I didn't realize the facebook execs Mozilla acqui-hired last year have been promoted! I was assuming they were still just heading the ads division of Mozilla, but oh boy, I fucking wish.
Now the former Senior VP of Marketing of facebook (2008-2022, the finest years of facebook) is the CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER of the entire Mozilla.
And the former VP of Ads in Facebook (2012-2022), is now the Senior VP of Product of Mozilla.
Let me repeat this:
The guy who used to lead the facebook team that was literally "advertising to teenagers based on their emotional state" is now the guy who decides the direction of Firefox as a product. But hey, let's keep giving Mozilla the benefit of the doubt uh? I'm sure these people-who-should-be-on-trial-in-the-hague are going to do great things for the community!
This is why we can't have nice things.
https://astral.sh/blog/openai
#openai #ai #astral
. Less than 168 days remain before Android becomes a locked down platform!
Google intends to force all software developers to register with a centralized Google service before their apps can run on the biggest mobile operating system on the planet, regardless of whether those apps are distributed via Google Play.
Find @keepandroidopen’s website at https://keepandroidopen.org for more information about this, why it’s a problem, and how you can make your voice heard.
As supporters of open platforms we have consistently encouraged developers and alternative app stores to refuse to participate in this program, and to spread this message throughout the Android community.
Read our open letter to Google’s leadership: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/
#Android #KeepAndroidOpen #Google #PrivacyGuides #Privacy
2 hour call with my CPA today. There's not enough beer in the country to appease me today.
“//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner” by Alan Donovan — https://go.dev/blog/inliner
#golang
This is a pretty interesting video about how the Egyptian Pyramids may have been built (new theory basically):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5kWDOuY2Uo
@dirk Hah, could be!
Anyone else always have issues writing out withdrawal as withdrawl constantly or am I just a special type of person?
I don't know who needs to hear this but you can use vim without any age verification.
Re: https://mastodon.online/@marekfort/116164253291515471
@_elena
People who use X are increasingly radicalised until they end up as Nazis.
People who use Mastodon are increasingly radicalised until they end up as C programmers.
hey everyone,
you may have guessed reading between the lines, but I lost my job in the recent tech layoffs…
also burnt out and realised I need to go back to working on stuff I care about.
I hope to gather enough small monthly sponsors to at least cover the bills, so I can:
- 🖥️ create beautiful apps for #Linux / #GNOME
- ✏️ provide free #design support to #OpenSource projects
if you like my work, please consider $1/month to make this possible?
thank you. :)
https://github.com/sponsors/hbons
@smlavine @bohwaz Woah thanks for the pro-tip. I had no idea about this feature.
I am always amazed by the expert mode of the SQLite CLI.
You type .expert
Then you paste your SQL query.
And #sqlite tells you which indexes you should create to speed up your query.
No AI, no complex program to install. No expensive database architect to pay for. It's just clever programming.
To my knowledge this is the only database in the world to have this feature.
https://sqlite.org/cli.html#index_recommendations_sqlite_expert_
https://sqlite.org/src/dir?ci=trunk&name=ext/expert
Not sure why I took so long to do this but moved our db backup encryption from gpg to age. It was very easy just one of those todo list items that seem to never get checked off. Well, now it's checked.
The war in Iran is what is known in international policy circles as "FIFA peace".
@nilix @ols Oops. Getting caught up. Nice!
@ols @nilix This is what I've got:
$ ls $GOPATH/pkg/mod/humungus.tedunangst.com/r/
go-sqlite3@v1.2.1/ gonix@v0.1.4/ termvc@v0.1.3/ webs@v0.7.23/ webs@v0.7.44/
go-sqlite3@v1.2.2/ gonix@v0.1.5/ webs@v0.7.18/ webs@v0.7.30/
Let me know if you want me to tar these up and put them somewhere. If I'm slow to respond here just shoot me an email (pjs@petersanchez.com) and I'll see that much sooner.
@ols @nilix I don't have any for things like webs, etc. Maybe we can create some from the go cache files. Or move to something like snac, which I've been thinking about as well. Just such a PITA
@plutocrash @kuijsten My repo is pretty up to date:
https://hg.code.netlandish.com/~petersanchez/honk
Just has a few fixes of my own that I never sent upstream but should be up to date with the latest publicly available honk.
@kuijsten A few of us have talked about this. No clue where he is. I've emailed him personally and no response. I hope he's OK but at this point I think it's gonna be a while before he returns.
@knapjack Hah! ouch!
@novalis @icy @tedu @knapjack Yea the ending totally disappointed me. I mean, I guess capitalism is to blame but it left so much unresolved. And frankly didn't make any sense. For instance, why in the world is the boss (I forgot his name already) in the building to close the window to begin with? Then what happens with the massive international army outside the building once he's killed?
Really felt like he was just looking for a way to tie off with some social message but I didn't buy it.
I liked the story as it moved (mostly) but the pay off was a total let down.
@ill_logic @teleclimber Oh yea, those are the worst!
@teleclimber Poor souls...
Nothing makes me skip a #YouTube video faster than a thumbnail with a "shocked" and "gaping wide open" mouth photo in it.
@ente Congrats! Happy to see more people worrying about this issue. We have very similar functionality in HelpYouFind.Me.
