A data analysis of how women’s clothing doesn’t actually fit women. “That leaves millions of people — over half of all adult women — who are excluded from standard size ranges” in their 20s and beyond. https://pudding.cool/2026/02/womens-sizing/

Saluton, Esperantistoj!

Mi estas Andersono, unu #Esperanto komencanto. Mi loĝas en #Brazilo. Mi estas #IT Analizisto.

Mi volas praktiki kun vi, kaj renkonti novajn amikojn!

Kiu deziras parolas kun mi?

#Prezento

RE: https://vt.social/@lina/116097856103360777

Because I've been negative quite a bit about the potential Discord replacements/the way "open web" people tend to try and develop novice-facing applications - reading this guy's post, I actually think his head's screwed on about right.

No FOSS fallacy smells here and a commendable focus on the desired end user experience over purism, even while discussing the development process. Top marks, no notes.

The blog: https://blog.fluxer.app/how-i-built-fluxer-a-discord-like-chat-app/

@steveSteve Bate "will there be CIMD hosting services", you mean like https://cimd-service.fly.dev ?

Or: https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-oauth-client-id-metadata-document-00.html#name-client-metadata-documents-f

Effectively, yes. You could have a CIMD hosting service, but if you use the `hostname` of the CIMD as the "client name" (when untrusted) you probably want a "pretty" value instead of `https://cimd-service.fly.dev/clients/bafyreidxk6lscepiy3lxtev7jag67s2taiyhk3gwazfd4khivaejsfyipq`

In AT Protocol, they say essentially: "If the URL is `https://hostname.example/oauth-client-metadata.json" then we can display just `hostname.example` as the client name when untrusted.

That's a nice pattern, we *may* adopt that in CIMD spec itself, but I don't think we have that pattern currently.

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Void kitties can have a memory leak, as a treat

Breath - In color

Random pictures between two series…

My last daily notes from the past year or from the beginning of the new one, in no particular order.

#color
#colorphotography
#stilllife
#fieldnotes
#diary
#urbanphoto
#urbanphotography
#urbanpoetry
#streetphoto
#streetphotography
#iphone
#documentingspace
#streetstorytelling
#photostreet
#bretagne

it is not hard to be better than this. it is almost impossible to be worse than this

Your first Linux distro

#linux #shitpost

Boosts really, really welcome

I desperately need money. I'm homeless in Germany with a very low income, so I have issues reliably getting food and a roof above my head.

I would feel bad just asking for donations because there's lots of entities in way worse situations with zero income, so instead I want to do work (one-off contract is fine, doesn't have to be an employment contract. Has to be remote tho. Note I do not speak German, only English and Czech.)

Any money helps, I would need about a 900€ a month extra to be able to comfortably eat and have a roof above my head. I am most struggling this February, March, and some of April, maybe May, after that I should be able to get some money. I'll gladly do several one-time contracts.

I live with my girlfriend, who has no income, so my income is housing and feeding both of us.

I do have EU citizenship, but not a German one. I do have residence in the EU, I just cannot reside there for health reasons, but any post for eg. sent to it can be forwarded to me.
I can do most computer things, mostly sysadmin & programming:

