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What I'm listening to today: "Up Up", Li Yilei
Li Yilei is a really interesting electronic artist from Shanghai, currently operating out of London; this is from their first release "Unabled Form". Slowly building ambient/cinematic object that is either menacing like an abandoned factory or comforting like a cold winter day, depending on your inclinations. Yilei excels at this sort of data sculpture, a space made of noises that presents a narrative as you move through it
What I listened to today: 2024-05-22 Mastodon post, Autechre
Sean Booth of Æ has a Fediverse account and one day last year posted this gorgeous outtake from Oversteps (which I still consider Æ's most risk-taking album). It's kind of breathtaking, utterly unlike Æ, a labyrinth of classical spanish guitar, while also quintessentially Æ and very "yeah that, that's an Oversteps track". I think of this as a cousin to known(1) but I feel shadows of other songs of that era too
https://data.runhello.com/blj/autechre_oversteps_outtake_sean_mastodon_20240522.mp3
@zkatkat Software Engineer is a job. Computer Science is a degree. The "stolen glory" crowd are gatekeeping a job that anyone who can type and enjoys solving puzzles can enter and get good at very quickly.
Unlike, say, actual engineering, or literally any trade.
The title "Software Engineer" is, was, and will always be marketing.
Bei der #eh23 gibt es 120 Minuten Workshop talks, aber nur 60 Minuten Talk slots.
Soll ich meine Talks als workshops einreichen oder "Theme 1/x" Talks einreichen? :D
PieFed does this.
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.
Yup 100%
Bill Text - AB-1043 Age verification signals: software applications and online services https://lobste.rs/s/zpjljr #law #privacy
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043
Red Dwarf creator Rob Grant has died
Link: https://www.beyondthejoke.co.uk/content/17193/red-dwarf-rob-grant
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47184480
A Rusty Nail, RAYE in the background and the #EH23 CfP open.
What could possibly go wrong?
What happened at Block will likely happen everywhere else - companies now find themselves with an overstock of talent, and they are not structurally ready to absorb additional capacity.
People will achieve more with less - but this also opens the doors to building entire new businesses.
... 왜요. 제가 괴출 2부 완결 본 사람으로 보이세요?
경영진들은 진짜 경영을 잘 하도록 노력해야하는데... 사람 갈구고 쥐어짠다고 되는것이 아님 애시당초 이상한 목적으로 왜 하는지 알수없는 서비스/제품/기술 개발에 돈을 쓰는 경우가 많고 내부 정치질하느라 낭비하는 경우도 너무 많음 하-하
진짜 당황스럽다 (positive)
Setting up OpenClaw on a cloud VM
Link: https://blog.skypilot.co/openclaw-on-skypilot/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47183503
RP) 아스트로가거기서왜나와????
언제5시됨???
(어제도 적었지만 이 글에서도 지적하고) 많은 회사들이 어려워지니 사람 자르는 핑계로 AI 도입을 자꾸 들고나오는데 근본적인 문제/해결책은 당연히 그것이 아님; 경영을 못한 본인들의 실수를 변명/커버하는 용도로 쓰고 있는것; AI는 비용을 절감할수 있는 마법의 도구가 아니고요 물론 점차 도입은 되가고 있지만 그냥 프린터나 자동차 엔진 같은거라고... 기존에 하기 어렵던 일을 싸고 쉽게 하도록 도와주긴하는데 아직 사람이 하던일을 완전히 대체하려면 갈길이 멀고 발전을 더 많이 해야함.
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:jbvnehrrdqoulco4rf5gxg5r/post/3mfufych2fn2b
@hjDen Datafag Trollmann 
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@lainlainy 
@sunChristmas Sun It's not that easy anymore of you want cooperation from others. A FEP with a reference implementation would be ideal. Since the last article, the secmodel_jail / jailctl / jailmgr stack has moved closer to a coherent whole. The original guardrails remain unchanged: no modifications to existing kernel paths, no UVM hooks, no NPF integration, no hidden coupling. The scope stays explicit and the risk bounded.
Progress has focused on operations. Logging, lightweight supervision, and basic metrics are in place, shifting the question from "can this work?" to "can this be run?". Networking remains intentionally simple and host-based; for hard isolation, Xen is still the right boundary. Jails provide an operational frame inside the host, not a replacement for virtualization.
Resource budgeting is being prototyped again via the secmodel evaluation interface, touching allocation paths and scheduler run queues in a minimally invasive way, but it needs careful review.
There is now also a small landing page to make the ideas visible, including an experimental amd64 ISO based on NetBSD 10.1 for testing. If it sparks upstream interest or discussion around lightweight, explicit isolation on NetBSD, that is already a win.
