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FYI Criterion is doing a sale on blurays and 4K discs for the next week
Only some of the movies have 4K options:
https://www.criterion.com/shop/collection/498-4k-discs
And the prices only go down from "sticker shock" to "huh well, maybe" but they did go down. And Blurays are cheaper
Things that stood out to me:
Yi Yi
https://www.criterion.com/films/781-yi-yi
Point Blank (Parker novel in a blender)
https://www.criterion.com/films/32290-point-blank
Anora ("Sean Baker makes a Safdie film")
https://www.criterion.com/films/34891-anora
Flow ("Blender, The Movie")
https://www.criterion.com/films/34685-flow
Type-based alias analysis in the Toy Optimizer https://lobste.rs/s/btfvud #compilers
https://bernsteinbear.com/blog/toy-tbaa/
finally fed up with fasterthanlime's ai bullshit
we don't have a real serialization library in rust any more, do we
Just bumped into the most amazing bug on macOS Tahoe. An NSView with its layer’s background color set to .separatorColor disappears when I scroll an NSScrollView. Only in light mode, not dark. Only .separatorColor not other colors. If I resize the window it reappears. Scroll the view and it disappears. Just fantastic.
슈에이샤 만화 투고 사이트 점프루키 가이드라인 보는데 의외로??? 차별표현 문제 잘 다루고 있네. 맨 처음에 나오는 게 인종이나 성별 차별표현 금지고 그 다음엔 사회적 소수자와 LGBT, 다음엔 헤이트 스피치 등등 정확한 용어로 차별 표현의 범위를 정한다. https://rookie.shonenjump.com/legal/guideline
The fascinating history of Adolphe Sax and his invention, the saxophone, which has been described as "everything from the most moving and heart gripping wind instrument to the devil's horn".
Fluxer keeps coming up as a Discord alternative. It looks good, but it has one major problem: It's AGPL and it requires a CLA.
That is an enshittification time bomb. I personally will not contribute to projects using that combination, it's gone wrong way too many times.
That's not to say it's bad to use as a hosted service, it being open source at all is better than Discord.
But from an open source point of view, it's not a good licensing setup. It basically creates a system where the project owners have more rights than other contributors. It's not fair.
Edit: For ref, this is the formal CLA:
https://cla-assistant.io/fluxerapp/fluxer
TL;DR "We can do whatever we want with your code, and license it under any license".
Essentially, you should consider any AGPL+CLA project as "source available", not as a true open source project where everyone's contributions are equal.
Of course, at least it's possible to fork since the base license is AGPL.
Happy purr residence day from the kitties I officially have in my house!!!
They are drugged from a vet trip and still getting used to this whole new house thing, so no pictures yet as they are all either hiding in their carrier or hiding behind furniture, but I will post PoC (Proof of Catte) soon
Retrotechtacular: Mr. Wizard Jams with IBM
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/16/retrotechtacular-mr-wizard-jams-with-ibm/
this breaks social contract and feels like a betrayal because the whole point of a diagram is to provide clarity where text fails, and to emphasize just the right bits needed for the intuition whereas these “diagrams” are often self-contradictory or misleading in a way that’s worse than the text
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Use Protocols, Not Services
Link: https://notnotp.com/notes/use-protocols-not-services/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038588
0030, my wife: “It’s been two weeks now, why aren’t you getting better? You should see a doctor.”
1058, GP’s nurse: “Yeah, it sounds like you need to come in for an appointment.”
1355, GP: “I’m sending you to hospital for a chest x-ray and blood tests.”
1440, radiographer: “Never mind the blood tests, you should go to the emergency department now.”
1825, ED doctor: “You have double pneumonia. We’re going to keep you here overnight.”
Well that escalated quickly.
Kitty cats :3
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"Well it's a federal holiday in the US so I'll take time to go deal with setting up some Canadian bureaucracy stuff I've been putting off"
*Gets to the local city office*
Sign: "Closed for Canadian holiday"
God damnit
One in five children infected in the recent London measles outbreak were reportedly hospitalised.
Don’t believe the anti-vaxxers when they say “it’s a mild disease” or “it’s better to get immunity naturally”.
It isn’t.
Today in InfoSec Job Security News:
I was looking into an obvious ../.. vulnerability introduced into a major web framework today, and it was committed by username Claude on GitHub. Vibe coded, basically.
So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.
https://github.com/search?q=author%3Aclaude&type=commits&s=author-date&o=desc
As I looked through the code I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.
新年愿望：能有免于恐惧的自由，还有爱
Fortinet is to network security as Microsoft is to computer usability.
cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source: https://thenewstack.io/curls-daniel-stenberg-ai-is-ddosing-open-source-and-fixing-its-bugs/ via 
@TheNewStack & 
@sjvn
For #opensource software, #AI is very much a mixed blessing, in his view.
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[$] Open source security in spite of AI
The curl project has found AI-powered tools to be a mixed bag when it comes to security reports. At FOSDEM 2026, curl creator and lead developer Daniel Stenberg used his keynote se [...]
https://lwn.net/Articles/1058266/ #LWN #Linux #security #FOSDEM
Pizza done, watching curling USA - ITA. I don't understand this game, but...
