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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
netopwibby@social.coop ("netop://ウィビ") wrote:

My article for Good Internet Magazine is live! In it I talk about GreedCorp™ (better, more accurate name for “Big Tech”) and my vision for a future beyond them.

https://goodinternetmagazine.com/weaning-off-greedcorp-building-a-user-owned-future-for-computing/

After you read my article, check out the other ones and buy the print version! https://goodinternetmagazine.com/issues/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
dressupgeekout@bsd.network wrote:

I'm a published writer! You can read my article about putting old computers to "serious" work in the latest issue of Good Internet magazine! https://goodinternetmagazine.com/unlocking-a-better-future-with-old-computers/

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

I know the accepted narrative for the RAM shortage is AI data center demand, but is anyone checking to see if any part of this is just artificial scarcity?

They did it with diamonds. Why not computer?

We're nearing a point where only five or so companies can build computers. That's gotta be idk, illegal? lol what is happening.

Boosted by jwz:
ivanvector@oceanplayground.social ("Greg Burrell :pei_flag:🦞🚴🥔") wrote:

@richardgrant @liquor_american @jaffathecake @duke_of_germany @firefoxwebdevs @davidgerard The way that I interpret this discussion with Jake, even if it was not Jake who was personally involved, is that:

- Mozilla was always going to plow ahead with AI anyway
- Mozilla knew that Mastodon represented its largest group of its most enthusiastic supporters and promoters, and that this group is traditionally against AI creep
- They sent someone into this community feigning to solicit feedback in an effort to manufacture consent
- This failed predictably and spectacularly, and that hurt the representative's fee fees
- Now that Mozilla has, through naught but their own actions, completely alienated this community, they can claim that WE don't support THEM (c.f. Jake's false victim complex) and can claim moral high ground doing the thing they were so obviously going to do anyway.

So anyway, I've been a vocal supporter of Mozilla and its predecessors since the days of Netscape Navigator. A week ago I installed Vivaldi, and don't plan to go back.

Boosted by jwz:
mweagle@hachyderm.io ("Matt Weagle") wrote:

There are two problems in computer science:

1. We could do this better
2. We should not do this at all

Boosted by jwz:
workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 6 Feb 1916 the Cabaret Voltaire nightclub opened in Zürich, Switzerland. Described as "history's wildest nightclub" it was the spiritual home of the often radical Dada art movement, formed by artists revolted by the capitalist carnage of WWI https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10606/opening-of-the-cabaret-voltaire-nightclub

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
talkingmoose ("William Smith") wrote:

Just got home from supporting a training for new ICE patrol volunteers for a nearby neighborhood school.

For those who may've heard ICE is withdrawing 700 agents from Minnesota, keep in mind that still leaves more than 2000 here. They continue to violate human rights, engage in racial profiling, and cause chaos and terror.

They're even writing "ICE OUT" in the dirt on their vehicles to try to blend in and infiltrate communities and groups.

#ICEOut #Minnesota #StPaul

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

New podcast of me, Jenny, and Max chatting about episode 3 of A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms: https://projectchronicle.org/media/20260131-akotsk-s01e03.mp3

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
sehugg@infosec.exchange ("Steven Hugg") wrote:

RIP Robert Tinney, artist and illustrator of many BYTE Magazine covers.

https://tinney.net/in-memoriam

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
TheViking@newsie.social ("Lillian") wrote:

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jhlyon ("J.H.Lyon") wrote:

Japan cancels cherry blossom festival over complaints of tourists littering and ‘defecating’ in yards https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-06/japan-cancels-cherry-blossom-festival-over-complaints-of-tourists-littering-and-defecating-in-yards.html #politics #politician #news #globalnews #japan #internationalnews #blossom #cherry #europe #eu #environment #democracy #cooperation

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Talking about election security would be a lot more productive if more people understood two things:

- The existence of a vulnerability is concerning, but does not by itself prove that an election was hacked or compromised.

- Losing an election, even one that you expected to win, is frustrating, but does not by itself prove that an election was hacked or compromised.

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

truth:

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Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
radex@hackerspace.pl ("Radek Pietruszewski") wrote:

I'm looking for a C compiler that:

- is simpler and smaller than TinyCC
- is capable of compiling TinyCC
- is written in *very* simple C or a language simpler than C
- can plausibly support risc-v (I can add codegen myself, just can't have deeply hardcoded x86 assumptions)
- has a FOSS license
- is not GNU Mes

Does anything matching these criteria exist?

