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

Also, so that not every post I've made here today is political, here's Smudge the cat sunning himself on the the porch today.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
xkcd@mastodon.xyz ("XKCD Bot") wrote:

The discovery of a fully typographical star system comes with a big asterisk.
https://xkcd.com/3203/

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
bonno@mastodon-belgium.be ("Koen 🇺🇦") wrote:

@funnymonkey fascism is very profitable for US big tech

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
funnymonkey@freeradical.zone wrote:

Mark Zuckerberg and his minions at Meta see our slide into fascism -- which Zuckerberg actively funds, and Facebook actively profits from -- as a good product launch opportunity for facial recognition stalkerware goggles.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html

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

Lots of cool websites in this curated list: Weeknote #1987 • Robb Knight https://rknight.me/blog/weeknote-1987/

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

I really don't get the #Reeder redesign. I've tried to get use it all year. It's just not for me absent an "ah-ha" moment.

Like, when I add a new website, why is all that's holy can't I assign that site to a folder? Why do I have to then scroll to find the newly added site? Ahhh

My point is- anyone have a feed reader recommendation??

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

The DHS is asking social media companies to hand over personal data of people who have expressed anti-ICE sentiments.

If you block someone on Bluesky, that's public data.

https://micro.fromjason.xyz/2026/02/13/ice-knows-you-blocked-them.html

#ice #dhs #bluesky

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
jbz@indieweb.social wrote:

How I Cut My Google Search Dependence in Half | Hister - Web History on Steroids
https://hister.org/posts/how-i-cut-my-google-search-dependence-in-half/

#degoogle #search #privacy

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
emaytch ("margot") wrote:

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@SteveBellovin/116063827229791269

"Meta’s internal memo said the political tumult in the United States was good timing for the feature’s release.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses."

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

The review of "Melania" we all needed (via @phae):

https://youtu.be/DTyUni8dbkE?si=FhbVHdAoQVOA-CIB

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

Iconic #scifi series #Babylon5 is slowly being uploaded to YouTube in its entirety for free.

https://cordcuttersnews.com/babylon-5-is-now-free-to-watch-on-youtube/

(via @cos)

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
bloftinsk8 ("LordBobTX") wrote:

@fromjason You can create a blog, for free, and write something, and someone thousands of miles away can read it instantly. THAT IS POWER.

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

The Linux tree command... but on steroids? 🤯

🌲 **lstr** — A minimalist directory tree viewer with an optional TUI mode

💯 Git status, icons, smart sorting & .gitignore support

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/bgreenwell/lstr

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #cli #linux #terminal #productivity #devtools

Attachments:

• gifv: 08a08ccf25a8e524.mp4

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

There are idiots with dangerous machines in charge.

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

and now I must find it in me to wait for it to cool

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
evacide@hachyderm.io wrote:

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
samplereality@post.lurk.org ("Mark Sample") wrote:

Last year's shutdown of @glitchdotcom was a blow to my pedagogy. Glitch was ideal for creative coding classes and workshops. I looked around for alternatives. But there was nothing that was open, decentralized, and not at the mercy of VCs or Big Tech.

So I built my own. Here's Glitchlet.

Glitchlet runs on any shared hosting service (e.g., Reclaim Hosting). If you can run WordPress, you can run Glitchlet. Projects-in-progress are stored in the browser's local storage, but you can also one-click publish to make them public and remixable. Glitchlet is designed with educators in mind.

There's no single, primary Glitchlet that everyone uses. The idea is that every instructor installs their own Glitchlet and manages their own classes/workshops/projects. You can seed your instance with template files, or Glitchlet can easily import projects (including archived Glitch .tgz files).

Making something so easy to install and host has trade-offs, of course. No fancy pants Node or React projects, but Glitchlet works beautifully with HTML/JavaScript/CSS. No live collaboration, but you can still remix published projects.

Best of all—you're in control and not subject to the whims of some startup that suddenly decides to "sunset" a key pedagogical tool.

