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Name: Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 17-25

Status: Go for Launch

Window: 21/02/2026 08:00 - 21/02/2026 12:00

Agency: SpaceX
Mission type: Communications

Mission: A batch of 25 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.
Webcast live: No

"Part of the reason I made a hard leftwing turn was because I was burned by my own techno-optimism. I am part of a generation that believed it could change the world, and then was taught a harsh lesson about money and power."

(Original title: The Left Doesn't Hate Technology, We Hate Being Exploited)

https://aftermath.site/anthropic-claude-ai-leftist-technology/

Okay nerds, tell me about your favorite Linux desktop distro

Points for:
* I don't want an operating system as a hobby
* It needs to "just work" for everyday tasks (sound, video streaming, printing, scanning, etc)
* Most of my games already work under Steam's Proton layer
* I'm not a Linux newbie, I've been using it for development for 30+ years and have multiple servers in various flavors
* Debian based distros preferred overall
* No GenAI
* Bonus round: Wayland vs KDE Plasma

Roughly the same instant I successfully learned to use Diesel and hit the point I had a Diesel starting point I could write apps from, I realized what I really should have been using from the start was sqlx+sea-query.

Roughly the same instant I successfully learned to use Yew and had a starting point I could write apps from, I realized what I really should have been using from the start was Dioxus.

There's this problem, and Rust has it, and JavaScript has it 10x worse, but Rust does have it

Voith Schneider Propeller

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47027171

Comparison of cloud storage encryption software

In this blog post, I compare a software that encrypt files on top of public cloud storage

https://dataswamp.org/~solene/2026-02-19-local-encrypted-volume-comparison.html

gemini://perso.pw/blog/articles/local-encrypted-volume-comparison.gmi
#security #privacy #linux

@soleneSolène

RP2040 Powers A MIDI-Controlled Soundboard

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/19/rp2040-powers-a-midi-controlled-soundboard/

Nothing wrong with slow-boosting on the #Fediverse.

The most annoying thing about corporate surveillance to me is the arrogance of the prediction mechanisms.

These algorithms build a model of me based on my clicks from three years ago and then try to trap me in that loop forever. They show me music they think I'll like, and news they think I'll engage with, and videos they think will enrage me enough to keep me hooked to their platforms. They are actively trying to flatten my personality into something easy to monetize.

As most people I've seen say out loud, "Privacy as a concept is way beyond hiding secrets. A part of it also means preserving your capacity to change. To be surprised. To be inconsistent."

If I could tell every human one thing, it would be to actively refuse to be a predictable data point. Mess up their metrics. In whatever way you are capable of.

#socialmedia #algorithmicbias #privacy #dataprivacy #quotes #foss #facebook #linkedin #llm #noai #enshittification #reading #books #baking #art #philosophy #adhd #depression #cybersecurity

Friendly reminder: this quarter's PSF Fellow Membership nomination due date is a bit over 24 hours from now. If you know someone whose work should be recognized this way, see https://www.python.org/psf/fellows/ for the details, criteria, and nomination instructions.

I just saw an ad from the municipality of Groningen promoting afternoon sessions where volunteers help people upgrade their laptops from Windows 10 to Linux for free.

Pretty cool!

#Groningen

​​ 5年後、10年後に楽をするために今日も頑張りましょ​​

Mark Zuckerberg Grilled on Usage Goals and Underage Users at California Trial

Link: https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/meta-mark-zuckerberg-social-media-trial-0e9a7fa0
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47075245

@mojoaxelAlex 🍜 Und alle Politiker die Namen und Logos ihrer Parteispender*innen - als gut zu lesende Aufkleber auf den Anzügen.

今日はおちんぎん日

Leiden is hiring an Assistant Professor in Astronomy & Society, come join our department!

https://careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistant-professor-on-Astronomy-&-Society/16350-en_US

#SciComm #AcademicJobs #hiring

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116094075872982176

Totally agree! This is exactly what #GoToSocial's interaction policies already handle with Accept/Reject for replies. The missing piece is retroactive rejection. When a reply was auto-accepted by the policy and you later block the author, the server should send a Reject on the original Create activity to unlink it. Extending their framework would be the cleanest path.

Baby tuxies win everyone over 🐱💖 #FosterKittens #FluffyFursday #cats #CatsOfMastodon

RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/116098978692376296

This is like saying you're doing "S3 Extension Proposals", because "multiple projects implemented S3-compatible (enough) APIs and Clients"

The only one that defines S3's API is AWS.

It's not a standard no matter how many projects implement it.

The Mastodon API is defined by Mastodon only. It's not a standard no matter how much people want to treat it as a standard. Use C2S / ActivityPub API.

