RE: https://mastodon.social/@joyousjoyness/116026643943023163

Warm kitty in a tub in a tub :3

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Deglassco/116025383887302854

The GOP is at its most dangerous and most vulnerable right now. If toppled, and we actually get a government that prosecutes its crimes, a lot of people are going to jail.

It not only has an incentive to go full fascist, If it doesn’t they might actually face consequences.

Arts & crafts cats 🦎

Comer runs interference for his boss. Plain as day to see.

Intimidation is his game. It will backfire and cause many more to exercise their right to vote as he tries to strip it away.

On the one hand I'm very tired. The state of the world around us is truly terrible and nobody can ignore it. But on the other hand I'm not giving up. The struggle will be long but we must never give up hope. We'll make this world a better place, this society a better society and ultimately ourselves better human beings.

@sjvn The news itself sounds horrendous ... But media critical to what's going on also need to get a grip and not place such news behind a paywall, so that this kind of news can truly be spread to as many as possible.

We put a lot of work into both #Fedilab and #HolosSocial. We will never neglect one for the other, both deserve attention. Holos allowed us to push boundaries like E2EE DMs over ActivityPub and portable identity, but Fedilab is the app we've been working on since 2017 and will keep integrating new features. This is your app, not ours. Alongside all this, we are volunteers, so if you can help us financially, that would really help. Thank you.

Must-read: How ‘Pink Slime’ Publishers Are Weaponizing FOIA

From Mirada Green and the Tow Center for Digital Journalism:

"Metric Media filed more than nine thousand public records requests last year. It used the data to target Democratic politicians and private citizens."

If you're unfamiliar with Metric Media, they own thousands of local "news" sites that mostly republish drivel until election time rolls around they're all partisan conservative publications masquerading as local news.

"Founded in 2019, Metric has been criticized for jury tampering and tied to pay-for-play political schemes and fake newspapers that land in mailboxes ahead of key elections. Recently, it has focused on obtaining troves of public records. In the past year, an investigation by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism has found Metric filed more than nine thousand Freedom of Information Act requests across all fifty states."

"Many of the requests are for data at the forefront of America’s culture-wars, from allegedly rigged elections to banned books to transgender inmates. With public records in hand, Metric has targeted liberal politicians with negative reporting, criticized the funding of nonprofit organizations, and published personally identifying details about small-town residents who spoke up at school board hearings. Unlike traditional journalism, Metric’s stories do not air dueling perspectives or offer targets a chance to comment."

https://www.cjr.org/tow_center/pink-slime-networks-are-weaponizing-foia.php

@codepo8 @kura Now I'm hoping for a decent inter-city teleportation system

"AI AGEnTS wIll DO AlL The TEDIoUS WOrk FOR YOU LIKE booKING trIpS"
Meanwhile, AI maps:

@cmyrland Men ... Dette må jo prøves!

New, by me: I wrote some words for TechCrunch about Sen. Ron Wyden's recent unclassified letter to the CIA director, citing his "deep concerns" about the agency's activities. This isn't the first time Wyden has sounded his "siren" — and history tells us why this new letter is likely a big deal.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/06/senator-who-has-repeatedly-warned-about-secret-u-s-government-surveillance-sounds-new-alarm-over-cia-activities/

Alan discovers crypto malware in the Snap Store #linux #security
https://linuxmatters.sh/74/

Never a great idea.

With the way Apple and Google hate ISO noise in photography, this what they'd want Seurat paintings to look like:

#photography stop the war on grain, my eyes can do the noise reduction fine.

😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱 😱

What are you going to break now!?!?

#atlassian #bitbucket #programming #sourcecode #vcs #git

@mjg59 @acsawdey Getting such a project running and functional is just one side of such a challenge. Getting applications written for it will be much more harder, especially applications people need and want to use.

Unless, of course, you provide a libc compat wrapper library exposing C API/ABIs again to make the application porting simpler ... Which puts you back to start again.

@mjg59 @iris_meredith @gabriel

If you write all the needed functions the libc library provides into a language specific system library, you can escape a lot of C APIs, until you need to communicate with kernel ABIs. Then you're back at wrapping the language native APIs into a C ABI to be able to the syscalls.

And what will make it even more fun ... You'll need to do that for each single OS platform you want to support, to have something being portable.

This kind of stunts is something you only can afford to do on specialised embedded single purpose systems where you need to have as little code running as possible, to be able to fully audit all possible call chains - like in criticial secure systems for aviation or nuclear power plant systems and such like. It won't ever happen on general purpose systems at all.

We're basically stuck with C ABIs until the day someone is successful replacing it something new and better AND provide all the applications people need and want to use at the same time. It will be a revolutionary paradigm shift if someone is capable of pulling that one off. And I'm not holding my breath.

https://faultlore.com/blah/c-isnt-a-language/ deserves a fucking record for managing to trigger people into being extremely upset while also demonstrating that they don't understand the actual point being made