I just declared PR bankruptcy in the Spectre.Console project. It never feels good to do that, but the number of PRs started to stress me out, and many were duplicates or created without an issue. #oss

I will do better moving forward.

finding credentials in .msi files with msiexec https://lobste.rs/s/i4u55k #reversing #security #windows
https://ljb.fyi/your-msi-isnt-an-executable/

아 이 색 이쁘다

The local AI stack just got its long-term home 🤗❤️

Open-source + AI: ggml joins Hugging Face, llama.cpp stays open... the people closest to the tools are governing the tools. No cloud required, no API keys, no terms that change on you overnight.

https://blog.adafruit.com/2026/02/20/open-source-ai-ggml-joins-hugging-face-llama-cpp-stays-open-local-ais-long-term-home/

It's time to start organizing meetups for #LibreLocal 2026! https://u.fsf.org/4af #FreeSoftware #FSF

When you're writing code in a vacuum, it can be difficult to see the forest through the trees.

Tap into the #PyTexas community - a group of compassionate #python developers hosting trainings & other events like #PyTexasConference2026 to support more devs in Texas and beyond. 🚀

I had a really nice time talking about how "The Internet Was Never Inevitable" (touching on #othernetworks, media archaeology, and the @mediaarchaeologylab) on the Orthogonal Bet podcast. gawd this picture of me but whatever? https://www.theorthogonalbet.com/p/the-internet-was-never-inevitable?r=2ecqt1

Because of the summer beta season, I reset several iOS test devices at least twice a year.

You know what step of that process I haven’t seen go smoothly in YEARS? Disabling Find My & Activation Lock.

Type the password, hit the button, wait forever.

You can cancel and try again, and then it’ll work, but what?!

Is it just my iCloud account(s) this affects or is Reset not on one of the regular QA scripts at Apple?

[美관세 위법판결] 트럼프에 힘싣던 대법, 결정적 사안서 발목 잡았다
(워싱턴=연합뉴스) 조준형 특파원 = 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령 2기 출범을 전후해 트럼프 대통령의 어젠다에 유리한 판결을 이어온 미 연방 대법...
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260109006400071

#news #뉴스

Once you realize it’s not “age verification”, but actually “identity verification”, then it’s easy to understand that the real goal is “papers, please” for the entire internet.

らくがき

メタなこと考える人が増えた？

Gentoo moves too!

In recent days, weeks, months, the fallout hasn't even begun - Microsoft is still weathering the blast itself. Even in the last couple of days viral videos are racking up millions of views covering what many people are hailing as the demise of Microsoft itself - to be certain, no one is shedding any tears.

The first two defectors? HP and Samsung (PCs and Androids). Samsung removed preinstalled Microsoft apps from their devices and now other Android manufacturers are following suit.

When you go to purchase an HP laptop now it comes with Linux by default (or you can, upon request, pay more for a Microsoft operating system). Following suit were Dell (same thing, Linux by default or your can request Windows 11 and pay more money for it), then Lenovo, ASUS, and Acer - pretty much everyone that matters has abandoned Microsoft.

Even the retailers are bugging out - Best Buy, Walmart, and even Amazon are jumping ship, and I don't even need to explain why, but again, you can pay more to be subjected to invasive privacy mining. CoPilot and Recall may be the straws that broke the behemoth's back.

And the shockwaves of ever larger concentric circles have found their way to Gentoo, the latest prominent project to begin the migration to CodeBerg according to Linux Journal.

Adherence to the values of privacy and open source are cited, and Codeberg champions those values, themselves having moved to a hosted git software project that values those principles - Forgejo.

There's a huge paradigmatic shift occurring with respect to how people view their privacy, and especially their identities and intellectual property. They've had enough of the dismissive subjugation and are realizing they can do much better, faster, with more privacy, and without tracking or malware pre-installed in their systems, for much less money.

It will be interesting to see how the Redmond Dreadnought manages to maneuver this time; have they even the use of their rudder to persuade all of the major manufacturers of Android devices, desktop and laptop PCs to come back from the pasture into the slaughterhouse?

