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We Mourn Our Craft
Link: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926245
Liam and his father are home. We got them back. Keep up the pressure. We have a lot more people to get back.
Note to future self: Don’t get MRIs on Fridays. You’ll get the radiologist’s results but not the doctor’s and will have to ponder the former without the context of the latter...all....weekend...long. 🫤
I went back to Linux and it was a mistake https://www.theverge.com/report/875077/linux-was-a-mistake
@jripleyJohn Ripley It is possible to kill a meme. You just have to go about it a particular way.
@mcc I've read that the average inefficiency of money laundering is roughly 2:1 to 3:1, as in when you do crime, you're going to lose 50-67% of your proceeds in schemes to 'legitimize' it. So BitCoin could probably end up 2-3x the cost of energy and still be in common use. That's probably where it's asymptotically heading, now.
Easily transfer files from Linux to Android using these:
Welcome to Mastodon, 
@HennaVirkkunen !
As Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, you have highlighted how the Fediverse plays an important part in protecting the EU's #DigitalSovereignty and supporting European alternatives.
I like Mastodon because it allows me to doomscroll other people's anxious screaming 
All other social media platforms feel like I'm zapping through teleshopping channels.
Mastodon is like finding the button that turns on interdimensional cable.
Got to meet some great people while speaking at 
@innersourceInnerSource Commons 's OS Innovation Summit in Dublin this weekend. 🔥 Thanks for the pic 
@mgiffordMike Gifford, CPWA @FOSDEM !
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
It's funny to see people joining Substack in 2026 and saying, "I am reluctantly beginning a Substack since it's now clearly the only way to make money as a writer. Someone please help me find the check box in the account settings to accept my $250,000/year revenue guarantee from Substack like Matthew Yglesias got."
ActivityPub Etsy when?
Him: well what's your big brain idea to eliminate food assistance fraud?
Me: universal food assistance
Him:
Me: because there wouldn't be a system to cheat, everyone would just get a check
Him: and who does that benefit?
Me: family farmers and human beings who rely on food for nutrition
Him: what about rich people?
Me: what about them?
Him: you would give them food assistance too?
Me: that's what universal means
Him: you can't do that
Me: yesterday you said I couldn't tax them and now you won't let me feed them either?
Him: they can afford food
Me: then it should be fine to tax them
Him: but if you tax them they won't have as much money
Me: I'm willing to offer universal food assistance
I'm speaking at 
@cactuscon with 
@huertanix on Saturday!
RE: https://toot.kif.rocks/@merlin/116014854605473342
ah yes the three genders
If you wanted to send me a monetary tip for my excellent Mastodon posts, which platform would you prefer to use?
(Please don't be a dick in the replies as a muting often ofends.)
Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements https://lobste.rs/s/m8nxql #hardware
https://gekkio.fi/blog/2026/game-boy-advance-d-pad-capacitor-measurements/
The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46922969
We Mourn Our Craft
Link: https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926245
Saw someone say that their criteria for lesbian dating was
- monogamous
- not in touch with any ex
That’s a unicorn
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.
Morning, camel market near Birqash. #egypt #photography #visualambience
I wonder: since I have problems with speeds when it comes to fetching data from freebsd pkg, would torrent work? Would a torrent-based (or any p2p) package manager work? So, say you share all packages that are in your cache.
About that $50k ICE "bonus"
Some people will do anything for money, or maybe they are just in dire situations. Anyway $50k to join ICE might tempt some people.
Well.
* It's not 50k it's 10k per year for five years. Big difference.
* It is a five year *commitment* bonus. You need to work the full five years OR you must pay it back.
* So if your work for 3 years then quit you owe them 30k! (money you may need for a lawyer)
* The first 10k will be about $6500 after taxes.
Just so everyone knows.
Blacksky has already built their own ATProto stack that's fully independent from Bluesky.
Now Eurosky is making progress as they roll out their own PDS.
I see more independent infrastructure springing up on https://atp.fyi/network, including AppViews.
For anyone hoping that we'll get another wave of people coming to the fediverse once Bluesky folds/enshittifies, that might not necessarily be the case as people will have more options to stay in the Atmosphere.
And I know, some of you don't care, you want to keep the fediverse toxic and unwelcoming, I guess that's fine. It's just a shame.
How to Dance at Homecoming
How to Dance at Homecoming
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
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