• Linux kernel drivers (primarily DRM subsystem and USB, some security work incl. finding a DoS 0day in the USB stack),
• Mesa (primarily the Intel Vulkan driver (anv))-, Gradle (mostly debugging of the core and working on some plugins),
• IntelliJ (figuring out exactly when the IDE complains about source code not matching bytecode, amongst other things)
• lots of work with Java (.class transformers, agents, JMX, profiling, the .class file format spec + the JVM spec, the HotSpot C++ source code, the debugger protocol, jcmd, and other related tooling, JNI, hooking up jdb to NeoVim to implement code hotswapping and some basic code to implement some IDE features...)
• Java Spring (web app backend, I worked at a company as a backend developer)
• React
• TypeScript
• JavaScript (spent decent amount of time reading the ECMA spec)
• Python Flask (mostly simple web apps)
• PostgreSQL (primary rel database sw I use)
• MySQL
• C (lots of experience with GNU Make, GCC & Clang, incl. compiler intrinsics, linker scripts, cross-compiling, and similar. Large parts of the spec memorized) + pkgconfig
• Assembly (x86 primarily, some Thumb2 (Cortex-M0+ specifically), 6502, RISC-V. I can manually assemble and disassemble machine code for these, memorized some opcodes, wrote assemblers.)
• CMake, Meson (primarily debugging and fixing build issues in other projects, along with tracking down a bug in the Meson Rust support a while back)
• SPIR-V (wrote a compiler that emits SPIR-V)
• Networking, specifically experience deploying OpenVPN, Wireguard, writing and debugging iptables rules, network namespaces, handrolling networking for containers with veths & bridges, manually connecting to a network with just iproute2, configuring the routing tables, parts of the actual uAPI provided by the kernel as well as the internal implementation of netfilter
• A lot of experience with debugging and fixing issues in unfamiliar codebases and quickly familiarizing myself with them, including very large codebases (WebKit, Firefox, Android, Linux, Mesa...)
• Familiarity with many Linux APIs, incl. those used for debugging the kernel, as well as important concepts in the Linux kernel (files, fops, initcalls...)
• The x86 programming interface used by kernels
• Lots of familiarity with QEMU and deploying and managing VMs and their networking, isolating them into VLANs, etc
• RouterOS and Cisco iOS
• Vulkan and OpenGL APIs (primarily 3D. I've worked on Vulkan drivers, and a bit of OpenGL drivers. I know most of the Vulkan 1.0 spec by hand, and ofc lots of the extensions added since.)
• Zig (some small CLI utils
• Bash (lots of helper scripts on the systems I admin)
• Zsh
• POSIX sh (tested primarily with busybox dash. Translating bash scripts to POSIX sh)
• Some Perl,
• Haskell (Web backend mostly)
• Lua (including the C interface, embedding Lua & writi g native Lua libs)
• Guile
• Clojure (mostly getting Clojure & the REPL to run in places meant to work with Java)
• Rust (primarily work with no_std and sometimes no_core, lots of CLI utils, some Web backend and game engine work), debugging some rustc compiler issues
• VimScript (a lot of work writing plugins for doing all kinds of things in NeoVim (including writing patches to add new features to VimScript){
• A bit of Elixir
• Some programs written in C# (though no experience with .NET yet. Can easily learn, but only dotnet core, since framework needs Windows)
• Coq/Rocq, Agda, Idris2, F*, LiquidHaskell) (for type theory stuff, haven't gotten that far in most of them besides writing some proofs in primarily Coq and Agda)
• LaTeX & TeX (both TeX Core and LaTeX, though primarily LaTeX. I write most documents that need fancier formatting than just markdown in LaTeX.)
• Koka (since it's a research language, I mostly learned it for its pretty unique effects system, and haven't done anything practical in it)
• Android development (in Java, which included hand-writing the entire project structure the android Gradle plugin expects, and manually setting up the Android tooling (platform and dev tools), and hooking it up to NeoVim & Emacs.)
• Knowledge about Android system, including binder, HALs, tracing the implementation of eg. Camera on Pixels, the signature verification impl, APEXes, dm-verity, parts of the bootloader
• OCaml (mostly the basics)
• Wayland protocol (working on both compositors, compositor frameworks, and clients, in both Rust and C)
