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Boosted by jwz:
theorangetheme@en.osm.town ("The Orange Theme") wrote:

@jwz Mozilla's new CEO.

jwz wrote:

25 years ago today, Bad_CRC posted the primordial meme video "All Your Base Are Belong To Us" on Newgrounds.

In honor of this important anniversary, I downloaded the original Flash SWF file from Internet Archive, played it using Ruffle in a full-screen window, and replaced the audio with the original MP3 of "Invasion of the Gabber Robots" by The Laziest Men on Mars. So this is probably the highest fidelity encoding possible, without going back to the original forum GIFs.
https://jwz.org/b/yk3i

jwz wrote:

Cocaine Kill Switch

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

Found a TUI for exploring Rust codebases really fast! ⚡

🔮 **Oracle** — A terminal Rust code inspector

💯 Browse functions, structs, traits & deps w/ fuzzy search!

🦀 Written in Rust & built with @ratatui_rs

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/yashksaini-coder/oracle

#rustlang #ratatui #tui #programming #devtools #terminal #opensource #tips

Attachments:

• gifv: f233c5968a6a7e07.mp4

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
otaviocc@social.lol ("Otávio :prami:") wrote:

RE: https://social.lol/@otaviocc/116076383907156741

I have no words to thank everyone for helping yesterday.

Great news: Yesterday on the omg.lol IRC server, folks investigated and discovered the GitHub account was part of a network of bots. These bots republish open source projects, modifying their READMEs with malicious links, and distribute Windows malware through fake builds.

After documenting the findings, we reported everything to GitHub. Within hours, they took down the repositories and an account for violating their Terms and Code of Conduct.

Thank you for investigating, reporting, and sending coffee. You're all amazing!

I planned to write a blog post today, but @brennan already wrote something better than I could. You should read it:

https://brennan.day/the-curious-case-of-the-triton-malware-fork/

Many thanks to @brennan, @chilli, @adam, mattl, @cygnoir, @annika, @jarunmb, and everyone else who helped!

#OpenSource #macOSDev #omglol #GitHub

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
mia@front-end.social ("Mia (web luddite)") wrote:

The narrative that #CSS was initially designed to be static, and only later became responsive with things like media, supports, container queries, and now if()… is maybe how things turned out?

But MQs were part of the original proposal – including document age queries, & user "relevance" queries.

This wasn't a big pivot in the vision of the language, but a more continuous project of realizing that vision in relation to changing author needs & browser capabilities over time.

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

Do I think she can get elected? Sure. Do I think she could make it out of a *Democratic* primary? Nope.

Do I still want to see her ritually humiliate Newsom on a dozen stages all over the country? 100%.

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

As a Warrenite to the core, this is hugely appealing, if only for what it will do to the primary:

https://newrepublic.com/article/206593/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-presidential-bid

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

The *ceteris* ain't *paribus*in, y'all.

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

"Oh, that's just the cottage industry's Luddite lament", say folks gleefully spinning up towns full of gas to build systems in their own names which they do not understand enough to minimally manage, let alone maintain.

"This is the future!", they say. I fear they're right.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:

I'm pretty sure copy/paste is still easier than feeding things to the slop machines.

https://bsky.app/profile/benjedwards.com/post/3mewgow6ch22p

I respect that the author is taking responsibility (although with quite an emphasis on Covid), but... being a gen AI teetotaler myself, it's difficult for me to relate to whatever the decision making process was here. It's like you told me you got out your nail hammer to install a new window pane... as an experiment.

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

They kept saying that Gen X was destined to be the last that understood computer, but it's shocking to me how many folks my age are auto-deskilling once their bosses offered to let them stop knowing computer.

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁"):
moonpotato ("MoonPotato") wrote:

Use protocols, not services: https://notnotp.com/notes/use-protocols-not-services/

Interesting read. Makes me want to set up an #xmpp server just to feel some level of #privacy against #surveillance. It feels like privacy and control of our own data is dead.

Boosted by jwz:
Gustodon@mas.to ("Ω 🌍 Gus Posey") wrote:

Shark Tank reboot but it's just throwing rich people into a tank full of sharks.

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

noted: Microsoft's plagiarism
https://dbushell.com/notes/2026-02-16T19:35Z/
cc @davidgerard did you see this? unbelievable!

jwz wrote:

Slopfondler bros all think they're starring in "Limitless (2011)" but really they're a minor supporting role in "Boogie Nights (1997)".

