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

Today in History: New Zealand Day

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

Today in History: Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, founding document of New Zealand, 1840

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

Today in History: King George VI of UK dies; his daughter becomes Elizabeth II, 1952

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

[BEGIN TODAY IN HISTORY RUN]

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

How do you predict an anomaly that has no foundation in theory?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/06/basic-scientific-understanding-should-squelch-these-ideas/

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

starting to wonder why a self-imposed 60 hour work week to finish my website was a good idea...

but it's almost over!

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I hate that I had to think about the modern equivalent of asbestos--the wonder material of AI--at the time, but it made me think of how a line its proponents often use is that the introduction of generative AI mirrors the advance from painting to photography--a line that's been said to me even on this platform. Of course, that's a lie. Photography never replaced *this*. It simply cannot.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Amelia and I got to visit the Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Brussels--specifically the old masters collection--and it was fascinating. Didn't have nearly enough time to see everything, only a couple of rooms before closing time. They don't prepare you for how large these paintings are in real life.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dgar@aus.social ("Dgar") wrote:

I got a little visitor at my door.
#PhotosFromEarth

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
rysiek@mstdn.social ("Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦") wrote:

@r_alb also, one of my favorite quotes on the subject, author unknown:

> I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are.

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

Surprise. Epstein claimed he was framed.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/06/jeffrey-epstein-thought-he-was-mostly-innocent-so-did-noam-chomsky/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

New #Karnivool album released today.

https://youtu.be/6w8%5FkuDTnow

#NP #NowPlaying

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

Wow, this is so beau-TUI-ful! ✨

🎹 **CrabSID** — A TUI music player for Commodore 64 SID tunes

💯 Supports real MOS 6502 + SID chip emulation, multi-SID tracks & streaming from the HVSC archive

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/mlund/crabsid

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #c64 #sid #retrogaming #terminal #opensource

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is *wild*:

https://youtu.be/ZoO9FZXUgv4?si=m09yaHB8-5RxHQ9J

Boosted by jwz:
lauerhahn@sfba.social ("Louise Auerhahn 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto

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zekjur@mas.to ("Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺") wrote:

PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

Like https://github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

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

responsive designers hate this one CSS trick:

div { zoom: 0.5; }

jwz wrote:

I'm pretty sure that the Vaillancourt Fountain is still there in the year 3195. It's hard to tell because some palm trees are blocking it, but that looks like the East wall to me. It's directly below the Tulip statue.

Proving that we are in the Terran Empire timeline, that means it will have lasted 1,169 years longer than it will in our universe...
https://jwz.org/b/yk2%5F

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

today's edition of "Coding Before Coffee"

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

Winter basil

#photography #darktable

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
matildalove@wetdry.world ("Matilda Love") wrote:

whatever happens in life, always remember that the bug emoji is perfectly positioned to play the sax emoji 🎷🐛

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
peter@thepit.social ("Peter") wrote:

what a fucking shitshow.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
regehr ("John Regehr") wrote:

my colleague Cem runs an annual Utah Teapot Rendering Competition ❤️

https://graphics.cs.utah.edu/trc/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
everylibrary ("EveryLibrary") wrote:

The Librarians is set to premiere on PBS this Monday, Feb. 9, after a robust theatrical and festival run that saw Kim A. Snyder’s documentary earn awards across the country.

https://deadline.com/2026/02/the-librarians-pbs-independent-lens-premiere-1236709543/

Boosted by jwz:
SallyStrange@eldritch.cafe ("Sally Strange") wrote:

I wish every crypto miner a very broke as fuck

https://futurism.com/future-society/bitcoin-crashing-miners-unplugging-equipment

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
skinnylatte@hachyderm.io ("Adrianna Tan") wrote:

I don’t need ChatGPT. I just have to post on Mastodon ‘I don’t know this thing’ and all of my autistic acquaintances converge here to explain things to me

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

It's wild how many threads accounts show up in Mastodon search results considering that mastodon accounts do not show up at all in Threads search results.

It didn't take a genius to know this was never going to be good for us, but man, we really got the raw end of that deal.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
ophiocephalic@kolektiva.social ("ophiocephalic 🐍") wrote:

RE: https://todon.eu/@anarchistquotes/116021213533985973

lol

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

Just discovered binaural beats. Last night I fell asleep hard listening to one. Idk if it worked or I was just super tired.

Anyone have some insight to this new (to me) trendy thing

Boosted by jwz:
jef ("Jef Poskanzer") wrote:

"My name is Tulsi Gabbard. I used to be a spy, until..." [phone rings] "Congratulations comrade, you are being promoted to Director of National Intelligence!"