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Alright well this is very much a WIP but it's already more info than I've found on this subject anywhere else on the web: the fandom discord to IRC migration page is live!
tech ceos: return to office for synergy and kismet reasons
also tech ceos: why are you talking to your coworkers. just ask the ai
big news for all the cowards out there
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7hdynmk6r22z27h6tvur/post/3mehblstckk2e
Has anyone figured out how to use ActivityPub to make something IRC or Discord shaped?
Custom Firmware for the MZ-RH1 (MiniDisc player) via 
@jevinskieJevin Sweval https://lobste.rs/s/w8uju4 #hardware #reversing
https://sir68k.re/posts/rh1-firmware-available/
Hard-braking events as indicators of road segment crash risk
Link: https://research.google/blog/hard-braking-events-as-indicators-of-road-segment-crash-risk/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46947777
Despite a policy shift away from renewables from the Trump administration, energy companies are still turning to the fast and cheap power of solar and wind energy to provide power. The thing that’s actually changing? Their messaging. https://spectrum.ieee.org/trump-renewable-energy?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
Ordered an “abolish ice” flag from flagsforgood.com
It came with a free whistle…
It feels like a real sweet spot that I'm notable enough to have my name appear multiple times in a Wikipedia search but not notable enough to appear at all in an Epstein files search.
起きまーす
Nur noch einmal schlafen! #hibbel
(OK, in Köln und nicht im London Hilton. Man kann halt nicht alles haben ...)
RAYE - Worth it. (Live at London Hilton on Park Lane)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uoAzWUHCRpU
#leyrerplaylist
Midday in mid-October.
Nikon F3 w 28mm/f2
f8 @ 1/60s
Lomography Color400 EX2013 EI200
#BeNiceShootFilm #TheFilmCommunity #Lomography #StreetPhotography
v1.116 is rolling out now! For all the overthinkers and perfectionists out there, we're launching Drafts.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Link: https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46945663
Trying to Connect
Two Self-portraits.
Read AltText for image description
1 - 29 words
2 - 33 words.
On bsky, I could give https://links.robb.is its own username/domain and be done with it but I'm not sure what to do about mastodon – I'm thinking I just forward every post here with a hashtag? https://mastodon.social/@dlx/115990932251214457
Are people archiving the prompts they use when AI assisted coding?
If AI is the new level of abstraction shouldn't we archive the prompts rather than the code itself?
It feels like I'm storing my a.out files on github and throwing out the C code after it compiles.
목욕할 때 마저도 코딩하고 싶은 개발처돌이가 아니라 그냥 개발할 때 가만히 있을 겸 뜨물에 몸 담그고 싶은 뜨물처돌이입니다
방수 맥북 나오면 좋겠다 목욕하면서 코딩하고 싶음
There's never been a better time to
abandon Discord and start using Matrix with Element for your communities 💚
#Discord #AgeVerification #Censorship #MassSurveillance #Privacy #E2EE #Matrix
Have declared Signal amnesty and marked everything as read. If it was important, message me again I guess?
(Brought to you by me missing messages as I have Too Many Notifications)
Testing Ads in ChatGPT
Link: https://openai.com/index/testing-ads-in-chatgpt/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46949401
I guess I should add that it's GOOD these guys are trying to retcon with the NYT's help, even if you shouldn't believe that it's driven by any real honest introspection. It means the delicate alliances that propped up this deadly kakistocracy are fracturing and they know shame is returning.
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.”
Cat update:
3rd cat date went well! We spoke with the cats some more, one of the kitties even let me pet her a little bit, and the woman who socializes the colony cats even gave me her old recurve bow for free, since we were talking olympics and I mentioned that I do back yard archery for fun. Odd thing to give a near total stranger but, to be fair, we have been coming to this humane society weekly for 3 weeks now and talking to the socializer woman every time.
We have a video call tomorrow so we can show the head of adoption that we have installed a storm door to keep the cats from bolting and added childproof straps to the cabinets to keep them from getting lost in the cabinetry, but she said that with the photos we have shown her that it's mostly a formality at this point.
Cats are going to the vet next week on Monday or Tuesday for a final checkup and to get some more vaccines. We are being told that, unless something catastrophic happens on the call tomorrow, we will be able to pick the cats up straight from the vet.
IT'S HAPPENING!!! WE ARE GETTING KITTIES!
What I'm listening to today: "BASTL WAVE🐦⬛BARD｜#14 - DRONE", boop _e_
A couple days ago I posted this artist using the Citadel, a eurorack module reprogrammable as any of Bastl's "Kastle 2" devices. Here's the equivalent desktop/handheld device, this time programmed as a "Wavebard", with the eurorack cables replaced with little wires.
