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@zkatkat That example is so completely disgusting I think I might literally vomit. Fucking hell.
Whoops: US military laser strike takes down CBP drone near Mexican border
Trump admin "incompetence continues to cause chaos in our skies," Duckworth says.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/whoops-us-military-laser-strike-takes-down-cbp-drone-near-mexican-border/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@zkatkat We definitely should have made programmers legally liable for the software they create years and years ago, llms would have never gotten off the ground if that were true
cursed, worst places on the internet terminology
Was Florence Foster Jenkins the OG lolcow
Obsessed with this quote from an AI bro who is under the impression that horses "can do whatever they want now" as a result of the invention of the car.
50 GW of datacentre demand queues up for UK grid access
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/datacenter_uk_grid_demand/
To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this year
"I once would have written that this is how things go in tinpot dictatorships, or in Viktor Orbรกnโs Hungary. But today, itโs how things go in the United States of America." https://newrepublic.com/post/207138/trump-coup-detat-midterm-elections
today i'm unhappy about NixOS because: the GRUB graphical mode straight up crashes on this motherboard. not "cannot boot a kernel", not "errors out", but "crashes attempting to transition out of graphical mode to text mode" (whatever that even means with an EFI framebuffer)
I spent thirty fucking minutes trying to figure out what went wrong. the kernel boots if i extract it from the nix store and use the EFI stub. every option in the GRUB menu crashes. i had to edit it using the EFI text editor (it's a polyglot image which Linux mounts as iso9660 but EFI mounts as FAT32) to enable textmode unconditionally
(interestingly, after this every time i transition between GRUB menus it complains about "not being able to fit glyphs on screen". maybe that's what crashes it? no idea.)
50 GW of datacentre demand queues up for UK grid access
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/27/datacenter_uk_grid_demand/
To put that into perspective, 45 GW was peak electricity use for Britain so far this year
This is one of the greatest ideas in the history of bad ideas. A bolt action epi-pen launcher.
I recapped my Commodore VIC-20 tonight, apart from the chonker (capacitor) on the bottom right, but I've tested it and it's in spec. The picture output seems to be a lot clearer now. ๐
Tap anywhere. Meet everyone there.
YearIt is a location-based content hub.
Pin your blog post to any place โ and anyone exploring that spot will find it instantly.
#BlogPromotion #ExploreTheWorld
The phrase "mainstream media" has become a pejorative term. We should instead use the phrase "professional media" to distinguish it from the chancers, Russian shills and partisan axe-grinders calling themselves "news sources" on the Internet.
What domain would you prefer? for a #fediverse linktree, I want to buy a domain
So I had to completely abandon social media and personal projects and whatnot for a while in order to raise a young family and succeed in a demanding job and remain alive. Now that job is gone! Oh no! On the plus side, my unceremonious departure has created a great deal of shareholder value.
Block spent $68M on a single party in September 2025
Link: https://twitter.com/BullTheoryio/status/2027250361816486085
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183660
Dan Simmons, author of Hyperion, Song of Kali, dead at 77
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Simmons
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183578
A while back, Microsoft, complying with a demand by the US government, locked the account of a worker at the International Criminal Court, because, reasons.
Said worker in Europe, was suddenly unable to access his account, read emails, etc.
Nice
But several EU countries looked at that and said "WTF ... the US gov can just decide to lock someone in the EU out of their own account?!"
... and as a result, Germany and other countries are rapidly getting off all Microsoft and other US software
When you see the #Plushtodon for sale on a shady bootleg website.
TIL: You need an additional room-mic to record #RAYE in all her vocal glory ๐
RAYE - Nightingale Lane. (Live at Abbey Road Studios)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZKywzRJa_Y
#leyrerplaylist
When you see the #Plushtodon for sale on a shady bootleg website.
@marie๋ง๋ฆฌ Ubuntu Vs Redhat Enterprise Linux
A candidate has every right to make those calculations. They don't want our votes, we're not giving them. The transaction between us and the candidate makes perfect sense, and then Dems come in and say we owe them our votes anyway. We do not. They don't want our votes. They want other votes.
Welcome to {women's clothing brand}, how would you like a shirt that cuts off right and exposes your tummy?
That's all we've got.
Cis people: immediately call your congresscritter and scream at them, regardless of party.
H.R.7661 is an attempt to define any discussion of trans identity or experience as inherently sexually explicit.
Leaving aside the way in which this nonconsensually fetishizes my existence,
this is a very specific, intentional measure to criminalize my existence.
