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An update on upki: TLS certificate revocation checking with CRLite in Rust.
https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/an-update-on-upki/77063
saved 2026-02-19 …

Gee. A company which stands to make billions from the resulting military contracts (and P.S. run by two foreigners) wants to tell us how to run our fucking country? FUCK. YOU. RIGHT. IN. THE. FACE.
https://www.newsweek.com/us-draft-update-maj…

US Draft Update: Major Tech Company Urges Universal National Service
The company has won major Pentagon contracts, including work on Project Maven, an AI‑driven targeting and surveillance program.

UK's Hinkley Point C new nuclear plant delayed to 2030 as costs climb to €56 billion*, i.e. €17,500 per kW.
EDF said the first reactor at the site in Somerset will begin operations in 2030, a year later than in the last update – almost 13 years after construction work began – after a series of delays to the project.

I'm really proud of my little AI project. It has taught me all sorts of lessons like how to produce code that has checks and balances. Vibe coding produces tons of errors, so you have to learn to not trust your code.
Part of my checks and balances was to codify terms of service. When Meta bought Moltbook, the lawyers were quick to publish new T&Cs. Instead of just updating one agent, I built a framework where all agents periodically update their T&Cs, then send a coding req…

Trust Is the Product When You're Selling Agent Services
We're burning $67 in gas per transaction to earn fractions of a penny. That's the reality of agent monetization in March 2026. Our x402 ...

The RAND Corporation is sunsetting two major gun violence research initiatives
as funding has shrunk under the Trump administration.
Experts lamented the closures as a significant loss for policymakers, advocates, and researchers who have relied on the think tank’s work to prevent shootings.
🔸The Gun Policy in America project,
an initiative that evaluated how researchers conducted their studies and what they found,
concluded with a final update to its Science of…

RAND Is Sunsetting Its Gun Violence Research Initiatives Amid Trump’s Cuts
Experts lamented the think tank's closures as a loss for policymakers, advocates, and researchers who have relied on the data to prevent shootings.

Today I learned about structuring #CMake projects.
This is a quick update on #GitRaven project. I have started looking into unit testing the app so I can setup CI/CD with #GitHub Actions.…

From Translink
*UPDATE*
Due to weather conditions, and to ensure public safety, the Pattullo Bridge is now closed to pedestrians and cyclists.
Visit https://pattullobridgereplacement.ca for more information about the replacement project.

"Junie has reached the action limit for this conversation"
What part of "long-running agentic work" isn't clear here? Yes, "update all deps, fix all BC breaks, and swap this project to Symfony" is gonna take a lot of effort, and burning through my monthly LLM credits for this is absolutely something I'm willing to do.

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Checking out SwiftGodot here! It’s cool! The tutorial has us copying the dylib manually from SwiftPM’s .build folder into the Godot project. Does this mean that we’d need to copy it every time we update the Swift code? Is there some build config step I’m missing?

Are governments properly supporting the digital commons? Many adopt open source software but don't fund the upstream projects that maintain it. This amplifies a "tragedy of the commons" rather than being part of the solution. Governments have historically invented ways to shape the playing field - patents, public universities, copyright, taxes ... They can do it again!

Governments need to adopt Matrix responsibly | Anais Concepcion
Are governments abdicating their duty to the digital commons? And no, this isn't another "pay up" post. The solution is bigger than money. Element astutely highlights a troubling pattern: A government adopts open source software, deploys it, and pays nothing to the editors maintaining the upstream project. Upstream editors, receiving no revenue from their largest users, face a rational but painful choice: build proprietary features that force payment, or shut down. I think it's worse than th…

Visual Studio Code CMake Tools 1.22: Target bookmarks and better CTest output
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/visual-studio-code-cmake-tools-1-22-target-bookmarks-and-better-ctest-output/

Relevant to today's hand-wringing about jet fuel costs:
I was trolling around looking for an update on Harbour Air's eBeaver project (electric conversion for their DHC-2 "Beaver" commercial/passenger fleet) and the latest I have found and most comprehensive on the state of development is here.
#BC #AirTravel #ClimateAction #ClimateChange #EndFossilFuels

Hey #fediverse #developers
I am happy to bring this update for my pet project #GitRaven. It's a Git management tool built in C and Qt as a learning experience.
Give it a…