#tallship #Gentoo #Codeberg #Forgejo #FOSS #Privacy

opengl is for people who want to finish projects and vulkan is for people who are just looking for something to help their ecs framework stand out a little more

[美관세 위법판결] 트럼프에 힘싣던 대법, 결정적 사안서 발목 잡았다
(워싱턴=연합뉴스) 조준형 특파원 = 도널드 트럼프 미국 대통령 2기 출범을 전후해 트럼프 대통령의 어젠다에 유리한 판결을 이어온 미 연방 대법...
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260109006400071

#news #뉴스

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/116104111241012361

this isn't a discord alternative btw, we will have group chats and public channels like Telegram, but have no intention to support discord like guilds.

there are quite a few promising discord alternatives, we don't plan to go that route.

just realized CSS variables don't yet support the most basic compositional pattern — calculating from parent value github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

[css-values-5] inherit() funct...

The children yearn for the stove.

Sometimes you just need a solid, straightforward, monospace pixel font right? right?* something like this: https://somepx.itch.io/pixel-font-brief

*I most certainly do, that's why I made this
#font #design #pixelart #gamedev

Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c0l9r67drg7t
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089213

仕事が嫌になったので、こういうDSLを妄想してみた
https://github.com/polidog/ReverHTTP/blob/main/spec.md

このDSLを考えた背景として、WhatとHOWを分離したいという気持ちと、LLMにプログラミング言語扱わせるのはコンテキスト肥大化するなという課題感から考えてみました。

面白いのはDSLからJSON IRつまりjsonで中間表現をすることによってどの言語でも実装可能にするところかなと思っています。

実験的なものなので、実用レベルにしようとも思わないけどとりあえずPHPで動くところまでは作ってみようと思います。

Cleaning up merged git branches: a useful one-liner https://lobste.rs/s/fbp9s0 #unix
https://spencer.wtf/2026/02/20/cleaning-up-merged-git-branches-a-one-liner-from-the-cias-leaked-dev-docs.html

what if your messenger didn't care what protocol your friends use?

sup bridges activitypub, xmpp, irc, atproto and more into one clean app. pixelfed, mastodon, loops - every one.

modular by design. hackable by default.

open source + agpl + self-hostable

the ethical messenger that shouldn't exist but soon will. 🔥

follow @supappsup for updates and early access

#Sup

We've recently started adding #CampaignFinance data to all the #CivicBand sites in #California where we can get that data easily.

We now have data for #SanJoaquin county going back to 2012

https://sanjoaquin-county.ca.civic.band/

RE: https://social.bau-ha.us/@raganwald/116104073958774806

It becomes all the more important to preserve free (as in no landlords) tool chains that can ship software all the way to end users.

Death to Scroll Fade via @toastalｔｏ⟁ｓｔ⟁ｌ https://lobste.rs/s/bi9wsi #a11y #css #web
https://dbushell.com/2026/01/09/death-to-scroll-fade/

it is funny to me that on one side of the argument, the extreme view is "we are creating the antichrist and the machine god slave will herald in a new society"

and on the other side, the views that get labeled as extreme are things like "i don't want to use it, it gives me the ick"

Shared some thoughts on ggml-ai joining Hugging Face - they've been a good steward of the crucial Transformers open source library so I'm optimistic that great things are ahead for ggml-ai, which kicked off the local model revolution back in March 2023 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/20/ggmlai-joins-hugging-face/

What you working on there?
#Plushtodon is here to keep me motivated on a Friday afternoon. 💜🐘

#Mastodon #EU #socialMedia #EuropeanCommission

#plushtodon is the newest addition to my desk, alongside slowpoke and Kevin the wizard

If I was meant to respond to them they would have been called YEStifications.

