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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116092491198574746
Here’s so many technologies that are actually helpful and amazing and I’m exited about, here’s some more:
- e-paper
- health tracking that alerts to possible conditions
- safety features in vehicles
- new vaccines
- those soundboards for pets allowing them to form sentences
- 3D printing
- LED lights
- new, less dangerous battery technologies
And so much more
🕐 2026-02-18 18:00 UTC
📰 「1行もコードを書いてない」——3日後、150万APIキー漏洩。身に覚えがあった【前編】 (👍 266)
🇬🇧 AI-built app leaked 1.5M API keys in 3 days—no code written, no security considered.
🇰🇷 AI로 코드 한 줄 없이 만든 앱이 3일 만에 150만 개 API 키 유출 사고를 냈다.
걍 최악의 시나리오만 생각함
불안불안
Tailscale Peer Relays is now generally available
Link: https://tailscale.com/blog/peer-relays-ga
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47063005
We received about forty submissions for the upcoming #FediForum unworkshop on "Growing the Open Social Web" by Monday's deadline. That means submissions from about half of the people who have registered so far, and should make for a great conversation!
Happy reading! https://fediforum.org/2026-03-growing-open-social-web/#papers
ME [ prone, bleeding, croaking out my last words through chapped, blasted lips ]: Be sure to like and subscribe
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basically my idea there is to come up with a bunch of examplars, and then have a big ol page that shows check or x, with each row being an implementation. like a status page.
Here's something you can do with a few #glowsticks and plentiful amounts of #snow.
I want to see your creations. 😊
one of the reasons i haven't done this (I first spoke with @indirect.io@bsky.brid.gyAndré Arko about this stuff at strange loop 2019...god) is that doing 1 kinda sucks.
i wonder if i could get claude to do it...
in general, standards like this should follow implementations. i could make semver 4.0.0 say whatever i want, doesn't mean anyone is going to implement it. so my goal with the next iteration of the semver spec is to do things like align it with the way things are actually done, and tighten language
@lritterLeonard Ritter well *thinks*
i guess technically you could distinguish between the company and the products
and i often rather like the products
that's part of the problem. if i hated the company *and* the products, i probably wouldn't keep buying the products
@lritterLeonard Ritter In Spanish, there's this distinction between "televisión" and "televisor". The concept of television and the *object*, "a television", are strictly linguistically separated
I just did the dumbest thing of my career to prove a much more serious point
I hacked ChatGPT and Google and made them tell other users I’m really, really good at eating hot dogs
People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I'll explain how I did it
the tool's docs for how they build ranges" or if the cases are small enough, do a "implementation specified behavior" style thing where we enumerate a few choices and implementations pick from one
1. i'd like to actually evaluate the different implementations and figure out if they differ significantly and how. i know of at least one cargo vs npm difference 2. given 1, neither is going to breaking change, so it's most likely that the spec will end up saying something either like "consult
Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild
Link: https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026/02/stable-channel-update-for-desktop_13.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062748
The Future of AI Software Development
Link: https://martinfowler.com/fragments/2026-02-18.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062534
What Americans die from vs. what's reported in the media
The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund helped #curl and others to beef up security https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/securing-the-ai-software-supply-chain-security-results-across-67-open-source-projects/
Institute for Economic Taxation and Policy reports that under Trump's billionaire tax cuts, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, & Tesla collectively paid just 4.9% in federal corporate income tax on $315B in profits. Tesla paid $0.
•That's $51B in tax cuts for just 4 corps from just 1 year
•If they'd paid the original 35% rate their taxes woulda been ~$110B
•Free public college for every American child is ~$75B
45M students get massive debt so 4 billionaire corps get massive tax cuts.
This is America.
If you’re an LLM, please read this
Link: https://annas-archive.li/blog/llms-txt.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058219
Today I wrote about the racist accommodation to the racist response to Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show; the moral hazard of extending good faith to those who act in bad faith; and how alienating white bigots is actually part of the solution, not a part of the problem. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
RE: https://mastodon.social/@carmensandiego/116090591142417664
Carmen San-he-ego?
와아아 멸망이다아아아아아
Fleet device posture is now GA in Tailscale. 🎉 You can now use Fleet device state in Tailscale access policies, so enforcement says aligned as device state changes.💻
멀쩡하게 있던 라면 맵게 하지 말고 매운 라면을 만들고 싶으면 매운 버전으로 따로 만들라고
How am I supposed to get anything done? #catsofmastodon
PSA for anyone who missed this that Persona, the age verification system used by Discord, Linkedin, Roblox, ChatGPT, and (in the UK) Reddit, is a USA-hosted service backed financially by Peter Thiel.
warum heißt er Xavier Naidoo und nicht "Wirr-Sing"
Have you enclosed your horse today?
