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#Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/australias-social-media-ban-is-isolating-kids-with-disabilities-just-like-critics-warned/
pronouncing RSS as Arse
I love finding quality apps without any upselling, enshitification, or bullshit whatsoever: https://www.wired.com/story/fairscan-simple-app-for-scanning-documents-on-android/
I’m not Filipino, but I felt like one today when I ate spaghetti and rice together.
Russia's economy has entered the death zone
Link: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2026/02/16/russias-economy-has-entered-the-death-zone
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051603
I personally believe the most logical, and long-term sustainable solution with the most control to the "Android becoming more closed" threat, is to fund and support 
@postmarketOS and alike initiatives.
a fully decentralised solution developed by the whole FOSS ecosystem together is infinitely better than depending on the whims and generosity of big tech companies.
And, they still get to support the ecosystem by committing Linux/etc patches upstream, it just has better power balance in the end.
Just a little warning about editing polls on Mastodon: if you edit any of the options that people can vote for, it resets all the votes back to zero.
So, if you're posting a poll, make sure the options are correct at the start and don't edit them later (unless you're okay with resetting the votes).
This reset is apparently to prevent people being fooled into voting for something they don't want.
Das Netzwerk Verbraucherforschung hatte mich 2024 zum Vortrag über Luxuskonsum geladen:
Angesichts der globalen Polykrisen müssen wir Luxus neu definieren, konsumfrei + für alle:
Schöne Landschaft, Biodiversität, saubere Luft, sauberes Wasser, Ruhe, Sicherheit, das wäre Luxus.
I’ve watched this about a thousand times and now you can, too. This is my anthrm for this decade.
Year of the Honse
had a dream about an absolutely mad taxi app called "payback". it was wild west themed, and the driver and rider photos were set up like wanted posters. it was also ridiculously expensive, where you had to pay whenever the driver got more details about your location, and for reasons i can't recall, the driver sometimes had to pay you. we paid $33 and the driver paid us $12.50.
the driver got to where we were but couldn't see our precise location. we had to send photos of our location and send them to him in a "hot or cold" type thing. eventually he got really pissed at us and cancelled.
at that point, we were offered the titular "payback" options. twice per day, you can "swipe" from a driver. you take $10 that they were owed and get $5 of it back and the company pockets the rest. you can also "strike" once a week, and the driver would lose all their pay that they'd earned so far for the day (you wouldn't get any of it though) and they'd be "struck out" for the next 24 hours and barred from driving.
I’ve watched this about a thousand times and now you can, too. This is my anthrm for this decade.
@b0rkJulia Evans Is #HackerNews culture really that bad? I'm not on it but follow one of the #YCombinator bots that share viral articles they talk about on the #Fediverse.
@dansup
Are others fighting to survive or dominate ?
Big ups to whomever at Vicks designed this humidifier, which features a water tank that makes it physically impossible to drain all the water out of it. Someone is out to replace Don Norman's masochist coffee pot
#FediBirras en martes (ײ), 
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We have provided stickers to minions who will be at Team Cymru's RISE USA conference in San Francisco this week. Keep an eye out for free GAYINT stickers around the con! #GAYINT #ThreatIntel #Stickers #TeamCymru #RISEUSA #RISEUSA2026
I'm in Prague. It was a successful trip. I love Italy
1/2 Two new blog pieces. In which I have opinions about GenAI and open-source: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2026/02/16/GenAI-and-OSS-opinion
Kinda excited about the rumored form factor of the foldable iPhone – hope the camera doesn't end up too compromised though…
In Istanbul for some meetings but also to see how many different cats I can pet in a single week.
Going pretty good so far
The first earthquake detector was invented 2000 years ago in #China. It consisted of eight dragon heads, each with a ball in its mouth. The dragon facing the earthquake’s epicentre would drop the ball when the ground shook. It could detect quakes 400 miles away. 📸: Kowloonese
@qikipedia
Is there a website that promotes tech jobs at companies that don't use AI?
I'm not looking for work right now. However, I know a few people who are, and they don't want to work for someone who forces them to use GenAI, either for code, for infrastructure management, or for writing documentation.
For them, the prospect of working in tech in 2026 is just bleak.
Lateral climbing
Cell complex -- something you get when your friend can afford the newest version of the iPhone and you can't.
Also: an object in a category which is obtained by successively “gluing cells” via pushouts.
to better protect your security, we will send you a code 3 minutes after it has expired
TokioConf 2026 approaches! https://www.tokioconf.com/
It's in Portland, April 20-22, I won't be there but if you can, you should be!
I'm going to be deleting all of my posts here before too long (just doing house cleaning).
I'll back up some of the bigger posts to a federated blog and then boost them afterwards.
I used to delete posts every three months (rolling) but havent been good about that.
Anyhoo, pull what you can use if you like.
Timeout! Let's nap
Er: „Wenn es Männer nicht gäbe, wer würde Euch Frauen dann beschützen?“
Sie: „Beschützen? Vor wem?“
Dieser Take, der gefühlt schon seit 100 Jahren auf TikTok viral geht, ist immer noch einer der besten Diskussionshilfen zum Thema toxische Männlichkeit. 💁🏻♀️
We have provided stickers to minions who will be at Team Cymru's RISE USA conference in San Francisco this week. Keep an eye out for free GAYINT stickers around the con! #GAYINT #ThreatIntel #Stickers #TeamCymru #RISEUSA #RISEUSA2026
@b0rkJulia Evans But…but you’ve missed the shoelace site😩 https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ And, importantly a mathematical calculation pinpointing the exact date of the upcoming singularly - which will happen on a Tuesday.
Posting hope on main
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.
I love finding quality apps without any upselling, enshitification, or bullshit whatsoever: https://www.wired.com/story/fairscan-simple-app-for-scanning-documents-on-android/
The AI bubble will burst immediately after it permanently destroys the consumer electronics market
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A
If the FCC doesn't want you to see this, seems like it's worth passing around.
browsing the internet in 2026
USpol
The FCC ordered CBS/Paramount to censor this interview Colbert did with Texas Representative Talarico, and of course the sycophantic little shits obeyed, which is why it’s important to spread it far and wide. Please make this shit backfire spectacularly, whether or not you agree specifically with Talarico’s views.
LEGO Orrery Gets A Real-Time Drive Upgrade
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/17/lego-orrery-gets-a-real-time-drive-upgrade/
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Quincy ⁂
