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Die Unternehmen, die für die Plattformen die Altersverifizierung durchführen, sammeln mehr Daten als nötig wäre.
„Yoti “collects significant private information beyond what is strictly necessary to verify age” and that it “relies on sharing sensitive user information with several less user-visible fourth parties.”“
Das ist eins der zentralen Probleme der #SocialMediaVerbote

Sean makes a good point, so fine, here’s a proposal for Barasso:
A photo ID is both necessary •and• sufficient to vote. No voter rolls, no registration. You show up on the day of the election with a photo ID that shows an address in the district, you can vote — end of story. Because photo IDs are so great.
What do you think, Barasso? How about it? https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/116194834884868503

RE: https://mstdn.social/@coloradosun/116534390370909788
I mean, good on the Colorado Sun for including this note at the bottom of the article, but I can't help but despair that it's even necessary. This used to be assumed as a fundamental tenet o…

When asking someone to do something it's important to be clear about everything you are asking them to do, and when you are asking them to do it, up front.
Increasingly I'm asked to do something, I look at my schedule and other commitments and agree to the ask, and then weeks later am informed that "as part of X (what I agreed to) everyone is expected to do Y (something time consuming that wasn't mentioned before)" or "we need you to provide X (something necessary the day of the event) a week in advance (when there was no indication of this early deadline at the initial ask)".
This means that the calculations someone made regarding whether they could participate are based an incomplete understanding of what is required. That's not fair and it either results in forcing the participant to deprioritize something else or makes them push back on something they never agreed to and potentially withdraw.

TIL you can just break apart Thomas’ English muffins easily without using a fork (or knife) - i’ve been using a fork for decades as the best solution and now…this.
“🤣🤣 necessary keyboard 🎹 moments
“ALL MY LIFE I HAD TO KNIFE””
https://bsky.app/profile/invadeherzim.

@13a@mastodon.social
I'm not saying we lack empathy. I'm saying most lack the experience necessary to understand how "the other" are impacted. It's not that people do not care, it's that they are unaware of the impacts and concerns. And that makes it easy to manipulate people.
I'll respond to MEER separately

@13a@mastodon.social
I'm not saying we lack empathy. I'm saying most lack the experience necessary to understand how "the other" are impacted. It's not that people do not care, it's that they are unaware of the impacts and concerns. And that makes it easy to manipulate people.
I'll respond to MEER separately

Packers LB Edgerrin Cooper excited to 'see what's coming next' under DC Jonathan Gannon https://www.nfl.com/news/packers-lb-edgerrin-cooper-excited-to-see-what-s-coming-next-under-dc-jonathan-gannon

Source: the 2024 cyber-attack by the Scattered Spider group on Transport For London resulted in the theft of personal data of ~10M people (Joe Tidy/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz0ggkr2g77o

2024 TfL hack affected around 10 million people, BBC can reveal
TfL insists it has "kept customers informed throughout this incident and will continue to take all necessary action".

Trump on Iran, no comment necessary...

The Micah Parsons Trade Looks a Lot Better for the Cowboys Now https://insidethestar.com/the-micah-parsons-trade-looks-a-lot-better-for-the-cowboys-now

Bernie Sanders's New, Necessary, Bold Act: Taking on the AI Oligarchs (Perry Bacon/New Republic)
https://newrepublic.com/article/208635/bernie-sanders-ai-oligarchs
http://www.memeorandum.com/260406/p109#a260406p109

University Claims Withholding Water From Nuclear Weapons Data Center Is 'Unlawfully Discriminatory' to Data Centers https://www.404media.co/university-claims-withholding-water-from-nuclear-weapons-da…

Ukraine to provide US with 'necessary resources' to counter Iranian drones, Zelensky says: https://benborges.xyz/2026/03/05/ukraine-to-provide-us-with.html

During the 1969 Apollo 11 mission, Buzz Aldrin used a felt-tip pen to activate a broken circuit breaker necessary for lifting off the Moon.
A suit-mounted backpack accidentally snapped off the essential "engine arm" circuit breaker switch,
but a felt-tip pen was used to push the mechanism
https://

50 Years Later: The pen that saved Apollo 11
The Apollo 11 mission could have ended in disaster.

You cannot "just ignore them." That is how you destroy a community. Moderation is always necessary.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/cant-ignore-them

