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RESEARCHERS AND REGULATORS! Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab is launching a vital new corpus of 22,000 privacy policies, terms & conditions, and community standards for over 300 companies. Woohoo!
Making the Fine Print Visible:...
We're back with 
@evanEvan Prodromou - sans mustache. I wasn't ready for this.
He's going back to the basics - Introducing the Fediverse.
Evan asks "Do social networks matter?" - more then 50% of adults check social media daily. And in 2025, more people get their news from social media than new outlets. So, the answer is yes. They do matter!
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주님이신 날아다니는 스파게티 괴물 님🍝께서는 악인에게나 선인에게나 당신의 해가 떠오르게 하신다.
2026-02-26T07:01:00+09:00
STREET ART UTOPIA @streetartutopia@streetartutopia.com
Street art isn’t just paint on a wall—it’s an emotion. Whether it’s a mural calling for hope, a tiny stencil finding comfort from a real dog, or a scene of unity, these artists use walls and streets to pull at our heartstrings. Here are 8 brilliant times street art made us feel something. More: Made You Feel (10 Photos) ❤️ 1. When The Sky Feels Too Low — Sasha Korban in Kyiv, Ukraine 🇺🇦 A huge mural showing hands reaching upwards towards the light, symbolizing hope and […]
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@newsmastNewsmast Foundation is working with 
@Bonfire as a backend as well for their solutions. It's great to see this implementation in progress, I had heard of it before. Curious if they are using the Community flavor.
From a Q&A: An important thing to note - as people try to find alternatives to large socials, it doesn't mean it HAS to be federated. Or perhaps just partially federated.
Newsmast is building according to the needs of their communities, and that doesn't always include federation.
There's a lot to say about local community instances. Not EVERYTHING needs to be federated.
A tech drag king named “drag and drop”
Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown
Link: https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/01/21/notepad-and-paint-updates-begin-rolling-out-to-windows-insiders/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154399
Why isn't LA repaving streets?
Link: https://lapublicpress.org/2026/02/why-isnt-la-repaving-streets/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47154076
Tech Companies Shouldn’t Be Bullied Into Doing #Surveillance
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/tech-companies-shouldnt-be-bullied-doing-surveillance
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販売数1000本突破きちゃあああああああああああ！ ありがとうございます！ ありがとうございます！
Happy thirty-sixth birthday to the #GNU #GPL, the fourth most-popular software license as of December 2025! https://u.fsf.org/1t2 #FreeSoftware
We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
See also the complementary blog post: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html
Cryptography engineering has an intrinsic duty of care.
http://soatok.blog/2026/02/25/cryptography-engineering-has-an-intrinsic-duty-of-care/
Checked in to De Hems, 11 Macclesfield St, United Kingdom
Testing if photo uploads work with the code I've written. Do you see a photo attached to this post?
https://swarmapp.com/user/56367/checkin/699f3a9de1844e13f7607eb7?s=LIEWJrsA1fPS_fx-_CKSy02kZU4
We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
A year ago, John Oliver mentioned 
@pixelfed on national tv!
To clear up any confusion, this action is not about the Internet Archive, which is at archive.org, or the Wayback Machine.
https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/wikipedia-blacklists-archive-today-after-alleged-ddos-attack
"Scotiabank’s latest financial statements show the bank has sold its remaining 165K shares in Elbit, completing a full divestment from a company whose weapons & technology are critical to Israel Defense Forces operations.
A decentralized campaign of protests, sit-ins, & cultural boycotts has been pressuring the bank to sell off its shares ever since Scotiabank’s significant stake in Elbit became public knowledge in fall 2022."
"the power of decentralized organizing”
https://breachmedia.ca/major-bds-victory-scotiabank-divests-from-elbit/
Writing parser combinators and wondering why it all looks so ugly and verbose. Aren’t parser combinators supposed to be nice and clean? Am I doing them wrong?
Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer
Link: https://spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix-systems-engineer
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47157224
Spritely Hoot, our Scheme->WASM compiler (and all-around WASM toolkit) hits 0.8.0, and this one is a BIG release! https://spritely.institute/news/hoot-0-8-0-released.html
For the first time you can LIVE develop web applications using Hoot, from the comfort of your own editor! See the video at the top!
Plus lots of other bugfixes and goodies!
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i just noticed my gdb had an emoji in it’s output and was scared that the arch repos got hacked and someone pushed vibe-coded RATs but no, it’s actually part of the source, gdb is Gen Z now!
Darius Kazemi
@reiver ⊼ (Charles) 
Paolo Melchiorre
FSFE signed an open letter addressed to Sundar Pichai, CEO of 
v4rd4453n
binutils-gdb ❯ rg "❌"
gdb/cli/cli-style.c
475:static std::string error_prefix = "❌️ ";
gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/style.exp
338: "❌️ requires argument.*" \
We plan to decrease operational costs for our AI model by building custom servers that are immune to cosmic radiation, then spending trillions of dollars launching them into space. Yes, our CFO did tech themselves math using ChatGPT, why do you ask?
Boomer got her Hedgehog out of the toybox.
Tired: Professional Imposter Syndrome
Wired: Approach everything with the unearned confidence of a mediocre white man
New accounts on HN more likely to use em-dashes
Link: https://www.marginalia.nu/weird-ai-crap/hn/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47152085
I've spent a fair bit of time recently helping Fediverse admins (mostly Peertube) fixing up broken configs and getting their instances working and optimised.
What sort of demand is there out there for a community-run knowledgebase covering troubleshooting, optimisation guides and the like?
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Pioneering Ambient / Electronic / Experimental / Arp synthesizer artist Eliane Radigue, born 1932, has died. I'll be playing her albums all day.
Almost 40 orgs just signed an open letter telling Google to reverse Android Developer Verification, we're one of them.
Google has not backed down and seems to have no intention of keeping Android open. Check out our newest video covering what's going on and what we can do: https://youtu.be/5MZfGq5F1NU
Almost 40 orgs just signed an open letter telling Google to reverse Android Developer Verification, we're one of them.
Google has not backed down and seems to have no intention of keeping Android open. Check out our newest video covering what's going on and what we can do: https://youtu.be/5MZfGq5F1NU
It’s heartbreaking when some of the very best toots here are visible only to the tooter’s followers and therefore I can’t boost them. Follow more people, y’all.
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