Curious, how do you handle access? For instance how do you determine an "emergency" and grant access? I couldn't find how that works on the website.
@ols @nilix Yea. Most of my original changes from years ago were merged into Ted's upstream so my copy should be pretty in sync with the most recent pushes from Ted (at least before his server went down)
@nilix I believe mine has one or two changesets that Ted's doesn't but minor bug fixes.
I don't know what happened to Ted. I hope he's OK. I just sent him an email, let's see if it even gets delivered.
Economics in one lesson.
gentoo fires github because it badgered them to use copilot too much
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/gentoo_dumps_github_for_codeberg_over_copilot_nagware/?td=rt-3a
May Lent bring you as much patience as whoever is working Bedford council's social media
https://www.facebook.com/BedfordBoroughCouncil/posts/pfbid0aJ7obzLNb3ka4QJGExKWqSKr4iCgMthG5poqCU3Cw5UMkYpxbPEjmVvGkhKLBsPpl
@crft Thankfully I don't use Discord so I'd have no idea lol. IRC is more than enough for me.
Anyone working on the Claude/ChatGPT/Grok integration to #honk yet?
Is there anything more cheeseball than a graph showing a github repo's star count history in the same repo's README file?
We have published a new release of LinkTaco with new features, tweaks and bug fixes.
Major addition is the ability to save new bookmarks via email.
Read all about it here:
https://linktaco.com/blog/new-linktaco-release-0.8.0.html
#social #bookmarks #opensource
Btw, I am open for work if someone needs a crafty human #opensource engineer / #ai operator
Install OpenBSD on her laptop for Valentine's Day
🥳 Go 1.26.0 is released!
📝 Release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.26
⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.26.0
#golang
@cptn Hopefully he comes back. Weird to let his systems be down for so long.
@athena_rising Yea I'm already itching. Also a bit angry at how S2 ended so I have to sit and stew I guess.
@cmconseils Three??? Oh this is gonna be fun...
I'm annoyed no one has told me about the show Severance until my daughter put me hip to game a week ago. I've binged the entire 2 seasons (well, 3 episodes to go) and it's one of the best show's I've seen in a long time. I have to say it's better than #Pluribus. The storytelling in the show is just amazing. I'm sad I'm almost done with the binge.
#severance #apple #tv
@zev Will do. Last I checked his MX were also not responding.
So were we just way too early with HelpYouFind.Me because we've had this functionality for years now.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5694669/loneliness-isolation-app-are-you-dead-snug-alone
Maybe we're just terrible marketers hah.
#imalive
Probably one of the better protest signs I’ve seen lately. 😄
#USpol
#ICEOut
Has anyone out there spoken with @tedu? Like, is he OK? His systems have been down for over a month now.
@inwit @fesshole Are you related at all to Donald Trump? He's been on a tear lately with his farts / sharts
Two emails from Jeffrey Epstein to Bill Gates show:
Gates contracted an STD and transmitted it to his wife Melinda.
Gates asked Epstein for antibiotics that he could give to his wife without her knowledge.
They are all so, so gross.
@josephcox It's amazing to me how quickly just blindly trust these new tools and "give up the goose" so easily.
It just continues to prove that even tech savvy people, engineers, etc. are mostly clueless when it comes to security, privacy, and so on.
"How Replacing Developers With AI is Going Horribly Wrong"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ts0nH_pSAdM
#ai #developers
@cptn @tedu Nice!
@cptn Yup. It's an issue with @tedu's sites being down. The module is humungus.tedunangst.com/r/gonix. You can see my fork here which is basically the tedu repo with some very small tweaks I've made over the years
I wonder what's up with Ted. Maybe try shooting him an email.
@ols and if they did, they were wrong.
@smlavine Awesome! Thanks for the details. My buddy @AndrewHacks has been telling me to try KDE for years. I'd be lying if I said I will try it "soon" but I'll get around to it. Honestly I do love my i3 setup and I'm so used to it, switching would be pretty hard for me. I'm old and set in my ways.
Small blurbs about the books I read last year.
https://petersanchez.com/books-i-read-in-2025/
#blog #new
@smlavine Loooong time i3 user so I'm curious, what features are the big ones for you?
My issue is more of habit. I'm a bit OCD so changing will be pretty painful for me for at least a week. Especially since I'm quite content with my current setup.
Seems like @tedu's systems have been down for a quite a while now. Anyone out there in #honk land know what's going on?
@tedu I think something is very wrong with (my) honk. I am missing, out of no where, nearly an entire year of stored honks from the @alpinelinux account (see image). Now I know this was not the case last month because I saw this toot, on my honk instance, and upgraded my Alpine a day or 2 later.
I do have honk cleanup running daily but seems weird that would remove newer data versus older.
I should note I am using the original honk, not honk3. My instance is up to date with your changes with very minimal changes not at all related to this issue.
Any idea on what may cause this?
@horia @xhr Hah TIL about fn+space and the keyboard backlight. I never even noticed the icon on the space bar of all my thinkpads haha. Works as well here on Alpine Linux. The smallest things impress me
New LinkTaco feature just dropped:
https://linktaco.com/blog/submit-bookmarks-via-email.html
#social #bookmark #email
Today I learned that you can chat a number on WhatsApp without actually saving the contact first. #TIL
"It's frightful that people who are so ignorant have so much influence."
-George Orwell