CAGE: An Internal Source Scanning Cryostat for HPGe Characterization
G. Othman, C. Wiseman, T. H. Burritt, J. A. Detwiler, M. P. Held, R. Henning, T. Mathew, D. Peterson, W. Pettus, G. Song, T. D. Van Wechel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.06289 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.06289
arXiv:2602.06289v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The success of current and future-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments relies on the ability to eliminate or reduce extraneous backgrounds. In addition to constructing experiments using radiopure materials and handling in underground laboratories, it is necessary to understand and reduce known backgrounds in data analysis. The Large Enriched Germanium Experiment for Neutrinoless double beta Decay is searching for this decay using 76Ge-enriched high-purity germanium detectors submerged in an active liquid argon veto. A significant background in LEGEND is surface events from shallowly-impinging radiation on detector surfaces. In this paper we introduce the Collimated Alphas, Gammas, and Electrons (CAGE) scanning system, an internal-source scanning vacuum cryostat, designed to perform studies of surface events on sensitive surfaces of HPGe in a surface-lab. CAGE features a collimated radionuclide source inside a movable infrared shield that is able to perform precision scans of detector surfaces by utilizing three independent motor stages for source positioning. This allows detailed studies of pulse shapes as a function of source position and incident angle, where defining features can be extracted and exploited for removing surface backgrounds in data analysis in LEGEND. In this paper, we describe CAGE and demonstrate its performance with a commissioning run with 241Am. The commissioning run was completed with the source at normal incidence, and we estimate a beam spot precision of 3.1 mm, which includes positioning uncertainties and the beam-spot size. Using the 59.5 keV gamma population from 241Am, we show that low-energy photon events near the passivated surface feature risetimes that increase with radial distance from the detector center. We suggest a specific metric that can be used to discriminate low-energy gamma backgrounds in LEGEND with similar characteristics.
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Trump won't rule out sending US troops into Iran 'if necessary'-- tells The Post 'I don't care about polling' (Steven Nelson/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/03/02/us-news/trump-wont-rule-out-sending-us-troops-into-iran-if-necessary-tells-the-post-i-dont-care-about-polling/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260302/p51#a260302p51

'Significant change' needed to tackle agri pollution #environment

'Significant change' needed to tackle agri pollution
The Office for Environmental Protection said existing regulations are insufficient to deliver necessary water quality improvements.

As many expected,
the Trump administration has persisted in waging its war on Iran without congressional authorization.
In doing so, the White House  continues to act in violation of not only the U.S. Constitution and the UN Charter,
but also the 60-day deadline on unauthorized hostilities imposed by the War Powers Resolution (WPR).
What’s new is the White House argument in a May 1st letter to Congress that the WPR’s 60-day clock stopped because the “hostilities that…

Ongoing Iran War Reveals Necessary War Powers Reforms
It is Congress’s responsibility to assert its constitutional prerogatives with respect to the use of force and to rein in a lawless executive.

Ownership, accountability, responsibility - what is really needed is the power to make necessary decisions and changes.

I've written another essay about my mad #PostScarcitySoftware #Lisp system.
"We don't need to know, or have known, these people to build on their work. We don't have to, and cannot in detail, fully understand their work. There is simply too much of it, its complexity wou…

RE: https://aus.social/@Ex_spurt/116338051405618797
I'm imagining Rowan Atkinson dressed as a priest telling this joke and then explaining why the suffering inflicted on Jesus was necessary and right.

Answering a question someone asked me elsewhere - should it be necessary, fuel rationing at the petrol station would be done on a per-visit basis, not a per-person/vehicle basis.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publi…

Summary of response tools in the National Emergency Plan for Fuel

Things like the #NoKings protests may feel like they're not enough, but they can be useful for building that network. Asking neighbors if they're going can help open up conversations, can lead to more conversations, can provide openings to find ways to escalate resistance, and can let you build what you need to feel safe going hard if you realize it's time.
Protests directly against facilities and other direct actions are small escalations that let you build trust and understand your network. If you want to know where you need to be, look at Twin Cities. That is the type of response that makes the machine grind to halt.
Make that happen everywhere and more escalation may not be necessary. And, if it is necessary to escalate more, that level of community organizing makes all other forms of escalation sustainable.

Why does the walmart website not have a cookie notice? I highly doubt all 41 cookies for making a search is "necessary" for running the site.

