Western Digital has recently announced that it sold all of the year's hard-drive inventory to AI companies.

In other words, prepare for huge SSD price surges.

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/

The fediverse now has a mobile-first personal server called Holos by @HolosSocial (via @appsFedilab Apps). It's a full ActivityPub server that runs on your Android device (iOS coming soon). You own your identity with a custom domain and your followers live on your device.

Project URL: https://holos.social

Key features:
✅ Your server on your phone – Your identity, keys, and followers live on your device, not a giant shared server.
✅ Custom domain identity – Permanently own your handle (@you@yourname.com) and take it anywhere.
✅ True E2EE for DMs – Real end-to-end encryption for private conversations, a major privacy upgrade.
✅ Relay-based connectivity – Connects to the wider fediverse via relays, so a personal server is practical on mobile.

Open source, privacy-focused, and built to give you real ownership in the fediverse. The Android version is available now.

Donations:
https://fedilab.app/page/donations/

Open Collective:
https://opencollective.com/fedilab

#HolosSocial #Fediverse #ActivityPub #E2EE #Privacy #Android #Fedilab #OpenSource

@adafruit but… why? You talk about how this piece was made but don’t actually describe what it does. Why would I want yo buy this hardware? The only advantage you’re giving me is it was designed by AI.

AI sucks, you should feel bad for using such environmentally regressive tech, and you should feel embarrassed that your embrace of this imprecise, unproven technology shows your institution has poor critical thinking.

I talk about yo-yoing, curling, and emojis in this video. It was a fun one to make. #WinterOlympics #yoyo #curling

@orangutanlibrarianSam @adafruit because genAI companies are anti-social parasites who only thrive by stealing everyone's creations without asking for permission or giving even a thought to compensation. From music to art, from books to shitposts. Everything stolen and the result sold for money.
They destroy lives of people from artists to engineers.
They eat energy and capital at an insane rate, and the crash will be a desaster.
Use genAI and accept all of the above as inevitable, or fight it.

起きまーす

배고파

Defer available in gcc and clang https://lobste.rs/s/ozrdyz #compilers
https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2026/02/15/defer-available-in-gcc-and-clang/

@adafruit This is sad. I used to have such respect for adafruit. I have lost it now upon learning this. #NoAi

#SilentSunday

Sunday night vibe from these two #catsofmastodon

(지금 당장은 어렵겠지만 결국은 미국 혹은 어떤 나라가 됬던간에) 정부레벨에서 부의 엄격한 상하한선을 도입하고 0.1% 미만의 정신나간 부자를 탈탈 털어서 정부의 재정을 정상화하는 것이 어찌보면 재정적으로 건전한 정부와 사회를 만들 유일한 해결책이긴한듯... 다만 다시 이렇게 되려면 수십년이 걸리거나 혹은 정신나간 이벤트가 일어나야 가능할듯 ㅠㅠ

How do we clearly communicate to less tech focused people the issues with something like Ring cameras? My mom needs some security cameras so I immediately said “ok we’ll find something but don’t use ring cameras” and she asked if I didn’t think a ring camera could cover the areas she needed. I explained the ICE affiliation and she got it but I wish she had already known. She is still in the twin cities so “no ICE” *is* front of mind.

I would never fall for Scope Creep, in fact, it'll be in my next update.

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #vndev

This Saturday I'm running a YouTube live stream specifically on how to build iOS apps with AI. We'll look at Xcode 26.3, plus Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, agents files and skills, and more. It's going to be packed! Set a reminder here: https://youtube.com/live/sc6pvW6vQzA

Why did it take me >40 years to think to put Cheez-Its in tomato soup?!

aww they’re all waving say hi

How do we clearly communicate to less tech focused people the issues with something like Ring cameras? My mom needs some security cameras so I immediately said “ok we’ll find something but don’t use ring cameras” and she asked if I didn’t think a ring camera could cover the areas she needed. I explained the ICE affiliation and she got it but I wish she had already known. She is still in the twin cities so “no ICE” *is* front of mind.

If you wouldn't create an account on
Truth Social, maybe it's time to delete your account on X.

