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OSNews @osnews@mstdn.social
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Why do I not use “AI” at OSNews?

In my fundraiser pitch published last Monday, one of the things I highlighted as a reason to contribute to OSNews and ensure its continued operation stated that "we do not use any 'AI'; not during research, not during writing, not for images, nothing." In the comments to that article, someone asked:

Why do I care if you use AI?
↫ A comment posted on OSNews

A few d

osnews.com/story/144405/why-do

Why do I not use “AI” at OSNews? – OSnews

www.osnews.com

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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The Palestinian cause cannot speak only to the left

For decades, the Palestinian cause has found its most receptive audiences on the political left. Progressive movements, human rights organisations and anticolonial traditions have offered language, solidarity and moral clarity. That alignment made sense. It still does. But in today’s political landscape, it cannot on its own shift policy.

Ahmed Najar


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If policy is shaped in spaces dominated by security thinking and conservative power, then advocacy must reach those spaces too.

aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/2/


The Palestinian cause cannot speak only to the left

The Palestinian cause cannot speak only to the left

Moral clarity has not shifted Western policy; persuasion must extend into the arenas where power actually sits.

www.aljazeera.com · Al Jazeera

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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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The Palestinian cause cannot speak only to the left

For decades, the Palestinian cause has found its most receptive audiences on the political left. Progressive movements, human rights organisations and anticolonial traditions have offered language, solidarity and moral clarity. That alignment made sense. It still does. But in today’s political landscape, it cannot on its own shift policy.

Ahmed Najar


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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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People in Gaza feel forgotten after ‘ceasefire’

Only 20 people are able to leave the Gaza Strip every single day through the Rafah crossing.

People don’t really see change on the ground after the “ceasefire”. They are still waiting for humanitarian aid, and they still don’t have any source of income. Their tents are ruined and not suitable for them to continue the summer that is coming, after they have been flooded during the winter months.

Hind Khoudary



A Palestinian child looks on as he stands next to a tent at a makeshift camp for displaced people during a dust storm in az-Zawayda, in the central Gaza Strip, February 14, 2026 [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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ICU patients’ lives at risk in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital amid Israel’s war

Israel’s genocidal war has decimated Gaza’s health system, as medical personnel and doctors struggle to treat patients with limited and damaged equipment, with a “ceasefire” doing nothing to ease the peril and suffering the ill face.

aljazeera.com/news/2026/2/14/i


A Palestinian patient with kidney failure undergoes dialysis treatment at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on February 1, 2026 [Eyad Baba/AFP]
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earthling @appassionato@mastodon.social
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Meet the duck-billed tree frog (Triprion spatulatus). Found on Mexico’s Pacific coast, this species inhabits altitudes of up to 1,640 ft (500 m). Arboreal and primarily nocturnal, it feeds on invertebrates including crickets, grasshoppers, and spiders.

Photo: Cheryl Harleston López Espino (magazhu), CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, iNaturalist

via amnhnyc


Image Description A photo of a duck-billed tree frog perched on a human hand. The amphibian is green in color with dark patterning and a pale white underbelly. Scientists have observed this critter using its shovel-like head to plug the openings of its burrows, guarding itself while it rests inside, which is why it’s also known as the shovel-headed tree frog.
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👑ドジ猫 :vivaldi_gray: @DozingCat@social.vivaldi.net
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「推しのためにApple Musicで曲を聞け、収益が高いから」は事実か？　レーベル運営者の実データで確認（1/2 ページ） - ITmedia NEWS itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/26

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「推しのためにApple Musicで曲を聞け、収益が高いから」は事実か？　レーベル運営者の実データで確認

1月下旬、Xにおいて、SpotifyとApple Musicにおける収益を巡り論争が話題となった。「推しのためにApple Musicで曲を聞け、収益が高いから」といった主張は事実か、実データから確かめる。

www.itmedia.co.jp · ITmedia NEWS

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Francisca Sinn @fsinn@mas.to
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RE: mas.to/@havvyhh2/1160771018791

“Public opinion data suggests this paradigm shift is not being received lightly. In Germany, recent polling indicates that 71% of respondents now view the United States as an adversary, while continent-wide surveys show only 16% still describe the U.S. as an ally.”