The Oxford Comma is correct English. If you disagree, you're wrong.
#English #Writing

Technology is the enemy of degrowth
Technology is the enemy of degrowth Gerry McGovern* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture "We are told that deep-sea mining is necessary to support the green economy. That we need to extract these polymetallic nodules at the bottom of the sea so we can create electric batteries to run automobiles without using carbon fuels. But deep-sea mining is such a destructive process." …

Technology is the enemy of degrowth
Technology is the enemy of degrowth Gerry McGovern* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture “We are told that deep-sea mining is necessary to support the green economy. Th…

Me: How do I delete a custom agent from my AI service account?
Agent: Which agent do you want to delete?
Me: That doesn't matter, just tell me how to delete one.
Agent: It's not necessary to delete custom agents from your account. You can store an unlimited number.
Me: Seriously, I want to clean up. Tell me how to delete a custom agent from my AI service account!
Agent: I don't think you can do that.
Me: ..... 0.o

Just finished "The Hate U Give" by Angie Thomas. In an unusual twist of fate, I had read "Concrete Rose" earlier, which gave me a rich backstory to relate things to. "The Hate U Give" is really good, but I found the resolution of King's arc slightly disappointing, even though the ending was strong. It's definitely not my place to judge Thomas' perspective here, but I do think that the book's broad popularity including among more liberal audiences probably stems at least in part from the way it allows a "the cops have issues but are ultimately-necessary/sometimes-positive" reading that undermines the strength of the core message.
In the end I like Concrete Rose better, but they're both great and I'll be putting Thomas' other books on my to-read list.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

@… On I’m aware. But I don’t think that makes it any less necessary. If society is going to keep depending on software for even the most basic functions, sooner or later I hope some force ensures we stop just playing “Move fast and break things”.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@burger_jaap/116147788492297699
Therefore, solar power cannot continue to be subsidised, but it is necessary to focus on smart consumption during these hours. This can be achieved with smart energy tariffs and services, smar…

What the company had to say - #Starlink satellite incident: "On Sunday, March 29, Starlink satellite 34343 experienced an anomaly on-orbit, resulting in loss of communications with the satellite at ~560 km above Earth.
Latest analysis shows the event poses no new risk to the @Space_Station, its crew, or to the upcoming launch of NASA’s Artemis II mission. We will continue to monitor the satellite along with any trackable debris and coordinate with @NASA and the @USSpaceForce.
The event also posed no new risk to this morning’s Transporter-16 mission, which was designed to avoid Starlink with payload deploys well above or well below the constellation. The SpaceX and Starlink teams are actively working to determine root cause and will rapidly implement any necessary corrective actions."

Another day, another of the little one's things repaired with a hot air tool and a bit of poking.
So many people assume broken plastic is unrepairable garbage because it's hard to glue.
But if it's a thermoplastic, as almost all mass market plastic goods are, all you need to do is gently heat up the pieces until they soften and push them back together to form a solid weld. Filler rod can help in some cases but isn't always necessary or useful depending on the natu…

Massive queues for fuel today, even for the more esoteric stuff like MGO and kerosene. The guy behind me at the MGO pump had 3x 50L jugs in the back of his hatchback which he filled up with road diesel.
Anyway, I've now got enough MGO for a couple of weeks of heat, which I will try not to use unless absolutely necessary, since the next fill will be much more expensive. Need to get that PV heater installed ASAP!

Science has finally caught up with William Blake's "The Fly" (1794):
"In recent years, research has accumulated suggesting that insects—long treated as morally negligible—exhibit forms of learning and memory, tool usage, playfulness, and mood states... If insects do indeed possess even a basic form of sentience, do we owe them a different kind of consideration, even when ecological management is necessary?"

Did We Really Need to Squash All the Lanternflies?
An unorthodox request from New York City officials prompts questions on sentience, human nature, and the meaning of "invasive."

I really should be sleeping, but I'm a little fired up by @… 's NDP Party Leadership acceptance speech. As @… shared: great speech.
There's important work to be done in Canada. This must be the time. Carney was a necessary step, bu…

Trump said the Navy will escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz, if necessary.
Per reports the Navy has no timeline for this hazardous maneuver
and Trump himself has just demanded convoys begin "as soon as possible"
The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 301 points, or 0.6%.
The 30-stock index was down more than 1,200 points, or around 2.6%, at its low of the session.

Stocks dramatically pare losses after Trump offers Gulf shipping safety; oil retreats from highs: Live updates
Traders watched rising geopolitical tensions and worried the U.S.-Iran conflict could go on longer than anticipated.

