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Tim Bray (
@timbray) is coming to the Growing the Open Social Web un-workshop March 2 and says:
My position paper will be based on this blog piece: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/11/03/Time-to-Migrate
As you can see, sploaf mode allows for streamlined cat propulsion
@catsaladCat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) 
โ Star Loaf
Heya! ๐ฅณ Super thrilled to announce XenoAtom.Terminal.UI is out in public preview: https://xenoatom.github.io/terminal/ ๐
It's a modern, reactive retained-mode terminal UI framework for .NET - composable visuals, binding-first state updates, proper measure/arrange layout, and a fast cell-buffer renderer with alpha-blended theming (truecolor ๐จ terminals look gorgeous!).
Demos + docs are live - feedback welcome! ๐
Just promoted XenoAtom.Terminal.UI to 1.0! ๐
I have added 2 new features from the preview: placeholder and brush gradients usable with text controls! ๐จ
I'm going to see if I can add an extension to XenoAtom.CommandLine library to generate beautiful command line help and I will be hopefully done with this entire sidetrack of projects! โบ๏ธ
Sleepy Pabu loves belly rubs
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He's baking in his solar oven.
RAmen.
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https://flying-spaghetti.monster/news/posts/new-necklace.html
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Sleepy Pabu loves belly rubs
Just acquired a new tester and it has shown me that so many of my USB cables are lies.
@thTrammell Hudson definitely recommend getting one of those. USB-C is a complete mess and having this tester allowed me to sort trough and recycle cables that are power-only etc. Saved me so much time and headaches... but I'd like to have one that would measure resistance as well (you'd be able to spot if cable begins to break etc)
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I just realized I have no idea what any of these functions do and I have left no comments
Time to reap what I sowed!
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ๅฎๅฎถใซ6Ghzๅฏพๅฟๆฉๅจใ้
ๅใใใใฎใฏๅฝๅๅ
ใ ใใใใWi-Fiไฝฟใใฎใฏในใใใฟใใฌใใใใใฌใใใใใชใฎใงใใจใใๅคๆญใ ใใใใฃใใใช
Wi-Fi 8 ใ2027ๅนดๆซใ2028ๅนดใใใพใ ๆฆใใ (?)
ๅฎ้ Wi-Fi 6 ใงใฉใใพใง่ใใใใฏใผใกใผใก่ใๅงใใๆๆใใใใใใไปใฎใจใใใใใงๅฐใๆฐใฏใใชใใใ ใใฉ
@catsaladCat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) โ Same vibe.
@catsaladCat ๐๐ฅ (D.Burch) โ Same vibe.
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#photography
ๆฎๅฝฑๆฅใ2026/01/24
He's baking in his solar oven.
The FAQ for VFSforGit recommends "uninstalling the entired ProjFS feature" to make sure the filesystem is truly unmounted.
That's... incredibly on-brand for WIndows.
do you disable secure boot?
RE: https://mastodon.social/@lobsters/115882407207303960
Good reads:
โ the 2024 blog post
โ the 2026 discussion in Lobsters.
Incidentally, I did stop using Discord. No regrets.
Wi-Fi 8 ใ2027ๅนดๆซใ2028ๅนดใใใพใ ๆฆใใ (?)
"Employees are going absolutely apeshit in internal Slack about how completely awful it was."
Very early stages, but at least we have the domain and marketing site up.
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oh word, discord is over? oh no, where will people looking for subject matter expert advice be forced to assign themselves a role and work their way up to the main chat ucb style until a basement neckbeard who has the pdf you want gatekeeps it until you bark for him or what the fuck ever
์ผ ๋ ํ๊ณ ์์ผ์ง -.-
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#GlasgowInterfaceExplorer now has spi-controller applet properly documented! i've also implemented modes 0 thru 2 in the "modernized" version of the applet, as it turns out SPI is basically unusable without these across many devices https://glasgow-embedded.org/latest/applets/interface/spi_controller.html
Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30โ50% of time, pressured by KPIs
Link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.20798
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46954920
I hope you find someone who loves you as much as my rabbit loves his bath mat
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Odin slammed his paw into my keyboard and opened the web development console. truly he is my son and heir
Time for a #discord alternatives thread, for no particular reason.
I've actually been looking into all available options for the past few weeks for other reasons, so here's a thread to share what I've found.
In particular I'm looking for stuff with:
* Data sovereignty
* Strong moderation tools
* Wide platform support
Hopefully this gives everyone else some ideas too, and feel free to chime in with corrections, suggestions or anything else!
RE: https://mastodon.social/@HolosSocial/116047527834554756
We built Holos Discover, a 100% ActivityPub search engine, to solve a problem: Holos servers start with empty search indexes.
Being fully ActivityPub-native means every deletion, edit or block is processed instantly. Only public posts from consenting users are indexed. We respect every signal available.
This raised concerns, and that's fair. It may have highlighted misunderstood default settings. We're ready to shut it down if the community feels it's not welcome.
Andy Piper shared the below article:
Evan Prodromou @evanprodromou@socialwebfoundation.org
A brief note: the Social Web Foundation, Qlub and FediHost are presenting a day-long Fediverse conference in Montreal, Canada on February 24, 2026. FediMTL features speakers from across the Fediverse, including Cory Doctorow, Christine Lemmer-Webber, Julian Lam, and yours truly, Evan Prodromou. The theme of digital autonomy for Canada has never been more important. Tickets are on sale now for both in person and streaming attendance. I look forward to seeing you there!
Read more โ๐ฅณ Go 1.26.0 is released!
๐ Release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.26
โฌ๏ธ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.26.0
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/116047636625672758
I can quite firmly say that this isn't the case anymore. AT Protocol's OAuth had a bit of a rocky start because of permissions, but permission sets are now pretty much generally available.
Basically this was a UX issue where users believed an app password was more secure than OAuth.
But now more and more AT Protocol applications are using OAuth since they can request granular access that way. i.e., "I want to just write into this specific collection or call these specific XRPC endpoints" is now a thing.
https://atproto.com/specs/permission
AT Protocol doesn't use OIDC, because OIDC doesn't make a whole lot of sense in decentralized applications โ there are parts that do, but also parts that don't. For example, what do you return for the profile response when there is no global "profile"?
OIDC also mandates JWTs in places where it may not make sense to use them (e.g., ID Tokens are JWTs as are refresh tokens in OIDC)
AT Protocol is however implementing OAuth 2.1, which incorporates many security considerations.
I think we can probably borrow both the prompt, login_hint and id_tokens from OIDC, but I don't think full OIDC would actually make sense here.
It's just like how Mastodon now borrows some ideas from OIDC whilst not fully doing OIDC. (see the profile scope and userinfo endpoint)
OIDC works well in more centralized systems, OAuth 2.1 with DPoP works better for decentralized systems.
As you can see, sploaf mode allows for streamlined cat propulsion
Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built
Link: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/showboat-and-rodney/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46963887
Evan Prodromou
ๆดช ๆฐๆ (Hong Minhee) 
Sven Peter
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Stefano Marinelli
marius
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