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If we all chose to treat deadlines as an act of love, we could transform the world.
No, really.
http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/deadlines-as-an-act-of-love
Looking for interested developers to review an #RSS approach to handle music metadata for better #interoperability. Details can be found here https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/issues/2428.
@freeblissSimon Repp @bandwagon @service 
@powerampachePower Ampache 2 
@musicbrainz
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.
めかよじだ
Organizers Log:
I got some pricing information from SFU (SImon Fraser University) about possibly using one of their locations for FediCon 2026.
RE: https://social.wake.st/@liaizon/116102789652461052
Yes it seems that way. As soon as i saw the suthors fedi page it was fairly obvious. And to some extent a priori i trust the folks who apply it in their work.
Scam detector I'm just writing off as noise. Thanks for this History!
Today's #calligraphy practice: this now-classic copypasta from 
@lynnesbianLynnesbian 
(CC4.0-BY-NC-SA)
I think this nib probably needs replacing, it keeps chewing up the paper and as you can see the fibres occasionally caught in the nib drag the ink on certain strokes like the tails of "h", "k", and "a". It is a Hunt 22, on the stiffer side, not capable of the dramatic changes in line width you get with a 101 or my beloved Leonardt Principal, but good for smaller writing.
According to preliminary info: at 23:20 yesterday, a Su-34 fighter was destroyed over occupied Zaporizhzhia region while on a combat mission, according to AviVector. The aircraft had struck Dnipropetrovsk region with guided bombs but crashed near Kamyanka. #Ukraine
Hey, you, reader:
Ever been browsing someone's blog, website, repo -- even their social web profile -- and thought to yourself "Wow, that's really neat. I love what they did here!"
Consider telling them! Someone on here made a post a while back encouraging people to do just that, and I've tried to make a conscious habit of contacting the authors of neat little indie and smolweb sites.
Email, guestbook, comment; whatever it might be, consider reaching out somehow to share your appreciation. You might be surprised at how much it makes their day.
You might also be surprised to discover how much making their day makes yours, too.
토르 브라우저 버그로 짤방이 안올라간것 같습니다 ㅠㅠ
With the latest AI tools, the CLI has never been more popular. Time to dust off my VT510. Windows is for suckers.
With the latest AI tools, the CLI has never been more popular. Time to dust off my VT510. Windows is for suckers.
I have another thing you can do to help people in Minneapolis!
These kids are raising funds to go to Space Camp. It’s a beautiful structure: families pay what they can, then •all• the families fundraise the remaining total for •all• the kids together. Either everyone goes or no one goes.
The ICE invasion really knocked the fundraising on its heels this year: everyone diverted, one major fundraising event cancelled. It’s looking a little dire; maybe no one goes this year. They could use some help.
https://www.mpsspacecamp2026.com
1/
Tesla has to pay historic $243M judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says
Link: https://electrek.co/2026/02/20/tesla-has-to-pay-historical-243-million-judgement-over-autopilot-crash-judge-says/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47090584
Don’t Be Fooled By the Corrupt Court’s Tariff Decision
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/dont-be-fooled-by-the-corrupt-courts-tariff-decision/sharetoken/8cbe2122-bbad-42a1-bf2c-1eeea649969c
President Trump tells reporters he’ll sign an executive order today imposing a “ten percent global tariff” above tariffs already being charged.
@newsguyusaSteve Herman toddler has been told: you can't do that, stop it. Toddler looks, turns around and does it again.
@Mastodon is changing course when it comes to how people join the platform. In late 2022, the team decided to send sign-ups directly to their server in order to make onboarding more straightforward. But that didn't align with the promise of decentralization. Here, Community Director 
@haubleshannah aubry explains the new approach to server recommendation, along with some other ways Mastodon is helping build community.
#Mastodon #SocialMedia #Decentralization #ActivityPub #Community #Technology #Tech
“I’m ashamed of certain members of the Court for not doing what is right,” says President Trump of the 6-3 SCOTUS ruling against him on tariffs, adding they’ve been "swayed by foreign interests."
President Trump tells reporters he’ll sign an executive order today imposing a “ten percent global tariff” above tariffs already being charged.
once you have mastery, you can half ass things correctly, because you know which half of the ass you need
... 이거 뭐 매번 이 싸이클의 반복이구만 ㅋㅋㅋ 아예 누가 짤방도 만들어둠 ㅋㅋㅋ
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:43fdk46qa5gsokzygzildsaq/post/3mfcqttfmbd2w
bugs bunny and daffy duck hold...
