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jwz wrote:

Peter Thiel, Bad Vampire.

This is not the language of a man who fears death. This is the language of a man who solved it in the 1400s and is tired of pretending. The one thing the longevity-vampire community has not yet learned from Dracula is...
https://jwz.org/b/yk3R

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

If you're interested in funding or helping us find funding for a Discord replacement that's federated and end-to-end encrypted, we're interested in implementing that at @spritely ... we even had been talking about that being our big focus for 2026.

We have the skills and the underlying tech to pull this off. What we need right now is resources. Funding for open source nonprofits like ours really fell apart in 2025. If you think you know how to help, feel free to reach out.

Boosted by jwz:
jeffluszcz wrote:

I'm still amazed that in 2026, 6 years into a novel pandemic, that the press still can't bother to mention masking as a preventive step to keep you safe from the Flu or Covid. https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/flu-strain-bay-area-21343720.php

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

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116053130455318523

I think it was @pluralistic who questioned whether these type of claims were a way for big tech to get people to buy into their schemes.

The "green" logistics are always just on the horizon. Don't worry about living wages, our drones will deliver our food soon!

Coke and Pepsi do it too: there's always a plant-based bottle that'll replace plastic. Since the 90s.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gwynnion/116053130455318523

it’s also sunny in philadelphia but nobody is going there for spring break.

jfc on a pogo stick.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
css@front-end.social ("CSS by T. Afif :verified:") wrote:

📝 New CSS Article!

If you want to understand the magic behind that elastic effect, check my latest article

https://frontendmasters.com/blog/how-to-create-a-css-only-elastic-text-effect/

Not really useful effect, but you might learn more about new CSS features.

#CSS #HTML

Attachments:

• gifv: A fun elastic text effect

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
ErickaSimone ("Ericka Simone") wrote:

Still a work in progress, but….
Happy 100th Black History Month!
https://music.apple.com/us/playlist/happy-black-history-month/pl.u-r2yB1aPFRvZqmRj

Mastodon wrote:

We've just published a blog post about our time at #FOSDEM this year, in case you missed out - there's plenty to catch up on, from the session recordings.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/02/fosdem-2026-recap/

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

OpenClaw is like Furby for techbros

Boosted by jwz:
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

RE: https://thepit.social/@peter/116050674785414938

Hey Alexa, how do I treat a penile degloving injury

Boosted by jwz:
mawhrin@circumstances.run ("flere-imsaho 🇺🇦") wrote:

say what you want about the developer relations and developer advocates, but they're incredibly effective.

to wit: the mozilla's developer relations lead jake archibald made me switch away from firefox only in few weeks of communication, and i was using firefox since it was still called phoenix.

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

Omg I can finally organize my downloads folder 😍

🌰 **Hazelnut** — A file organizer TUI inspired by Hazel

⚡ Watch folders, define rules (move/rename/archive/run) & let the daemon handle everything.

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/ricardodantas/hazelnut

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #automation #productivity #files #cli #linux #terminal

Attachments:

• gifv: 1fd9caac7bf654c3.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
david_chisnall@infosec.exchange ("David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)") wrote:

Web design in the early 2000s: Every 100ms of latency on page load costs visitors.

Web design in the late 2020s: Let's add a 10-second delay while Cloudflare checks that you are capable of ticking a checkbox in front of every page load.

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

I got my first roll of #Super8 film developed. But, since I filmed near where I live, I cannot share the footage online. Still, it's so cool! Focusing on the Yashica Super-600 is not easy though, especially with a moving subject.

#BelieveInFilm #8mm

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

Okay but the Kid Rock performance sucked ass, and no one's calling for an investigation of that

https://ew.com/house-republicans-call-for-investigation-of-bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-show-11904174

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

A community is not its platform.

Discord made it all too easy to fall into a terrible trap, linking community identity to Discord-specific features. Sure, the features are nice, but they’re ultimately Discord’s, and not the community’s. This is their business model.

