Eric Trump’s American Bitcoin: Inside the newest arm of the Trump crypto empire
On a brisk Monday morning before Thanksgiving, a Secret Service motorcade rolled through Vega, a town of fewer than 1,000 people in the Texas Panhandle.BYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Rob ‘Birdlegs’ Caughlan, Bay Area environmental crusader and renowned surfing enthusiast, dies at 82
Saturday, January 24, 2026 1:34AMBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
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U.K. PM slams Trump remarks on non-U.S. NATO troops in Afghanistan as ‘insulting’ and ‘appalling’
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has signalled that U.S. President Donald Trump should apologise for his false assertion that troops from non-U.S. NATOBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Prince Harry says sacrifices by Nato troops in Afghanistan deserve ‘respect’
Prince Harry was deployed twice on active service in Afghanistan - including a ten-week period in Helmand provinceBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Anyone ever waste an evening failing to get something to work with multiple computers, adapters, and cables only to realize the next day you had one wire connected that shouldn't have been because you misread something? No? Just me?
Anyhow, I now have five Sinilink XY-WFUSB devices flashed with esphome and I can toggle power to each USB plug over the network.
The HomeAssistant box to orchestrate them is still not here, though, but may arrive tomorrow.
#esphome #esp8266 #HomeAssistant
Pokémon cards: The 'liquid asset' increasingly attracting criminals
Cards related to the popular Japanese animation franchise have soared in value over recent years.Dan Hunt (BBC News)
Air France & KLM cancel flights to Israel, Dubai & Saudi Arabia amid Iran tensions
Air France and KLM have suspended flights to Israel, Dubai, and Saudi Arabia through at least Sunday, pointing to “security tensions in the region” amid fearsBYTESEU (Bytes Europe)
Music is life.
Music is the will to Iive sometimes.
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#TIL about the existence of the forkiverse, a fediverse service set up by the folks behind the Hard Fork and Search Engine podcasts;
nytimes.com/2026/01/13/podcast…
@mapache wrote an intriguing blog post riffing off this to discuss the ways using different services for an account changes the experience of using the fediverse;
hachyderm.io/@mapache/11593562…
I suspect this is because each fediverse service has a community with different range of interests, and therefore sees a different slice of the verse.
Well, in my last post about the #forkiverse (maho.dev/2026/01/the-forkivers…) I realized my blog federation is broken, so is time to fix it.The Forkiverse Experiment and Why Instance Choice Matters
A reflection on the Forkiverse experiment, why it felt different from day one, and how it changed my view on instance choice in the Fediverse.maho.dev
Thinking about the forkiverse experiment, and @mapache's blog piece, I find myself musing about the idea of creating distinct social networks within the fediverse. What do I mean by that?
Think about LockedIn, for example. The experience of using LI is in the area of overlap between 3 things;
* LI's formal function as a professional networking platform
* the affordances of the LI interface
* the particular cross-section of the population who choose to engage regularly there
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You could break down the experience of Tinder in a similar way;
* Tinder's formal function as a dating platform
* the affordances of the Tinder interface
* the particular cross-section of the population who choose to look for matches there
What I'm getting at with these 3-point breakdowns is that if we want to replicate these social network experiences in a decentralised way, it requires more than just copying or reimagining their interfaces.
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There's also a need to be able to create a bounded space dedicated to a particular kind of interaction (eg professional networking, dating). The creation of groups with tools like Guppe and Chirp has been an experiment in doing that within the fediverse, with mixed results. Same with the threadiverse (federated forums), and the long formers (federated blogs/ newsletters).
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Moreover, even if we can successfully create the interface and the bounded space for professional networking or matchmaking (or Q&A, or other specific social needs), the experience won't be the same as that of the existing platforms. Unless the majority of the people currently using those platforms can solve the collective action problem of migrating together.
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I wrote about how coordinated migration might be attempted here;
bridgeseat.substack.com/p/into…
(Apologies for the SS link, but I haven't yet republished the few Bridge Seat worth salvaging on the Disintermedia blog)
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Into the Woods We Go
How to help your community explore the fediverse with youBridge Seat Cooperative
Court news: Gary man acquitted in attempted murder case
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/23/court-news-gary-man-acquitted-in-attempted-murder-case/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Chicago-area news @chicago-area-news-chicagotribune
Primus w/Maynard...
youtube.com/watch?v=QB7leo72ER…
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Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.www.youtube.com
Denver Appeals Court dismissed the case with a castigating letter to the district about "wasting the court's time"
The books include titles such as;
👉 The Bluest Eye
👉The Diary of a Young Girl
👉The Catcher in the Rye
👉The Kite Runner
👉1984
👉To Kill a Mockingbird,
👉The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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Banned books will stay on shelves in Elizabeth schools after district drops appeal
Denver’s appeals court dismissed the case with a castigating letter to the district about wasting their time.Jenny Brundin (Colorado Public Radio)
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I've begun messing around with Claude Code, and tonight I was amused by the autogenerated filename for an implementation plan:
> Wrote 224 lines to ../../../../../.claude/plans/humble-singing-rossum.md
I don't know if GvR has a good singing voice or not, but it's a fun image!
Kevin Karhan
in reply to Kevin Karhan • • •Most #devs would do goo #TouchingGrass and realize that #Normies don't give a shit about your #tribalism bs.
"All it needs to do it function!" - for them!
#FLOSS #tribalism #tech #OpenSource #development #developers #rant #venting #sarcasm #commentary
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in reply to Kevin Karhan • • •So be fucking glad that people actually want to do #OpenSource and not say "Fuck y'all!" amidst the tribalism and bullshit going on...
Personally, I just do what I like and want and I don't owe anyone an explaination when it comes to my projects.
But if all someone does is waste my time and patience then I'm sorry, my spoons are all out so I'll just gonna yeet ya...
#FLOSS #tech #OpenSource #development #developers #rant #developer #venting #sarcasm #commentary
Kevin Karhan
in reply to Kevin Karhan • • •In short, I do things because I like them, need them, want them to or would love to see them happen.
lists.d? Yes!tiny486and use it with_OS/1337for some #DataRecovery of #LegacyMedia? Shure...But I didn't start any of these in expectation of anything. Neither Recognition nor Fame nor Money nor anything.
Would I love these to go big like #Linux did?
So yeah, folks should be glad that people actually do #FLOSS / #OpenSource in general and thank them, because without it, we'd have a way worse world!
#tech #commentary #sarcasm #rant #venting #politricks #development #developers #devs #technology #Software #Hardware
GitHub - greyhat-academy/lists.d: List of useful things
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