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

This is what I mean I say that so much of the left's opposition to Trump is just his ability to strip away our plausible deniability. And why #NoKings is fundamentally flawed.

It teaches the resist movement that once Trump is gone, we won. It's conditioning us to stop fighting when Dems take back control. And that is the point of these types of movements. They want you to forget about ICE detention camps when plausible deniability is restored.

Boosted by jwz:
toxi@mastodon.thi.ng ("Karsten Schmidt") wrote:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jwz/116078186911677336

Taking @jwz's suggestion to substitute "AI" with "cocaine" in various discourse, here're some adjusted & translated choice nuggets from the German government's official AI/Cocaine Strategy website... 🙃

"Five year cocaine strategy - where does Germany stand?"

"Cocaine is key to the world of tomorrow."

"'Cocaine made in Germany' is set to become a globally recognized seal of quality."

"Germany should become an attractive location for the world's brightest minds in cocaine."

"In the world of work, too, cocaine should always be used for the benefit of all employees."

adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële 🐁") wrote:

📧 What if email services had limits BY DESIGN?

Not to upsell you.
Not to force you to pay.
But to make you more intentional.

message.casa was created for this purpose!

✉️ Email:
• 128 MB storage (not 15 GB bloat)
• 64 emails/hour (no spam machines)
• 8 MB attachments (no bloat)
• Unlimited aliases (privacy++)

💬 XMPP messaging:
• 8-day history (live in the present)
• 256 contacts max (meaningful connections)
• 16-person group chats (human-scale)

🔒 Privacy-first:
• No personal data for signup
• Encrypted storage (LUKS)
• No tracking, no ads
• TLS required

The philosophy: Constraints foster creativity.
Limited storage = delete what doesn't matter.
Small groups = actual conversations.
Short history = be present.

This is email/chat for the SmolWeb era.

Try it: https://message.casa/

Do limits make you more intentional?

#SmolWeb #Email #XMPP #Privacy #LowTech

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

Well, hell. He was always one of the best things about any movie he was in.

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/robert-duvall-dead-godfather-the-great-santini-1236664754/

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
TheLastOfHisName@sharkey.world ("Dane") wrote:

@ChrisWere@toot.wales I'm looking at a couple of possibilities:

1. Movim (based on thge XMPP protocol): https://movim.eu

2. Element (based on Matrix): https://element.io/en

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

In my 44 years on this planet I've learned that I'm only allowed two be two types of intelligent:

1. Dumb and uneducated.
2. A savant: an intelligence anomaly of mystical levels. Second cousin to the magic negro.

🫠🫠🫠🫠

I don't ever get to be an expert in a topic, or just a regular marginally smart guy. It has to be magic, or dumb.

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
chris@video.thepolarbear.co.uk ("Chris Were but on PeerTube") wrote:

Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

https://video.thepolarbear.co.uk/w/rbm59smVVydVqvpMGaL9C9

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

Every time, without fail, when a (white) liberal wants to challenge my political writings they start from the assumption that I am dumb and uneducated. The subtext is I'm being too uppity for my station, and they must knock me down a notch.

So, I don't ever have actual debates. I'm instead forced to defend my intelligence.

It's a conditioned response. They tell on themselves every time. What's infuriating is how invisible that behavior still is in liberal circles.

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

Also, knowing what I know now, it's wild that I decided to jump head first into a pretty intricate blog structure without knowing how to use 11ty at all lol. Adding "plots" to my digital garden was way too ambitious for my skill level at the time.

I relied on community resources and the kindness of strangers. And just tenacity. It took me almost a week to figure out how to filter my posts by "plot" the way I wanted it 😅

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

It's so satisfying to basically start fromjason from scratch, knowing way more about #11ty than when I attempted to make a digital garden in 2023.

That cascading data thingy? Bring it on. It get it now kinda.

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

Got a new voice note for you all: Discord has enshitified, what do we do now?

Attachments:

• audio: I share my thoughts on what's happening with Discord and other chat platforms that might be considered.

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

404 Media consistently drops news stories that would be the year's biggest scandal in 404's absence.

It makes you wonder what the fuck were these other news blogs doing the past decade?

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

Some people keep trying to reduce modern evolutionary biology to "darwinism". They're fools, ignore them.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2026/02/16/darwin-was-not-the-final-authority-on-anything/

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

The term "Reel" has taken on a new meaning now that Instagram is just AI-generated videos.

Like, they're "Froot" Loops because there's no fruit in it.

They're "Reels" because it's all fake as fuck.