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7f16397f3c (upstream/main) Add validation spec for `Form::Redirect` model (#38011)
7e5e96739f Use consistent calling style for `TagManager#normalize_domain` (#35764)
9762b4a75c Use `normalizes` for tag name attribute (#37119)
e92b7beb75 Refactor tests for `FeaturedTag#display_name` (#38007)
3c8e37907d Fix avatar alt-text running into other elements on image load failure. (#38000)
1e5cad072e Profile redesign: Profile fields feedback (#38005)
d69d7c0507 Profile editing: Tab display controls (#37994)
6b88dd4923 Issue `FeatureAuthorization`s (#38004)
3b7c33e763 Add `exclude_direct` flag to `/api/v1/accounts/:id/statuses` to exclude direct messages (#37763)
fc1f57b5f1 New Crowdin Translations (automated) (#38001)
1bc5cc4fcf Use bundler version 4.0.7 (#37995)
dd1623e988 Update dependency storybook to v10.2.10 [SECURITY] (#37998)
1dbb258d53 Update rails to version 8.1.2 (#36505)
There is an intermittent rattling noise in our office which it turns out everyone can hear, which is quite reassuring because I was wondering if the fans on my office desktop were maybe going (it and they date from late 2017). It turns out that this is coming from work being done on the roof, which we are just underneath.
It's less charming that raccoons (or squirrels) holding gymnastics competitions on the roof, although it is happening at a more reasonable hour than 'the dead of night'.
The Department of Homeland Security was caught lying Thursday about โ ๏ธ abandoning a blind refugee who was later found dead on the street.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the Tim Hortons in Buffalo
where federal agents left Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a 56-year-old Burmese refugee who was blind and spoke no English,
was โdetermined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address.โ
Video footage reviewed by The Washington Post, however, showed that the location had already closed, except for the drive-thru.
In video footage released by IP, Shah Alam could be seen walking past the drive-thru window,
then pacing by the locked front doors,
before he eventually wandered across the parking lot toward a Dollar Tree.
The Border Patrol agents drove away after one minute.
Shah Alam was blind and spoke no English.
He was found dead on Tuesday
https://newrepublic.com/post/207151/dhs-caught-lying-blind-refugee-agents-left-die-buffalo
The phrase "mainstream media" has become a pejorative term. We should instead use the phrase "professional media" to distinguish it from the chancers, Russian shills and partisan axe-grinders calling themselves "news sources" on the Internet.
Handdrawn 2D animation! I repeat, handdrawn 2D animation! This is what they took from us. #Gorillaz - The Mountain, The Moon Cave and The Sad God
Cis people: immediately call your congresscritter and scream at them, regardless of party.
H.R.7661 is an attempt to define any discussion of trans identity or experience as inherently sexually explicit.
Leaving aside the way in which this nonconsensually fetishizes my existence,
this is a very specific, intentional measure to criminalize my existence.
@marie๋ง๋ฆฌ ๋์๊ฐ๋ LLM ๋ชจ๋ธ๋ช
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Wo haben die Vรถgel eigentlich diese Uhr, dass sie wissen, wann sie singen sollen?
Reseรฑa de ยซAI that can prove itโs right: Verification as the missing layer in AIยป. https://jaalonso.github.io/vestigium/posts/2026/02/27-resena-de-ai-that-can-prove-its-right-verification-as-the-missing-layer-in-ai/ #AI4Math #LeanProver
Of all the thousands of pictures Iโve taken of my three cats, this might be my favourite
Look at that bundle of absolute chaos - awakening from his slumber to cause more havoc
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Markdownใใใใใ ใใๅ็ปใไฝๆใใใใผใซใไฝใฃใ - ่ฉฉใจๅตไฝใปๆ็ดขใฎใฒใใฐ
https://motemen.hatenablog.com/entry/2026/02/markdown-to-zundamon
so-called โaiโ companies are replicating the power structure of organized christianity, specifically catholicism. the church believes that only the ordained can communicate with god, everyone else just needs to pray and ask the priest for anything else.
โaiโ is attempting to put a gate up in front of computation. only the โaiโ owners (priests) can change the program (talk to god directly). this is how they envision a new technocratic society.
like the church used illiteracy as a tool for domination, so does the โaiโ industry. the less we all know about how our technological systems work, the more power concentrates in the โchurchโ โฆ
considering that a lot of them also believe they are creating a god (โagiโ), this moment is less
industrial revolution and more spanish inquisition.
RetroTick, browser-based Windows emulator https://lobste.rs/s/43nydc #retrocomputing #windows
https://retrotick.com/
RE: https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116143838461860743
I'm curious to see people's answers, too. Personally, I'm struggling to come up with much. I'm afraid that means I'm just swimming in it so much that I don't even see these things anymore
Mississippi overseas voters! You have primaries on March 10th! Ballots are out NOW! Register by Feb 28. Deadline to request is March 10. Return by email, received by March 10, 7:00 pm.
Act now! For all details, go to https://www.votefromabroad.org
#VoteFromAbroad #Mississippi #RegisterVoteWin #USpol #USpolitics
Look at that font. She must have a hacker brain
Are there things that make work "look Technical" to you? Are there secret signifiers you have become aware of? I love hearing people notice these things
Some color photos from the Swiss Alps last month. I was putting my telephoto lens to good use there! See lots more photos on my blog post: www.mountainphotography.com/gallery/swis... #Switzerland #Alps #MountainPhotography
Jan Lehnardt 
Chao-c'
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Gabriele Svelto
r00t f0lds Team# 258829 
@reiver โผ (Charles) 
Eugen Rochko
Glyph
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Evan Prodromou