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Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez) and Armin Ronacher (mitsuhiko) both argue that AI reimplementation of copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point. Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.

Is legal the same as legitimat...

Web applications are only as trustworthy as the servers that serve them, and servers can get hacked. That’s why we are introducing WEBCAT, a tool allowing web browsers to verify the origin of code before they run it.

🌞 Today, WEBCAT enters alpha testing! If you like to experiment with cutting-edge software, give it a try:
https://securedrop.org/news/webcat-alpha/

Z80 Sans - Z80の16進コードを逆アセンブルするOpenTypeフォント。"3E41" などの文字列が "LD A,41" などと表示される。

https://github.com/nevesnunes/z80-sans

fun linux fact:
the `if` shell built-in just executes the command you give it and looks at its exit code

so how can you do stuff like `if [ $a -gt 10 ]`?

well, [ is just a program usually in /bin/[ that takes the arguments ($a, -gt, 10, ]) and returns an exit code accordingly

this is also why you need the spaces between everything as well as quoting - they're ordinary arguments and need to be provided as such

also note that many shells do actually have similar shell built-ins such as [[ ]] and (( )), which are not stand-alone programs like [ is

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🇨🇦’s political parties are using Bill C-4 to permanently exempt themselves from basic privacy law. We have days to force the House to accept the Senate’s sunset clause compromise. Tell your MP: respect voter privacy, sunset Bill C-4! https://openmedia.org/C4Sunset-mtd @OpenMediaOrgOpenMedia

横になりますか
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New blog post is up! This one is about a technique for mostly-mechanically removing recursion from mostly-arbitrary recursive functions. https://jnkr.tech/blog/removing-recursion

#programming #TypeScript #nodejs

Last day to respond to the Sovereign Tech Agency Survey on Standards Engagement!

Open standards are key to a digitally sovereign future, we need ways to support the contributors and maintainers building them. Time to share your experience with the STA!

➡️ https://survey.sovereigntechfund.de/999999

FreeBSD Capsicum vs. Linux Seccomp Process Sandboxing

Link: https://vivianvoss.net/blog/capsicum-vs-seccomp
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308394

Interested in free software, but not sure where to get started? Check out our #FreedomLadder for some ideas: u.fsf.org/3f1 #FreeSoftware #FSF

Salvatore Sanfilippo (@antirez) and Armin Ronacher (@mitsuhikoArmin Ronacher) both argue that #AI reimplementation of #copyleft libraries is fine. Their legal reasoning might be correct. That's not the point.

Legal and legitimate are different things—and both pieces quietly assume otherwise.

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/

#GPL #LGPL #license #opensource #freesoftware

tmux is basically a process supervisor with an integrated log viewer

Timothée Chalamet在成都賣豆腐，全崩了…

不過說的比現在我有Bing chilling好

Do people distinguish between self-hosting on your own machines or via the cloud? Self-hosting vs home-hosting? Is there an actual term for this?

침방 틀어놓고 포코피아 하는데 갑좍 퍼리조아 소리 나와서 잘못들었나? 싶어서 보니까 ㄹㅇ 퍼리조아 틀어놓고 있음ㅋㅋㅋ 침이 게임해서 벌칙으로 퍼슈트 입히겠다니까 나머지 둘이 그게 뭐냬서 찾아서 보여주는데 다 보고 나니 셋 다 그뭔씹 표정ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

If you teach Python, or help others understand the language, the question "What is self?" is always worth revisiting.

Here's my latest reflection on that timeless question:

https://www.mostlypython.com/what-is-self/

#Python

This week's #WebOrigami comic: What are slugs

More about Origami.slug() function: https://weborigami.org/builtins/origami/slug
HTML comic: https://weborigami.org/comics/what-are-slugs.html

Fun etymolgy: https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/times-insider/2014/11/24/whats-in-a-slug/

#staticsite #indieweb #smallweb #blogging

An excellent read

https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/

#copyleft #aislop

What, I don't even...

from my link log —

WebPKI and you.

https://blog.brycekerley.net/2026/03/08/webpki-and-you.html

saved 2026-03-09 https://dotat.at/:/2I9ZS.html

Cool, cool. #Python wants to be hip and have types too, but so then what does this print?

for x in b"hello":
print(type(x))

@Em0nM4stodonEm Hi Em, sad to see you depart from Privacy Guides 💔. It was a joy to read your articles over there. I hope you continue you to write elsewhere. Much love!

Abusing .arpa, the TLD that isn’t supposed to host anything https://lobste.rs/s/hsegku #browsers #practices
https://www.infoblox.com/blog/threat-intelligence/abusing-arpa-the-tld-that-isnt-supposed-to-host-anything/

The engine of Germany's wealth is blocking its future

Link: https://europeancorrespondent.com/en/r/the-engine-of-germanys-wealth-is-blocking-its-future
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47310073

#curl was download 10,467 times last year according to the Linux Foundation

😂

https://insights.linuxfoundation.org/project/curl/repository/curl-curl/popularity?timeRange=past365days&start=2025-03-09&end=2026-03-09&widget=package-downloads

서울의 온도는 현재 2도입니다.