• Worked with Smithay and wlroots, wrote patches for Sway
• X11 (wrote a window manager, compositor, status bar, image viewer, worked a bit on writing a client library from scratch)
• WebAssembly (handrolled a loader in JS for one project with frontend in Zig from scratch with no libraries)
• Experience managing an infrastructure consisting of several computers networked together over the internet with VPNs & some sharing a LAN with multiple switches & VLANs
• Experience managing Debian & Ubuntu servers, Arch NixOS, Void, and Gentoo systems, along with a bit of Fedora
• Lots of familiarity with the Nix package manager (including internals of CppNix, and many of the experimental features like recursive Nix, dynamic derivations...), the Nix language, nixpkgs, NixOS, home-manager, handrolling versions of these from scratch, internals of the caches and the derivation format, how it generates links between derivations, etc
• Knowledge of most of git, including the internal low-level commands, format of all files in the .git dir, and reimplementing higher level git commands using lower-level ones, and complex operations on git repos
• Matrix protocol & software (worked on the spec and with E2EE, host Synapse & Element)
• XMPP (running a prosody instance, read thru the specs)
• Docker & Docker compose (large parts of my infra runs in docker, I've also looked into how the docker CLI, docker daemon, containerd, and runc interact, worked with alternative runtimes like kata containers)
• Virtio (worked with guest drivers, parts of the QEMU impl)
• Experience with reading large documents formatted as specs and understanding them
• Experience reverse engineering undocumented open source software to figure out how to use it and debug it
• Cryptography and security knowledge (general good practices as well as experience hacking things)
• Experience with Linux APIs needed for making root and rootless containers, and handrolling self-contained packages of container + runtime
• Used to managing systems that use systemd and making use of systemd-provided features
• Familiarity with dbus, Perl dbus API, Portals API, Notifications API
• Knowledge of XDG Portals, incl. the way they use Pipewire
• Knowledge of using ffmpeg for encoding and editing videos
• Experience with working with embedded MCUs (RP2040, ESP8266)
• Experience with FPGAs (F4PGA toolchain for Xilinx Artix-7, so yosys, verilogtorouting, and F4PGA specific tooling for the actual bitstream generation, and some Verilog and VHDL knowledge).
• ActivityPub protocol & related protocols (implemented a fedi server from scratch in Rust)
• Familiarity with the TLS protocol, parts of X.509, and the OpenSSL CLI.
• Knowledge of the tty ioctls & escape sequences (needed for writing shells, terminal emulators, terminal multiplexers, TUI programs...)
• Experience making minimal embedded Linux images manually (compiling the kernel, making a rootfs by compiling the tooling, writing scripts to tie it together, etc)
• Some experience with FreeBSD (daily-driving it for a year on a laptop)
• Knowledge of Intel GEN12 GPUs (from working on Linux drivers on them, no NDAs or anything, just reading the millions of lines of source code for several years)
• I can learn pretty much any programming language within a few days and jump into working on a codebase.
• I am pretty good at explaining and teaching things to others
• I am very patient, both when it comes to interacting with others and when it comes to interacting with computers.
• Experience with porting features or Linux kernel modules between versions of Linux (or other software)
• I read most of the eSIM specs, meaning I have knowledge of how eSIMs work, incl. reading the source code of the Android impl and setting up a fully open source (OS wise) setup
• I have experience designing network protocols of any kind
• I have experience with GTK, libadwaita, and glib internals
• I have worked with QT
• I have lots of experience with LWJGL3
• Lots of experience with JavaFX
• Experience with Emacs & org-mode
• Some experience with btrfs & zfs
• Lots of experience with LUKS2 (including reverse engineering most of the on-disk format due to lack of detailed docs), and TPM 2.0
• I need to work in an asynchronous way - meetings are possible, but will be very difficult to arrange due to my life situation.
• Experience with the USB 2.0 protocol down to the wire level

