Each dot in this picture is a Nazi-fascist massacre in Italy that happened between 1943 and 1945. This is the result of a project that lasted years, summarized by the Atlante cells Stragi Nazifasciste https://www.straginazifasciste.it/ 6000 of them, the […] [Original post on manganiello.eu]

I have to say, I really think the reputation of the FIFA Peace Prize is going to be tarnished by this.

Read this if you want a reminder why people still hang out on #x / #twitter , #facebook , #instagram and so forth. A lot of people on the #fediverse assume that the social communities on these platforms could simply reform on the Fediverse. But this isn't going to happen. When a social platform […]

It's been zero days since I last screwed up a boolean comparison...

Those who use X provide attention and feed the algorithm. People are outraged about the consequences, but continue to provide the fuel. This is not a necessity, but convenience – and often fear of losing reach. Those who describe X as a threat to democracy cannot at the same time want to […]

8086 instruction set implemented in pure css, amazing https://lyra.horse/x86css/

This was fun. I started it last year and decided to finish it off this month. It's a Go port of a VAX/VMS BULLETIN - a message board.It was run at my Uni up until someone managed to use it to break in. To that end, I used it as an excuse to learn how to use landlock on Linux. The message board […]

Dear fellow Americans, Isn't it kind of embarrassing that a monarchy is doing a better job at holding a Prince accountable than a Republic is at holding a President accountable?

Colbert got a massive boost using YouTube to bypass broadcast/cable media. Traditional media ignored Colbert's roasting of Bush at the Whitehouse Correspondence Dinner. They only covered it when the YouTube video of it took off.

The interview the FCC doesn't want you to see. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiTJ7Pz_59A

Q: Why is it so hard to take it seriously when a goat gives birth? A: Because she's kidding.

Just curious, is there an #ev charger plug count formula for charging sites? I know it's all still a bit new so there's still struggles to get power to sites and enough space, but are there evolving standards on what it should be? As an example, there's the cube rule in political science about […]

Has anyone exclusively trained a model on GPL code and then released it with the requirement that all generated code is also GPL licensed?

Hey #php peeps! I'm looking at putting a bunch of php containers on a diet and #frankenphp looks really interesting. Is it getting wide adoption?

The complaints about voter fraud in the US are just the new variation on stopping Black people voting. Every place they mention, every place they've investigated, has a large Black population. Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Fulton county. They've come up with a new way to try and deprive a […]

TIL the github status page auto-updates.

There IS Good In The World! Romanians are buying generators, other energy equipment, and devices and are bringing them to the Ukrainian Embassy in Bucharest. The Ukrainian Embassy will organize the shipment to people affected by Russian energy terror. THANK […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

@polek.bsky.social Historians are calling it what it is: fascism. Europe isn’t guessing. Polls show U.S. favorability collapsing across the UK, France, Germany and the Nordics under Trump–Vance. This isn’t anti-American — it’s Europe rejecting authoritarianism […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

First week of the new job and it was a tech stack change. So I took the opportunity to modernise my own environment. Opentofu from terraform - and started using tfenv and tofuenv to manage versions. I'm using direnv to manage environments now. Wrote "conflicts" - a script to edit all merge […]

I thought I'd check out the winter olympics by watching some ski jumping. Then I ended up watching the bobsleigh, downhill, freestyle skiing and luge as well. It's a slippery slope.

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/116024252438241701 What America do Americans want? There was an America where this was acceptable. It was brutal and cruel and a moral toilet. Do we really want it back?

The #racist depiction of the #obamas – the first #black president & first lady in US history – appears at the end of a one-minute video perpetuating the false & disproven claims that ballot-counting company Dominion Voting Systems helped steal the 2020 presidential election from #trump. The […]

👀 Apparently, Ross Douthat invited Seth Harp to debate him on Douthat's "Interesting Times" NYT podcast. Harp says that the episode was recorded, Douthat got crushed, and RD/NYT decided not to publish it. What? x.com/sethharpesq/...

Switched from colordiff + diff-higlighter to git-delta. Much nicer output - though it does appear to believe everything is a color xterm. I guess the Rust folks lack curses.

