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I see tons of posts about #selfhosting here, and it makes sense. It’s a great option for people who can.

But this excludes the vast majority of regular people who do not have the technical skills to run a data center.

We owe it to everyone to make open cloud services that:

- do not put profit first
- do not “own” or “monetize” their users’ data
- resist enshitification by letting users take their data somewhere else
- are as easy and straightforward as the “closed” status quo

Odin slammed his paw into my keyboard and opened the web development console. truly he is my son and heir

@tonTon Zijlstra @leavexLeave X - Protect Democracy @beheerderBeheerder Mastodon Overheid

Probably @communitymanagerSocial.overheid.nl Support is in the best position to answer the question. The team behind it is responsible for functional management and also works on policy relating to the instance.

Btw the NL gov instance is also reachable via https://social.gov.nl :-)

@leavexLeave X - Protect Democracy Netherlands, https://social.overheid.nl/directory part of the overheid.nl (gov.nl) domain. Since last November it is out of pilot status, and an official shared national service offered to all Dutch public sector entities. https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/overzicht-van-alle-onderwerpen/mastodon-overheid/ The final part of your sentence, 'away from X' is not true or decided though. Likely @beheerderBeheerder Mastodon Overheid will be able to say more.

How do we Grow the Open Social Web? Good question! But lots of people have good ideas, and many of them are coming to our online un-workshop on this, March 2.

Some of them are already listed on our event page, with the ideas they submitted.

Sounds interesting? Join us! https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers

Which EU country will be the first to officially move its public institutions to a national Mastodon instance, bringing political debate to the Fediverse and away from disinformation platforms like X?

We know some national-level instances already exist (e.g. in Germany). The question is: who will make it a political decision, not just a technical one?

If you think of another country, add it in the comments 👇

#LeaveX #EU #Democracy #Mastodon #Fediverse

誰か某ヘ社買ってくれんか… #ダークモード

Computers can be understood https://blog.nelhage.com/post/computers-can-be-understood/

←ちっさ

Via https://mandatoryrollercoaster.com/

I hope all the “both parties are the same” people enjoyed breathing.
EPA will revoke ‘endangerment finding’ that underpins all climate regulation this week:
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/epa-revoke-endangerment-finding-climate-regulations.html

Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)

Link: https://github.com/rowboatlabs/rowboat
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962641

London's Most Controversial Cyclist

Link: https://www.the-londoner.co.uk/jeremy-vine-loves-him-motorists-hate-him-is-this-londons-most-controversial-cyclist/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963671

新聖具「聖なるファルファッレの首飾り」頒布開始のお知らせ - 空飛ぶスパゲッティモンスター教 日本中央教区
https://flying-spaghetti.monster/news/posts/new-necklace.html
.monsterドメインの使途こんなんずるいでしょ

Building a Self-Playing Chess Board Robot

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/10/building-a-self-playing-chess-board-robot/

Violet watches while I trim Rose's hooves this afternoon. Violet was next of course!
今日の午後、ローズの蹄を整えている間、バイオレットが見守っています。もちろん、次はバイオレットです！
#hooves #ヤギ #goats #GoatsOfMastodon

それではおやすみなさいです…！​​
明日はいい日になりますように…！​​​​
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New on Techtonic: I speak w/Peter Dear about the history of science - then explain that *how we interpret AI* is in the balance right now.

Full episode:
https://techtonic.fm/episodes/2026-02-09-peter-dear-the-world-as-we-know-it-and-how-we-interpret-ai/

More Techtonic:
https://techtonic.fm

Got off a video call with the humane society. We got final approval to adopt the cats!

They are very very picky about who can adopt their adult-caught formerly feral cats, since they're more challenging than a well-behaved kitten, but they apparently had a meeting about me and my husband and concluded that we know enough of what we're doing to give them a good home. 🥺

Hearing that made me feel like I could finally breath after holding my breath. We pick up the kitties next Monday after filling out some paperwork and taking two of them to their final humane society vet appointment. Then we bring them home, put them in our newly furnished cat room, and begin the work of making them comfortable.

In the #Fediverse there are now
717 media accounts federated by @Flipboard.
602 were active today.