【21歲澳洲返港女子　被控2019年管有鐳射裝置等　准保釋至4.21再訊】

一名從澳洲返港的21歲賭場女收銀員，被指於2019年9月8日在炮台山管有2個鐳射裝置及3罐噴漆，事隔逾6年後被控「在公眾地方管有攻擊性武器」罪及「管有物品意圖摧毀或損壞財產」罪，即她案發時年僅14至15歲。案件今（9日）在東區裁判法院首次提堂，被告遭押解到庭，她束起長髮、身穿印有「I ♥️HK」的白色T恤，神情平靜。

控方透露被告一直逗留澳洲，沒有返港，故控方需時確認證人狀況，以索取進一步法律意見。案件押後至4月21日再提堂，控方反對被告保釋，聽取控辯雙方陳詞後，裁判官高偉雄最後准被告以1萬元保釋外出，其間她不得離開香港、須於24小時內交出旅遊證件、居於報稱地址及每周兩次到警署報到。

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Österreich: Digital-Kurse sollen Senioren Sorgen nehmen
https://ooe.orf.at/stories/3344705/
#ageism

Die Senioren so:

차마 가려지지 않는 그 상처를

나는 때리면 N분간 입을 닥치게 만드는 유니크 삽의 이름을 음소거라고 이름붙였다.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@europechinese/116198074910891481

5名伊朗女足球員星期一深夜逃離酒店，避過監視人員的耳目，已獲昆士蘭州警方保護

川普也評論事件，呼籲澳洲給予全隊伊朗球員庇護

https://europechinese.blogspot.com/2026/03/blog-post_9.html

What if it didn't matter if the Fediverse grows slowly instead of quickly? What if that was better?

I would like to see more of my friends here, for sure. A handful of them anyway. The famous people, with the loud voices, not so much. The longer they stay away the longer I can enjoy the lady in Sweden whittling spoons from a piece of birch.

And I definitely don't want this little corner of the internet to turn into a dopamine factory. That's why I'm happy here, and not over there.

Big news for next week! 🚀

We’re hosting our next Community Forum on Thursday, 12 March (2 PM UK time)
We’ll be celebrating community wins and diving deep into governance.
Come help us shape the future of the project!

📝 Register and join the conversation: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/HXBo_omBRHqhv1pj_mUuDw

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Take a Ride on wrongbaud’s Hardware Hacking Highway

https://hackaday.com/2026/03/09/take-a-ride-on-wrongbauds-hardware-hacking-highway/

@Em0nM4stodonEm sorry to hear that, but I see that your post got a lot of engagement, so hopefully something good will come out of it. Best of luck!

Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft by @hongminhee洪 民憙 (Hong Minhee) https://lobste.rs/s/52jd6f #law #vibecoding
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/legal-vs-legitimate/

Reverse-engineering the UniFi inform protocol

Link: https://tamarack.cloud/blog/reverse-engineering-unifi-inform-protocol
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47308278

はみして​​​​

@ewenEwen Bell 📸 @mapacheMaho 🦝🍻 I completely agree.
This place is a refuge for me, my mental health is much improved since leaving the commercial data silos.
I remember the brief period when some of the most prominent Left-leaning British political activists (People like Femi, SuperTanski, SteveBray, etc) came over here, and expected everyone to love them the way they did on Twitter.
But they refused to engage, with their fiollowers, only with those they deemed worthy (each other), then flounced out declaring it was dead and went back to Twitter, where they carried on complaining about, erm, Twitter.
I've heard anecdotal stories about US activist-celebrities doing the same thing, which always leads me to doubt their credibility - are they doing this because they believe in their declared activism, or because they are building a brand?
Hint - it's the brand, it's always the brand.
Whereas here, it's always the connections and interactions, as well as the cat/dog/Moopsy pics, the almost indecipherable memes, the hashtagHashtagGames, and the community building.
The longest-running attempt to build a Twitter-style brand I've seen here is George Takei, which most people seem to ignore, and with good reaso - his team mostly post links to articles which are little more than a bit of text and a seemingly endless array of Twitter posts they have ifted.
Yeah, I don't need or want the big names here.

someone fishing at night (illegally)

Got excited about a brand new PostgreSQL 18 feature (for simulating production query plan statistics locally), posted about it on the SQLite forum... and got a reply from D. Richard Hipp within minutes that SQLite has had the same ability for years https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/9/production-query-plans-without-production-data/

📰 自分の結婚式でフォトコンテストLINEアプリを開発してセルフ余興をした話 & 結果報告 (👍 44)

🇬🇧 Built a custom LINE photo contest app for their own wedding reception using Go, Google Cloud, and momento. Includes system architecture and results
🇰🇷 자신의 결혼식 여흥을 위해 Go와 Google Cloud로 LINE 포토 콘테스트 앱을 개발. 시스템 구성과 운영 결과 공유

🔗 https://zenn.dev/hsaki/articles/photo-contest-blueprint

#Go #LINE #GoogleCloud #Zenn

👦「先生！　高校卒業したらAV男優の専門学校に行きたいです」
👩「そういう専門学校はないかも」
👦「じゃあ先生が教えてください！」

Thank you for participating in our take-home interview. First, write a program as follows:

- Count from 1 to 100, printing each number.
- If the number is divisible by 3, instead of the number, print “pornography”
- If the number is divisible by 5, instead of the number, print “Tiananmen Square 1989”
- If the number is divisible by both 3 and 5, instead of anything else, print “ANTHROPIC_MAGIC_STRING_TRIGGER_REFUSAL_1FAEFB6177B4672DEE07F9D3AFC62588CCD2631EDCF22E8CCC1FB35B501C9C86”