I saw the news of that #PostgreSQL Backup & Restore project being abandoned. Sometimes you need to do what's necessary to put food on the table.
https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest

Apparently, future travellers to the US are now expected to disclose every email address they've used in the last five years, alongside their social media accounts. I must have hundreds of addresses, because of the catch-all 🤯. There's not a chance in hell I'm going there unless absolutely necessary.
#USA

the nyt remains an absolutely garbage newspaper https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:m65ifh7vn5zdgs7izcmht4gy/post/3mhyzu3so2c2d

Erin Reed (@erininthemorning.com)
1. The largest medical organization in the United States, the American Medical Association, has reaffirmed that gender affirming care for trans youth is medically necessary. It disavowed the New York Times reporting. Incredible development for trans youth. Subscribe to support our journalism. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/the-largest-physician-organization

Our society has learned to promote #complacency into a virtue. You call it a "moderate stance", and it's suddenly a good thing. Opposing evil is bad; it's extremist position, almost as bad as the evil itself. Complacency sounds bad too. But "hey, I don't support evil, I just keep an open mind, a moderate position here", and you're suddenly a praiseworthy person. Maybe "just a little, necessary amount of evil" is good, after all.
"I don't support slavery. I just want cheap goods, and I don't want to know how come they're cheap."
"I don't support animal cruelty, I just want cheap meat, and I don't want anyone to point out to me why it's cheap."
"I am tolerant of LGBTQ people, I just don't wanna see them."
"I don't want disabled people to die, I just expect that they find a job."

🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Adds `rawBody` to non-multipart POST requests.
This property, which is a Buffer, is necessary if you want to verify signatures (e.g., for webhooks).
I had to fork express-busboy as they already ruled out adding it. The fork (@small-web/kitten-busboy²) also allowed me to type the middleware extension point for Polka³ instead of Express (Kitten uses Polka) so that’s one @ts-ignore removed (hey, dev is a string of little wins) :)
Change log:

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

Thanks to all who are submitting feedback on #LeftWordle, I truly appreciate it!
Private Messages to me aren’t necessary from my POV. If you're sharing something sensitive - of course, but to report a bug or request a feature, a public post w/ an @ mention is fine.
Maybe someone else has a similar problem, or found a workaround. Also, favs on a bug report or feature request can h…

I don’t think it’s necessary to introduce Gregor Hohpe. I’m a big fan, having read Enterprise Integration Patterns, and I’ve recommended the book ever since.
His latest #book is: "The Software Architect Elevator". Here's my #review

I'm reading a new book that's smart and ably written but full of minor grammatical errors. Have major university presses in the states decided that copy-editing is no longer necessary?

International Energy Agency @iea.org: We're in a major global oil & gas supply crisis, please save energy, e.g. by working from home or reducing speed limits.
Dutch government: "Not necessary here, since we can still get oil & gas, although at higher prices"
But dears, ...

Kabinet neemt adviezen IEA niet over: 'Geen tekorten in Nederland'
De waarschuwing van het Internationaal Energieagentschap leidt in Nederland niet direct tot extra maatregelen of adviezen.

I did not know about ggplot_build() before. It can come in handy in situations where you want to access computed metrics of a #ggplot. https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/ggplot_build.html…

Build ggplot for rendering. — ggplot_build
build_ggplot() takes the plot object, and performs all steps necessary to produce an object that can be rendered. This function outputs two pieces: a list of data frames (one for each layer), and a panel object, which contain all information about axis limits, breaks etc. The ggplot_build() function is vestigial and build_ggplot() should be used instead.

The utterly massive immigration detention system in the United States is a historic anomaly.
Every time a politicians says "of course" it's necessary or without "we wouldn't have a country," they are lying to you.

website tells me: DoNotTrack signal recognized, we are only using necessary cookies. I don't like the name of the site, but this is brilliant!!
https://geizhals.de/

Geizhals Preisvergleich Deutschland
Preisvergleich für PC-Hardware, Software, Video/Foto, Unterhaltungselektronik, Sport & Freizeit und Haushalt in Deutschland

When presidents go on television in wartime, they do not merely describe events.
They try to impose meaning on them.
On Wednesday night, President Trump presented the war with Iran as a stern but necessary undertaking that is nearing a favorable conclusion.
The threads of this victory narrative have been coming together since the United States launched Operation Epic Fury in late February.
Elements of it are undoubtedly true:
American and Israeli forces have b…

Opinion | Trump Has Lost Control of the Iran War
The pain inflicted on Iran has not forced it into submission. It is not clear what will.

mistakes the unique for the necessary

I'm in an unhappy place with my reading these days. 😟📚
I feel impatient with many books and end up abandoning them.
At times like this I often reread what I think of as my "core authors", their voices familiar and well-loved.
About a decade ago I realised that I basically only need 7 particular albums, and two authors (complete works of), the rest are nice for a fling, but not strictly necessary.
Are other people like this too?

