RE: https://infosec.exchange/@codinghorror/116030297501475184

This is the relevant article.

Gov’t bureaucracy is an lobbyist-engineered wealth transfer of public tax dollars to private companies. That’s the inefficiency we need to fix.

https://lpeproject.org/blog/the-means-testing-industrial-complex/

…The article says that Substack has around 5 million paying subscribers and it cites 4 Nazi accounts there, with an average annual subscription of about $80.

If that prices point is typical, since Substack takes about 10% of subscriptions, we might infer that it has a subscription revenue of something like $40 million.

At $1.1 billion It is valued at about 27x that figure.

One of the many news organisations actively promoting its free Substack account is the UK’s Channel 4

@signalapp Pin messages are not being synced across devices. I pinned a message on Android and it didn't get pinned on Windows.

LineageOS 23.2

https://lineageos.org/Changelog-31/

#HackerNews

@Alice can you draw me as a hotdog but the sausage is a longass bus

This is wild 🍿

https://lemmy.ml/post/42415919/23662293

@neil

Seems similar to PGP key signing and even the original idea behind Linkedin. Any DP consequences from that?

Webs of Trust effectively. Interesting from a CS perspective and sociological.

What happens when an anchor ( or well connected node ) in the trust web proves to be unreliable?

@matt you got me in giggles, thank you!

👋 Bonjour à tous, je serai présent à la 3ème édition d'#AlpOSS le mardi 17 février 2026 à la Rampe à #Échirolles en #Isère.
🎯 Je me trouverai au stand de la société @arawa.
#️⃣ #OpenSource #LogicielsLibres #FOSS #FLOSS #FreeSoftware

@mike needs more gravy

AI eliminated the natural barrier to entry that let OSS projects trust by default. People told me to do something rather than just complain. So I did. Introducing Vouch: explicit trust management for open source. Trusted people vouch for others. https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch

The idea is simple: Unvouched users can't contribute to your projects. Very bad users can be explicitly "denounced", effectively blocked. Users are vouched or denounced by contributors via GitHub issue or discussion comments or via the CLI.

Integration into GitHub is as simple as adopting the published GitHub actions. Done. Additionally, the system itself is generic to forges and not tied to GitHub in any way.

Who and how someone is vouched or denounced is up to the project. I'm not the value police for the world. Decide for yourself what works for your project and your community.

All of the data is stored in a single flat text file in your own repository that can be easily parsed by standard POSIX tools or mainstream languages with zero dependencies.

My hope is that eventually projects can form a web of trust so that projects with shared values can share their vouch lists with each other (automatically) so vouching or denouncing a person in one project has ripple effects through to other projects.

The idea is based on the already successful system used by @badlogicgames in Pi. Thank you Mario.

Ghostty will be integrating this imminently.

apparently pixelfed will be looking into implementing interaction controls following https://docs.gotosocial.org/en/latest/federation/interaction_controls/ so that's quite neat

מה שאני אוהב בלהעיף עפיפונים אלו האינטראקציות עם אנשים סביב העפיפון.

אתמול בטיול ט"ו בשבט כל הילדות ביקשו להחזיק. היתה רוח חזקה ואני הקפדתי לשמור שלא יעזבו את החוט. היו ששאלו מה יקרה אם יעזבו את החוט ואני אמרתי שהעפיפון ייפול.

אחר כך העפתי עוד עפיפון וביקשתי מאשתי שתעזור לילדות להעיף את האדום. סובבתי רגע את הראש ואשתי קוראת לי שילדה עזבה בטעות את הידית והעפיפון נפל.

בדרך לאסוף את העפיפון שמעתי את הילדה אומרת "עזבתי בכוונה".

לעפיפון לא קרה כלום.

it's pretty wild, the jokes Animaniacs got away with in the 90s 😂

Saturday was good.

Couple of pull requests merged, and then once that work was done, I was able to write a version of jls(8) in #golang.

Source is here https://github.com/0x1eef/jail/blob/master/cmd/jls/jls.go

Be pretty weird if orchestra concerts had a short football game halfway through.

As we end the week, there is one correspondence I cannot forget.

Elon Musk has been making money from Starlink being used in the Ukraine war since February 2022. And through all this time, Russians have been using Starlink to coordinate their invasion, their bombing of cities, their killing of civilians.

And now, after 1440 days of making a profit off of Russian Starlink terminals — after countless Ukrainians have been killed — he casually turns off the Russian terminals.

I am lost for words.