Track is a soulful, disorienting dream about being lost in fog while giant glowing blobs of color pass by you, paintsplotches in the mist
What I'm listening to today: "(Untitled1)", TAKAAT
Picked this up on Bandcamp Friday. "Is Noise". This band are somehow connected to Tinariwen, the group from 1979 called the grandfathers of Tuareg (Saharan) rock music. Here's an epic lo-fi rock album intro, "unedited jam… recorded live to tape in Washington D.C", made in the modern era but coming off plausibly like it could have opened the rawest rock album of 1982. Shredding
えっ、ちょっと待って。高市早苗ってこのまま総理やめるまで日中関係悪化させたままでい続けるつもりなの!? [757453285]
https://greta.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/poverty/1770621289/
infosec, salt typhoon, telecoms
Man, who would have guessed that "we need all of our telecoms to be easy to wiretap so we can spy on our own people" would eventually turn into "oh god, somebody found a way to get into our system that we use to wiretap telecoms and spy on people"?
A true mystery. Nobody could have seen this coming.
Patrick Klepek on the reality of parenting in the age of Roblox and YouTube.
https://www.404media.co/the-screen-time-panic-sets-parents-up-to-fail/
Never Stop Fighting Nazis
Fascism is not an opinion, but a practice of oppression. It is not fought with neutrality, nor with hollow institutions that shelter it behind democratic display cases. Whether as “underground” Nazi groups or as parliamentary authoritarianism in a suit, fascism feeds on passivity and fear.
Stand in Solidarity
infosec, salt typhoon, telecoms
Man, who would have guessed that "we need all of our telecoms to be easy to wiretap so we can spy on our own people" would eventually turn into "oh god, somebody found a way to get into our system that we use to wiretap telecoms and spy on people"?
A true mystery. Nobody could have seen this coming.
山梨県甲州市
#クルマ旅
#風景写真
#photography
撮影日 2026/01/24
Deploying Django just got easier!
django-simple-deploy prepares your Django project for deployment across multiple platforms, with automatic setup for some. It supports https://Fly.io, Upsun, and Heroku, and uses a plugin system to extend support to more platforms.
DNS
If you are confused why your Codeberg Pages domain setup has stopped working a few days ago:
The IP addresses have changed, and they seemingly forgot to tell anyone.
(See https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/Documentation/pulls/556.)
GitHub has had 15 incidents so far in February. It is February 9th.
Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers' payment records https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/09/hacktivist-scrapes-over-500000-stalkerware-customers-payment-records/
Exclusive: Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers' payment records
More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.
techcrunch.com · TechCrunch
Link author: 
Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
tech ceos: return to office for synergy and kismet reasons
also tech ceos: why are you talking to your coworkers. just ask the ai
後付けだけど、選挙の争点がなかったのは高市のせいだと思ってたけど、ぜんぜんそうじゃなくて野党の争点設定が完全におかしかっただけだな。高市が脱アベノミクスの流れのなかでもういちど積極財政を持ち出して円安になっているのだから、脱アベノミクスをストレートに主張すればよかった。それがジャパンファンドとか消費税減税だと、むしろアベノミクス的発想のなかでやっているから、円安にたいして効力があるか疑問だし争点にならない。もっと緊縮的なメッセージだしても何の問題もなかったとおもうけど、「悪夢の民主党政権」というイメージに自縄自縛だったんじゃないか。消費税増税を決行した野田が消費税減税を訴えて選挙戦をするのは、なにか自己否認的な欲望が動いていたんじゃないかという気がする。
Someone at #FOSDEM asked us to put some promotional materials on our website that they could print for an event. There is now a section for that on the Branding page with our first poster:
Still hooked on BLUE. Hacked all day yesterday and today converting Dezyne's (https://dezyne.org) build system. Opened six issues, and two pull requests, one already merged.
It's not perfect *just* yet, in fact, some issues are show-stoppers for BLUE to replace Autotools for Dezyne, which has a pretty "interesting" build system.
I would very much recommend to anyone who has a soft-spot for build-systems and/or Guile to take a look.
However, the experience of hacking a build system in Guile is amazing! And I'm certain the show-stoppers will be resolved some time soon.
https://codeberg.org/lapislazuli/blue
cc: 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber 
@regtur 
@civodulLudovic Courtès
@nlnet
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general mental exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/9/ai-intensifies-work/
@simonSimon Willison Thanks for sharing - will TAL. Read the first couple of paragraphs and this passage: “we found that employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day,” reminded me of
"I have no reason to believe that gains in understandability (or on factors affecting productivity) would change that. We're just gonna get more software, moving faster, doing more things, always bordering on running out of breath.”
from https://ferd.ca/the-law-of-stretched-cognitive-systems.html
We don't deserve computers.
THE CHAT PROTOCOL OF THE FUTURE
Gabriele Svelto
Jan Lehnardt 
Chris Siebenmann
Jenniferplusplus
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Andy Piper
✧✦Catherine✦✧