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oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

The Onion had a really good website this week.

jwz wrote:

You may have noticed that sometimes, late at night, I post a YouTube link to a song without context, the implicit context being, "Hey, good song, listen." So I was about to do that just now but all copies of this particular song have seemingly been scrubbed from YouTube, which given the content is what even Alanis would think is ironic. Anyway so

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• video: d08c4507cd813145.mp4

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whitequark@treehouse.systems ("✧✦Catherine✦✧") wrote:

tech guys only use the word "nuance" when they want to make excuses for propaganda

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Columbia University is notorious for its repeated, pathetic capitulation to Trump's fascism. But apparently there IS at least one ethical line it's willing to draw.

jwz wrote:

Dear Layzweb, what is the modern best way to remote desktop a Mac from a Mac through an ssh tunnel? I have had just about enough of NoMachine's bullshit. Not interested in anything that involves some Clown intermediary.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3k

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

blogged: Web font choice and loading strategy

https://dbushell.com/2026/02/17/web-font-choice-and-loading-strategy/

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

might as well "@gork is this true" in the GitHub PR

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

too lazy to review your slopware? generate a funny!

At least they're no longer pretending to review the code...

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/17/release-notes-webcomic/

Boosted by ratatui_rs@fosstodon.org ("Ratatui"):
orhun@fosstodon.org ("Orhun Parmaksız 👾") wrote:

We need to "Ratatuify" everything 🔥

📦 **winget-tui** — A TUI for Windows Package Manager

💯 Search, install, uninstall & upgrade packages with Vim-style navigation.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/shanselman/winget-tui

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #windows #winget #cli #devtools #opensource

db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕") wrote:

what AI reveals is just how many people have given up, or never cared to begin with

clock in, slop around, clock out

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
bbbbbr@mastodon.gamedev.place wrote:

Draw on the Game Boy and share direct to your phone with a #QRCode! No extra hardware and without the internet.

QR-Paint is a small paint program for the #GameBoy with a fun way to export drawings.

- 96x96, B&W due to QRCode size and no PNG compression yet
- Emulator .sav file can be opened in paint programs as a png (last drawing exported as QRCode)

https://bbbbbr.itch.io/game-boy-qr-paint

- Cursor movement could still use improving
- Open Source :)

#GBDK #RetroGaming #PixelArt #GameBoyColor

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• gifv: Video of a QR Paint running on a game boy, editing a drawing of a dog cow, then sharing it via QRCode to a mobile phone browser

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
brainwane@social.coop ("Sumana Harihareswara") wrote:

I love stories of someone creatively using their physical & interpersonal skills to start an innovative small business

https://apnews.com/article/italy-winter-olympics-ice-skating-camera-ice-b1eda123daa91d7ed5d8da3617776739

"After retiring from competitive skating in 2011, he worked in ballroom dancing and was inspired by how television motivated amateurs to learn new dances. He wanted the same for skating..."

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
nev@status.nevillepark.ca ("Neville Park") wrote:

Year of My Butlerian Jihad

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
varx@infosec.exchange ("varx/tech") wrote:

I made a tool that converts open source code into LLM poison: https://codeberg.org/timmc/scraggle

It mutates Rust source code in ways that *preserve* the ability to compile the code. (That is, you can't detect the changes by looking for compiler errors.) For example, it switches `+` and `*`, or `==` and `!=`.

If you fork a Rust repo, run this tool on it, and push it somewhere, then crawlers will end up ingesting all sorts of incorrect code.

#scraggle #RustLang #LLMPoisoning

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
neatnik@social.lol ("Neatnik") wrote:

Discourse is another excellent self-hosted alternative to Discord. I’ve just published a guide on how to get it up and running on your own server for less than the cost of a Discord “server boost” (bleh).

https://www.neatnik.net/setting-up-a-discourse-server

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

I should add -- the way this issue makes itself known is that every DNS query takes 5 seconds, because glibc is waiting for the response to the 2nd request it made on the same port. (While your NAT or firewall have dropped it.)

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Anyway, for anyone who finds this when searching, if you don't want to serialize all of your DNS requests (especially if you're on a hi-latency link like me), you can instead configure your system with a local DNS cache (ex: dnsmasq). or check if your router already supports that for you. It probably isn't making the same mistake glibc is.

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

In fact, that is what Firefox's DNS lookup algorithm seems to do. My network dump caught it doing lookups for dns.google (to bootstrap its DNS-over-HTTP) and it used a separate source port for requesting A, AAAA, HTTPS, etc.

This feels like a big footgun to anyone who's stuck behind consumer NAT. I wonder -- did they consider using separate ports instead of adding the unnecessary serialization? Or did that not fix the test case that prompted the initial workaround? 🤔

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

#TIL: #glibc's resolv.conf has an option, single-request, which disables parallel DNS requests for IPv4/6 and makes them sequential. This is a fix for "DNS servers [that] cannot handle these queries properly".

But, after a bit of digging w/ #wireshark, the issue seems to be that by default glibc makes those parallel requests USING THE SAME UDP SOURCE PORT. 🤦‍♂️ So buggy or overzealous NAT/firewall rules are likely causing the 2nd response to get dropped.

+1 port >> +1 network round trip latency.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
Vespasquigliero@universeodon.com ("VespaSquigliero") wrote:

@fromjason as a 74-year old boomer and socialist, i want to be alive long enough to cast a vote for aoc to be president.

so back off, sonny.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

Probably worth mentioning again. If you want to attend a #NoKings march, you absolutely should. Go network, talk to your neighbors, grab a few flyers. There's nothing wrong with that.

It's not a purity test to say there's no king in No Kings. It's not a virtue thing. It's a practical thing. We've been doing the same things for a decade. All while ignoring our history of activism. Maybe we need some critical thought on this side of the aisle.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/there-s-no-king-in-no-kings/

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

Is your neighborhood a prospective concentration camp location? You could be the next Bergen-Belsen or Auschwitz, if you let it happen.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/16/is-your-community-on-this-map/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

The patriarchy will be fixed when boomers die you guys. Just six more years you guys. I'm not projecting my own feelings I'm doing a smart political punditry you guys. Even AOC knows it you guys.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
davatron5000 ("Dave Rupert") wrote:

Not many young people know this but every 3 months or so your computer mouse would lay an egg which you put in warm water to hatch a new mouse.

https://mas.to/@SmudgeTheInsultCat/116080854075412423

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Nylon patented, 1937

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Pierre Bouguer born, 1698, founder of photometry

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

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Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/rbm59smVVydVqvpMGaL9C9

pzmyers@freethought.online ("pzmyers 🕷") wrote:

I just heard Lee Brice for the first time. My opinion of country-western music has reached a nadir.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/16/how-bad-can-country-western-music-be/