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

dumb question: does this new meta text-scale tag "stack" with existing per-site user/browser settings?
https://www.joshtumath.uk/posts/2026-01-27-try-text-scaling-support-in-chrome-canary/

e.g. if the OS is +1 notch and the site was already +1 will it become +2?

Boosted by db@social.lol ("David Bushell ☕"):
jonikorpi@mastodon.gamedev.place ("Joni Korpi") wrote:

Man the AI coding doomerism is in full swing on my timelines. Guys, have some pride in your work, confidence in your abilities.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I’m not sure if I’m getting burned out on tech podcasts in general, or just ones that spend an awful lot of runtime enthusing about AI, but I’m finding myself hitting the skip button way more than I used to lately.

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drahardja@sfba.social ("Dave Rahardja") wrote:

#Substack openly platforms—and profits from—#Nazis. And not just nudge-nudge-wink-wink types of Nazis, but literal black-swastika “NatSoc” Nazis. And they recommend Nazi writers.

If you are still on Substack either as a reader or publisher, please seriously consider leaving the platform. It’s a Nazi bar. You don’t want to give them your money or your attention. I hear ghost dot org is a great, Nazi-free alternative.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

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ben@werd.social ("Ben Werdmuller") wrote:

This isn’t new news as such, but people keep being surprised by it, so it’s worth repeating. Substack hosts, profits from, and promotes explicitly Nazi content, and if you are adding value to that network, you are helping them to do so. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

jwz wrote:

Oh no. Anyway
https://sfba.social/@MLNow/116032085703329563

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davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

reading vibecoders talk about how great vibecoding is for engineering real things is like reading bitcoiners talk about how they think money works

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

(This is a job to come work on #sciop)
https://digipres.club/@mickylindlar/116025881444877358

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jeffjarvis ("Jeff Jarvis") wrote:

For shame.
NBC appears to cut crowd’s booing of JD Vance from Winter Olympics broadcast
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/06/nbc-appears-to-cut-crowds-booing-of-jd-vance-from-winter-olympics-broadcast?CMP=share%5Fbtn%5Furl

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fasterandworse@hci.social ("Stephen Farrugia") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/116006718073303488

best not find yourself saying "people have different definitions of opt-in"

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt ("Natasha 🇪🇺 :mastodon:") wrote:

By Dutch cartoonist Tjeerd Royaards

kevinevans@hachyderm.io ("Kevin") wrote:

Going to Costco the day before the Super Bowl was intense

#costco #SuperBowl

ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕") wrote:

Great little blog post by ghosty on the original Doom games. Might have to fire them up again.

https://blog.thefrenchghosty.me/posts/doom/

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

You don't need Discord! 🙅 If you run a project or community that uses Discord, or just have a friend group who hangs out there, maybe consider IRC instead. For less than the cost of a single Nitro Boost (ugh), you can run your own IRC server, taking back your privacy and ensuring your autonomy and independence.

I’m writing a guide (live, right now) on how to do this (and building an IRC server in the process). Feel free to tune in if you want! https://www.twitch.tv/neatnik

jwz wrote:

'AI' is a dick move.

Baldur Bjarnason: I've stopped trying to debate software developers on LLMs. It's a fruitless debate. Even if the believers in agents and copilots could be budged on empirical grounds, and the past few years have given us plenty...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3I

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Doing some manly things today.

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popcornreel@mas.to ("Omar Moore") wrote:

PROMOTE BLACK VOICES (on this platform and in general.)

Thank you.

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calvinball@mastodon-belgium.be ("Calvinball - Jolan") wrote:

All other social media platforms feel like I'm zapping through teleshopping channels.

Mastodon is like finding the button that turns on interdimensional cable.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

RE: https://federate.social/@mattblaze/116025853458391912

I'm so tempted to declare that the left and right have been swapping roles since the election. It feels like a lazy analysis but geez, the election fraud conspiracies plus some other social behavior stuff makes it compelling. At least at first glance.

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mcc wrote:

What I'm listening to today: "BASTL WAVE🐦‍⬛BARD｜#14 - DRONE", boop _e_

A couple days ago I posted this artist using the Citadel, a eurorack module reprogrammable as any of Bastl's "Kastle 2" devices. Here's the equivalent desktop/handheld device, this time programmed as a "Wavebard", with the eurorack cables replaced with little wires.

Track is a soulful, disorienting dream about being lost in fog while giant glowing blobs of color pass by you, paintsplotches in the mist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uVWrZffwEc

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pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Sex license

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joyousjoyness ("Joy") wrote:

Timelapse of my painting, "Shrimp Cat," painted in Procreate!

#cat #art #orangecat #gingercat #painting #catart #caturday

Attachments:

• gifv: c4f2562c6dc1b1a1.mp4

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Sometimes I get a really good quote in.

“Pointing out that AI is prone to giving ICE bad information is missing the entire point of ICE,” EFF’s Eva Galperin told Rolling Stone. “They don’t care if the information they have is good.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-commentary/ice-ai-mistakes-1235507183/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Also, to be clear, I'm not anti-getting paid for your work. I'm very much in favor of that. I try to support at least 2 independent creators at all times. More if I'm having a good year.

I do think we've put ourselves in a corner where some of us are financially dependent on Mark Zuckerberg. And while I don't expect anyone to delete their IG or Substack
overnight, there should be initiatives to slowly move audiences outside corporate social media.

Ok I'm rambling. Might write a proper post.

Boosted by jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi"):
thisisgww@threads.net ("G. Willow Wilson") wrote:

"Bit of over-rotation on the landing there," I mutter critically as I sit on my couch with a toaster strudel, having never landed a quad-anything in my life

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

Y'all could I declare myself the king of Mastodon and start a grift where you give me money on my buymeacoffee and in exchange I'll write fan fic?

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/behind-the-bastards/id1373812661?i=1000748348631

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Okay, listen up Oxide fam: on Monday, @ahl and I will be joined by Evan Ratliff and Maty Bohacek from the extraordinary Shell Game podcast -- which gives you the rest of the weekend to binge listen to it:

https://www.shellgame.co/

(Both seasons are terrific, but if you only have one to listen to between now, and then, check out Season 2.)

Join us for what promises to be a fun discussion: Monday, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1469771648860426344

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ahl ("Adam Leventhal") wrote:

On this week's Oxide and Friends, @gradybooch joined @bcantrill and me to talk about the past, present, and future of software engineering. From hand-made computers and the software crisis of the late '60s to LLMs (of course) we covered a lot... with--as always--many dated references! https://youtu.be/McAL6jkRUO4

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The Centralized Social Media Debacle:

"Opting out is not virtue.
It’s alignment.

And alignment, at this stage, feels like the most humane choice available." https://realityfragments.com/2026/02/07/the-centralized-social-media-debacle/

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matildalove@wetdry.world ("Matilda Love") wrote:

@fromjason "no kings" is more of an ad campaign than a movement. one run by a billionaire