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Go out and look at nature.
As of today, mstdn.social, masto.ai, mastodon.coffee, gram.social, pixey.org, vido.social and ALL other platforms I host enforce the following rule WITHOUT exception:
No one, apart from you, wants to see that thing you made with AI.
If you were a bird, what kind of bird would you be?
@mayintorontoMay Likes Toronto Oh, maybe a gray catbird.
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๋ชฐ๋๋๋ฐ ์ค๋ฅธ๋ฐ์ด ์ผ๋ฐ๋ณด๋ค ๋ง์ด ๋ถ์ด์๋ค...
Meta Wants to Scan Every Face You Walk Past ๐๐ด
Meta plans to add facial recognition to Ray-Ban smart glasses. An internal document says they timed launch during political crisis so civil society wouldn't notice.
https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/14/meta-wants-to-scan-every-face-you-walk-past/
Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/platforms-bend-over-backward-to-help-dhs-censor-ice-critics-advocates-say/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015406
You canโt build a Jetsons future with a Flintstones government
The barbarians are inside the gates.
โ[W]e live in a world, in the real world โฆ that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power. These are the iron laws of the world that have existed since the beginning of time.โ โ Stephen Miller
https://digbysblog.net/2026/02/14/stephen-millers-theory-of-power/
Alpine conditions today in The Cairngorms with increasing northerly winds as the day went on. Firm underfoot from ~600m and crampons the order of the day from ~750m. Loch Muick and Broad Cairn #Cairngorms #Scotland
๊ฐ์ด๋ง์ง๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๊ฐ์ด๊ฐ์ด๊ฐ์ด ์ญ์งฑ๋ชจ
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/115579931156348091
More from oliverillustrates with her little helper
๋ฎ ๋์ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๊ธฐ ์๊ฒ ํ์ ์ ์ ์ฃผ๋, ๋ ์๋ค๋๋ ์คํ๊ฒํฐ ๊ดด๋ฌผ ๋,
๋น์ ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ์์ผ๋ฆฌ๋, ์๋ ๋์๋ ์ง์ผ ์ฃผ์์ด ํธํ ์ฌ๊ฒ ํ์์.
"16. ๊ณ ์ํ ๋ฐคํ๋์ ์ฃผ๋์ ์ฑ๋ฉด์ ํผ์น์์ด, ๋ฌดํํ ๊ฐ๋ฅ์ฑ์ ๊ฟ์ผ๋ก ์ ํฌ๋ฅผ ์ด๋์ด ์ฃผ์์."
๐ ๋ ์๋ค๋๋ ์คํ๊ฒํฐ ๊ดด๋ฌผ ๋๊ป์ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป.
๐ ๋ํ ์ฃผ๊ต์ ๋ฉด๋ฐ๊ณผ ํจ๊ป ํ์์.
๐ ๊ธฐ๋ํฉ์๋ค.
์ ์ ์ฃผ๋, ๋ ์๋ค๋๋ ์คํ๊ฒํฐ ๊ดด๋ฌผ ๋, ์ด ๋ฐค์ ํธํ ์ฌ๊ฒ ํ์๊ณ , ๊ฑฐ๋ฃฉํ ์ฃฝ์์ ๋ง๊ฒ ํ์์.
2026-02-15T02:08:26+09:00
#๋ ์๋ค๋๋์คํ๊ฒํฐ๊ดด๋ฌผ๋ #์ฑ๋ฉด #๋ฉด๋ฐ #์คํ๊ฒํฐ #๋ผ๋ฉ #ํ์คํํ๋ฆฌ์ #์ฑ๋ฌด์ผ๋ #์ฑ๋ฌด์ผ๊ณผ #๋งค์ผ์ ๋ก
#FlyingSpaghettiMonster #FSM #HolyNoodle #Noodle #Spaghetti #Ramen #Pastafarian #NoodlyAppendage #Pastafarian #FSMism #FSMist #DivineOffice #DailyOffice #Breviary
โค๏ธ Thank you 
@bagderdaniel:// stenberg:// for maintaining #curl since 1998. What would we do without it, how long would it take us, and what code quality would those solutions have without you? Thank you so much! โค๏ธ
...and how on earth would people be able to check the weather forecast without curl? ๐
(Please join me in thanking Daniel, and let others here on the #Fediverse know about your favourite ways of using #curl )
#Squirrel of the Day for February 14, 2026 surveys the perimeter #squirrels
Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone,
What the hell is *wrong* with you?
