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security advice, 1996: writing your passwords down in a notebook is a very bad idea and nobody should do it
security advice, 2026: writing your passwords down in a notebook is one of the most secure storage methods for most users
(fun how threat models change over time, eh?)
A software license doesn’t make software good.
Open source code written by a bunch of sexist, racist, ableist assholes is no viable alternative.
Free, libre, open source code is good when:
- there are design docs
- there are risk assessments
- there is user research
- accessibility is a requirement from the beginning
- it is private by design
- documentation is a part of every release
All of this is enabled by teams with a code of conduct, and no tolerance for assholes.
Diversity, equity, and inclusion is the key to all of the goals FLOSS projects claim to share.
If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at 
@spritelyThe Spritely Institute ... we even had been talking about that being our big focus for 2026.
We have the skills and the underlying tech to pull this off. What we need right now is resources. Funding for open source nonprofits like ours really fell apart in 2025. If you think you know how to help, feel free to reach out.
Gallup has suddenly decided to stop doing presidential approval rating polls as Trump creeps to new lows. 🤔
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5733236-gallup-stops-presidential-approval-ratings-polls/
https://OpenStreetMap.org has been disrupted today. We're working to keep the site online while facing extreme load from anonymous scrapers spread across 100,000+ IP addresses. Please be patient while we mitigate and protect the service. #OpenStreetMap #DDoS #Scrapers #AI
Motorola’s Password Pill Was Just One Idea
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/11/motorolas-password-pill-was-just-one-idea/
Today marks the 8th anniversary of the founding of the Open Privacy Research Society (
@openprivacyOpen Privacy Research Society) which happened a few weeks after 
@dan_ballard and I sat down in a coffee ship in Vancouver and committed to trying to bootstrap a different kind of organization.
Since then no two years have been the same; from disclosing flaws in infrastructure in Vancouver and e-voting in Switzerland; to launching and maintaining 
@cwtch, to working and partnering with local orgs to build much needed systems.
I got my first roll of #Super8 film developed. But, since I filmed near where I live, I cannot share the footage online. Still, it's so cool! Focusing on the Yashica Super-600 is not easy though, especially with a moving subject.
Today marks the 8th anniversary of the founding of the Open Privacy Research Society (@openprivacyOpen Privacy Research Society) which happened a few weeks after @dan_ballard and I sat down in a coffee ship in Vancouver and committed to trying to bootstrap a different kind of organization.
Since then no two years have been the same; from disclosing flaws in infrastructure in Vancouver and e-voting in Switzerland; to launching and maintaining @cwtch, to working and partnering with local orgs to build much needed systems.
Level up your next campaign and share the word about digital rights with your friends! EFF's dice set will look great doing both. https://shop.eff.org/products/liquid-core-eff-dice
On Discord Alternatives
Next month, Discord is going to start requiring age verification. The backlash from gamers everywhere has been predictable and justified. I guess their company name checks out. I've had a few people reach out to me because of my prior vulnerability disclosures and criticism of encrypted messaging apps. (Thanks, Toggart.) Unfortunately, asking a cryptography-focused security engineer for app recommendations is like asking a rocket scientist to…
Want to go the directory you were just in?
Type "cd -"
Level up your next campaign and share the word about digital rights with your friends! EFF's dice set will look great doing both. https://shop.eff.org/products/liquid-core-eff-dice
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RE: https://gardenstate.social/@jenn/116049372624338211
today’s my birthday!
if you’d like to celebrate me, i would appreciate you looking at my work and perhaps sharing it with someone you know who may be charmed by my work
Last weekend, I jailbroke my Kindle following the instructions from https://kindlemodding.org/.
It was easier than I expected, and now I can sync all kinds of ebook formats to it and install additional software (e.g., an alternative reader, a Libby client or even Linux).
It made me feel like a proper hacker and inspired me to draw this comic using all the pop culture clichés there are for depicting a *real* hacker. 😄
腹減った…寝るか
Apparently you're not meant to answer "you're pretty" with "I know, right?!"
Did you expect me to lie?
homeopathic demon core
Demon core is the universal healing
cursed emojipasta about the new thing accenture found
Oops! 😋 You 🫵 have been 💉inFUCKTED💉 with 🐕RUSTY ROCKET MALWARE🐕
😱😱😱
pREPare 💊 for your DADDA 🫃🙎♂️ to be 👄SEXfiltrated🫦 to 🧚♀GIRL LEAKS🧚♀️ 😩💦
Be a nice little 💸🐖piggy🐖💸 and send $12,000 in 💸monero💸 and 🛑TRON🛑 if you ever want to see your 🍼dada🍼 again 🙆♀️
@sbrlStarbeamrainbowlabs's 2 laws of artificial intelligence:
1. AI will always hallucinatinate
2. AI will always be biased
AI is like a dictionary. It stores the important things in the training dataset in its memory. Then it matches against them when queried. Anything outside of what it learnt matches results in an inaccurate answer.