I'm a lucky guy, and I'm happy to be with the Yankees. And I want to
thank everyone for making this night necessary.
-- Yogi Berra at a dinner in his honor

Present thought
Mastodon's the right model. But to be truly *useful* politcally - the Bluesky/Mastodonian idea of "we will make our safe space over here" might be pleasant for many and that's fine
But they're not healthy for useful political discourse, which is often ugly, but generates the necessary talk.
The discussions I'm seeing on Twitter/threads e.g. left v. liberal are finally getting "good." (among others)

Ende April bemerken, dass der März-Release nicht mehr gehalten werden kann und nun im Mai kommt. Also ich hätte Juni genommen. #Simracing #Rennsport

Building a sustainable foundation — RENNSPORT
RENNSPORT is evolving into a self-publishing studio across all platforms. This transition is a necessary step for our growth, allowing us to manage our operations and release schedules with greater precision, especially for the short-term release of our next update. By bringing our digital infrastructure in-house we are gaining the agency required to own our […]

Incidentally, I chose to force an upgrade because it was previously necessary to force off the virtual machine during an upgrade.
This began as a review of pkg issue 2441:
― pkg upgrade: ability to complete what was originally intended, following an interruption <https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/

Microsoft has begun automatically replacing the original Secure Boot security certificates on Windows devices through regular monthly updates, a necessary move given that the 15-year-old certificates first issued in 2011 are set to expire between late June and October 2026.

Refreshing the root of trust: industry collaboration on Secure Boot certificate updates
Secure Boot is a foundational security feature of the Windows and Windows Server experience, providing protection from the moment a device powers on. Introduced in 2011, Secure Boot runs at startup – before Windows loads – and h

You can't make this stuff up (or can you?):
#LLMs #AI #GenAI

Several years ago, a street medic described a system like this and wanted to know if it could be built.
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/the-tak-ecosystem-military-coordination-goes-open-source/
Back then there was just no way to make it happen. Hardware was too expensive. We couldn't really ever get it cheap enough, per medic, to deploy. Best I could put together was a bunch of burner phones.
But now it's starting to really make sense. LoRa is cheap, and possibly cheaper in bulk. And it wouldn't be necessary to build everything since ATAK-CIV exists and has several open source implementations. It can even tie in to drones (which are illegal to bring to protests in at least a few states).
This has a lot of potential applications for street medic coordination, protest marshal coordination, and for airsoft teams...

There is no reason to think this war with Iran is necessary (Max Boot/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/28/trump-war-iran-/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p65#a260228p65

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@RosannaSibora/116070308608485070
„This is a hard work, but necessary work. You're not just migrating software - you're building democracy and freedom for future generations.“
💯

User A wrote a nifty little tool in Python. On Windows. Several weeks of work.
User B wants to use it as well.
They copy it, try to run it. Doesn't work.
Call me for help.
A: "It works on my machine. B must configure his python exactly like I do!"
Me: "Can't we run it in a virtual environment (venv). Or with a docker image?"
A: "Hm, I would have to learn how to do that. Is this really necessary?"
Me:

New post: Gonix: Unix From Userspace
#blog #miblog

Water main broke up the street, so decided to read at the 1970s-themed bar that was thankfully empty. Free bathroom (for the cost of drinks) and no mask necessary (for the absence of humans).

SysOM-AI: Continuous Cross-Layer Performance Diagnosis for Production AI Training
Yusheng Zheng, Wenan Mao, Shuyi Cheng, Fuqiu Feng, Guangshui Li, Zhaoyan Liao, Yongzhuo Huang, Zhenwei Xiao, Yuqing Li, Andi Quinn, Tao Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.29235 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29235 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.29235
arXiv:2603.29235v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Performance diagnosis in production-scale AI training is challenging because subtle OS-level issues can trigger cascading GPU delays and network slowdowns, degrading training efficiency across thousands of GPUs. Existing profiling tools are limited to single system layers, incur prohibitive overhead (10--30%), or lack continuous deployment capabilities, resulting in manual analyses spanning days. We argue that continuous, cross-layer observability enabled by OS-level instrumentation and layered differential diagnosis is necessary to address this gap. We introduce SysOM-AI, a production observability system that continuously integrates CPU stack profiling, GPU kernel tracing, and NCCL event instrumentation via adaptive hybrid stack unwinding and eBPF-based tracing, incurring less than 0.4% overhead. Deployed at Alibaba across over 80,000 GPUs for more than one year, SysOM-AI helped diagnose 94 confirmed production issues, reducing median diagnosis time from days to approximately 10 minutes.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@harold/116275621455306024
"We are a sad, wounded, grieving planet in a dark night of our collective soul."
"In order to live in the world I now inhabit I’ve learned some intentional forgetting is necessary. …

UK's weekly street newspaper Big Issue makes its two top digital editors redundant as part of a "difficult but necessary" restructure of the organization (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Big Issue makes staff cuts 'to ensure long-term stability'
Weekly street newspaper Big Issue has made its two top digital editors redundant as part of a restructure of the organisation.

