Really liked the reasoning in this #sourcehut blog post. Especially so the more general aspects on when and how it's meaningful to take a political stand.

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/

OpenAI’s executive exodus has one big winner
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/985332/openai-greg-brockman-sam-altman-leader-executive-exodus?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Hugging Face’s new robot is an adorable rollerskating duck
https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/985549/hugging-face-microduck-robot?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@neil

How does that work? Is it a separate power supply to some or all of the appliances?

I did do a web search for "island box" but the results seemed mostly to relate to food and holidays and I quickly lost the will to live.

@simonzerafa

@CrimethInc

“but people are just afraid to talk about AI because they’ll get made fun of and widely blocked” yes that’s what happens when you do something and a lot of people individually think it’s really shitty

@kepano The Swiss public transport app "SBB" develeoped by ubique. The have built many apps for public orgs and gov: https://www.ubique.ch/apps

Security firm Huntress says that North Korean remote IT workers have started applying for other remote jobs outside the realm of IT, such as sales and marketing, and medical professions

https://www.huntress.com/blog/huntress-dprk-remote-worker-investigation

bankrupt: fedi is an anti-AI circlejerk and that’s why it’s not popular here

funded: fedi isn’t owned by a company selling AI and there’s no algorithm so outside of pathological cases (automated spam) it accurately represents the public’s revulsion towards AI

A $17.1 Billion Vote of Confidence that Jonathan Haidt Was Right
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/style/jonathan-haidt-was-right.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@evan I think the language barrier is the first thing to tackle. Live video calls are the hardest format for non-native speakers, so shifting more of the work to written communication would help a lot, and every meeting really needs minutes, even rough ones, since at least those can be run through a translator afterward. I've tried the newer real-time transcription and translation tools a few times and honestly the quality still isn't there, especially with ActivityPub-specific jargon that general models just don't recognize; feed a bad transcript into a translator and it gets worse, not better. Written async channels, like the FEP process already is, seem like a better fit for now. On the community side, @fedidevkr (a Korean fediverse developer group I'm part of) has been kicking around the idea of a session where people draft FEP proposals together in Korean first, then translate and refine into English as a group. Still an early idea, but I think local hubs like that could lower the barrier more than any single W3C-side change.

Secret Panel HERE 💦 https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/08/26/sweat-the-small-stuff

There are many reasons to be critical of Bessent that get very personal (lying, inconsistency, smarminess, disrespect, etc.) but don't lose sight of how much he is weakening the power of the Treasury and US fiscal policy going forward. A few thoughts on this: https://www.ft.com/content/a50df99b-0621-44ea-a7c7-c9c685e2eba1?syn-25a6b1a6=1

Confdiff – semantic diff for config files (JSON/YAML/TOML) that redacts secrets

https://github.com/esperanza-volkov/confdiff

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464310

#HackerNews #Confdiff #semanticdiff #configfiles #secrets #JSON #YAML #TOML

Meta Took Aim at Anthropic. It Is Also One of Its Largest Customers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/27/technology/meta-anthropic-frenemies.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Partner: Open this for me?
Me: What are the magic words?
Partner: Please?
Me: ...
Partner: ...
Me: Squeamish...
Partner: ...
Me: Ossifrage.
Partner: looks up "Squeamish Ossifrage"
Partner: NERD!

Linux currently has an all time high desktop market share of 7.53% as of July 2026. But what exactly happened over the last 2 months? In May 2026, Linux’s market share was 3.81%, so how did Linux gain approximately 3.72% points in just 2 months? https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide/

Can you take a wild guess why people switching to Linux desktop? Is it Win11 forced AI and Ads? Something else?

@401matthall @Tak
Like a fave quote of Oscar Wilde:

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.