お酒嫌いではないし極端に弱いわけでもないんだけど自分から飲む習慣はなくて、だけどたまに抽象的な意味で乾杯したくなるときはあってそれが今日です

にょきにょき
https://note.com/kanrk/n/n74346a1f01df

Marcel keeps vigil against errant squirrels #catsofMastodon

It had come to that. #grickledoodle #duck #shame #consensus #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor

Simon stares into the void

#CatsOfMastodon

Hello sloth enjoyers! We just made the third and hopefully final release candidate for #GoToSocial v0.21.0 Sacrilegious Sloth:

https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/releases/tag/v0.21.0-rc4

For instructions to update to this release candidate from versions < v0.21.0-rc1, see the v0.21.0-rc1 release candidate notes, but replace v0.21.0-rc1 with v0.21.0-rc4 throughout.

To update to this release candidate from v0.21.0-rc1, or v0.21.0-rc3, just follow the instructions in the release notes.

내 LLM 사용법은,

1. 참조할 데이터 범위를 한정한다. 이 물건의 인터넷 상 실제 이용자의 평가에서, 이 유튜브 영상의 화자 발언 중에서, 이 레포지터리의 소스 코드에서, 등으로.
2. 내야할 결과를 명확히 지정한다. 이러이러한 내 사용 조건에서 이 물건은 내 이러저러한 목적에 쓸모가 있는가? 이 개념은 다른 저 개념과 모순이지 않는가? 이 기능에서 패러미터들은 무엇이 있는가? 등.
3. 가능하면 기준도 지정한다. 신뢰성을 우선시 해 줘, 영상 화자의 입장을 기준으로, Python API 호출 시를 기준으로 해줘, 등.

무엇보다 참조할 데이터 범위를 제한하면 환각이 많이 줄어들더라. 막연하게 물으면 화려한 꿈소리가 나온다... 😇

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仕事が嫌になったので、こういうDSLを妄想してみた
https://github.com/polidog/ReverHTTP/blob/main/spec.md

このDSLを考えた背景として、WhatとHOWを分離したいという気持ちと、LLMにプログラミング言語扱わせるのはコンテキスト肥大化するなという課題感から考えてみました。

面白いのはDSLからJSON IRつまりjsonで中間表現をすることによってどの言語でも実装可能にするところかなと思っています。

実験的なものなので、実用レベルにしようとも思わないけどとりあえずPHPで動くところまでは作ってみようと思います。

Brat, a parallel TAP testing harness for the POSIX shell by @sstephensonSam Stephenson https://lobste.rs/s/wul2hi #unix
https://codeberg.org/sstephenson/brat

どう考えてもこれは草

claude code に設計案の相談していたら、「...その内部もまた状態遷移の思想で織られているとしたら、medium がそのまま message になるという二重の意味が生まれます。」とかいきなり言いだして、おまえはなんで俺の読書傾向を知っているんだよ。プログラミングの相談していたはずなのに。

At #Blackhurst celebrating #PattyDay early and often.

February 23 is Jamaican Patty Day in #Toronto

You know about the Patty Wars?
40+ years ago, he Canadian government decided that "beef patties" could ONLY refer to the meat product used for hamburgers per the Meat Inspection Act, and that every place selling Jamaican patties needed to rebrand, ASAP, or face thousands of dollars in fines.

Let's just say: the government lost. Badly.
You can read about it here:
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/short-docs/the-story-of-toronto-s-bizarre-1985-patty-wars-when-the-government-tried-to-rename-the-beef-patty-1.6352203

Ima eat this patty and several more leading up to Monday. I've given you a good heads-up, so you can acquire some by Patty Day.

#omnomnom #eats #food

항상 감사합니다 🙇🙇🙇

🟧 « On n'a plus de moyens d'exprimer notre colère, nos inquiétudes, nos peurs. »

Fleur Breteau convoquée #AuPoste pour revenir sur le mépris affiché par les élus envers les préoccupations sanitaires et environnementales.

🐍 PyCascades 2026 Sprints

Want to collaborate, contribute to open source, and build with the community? 💜

Join us for sprints at PyCascades! Whether you’re new to contributing or experienced, everyone is welcome.

ℹ️ Details 👉 https://2026.pycascades.com/program/sprints/

#Python #PyCascades

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AI거품은 좀 꺼질 필요가 있다

Damn. PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/paypal-discloses-data-breach-exposing-users-personal-information/