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It’s his mission to hire more - and that’s one of the reasons he's here to speak to us.
Welcome Daniele Procida at PyCon Namibia 2026
How do you use hashtags on Fedi (if at all)?
(Please boost for reach. I'm intentionally not using hashtags in this post because that would obviously bias the sample horribly.)
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New post on but she's a girl: A new backup strategy using restic.
https://www.rousette.org.uk/archives/a-new-backup-strategy-using-restic/
like I said here:
Imagine if we reached out to these very same people and showed them the generosity they actually deserve.
❝ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone.❞
Read that. Reread that. Internalize it. Map that back to every story you’ve heard of ICE agents going off the rails, every random kidnapping, every brutal and stupid ICE story.
❝“Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that.”❞
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
thank you nordic semiconductor for putting a summarize button on your website, i am saved from the burden of reading the document and instead can read the document
What people don't understand is it never used to be this bad. Even the tunnels under the Internet used to be well-kept by their inhabitants. Radscorpions were trained by diligent owners and didn't need leashes. There was a sense of community.
AOC provides thoughtful answers to user questions on Bluesky!
👍
https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3mfhmlwphek22
#UsPol
1/n
And worst of all, if you lock them in a datacenter, they keep trying to get out and refuse to follow prompts
AOC provides thoughtful answers to user questions on Bluesky!
👍
https://bsky.app/profile/aoc.bsky.social/post/3mfhmlwphek22
#UsPol
1/n
Neighbor's kitty says hi
Good meowning #CatsOfMastodon
The Guardian: ‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
Geek tip from the Tuta Team: How NOT to see AI images.
Use this HUGE AI BLOCKLIST for uBlock Origin: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist
Enjoy your Sunday 🎉
One of the several times I was asked to do a talk about why I'm an #opensource enthusiast with a particular fondness for #OpenBSD, I wrote "Recent and not so recent changes in OpenBSD that make life better (and may turn up elsewhere too)" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/recent-and-not-so-recent_changes_in_openbsd_that_make_life_better.html in 2021.
Things have happened since, of course, but those things are still developments I remember fondly.
There is something very creepy about the way LLMs willy cheerfully give lists of "random" numbers. But they aren't random in frequency, and as my students pointed out "it's probably from some webpage about how to generate random numbers"
But even then, why is the frequency so unnaturally regular? It's that an artifact from mixing lists of real random numbers together?
The LLM is like a little box of computer horrors that we peer into from time to time.
I'm sorry but the whole interface is just so silly.
You ask for random numbers with sentences and it pretends to give them to you? What are we doooooing?
초밥먹고싶다아
The dislike for slop machines runs deep among you good people of the Fediverse.
One more reason why I love this place!
--
#StopTheSlop
Age Verification isn't a technical problem to solve. If you think that, you're missing the point.
It's a social problem used by authoritarian governments as an excuse for population control and censorship.
It's a fundamental attack on free speech and democracy.
It must not be accommodated.
It must be stopped.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
It is all about surveillance. Protecting children from serious harm on the Internet involves stopped malicious adults accessing child services, not stopping children accessing adult services.
Reposting a question for Ed Zitron, I'll forward responses. He asked on Bluesky and will get sub-Mastodon-tier answers:
"This is a serious question and I would be delighted if I only hear great things but, software engineers: both before and after LLMs, how often in your professional lives have you run into software engineers that seem completely useless or lacking in basic knowledge? I hope the answer is rarely"
@ludicityLudic 🧛 For the record, I work at a software company that employs ~10k developers.
Before LLMs, I'd encounter such engineers a couple of times a month, but I interact with a lot of engineers, specifically the ones that need help or are new at the company or industry at large, so it's a selected sample. Even the most inexperienced ones are willing and able to learn with some guidance.
After LLMs, there's been a significant uptick, and these new ones are grossly incompetent, incurious, impatient, and behave like addicts if their supply of tokens is at all interrupted. If they run out of prompt credits, its an emergency because they claim they can't do any work at all. They can't even explain the architecture of what they are making anymore, and can't even file tickets or send emails without an LLM writing it for them, and they certainly lack in any kind of reading comprehension.