Some accounts, that were active today are
@DailyHive
@Motor1BrasilMOTOR1.COM BRASIL
@TheStreet
@watson_de
@ConversationCAThe Conversation Canada

Find the whole list on:
➡️ https://fingolas.eu/fediverse/overview.html

Built by @mhoMartin Holland

#MastodonMigration #SocialMedia #Mastodon #Media #Press #Newspaper #TwitterMigration #Newstodon

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LLMs do not think. They are an interactive, static snapshot of the statistical distribution of words (or tokens) in a large body of text.

If you catch yourself again and again being amazed by the latest magic trick from silicon valley and wondering if there might not yet be some kind of ghost in that machine, inoculate yourself with the following wisdom:

https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/ai-bird-brains-silicon-valley/

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@greynoise/116047942661766828

FWIW, if you were using the #GAYINT block list for your Ivanti RMM system, that IP on the bulletproof AS200593 would have been blocked.

Wow, gross. I don't think I've ever seen Apple do a macOS upgrade hard-sell quite this aggressive before. This is un-dismissable except via "remind me later”.

Got off a video call with the humane society. We got final approval to adopt the cats!

They are very very picky about who can adopt their adult-caught formerly feral cats, since they're more challenging than a well-behaved kitten, but they apparently had a meeting about me and my husband and concluded that we know enough of what we're doing to give them a good home. 🥺

Hearing that made me feel like I could finally breath after holding my breath. We pick up the kitties next Monday after filling out some paperwork and taking two of them to their final humane society vet appointment. Then we bring them home, put them in our newly furnished cat room, and begin the work of making them comfortable.

Die Konservativen nutzen in den vergangenen Wochen alle Kraft und Energie, um die Rechte von ArbeitnehmerInnen sturmreif zu schießen. Sämtliche sozialen und gesellschaftlichen Errungenschaften werden in Frage gestellt, um den Machterhalt der Reichen zu sichern.

Genau das ist #Klassenkampf.

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@greynoise/116047942661766828

FWIW, if you were using the #GAYINT block list for your Ivanti RMM system, that IP on the bulletproof AS200593 would have been blocked.

RE: https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/116039850155010936

There are enough faves here that I think I’m gonna do it.

I have to buy two IPv4 addresses though. It turns out you can’t just buy an IPv4 address, you have to buy a /24 and it costs $5–10k.

So… anyone know how I can get my hands on a couple of addresses?

If y'all move off the current Massive American Corporation chat thing to A Different Massive American Corporation chat thing I swear to fucking god

age verification (with AI* ✨)

👉 How old are you?

* No AI present, we just wrote it down to keep the shareholders happy!

Several US news publications have just been added to the Fediverse via Flipboard:

@curaffairsCurrent Affairs Magazine - US news, politics & culture from progressive perspective

@TPMTalking Points Memo - Progressive US political news site

@AfroLA - Los Angeles independent news service, Black perspective

@RacketMNRacket - Independent news for Twin Cities area in Minnesota

@HellGate - Worker-owned news service for New York

@SAExpressNewsSan Antonio Express-News - Local newspaper for San Antonio, Texas

@YaleClimateYale Climate Connections - Climate crisis news including how to fight it

Violet watches while I trim Rose's hooves this afternoon. Violet was next of course!
今日の午後、ローズの蹄を整えている間、バイオレットが見守っています。もちろん、次はバイオレットです！
#hooves #ヤギ #goats #GoatsOfMastodon

Congressman Jamie Raskin just said that he was able to view the full and unredacted Epstein Files, and searching Donald Trump's name resulted in "MORE THAN A MILLION" results.

We knew of 38,000 mentions. That means we know of only ~3% of Trump's involvement with a convicted child sexual abuser and sex trafficker.

Anyone still not ready to impeach and remove him is complicit. Period.

So liebe Leute, jetzt bin ich Opfer der Kürzungen in der Sozialwirtschaft geworden. Mein Sozialverband schließt Mitte des Jahres meine Abteilung und ich darf mich nach einer neuen Stelle umsehen.
Für mich ein herber Schlag, da ich mich in einem Unternehmen noch nie so wohl gefühlt habe.