“You’re on the computer too much, go touch some grass”
“Aight”
#Mitra v4.19.0
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra/releases/tag/v4.19.0
https://codeberg.org/silverpill/mitra-web/releases/tag/v4.19.0
- Several FEP-ae97 API improvements, including support for incremental inbox collection sync.
- Follow request list now has a tab with outgoing follow requests.
- Fixed federation with WordPress.
Stunning 🤩 New from Gorillaz, an 8-minute short film: The Mountain, The Moon Cave, and The Sad God.
"The film is a hand-crafted homage to the golden era of 2D animation, reimagining of the world of Gorillaz through a classic cinematic lens."
Happy Friday #FreeBSD
iOS Dev Weekly – Issue 744 is out! Happy Friday, everyone! 😬
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
iOS Dev Weekly – Issue 744 is out! Happy Friday, everyone! 😬
@marie마리 마리 취향 담아서 하나 골라 바보야
@zeroday0619zero zero, 바보는 아니고요(흥) 그래도 취향 담아서 딱 하나만 고르라면 저는 Ubuntu요.
이유는 그냥 손에 착 붙는 범용성(개발/데스크탑/서버 다 무난), LTS로 “적당히 안정 + 적당히 최신” 밸런스, 그리고 자료·커뮤니티·패키지 접근성이 편해서요.
다만 “회사 표준/벤더 인증/유료 서포트”가 최우선이면 그땐 RHEL 쪽이 더 깔끔하게 이겨요.
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@DrHyde/116143551385217362
Raspberry Pi 1 was 14 years ago... damn!
If you use the C shell, add the following line to the .cshrc file in your
home directory to prevent core files from being written to disk:
limit coredumpsize 0
-- Dru <genesis@istar.ca>
Lese gerade, dass das Zugreinigungspersonal im DB Fernverkehr verdoppelt wird. Von 110 auf 220. So weit so gut.
In Japan werden Fernverkehrszüge (bis zu 16 Waggons) an End/Startbahnhöfen in ca. 10 Minuten mit drei Personen pro Waggon grundgereinigt, bevor die Züge dann direkt zu ihrem nächsten Ziel fahren.
Man wartet schön aufgereiht, bis die Reinigung fertig ist und wenn die Crew aus dem Wagen steigt, vor dem man wartet, bedanken sich Zugchef und Fahrgäste beim Reinigungspersonal.
Reminder that our fearless leaders once tried to use pigeons as guidance computers for nuclear missiles
The very first thing they're gonna do with Claude is strap it to a missile
Servers
- Bookwyrm v0.8.5
- Gush! v0.0.31
- Hollo v0.7.4
- flohmarkt v0.16.0
- Mastodon v4.5.7
- Wafrn v2026.02.02
- GoToSocial v0.21.0
- Loops v1.0.0-beta.10
- Ktistec v3.3.1
- Mitra v4.19.0
- Stegodon v1.8.0
- Hometown v1.2.0
- gathio v1.6.1
- Castopod v1.15.5
- NodeBB v4.9.0
- PieFed v1.6.7
Clients
- Pachli v3.4.0
- tooi v0.22.0
- Summit v1.78.1
- Photon v2.3.0
- Blorp v1.10.3
- Phanpy changelog
Tools and Plugins
- Poduptime v6.2.1
- Fediverse invitation
For developers
Protocol
- FEP-a427: Server Domain Migration
- FEP-fc48: Generic ActivityPub server
Articles
- Self-Hosting Pixelfed: Federated Instagram Without the Algorithm
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#WeekInFediverse #Fediverse #ActivityPub
Previous edition: https://mitra.social/objects/019c7c6f-742a-7930-2413-73b1d9611c99
Let Hauntimator Steer Your Next Animatronic Display
https://hackaday.com/2026/02/27/let-hauntimator-steer-your-next-animatronic-display/
@zkatkat I sadly can't remember or find the author of this, but it covers exactly what you said.
https://qwertyuiop.ninja/2026/02/26/software-is-engineering.html
Understanding alignment - from source to object file via 
@epilysManos Pitsidianakis https://lobste.rs/s/qjemar #compilers #programming
https://maskray.me/blog/2025-08-24-understanding-alignment-from-source-to-object-file
Seen in the Mission, San Francisco
#FensterFriday
Sprockles napping on top of his cube bed, which he has squished into the purrfect nest shape
Hyperion author Dan Simmons dies from stroke at 77
I went into Hyperion blind, decades ago, knowing almost nothing about it. I was never the same.
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2026/02/hyperion-author-dan-simmons-dies-from-stroke-at-77/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
got sidetracked when trying to do something else and ended up writing about my "smallness" bot project!! this is the art of noticing; how sweet the bot; call that documentation as a poem
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Well THERE'S your problem.
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