It's bleak and depressing, and makes me want to quit the industry altogether.
This article, which I found in 
@zackwhittaker’s most excellent newsletter that you should absolutely subscribe to, is extremely interesting: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-19/vpn-used-by-us-government-failed-to-stop-china-state-sponsored-hackers
It’s behind a paywall and I totally do NOT recommend you use a website like removepaywall.com (using option 3) to view it without having to pay. That would be just unethical. Don’t do that.
The dislike for slop machines runs deep among you good people of the Fediverse.
One more reason why I love this place!
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#StopTheSlop
Intent - The developer workspace for agent orchestration https://lobste.rs/s/czwaca #ai
https://www.augmentcode.com/product/intent
#커미션_복잡추가금_무조건붙는_캐자랑해주세요 얘네 둘이 혐관 페어라서 같이 넣어야하는데 그럼 추가금이 두배두배두
초! 카구야 공주 극장판
1주일 한정 상영
새벽 2시인데 극장에 사람 엄청 많고
지금 들어온 시어터는 200명 넘는 자리인데 만석이네...
The removal of TrueNAS legacy (CORE) leaves space for a tenth button.
What would you like?
The button need not be FreeBSD-specific. Discussions frequently attract users of other systems.
The sidebar of r/freebsd is crowded (very tall), and this cluster of buttons is relatively far down, so I doubt that it will gain much attention. Still, cafe community thoughts are welcome.
Three screenshots:
1. an overview of <https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/top/?sort=top&t=day> before removal of the TrueNAS button
2. the entire sidebar as represented at <https://sh.reddit.com/r/freebsd/about/>
3. focus on the other sub shortlist, and the other shortlist, within the sidebar.
Thanks.
First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.
They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then what? Rinse and escalate.
You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.
We don't have to wait that it escalates.
We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.
Reposting a question for Ed Zitron, I'll forward responses. He asked on Bluesky and will get sub-Mastodon-tier answers:
"This is a serious question and I would be delighted if I only hear great things but, software engineers: both before and after LLMs, how often in your professional lives have you run into software engineers that seem completely useless or lacking in basic knowledge? I hope the answer is rarely"
@ludicityLudic 🧛 For the record, I work at a software company that employs ~10k developers.
Before LLMs, I'd encounter such engineers a couple of times a month, but I interact with a lot of engineers, specifically the ones that need help or are new at the company or industry at large, so it's a selected sample. Even the most inexperienced ones are willing and able to learn with some guidance.
After LLMs, there's been a significant uptick, and these new ones are grossly incompetent, incurious, impatient, and behave like addicts if their supply of tokens is at all interrupted. If they run out of prompt credits, its an emergency because they claim they can't do any work at all. They can't even explain the architecture of what they are making anymore, and can't even file tickets or send emails without an LLM writing it for them, and they certainly lack in any kind of reading comprehension.
It's bleak and depressing, and makes me want to quit the industry altogether.
"Communities across the US are winning against environmental racism.
In Texas, Alabama, Georgia, and more, residents are packing council meetings, collecting signatures, and using their collective power to push back against destructive AI data centers. Our future will be written by us, not tech profits."
✊
https://www.instagram.com/p/DU9Fgd0jWf4/
#community #environment #AI #GenAI #DataCenters #technology #racism #EnvironmentalRacism
Y'know what? As an #opensource #advocate and #tech enthusiast, it's genuinely awesome to see increased mainstream coverage of #Linux and #FreeBSD. Unfortunately, a lot of these articles are riddled with mistakes, misinformation, clickbait, and overall low quality. A few minutes ago, while catching up on tech news I came across one #ZDNet author's frequent posts on Linux and FreeBSD.
To emphasize my point, I am only going to focus on one article titled, "After decades on Linux, FreeBSD finally gave me a reason to switch operating systems."
The following passages stuck out like sore thumb:
1.) "FreeBSD is more challenging than Linux."
-But is it really? Subjective, particularly if coming from a GUI-driven Linux distribution. Frankly I find FreeBSD easier because of the excellent documentation and coherent design.
2.) "FreeBSD is Unix-like" but further down he states, "Essentially, FreeBSD is Unix, where Linux is based on Unix."
