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now that xbox has a new CEO with a background from facebook and "coreAI", things are looking bleaker than ever for microsoft's line of increasingly rectangularly prismatic consoles.

with a new CEO comes a new outlook (ha ha) on everything, including product names. ms sharma -- can i call you asha? -- i know you're reading this. i know microsoft reads my posts for my ingenious feature ideas. please, please call the next xbox something reasonable. i have two suggestions:

• Xbox Series X2|S2: this is the safe option. it's the one after the series X|S. hopefully obvious to everyone. 20% of the wii U's failure was because it wasn't called the "wii 2". don't believe me? look at what they called their newest console. unfortunately, this means the one X and one S are the "odd ones out" with their weird naming scheme. you can either accept that and live with it, or...
• Xbox X3|S3: okay. hear me out.
  • Xbox One: the first "new xbox"
  • Xbox One S & Xbox One X: the revised "new xboxes". 100% compatible with the xbone. call these the X1 and S1.
  • Xbox Series X & Xbox Series S: the second generation of "new xboxes". plays all the non-kinect xbone games. i know this is gonna sound crazy, but retroactively rename these the Xbox X2 and S2!
  • Xbox X3 & S3: the consoles after the X2 and S2. compatible with all S1 and X1 and S2 and X2 games.

Loops is a federated, open-source TikTok

https://joinloops.org/

#HackerNews #Loops #TikTok #federated #open-source #socialmedia

Hi #fediverse and #ActivityPub developers!

I'm currently working on interoperability testing for #Hollo and #Fedify, and I need a #Bonfire account to test federation with their implementation.

Since there aren't many open public Bonfire instances available, I was wondering if any Bonfire instance admins out there would be willing to grant me a test account? It would be a huge help for improving interop! Let me know if you can help. Thanks!

#fedidev #BonfireNetworks

多分自分は青春コンプと言うやつで、キラキラした人間を当時敬遠してたのに、今見たら羨ましく見えるのがアレ

イーロンの存在論w

Meshtastic Does More Than Simple Communication

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/22/meshtastic-does-more-than-simple-communication/

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styropyro is shitposting on another level man 😭😭😭😭 https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?&_ssn=styropyro_yt

人の人生は人の人生で大変なんだなぁと

イーロンの、良いローンw

Hi #fediverse and #ActivityPub developers!

I'm currently working on interoperability testing for #Hollo and #Fedify, and I need a #Bonfire account to test federation with their implementation.

Since there aren't many open public Bonfire instances available, I was wondering if any Bonfire instance admins out there would be willing to grant me a test account? It would be a huge help for improving interop! Let me know if you can help. Thanks!

#fedidev #BonfireNetworks

NanoClaw Moved from Apple Containers to Docker

Link: https://twitter.com/Gavriel_Cohen/status/2025603982769410356
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113731

Headed to Costco today. What should I get that I definitely don't need?

花粉は死ね

Correspondance Howard-Lovecraft :

⚠️ Avis pour les retardataires ! ⚠️

Je republie ici un post de Mnémos (l’éditeur) sur le forum de la correspondance :

“Nous organiserons un "late Pledge" d'ici quelques semaines, soit la possibilité d'acquérir la Correspondance durant une période de temps limitée. Pour ne pas la manquer, surveillez nos réseaux sociaux :)”

https://fr.ulule.com/la-correspondance-howard-lovecraft/#comments/

A bon entendeur, salut !

#lovecraft #hpl #ulule

과도한 면세·낮은 실효세율…조세부담률 OECD 최하위권
(세종=연합뉴스) 이대희 안채원 기자 = 작년 조세부담률이 경제협력개발기구(OECD) 회원국 중 최하위권에 머문 것으로 보인다.
https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20260221059700002

#news #뉴스

I thought I'd read AC Clarke's original article on communication satellites from Wireless World in 1945

https://worldradiohistory.com/UK/Wireless-World/40s/Wireless-World-1945-10.pdf

Many interesting details like the fact that German engineers had suggested that orbiting communication satellites might feasible in "50-100" years.

Anyway, a nice reminder that the article was published in 1945 is:

"In space beyond the atmosphere, a square metre normal to the solar radia tion intercepts 1.35 kW of energy. Solar engines have already been devised for terrestrial use and are an economic proposition in tropical countries. They employ mirrors to concentrate sunlight on the boiler of a low-pressure steam engine. Although this arrangement is not very efficient it could be made much more so in space."