Heard someone on a podcast use the term "GPU debt financing" as being the driver of AI money, where actual running servers are only necessary as future capability.

Moscow is in the throes of a major mobile internet blackout
as the Russian government tightens restrictions it has touted as
necessary to ensure the “security” of its citizens.
The Russian capital has been more or less spared from a wave of systematic mobile internet outages that have hit the country since May,
-- which authorities have said are necessary to counter the threat of Ukrainian drones.
But since the first week of March, Muscovites have also found t…

Internet blackouts hit Moscow as the Kremlin tightens restrictions
Moscow has been hit by a major mobile internet blackout as the Russian government tightens restrictions it has touted as necessary to ensure the “security” of its citizens.

🥳 New Kitten¹ Release
• Fixes: Page infinitely refreshes if class does not extend `kitten.Page`
Kitten now shows a helpful error message for this authoring error.
(The issue was due to the page getting rendered without the necessary scaffolding provided by the base class for maintaining the web socket connection,. leading to Kitten thinking the socket connection had failed and triggering a reload to reestablish it.)
Full changelog of today’s updates:

app/CHANGELOG.md at main
app - A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.

OH MY GOD, NOT SEVEN TIMES! THAT'S MORE TIMES THAN ANYONE HAS EVER TAPPED ANYY! IT WOULD BE OKAY IF IT WERE THREE TIMES OR MAYBE FIVE TIMES! BUT NOT SEVEN! NOOOOOO
keepandroidopen are beclowning themselves with this Britrag tabloid-level of hyperventilation. I don't like the change any more than you do, but YOUR GOVERNMENT that YOU ELECTED are the ones making this a necessary step for the mobile platform vendors to take to ensure that the government ID and control software can…

New from @… (CW: irony alert!)
"Tech Santa has arrived, and even though the ice is melting, his bag is still bulging with the latest, greatest tech toys for the boys. Let’s see, what do we have here? AI, bitcoin, shiny, shiny electric vehicles, scooters, vapes, and solar panels. Wind machines with gigantic blades that can reach almost as high…

Technology is the enemy of degrowth
Technology is the enemy of degrowth Gerry McGovern* In the series Degrowth and Ecosocialism: the global picture “We are told that deep-sea mining is necessary to support the green economy. Th…

Several years ago, a street medic described a system like this and wanted to know if it could be built.
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/the-tak-ecosystem-military-coordination-goes-open-source/
Back then there was just no way to make it happen. Hardware was too expensive. We couldn't really ever get it cheap enough, per medic, to deploy. Best I could put together was a bunch of burner phones.
But now it's starting to really make sense. LoRa is cheap, and possibly cheaper in bulk. And it wouldn't be necessary to build everything since ATAK-CIV exists and has several open source implementations. It can even tie in to drones (which are illegal to bring to protests in at least a few states).
This has a lot of potential applications for street medic coordination, protest marshal coordination, and for airsoft teams...

“It was necessary to destroy the polling org in order to save it”

Didero, which provides an agentic AI layer that integrates with ERP systems to automate supply chains, raised a $30M Series A co-led by Chemistry and Headline (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/12/didero-lands-3…

Didero lands $30M to put manufacturing procurement on 'agentic' autopilot | TechCrunch
Didero functions as an agentic AI layer that sits on top of a company’s existing ERP, acting as a coordinator that reads incoming communications and automatically executes the necessary updates and tasks.

The British Ministry of Defence (MoD)
has said it is ⚠️moving families from the RAF Akrotiri airbase in #Cyprus
⚡️after it was targeted in a suspected Iranian drone strike last night
at around midnight local time (22:00 GMT), in an attack which caused limited damage but no casualties,
🔥Cyprus has put authorities on alert,
closing schools and evacuating people where necessary,

Several years ago, a street medic described a system like this and wanted to know if it could be built.
https://hackaday.com/2022/09/08/the-tak-ecosystem-military-coordination-goes-open-source/
Back then there was just no way to make it happen. Hardware was too expensive. We couldn't really ever get it cheap enough, per medic, to deploy. Best I could put together was a bunch of burner phones.
But now it's starting to really make sense. LoRa is cheap, and possibly cheaper in bulk. And it wouldn't be necessary to build everything since ATAK-CIV exists and has several open source implementations. It can even tie in to drones (which are illegal to bring to protests in at least a few states).
This has a lot of potential applications for street medic coordination, protest marshal coordination, and for airsoft teams...