#X #Twitter #Fascism #DeleteX #HelloQuitX

I had the chance to rise in Senate QP this week, in the wake of the Grok deep fake scandal, to ask the government, yet again, why it is so committed to X, and so unwilling to try Mastodon or Bluesky. Here’s what I heard. What do you think? https://youtu.be/eVlQBnGqZ_U #cdnpoli #Grok #X #Canada #SenateofCanada #NewBrunswick #Fredericton #Mastodon #deepfakes

“Officials spark backlash with controversial #nuclear waste plan: 'This is a message to all of us’

A new Croatian law that legalized a #radioactive waste disposal center on the border of Bosnia and Herzegovina is outraging citizens and officials, reported BalkanInsight”

My waste, your backyard. Checkmate.

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/radioactive-waste-facility-croatia-bosnia/

@Em0nM4stodonEm That's a golden nugget right there.

@NeadNeadReport Indeed. Curated by librarians and activists nonprofit. Cannot get better than this 📚💚

I just found this amazing online resource
that I feel many people in the US might find incredibly helpful right now: https://commonslibrary.org/

#USpol

Hundreds of dollars in military-grade AIs and you can't even translate what your cat is thinking at 3am.

swivel 3d professional, magazine screenshot, macintosh (1993) https://archive.org/details/micomBASIC-1993-01/page/n49/mode/2up

Looks like our deer problem is about to get solved

I Fixed Windows Native Development

Link: https://marler8997.github.io/blog/fixed-windows/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47022891

Gwtar: A static efficient single-file HTML format

Link: https://gwern.net/gwtar
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47024506

I would never fall for Scope Creep, in fact, it'll be in my next update.

#gamedev #gamedevelopment #vndev

Pastel tá muito chateado que não foi pros bloquinhos hoje

#cats #catsofmastodon #gatos #gatosdofedi

Too sleepy, missed #Caturday

Mamdani is getting shit done like there’s only 30 seconds left on the clock and I have to say I appreciate it.

It’s an octopus catsuit kind of day

@Em0nM4stodonEm I've been thinking about this, prompted by things like the Gemini protocol. What would a protocol/standard that takes away the economic incentives that made the internet bad look like? I feel like this is something we could come up with.

“More than 16 million tons of #radioactive mill waste removed from project near the Colorado River"

While this is good and a rare example of corporate responsibility in the #nuclear industry, this doesn't mean the 16M tons of waste are “safe” now, they are just someplace else.

https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/02/15/radioactive-waste-cleanup-moab/

Emails Show Epstein Scheming That Environmental Destruction Could Solve “Overpopulation” | Article by Joe Wilkins for @Futurism:

https://futurism.com/science-energy/epstein-climate-change-population

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highly suspect that when tech companies say they are "deleting" your data, what they are actually doing is just moving it over to a folder marked "deleted" and knowing that they'll never be called on this

The last week has left me grumpy, but it's getting better now. Let's hope Monday won't ruin the progress. ​​

Sure, AI is costing $billions and consuming copious resources, all to produce creepy slop that barely anyone likes. But the alternative would giving that funding to actual human artists. Can you imagine!?! Countless talented people, with free reign to create. What sort of world would that be!?

It’s an octopus catsuit kind of day

This is a phenomenal rec for replacing typical VTTs (Virtual Tabletops) with a Canva Whiteboard. It's a great idea. I plan to try this the next time I need a VTT.

https://jacke.substack.com/p/the-best-vtt-is-a-giant-free-infinite

We're looking into implementing interaction controls in #Holos, following the approach proposed by #GoToSocial. This would let you decide who can reply, like, or boost your posts. It fits well with the Holos philosophy of giving you full control over your online presence. More details here: https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/federation/interaction_controls/

#HolosSocial

Real-time PathTracing with global illumination in WebGL

Link: https://erichlof.github.io/THREE.js-PathTracing-Renderer/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46993014

Mamdani is getting shit done like there’s only 30 seconds left on the clock and I have to say I appreciate it.

Dear #openindiana #sun #sparc community. Fantastic news from Klaus, Hans and many others that have added SPARC support to OI for a lot pf machines. After years I do have an up2date #unix on my Sun Ultra 45. There is also some incredible work being done on #rust for SPARC. Mate useable via remote X session.
More details on https://dlc.openindiana.aurora-opencloud.org/SPARC/