There's a decent amount of stuff I have not listed, since I've been writing this for about an hour and I keep remembering more and more things. I've done a large amount of things, and I'm currently in the middle of migrating my temporary infrastructure to run on microvms connected over wireguard to a VPS managed by either Docker or Nix along with setting up SSO, monitoring, log gathering, and other improvements, so the current state of the infra is temporary, however source code some of my projects (not all, only some recent ones) are here: https://gitea.itycodes.org/itycodes/

"Monty Python was better" as the default reply to modern slop

Gemini 3.1 Pro

Link: https://deepmind.google/models/model-cards/gemini-3-1-pro/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075318

科学についての記事を書かなくちゃなあと思ってふとWikipediaを眺めてみたらEHTの絵が直接撮像とされていてうーん
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A7%91%E5%AD%A6

Oh this is wonderful news:

DNS-PERSIST-01: A New Model for DNS-based Challenge Validation
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html

> Instead of publishing a new challenge record for each issuance, you publish a standing authorization in the form of a TXT record that identifies both the CA and the specific ACME account you authorize to issue for this domain.

#DevOps #SysAdmin #InfoSec

#Django HealthCheck version 4.0 is out! 🎉 🥳

The list of new checks is huge, but let me know if we missed anything. Thanks to everyone who contributed and tried the release candidates!

https://github.com/codingjoe/django-health-check

@evanEvan Prodromou @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber @kopperkopper @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) Couldn’t we agree to standardize on expanded json-ld? We would not need any json-ld processor, we would not need to fetch or cache any context. There would be no way to shadow properties.

Wer eine Massenüberwachung etabliert, hat Schutz von Demokratie und Freiheit nicht verstanden, erklärte ich heute in WDR Aktuelle Stunde:

Merz fordert Klarnamenpflicht im Internet
https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/aktuelle-stunde/alle-videos/aktuelle-stunde-clip-aktuelle-stunde--19-02-2026-100.html

Fixing a Destroyed XBox 360 Development Kit

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/19/fixing-a-destroyed-xbox-360-development-kit/

Today @mkljczknicole mikołajczyk introduced a proposal for MAEPs (Mastodon API Enhancement Proposals) which would be similar to the FEP process but for converging on API schema for servers that are not Mastodon but who are using the Mastodon client API
https://codeberg.org/fediverse-pl/maep/issues/1
#fedidev #fediverse #MAEPs

UNFASSBAR:

"Wenn Eltern dreimal einen Termin im #Jobcenter versäumen, soll das #Jugendamt informiert werden, weil „der #Kinderschutz zu gewährleisten“ sei – so formuliert es die Bundesregierung in der Antwort auf eine Kleine Anfrage von Heidi Reichinnek (Die Linke)."
https://blog.dgsa.de/2026/01/21/kinderschutz-oder-kontrollpolitik-warum-die-bundesregierung-einen-neuen-verdachtsraum-fur-arme-familien-eroffnet/

Wir kennen es allerdings aus unserer Beratung, dass schon jetzt Eltern aufgrund des Jobcenters Ärger mit dem Jugendamt hatten 🤬Und "Kinderschutz" wird derzeit allgemein viel vorgeschoben um verschiedenste Schweinereien zu rechtfertigen, EKELHAFT!

Kona has done it again. She grabbed my gray fuzzy before I could hang it up and chewed two holes in before I could grab it back from her. (She's fast!) Used a chain stitch in a spiral with hemp yarn to fill the void. One down, one to go!

#sewing #VisibleMending #CatsOfMastodon #handsewing

DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'

Link: https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/doge-bros-grant-review-process-was-literally-just-asking-chatgpt-is-this-dei/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47076826

Robbie and I dig into:

🔂 ralph wiggum value
🗑️ context pollution
📉 rise and fall of MCP
🍦 vanilla claude is all you need
⚓️ css anchor failures

⤷ https://nerdy.dev/www-ep232-no-ralph-wiggum-no-training-wheels-just-agents

on Whiskey Web and Whatnot

it is not hard to be better than this. it is almost impossible to be worse than this

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I struggle to understand why the EU commission is recommending people to use X. How else should the fact that the X logo is plastered all over their (our) web site be interpreted. It's a deeply irresponsible and harmful use of their power of influence.

After all that's happened and after all the pleading and campaigning by citizens. This is the kind of thing that truly makes you lose faith.