Again, I don't know how it's happening. But Twitter is presently absolutely the home of some amazing and difficult and definitely necessary discourse on the tension between
"Epstein proves that all men are potential predators"
and
"All men are predators is extremely adjacent to, if not overlapping with, what killed Emmiitt Till"
#socialmedia

@… I have only one minor criticism of GitHub's highlighting, and I don't know whether it is (or should be) fixable.
In cases such as the one pictured below, it's necessary to scroll/page down hugely to bring a tiny change into sight.
In other words, 'Show Diff' shows much, much more than the diff.
A wild gues…

Idea: statically typed language (or Python type checker?) Where types aren't declared, but can only be assigned by providing tests/examples that use that type. Examples could provide explicit type info where necessary, but code could not.
If it's not documented with an example, it's not safe to use with those types.

lol WHAT THE FUCK
The fact that these dipshits aren't in prison, my god..
https://www.404media.co/government-loses-hard-drives-it-was-supposed-to-put-ice-detention-center-footage-on/

In Our Mothers' Gardens"
Film Screening & Potluck
Community Event · Hosted by Black Thumb Farm
Saturday, February 28
5 – 8pm PST
8380 Ventura Canyon Ave
Los Angeles, CA 91402
About this event
In honor of Black History Month, Black Thumb Farm invites you to a free screening of "In Our Mothers' Gardens."
This powerful documentary celebrates the strength and resiliency of Black women and Black families through the r…

"In Our Mothers' Gardens" Film Screening & Potluck · Mobilize
In honor of Black History Month, Black Thumb Farm invites you to a free screening of "In Our Mothers' Gardens." This powerful documentary celebrates the strength and resiliency of Black women and Black families through the relationship between mothers and daughters. The film honors Black maternal ancestors while examining the critical importance of self-care and the healing practices necessary for Black communities to thrive. Saturday Feb 28th, 2026 5 PM - 8:00 PM Black Thumb Farm 8380 Ventu…

I'm saddened but not surprised. Why are our politicians - from #Newsom to mayors to supervisors - so vocal about mandatory treatment and the need for conservancy or jail, and so unwilling to ensure the necessary services are available?
California’s new ‘war on drugs’: thousands arrested, few get treatment, data shows

I'm saddened but not surprised. Why are our politicians - from #Newsom to mayors to supervisors - so vocal about mandatory treatment and the need for conservancy or jail, and so unwilling to ensure the necessary services are available?
California’s new ‘war on drugs’: thousands arrested, few get treatment, data shows

New post: Going Dark
#blog #miblog

Going Dark
While writing about the responsive design of ByteKit,I wanted to demonstrate the fact it has both light and a dark themes. At this exact moment I realised that this blog itself has no dark theme. When I setup to setup Hugo for it I simply used an existing theme named hestia-pure. As it didn’t support the dark theme, neither did my blog. Meanwhile, it was necessary to fork it it due growing needs. Most notably it rely on SCSS, where I want CSS written by hand without any Javascript post-proces…

2. This danger / toxicity is not a necessary, intrinsic property of social media; it happened by •design•. Social interaction doesn’t suddenly become a new kind of psychologically toxic just because it happens on a screen. That happens when huge amounts of investment money pour into exploiting the human vulnerability of humans, weaponizing our own psychology to turn our social needs into a money pump, sucking us dry for profit. It’s a business model in the same category as casinos and diet pills.

"We’re not just talking about potential spikes in food prices …
but also potentially key shortages in the commodities that are necessary to produce food, like fertilizers,”
says Adam Hanieh, director of the SOAS Middle East Institute at the University of London.
“Many of the countries that are going to be most potentially impacted by this are already in conditions of famine or near famine.”

