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The first loop 2 finishers: Sébastien Raichon in 22:35:40; Mathieu Blanchard :42; Damian Hall :44. At the same time, another loop 2 runner has quit and is tapped out. #BM100
Ohhh Iain and Damian are running and the rumor mill is talking about a certain Kilian might be running #BM100 #UltraRunning #BarkleyMarathon
Ohhh and it sounds like Jasmin (not on list) is there too and Emma from Ireland (on list) and some French dudes ;)
The 2026 Barkley Marathons began with one of the strongest fields ever. The starting field came from 15 Counties as well as 15 States, and included ten women. The course seemed not to care. Over 70% of the field is done. #BM100
Water Ballon Guy has begun loop 2, followed quickly by another French guy. Seven runners are on loop 2. #BM100
Moltbook was peak AI theater, less of a glimpse at the future and more of a mirror simply reflecting society's current obsession with AI (Will Douglas Heaven/MIT Technology Review)
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/06/1132448/moltbook-was-peak-ai-theater/
http://www.techmeme.com/260208/p18#a260208p18
I would advise shelling out just a little bit more money for a newer generation with a little more grunt. For me the 4GB RAM is often the limiting factor.
The World Health Organization has advised that dogs cannot transmit the measles virus, and do not need to be quarantined.
W.H.O, “Let the dogs out!”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@fafofm/114099978706427841
We disabled TikTok posting and reenabled Mastodon 🐘
Hey everyone (all 7 of you) we removed Mastodon from our automatic posting
Buffer would charge us to keep the account connected and we get a lot more engagement and traction on other websites
We'll still poke in occasionally to see what you all are up to. For now you can find us at
https://bsky.app/profile/fafo.fm
https://www.instagram.com/fafo.fmOfc you can find the podcast on YT https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuuxpDWxclfJF9W1CwT_mTLy1LdVCmiL5&si=v9BP5jZUX8WqI99- And posts on Linkedin via @jgarr https://www.linkedin.com/in/justingarrison/
What this means is that Duck Duck Go, alongside basically every search engine that is not google, has completely delisted Neocities.
Which feels like something a lot of y'all should know!
Their primary claim to fame seems to be constructing just about everything with (unstable) advanced robotics and software. From doors to lifts, to toaster ovens, drinks machines, vacuum cleaners, and "personal massage units"—everything has been built with a full GPP or Genuine People Personality. This means that even a set of airlock doors has emotions, hopes, dreams, intelligence, and worse of all, the capacity for boredom. It should come as no surprise then, that the majority of these devices have a neurotic streak a mile wide.
The company motto is "Share and Enjoy." This is widely adaptable, from synthesised drinks to the company of a robot, or "Your plastic pal who's fun to be with", as their robots are described as by the aforementioned Marketing Department.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galactica which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the first against the wall when the revolution came." #hhgttg #HitchhikersGuide
You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.
I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.
(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).
How Accurate is a 125 Year Old Resistance Standard?
https://hackaday.com/2026/01/16/how-accurate-is-a-125-year-old-resistance-standard/
I've been elected to FESCo! 🎉 [1]
Thanks to everyone who voted for me. Feel free to reach out if you want to have a chat.
If you did not vote for me, feel free to reach out as well if you feel confortable sharing why.
Now back to the work to make Fedora and all the Atomic variants awesome!
[1] https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/f43-election-results/
On 23 Dec 2025, the #UKgovt lost a huge #Judo contest. #GretaThunberg used the #UKgovt's own power against it.
In July, the UK banned #PalestineAction as "#terrorist". Arrests for supporting PA total ~2,500, mostly older people. #Greta is the latest.
UK public opinion opposes the arrests. But Greta's fame takes the disdain global.
If Greta is convicted, the UK globally looks cruel. If she is acquitted or uncharged, it globally looks weak.
The UK govt has trapped itself, with no way out.
Cloudflare are Making Changes to Avoid Breaking the Internet Again in 2026 https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/12/cloudflare-are-making-changes-to-avoid-breaking-the-internet-again-in-2026.html
The war on privacy and encryption goes on. This time in the UK. Under the “Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill”, lawmakers now want client-side scanning on every phone and tablet.
The lawmakers write: “Any relevant device supplied for use in the UK must have installed tamper-proof system software which is highly effective at preventing the recording, transmitting (by any means, including livestreaming) and viewing of CSAM using that device.”
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I did notice the Welcome, Email Verification and Request to join emails still reference your long dead Twitter account. Maybe it’s time to link here instead? 🙂
As there seems to have been recent confusion about this, just a quick "official" toot to then pin: we haven't and won't support "generative AI" related stuff in LibreWolf. If you see some features like that (like Perplexity search recently, or the link preview feature now) it is solely because it "slipped through". As soon as we become aware of something like this / it gets reported to us, we will remove/disable it ASAP.
@librewolf Hate to ping on an old toot but could you clarify regarding this issue https://codeberg.org/librewolf/issues/issues/2848#issuecomment-10290800?
Your toot seems to imply removal, but the comment on the issue states llma.cpp will remain as part of Librewolf?
@scremlin it should be quite clear with the comment given in that issue; but to try and rephrase: we do what we can (removing, disabling, not supporting) any LLM/GenAI-stuff. We will not (or rather: _cannot_) take up the burden to find, remove, and maintain as what'd then basically be a hard fork, all the LLM/GenAI-related code, dependencies, etc.
While we'd certainly like to see it "even more gone", this is just not reasonably doable for us.
Hope that makes it clearer.
@librewolf very understandable. thanks for the clarification and I appreciate you taking the time to get back to me.
Huh. I did not know YouTube has a size limit on Watch Later.
Leave it to an AuDHDer to find it, eh.
5000.
You can have 5000 videos you've gaslit yourself in to being confident you will later watch.
Man shits out diamond encrusted egg news
Stolen Fabergé pendant passed to police - quite literally
Currently on Zen (and happy enough tbh) but moving house in a couple of months and constant posts like this give me no choice but to take the opportunity to switch.
BINGO TIME! With CVE-2025-58034, Fortinet secures the crown in my Insecurity Appliance Bingo. This is technically a "high" severity vuln, but since it's being actively exploited and has landed a spot on CISA KEV, I'm admitting it.
Reaching a bingo took longer than expected, with FortiNet and Ivanti sitting at 5/6 vulns since about July. But now, there is a well-deserved winner.
I'm now taking new vuln class and vendor suggestions for next year's edition.