I can't even bring myself to tag them in this post. There's no point anyway.

https://www.euronews.com/next/2026/02/11/nearly-half-of-europeans-would-back-banning-musks-x-if-it-keeps-breaking-eu-law-new-poll-f

MicroPython Now Requires AI Disclosure on Every Pull Request 🤖🧠

Somewhere between 'ban it all' and 'let the robots run free' there's a checkbox to help the team at MicroPython.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/19/micropython-now-requires-ai-disclosure-on-every-pull-request/

@viss lul

Saarbrücken – die Stadt, die niemals schläft, weil das Hochklappen der Bordsteine so laut ist.

Current Retro Project Thread🧵 List:

ZX Spectrum 128 +2A - https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin/116024770523537492

AMD Athlon K7 Slot build - https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin/115577755806163071

Commodore VIC-20 - https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin/115940837300671754

Commodore 64 Breadbin - https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin/113356505291939039

Amstrad NC100 - https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin/115894708834150226

Oh this is wonderful news:

DNS-PERSIST-01: A New Model for DNS-based Challenge Validation
https://letsencrypt.org/2026/02/18/dns-persist-01.html

> Instead of publishing a new challenge record for each issuance, you publish a standing authorization in the form of a TXT record that identifies both the CA and the specific ACME account you authorize to issue for this domain.

#DevOps #SysAdmin #InfoSec

@zenkat @soatokSoatok Dreamseeker like I was saying. Open your eyes, everyone. Look around you. This is how it is, here in the richest country in the world. One of our largest American exports is blood money, and I mean that very much literally. Not an exaggeration, it’s not hyperbole, it’s a fact. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/americans-sell-plasma-inflation-middle-class-expenses-economy-rcna258390

I've uploaded a new scrolling ASCII art piece, "Candlelight"

https://scrollart.org/candlelight/

(Click VIEW FULLSCREEN for best effect.)

“This isn’t a case of being inspired by something and building on it. It’s the opposite of that. It’s taking something that worked and making it worse. Is there even a goal here beyond ‘generating content’?”
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

Discovered the music of Li Yilei this morning

Lots going on here

eepytime announcement:

@haubleshannah aubry @pixelcatsPixelcats⁷ @Mastodon

Yeah, to make clear, Hannah has been great at responding to queries and listening patiently to criticism! I think that comes through in this thread for example?

And yes it's good to have more than one source of tech support. I encourage people to do their own support sites and/or use my text as a basis if they want to as it's available under CC-By-SA. I don't want to end up as a single point of failure on a site encouraging decentralisation 🙂

@pixelcatsPixelcats⁷

Not at all! I love @FediTips, I boost their posts and send links to their work often. Our Help Centre is specifically geared towards Mastodon.social users, and the #fediquette guide is intended as a quick primer to help people get up to speed on our cultural norms.

When it comes to getting the word out about the #Fediverse, and educating people about how to have a good time here, I generally take the attitude more better!

@Mastodon

Well the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor episode of "24 hours in police custody" will be interesting

Are you buying a new computing device or accessory earlier than you might, in anticipation of the impending price hike of RAM and mass storage?

#poll #tech #computing

Dive into this Scientific Visualization panel from the Blender channel — experts Paul Melis, Adam Kalisz, Milan Jaros, Marwan Abdellah, Mike Simpson & Sybren A. Stüvel discuss 3D visualization techniques and workflows. Great for creators & scientists! #Blender #PeerTube #ScientificVisualization #DataViz #3D #OpenSource #Graphics #Science #English
https://peertube.tv/videos/watch/8e364d32-8918-403e-a8c0-915634b9f405

RE: https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/116098697624729633

Today in #enshittification...

Having amazing colleagues means someone brings up a random animal fact. Then another one continues with a 2nd. And at the end of the coffee break you have 3 fun random animal facts, and a French royalty fact (for the person who didn't have animal ones) that make you smile for the end of the day 😁

I’m thinking about sending everyone a Polaroid of something super weird and I really can't explain it, but you get the picture.

"How toddlers in Finland's 'language nests' are saving an endangered Sámi language" https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-saving-the-inari-smi-language

anyone wanna photoshop me a picture of catte in a padded cell? its for a good cause.