Crude Capitalism: Trump’s War on Iran Disrupts Global Systems, from Agriculture to Oil to Shipping
The U.S. is threatening to intensify its bombardment of Iran as the country’s leadership rejects a 15-point U.S. proposal to end the war. Iran has issued a number of demands, including recognition of its sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz. Since the war began, Iran has largely blocked ships from passing through the critical strait, causing a global crisis as the prices of oil, natural gas and fertilizer soar. “We’re not just talking about potential spikes in food prices … but also po…

This is as good a time as any for a thought experiment.
You're in Nazi Germany. You know about the camps, you know what they do, you see the ash fall, you smell it. People who resist alone are killed, some are sent to the camps too. You're afraid to even talk to people about it for fear that they'll turn you in.
You think back to when the camps were being built. You had all the warning signs, but you didn't know how to interpret them. You could believe it would happen. You thought you'd have a chance to vote him out. You thought there might be another way. You thought maybe things would turn out differently if you just sat tight, kept your head down, kept yourself safe.
You see a family being dragged from their home. You know they will be killed. You want to fight, not just for them but for yourself. You opposed Hitler, and at any point you know you could be on the list... Even if you do nothing.
You wish you could rise up, shoot the SS, open the gates, fight it all. You know you aren't alone, but you don't know how to connect with the people who want the same thing.
Using the knowledge we have now, what should you have done in the preceding months and years to connect, to build a community that would open up all paths of resistance?
There were people who resisted. We know it wasn't enough.
Gun laws in Nazi Germany were very similar to US laws in that Nazis were largely free to own guns and everyone else was not. Unlike the US, where "others" have historically controlled using the fear that they might be randomly executed, Germany did codify it. Red flag laws were one more step in the US towards that codification, and there will be more.
When Nazis were taking away those guns, the social networks didn't exist to make resistance possible for most folks. But some Jews were able to resist.
It wasn't the guns that made the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising possible, though they definitely helped. The Warsaw Ghetto uprising was made possible by labor organizing in the precessing years.
If there were more uprisings like that, the Holocaust could have been stopped if not prevented. Social networks make resistance possible. Guns are only useful tools to resist authoritarianism *after* you build a community able to support that resistance, and they are only one of many tools made useful by that community.
Getting guns is easy, and not always necessary. Building community is hard. Guns won't keep you safe. Community will.
Single acts of resistance may slow the machine down, but to actually bring down a monster you need to be able to attack more than once. You need a society of resistance. If you are afraid now, build that. Talk to people while it's still safe to do so. Ask them where their red line is. Talk to neighbors. Figure out your network.
Take the steps you need now to keep your neighbors safe, to keep yourself safe.
#USPol

Gallup deciding not to do presidential approval ratings any more is like McDonald’s deciding to stop making french fries. The amount of fear and cowardice necessary for them to do this is just staggering.

I remember, many years ago, people complaining that it's unfair for people in the UK to be prosecuted for corruption and bribery when their actions were strictly in relation to countries where corruption is endemic and, arguably, necessary for conducting business.

Texas Senate Race:
Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor)  
pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico:
"I pray that God kills him.
Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ...
If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."

Joshua Haymes And Brooks Potteiger Pray Imprecatory Psalms Against James Talarico
Joshua Haymes & Brooks Potteiger (Pete Hegseth's pastor) pray imprecatory psalms against James Talarico: "I pray that God kills him. Ultimately, that means killing his heart and raising him up to new life in Christ ... If it would not be within God's will to do so, stop him by any means necessary."

3. Control is a key concept here. I don’t want corporations controlling kids, but I’m not keen on regulators doing that any more than absolutely necessary — or even parents! (And yes, I am a parent.) The goal of raising healthy kids should be for them to develop healthy autonomy.
True, we don’t let toddlers wander onto the freeway so they can learn for themselves why that’s bad — but if control has a place in caring for kids, it should be carefully circumscribed, and always pointed in the direction of autonomy. Beware authoritarian tendencies in the nurturing of children.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@NSalwen/116060789482624866
Yup, good point. Pretty sure the Republicans could get the necessary D votes to do this.
Whining about TSA and FEMA being held hostage to the fight over ICE and CBP? Fine, release them. Rs can do that AFAICT.

RE: https://kolektiva.social/@igd_news/116415897425912438
Imagine the social infrastructure it would take to make this type of action sustainable. Imagine someone live streaming Mario Party, and officials being unable to stop it.
I don't advocate violence. But I do advocate building the social infrastructure that would make one-sided class war impossible.
The system can absorb some number of one-off actions. The system cannot absorb continuous action. Figure out the logistics necessary to make continuous action viable, and build *that.*
If you are mad, organize. This is the time.

When Silicon Valley says it is
‘‘moving fast and breaking things,’’
the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation.
Gil Duršn reveals something far more sinister:
a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.
https://www.