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🚨 New Release (v0.12.7)

Admins should update ASAP, it contains an important security fix, along with several bug fixes.

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/releases/tag/v0.12.7

#Pixelfed

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A fuzzy corner.

#photography #blackandwhite

ok, i made a local language model* that does literally nothing** so i can use the vscode chat as a clipboard

you can install it with cargo install cliplama, run it and add it to vscode as an ollama model

https://codeberg.org/mkljczk/cliplama yes it has too many deps and my rust code is bad but it's not a serious project

*not really a language model

**it meows back at you

아니 근데 그러면... 닷닷컴 닷닷넷이 되는 거잖아...

@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup I know you and I appreciate your work.

Coalitions exist when different factions and players share some common goals. But they don't have to share *all* the same goals to work together.

I think there's a good case to be made that the ATProto community and the Fediverse can be a coalition to work together on the Open Social Web.

That doesn't mean we can't talk about our differences, or advocate for our own protocols and technologies.

Apple reportedly working on creepware, aka surveillance glasses and other AI-enabled always-on devices.

Not sure how Apple squares these products with its long-standing stance that, "Privacy is a fundamental human right."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/apple-ramps-up-work-on-glasses-pendant-and-camera-airpods-for-ai-era?srnd=undefined

Show HN: I wrote a technical history book on Lisp

Link: https://berksoft.ca/gol/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47048733

finally got my AYN Thor reasonably set up and i love this thing. its maiden voyage will, of course, be Pokémon Polished Crystal

Five vulnerabilities fixed in #zlib 1.3.2: https://7asecurity.com/reports/pentest-report-zlib-RC1.1.pdf

#infosec

The models will continue until morale improves. https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6

Terminals should generate the 256-color palette https://lobste.rs/s/yn5zjh #design
https://gist.github.com/jake-stewart/0a8ea46159a7da2c808e5be2177e1783

@reiver@reiver ⊼ (Charles) @liaizonwakest ⁂ I would guess that the person who told you that had been involved in an opt-in/opt-out dispute. That seems to be the development issue that exercises fediverse users the most. Which is not to excuse the behavior, but that /is/ one fundamental cultural difference between here and there: Opt-out is the default assumption there. (Which is borne out by the next post in your thread, where a dev says they prefer BS because it provides the user data needed for an AI-driven filter.)

@thisismissemEmelia 👸🏻 @evanEvan Prodromou @quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja more adoption, like Metas Threads? There are dozens of projects on the fediverse, more than atproto, so that’s not really coming across as you think it is lol

the box model

Permalink: https://wizardzines.com/comics/box-model

Knock knock
Race condition
Who’s there?

(Credit: Ian Coldwater)

#Dev #Development #Jokes #RaceCondition

@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber kaigritun and crabby-rathbun joined github within 24 hours of one another

there are probably 100x more of these

I don't think these are necessarily connected, it's just the point where the tooling to set this up became ~trivial.

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050488

Guy with neurolink cut me off in traffic, pulled out my flipper zero and gave him gender dysphoria

https://github.com/daniel-j-h/meshcore-irc-bridge makes me want to get involved in Meshcore just so I can run Microsoft Comic Chat

The UK has announced plans to fast-track legislation requiring “age verification for VPN use”. The correct term, however, is not age verification but identity verification.

A law like this would require everyone to identify themselves in order to use a VPN. This would pose a risk to whistleblowers, violate human rights, and represent yet another step toward an authoritarian society.

Людина, з якою у мене відносини на відстані, хотіла, щоб ви всі це побачили перед тим, як я це зітру 👉​👈​

我是不知道面癱還能繼續爛到這種程度，Messenger 網頁版居然要關了

Async/Await on the GPU

Link: https://www.vectorware.com/blog/async-await-on-gpu/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049628

Sometimes I'll be on a streak where LLMs haven't given me hallucinated information. Then stuff like this happens and I'm reminded that it hasn't given me hallucinations *that I've noticed.*

EU: hey we’d like you on an expert committee
[doesn’t have EU passport]
EU: we’re no longer interested

guess expertise in random fields is part of the citizenship test or so?

GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/grapheneos-eng/

#ArknightsEndfield
#エンドフィールド

SQLは逐次実行ではなくデータ全体をがっさりまとめて操作している感覚があってうまく書けると気持ち良いんだよね（その後少しだけ出力を変えるためにむっちゃ苦労したりするw）

I’ve been thinking lately about how to fight back against the billionaire capitalist class and the more I think about it the more I unfortunately feel like the path is going to lead us through things that will validate the fucking worst people. Like the path to communism will unfortunately have to travel through, “the only ethical gaming now is PC gaming”

Sometimes I'll be on a streak where LLMs haven't given me hallucinated information. Then stuff like this happens and I'm reminded that it hasn't given me hallucinations *that I've noticed.*

Chess engines do weird stuff

Link: https://girl.surgery/chess
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049845

Claude Sonnet 4.6

Link: https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050447

Observations:

Today #bigtech social media looks & feels like TV to me. Consume whatever each platform owners' algorithms serve.

#ATProto's ecosystem seems focused on reach & broadcasting. #ActivityPub's ecosystem seems focused on interaction. Is this the diff between #SocialMedia Vs #SocialNetworks? Newschool vs Oldschool Internet?

Would be nice if these #protocols become interoperable. Technically solvable, but I wonder are the 'cultures(?)' interoperable as well? Thoughts?

#Fediverse #Tech

Remember when people thought “trickle down” economics actually worked? Perhaps if we give a lot more money to the rich it will start working one day, somehow? That seems to be the current plan, but I have another idea: what if we reversed it and used “trickle up” to give money to those most in need? All the data I can find, including our rgmii.org data and studies in progress, all seem to show that this direction works. ⬆️

The Doctor's Eyes

Curious minds never grow old. Their fear isn't aging, but running out of time to learn.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/02/16/the-doctors-eyes/

#MyNotes #Blogging #Life #Reflections #Science

Apple reportedly working on creepware, aka surveillance glasses and other AI-enabled always-on devices.

Not sure how Apple squares these products with its long-standing stance that, "Privacy is a fundamental human right."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-17/apple-ramps-up-work-on-glasses-pendant-and-camera-airpods-for-ai-era?srnd=undefined

연휴의 마지막날이...오고야 말았다.

At #ATmosphereConf

https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf/

https://atprotocol.dev/atmosphereconf-2025-talks/

@borisBoris Mann (one of the organizers) is talking in front of the audience. (Boris and I are both from Vancouver.)

I see Fediverse people here. For example, @damon (of We Distribute fame) is sitting next to me.

#ATProto #ATProtocol #DeSo #Bluesky #bsky

Ghostty will now auto-generate a full, cohesive 256-color theme from just the base 16-color palette. This makes it significantly easier to make custom themes that are beautiful (just define 16 colors). See the demo below showing multiple themes fully generated.

Thanks to Jake Stewart who contributed this to Ghostty and made a nice write-up explaining the background and approach: https://gist.github.com/jake-stewart/0a8ea46159a7da2c808e5be2177e1783

Last month a friend of mine showed the workshop where he makes functioning replicas of historical instruments, mostly from the 17th and 18th century. It was such a privilege! It's hard to describe how fascinating this visit was: the tools, the materials, the instruments, the process itself, everything about it was a display of incredible and moving artistic beauty. A short thread with a few more pictures. 🧵 1/7

you certainly will not regret morging continvoucly

i think i stumbled on a use case for "difference types" in the sense of the inverse to sum types... is this a thing?!

i keep almost deleting this post because i'm sure it's nonsense but i just found https://starsandspira.ls/docs/ecoop22-draft.pdf by reputable people (hi @danielleDr!!!11 Dani ✨🐚 ) so maybe ??

GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/grapheneos-eng/

Noam Chomsky is one of those people that some people will defend reflexively without even thinking.

Try not to have powerful people that you defend reflexively without even thinking.

That's abuse culture.

Using go fix to modernize Go code

Link: https://go.dev/blog/gofix
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049479

Claude Sonnet 4.6 System Card

Link: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-sonnet-4-6-system-card
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050488

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