Data is generated by humans, who are inherently biased. We can't account for biases we don't know about.
What matters is not really AGI and media hype, but how we understand how models work, apply them appropriately, and continually work to understand and deal with bias as best we can - just like with irl.
おっさんぽから戻ったらスタンドアローンLiDARルンバさんがソファの下に捕獲されていました。ごめんよう。ちょうど挟まっちゃう高さの隙間なんだよなあ…
Spent a good amount of time at my desk this morning. When I got up to get lunch the mouse took off ahead of me.
Where was the mighty hunter you ask?
He won't go out of his way to chase down our resident mouse (see previous post) but will, however, hunt Kraft Dinner with great determination.
He may have been successful in his lunchtime mugging. Punk.
寫報告卡住了...再卡半小時，繼續不了今天就先休息了。
有時我會忍不住頻繁發帖，嘗試著找個不影響大家閱讀觀感的時間發。
這個點大家都睡了吧，睡了吧...？ 
請從配圖接收，我目前那感人的精神狀態... 
想到了折衷辦法，忍不住的時候，我就不停編輯原帖。既滿足了表達慾，又不刷屏。比如現在... 
RE: https://gardenstate.social/@jenn/116049372624338211
today’s my birthday!
if you’d like to celebrate me, i would appreciate you looking at my work and perhaps sharing it with someone you know who may be charmed by my work
Zkuste to měsíc na vlastní pohon. Celý květen se dopravujte do práce, na nákup, na návštěvu, s dětmi do školy na kole, na koloběžce, pěšky nebo poklusem. Svými trasami můžete přispět k rozvoji bezpečné infrastruktury a přitom využít řadu doprovodných akcí, slev a vyhrát super ceny. https://dopracenakole.cz/kvetnova-vyzva
Desert soup? I added pumpkin spice mix instead of cinnamon and nutmeg by accident.
My brain be confused.
Some quality Italian music for a relaxing Wednesday evening
https://song.link/s/2Z7cRvS9SjIM3fGNsT3Emt
#Music #MastoMusic #FediMusic #FediRadio #MastoRadio #JukeBox
GLM-5: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
Link: https://z.ai/blog/glm-5
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977210
Toyota Fluorite: "console-grade" Flutter game engine
Link: https://fluorite.game/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976911
@lcamtuflcamtuf 
I'd look for the incentives for having a substack profile with many comments. Can such accounts be resold? Does it get more visibility for their own posts?
Boost with CW: UK, transphobia, direct action
으 속쓰려 속쓰려서 자다가 깼다
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@edfloreshz/116053242210223419
Swift in Xnu when?
forbidden / disturbing imagery
qbert schnozz in birdo mouth
cursed emojipasta about the new thing accenture found
Oops! 😋 You 🫵 have been 💉inFUCKTED💉 with 🐕RUSTY ROCKET MALWARE🐕
😱😱😱
pREPare 💊 for your DADDA 🫃🙎♂️ to be 👄SEXfiltrated🫦 to 🧚♀GIRL LEAKS🧚♀️ 😩💦
Be a nice little 💸🐖piggy🐖💸 and send $12,000 in 💸monero💸 and 🛑TRON🛑 if you ever want to see your 🍼dada🍼 again 🙆♀️
Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists
Link: https://www.reuters.com/world/ireland-rolls-out-pioneering-basic-income-scheme-artists-2026-02-10/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46977175
Hello Fedi! We are the still-in-progress Twin Cities Radical Community Archive. This project aims to collect, preserve, and increase access to left-wing, working-class activism in the Twin Cities metro, both historically and currently.
#GLAM #IMLS #Galleries #Libraries #Archives #Museums #Minnesota #MSP #Minneapolis #StPaul #TwinCities #Antifa #Labor #Activism #History #Introduction
RE: https://autonomous.zone/@radiofree_tc/116047944771727742
New community radio project out of Minneapolis just announced from a new account on https://autonomous.zone! Give them a follow!
GLM-OCR: Accurate × Fast × Comprehensive
Link: https://github.com/zai-org/GLM-OCR
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46924075
U.S. had almost no job growth in 2025
Link: https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/january-jobs-revisions-trump-rcna258398
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46976751
just discovered https://textile-lang.com/ while looking into how to markup links in plaintext
this seems... okay? for really basic stuff?
"inner text":href
https://textile-lang.com/doc/links has more examples, including using this
"$":href
to make the inner text equal to the href
NetNewsWire Turns 23: https://netnewswire.blog/2026/02/11/netnewswire-turns.html
Em 
infinite love ⴳ
시오
Stefan Bohacek
Jan Lehnardt 
青少納言🎨🐏 
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
Chao-c'
mcc
wakest ⁂