きょうもさむうい 
6ba6285a73 (upstream/main) Reject unconfirmed FASPs (#37926)
7b85d21823 Re-use custom socket class for FASP requests (#37925)
3d33294870 Collection accounts editor: Show info badge on accounts that haven't posted in over a week (#37928)
68a7cd404d Require following accounts before being able to add them to a collection (#37927)
4d2ca8c92a New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#37924)
cc1e65dcec Add `GET /api/v1/profile` (#37912)
I'm not mad. Please don't record in the oplog that I'm mad
Days since I had to turn something off and back on just to make it work again: 0
Never trust lawmakers who want to expand surveillance “to protect children”.
It’s never about protecting children.
No Skill. No Taste
Link: https://blog.kinglycrow.com/no-skill-no-taste/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47089907
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.
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.
@cammermanChris Ammerman And it's easy for rent seekers to kill free tools:
1. Flood them with slop PRs to make the maintainers give up
2. Flood them with money to implement AI features (like Mozilla)
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
Peter Thiel. Any guarantee the data in Persona doesn't get passed to Palantir?
@annehargreavesAnneH @Em0nM4stodonEm Absolutely zero.
Assume that's the purpose and act accordingly.
NEW: DHS left embedded comments in a PDF outlining its plans to warehouse immigrants, identifying the architects and laying bare the gross extent of its regulatory capture. Great scoop by @regret.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy: www.wired.com/story/metada...
ME: oh huh, we forgot to update `rspec-rails` from v6 back when we upgraded to Rails 8.0. i should fix that.
[ONE HOUR LATER]
ME: `git commit -am "Update rails to 8.1 lol"`
A sunset walk to try to regain a bit of mental balance after a heavy week and a truly demanding day.
My relationship with the weekend has always been complicated. And this weekend I hope will be calm, with the same atmosphere as this photo.
A budget is a moral document.
If we all chose to treat deadlines as an act of love, we could transform the world.
No, really.
http://blog.jbrains.ca/permalink/deadlines-as-an-act-of-love
The new form of email spam that somehow bypasses the filters: "UGC influencers"
Canadian Politics 🇨🇦 : Satire / Politique canadienne 🇨🇦: Satire
Pierre Poilievre crosses floor to Liberals
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/02/pierre-poilievre-crosses-floor-to-liberals/
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Pierre Poilievre traverse chez les Libéraux
// Publication en anglais //
Founder drops AWS for Euro stack in bid for sovereignty • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/20/ditching_aws_euro_stack/
It's super exciting to see so many libghostty-based projects popping up (two were on HN yesterday alone). This was always the REAL goal of Ghostty that I've been transparent about since the first public talk I gave.
Ghostty the app has always really been a glorified tech demo for libghostty which I planned/hoped would really take over the world eventually with a diverse set of terminal-adjacent things focused on specific goals/ideals. And that's exactly what's happening.
Awesome.
While writing my article, it became clear to me how much responsibility — and especially experience — is required to touch areas like UVM or NPF inside NetBSD.
I’ve learned a lot over the past weeks. But I’m also honest enough to say: I don’t yet have the depth of experience needed to modify those subsystems responsibly.
So I made a conscious decision.
I’ve created a new experimental branch for secmodel_jail / jailctl / jailmgr that is strictly additive:
- No changes to existing kernel code paths
- No UVM hooks
- No NPF integration
- No hidden coupling between subsystems
It adds new code only.
The reason is simple: even without deep UVM or NPF integration, the security model already delivers significant practical value for me. And in this reduced, explicit form, the attack surface is clear and the audit scope sharply defined.
This feels like the right first alpha candidate: understandable, bounded, and reversible.
https://github.com/MatthiasPetermann/netbsd-src/tree/feature/jails-v1-ga
Handy bash(1) prompt: PS1="\u@\h \w \!$ "
-- David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com>
Wikipedia bans Archive.today after site executed DDoS and altered web captures
If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
also every time I post about man pages people tell me that they like to use https://tldr.sh/ to quickly look up examples of how to use a tool. I don't use it personally but it seems popular and I think it's an interesting tool
The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications. Well, well, well.
Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk
https://newrepublic.com/post/206857/georgia-voter-fraud-elon-musk
#BankruptTesla #TeslaTakedown #CancelStarlink #BoycottSpaceX #ElonMusk #DOGE #Swastikars #USPol
Sarah Rainsberger
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Gabriele Svelto
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