Real communities, made of engaged people with common interests and values, can thrive in different spaces. They can survive a move. They’re bound by something stronger than Discord’s conveniences and cosmetics.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
thesquirrelfish@sfba.social ("abolition now") wrote:

@fromjason I got diagnosed early but only started making accommodations for myself more recently, and it's been so good.
Just internalizing that living like other people do, or at least like mass media tells me other people do, is way harder and I'm in charge of i want to do things differently has been a game changer.

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

After getting a late-in-life ADHD diagnosis, you realize how important having the proper context to navigate the world is to your wellbeing.

On the day I got my diagnosis, it finally occurred to me that I should consistently park in the same row of my grocery store's parking lot so that I remember where I parked.

I stopped fighting the problem under the false idea that my awareness would improve. I think about that everytime I do groceries, which then makes me more aware when I park lmao.

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
davidrevoy@framapiaf.org ("David Revoy") wrote:

Simple solution

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

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

I've been researching this question.

the only explanation I've found so far relates to the tracking indicator and text-wrapping [1] but I can't find a good reason for the dimension-zeroing to begin with 🤷 (unless `clip` was insufficient?)

https://bsky.app/profile/anatudor.bsky.social/post/3mdze454wyc25

[1] https://vispero.com/resources/the-anatomy-of-visually-hidden/#text-wrapping

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

(Idk where the pun came from. Some deep crevasse that I don't want to find again)

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

This is a truly unfortunate matrix of power and influence. The average person fleeing from the corporate web will view the IndieWeb as a safe space, only to later find out it's, at best, controlled opposition.

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

The capital-I-IndieWeb, and capital S-Social Web are not anti-corporate, despite their marketing language that lures us in. But once you're inside, IndieWeb leaders will defend corporate social media, directly or indirect.

Some of them truly believe we cannot move forward without Meta. It's an affliction of the imagination. Some of them come from Big Tech companies, like leaders of IndieWebDotOrg, and some of them were paid off like the Social Web Foundation.

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

I may be bidding adieu to one of my silliest gadget purchases, an Ember heated mug. The charging saucer has a design flaw they never fixed, my second one is dying, and I kind of miss going through my old collection of weird coffee mugs anyway.

adam@social.lol ("Adam") wrote:

@fromjason Kev showed us who he was when Fosstodon had its bigotry moment and instead of addressing it, he just said “I quit” and walked away. Couldn’t bring himself to defend a queer person or even speak out against bigotry in general.

But yeah, he enjoyed that moment of negative focus at the time. All of these guys do. They’re always just one half-step away from the MAGA GoFundMe grifts that the far right do whenever someone calls them out for their shitty behavior.

And the thing is, people lap it up. The IndieWeb is full of these white cishet influencers who are lifted up as idols by other white cishet wannabe influencers. This is the toxic side of the space, and it’s propelled by a whole lot of “let’s just focus on blogging tools and not talk about *that kind* of politics”.

And now you know the one thing that’s on my own silly list of random things that I hate.

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social ("Kevin Beaumont") wrote:

A female OpenAI executive who raised concerns about the upcoming ‘Adult Mode’ - which lets you sex ChatGPT girlfriends - has been fired for ‘sexual discrimination against men’

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openai-executive-who-opposed-adult-mode-fired-for-sexual-discrimination-3159c61b

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
mhoye@cosocial.ca wrote:

"With that in mind, we need to consider the possibility that cp(1) may soon become – and indeed _may already be_ – sentient and self-aware."

https://exple.tive.org/blarg/2026/02/07/on-the-crank-spectrum/

https://mastodon.social/@Mabande/116051626354398163

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
burnoutqueen@todon.nl ("Jackie ☭") wrote:

@fromjason

Techbros have never made a woman wet or a Black person happy

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

@adam and of course, the specifics all exist in his head. No one has epiphanies in the abstract.

And then Kev dropped this gem where he sandwiches "over population" and "big cities" into a "fun" list of things he hates.

It's like all the centrists are dropping bait so people can call the out and the can feel the sweet sensation of persecution.

https://kevquirk.com/a-random-list-of-silly-things-i-hate

Boosted by baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason"):
iamada@tech.lgbt ("Ada :v_trans: :v_pan:​") wrote:

Friendly reminder: not all bad code is “vibe code”, some people are just shit at programming.

#tech #programming