Ich bin Bildungsreferentin und habe mich in den letzten Jahren mit der Konzeption und Durchführung von Weiterbildungen beschäftigt. Außerdem habe ich E-Learnings entwickelt und erstellt.

Falls also wer was hört oder ein nettes Unternehmen in Berlin einfach eine unglaublich motivierte, digital affine, sympathische, Mitarbeiterin sucht, dann schreibt mir eine PN. #fedijobs #jobsuche #berlin #bildung #sozialverband #akademie #weiterbildung #bildungsreferentin #fedihire

In der Lokalzeit Dortmund ein Bericht über die beiden Brüder des in Dortmund von der Polizei getöten Mouhamed Dramé.

Beide wollen gerne hier arbeiten und die Stadt, so heißt es, wollen die befristete Aufenthaltserlaubnis nicht verlängern. Ein Skandal wie ich finde und nun gibt es einen offenen Brief:
https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ruhrgebiet/brueder-mouhamed-drame-wollen-bleiben-dortmund-100.html

Unterstützt die Forderung:
https://www.openpetition.de/petition/online/fur-eine-zukunft-fur-sidy-und-lassana-drame-in-dortmund

Update: Link zum TV-Beitrag:
https://www.ardmediathek.de/video/lokalzeit-aus-dortmund/wdr-lokalzeit-aus-dortmund-oder-10-02-2026/wdr-dortmund/Y3JpZDovL3dkci5kZS9CZWl0cmFnLXNvcGhvcmEtNmE0NzRlMGMtMzg4MS00NzIyLWExMGMtZjVlZWJmZDJlNzAy

Danke an @filmtdenpottChristof Voigt fürs Berichten.

"ALL vibe-coding (or -engineering) is shitty quality" is a very sensible take if you also subscribe to the "ALL pieces of human-written code are of great quality and have never been bad or harmful or just plain stupid" school of thought.

When all these people act like this Epstein Files problem is too big, and there's no way we could possibly round up, and prosecute all the people in them, remember, in the last year around 400,000 people have been arrested by ICE.

This isn't a Witch Hunt, it's a Rapist Hunt.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@astrid/116043809090680535

This is a perfect Only Connect clue for the sequence round.

DNS Record
Battery
Battery

What is the fourth item in the sequence?

DNS Record. That is correct, but why?

Get a bunch of games and fund a good cause, why not

No ICE in Minnesota by jesthehuman and 651 others - itch.io
https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota

While moving the overton window, they haven't been watching the underton window enough.

#Hope

i figured out how to get my latest newsletter post (as of build time) to show up on my website! (thanks to the @buttondown API.) so the body content of the most recent email will always be here:

https://palomakop.tv/newsletter/latest/

i don't really have it featured the most prominently, or share the full archive on my site, because it's more of a personal thing than a public blog or whatever. but maybe i should include them in my rss feed or something? because i myself prefer RSS to email newsletters, maybe i should cater better to people who are like me...

On March 1st, we will be launching an internet #radio station as a project of @TCRCATC Radical Community Archive. You'll be able to tune in to revolution bangers, local musicians, interviews, and event roundups. Interested in a DJ slot or helping coordinate? Want to do an interview or play a live set? Send us an email at TCRCA@proton.me with tagline "RFTC"! #TwinCities #Minneapolis #StPaul

83% of observed Ivanti EPMM exploitation (CVE-2026-1281) traces to one bulletproof IP that isn't on any published IOC list. The IPs that are? VPN exits with zero Ivanti activity. We broke down who's actually doing this ⬇️ https://www.greynoise.io/blog/active-ivanti-exploitation

#Ivanti #ThreatIntel #CVE20261281 #InfoSec

Obsolethal: obsolete, but still lethal

#word

fun fact: "poignant" is pronounced "poignant".

This is Molly

We got her from a rescue. Unfortunately, while she was there, she caught calicivirus, which led to stomatitis. Her body thought her teeth were invaders. She couldn't eat because of the pain

The vet said they needed to remove all her teeth - but don't worry, cats don't need teeth

Okay

In the end, they removed all but the canines - and she has been fine. She eats happily now. And she eats a lot

So I guess cats don't really need teeth

#cats #CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #pets