If you want to advance the Fediverse, there's plenty of taskforces at Social Web CG that need help writing FEPs and standards documents. It's not as hard as you might think, just time consuming.

Resurrecting _why's Dream https://lobste.rs/s/df1p8i #ruby
https://schwadlabs.io/blog/resurrecting-whys-dream

Wichtig: Bitte schickt keine Unterschriftenlisten mehr per Post – sie kommen nicht mehr rechtzeitig an. Du kannst deine Listen heute und morgen in unserem Laden in der Caffamacherreihe abgeben. Falls wir gerade nicht da sind: einfach nebenan beim Nasch oder beim FuckYeah abgeben.

Jetzt zählen die letzten zwei Tage. Let’s go – gemeinsam sammeln für ein Hamburg, das wir uns alle leisten können! ✊

#nolympia #olympia #nolympicsanywhere #Hamburg #nolympia_hamburg @umweltFAIRaendern @nolympia

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千葉県君津市　片倉ダム

#クルマ旅
#風景写真
#photography

撮影日　2026/01/31

They've been testing it since 8000 B.C.

Tonight, Short Circuit (1986) from John Badham

I have seen it when I was around 12.
Timing sounds good for a re-watch.

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[ship groans, creaks]

I'm extremely hyped about the performance of the upcoming (#Wasm-based) @ohmjs v18.

!!!

(please don't let this be a mistake in my benchmarking)

[ship groans, creaks]

#skeb作品

How am I supposed to get anything done? #catsofmastodon

Everyone's use of LLMs provides cover for these uses of LLMs. All of it

Careful use isn't _more responsible_ than this use, the aggregate of careful use is _responsible for_ this kind of use. It's hair in fascism's beard

This is what the cute "it has legitimate uses" stuff contributes to the world. Well done more open minded than thou* LLM experimenter, this is the future you're helping the worst men on earth win. Far more and far worse consequences for far more people

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/doge-bros-grant-review-process-was-literally-just-asking-chatgpt-is-this-dei/

같은 백인도 인정한(?)

Farewell Rust

Link: https://yieldcode.blog/post/farewell-rust/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47077383

같은 백인도 인정한(?)

Micro-horror of this moment:

- In the HTML/DOM event model, events have names like "click" or "submit"; you attach an event handler to a tag by saying "onclick" or "onsubmit".

- Apparently, for thirty years, I've been writing this wrong, like "onClick" or "onSubmit". Web Browsers just sorta roll with this and convert to lowercase. React/Preact JSX do the same conversion and do not flag an error, they pass it through and then the browser accepts it.

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1. https://thistleandmoss.com
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3. https://thistleandmoss.onlinem - Live Owncast
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5. https://thepoetmiranda.com -- the best trans poet ever.
6. https://onyxrose.net - POC Goodness
7. https://keiraofthestars.beehiiv.com - Best scifi/spec fiction you can get.
8. https://wuzzittoya.org/ - Queer porch talk at night live.

@gugurumbeVivien (toujours dans le déni) @kopperkopper I don't think that's the model of ActivityPub. It's made to allow reading remote objects.

Most implementations pre-load or compile in the external contexts. I agree, it's a big performance hit to load context URLs at runtime.

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더불어민주당과 조국혁신당은 윤석열 전 대통령에 대한 1심 재판부의 무기징역 선고에 대해 “미흡한 판결”, “논란을 증폭시키는 판결”이라고 비판했습니다.

‘윤석열 무기징역’에 민주 “미흡한 판결…특검, 조속히...

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Joey & Sheena #cats #snow #catsofMastodon #friend

My favourite piece of internet today is the theory that Jesus was actually a type of yeast.

Turns water into wine
Floats on water
Makes bread for 5000 people
Put in a cave for 3 days and lo - he has risen!
Jesus was a sourdough starter.

Also this would imply: We should be calling him 'Mother' not 'Father'

At a glance, Canada looks vast and evenly spread but when you divide the country by population, the picture changes dramatically...

by @the.world.in.maps

If one creates an UnsafeMutableRawPointer using allocate() and then calls deallocate(), isn't the pointer pointing to now-arbitrary memory?

How does one safely "forget" the pointer? Only thing I can think of is making the UnsafeMutableRawPointer property optional so it can be set to nil after the deallocate() call.

#SwiftLang

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Hello! I moved from .ART, and I guess this forces me to update my #introduction

I'm a digital #artist and a software developer. I'm probably known for the new drawing tablet features in the #KDE Plasma 6.x series. I also co-maintain the KDE's Mastodon client Tokodon and their Matrix client NeoChat.

While I slowly re-post my old stuff, all of my work can be found on my website: https://redstrate.com/