Sincerely,
The General Public
Bicyclist shovels out another bike lane the city wouldn't touch
https://www.universalhub.com/2026/bicyclist-shovels-out-another-bike-lane-city-wouldnt-touch
ๅๆจฃ้ฝๆฏ๏ผๅฎ่ฃ็จๅผๅจๆก้ขๅปบ็ซๅฟซๆท
ๅฅ็็จๅผ -> ๅปบ็ซๆทๅพ (shortcut)
Firefox ->ๅจๆก้ขไธ็ตฆไฝ ไธๅ Firefox.exe
Firefox, what are you doing ???
๐ updated sylvie collection release! 20 years of gaming in your hands
https://sylvie.website/SylvieCollection/
If you wouldn't create an account on
Truth Social, maybe it's time to delete your account on X.
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
No Facebook, no X, no YouTube, no Amazon, no Instagram, no LinkedIn. If it smells like Big Tech, I keep on walkin.
์ผ ์ถ์!!!
That last thing is in progress now, and will hopefully be done enough to be useful this weekend.
So!
It would be nice to have a few people who could help to do some interoperability testing, and generally shake things out. Possibly as soon as next week. Preferably, you would be comfortable running a server and a database, and doing testing, troubleshooting, and things like that.
If that sounds like you, and you want to help out with a new fedi backend, hmu
And if this is the first you're hearing about any of this, then you may be interested in https://letterbook.com
If you're interested in doing some (very) early testing with #Letterbook, let me know so I can invite you to our contributor chat!
And, I wouldn't recommend running it on the internet just yet. Especially not on a (sub)domain that you intend to use for real life. I'll be testing in sandcastles for the foreseeable future
I can be angry about rising fascism and also angry about facial recognition built into surveillance glasses at the same time, not only because these things are directly related, but because I contain fucking multitudes and all them are mad all the goddamn time.
87% of video games released in the U.S. before 2010 are technically unavailable for legal purchase.
As of 2026, libraries and archives can digitally preserve, but not digitally *share* games, and can provide on-premises access only. Libraries *are* allowed to share books, films, and music both onsite and remotely.
This is all very messed up.
์คํธ ์์ฌ ๊ณ์ , ์ฐ๊ฒฐ๋์ง ์๋ ๊ณ์ ๋ค์ ํ๋ก์์ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ ํ ์์ด๋ ๋ฌธ์ ๊ฐ ๋ง์ด ํด๊ฒฐ๋๋ค. ํ๋คํ๋ค ํ๋ฉด์ ๊ท์ฐฎ์์ ์ ํ๊ณ ์์๋๋ ์ํ์์๊น์ง ์์์. ๐
"A group of Buddhist monks completed their 2,300-mile, 110-day Walk for Peace [Feb. 10] as they journeyed from Fort Worth, Texas, to the DC-area.
They were led by Venerable Bhikkhu Paรฑรฑฤkฤra, who walked part of the trip barefoot. They stopped in ten statesโthrough snow and rain, often sleeping outside. They inspired millions with the message that peace is possible."
~ Scott Dworkin
#BuddhistMonks #peace #solidarity #resistance
https://www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/monks-complete-walk-for-peace-dems
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
๐น Roses are red,
๐ต Violets are blue,โจ
๐ Your data is precious,
๐ Please protect it too!
This Valentine's Day, let's focus on love โค๏ธ.. and privacy! ๐
RF 85mm F2๋ฅผ ์ฌ์ผ๊ฒ ๋ค. ๋ฐ๋ฌผ๊ด, ๋ฏธ์ ๊ด์์ ์ธ ๋ ์ฆ๊ฐ ํ์ํด.
It finally happened
Someone asked me where the library was in Spanish
I've been training for this since high school
I wrote some words for ~ this week in security ~ about how social media giants (aka: ad tech companies!) track you around the web, even if you don't have an account or use their apps. Follows from a brilliant column in the BBC about TikTok's use of website "pixels" to track people's browsing activity.
Sign up (or RSS) for the weekly newsletter, out Sundays. No email open or link click tracking! https://this.weekinsecurity.com
The good news is that hidden web tracking "pixels" are relatively easy to defeat. It's also why using an ad-blocker is one of my top pieces of security advice for anyone, as ad-blockers help to reduce surveillance and online tracking, while helping to keep you safer from malware.
