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What I'm listening to today: "Down With Silent Night", Irena and Vojtech Havlovi
From 1992, a married couple playing a duet on piano and cello. Feels like a movie score both in the 10,000-foot atmospheric vibes and the weird echoey way the cello is recorded. It's gorgeous, "evocative" and *slow* in a beautifully deliberate way, with chord changes minutes apart. It's also half an hour long so sincere suggestion: Hit stop at 19:41 exactly. That's where I would have cut.
https://havlovi.bandcamp.com/track/down-with-silent-night-a-tichou-noc-snesl-sv
What I'm listening to today: Butt music from hell, Hieronymus Bosch
Around 1500 CE Bosch painted "The Garden of Earthly Delights", an epic triptych of surreal scenes concluding in Hell. In the hell scene, a naked man has a fragment of musical notation painted on his ass. In 2014 a blogger named Amelia Hamrick transcribed it and a YouTuber named James Spalink recorded this ghostly version on period instruments. What Hell left unfinished the Internet has completed
Particle physics is facing a crisis: we’ve found the particles that were staring us in the face, but many more theories are proving elusive to prove or disprove. Using autoencoders and unsupervised AI, scientists hope to comb through data more quickly to unearth hidden patterns. https://spectrum.ieee.org/particle-physics-ai?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=fedica-Mastodon-Daily-Pipeline
Peter: "Wir gründen eine Band!"
Erik: "Oh cool!"
Nadine: "Wie finden wir einen Namen?"
Ina: "Wir machen's wie ABBA!"
Sven: "Das halte ich für keine gute Idee!“
Edit: Ich dachte nicht das der Flachwitz so viele überfordert. 😁😂🤣
Weiter so! Ich amüsiere mich.
@DigitalPatch 
@carnage4lifeDare Obasanjo buried lede. New country time. There is precedent. See map in my earlier post the magic number is not 2 but 3.
@DigitalPatch @carnage4lifeDare Obasanjo everyone wants freedom but there is a surprising lack of the necessary bravery. No federal taxation without representation, my friends. Hold those funds state by state until we get properly represented.
No more half measures.
Dependabot security alerts have terrible signal-to-noise ratio, especially for Go vulnerabilities. That hurts security!
Just turn it off and set up a pair of scheduled GitHub Actions, one running govulncheck, and the other running CI against the latest version of your dependencies.
Less work, less risk, better results!
It boggles the mind
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iiofy6mupgapoiz2b3lgfyr7/post/3mfablefd5s26
RE: https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/116092804146121734
With atproto, I am not excited about Bluesky, I am excited about things like standard.site: https://standard.site/
- Three independent blogging platforms started this off
- A fourth onboarded on their own
- A library has been shipped that lets independent blogs integrate and is now being used by numerous folks
- There's now a WordPress plugin
- We're working on bridging Articles back and forth on Bridgy Fed
- It became big enough that even Bluesky and Blacksky now use it for their blogs
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116104585734687358
‘No way to prevent this’ says only platform where this regularly happens.
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/116100122651925704
She gets it; Evan doesn’t. We either have consistent and reliable security on the Fediverse or we have a giant federated liability. Solutions with a temporary attack surface are not serious solutions.
And “it’s ok if you don’t get it” is an impressive display of dismissive condescension. 
@cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber, I don’t know you, but I’m sorry that you were spoken to like that. It’s gross.
Wartebereich im Polizeikommissariat.
Reading a post that predicts redundancy of 50% of white collar jobs in the next 5 years due to AI. This is a pro-AI post. Ignoring what seems to me some questionable reasoning, the author does not seem to acknowledge that this may have some pretty negative effects on a societal level.
I mean, if you truly believe this, you have to acknowledge that such a monumental shift in unemployment will lead to widespread poverty, crime, hunger, death, war etc. But the conclusion is we should pay for the premium AI agents, not say, barricade our homes and invest in canned goods.
In the two-man bob what is the purpose of the second person (i.e. the one hiding at the back who's not steering)?
a different version of the same question: if you find man pages difficult or impossible to use, what makes them so hard? do you feel like it's something that could be fixed?
(other than "the lack of examples", which is possibly the #1 issue, also please don't tell me about tldr.sh)
zgłaszać prelekcję na Sesję Linuksową?
$ du -hd0 /var/snaci like snac a lot: i run my own server and client, i can modify css (and i do tweak it often, i can modify the source code---didn't get to that yet ;)
133M /var/snac
$ find /var/snac | wc -l
35603
@Edent@mastodon.socialTerence Eden
RE: https://cosocial.ca/@evan/116100122651925704
She gets it; Evan doesn’t. We either have consistent and reliable security on the Fediverse or we have a giant federated liability. Solutions with a temporary attack surface are not serious solutions.
