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“We’re particularly concerned when it seems like tech companies are developing products that censor certain information at the request of the government,” EFF’s Jacob Hoffman-Andrews told Mother Jones. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/02/meta-abortion-ai-chatbot-leak-teen-info-ban/
Okay so language question. When Japanese speakers onomatopoeize "Bang", it sounds to me like they are saying "Pan". Are they saying "Pan" or "Ban", or are they saying "Bang" and it just sounds to me like "Pan" due to my limited familiarity with Japanese phonetics?
@evanEvan Prodromou is Shaler here somewhere?
@godberAustin Godber ha! I just have a lot of people arguing in my mentions -- mostly over my head, but with me still addressed. It's a pugilistic day on the Fediverse for some reason.
AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.
I was reminded of Casey Muratori's "Handmade Hero" video project where he shows you how to write a game in C from scratch without using any libraries. It's a cool project, but, hear me out here, libraries are great! You can walk in there and they've got desks and/or computers for you to use, and you can tell the librarian about how you want to make a game from scratch, and they'll be like "that sounds rad" and you can walk out with an armful of game programming books and a spring in your step
UTF-1: unary encoding.
to encode codepoint N, emit N 1s and a final 0.
During one of the macOS updates (26.2?), Apple somehow introduced an ObjC exception that sometimes triggers when a new tab is created while in the tab overview. Swift CANNOT CATCH ObjC exceptions. Instant crash. This affected Ghostty as well as Electron (unrelated project).
The fix is equally crazy: write an ObjC wrapper around the crashy-function, catch it, and basically retry periodically. This is 100% an Apple bug, but the way it manifests and the fix required to workaround it is pretty gnarly.
Credit to everyone but me, I didn't do any research here, I only read the good work by others on this one (all visible in the refs).
Ref: https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/8b1e4c66d7eedbc9455e5e06c15b531945b1ccc3
Ref: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/49819
Many subprime toots were packaged into Mastodon-backed shitposts (MBS) and ultimately defaulted, contributing to the 2026 Fediverse crisis
I was reminded of Casey Muratori's "Handmade Hero" video project where he shows you how to write a game in C from scratch without using any libraries. It's a cool project, but, hear me out here, libraries are great! You can walk in there and they've got desks and/or computers for you to use, and you can tell the librarian about how you want to make a game from scratch, and they'll be like "that sounds rad" and you can walk out with an armful of game programming books and a spring in your step
I *just* updated this fantasy font to:
- make it more readable;
- add (even more) languages;
- reduce its pri-- wait, is this a mistake? I was supposed to INCREASE the price, and yet...
What interesting (and smaller) conferences are there in 2026? https://lobste.rs/s/vtyttw #ask #event
起床のさわがに おはさわがに
Lu dans un programme électoral pour les municipales : « Nous mettrons en place des réverbères dotés de capteurs pilotés par l'IA capables de réagir aux crimes et délits. »
Et j'imagine le réverbère se pencher pour frapper le délinquant.
Come to the Fediverse in the next 20 minutes if u want an ass kicking
Remember: on March 26 we have the annual #curl distro meeting. If you work on packaging curl for a distro, or a distro-like situation, I'd encourage you to join!
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/28/curl-distro-meeting-2026/
Our next game is Verminsteel!
You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun
PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/Verminsteel/ #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev (boosts super appreciated)
UTF-7 is real and can hurt you.
very important question, ready?
sudo
でもまあfediverseはみんな構ってくれるから楽しいですよ
Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157224
Random Number Generator Uses Camera Noise
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/25/random-number-generator-uses-camera-noise/
おはようみすきー！
ログボー！！
https://linktr.ee/quazarsamcoupe
A quick post to my new LinkTree for links to everything #retrocomputing I do - my main website for all my SAM Coupe development, the two smaller sites for ZX Spectrum hardware and peripherals for RC2014 & compatibles. My other social media accounts and my Tindie and eBay stores.
#samcoupe #zxspectrum #rc2014 #retrogaming #demoscene #indiedev #gamedev #z80
l’m not sure this is very well known fact but early Playstation 1 console models had more issues with color banding that later ones, they HW patched in the later PS1 revisions so some games would look different depending on where you played it.
$ ruby -e 'puts "びっとこいん".chars.shuffle.join'
びんっこいと
おっはよ〜
7시간 휴식없이 잘했다 나놈
US Americans are, slowly but surely, learning what it’s like to be a citizen from anywhere else in the world at a border crossing. Top of the NYTimes is how to get and (gasp) pay for a UK ESTA:
머리가 잘 돌아가지 않기는 했는데 그래도 별 실수없이 잘 끝냈다
알바 끝!!!!! 일하느라 바빠서 기침도 안나옴ㅋㅋ
Protobuf definitions make more sense if you're not looking at a truncated one
Okay so language question. When Japanese speakers onomatopoeize "Bang", it sounds to me like they are saying "Pan". Are they saying "Pan" or "Ban", or are they saying "Bang" and it just sounds to me like "Pan" due to my limited familiarity with Japanese phonetics?
人間には見えない何かと戦うねこ（なにもいない…
Die US-Regierung stört sich daran, dass Länder ihre digitale Infrastruktur von den USA abkoppeln wollen. Das behindere die AI-Slop-Dienste https://www.golem.de/news/clouddienste-us-diplomaten-sollen-datensouveraenitaet-bekaempfen-2602-205849.html
Devirtualization and Static Polymorphism https://lobste.rs/s/qerqwv #c++
https://david.alvarezrosa.com/posts/devirtualization-and-static-polymorphism/
https://linktr.ee/quazarsamcoupe
A quick post to my new LinkTree for links to everything #retrocomputing I do - my main website for all my SAM Coupe development, the two smaller sites for ZX Spectrum hardware and peripherals for RC2014 & compatibles. My other social media accounts and my Tindie and eBay stores.
#samcoupe #zxspectrum #rc2014 #retrogaming #demoscene #indiedev #gamedev #z80
神奈川県山北町
#バイク旅
#風景写真
#photography
撮影日 2026/02/23
I had an earlier post about municipalities leaving X and joining Mastodon and a thought occurred to me.
Cities and towns could benefit from having their own instance running #Friendica - the closest #Fediverse equivalent to Meta/Facebook. It would allow them to have separate groups for neighborhoods or communities within their municipality, and integrate easily with other Fediverse apps. It would give them more control and focus for their communications.
AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.
👋
Now we are doing ponzi schemas lol
なんか最近はずっと眠い
AI developers who were willing to cause a hiring crisis and make workers and customers more miserable suddenly shocked their money is coming from unscrupulous military leaders who want just to use it for concentration camps and dubious military strikes.
Oh fucking FINALLY, I got Copilot to shut up in VSCode (don't @ me ... Work nonsense). Intellisense is legit one of the best code completion tools on the market. And they replaced it with this nonsense that hallucinates more often than it's true.
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Foone🏳️⚧️
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Andreas Freise
＠3/23(日)
東京オフ主催 
Andy Piper
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