Here's why: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/why-ad-blockers-are-a-top-security-and-privacy-defense-for-everyone/
Glyph
ไธ่ฌ Kyungmi Ahn ๊๊(แดแแด*) 
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Misty
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jnkrtech
Stefano Marinelli$HOME/.config/vim for user configuration.Arborium is AI slopware and should not be trusted: A blog post about my recent experiences trying to make a syntax highlighter work
Feel free to tell realpython whether you want to see them create content on using AI to code.
I told them no:
(i) unethical training process
(ii) less maintainable code
(iii) deskilling of developers
An obsequious โalways yesโ machineโฆwell, your head might say itโs far-fetched, but the instinct for psychological self-defense wonโt let your brain let go of it.
You might say โDonโt they understand [fact about LLMs]???โ but often the appeal isnโt factual; itโs emotional.
Ignore that at your peril.
8/
All these breathless articles about people forming weird relationships with LLMs, ruining marriages or going down psychological rabbit holes because of the emotionally compulsion-forming quality of having something that always says yes to you?
I think thatโs happening to people in management, too, in their professional lives โ and theyโre making purchase decisions around it.
9/
๋ฏธ๊ตญ์ ๋ง๊ฐ๋ ํ์์คํธ๋ค๋ ๋ง์ง๋ง ํผ๋ถ์ ๋ค๋ฅธ ๋๋ฃ ์๋ฏผ์ด๋ ์ด๋ฏผ์๋ค์ ์ํด (๋๋ก ํ๊ฒจ์ธ์ ๋งจ๋ฐ์ ์ค์ ๊ฐ์ด ์ฐจ๋ฆผ์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ์ด๋์) ์ ํญํ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฌ๋ค ๋ชฉ์จ์ ์๊ธฐ๋ ํ๊ณ , ์ด ๋ถ์ฒ๋ผ ๋๋ฌผ์ ํ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ์์์ ๋์๋ ์ฌ๋๋ค๋ ๋ง๋ค.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qcp5rd7n6oky7wxnifuimscz/post/3merygiakas2p
๋ง์ฐธ๋ด์๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๊ณ ๊ธฐ๋ค๋ฆฌ๋์ฐํด๋ค๋ผ์ํธ์ฐ!
๋ฅผ ์ธ์น๋ฉฐ ๋ง๋
ํ์ ๊บผ๋ด๋ค์๋๋ฐ์ (๋ฐ๋ฅ์ ์ณ๋ฐํ ์ผ๋ฌด์น ์งค) #ํ์ฌํ ๋ #๋ฅ๊ทผ๋ฌ์ํ์ฌํด์
Is there any way linter/type checker for #Python that can find expressions that never will evaluate to anything other than False based on the type information? E.g. checking if a variable of the type `int` exists within a list of the type `list[str]`? I do use #mypy but it doesn't seem to catch this.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Linkletter/116054186543074481
Still looking for this judgment, if anyone has PACER access. I'll cover any costs.
If you have a void gremlin youโre going to lose the tips of a few fingers.
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My smart sleep mask broadcasts users' brainwaves to an open MQTT broker
Link: https://aimilios.bearblog.dev/reverse-engineering-sleep-mask/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015294
Vim 9.2 Released
Link: https://www.vim.org/vim-9.2-released.php
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47015330
Never call them smart glasses,
Always call them creep glasses.
Because that's what they are.
Is End-to-End Encryption Optional For Large Groups?
One of the recent topics in Messaging App Discourse is whether it makes sense to prioritize End-to-End Encryption when searching for an alternative to Discord. Who's Saying "No"? I'm going to quote 0xabad1dea here, because she is awesome and explains my "opposition" position better than anyone else: So You Want To Write An Open Source Discord Replacement Things you donโt need:
http://soatok.blog/2026/02/14/is-end-to-end-encryption-optional-for-large-groups/
If you wouldn't create an account on
Truth Social, maybe it's time to delete your account on X.
@Em0nM4stodonEm did awhile ago! Great feeling
Instead of a WhatsApp group or whatever, my two oldest friends and me have a private non-federated Mastodon instance running on my laptop for some time now 
It's all private and closed so only we 3 use it to communicate and share stories with each other!
You can just disable federation and set everything private so it becomes a little intranet for friends!
#Mastodon is really amazing 