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
latte@mastodon.online ("a new hope :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

switched my editor font to maple mono and i like it https://font.subf.dev/en/

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
jaykuo@universeodon.com ("Jay Kuo") wrote:

Jesse Watters owes Aliya Rahman an apology for calling her a liar, but she’ll never see one.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cmconseils ("Laura Manach :bongoCat:") wrote:

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
hosford42@techhub.social ("Aaron") wrote:

Hey, folks. I hate doing this, but my family and I need help with money for food & gas. This is unfortunately going to be a regular request until I can get a new job. (See my pinned posts for my resume.)

We average about $35/day for food (2 adults, 2 kids) and $10/day for gas, if we are being cheap. Dog food is $22/week. So we need around $335-$340 to make it through the week, making sure everyone is fed and gets to school. Any help, however small, is deeply appreciated.

Please boost for reach! And remember, you can unboost and boost again to keep it visible.

Week of Feb 6:
Progress: $0/$340 (food/gas)

I just wanted to add: Thank you, to the community, for keeping us fed in this difficult time.

If you happen to have paid odd jobs that can be done remotely, I'd be happy to take them on. Please DM me with details. I'm skilled with automation and machine learning.

https://paypal.me/AaronHosford

https://account.venmo.com/u/Aaron-Hosford-42

https://trocador.app/anonpay/?ticker%5Fto=eth&network%5Fto=ERC20&address=0x65f0c6a9f137e301e43bdbecec6eb28de2a440e4&donation=True&simple%5Fmode=True&amount=0.0&name=hosford42&description=Donation&email=hosford42@gmail.com&ticker%5Ffrom=eth&network%5Ffrom=ERC20&bgcolor=00000000

#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #Food #Transportation #DogFood

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

they should run for Prez in 2028... we could not do worst than we already are doing https://beige.party/@AaronDavid/116025763477721853

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
AaronDavid@beige.party wrote:

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

It's also interesting and I'm happy to see the spirit of Black Twitter live on using a proper system.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
therealnews ("The Real News Network") wrote:

“I'm pissed at how many people have forgotten about what happened here. I'm pissed that everybody thinks we're doing fine, that everything in East Palestine, OH, is good. It's not.”

https://therealnews.com/biden-trump-the-media-the-public-we-have-all-failed-the-residents-of-east-palestine-oh?utm%5Fsource=mastodon

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
CNN@flipboard.com wrote:

Exclusive: Navy secretary John Phelan listed as passenger on Jeffrey Epstein’s private plane in 2006
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/06/politics/phelan-epstein-flight?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Politics @politics-CNN

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

The obsession with having zero privacy, and everything open on the social web is bizarre.

We're headed to a zero-privacy web.

Local-only posts are good, actually. Especially for marginalized groups, but also just as a standard for "decentralized" ecosystems.

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

It's February, again, and look! The groundhog brought a bunch of books with him! What here would you like to keep with you during the coldest part of the year?

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
pluralistic@mamot.fr ("Cory Doctorow") wrote:

Having been through the US immigration process (I got my first work visa more than 25 years ago and became a citizen in 2022), it's obvious to me that Americans have *no idea* how weird and tortuous their immigration system is:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/doctorow/52177745821/

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/06/doge-ball/#n-600

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Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lovell ("Lovell Fuller") wrote:

A huge thank you to everyone that has donated money to help maintain the open source image processing software libvips.

For those who work at companies that support open source software via GitHub Sponsors, you can now do so at https://github.com/sponsors/libvips

This is linked to the existing @opencollective at https://opencollective.com/libvips that we'll continue to use to help support the libvips ecosystem, both upstream and downstream.

jwz wrote:

Waymo Exec Admits Remote Drivers in Philippines.

Mechanical Turk, meet Mechanical Filipino: Mauricio Peña, the company's Chief Safety Officer, confirmed under questioning that the Google subsidiary employs human operators abroad [...] "They provide...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3E

Boosted by jwz:
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊)") wrote:

@peter @suzannealdrich Totally. If I had a dime for every tale of "I'd almost forgetten how to code it's been so long maaaan, what with my 7-figure VP job in Santa Clara and all…but then I picked up Claude Code and now I'm releasing 80 new apps every hour. This is the greatest thing in the history of mankind!"
……

🤦🏻‍♂️

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E07
🎥 Episode: Society
🎬 Directed by: Jōhei Matsuura
📅 Release Date: August 17, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0327