You don't need to press anything for the display to move!
There's a Golden Girls episode where Sophia has a bulk shopping discount card and buys all sorts of nonsense including four gross of toothbrushes and I think of it every time someone says they generated however many hundreds of thousands of lines of code
I guess I kinda get why people hate AI
Link: https://anthony.noided.media/blog/ai/programming/2026/02/14/i-guess-i-kinda-get-why-people-hate-ai.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037628
ローカルLLM欲しくなる人の気持ちがちょっとわかってきた
@evanEvan Prodromou To be more explicit, I think I understood your explanatory reply to your original survey but wanted clarification that the repeated word "it" was referring to the user's browser, or perhaps "the user's browser running javascript loaded in the page fromm a.example".
Your first sentence response to my question seemed to confirm this. But then your followup about server-side or client-side made me wonder if my contra-example of a.example proxying interaction with b.example was correct.
@virtuous_slothBruce Elrick It's usually correct. A lot of Fediverse servers use CORS or authenticated fetch to prevent loading the data directly into the browser. I feel like you're getting very particular about how it's implemented, which is fine. If that's important to you, express why and how it affects your answer in a reply.
Cool, I'm now an Invited Expert with the W3C FedID Working Group, which allows me to better advocate the for needs of decentralized social web when it comes to FedCM and related technologies Looking forward to working with the other working group members on these topics! www.w3.org/groups/wg/fe...
クラウドサービスはコロコロ仕様が変わるので変更を追っていくのが大変
@samirsamir, 60% aloo, 40% rage thank you, but attribution where it's due :-)
@samirsamir, 60% aloo, 40% rage 
@janlJan Lehnardt 
@Flyingmana not yet sure where to publish it, or what to do with it, but I had to write this down and get it out of my head over the past couple of days: https://k023.de/26-02-16-fast-fashion.html
Clearly inspired by your fast fashion metaphor, Samir, as a story arc but dangling thoughts about software quality, unions, and licenses included ;)
cURL’s Daniel Stenberg: AI slop is DDoSing open source: https://thenewstack.io/curls-daniel-stenberg-ai-is-ddosing-open-source-and-fixing-its-bugs/ via @TheNewStack & @sjvn
For #opensource software, #AI is very much a mixed blessing, in his view.
Privilege Is Bad Grammar
Link: https://tadaima.bearblog.dev/privilege-is-bad-grammar/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038125
おぴごとおぴごと 
a644a4a762 (upstream/main) Allow managing collection accounts (#37812)
cff25c186b Fix race condition when processing statuses twice with the same idempotency key (#37879)
f7bf804a3f Profile redesign: Switch to server flag (#37876)
f199d7995c Add missing “Filter action” source string (#37838)
284c53f439 Remove disabled bundlesize-compare workflow (#37875)
ed6d8fad9e Update dependency ioredis to v5.9.3 (#37849)
6d3eb43500 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37863)
4425b8a0b2 Update dependency stackprof to v0.2.28 (#37873)
4396217434 Update dependency jsdom to v28.1.0 (#37874)
9baa51c67e Update dependency capybara-playwright-driver to v0.5.8 (#37840)
e8ca5f633e Update dependency devise to v5.0.1 (#37860)
1b724e9e12 Capture output in `cli/emoji` spec (#37861)
L’acteur américain Robert Duvall, connu pour ses rôles dans « Le Parrain » et « Apocalypse Now », est mort https://www.lemonde.fr/culture/article/2026/02/16/robert-duvall-connu-pour-ses-roles-dans-le-parrain-et-apocalypse-now-est-mort_6667000_3246.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
WebMCP Proposal
Link: https://webmachinelearning.github.io/webmcp/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47037501
You know that “stop forcing AI into fucking everything” graphic that went around on here?
I bought the t-shirt. I get a lot of compliments on it.
The only negative response was from a friend who works for McKinsey. She read out the “everyone hates it” and said, “do they really, though?” as we stood near the check-in table for an event, and three people in line turned around and said, “YES!”
another one of those days where I wake up feeling horrible because I have to Do Things today and it's going to be a Struggle and I am going to Let Myself Down
and then I take my ADHD meds. by the time I've finished my first cup of tea, I feel perfectly capable again. like doing the laundry and cleaning the bathroom are not, in fact, insurmountable obstacles but instead just mildly tedious tasks.
it wasn't until I started taking ADHD meds that I realised what laziness actually was.
laziness is when you know you're perfectly capable of doing a task but you can't be bothered!!
laziness is NOT "my entire brain starts up an agonising struggle process that causes tremendous anxiety and unhappiness the moment I even think about doing something that doesn't maintain a steady feed of dopamine"
Did you know that people tend to have a very poor sense of their own mediocrity and this tends to leak into poor evaluations of when their own human capabilities are important to their work? (cue this 11-year old keynote www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIJd...)
youtube.com/watch?v=hIJdFx...
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