Watching this video on the history of ice (solid H2O), it makes me wonder about where LLMs are going. Harvesting ice in winter and shipping it, was a brute force solution to the problem. The refrigeration cycle uses less energy - which eventually overcame a disinformation campaign. LLMs use […]

NZ First doesn't usually care about the environment, you may remember Jones himself saying that frogs or kiwis aren't going to stand in the way of his profit motive. BUT, if he can blow the racist foghorn, then he might pretend to be concerned about wildlife. The racist rhetoric is being […]

I've been noting that Stephen Miller is significantly (entirely?) responsible for the rules of engagement that keeps leading to experienced goons murdering bystanders. www.emptywheel.net/2026/01/07/t...

Shocker: ICE is full of sex pests, pedophiles, and rapists.

Linus in his new sweater. #dogsofmastodon #dogs #sheltermutts #adoptdontshop #chillydog

Will anyone be prosecuted for these murders? Not just the two recent ones, but all the ones ICE has done. Can I just join ICE and murder people without any consequence? Because it seems like it. And I wonder how many people who actually do want to commit murders without consequence see the […]

At the beginning of 2025 I changed my pension funds to avoid US investments. On one level, it was a protest. But on another, it seemed like a bad idea to be exposed to the US. After Canadian PM Carney's speech in Davos and the positive reaction to it, I think more folks should start considering […]

Trump posted a view of him with a penguin in Greenland. Penguins aren't in Greenland. They're also not in Ukraine. Interesting that both Russians and Trump seem confused about where penguins are. https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/197299/russian-soldier-caught-ridiculous-penguin

Back when I was a kid in Kansas we could go to the Quick Stop to play video games and get snacks without having to carry our passports and birth certificate to prove our citizenship. Both ways. #storiesoldpeopletell

So apparently US Federal agents can go door to door and search homes. Neat. I was always told that the US can't repeal the Second Amendment because the guns can't be seized. Seems like they absolutely can. https://us.cnn.com/2026/01/21/politics/ice-memo-enter-homes-without-judges-warrant

In New York, USA. 🇺🇸

Conor McGregor wants to build a tall, heavy structure on a cliff. A layered shale and sandstone cliff. How stupid is this man? I am a very easily amused atheist. There is no need for Christians to spend millions of euros on a statue of Jesus that will tumble suddenly into the sea with no […]

But it hasn’t stopped Grok. It’s introduced geoblocking. Grok will continue to produce these images.

On the topic of "Mara Lago face" I really don't care. I will note that lip fillers, boob jobs, face lifts, butt lifts, testosterone and baldness treatments are largely gender-affirming healthcare. The same sorts of health care that trans folks get. Just something to ponder.

The current US administration can have the belief that ICE has absolute immunity. The citizens of the United States can refuse to convict anyone who is accused of doing anything to ICE. Jury nullification can absolutely negate "absolute immunity."

It's easy to find your TDs here: https://www.contactyourtd.ie/ Maybe email them to ask them why government services are on X. And also ask why the Irish Government doesn't have its own mastodon server?

I was looking at opencode and all I can think is, npm still seems to have a security issue and that's what they're using?

Opportunity knocks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C1Gnxhfok0

Just curious, if you're cycling in the US and a car gets too close to you are you allowed to shoot the driver? A car is a weapon and the driver might be a domestic terrorist, so it seems to me, based on how America works right now, it might be best to shoot first and ask questions later.

This bit of news from last week - "Trump warned last week that if Tehran "violently kills peaceful protesters," the US "will come to their rescue"." - is kind of interesting in the context of the US Government murdering an innocent US citizen. Can France now come to the rescue of US protesters?

Is see Danish citizens online are now proposing to invade USA and MAAG. (Make America Actually Great) Under occupation they would ensure Americans got. Universal healthcare Fairer wages + lower income inequality Paid parental leave Bike-friendly cities Free […] [Original post on aus.social]

OK, how can I let a systemd user service get access to /proc on #linux? I'm trying this on #ubuntu and it only has access to /proc/$$/cwd. I'd like it to scan the cwd for all of my processes. The code works when run from a terminal - so I could just background it - but I wanted to have this run […]

OK, how can I let a systemd user service get access to /proc on #linux? I'm trying this on #ubuntu and it only has access to /proc/$$/cwd. I'd like it to scan the cwd for all of my processes. The code works when run from a terminal - so I could just background it - but I wanted to have this run […]

So the US military can arrest a head of state for trafficking. This is an interesting thing.