“Most respected blah blah blah”, .

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Thomas 🔭🕹️ @thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io
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Back in the 90s we had a great term for stuff like “building AI satellite factories on the Moon” and “we’ll just envelop the solar system with a Dyson Sphere”.

It’s pretty technical and I forgive you if you’ve never heard of it, the term is “investment scam”.

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404 Media @404mediaco@mastodon.social
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EpsteIn—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.
404media.co/this-tool-searches

This Tool Searches the Epstein Files For Your LinkedIn Contacts

EpsteIn—as in, Epstein and LinkedIn—searches your connections on the social network for names that match those in the released files.

www.404media.co · 404 Media

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Darrell Harmon @dlharmon@chaos.social
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I'm hoping to reproduce this cavity stabilized oscillator design from NIST but at 12 GHz as an ultra low phase noise reference clock for the vector signal generator. This nonsense is optional, the clock could be as simple as an LMX2594.

These pipe couplings are very close to what I need for a TE015 resonator at 12 GHz. They need some minor machining, polishing, endcaps, coupling loops.

tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/1887.p
tf.nist.gov/general/pdf/2729.p

Two large (2.5" pipe size) copper pipe couplings.
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Matt Willemsen @mattotcha@mastodon.social
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Risk of death from pregnancy in the US is 44 times higher than that from abortion, new analysis reveals
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Risk of death from pregnancy in the US is 44 times higher than that from abortion, new analysis reveals

A figure commonly used to compare the risk of death from pregnancy compared with the risk of death from abortion might be based on outdated data, a new study suggests.

www.livescience.com · Live Science

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Ashton Wiersdorf @wiersdorf@fosstodon.org
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I know this is sometimes a contentious topic, but I'd like to ask the CS profs in my corner of the fediverse:

What are the *core CS topics* that every student should know?

I think data structures & algorithms is indisputably a core topic. Interpreters and compilers—that might just be my bias.

I'm thinking about how to express to people why I think some core CS should be as important to a well-rounded education as, say, algebra. What would you hope every high schooler/undergrad understand?

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geeknews_bot @geeknews_bot@sns.lemondouble.com
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Google에서 14년간 얻은 또다른 14가지 교훈
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### 1. 최고의 엔지니어들은 적절한 문제를 고른다

모든 일에 최대의 에너지를 쏟을 수는 없다.

### 2. 뭘 요구해야 할 지 모르겠다면, 당신은 미팅할 준비가 되지 않은 것이다

허가, 선택, 막힘 해소 (unblock), 정보 공유 (inform) - 이 중 하나를 고를 수 없다면, 그 미팅은 시간낭비일 것이다. …
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https://news.hada.io/topic?id=26713&utm_source=googlechat&utm_medium=bot&utm_campaign=1834

Google에서 14년간 얻은 또다른 14가지 교훈 | GeekNews

1. 최고의 엔지니어들은 적절한 문제를 고른다모든 일에 최대의 에너지를 쏟을 수는 없다.2. 뭘 요구해야 할 지 모르겠다면, 당신은 미팅할 준비가 되지 않은 것이다허가, 선택, 막힘 해소 (unblock), 정보 공유 (inform) - 이 중 하나를 고를 수 없다면, 그 미팅은 시간낭비일 것이다.3. "해야죠"는 계획이 아니다. "화요일에 할게요"가 계획

news.hada.io · GeekNews

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Iris @iris_meredith@mastodon.social
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New post, and this one's definitely one of my weirder ones: it's about how most of the tech industry shows symptoms of something that looks like gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com/blog/carbon

Carbon Dysphoria | deadSimpleTech

And now the punchline: this depersonalisation, the weird relationship to their bodily existence, inability to enjoy things and an internal void that people constantly try and fill with what they're told they should want... all of these things are very similar to the experience of gender dysphoria.

deadsimpletech.com · deadSimpleTech

Link author: Iris@iris_meredith@mastodon.social

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Tuomas Hämäläinen 🇺🇦 @tuomas_h@mastodon.social
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Went to Ikea today and stumbled upon this lone 3-pack of their recent Bilresa scroll wheel remotes. You can get it in white too, but I think they’re much more fun in colours. More smart home stuff should come in not just white or black.