-Contradictory, incorrect, and confusing for newcomers. FreeBSD is Unix. Linux (neither the kernel nor OS) is based on Unix.
3.) "Think of FreeBSD as a more challenging version of Linux. This operating system doesn't hold your hand, so you might learn a thing or two as you install it and the software you require. Even for a seasoned Linux veteran like me, FreeBSD can often be a head-scratcher."
-Challenging because it's *different than Linux*? FreeBSD doesn't hold your hand? What about #Debian, #Gentoo, #Arch, heck even #RHEL? Since the author didn't mention it, I'm going to assume he did not check the FreeBSD Handbook and his "seasoned Linux" experience has been using a Linux desktop for a couple years. Also, head-scratcher?! Being an experienced Debian user, I'd be scratching my head too if I just decided to use Gentoo on a whim. The trauma of hand-configuring the xorg.conf file was real.
Finally, contrary to the article's title, the author ended up not switching to FreeBSD.
-Clickbait.
I am all for more people exploring FreeBSD and Linux. They are great OSes but it is critical the information being reported is both accurate and consistent. For reference the article is linked below.
felt bored and was curious how long it would take me to implement fizzbuzz in shell. Apparently ~2min. 😆
$ i=0; while [ $((++i)) -le 30 ] ; do case 0 in $((i%15)) ) echo fizzbuzz;; $((i%3)) ) echo fizz;; $((i%5)) ) echo buzz ;; *) echo $i ; esac ; done
@Em0nM4stodonEm 
I agree. Besides using a VPN, are there ways to bollix up such a system?
@serfdeweb People need to contact their representatives and complain loudly about it.
These legislations need to be repealed and prevented.
The political class needs to hear that citizens reject surveillance firmly, and the focus should be instead on creating platforms that are less addictive, more privacy-respectful, and safer for everyone, including adults.
The time to fight is now.
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The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
The world’s 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars
Electric vehicles get all the press – but it’s the smaller unsung two wheelers cutting oil demand the most.
theconversation.com · The Conversation
Link author: 
The Conversation AU + NZ@theconversationau@mastodon.social
@broreenjonathans, Black Royalty, shared the text and video below.
Throw back :
Prince at the #GRAMMYs in 2015
"Albums still matter, Like books and Black lives, albums still matter."💙❤
#prince #blackmusic #blacklivesmatter #blackconsciousness #blackmastodon
Today, a friend asked me how to record a podcast (from a closed platform), so I found a simple app called Reco that does exactly what he needs.
I really like the ecosystem of simple, easy-to-use apps that is growing around #GNOME and #Flathub.
In case you ever need it: 👇
#OTD 30 years ago the Space Shuttle mission STS-75 launched. It carried the peculiar Tethered Satellite System as its main experiment and was the first space mission where a #Linux based computer was used in space. I remember it well because I saw the launch; my father was part of the ground crew and brought us over to the US with him. It was a memorable experience that filled teenage-me with awe.
多分6.5インチくらいはあるとおもう
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116115244205622905
Wow, and #Azure support is terrible. It sends you to Copilot. Copilot says: 'If the resource group remains in the "MovingResources" state and you cannot identify any issues, it may be necessary to contact Azure Support. They can investigate backend issues and provide assistance in resolving the problem.'
Contacting support requires selecting from a drop-down list of common problems which does not include this problem. And there is no path I have yet found via their UI that actually seems to result in raising a support request.
Imagine trying to use this for important things!
다들 맥을 주문하는게 유행이 됐어..
Age Verification isn't a technical problem to solve. If you think that, you're missing the point.
It's a social problem used by authoritarian governments as an excuse for population control and censorship.
It's a fundamental attack on free speech and democracy.
It must not be accommodated.
It must be stopped.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
@Em0nM4stodonEm And it's also a workaround for governments that are too coward to face platform owners and demand them not to use addictive and exploitative algorithms as their main business model.
Good meowning #CatsOfMastodon
Jim DeLaHunt
nixCraft 🐧
(aka kemona_halftau) 
Danny Garside
유진🎀 
Stefano Marinelli
Chao-c'
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