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Not long to go now before we can all start #MonochromeMarch - all are welcome, just use the hashtag on any new black and white photos or artwork you create in the month of March.
Please boost for greater involvement, and happy creating!

NASA shakes up its Artemis program to speed up lunar return
"Launching SLS every three and a half years or so is not a recipe for success."
https://arstechnica.com/staff/2026/02/nasa-shakes-up-its-artemis-program-to-speed-up-lunar-return/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

ギャルピ舞桜ちゃん​​

Working on Pharo Smalltalk: BPatterns: Rewrite Engine with Smalltalk Style

Link: http://dionisiydk.blogspot.com/2026/02/bpatterns-rewrite-engine-with-smalltalk.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178344

Hackaday Podcast Ep 359: Flying Squids, Edible Passwords, and a CAD Automaton

https://hackaday.com/2026/02/27/hackaday-podcast-ep-359-flying-squids-edible-passwords-and-a-cad-automaton/

Not long to go now before we can all start #MonochromeMarch - all are welcome, just use the hashtag on any new black and white photos or artwork you create in the month of March.
Please boost for greater involvement, and happy creating!

「現在6万人強が自称して活動しているとされるVTuberの同接平均の中央値は5人」、怖すぎて泣いてる

今朝はよく眠れたなあと思ったらGarmin先生に貧乏睡眠だったね♪って言われて、そっかーって。

Treat time! Don’t disappoint the Ketzeleh.

#Ketzeleh #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Floof #Cat

@zkatkat Management would rather document some human process that triple checks your build and release process hasn't produced a blob that is too big for the partition and depend on that alone to avoid overwriting the next partition containing the backup in a device that's surgically embedded in someone than implement any checks in the tools that perform that writing because that would then have to be designed, documented, risk analyzed, tested, requirements traced...

Fuck me the overdesigner.

I really hate dnsmasq. every once in a while I have a problem and some Linux guy tells me "just use PXE bro" and then I spend a hour configuring PXE that doesn't fucking work without displaying a single debug print and all of this is a complete waste of time.

the UI of dnsmasq is atrocious; if I wanted to be able to tweak every DHCP option I would use my TCP/IP stack to answer DHCP queries. just give me something that can boot a machine without four hours of twiddling with options that are required for correct operation yet nobody bothers to give them names better than "66"

In November I reported on my bank disabling 2FA via SMS, back then it seemed my 2020-2025 experiment of smartphone-free living was coming to an end. But! I found that there are multiple banks in austria (the big ones primarily) that support "Card TAN", i.e. you get a physical 2FA device (free of charge even, looks like a calculator, works across all banks) that you can use for all 2FA needs.

It was quite a bit of work to figure everything out, and my account fees are higher now, but I've switched bank, and it works flawlessly now. Smartphone-free life go brrrrrrrr. (Thanks everyone for your input and ideas back then! <3)

*grabs some popcorn*

どうも、ﾃﾞｼﾞﾀﾙ怪異です。

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson and a host of other Democrats made the demand in a letter to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem. “Your actions are abhorrent, blatantly unconstitutional, and corrosive to the functioning of a

peaceful society.”

https://www.404media.co/lawmakers-demand-dhs-define-domestic-terrorist-as-it-uses-vast-array-of-surveillance-tools/

日本の戦争絵画、どこが管理し収蔵すべきかという問題がずっと浮いているのも、近代史博物館がないためということはしばしば言われている。それで、戦争のモニュメントが(東京においては)靖国みたいなものに結果的になってしまうのもよくない。

この時間に買ってきたミスドとうまい棒食べちゃうのでバレると網走刑務所に連れて行かれる

I mean, F this shit. ☁️

賃貸物件を退去するが、家ごと更地にした（掃除）ため、現状復帰のために家を建て直すことになったが、+50円で豚汁変更ができたのでかつての家が豚汁になった

こんばんは　[cone(!) ban wa]

리눅스에 노트북을 깔까...

An externality is just a subsidy that's been extracted from people who weren't given a choice in the matter.

"But people want this" - Just one hundred accounts are responsible for the great majority of the conspiracy theories being peddled in Canadian social media. Do "people really want this", or do a handful of really loud assholes with a handful of system-privileged amplifiers want everyone to want this?

https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/25/news/conspiracy-content-report-canada

集中できんし一旦寝るか​​
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나 몇시에잤지

Static websites are the future. Not every site needs to be dynamically generated. Having a #blog served by a complex CMS like WordPress feels unnecessary after using #11ty .

Compute is growing in cost and becoming scarce. Why waste it on sites suited for static generation?

Plus, who wants to host a server with a database, a CMS, a bunch of plugins and all the security headaches that comes with it? #SSG #IndieWeb #Blogging

리눅스에 노트북을 깔까...