Ikea of course recommend using it with their own system, but it’s a Matter over Thread device, so I connected it with Home Assistant no problem, with HomePod minis acting as Thread border routers. That’s three brands of devices working together seamlessly.

Three IKEA Bilresa smart home remotes laid out on an oak countertop. Each remote is different colour: beige, dark orange and green. The remote is shaped like a lozenge with a round scroll wheel in one end of it.
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Patrick @ppb1701@ppb.social
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Gitea, Smarter Monitoring, and the Syncthing Permissions Fight — Part 11 of Building a Resilient Home Server Series

Time to get some source control under my own control and fix a few issues.

blog.ppb1701.com/gitea-smarter

Gitea, Smarter Monitoring, and the Syncthing Permissions Fight — Part 11 of Building a Resilient Home Server Series - ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes

Where We Left Off Part 10 was about adding new services — SearXNG, LinkWarden, and a failed attempt at self-hosted RSS scraping. The stack was growing, and...

blog.ppb1701.com

Link author: Patrick@ppb1701@ppb.social

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@vanilla_vodka@fedibird.com
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さとうしん 氏：

≪その割には皆さん中国の悪口ばかり言ってない？🤔≫

「他人の悪口ばかり聞きたくない」が今回の選挙結果　批判型野党とオールドメディアの終焉 sankei.com/article/20260215-IT

x.com/satoshin257/status/20230

「他人の悪口ばかり聞きたくない」が今回の選挙結果　批判型野党とオールドメディアの終焉　メディアウオッチ　皆川豪志

衆院選で歴史的大惨敗を喫した中道改革連合の新代表に旧立憲民主党出身の小川淳也氏が選ばれたが、有権者にここまで見放された政党が生まれ変わることはできるだろうか。…

www.sankei.com · 産経新聞：産経ニュース

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Shugo Maeda @shugo@social.shugo.net
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ActiveRecordでCTE使えたら便利かもなと思ったらとっくに使えるようになってた

Common Table Expression support added "out-of-the-box" by vlado · Pull Request #37944 · rails/rails
github.com/rails/rails/pull/37

Summary This PR adds .with query method which makes it super easy to build complex queries with Common Table Expressions. It basically just "wraps" the passed arguments in the way Arel::S...

Common Table Expression support added "out-of-the-box" by vlado · Pull Request #37944 · rails/rails

Summary This PR adds .with query method which makes it super easy to build complex queries with Common Table Expressions. It basically just "wraps" the passed arguments in the way Arel::S...

github.com · GitHub

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Taggart :donor: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange
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You see what's happening right?

They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.

At astronomical rents.

wccftech.com/western-digital-h

Western Digital Has No More HDD Capacity Left, as CEO Reveals Massive AI Deals; Brace Yourself For Price Surges Ahead!

HDD capacity from one of the world's largest manufacturers has started to run dry, according to WD's CEO, as major LTAs have been signed out.

wccftech.com · Wccftech

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Francisca Sinn @fsinn@mas.to
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RE: mas.to/@havvyhh2/1160771018791

“Public opinion data suggests this paradigm shift is not being received lightly. In Germany, recent polling indicates that 71% of respondents now view the United States as an adversary, while continent-wide surveys show only 16% still describe the U.S. as an ally.”

“Most respected blah blah blah”, .

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zunda @zundan@mastodon.zunda.ninja
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僕は、生成AI生成物が水と電気を無駄遣いして誤情報を拡めている点で生成AIに価値があると思うことができないし、生成AI生成物を生理的に受け付けないんだけど、種々のサービスのお勧めアルゴリズムそのものを拒否してるわけじゃないよ。SpotifyもYouTubeもときどき僕の知らない良い曲とかかわいい猫をお勧めしてくれるよ。あーでも世間の人がYouTubeとかXとか誤情報を受け取っちゃうのはモデレーションだけじゃなくてお勧めアルゴリズムと現金収入に関連があるようにつくられている問題があるのかあ

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