And “it’s ok if you don’t get it” is an impressive display of dismissive condescension. @cwebberChristine Lemmer-Webber, I don’t know you, but I’m sorry that you were spoken to like that. It’s gross.
Servers
- snac v2.90
- Castopod v1.15.0
- Ktistec v3.3.0
- tootik v0.21.1
- Badgefed v0.1.1
- Gush! v0.0.30
- Wanderer v0.18.5
- PieFed v1.6.6
- Our technical direction (Mastodon)
Clients
- Sengi v1.8.0
- tooi v0.21.2
- Summit v1.77.0
- Aria v1.4.3
- Pixelix v4.3.2
Tools and Plugins
- feed2fedi v3.5.0
- PeerTube Browser: A video discovery project for the federated PeerTube network
Protocol
- FEP-34c1: Collection Filtering using TREE Hypermedia Vocabulary
Articles
- Where Does Community Live?
- Why MAEPs? What should they look like?
- how to not regret c2s
- Reimagining Fediverse Advocacy
- FR#154 – Search and Community
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Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019c5906-05c0-87bf-8302-8226a8513c00
これで通算25枚の水彩色紙を描いた。並べてみると壮観だなあ
あっさごは〜ん
いちご好きは食べるべし
ファミマで売ってたよ〜
Notes on Clarifying Man Pages
Link: https://jvns.ca/blog/2026/02/18/man-pages/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47065972
@dansup 
@anewsocial
Hey, you sound triggered by opposing opinions, maybe seek some therapy. 😎
(this is of course, only one specific kind of person)
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Ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI
Link: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47088037
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https://bengo.tube/videos/watch/5f4cf451-1188-4ec0-a56a-9b7c8ab771d1
Do not comply.
Do not share your ID or biometric data with abusive platforms requesting it. You have a choice to say no, complain, and leave.
This is an important act of resistance for the future of humanity.
This isn't just about privacy, this is also about safety, diversity, democracy, and human rights.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights #Fascism #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
We need to boycott any platforms that request personally identifying information. They won't stop doing it until we hit them where it hurts - in the wallet.
If you're attending SCALE, stop by our booth for some freedom-focused conversations and merch: https://u.fsf.org/4ah #FreeSoftware #FSF
Do not comply.
Do not share your ID or biometric data with abusive platforms requesting it. You have a choice to say no, complain, and leave.
This is an important act of resistance for the future of humanity.
This isn't just about privacy, this is also about safety, diversity, democracy, and human rights.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights #Fascism #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification
@Em0nM4stodonEm This this this. I just came back to the fediverse after fully leaving Meta and Snapchat ++ behind. I guess I’m leaving Discord soon too.
Hello Mastodon 👋
I'm rogi.
I have a 2014 ThinkPad. I run a blog with €5/month. Zero cloud.
I read privacy policies so you don't have to.
Last month: an AI had a 24KB psychological profile built from my conversations. Last week: my passport went through 17 US companies just to get a LinkedIn badge. Nobody mentioned that.
That's what I write about. Not paranoia, just what's actually in the documents.
For any #Wikipedia editors out there who also know something about Internet routing ... earlier this week I significantly updated the "RouteViews" article after discovering to my immense surprise that it was a very short and small article that didn't say much:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_Views
I would appreciate any other eyeballs on it (and welcome any improvements).
Also, see the Talk page for my notes about adding a logo!
(It's been a while and I don't remember the exact process. 🤦♂️)
Porting Super Mario 64 To the Original Nintendo DS
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/20/porting-super-mario-64-to-the-original-nintendo-ds/
完成っっっ
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.
Brian Krebs shared my LinkedIn post today.
5,693 unique visitors.
19,632 requests.
0 failed requests.
171MB served.
Hardware: a ThinkPad T440p from 2014.
Cost: €5/month.
The closet held. The author is still processing.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@quillmatiq/116092804146121734
With atproto, I am not excited about Bluesky, I am excited about things like standard.site: https://standard.site/
- Three independent blogging platforms started this off
- A fourth onboarded on their own
- A library has been shipped that lets independent blogs integrate and is now being used by numerous folks
- There's now a WordPress plugin
- We're working on bridging Articles back and forth on Bridgy Fed
- It became big enough that even Bluesky and Blacksky now use it for their blogs
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Jan Lehnardt 
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