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someone should build a website to receive alerts when github is up
Currently, the outrage to the visible contents of the Epstein files is so mild that I have to think the majority of people just aren’t even casually checking them. I can’t think of a phrase to describe what I’ve read even as a forensic analyst. “Cartoonishly evil” is too gentle. Horrific. Inhuman.
Da spricht ja wieder niemand drüber, aber so normal Nine to Five geht ja in Deutschland nicht wegen der gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Pause.
Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948923
CHALLENGE: Do picture-in-picture for a YouTube window without crashing Wayland
THE CONTESTANTS: Debian 13, Firefox 140.6.0esr
OUTCOME: Abject failure
某ヘ社へのgit pushもなんかとまるな…
Alles steht still
mastodon/mastodonからのgit fetchがなんだか止まるな…
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show was an act of joyful resistance
“This was more than a stand against the ugly actions of ICE and Trump’s racism. It was a cultural celebration of community that decentered colonialism and U.S. imperialism.”
An editorial by @mtltoula.
https://cultmtl.com/2026/02/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-was-an-act-of-joyful-resistance/
2초에 1분씩 늘어나는 듯? DB야
枝野のアカウントから選挙期間中の演説をいくつか聞いていたけど、2017年に立憲民主党を作ったときみたいな言葉の力がほんとうに無くなっているな。これはたしかに落ちるわ。
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092
What’s the state of “I just want a private forum” these days?
(I’m aware of Taggart’s breakdown, but I explicitly don’t need any of the chat functionality, really just need a forum that is very very private)
Being able to get managed hosting a plus (I’m happy to throw money at people to handle IT admin, I just want to do the community management myself)
Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.
If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.
Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.
It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.
A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.
The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.
If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights
Humans peak in midlife: A combined cognitive and personality trait perspective
Link: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160289625000649
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945471
えっこらし 
0b8ce7200a Use validation matchers for `ExistingUsernameValidator` spec (#37749)
e17bbed88f Change: Consolidate collection handling in jsonld helper (#34595)
665f746165 Update artifact actions (major) (major) (#37788)
da91639b43 Update twk3/rollup-size-compare-action action to v1.2.0 (#37787)
c1b945425c Update peter-evans/create-pull-request action to v8 (#37783)
624c25edd8 Update actions/cache action to v5 (#37781)
c0f809cb5b Update actions/checkout action to v6 (#37782)
b4fb25643a Fix: Changes to pins update immediately (#37765)
d3cef82401 Refactor `store_current_location` `before_action` in `OAuth::AuthorizationsController` (#37779)
b9a538e57a Pin Actions to SHA (#37764)
3f845e649b Use bundler version 4.0.6 (#37745)
6ec4bd5927 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37767)
77bc8f7aac Update @types/react to v18.3.28 (#37777)
08f9af986b Update dotenv to v17.2.4 (#37753)
1dbf69d78f Update oj to v3.16.15 (#37757)
08003ba6b9 Update postcss-preset-env to v11.1.3 (#37758)
First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.
They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then what? Rinse and escalate.
You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.
We don't have to wait that it escalates.
We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.
The only way to win, is not to play.
I refuse to play... I'd rather miss out than participate and those that would shun me for doing so because I don't capitulate to their convenience aren't worth my time.
si estás buscando una app segura para chatear con los más pequeños de la familia, échale un ojo a #DeltaChat
cifrado de extremo a extremo
no necesita números de teléfono ni tarjetas SIMs para ser usado
nadie puede descubrir el contacto del niño/niña
no hay descubrimento de grupos ni canales públicos
solo chat privado con la familia
fuck it I'm downloading teamspeak 6, let's see what they've been cooking for the last 15 years
Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
Link: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46948923
🎉 New episode of Changelog News!
Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can't wrap her head around so many people going so hard on LLM-generated code.
So it's not just that Discord is requiring pictures or IDs to verify age. They're also going to be running AI against everything you do on there to "infer" your age... So make sure you "type old".
Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age. Some users may be asked to use multiple methods if more information is needed to assign an age group.”
Every fucking day capitalism conspires against me to make me do something other than write software
⏳ One week to go.
The #rustconf 2026 CFP closes Feb 16!
If you’ve been meaning to submit a talk — now’s the moment. This is the final week to help shape the #rustconf26 program. 🦀 https://bit.ly/4aFBej6
why the browser is so picky about which fetch() requests it allows (aka "why am I getting CORS errors??")
ughhhhh this German course is melting my brain and not in a good way. i am only half way through the first day and already thinking of dropping out 
First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.
