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  @davidpierce@mastodon.social Please don’t naively repeat Bluesky propaganda: “…the Bluesky team is open-sourcing its moderation tool, so that anyone can build their own moderation systems and users can use whichever one they want” This is not true. What they have released is a tool that lets you build and share filters. Filtering is not moderation. Filtering is like “block this phrase” on Twitter, moderation is the posts actually being removed. Bluesky want to muddy the difference because they...

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  @kirtai@tech.lgbt @cwebber@social.coop The US copyright office has issued guidance that you can’t copyright work unless you declare which parts are AI generated and hence not subject to copyright, which already seems like it’s going to cause carnage.

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  “We conduct randomized experiments to study how developers gained mastery of a new asynchronous programming library with and without the assistance of AI. We find that AI use impairs conceptual understanding, code reading, and debugging abilities, without delivering significant efficiency gains on average.” - Anthropic study #AI https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245

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  Controversial opinion: IPv6 is good, actually.

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  @bms48 @jonny @david_chisnall @chris_evelyn Speaking as the person who released PGP2.6ui back in the day, nobody should be using PGP or GPG in 2026.

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  @audiodude@sfba.social @inthehands@hachyderm.io Not telling people about projects also increases the chance you’ll complete them. If you tell people “I’m going to…” then your brain gets the dopamine hit immediately and then you can slack off. If you don’t tell anyone, you have to actually do the thing to get the reward.

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  @bkendig@meow.social I call my titanium-reinforced tooth Robotooth.

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  We had this on the downstairs bathroom door at the old house. Now it’s on the utility closet door. I went to school a few miles from a major NATO command base, and would likely have been vaporized if Able Archer 83 had gone slightly worse. So this is partly a joke and partly a reminder. "So, you see these signs too, Dr. Black?" "Why, sure, Mrs. Rectangular." "Well, I feel better already."

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  @alcinnz@floss.social I used to have one that worked pretty well, it was called Data Hammer, for the Macintosh, by Glucose Development. It used a patented algorithm they called MTT or Micro-word Tree Trimming. There was a slider you could drag to increase or decrease the amount of summarization in real time! I’ve occasionally wondered if I could track down the patent and reimplement the algorithm. https://preserve.mactech.com/content/md1-glucose-releases-data-hammer-15-0 macOS and iOS have a s...

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  https://amiatechbro.com (No, I very much am not.)

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  @steeph@queerchen.de macOS and iOS used to support notes over IMAP. Not sure if they still do.

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  Amazed to discover that Gentoo is now harder to install than it was last time I used it many years ago.

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  Bad news: our main sewer line got blocked up somehow. Good news: there’s a nice easy access cover. Bad news: it was buried under snow and I didn’t know where it was. Good news: it was only buried under a small amount of snow, not the waist-high drift at the side of the house. The plumber managed to find it, and we didn't have to have him remove the toilet. Bad news: the problem started around 5pm so we have to pay after hours rates.

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  I've used a singleton class, but only once.

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  @drj@typo.social Did you try “heirloom vi”, given that it has had UTF-8 support added to it?

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  Yeah, think I'll need a bit of help with that one.

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  A while back I ran across a post where someone commented that the designers of IPv4 had made a mistake only using 32 bit addresses. Yes, it would have saved us hassle if they’d kept the variable-length addresses from the IPv3 draft, but I think they actually made a reasonable decision given what the technology world was like at the time, and I wrote an article to talk about that. https://lpar.ath0.com/posts/2026/01/ipv4-history/ #ComputingHistory #InternetHistory

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  #GroundhogDay

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  I see the AI companies are trying to make it seem like it’s the anti-AI sentiment that’s the propaganda effort.