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  Remember, because this will come up: The election result tomorrow won't make any difference as far as threat models go. The future of the free world can not depend on the hands of voters in Wisconsin every 4 years.

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  The German govt is rolling out a digital driver's license: https://www.heise.de/news/Digitaler-Fuehrerschein-kommt-Ende-November-11509430.html And, from day 1 - in 2026, yes - it only works on OS images allowlisted by two American companies, Google and Apple. Sanctioned by the US government, like e.g. the ICC judges? Can't use your _German_ digital driver's license. In any sane society this would have been flagged as a massive issue and have simply stopped the app from launching i...

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  https://nonfunctional.substack.com/p/passkeys-are-a-trap-do-not-use-them TIL that passkeys have remote attestation built-in. Without a US-American phone running software signed by a US-American company, on which you need to be signed in with your legal identity (thus rendering you unable to use it if you're sanctioned by the US), there is a pretty good chance that you'll be unable to use your passkeys in the future. That seems pretty damn terrible. Don't use passkeys.

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  Reminder that fedi is an echo chamber in general, but it's an echo chamber _especially_ when it comes to LLMs. Go to literally any IRL tech-related community, any other social media platform or heck, just talk to your relatives and friends IRL. The thoughts and opinions on this site, esp. on this topic, do not in any way reflect a majority opinion.

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  That fly brain model makes me so deeply uncomfortable to see every time I do lol

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  Sri Lanka has incredibly beautiful bank notes

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  Humans are so damn cool

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  systemd socket activation is so cool

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  Swiss German is the best German

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  The new Euro bank notes really are a combination of mostly EU institutions on the back and nature on the front, I kind of love it?

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  I can't wait to have Wolfenstein III, because killing Nazis is a very fun thing to do and we should all be celebrating that more

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  Internet cafés should really make a comeback

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  Paid software development in 2026 is basically getting paid for your attention

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  If the EU commission really cared one bit about not being dependent on having access to proprietary US-owned LLMs that are only available via an API or with heavily restricted weights, it would start the process of blocking those services Union-wide so that open alternatives have a way to grow with the limited funding available

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  I really want a "translate my screen when I long-press my super key" feature for GNOME

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  Every time the commission pushes for chat control 1000 technically competent people emigrate from the union

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  The fight against root-based remote attestation and mandatory code signing with vendor-provided keys are the defining software freedom issues of our time. Nothing else even comes close

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  You will own something and be happy

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  My default 2026 reaction to anything happening around me really does seem to be to just go along with it for ... the plot?

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  AMD GPUs now work on the SpacemiT K3: https://old.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/1tjbq36/amd_radeon_rx_6400_running_on_k3_picoitx_with/ I might genuinely try to daily-drive it once mine arrives ...

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  https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7206689 Can't believe this guy wrote Value(s)

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  We all need a bit more Eurodance in our lives

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  I've had this one Aqua song stuck in my head all day

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  The freedom to compute is a hill worth dying on

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  CBC's framing of Bill C-22 is hilariously wrong

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  So much shoulder and wrist pain, gone within a week of switching!

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  https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp Everyone should read this.

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  Google stop doing something comically evil to the web for 10 minutes challenge (impossible) https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-google-cloud-fraud-defense-the-next-evolution-of-recaptcha/?hl=en

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  I hate AppImages so much it's unreal. I have literally one single on my system (Beeper) and it's the No. 1 thing that breaks in weird and stupid ways, like constantly renaming the binary to something different after the stupid auto-updater runs. Why tf is there an auto-updater on an app running on a Linux system in 2026? Utterly insane.

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  https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/making-webassembly-a-first-class-language-on-the-web/ Gosh this is so cool. A native DOM API exposed to WebAssembly right in the browser, and even better - via the Component Model, which has been under development and been getting more and more refinements over the past few yeass 👀 That means there will officially no longer be a need for JS glue code on the web!