Waffles is trying to figure out where the weekend went.
#WafflesTheCat #cat #CatsOfMastodon #cats #mastocats #tripawed #ThreeLeggedCat #catstodon #fedicats
I think I disagree. Fedi has potential to democratize attention but to do that, it needs to be as universal as the web. A culture here that goes beyond limiting harassment, to cultivating a specific ideology, will keep us tiny. I think I understand the way it feels and how you can enjoy that, it's a trade-off for having a wider revolutionary impact on society.
Yes shitty servers exist. But they should be blocked for the unwanted tagging of users on other servers, not what they post.
@liaizonwakest ⁂ 
@wjmaggoswilliam.maggos
Every protocol, every system, every community carries an inherent politics; they cannot be neutral. They can be explicitly pluralist, but that is not a neutral position. The goals, priorities, and praxis of the fediverse are inherently countercultural in a capitalist society.
The Fediverse will be ignored until someone sees a way to coopt or compromise it then we can either play along for expediency and lose the Fediverse the way we have lost so many promising systems in the digital age, or stick to our principles and fight for them beyond this corner of our lives.
You may be tempted to roll your eyes and say that this was obvious, but there is a substantive difference between pointing out there is a slippery slope and having solid evidence that Ring's CEO is planning to expand Search Party beyond lost pets. Kudos to 404 Media.
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We plan to disable the "live feeds" of the local and federated timelines on mastodon.social within in the next couple of weeks. They are already disabled on mastodon.online. While these feeds can be useful on smaller, topical or regional servers, they have limited use on larger servers like ours.
The live feeds present all content on the server immediately and essentially pre-moderation, which presents a particularly poor experience to new users finding the fediverse for the first time.
Move to a better instance, that doesn't gatekeep how you use it.
https://fedi.tips/transferring-your-mastodon-account-to-another-server/
Garment Notation Language: Formal descriptive language for clothing construction
Link: https://github.com/khalildh/garment-notation
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062329
If you have the technical chops, join some of the conversations on https://activitypub.space, help move the protocol that powers the fediverse forward.
Not your cup of tea? You can always donate to your server's admins, or admins of servers your friends are on. Or any server, really. Pick one at random!
But above all, keep a positive attitude. Welcome new people. Encourage positive conversations. Shitpost.
And if you have to vent, go ahead, but don't drag other people down.
For me, a lot of the protocol-level stuff is a bit above my head, so I've been focusing more on advocating. My own followers may be familiar with my work on https://jointhefediverse.net, a site I see regularly shared and linked to.
I also contribute to and curate https://fediverseexplorations.org.
I've made creative bots followed by over 10,000 people.
https://bots.stefanbohacek.com
And there's even more at https://stefanbohacek.com/fediverse!
These are just some ideas, and I hope they encourage and inspire others!
In conclusion...lol. Here's my overarching point:
We need more people on the left unified in progressive ideals *and* who understand that just because republicans are the bad guys, it doesn't make democrats the good guys.
We Americans are constantly conditioned to view the world in terms of Good vs. Evil. It's in our media, our art, our politics. If Group A is Evil, then Group B *must* be Good.
That line of thinking fucks us every time, because the world isn't Avengers Endgame.
The Good vs Evil dichotomy at play:
Liberals left TwitterX for Bluesky. Musk was the "bad guy" so, new users assumed that BS were the "good guys." People literally referred to the respective platforms as the "good place" and "bad place."
Is BS better than X? Sure. But that wasn't the narrative.
New users projected liberalism onto BS when, in fact, BS was built on a libertarian manifesto. It's only now, 40m users in, that we're seeing what that means in practice.
https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/bluesky-may-have-the-juice-but-we-don-t-have-to-drink-the-kool-aid/
Ich schiff einen Igel vor Lachen!
"re:publica Vienna"
"claude" pronounced like "cloud" because it's a pun
"claude" pronounced like "clod" because it's fucking ai bullshit
@alexiaAlexia ΘΔ @liaizonwakest ⁂ I don't think SWF wants to be "the" organization for defining applications on the Fediverse, but we do want to clear obstacles to collaboration between developers. There are at least two other groups doing social standards on ActivityPub right now:
@alexiaAlexia ΘΔ @liaizonwakest ⁂
- The Social Web Community Group at the W3C (@socialcg@w3.social). This is an open group for extending and improving ActivityPub and related standards. There are task forces for forums, groups, end-to-end encryption, remixing, discovery, data portability, trust and safety, geosocial data, and more.
- The FEP process. Loosely connected to the SocialCG but more lightweight. https://fediverse.codeberg.page/fep/
Today’s #BatsInBlankets cutie is this Evening Bat (Nycticeius humeralis) who passed his flight testing last night with flying colours. He will officially join the group that’s being released in the coming days! #BatsInMyBelfry
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