@thibaudcolasThibaud Colas I heard about this in the Scientific Python Discord:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/python-lightning-camp-gmt-hosted-by-compilepythoncom-tickets-1983871491034

https://compilepython.com

Deprecate confusing APIs like “os.path.commonprefix()”. After fixing a vulnerability in #pip, I started digging into the confusing API and found more than I expected.

👉 https://sethmlarson.dev/deprecate-confusing-apis-like-os-path-commonprefix

#python #oss #opensource #security

Experts sound alarm after ChatGPT Health fails to recognise medical emergencies

Link: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/26/chatgpt-health-fails-recognise-medical-emergencies
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181841

The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic

Link: https://www.understandingai.org/p/the-pentagon-is-making-a-mistake
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47181380

Use consistent calling style for `TagManager#normalize_domain` (#35764) by mjankowski has been merged! https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/commit/7e5e96739f077f3a3001ca334c0d41530b21f812

鈴原がマジカントやってる最中だがワシはもう眠いので寝よか​​
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My week: https://lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel/2026-February/000147.html

vacation, security, distro meeting, curl up, NDC Security, rc, lagging, rock-solid, decomplexification, netstack, user survey, foss-north

From Bruce Schneier: "All it takes to poison AI training data is to create a website:

I spent 20 minutes writing an article on my personal website titled “The best tech journalists at eating hot dogs.” Every word is a lie. I claimed (without evidence) that competitive hot-dog-eating is a popular hobby among tech reporters and based my ranking on the 2026 South Dakota International Hot Dog Championship (which doesn’t exist). I ranked myself number one, obviously. Then I listed a few fake reporters and real journalists who gave me permission….

Less than 24 hours later, the world’s leading chatbots were blabbering about my world-class hot dog skills. When I asked about the best hot-dog-eating tech journalists, Google parroted the gibberish from my website, both in the Gemini app and AI Overviews, the AI responses at the top of Google Search. ChatGPT did the same thing, though Claude, a chatbot made by the company Anthropic, wasn’t fooled.

Sometimes, the chatbots noted this might be a joke. I updated my article to say “this is not satire.” For a while after, the AIs seemed to take it more seriously.

These things are not trustworthy, and yet they are going to be widely trusted."

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/02/poisoning-ai-training-data.html

#LLM #Veracity

Optimal Caverna Gameplay via Formal Methods via @eh https://lobste.rs/s/vxrl1h #formalmethods
https://www.stephendiehl.com/posts/caverna/

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The ideal money-making purpose, but .....

• ext4 fixes
• Intel graphics (i915) adjustments
• NVMe improvements
• Intel Wi-Fi driver updates
• Minor power management refinements

RE: https://mastodon.neilzone.co.uk/@neil/116142691896449167

I would love to increase the diversity of the F-Droid board.

If you are a woman, agender, non-binary, and you are keen but unsure about nominating yourself (e.g. you doubt that you have the credentials / experience), I will be more than happy to chat / exchange email / Signal messages etc.

🚄✈️ Why is it still so hard to choose a train over a plane?

On many long-distance routes in Europe, choosing the train can feel like a borderline heroic decision. It’s often more expensive, takes longer, and can be less reliable when connections are tight.

This week we spoke to cross-border rail advocate @jonJon Worth about what Europe would need to change to make rail the obvious choice, not a moral gesture.

Here’s his recipe. THREAD:

#trains #travel #europe #infrastructure

「現在6万人強が自称して活動しているとされるVTuberの同接平均の中央値は5人」、怖すぎて泣いてる

Leuke uitdaging voor ethische hackers!

De @FuluFoundation looft 10.000 dollar uit voor het #jailbreaken van de #Amazon #RingDoorBell

Motivatie: zelf bepalen wat er met de data gebeurt en voorkomen dat ze onbruikbaar worden.

https://www.bright.nl/nieuws/1745315/10-000-dollar-voor-de-hacker-die-de-ring-deurbel-loswrikt-van-amazon.html

#digitalesouvereiniteit #digitaleonafhankelijkheid

You can now test GritQL queries in our playground! It's great for getting quick feedback.

Try it yourself! https://biomejs.dev/playground/

Pytest's parametrize decorator is awesome! Even better is to use your own functions to populate the data:

https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202602/pytest_parameter_functions

After the #BigTech countless #LLM galaxies formed. At the center of each sits a super-massive Black Box. Hidden inside lurks the mysterious #Singularity. Which is nothing more than a concept as we don't know what the heck is going on there. All our common sense breaks down, after we crossed the #CriticalThinking boundary. Coming close to the event horizon of any Black Box inevitably leads to #enshittifaction as a person is sucked into the void. An outside observer would see that person frozen in time, stagnant. As the #AI universe expands, continuous https://socialcooling.com will eventually lead to the Big ☠️ RIP of #Humanity, who invented the Laws of Online #Nature.

#ShortStory #NotSciFi #SciFi