They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then what? Rinse and escalate.
You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.
We don't have to wait that it escalates.
We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
this is like - way worse than 1984. This is gattaca levels of data the govt is trying to collect. It’s sickening.
Show HN: Browse Internet Infrastructure
Link: https://www.wirewiki.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944555
Show HN: Printable Classics – Free printable classic books for hobby bookbinders
Link: https://printableclassics.com
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46944365
Each time a new privacy-invasive
feature like facial scanning is implemented, if people in majority comply and accept to use it, it will soon become normality, and other options will be marginalized or even removed entirely.
If each time a new privacy-invasive
feature is implemented people opted to refuse it, it would soon be discontinued.
Each individual opposition to privacy-invasive features matters.
It is an act of self-protection but,
perhaps even more importantly,
it is also an act of protest.
A protest against the normalization of mass surveillance and the loss of privacy rights.
The fact that there are other cameras around doesn't mean that more cameras or additional scanning is not making things even worse.
If we do not refuse,
if we do not fight for our privacy rights,
we will lose them all.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #FacialRecognition #HumanRights #DigitalRights
So it's not just that Discord is requiring pictures or IDs to verify age. They're also going to be running AI against everything you do on there to "infer" your age... So make sure you "type old".
Additionally, Discord will implement its age inference model, a new system that runs in the background to help determine whether an account belongs to an adult, without always requiring users to verify their age. Some users may be asked to use multiple methods if more information is needed to assign an age group.”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092
What’s the state of “I just want a private forum” these days?
(I’m aware of Taggart’s breakdown, but I explicitly don’t need any of the chat functionality, really just need a forum that is very very private)
Being able to get managed hosting a plus (I’m happy to throw money at people to handle IT admin, I just want to do the community management myself)
Medieval Monks Wrote over Ancient Star Catalog – Particle Accel Reveals Original
Link: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-monks-wrote-over-a-copy-of-an-ancient-star-catalog-now-a-particle-accelerator-is-revealing-the-long-lost-original-text-180988123/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46885249
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092
We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community. The harder part will be untangling my gaming communities from this…
just added mermaid.js support to dodeca which involved teaching the HTML diff about "opaque nodes" (rendered by JS) so it could simply call the JS renderer again with the new content instead of a flash-of-unrendered-content 😎
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092
We’ve moved our internal communications from Discord to Zulip at Mastodon, and I think there are plans to do the same for our Patreon community. The harder part will be untangling my gaming communities from this…
96 files changed, 3224 insertions, 2326 deletions, 8 dead, 19 injured, 4 missing
기차 20분 늦는댜 으허ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.
They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then what? Rinse and escalate.
You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.
We don't have to wait that it escalates.
We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.
An alarming and growing number of leaders in open source are starting to embrace generative AI and "agents" etc. We need to push back and let them know that we as a FOSS community do not want this. We must all do our duty to say no to this unethical technology.
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk https://lobste.rs/s/vje4gy #privacy #science
https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
It's Not About the API - Fast, Flexible, and Simple Rendering in Vulkan https://lobste.rs/s/myybyg #graphics
https://gamesbymason.com/blog/2026/vulkan/
🗣️ The Zendesk spam will continue until morale improves
trans mutual aid fundraiser (not me, but for a partner), pet health mention
I know things are rough all around, but if anyone could throw some money towards a sweet trans guy it'd be really appreciated: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-cover-winter-expenses-for-disabled-artist
He hasn't updated the GoFundMe in a bit, but he is right at this very moment taking one of his cats to the vet due to the classic sick animal combination of hiding and not eating, so.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116041069446538092
Two things:
1. We are creating a two-tiered internet that will see people willing to give up their IDs having one experience while those who can’t, won’t, or don’t have them missing out on those experiences or being outright excluded from whole areas of the web
2. Why you would be willing to give up your ID to web services that have such poor security in a time when identity is being weaponized by state actors is beyond me
most ppl will go along with it bc they don’t have an alternative or don’t see the need for one
most ppl who don’t fall into that category will go along with it bc they know how hard an alternative will be, either implementing or just convincing others to, and they aren’t willing to risk their community for it
and more people will fall thru the cracks
the internet used to be such an escape for me, a place where i had community and a place where i felt less powerless
but increasingly my feeling about the internet is like a fell into a very attractive trap for ppl like me
Andreas Freise
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
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@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
+ 
Maho 🦝🍻
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