation, weather, email and hotspot. Honestly, I'm pretty nervous about the transition but something's gotta change. (Also, I'm not sad about opting out of a certain amount of surveillance capitalism.) #phone #SunBeamWireless
yeaaah... Substack is a bad idea. Look into Outpost or Ghost, and stop supporting literal Nazis. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
Evaluating and mitigating the growing risk of LLM-discovered 0-days https://lobste.rs/s/olbswh #security #vibecoding
https://red.anthropic.com/2026/zero-days/
Stories from 25 Years of Software Development
Link: https://susam.net/twenty-five-years-of-computing.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924264
U.S. Jobs Disappear at Fastest January Pace Since Great Recession
Link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikestunson/2026/02/05/us-jobs-disappear-at-fastest-january-pace-since-great-recession/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46925669
I have considered starting an OSNews fundraiser to raise some money for our car, but decided against it - I feel like any OSNews fundraiser should be about either OSNews itself (i.e. a cool thing to write about) or as effectively my salary. Asking money for our car that's not even remotely required for OSNews - instead being a generic family requirement (and for my wife's work commute) - feels wrong.
yeaaah... Substack is a bad idea. Look into Outpost or Ghost, and stop supporting literal Nazis. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters
Wenn Architekten auf Google Maps auffallen wollen. Erkennt ihr, was es ist?
Wenn Architekten auf Google Maps auffallen wollen. Erkennt ihr, was es ist?
a fennel is a kennel for fennecs. or ferrets?
Petition für einen Antrag beim Bundesverfassungsgericht gegen Björn Höcke auf Grundrechtsverwirkung sowie Aberkennung der Wählbarkeit und der Fähigkeit zur Bekleidung öffentlicher Ämter (Art. 18 GG)
Mitzeichnen (man muss nicht in Bremen wohnen) und boosten, bitte.
(Bevor es zu spät ist...!)
Schalten Sie auch nächste Woche wieder ein, wenn es heißt: »Miasma bei Miosga«.
Schalten Sie auch nächste Woche wieder ein, wenn es heißt: »Miasma bei Miosga«.
Rewriting things in Rust: yay!
Using AI to do it: oh, cool, you're going to trade one set of bugs for another mysterious set, and lose all your domain expertise at the same time.
Dipshits.
The seventh #bevy game jam is now live! Join at itch.io/jam/bevy-jam-7 The theme, as voted by you and selected by a fair committee of rats, is "Extremely Incohesive Fever Dream". See below for video proof of the final selection process ;)
Ist Zahnersatz eigentlich auch so ein Lifestyle-Ding?
@dyfusticNicole ‘dyfa’ Britz Alles Leben ist ein Lifestyle-Ding.
PBS: Four people have died and three others have required liver transplants after eating the aptly named death cap mushroom that is proliferating in California following a rainy winter. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/four-dead-and-three-receive-liver-transplants-after-eating-death-cap-mushrooms-in-california
Impl Rust - Avro IDL tool in Rust via ANTLR https://lobste.rs/s/yictml #video #rust #vibecoding
https://youtu.be/vmKvw73V394
Two or more generations of left activists have grown up reading Noam #Chomsky's fearless exposure of the US imperium. Many now feel shattered, duped, and bewildered by the revelations of the extent of his relationship with #Epstein. Chris Knight explains what lies behind this extraordinary paradox, the Two Chomskys
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/02/06/the-chomsky-epstein-puzzle/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@elasticsoul/116030815240351773
I've long believed Bitcoin is impossible to "kill" but a possibility that didn't occur to me is mining a bitcoin block could start to cost more than one acquires from mining a bitcoin block. And the compute cost of making a block *does* increase w/ time.
This *seems* to show the lines crossed, but 2 questions I have:
- If the number of miners participating decreases, does the cost of mining one Bitcoin decrease?
- How much does earn get in "tips" while spending that $87,000 to mine one Bitcoin?
Al Lowe on model trains, funny deaths and working with Disney
Link: https://spillhistorie.no/2026/02/06/interview-with-sierra-veteran-al-lowe/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924790
Oh, serendipity! A few things line up together, creating opportunities for rare discoveries. This time it's a thing that probably will require someone to go and edit the Wikipedia page for Ubuntu...
How did we end up here? Well, first, I've been meaning to play with an old Ubuntu for a long time. Second, Atsuko unpacked out our Pentium III desktop last week. Third, Atsuko left me alone for half a day, and the only thing I could bring myself to do was trying out different Linuxes on this Pentium III machine.
Buckle up, I'm about to share many screenshots of old Live CDs, and some of them might surprise you (a little bit?).
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Wenn wir schon über Social-Media-Verbote zum angeblichen Schutz der Kinder diskutieren, sollten wir auch dringend gleich ein Mindestalter für religiöse Indoktrination festlegen.