Glitchlet is alpha now, but its code will available to all very soon!

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
cstross@wandering.shop ("Charlie Stross") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@FeralRobots/116052828028311024

Yeah, this is the most parsimonious explanation:

Hegseth is an utter fool who thinks the military is about "fighting wars" and wishy-washy libtard stuff like keeping the civil authorities in the loop is useless fluff, so he axed the civilian liaison roles. And FAA runs on the precautionary principle ("avoid putting airliners at risk"). So the shutdown only got rolled back when it was escalated to Kegbreath's desk and he said "WTF? Not Like that!!"

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

In December 2025, the Grand Chamber of the Court of Justice of the European Union released its decision in the case of Russmedia.

It focusses on the data protection obligations of the operator of an online marketplace, in terms of the personal data contained in ads placed by its users.

I've finally found time to finish writing about it.

I am not playing the “this is the end of the web as we know it” card, but it certainly seems to impose some challenging requirements with potentially significant, far-reaching, consequences.

https://decoded.legal/blog/2026/02/russmedia-a-court-case-imposing-data-protection-obligations-which-many-website-operators-may-struggle-to-meet/

#GDPR #DataProtection

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
blair_fix@mastodon.online ("Blair Fix") wrote:

As billionaires try to life forever, it's worth understanding why they will almost certainly fail, and why our limited human lifespan is almost surely a good thing. Here's a deep dive into the science of life expectancy.

https://economicsfromthetopdown.com/2026/02/11/the-human-lifespan-probably-has-an-upper-limit-and-why-thats-good/

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
dbattistella@mstdn.ca ("DB 🌱💦") wrote:

#EpsteinFiles #Paleontology #DinoCon

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

I've said on here before, that I love the transformative power bikes have on how people think about interacting with each other🚴🏼‍♀️♥️

Having a bike stolen resets a white US person's understanding of what cops do and do not do.

Commuting on a bike resets a white US person's understanding of racist infrastructure.

I love bikes, especially cargo bikes and attachments for kids, because it's only about a 5 year learning journey for white folk from

👩🏼"I'm not political."

To

👩🏼🚴🏼‍♀️"Hey Mekka! I bought a cargo bike! It's so much fun!"

To

👩🏼🚴🏼‍♀️🥊"🤬Man, Robert Moses was a %!#!#&@)+ for real! $#&* him and his momma!"

Boosted by taral ("JP Sugarbroad"):
nicuveo@tech.lgbt ("Antoine Leblanc :transHaskell:") wrote:

i read the words "hex editor" wrong and for a brief moment i imagined a world a lot more fun than this one.

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

@mnot I should add, as a co-author and signatory of the Extensible Web Manifesto, it was written at a particular moment & designed to prod the web community to address specific failings of Hixie-ist hubris.

I do not, in fact, care whether exposure of a new feature starts high-level or low-level; we must keep up the pace of capability additions, and plan to have *both* forms in the fullness of time. Where we start matters less than committing to finish:

https://infrequently.org/2020/06/platform-adjacency-theory/

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
tylersticka@social.lol ("Tyler Sticka") wrote:

Twelve years later and this Beastie Boys / Daft Punk mashup is still one of my favorite quick aural pick-me-ups ⚡ https://coinsmakeyoudance.bandcamp.com/album/daft-science

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

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

Reminder that this administration wants you to just fuckin' die, already

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00468-1#author-0

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

If you work on the web, you should read @mnot's latest:

https://www.mnot.net/blog/2026/02/13/no

It much more elegantly gets to the core of the pro/anti-progress asymmetry I tried to explore last year:

https://infrequently.org/2025/08/how-do-committees-fail-to-invent/

Boosted by zkat@toot.cat:
Meyerweb ("Eric A. Meyer") wrote:

I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some *respect* on its *name*.

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷"):
paninid@mastodon.world ("Coach Pāṇini ®") wrote:

RE: https://masto.hackers.town/@earthshine/116065265295058144

🔥