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pronouncing RSS as Arse
90 Prozent meiner Karriere habe ich eher nur technische Lösungen konzipiert, so langsam verstehe ich, dass das Entscheidende nicht die technische Lösung ist, sondern die Folgen der Nutzung. Das heißt nicht, dass ich jetzt alle Probleme nur soziologisch lösen werde, es heißt eher, dass die Technik die soziolgischen Folgen mit antizipieren sollte.
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when you have a stable relationship with your bed
Tesla 'Robotaxi' adds 5 more crashes in Austin in a month – 4x worse than humans
Link: https://electrek.co/2026/02/17/tesla-robotaxi-adds-5-more-crashes-austin-month-4x-worse-than-humans/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051546
Show HN: AsteroidOS 2.0 – Nobody asked, we shipped anyway
Link: https://asteroidos.org/news/2-0-release/index.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051852
Maybe I'll keep a journal of all the things I get scolded about on here.
OK, I bought fedi.blue because I can, and I have no plans to use it for anything specific. Well, at least, I want to build an app that is compatible with both the fediverse (AP Protocol) and Bluesky (AT Protocol) ecosystem at the same time. So... if you have any ideas or suggestions, feel free to let me know! Sincerely, I want to waste money no more for domains that I won't use, so if you have any good ideas, please, please, PLEASE share them with me. You can find me at @chomu.dev초무 on Bluesky and
@b0rkJulia Evans I don’t think I’ve ever read hacker news, and now you’ve inspired me not to start!
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새해 복 많이 받으세요 오는길에 세뱃돈도 가져와주세요 감사합니다
The Hybrid3D can 3D print batteries that can fill irregular shapes, like the wing of a drone or the arm of smart glasses. https://spectrum.ieee.org/3d-printed-batteries?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
This one is so disappointed. It got all interested to play with the Intel C/C++ compilers, downloaded them................................and they're a fucking LLVM fork. It immediately lost all interest, because they're just going to be clang/LLVM with some special sauce optimisations. not their own actual *thing*. Because nobody's doing their own thing anymore.
So I finally (what, a decade behind popular trends??) am having reason to experiment with actual use of Docker in production, and…I’m surprised at how disappointing it is.
The configuration is clumsy, a dangerous mix of boilerplate and footgun customization points. The dockerfile / compose division of labor is nonsensical; it apparently grew by accretion instead of design. There are lots of loose ends left for hosting services to tie up, and the product thus fails in what would seem to be a primary goal of avoiding hosting vendor lock-in.
Am I simply Not Getting It Yet™, or is the state of the art actually like this?
Sister makes the best pillow 🐱💖 #FosterKittens #cats #TuxieTuesday #TabbyTuesday #CatsOfMastodon
The fediverse is anti-capitalist. The fediverse is anarchist praxis. The fediverse is not a protocol. The fediverse caries an ideology of communal care and mutual aid for our fellow humans. The fediverse should never be neutral on ideology. The tools we are building provide infrastructure for communication but they also shape that communication.
The fediverse is trans. Trans as in non binary. Trans as in transition. Trans as in transitional.
The fediverse is anti-capitalist. The fediverse is anarchist praxis. The fediverse is not a protocol. The fediverse caries an ideology of communal care and mutual aid for our fellow humans. The fediverse should never be neutral on ideology. The tools we are building provide infrastructure for communication but they also shape that communication.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116087634363842093
Actually, a good point that the price of implementing an idea is important to be focused and creative.
Kinda reminds me of movies, where creativity dropped when everything could be made with CGI and there were no limits anymore.
SHA-256 just got kneecapped: 37-step collision, 6 steps past the 2013 wall. Your “immutable” blockchain now has a 12-year-late crack. Do you still trust 256-bit hashes? https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/232
Here are some samples of AI generated ads used by criminals in Myanmar to prey on desperate, unemployed job seekers across Asia and Africa. "Typing speed" is a giveaway, they want people who can learn preprepared scam scripts with ease. The always pretend the job is in Thailand or Cambodia, knowing that nobody would agree to travel to war-torn Myanmar. The ordeal begins when they are picked up at airports in these countries...then driven into Myanmar. Meta and Telegram are part of the problem.
The UN estimates that over 120,000 people have been trafficked to scam camps in Myanmar since 2021, and endured various forms of exploitation and torture. It has become a billion dollar industry, with the scams targeting vulnerable people in Europe and North America.
Thai NGOs meanwhile, bravely coordinate rescues, negotiate with border guards to arrange the transfer of victims back to Thailand. But they are swamped and have limited means.
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja 
@dansup
3. "Exchange of ideas". There are some really interesting things for us to learn from each other in the different protocol communities. I think the client-first, dapp-style development happening in the ATProto community is a *great* architecture for us to adopt in the Fediverse. You mentioned long-form text standards between FEP-b2b8 and standard.site -- another great opportunity for some mutual learning.
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup
4. "Window of opportunity". This is a more complex one, but it is compelling. Basically, there is a non-zero chance that Bluesky's leadership team changes in the next few years, or that their strategy changes. (This has happened with other social networks like Twitter when the advertising business model was adopted.) They may at some point try to claw back the value that's been generated with the current open protocol, open source model. Hopefully not, but you never know!