Wenn wir schon über Social-Media-Verbote zum angeblichen Schutz der Kinder diskutieren, sollten wir auch dringend gleich ein Mindestalter für religiöse Indoktrination festlegen.
"Denmark to ban social media for under-15s as PM warns it is ‘stealing childhood’"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/07/danish-pm-plans-to-ban-social-media-for-under-15s-warning-it-is-stealing-childhood
No, it's you who don't understand what a childhood's actual evolution function is.
The purpose of childhood is, purely scientifically, to play at the lives of adulthood, to thereby through the mechanism of "fun" learn the world that we will be living in as adults.
Due to our disproportionately large brains humans are born unready for the world, while other animals are done at birth, while we are evolved to expect at least around 20 years before finalized outside the womb.
During that process it is evolved for us to experience hardships such as social interactions to learn norms of our "in-groups", etc, and learn how to defend against predators and other exploitative harmful behavior.
This is what these ignoramuses are now striving to deprive people of by law, while the same people almost certainly will suddenly when adults WILL be subjected to the same "social media" and probably worse such, during their entire adulthood.
That is not "my opinion", that's science.
This is an attempt at a probable lifelong harm against the subjected generations.
Instead?
Invest in schools teaching source criticism, online self-defense, right to privacy, in the school and psychiatric systems, etc, etc.
The so-called "age verification" labeled as "to protect the children" just ARE NOT about that.
Those pushing them either lie if claiming so, or too incompetent for their power. Those are the only options.
It IS about wrecking the foundations of a free Internet and through that disabling a free and participatory society by imposing mandatory ID to be allowed public political speech, to use political organizing platforms, and access to essential info about what is happening around us.
If it would have been about protecting, not just "the children", but any of humankind they would instead fix the root causes at harmful platforms, like ending intentionally addictive algorithms and infinite scrolling, regardless whom harmed by it.
These authoritarian proposals go against all humankind's evolved developmental process, where humans MUST have naturally progressing access to what we will be required to use and exposed to as adults. That is the actual entire point of childhood.
A blanket ban until some magic day after the development is done will leave people entirely unprepared for all dangers suddenly shoved at them, the ban having caused severe irreparable harm.
The bans ARE to protect ruling politicians from opposition and platform-corporation execs from ending their harming for profit of you.
Ist Zahnersatz eigentlich auch so ein Lifestyle-Ding?
불태웠다 _(´ཀ`」 ∠)_
그래도 미약하게나마 하나 건지고 퇴각...
joinmastodonの翻訳への関与はこちらから💜
joinmastodon/CONTRIBUTING.md at main · mastodon/joinmastodon · GitHub
https://github.com/mastodon/joinmastodon/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md#translations
Hey @ykbooks so nice to see you here. Thank you for honouring the legacy of bookshops as nodes of the revolution 😀 . We're a small community in #yellowknife but the fediverse is vast and full of interesting people. Local fellow travellers include 
@miki_louLM Little, 
@ffuiteFraser Fuite, 
@cabinradio, 
@EricMcLEric. For Canadian fediverse insights you can follow @evanEvan Prodromou, 
@paigePAIGE! 🍁, 
@smattymattyMathew Storm, 
@ZebKingZeb King 🇨🇦, 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@paulbuschInnocuous In Innisfil 🇨🇦
Cinder asks: Have you petted a cat for #caturday ?
As I wrote before (https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@evgandr/115912395421390028) I tried to use TURN server for communication with my relatives, but failed to setup secure enough solution. So, I decided to try an old and reliable solution — Asterisk. With the help of a book "Asterisk: The Definitive Guide" from J.V. Meggelen & R. Bryant & L. Madsen, of course.
First, I was forced to build the asterisk package by myself (from ports, ofc), since the binary version from NetBSD repository compiled with the all DB support, except my favourite PostgreSQL database.
By the way, adding users and writing dialplan with the help of aforementioned book was not so hard as I expected 
. Same for network setup. Since, I'm using PJSIP I just opened SIPS port and a range of UDP ports for RTP protocol on the my firewall. Despite, my home network hidden behind NAT on the router, there are no big problems with networking — end-user devices and an Asterisk server connected with use of simple star topology.
Surpisingly, the quality of the voice call is excellent comparing with service, provided by local cellular network operators. I suppose, that the secret in used codecs, or it is because there are not so much users (only 2) of my service.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@ieeespectrum/116030177478995194
my neighbor told me exploits keep happening to his repos so i asked how many maintainers he has and he said he just has a makefile that tells an llm to refactor the entire thing into rust for releases so i said it sounds like he's just feeding cve's to rust hackers and then his claude ran out of credits
寒いのでさむい！と思いました。(日記)
just noticed #pleroma 2.10 is out with outgoing follow requests
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