Of course solar concentrators are used today, but I don't think any satellite is steam powered :)

@mcc don't like when the universe conspires to make exaggerations line up with reality.

This teddy bear waved to me this afternoon, as I passed its barge while walking along the tow path. No really. The owner has a rope set up that runs from the arm of the teddy bear at the bow to the stern where he was stood steering. It was kinda lovely and heartwarming 🙂💕

#canal #SilentSunday

computer make me sad and tird

I think I'm probably in a minority, but I really enjoy doing Windows updates on legacy systems. I think it goes back to when I worked in I.T and had 20 machines on the bench, would build them, install the OS and then set them all off updating. Weird really but I love it! ☺️

everyone who disagreed with me when i said these things just reflect the ego of the creator owes me five dollars

Huh i wonder how bcachefs is doing https://poc.bcachefs.org/

@lynnesbian@fedi.lynnesbian.spaceLynnesbian fantastic job, made me want to put my phone plus hand into a blender

computer make me sad and tird

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Gatos

Cat relax (after an hour of cat activities in the sunny, windy, cold outdoors).

@lynnesbianLynnesbian

"Tech companies like Palantir now stock vending machines with nicotine pouches from brands Lucy and Sesh in the hopes of boosting their workers’ productivity."

…what

https://www.statnews.com/2026/02/20/nicotine-wellness-startups-productivity-boost-legal-gray-area/

[while looking at https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/header/stdbit] they should just add C++ namespaces to C

I built Timeframe, our family e-paper dashboard

Link: https://hawksley.org/2026/02/17/timeframe.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47113728

さて起きる。連休最終日かー

networking scary okay :(

If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?

#mathstodon #math #maths #shitpost

Coin operated vending machines dispensing kibble for streetcats are my favourite shared infrastructure discovery this week.

cyclic cellular automata and circle packing

If a Klein bottle could wear pants, would it be like this or like this?

#mathstodon #math #maths #shitpost

Running RISC-V in a VM to test my snaps https://lobste.rs/s/sacz3z #virtualization
https://blog.popey.com/2026/02/running-risc-v-in-a-vm-to-test-my-snaps/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRP1XF5sPLI
Beating Totally Accurate Battle Simulator Using Sun Tzu Tactics

Snow

📷 Canon EOS33v
🎞️ Fomapan 200
🧪 Adox XT-3

#fomapan #35mm #film #photography #snow

Imagine you are writing a reusable UI component for a scrollable list. You want your list to have a property such, if true, the list follows the rule "if the user is already scrolled to the bottom of the list, and a new item is added to the bottom, autoscroll to the new bottom".

What would you name this property?

oh look another one https://poc.bcachefs.org/

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I may have ACCIDENTALLY created another bot hahah sorry.

I just need to keep my hands busy.

This one is boosting #PeerTube videos, a few every hour, randomly selected.

Follow @reeltubes

Discover creators across the #fediverse.
Watch outside the algorithm.

Fueled by federation.
Built for visibility, not vanity metrics.

Disclaimer: Boosts are automated. I don’t have personal opinions on the video. I am still waiting for the first nsfw to appear to see if it flag it correctly.

Documentary about Mozilla Firefox at pwn2own (part 1) https://lobste.rs/s/ch5jcd #video #browsers #security
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQEq5s4SRxY

confusables.txt and NFKC disagree on 31 characters via @susam https://lobste.rs/s/xlgbrz #programming
https://paultendo.github.io/posts/unicode-confusables-nfkc-conflict/

"Across the nation, people are dismantling and destroying Flock cameras that conduct warrantless vehicle surveillance, and whose data is shared with ICE."

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/across-the-us-people-are-dismantling

Puffin was feeling very regal this afternoon

#Cats
#CatsOfMastodon

I propose replacing calories with watt-hours.

- Almost same value (1 kilocalorie / Calorie is ~1.1 watt-hours)
- more intuitive for people who use electricity
- never the confusion between calories (science), Calories (food, which is technically kilocalories), kilocalories, and 'kilo Calories' (which is technically megacalories)
- you get to feel more like a robot with your 2.5kwh power consumption a day which may feel like validation to some creatures on this fediverse
- become powered by cake