The only important protocol is kindness
India, the Philippines and China are prompt to repatriate their nationals. But African states do not do so. As such, Africans are becoming disproportionately targeted by Chinese criminal orgs knowing that little will be done to rescue them.
Africans who escape Myanmar can expect to spend lengthy stints in Thai immigration jail until they get the money for airfare/fines.
The UN itself is low on money, & issued a call last year for some $2.5M to fly home 1,000 survivors.
https://roasiapacific.iom.int/news/iom-urgently-seeks-usd-25-million-repatriate-victims-trafficking-forced-criminality-stranded-along-thai-myanmar-border
Here are some samples of AI generated ads used by criminals in Myanmar to prey on desperate, unemployed job seekers across Asia and Africa. "Typing speed" is a giveaway, they want people who can learn preprepared scam scripts with ease. The always pretend the job is in Thailand or Cambodia, knowing that nobody would agree to travel to war-torn Myanmar. The ordeal begins when they are picked up at airports in these countries...then driven into Myanmar. Meta and Telegram are part of the problem.
The only important protocol is kindness
Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat
Link: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/stephen-colbert-says-cbs-forbid-interview-of-democrat-because-of-fcc-threat/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47051793
She spends a lot of time on YouTube, watching bird videos
It can't be good for her critical thinking skills...
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I honestly have no idea what he's thinking. Enigma wrapped in a mystery, a.k.a. cat.
Those meme posts about "You can just get it on Telegram, it's on Stoat, check it out on ..." started including Zulip at some point after I started talking about it and I like to think I changed the zeitgeist around here just a tiny bit.
Not that I necessarily recommend it for most groups. I'm not afraid to host big stacks if their front-facing stuff meets needs of the group, and it definitely is a big stacky thing.
Hello fediverse friends.
For The Globe and Mail newspaper, I've spent the last four months hearing from survivors of Myanmar's infamous scam compounds. Run by Chinese criminal syndicates with the collaboration of at least one Burmese pro-junta militia, the camps are staffed by trafficking victims, including a growing number of Africans who are beaten, electrocuted and raped if they don't meet scamming targets. They aren't paid for their efforts.
My story is published.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-africans-scam-camps-myanmar-scamming-rings-asia/
Since 2021, a coup induced civil war, and the pandemic have created a booming scamming industry based out of Myanmar. Hundreds of scam compounds have since sprouted up, typically along the Burmese-Thai border. They target westerners with cryptocurrency and romance scams. But they are staffed by trafficked people from across Asia and Africa, who travel to Thailand believing they will be hired at well paying tech jobs in Bangkok...before being driven across the border where their ordeal begins.
Business cat has important kitty business to attend to (sleeping 20 hours a day) 
Hello fediverse friends.
For The Globe and Mail newspaper, I've spent the last four months hearing from survivors of Myanmar's infamous scam compounds. Run by Chinese criminal syndicates with the collaboration of at least one Burmese pro-junta militia, the camps are staffed by trafficking victims, including a growing number of Africans who are beaten, electrocuted and raped if they don't meet scamming targets. They aren't paid for their efforts.
My story is published.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-africans-scam-camps-myanmar-scamming-rings-asia/
まったり過ごしました…やはりらくがきは楽しい…！
そろそろ寝ちゃいますね！
@dansup We're stronger together, Dan. It's not worth throwing stones.
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja not throwing stones, just spittin facts. To much glazing over AtProto when many seem to forget its history, so I feel a duty to remind people of this.
ATProto never cared about openness or the social web, or they would have adopted ActivityPub and helped improve it.
They had to control everything. Jack even said he regrets that himself.
Please welcome the newest member to the CPython core team, Itamar Oren!
https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-itamar-oren/106078
Who needs a weighted blanket when you have cats?
"AI" can't fix the problem. "AI" *is* an essential part of the problem.
@b0rkJulia Evans : it is funny how I now fear opening the comments section of HN when one of my blog post is on the front page.
In consequence, I force myself not to open it (I made one exception for the release of one of my software because I knew most comments would be technical questions)
On the other hands, I’ve the opposite experience with lobste.rs : I do really appreciate the comments there and the discussion that follow.
I honestly have no idea what he's thinking. Enigma wrapped in a mystery, a.k.a. cat.
Over the past year, Creative Commons communities around the world have continued to show what’s possible when people come together around shared values of openness, collaboration, and care. In 2026, we want to deepen our community engagement, strengthening connections and creating more meaningful ways for everyone to engage.
Read our new blog post for a peek at some of our community plans: https://creativecommons.org/2026/02/17/building-what-comes-next-community-engagement-at-creative-commons/
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup
2. "Bigger is better". Because we're bridged, more people on Bluesky and ATProto services is helpful for the Fediverse. It means more creators making cool content for Fediverse users to read and listen to and use, and it means a bigger audience for Fediverse creators to reach. Bigger networks are, generally, better. (Thanks, Metcalfe's Law!)
@quillmatiqAnuj Ahooja @dansup
3. "Exchange of ideas". There are some really interesting things for us to learn from each other in the different protocol communities. I think the client-first, dapp-style development happening in the ATProto community is a *great* architecture for us to adopt in the Fediverse. You mentioned long-form text standards between FEP-b2b8 and standard.site -- another great opportunity for some mutual learning.
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