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📢 Looking for current research on #HCI + #AI? Here's a categorised collection of 300+ #CHI2026 preprints, collected via arXiv:
https://dbuschek.medium.com/chi26-preprint-collection-bdbfe9492a7b

Jeffrey Epstein was a white supremacist who donated thousands of dollars to white supremacist influencers during the Ferguson protests.

Epstein had multiple conversations expressing concern over race riots/wars with former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Epstein was also influential in resurrecting /pol—a 4chan forum that became of the most influential far-right hubs, spreading conspiracies and white supremacist ideals.

Steve Bannon, crypto, ... what the fuck.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000751725194

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

The complete Manic Miner disassembly

Link: https://skoolkit.ca/disassemblies/manic_miner/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47177877

－50円で貴方を豚汁に変更できます

その豚汁、+豚汁で豚汁に豚汁できます​​

まぁ寝るんすけど
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その豚汁、+豚汁で豚汁に豚汁できます​​

The Epic, Mega Skydance Paramount Warner Deal: Some Thoughts
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-epic-mega-skydance-paramount-warner-deal-some-thoughts/sharetoken/393e0a28-e9d8-460a-a915-8f07912a986f

When I first started working with #ActivityPub, before #Fedify existed, it felt like writing web apps in Perl and CGI in the late '90s. Interesting, even exciting—but never comfortable. That era where your business logic and your protocol plumbing were just… the same thing:

print "HTTP/1.1 200 OK"
print "Content-Type: text/html"
print
print "Hello, world!"

Decades of web development have given us layers of abstraction we now take for granted. Nobody hand-parses application/x-www-form-urlencoded query strings anymore. Nobody writes their own JSON codec, or manually constructs HTTP request/response messages. These things just aren't your problem when you're building an app.

ActivityPub development still feels like they are your problem. What do you do when the https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#actor property comes in as a string instead of an array? What about when https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams#object is an embedded entity rather than a URI? How exactly do you implement HTTP Signatures? And wait—what's Linked Data Signatures, and do you need that too?

The real issue isn't that ActivityPub is complicated per se. It's that you can't get away with understanding it at a high level. You have to know it the way an implementor knows it—every edge case, every inconsistency in how different servers serialize JSON-LD, every signature scheme that exists in the wild. That's a lot to learn before you can even start thinking about your actual app. And when developers understandably cut corners on the protocol to focus on their product, it quietly becomes an interoperability problem for the whole ecosystem.

What I want ActivityPub development to feel like: you spend a day understanding the big picture, and then you just… build your app. That was the goal when I started Fedify, and honestly, we're not fully there yet. But it's where I want to get.

#fedidev #fediverse

나이 많으니 감형?… 윤석열 판결이 재소환한 '고령 감경' 논란 www.hankookilbo.com/news/article... "최근 개정된 양형 기준에 비춰봐도 이번 판결은 이례적이다. 대법원 양형위원회는 2023년부터 양형 기준을 별도로 정하는 범죄군에 대한 집행유예 판단에 긍정적으로 작용하는 참작 사유 가운데 '피고인이 고령'이라는 문구를 일괄 삭제했다. 이는 "'어떤 범죄에서도 고령을 일률적인 감경 요소로 보지 말라'는 메시지나 다름없다"는 게 양형위원인 김혜경 계명대 경찰행정학과 교수의 얘기다."

나이 많으니 감형?… 윤석열 판결이 재소환한 '고령 감...

定食→豚汁→50↓
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Greece Predator scandal: Four convicted over spyware affair that shook Greece https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6dx4886rpo

What exactly do they teach at business schools these days?

Wanting to reduce a company's dependency on humans by replacing them with slop machines, which dramatically increases the company's dependency on a mere handful of other companies makes no sense, not even from a capitalist business perspective.

Unless ... of course ... you needed some fancy buzzwords to feed to eager investors. Ah, well, there we have the answer.
--
#StopTheSlop #LLMs #business

After a thoughtful nudge, I have renamed my "Lock" package to use the term "Gate". And while I was in there, I updated a bunch of things, including finally getting a recursive gate working!

I have found this kind of tool incredibly useful for managing actor reentrancy with Swift Concurrency.

https://github.com/mattmassicotte/TaskGate

No no no.

Its not "age verification software."

Its "building a global digital panopticon owned by tech billionaires and administrated by their paid political stooges."

#Politics #technology #fascism #ageverification

About to start the second planning meeting for #fediday 2026 (at @offline today this time for a change of scenery)

@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ The explanation in a random Intel chipset doc I found isn't that much better:

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/doc/datasheet/x58-express-chipset-datasheet.pdf
--
PCIe/DMI “Stop and Scream”
...per PCIe port
...disallow sending of poisoned data onto PCIe and instead convert disable the PCIe port that was the target of poisoned data
...there have been PCIe/DMI devices that have ignored the poison bit, and committed the data which can corrupt the I/O device
--

So, disable PCIe port on error, instead of tagging data as poisoned. Nice name.

Greece Predator scandal: Four convicted over spyware affair that shook Greece https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6dx4886rpo

I think we obviously need socialized healthcare but constructing the system is a real challenge and I don't know if anyone is up to it. If this messages reaches anyone who works in policy: looking to the future, as you build such a system, one of the things that I'd love to hear about is what system of safeguards, checks & balances it will have which will ensure that "single-payer health care" is not equivalent to "Ultimately, RFK Jr should decide what happens in my medical appointments"

@zkatkat Back in the early days, they were true software engineers. Consider fiting an operating system and multiple processes in 8 megabytes of RAM. Consider the people who wrote the software for Apollo missions.

Consider the people who wrote fault tolerant software for mission critical apps and the operating system below them.

その定食、＋豚汁円で50に変更できます

아침에 이재명이 집 판 것도 판 거지만 저 뒷말이 더 무서움 “아파트 판 돈으로 ETF 등 금융 투자할 것” “부동산 정상화 되면 다시 집 살 것” → 코스피 상승률 유지시키면서 그 사이에 부동산 값 싹다 떨어트려버리겠다 라는 의지를 ㅈㄴ 당당하게 내비치는 거잖음 진짜 승부수 하나는 기막히게 띄운다...

微妙な時間に目が覚めた​​​​

ok i bit the bullet — it's now explicit: props.something record.something i also gave at uris an object form so you can do props.uri.did

あの後深夜テンションで考えてたけど、
もう描写のこととか全部無視して、
見た目だけで24-105F4L1型ありかもしれないなって
思ってきた

RE: https://misskey.io/notes/aj81e79qouh406ug

この豚汁、+50円で豚汁に変更できます

ゲーッ！もう2時！

Is a bit early for #Caturday but I was scrolling my gallery and just had to ask...

Why does my cat always look angry? All you do is nap and get pets and get treats. Where did Jellytot learn to hate like this???

Introducing Octavo, my Mac app for turning PDFs into booklets, cleaning up bad scans, printing zines, labels, and more.

If you follow me, you may have seen my #BuildInPublic journey developing it over the last few months! It's now launched, and is available on the Mac App Store for $25 (via in app purchase so you can try before you buy).

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/octavo/id6757485225?mt=12

For more info, the website has more screenshots and a copy of the user's guide: https://octavo.pro

#mac #pdf #software

근데 이번 스타팅들은 어떤 주제인걸까 진짜 읍내에서 말하는것 처럼 화력발전소 수력발전소 태양광발전소 아냐?

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)