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Staff Photographers at The Washington Post All Lose Their Jobs petapixel.com/2026/02/05/s...

Staff Photographers at The Washington Post All Lose Their Jobs

All nine staff photographers have been laid off.

petapixel.com

February 7, 2026 at 9:40 PM

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gabby

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Why? Because now the maintainer is the person driving the agentic coding model (the vibe coder has almost certainly checked out at this point and is just shoveling the maintainer's review comments and the model's commits back and forth)

This turns the maintainer into an unwitting vibe coder

February 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM

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gabby

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So what will they do? They will blindly feed your review comments straight to their agentic coding model because that's the only thing they know how to do.

By doing so the vibe coder has put the maintainer in the weird position where the maintainer is doing agentic coding through a shitty UX

February 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️

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A new issue of our digi-zine, Between the Scanlines, is now out!

This issue: features on Jerry Lawson, 2000AD games on microcomputer, and the early days of id!

betweenthescanlines.itch.io/issue-thirty...

As much as we can spare from sales will be donated to the Black History Foundation.

A screencap of the cover issue of our zine for this month, with its pink-palette PC-98 artwork of a 90s desktop PC on a busy looking desk with draws and pencils and a mouse and mousemat, converted to Mega Drive's resolution/palette.

February 6, 2026 at 4:34 PM

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rip heroku
o7

www.heroku.com/blog/an-upda...

An Update on Heroku

Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support. Heroku remains an actively supported, production-ready platform, with an emph...

www.heroku.com

February 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM

jbz

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🦀 Deep dive into Turso, the "SQLite rewrite in Rust" // Sylvain Kerkour

kerkour.com/turso-sqlite

#sqlite #rust #riir

Deep dive into Turso, the "SQLite rewrite in Rust"

I love Rust and I love SQLite, so you can guess. Iwas pretty excited when I lerned that "SQLite was rewritten in Rust" What is SQLite, actually? 2 things: a

kerkour.com

February 6, 2026 at 6:07 PM

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📝 A Programmer's Guide to Leaving GitHub – lord.io

lord.io/leaving-gith...

#github #bds #ice #opensource

Lord.io

February 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM

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if you took my advice last year and bought used leather pants, wore those leather pants, and then resold them on eBay, you would have made more money than if you invested in bitcoin

A man wearing a brown leather jacket with black leather pants, black boots, and a black shirt.

A man wearing a brown shearling bomber with a cream colored turtleneck and tan colored suede pants.

Jim Morrison in a black leather jacket, black t-shirt, black leather pants, and suede boots.

A chart shows that Bitcoin has fallen 34% in the last year. At its peak within this period, it was about $125k. Today, it's $64k.

February 6, 2026 at 1:58 AM

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🪙 The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

www.scala-lang.org/blog/2026/01...

#scala #opensource

The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in Scala

Darja Jovanovic, Scala Center

www.scala-lang.org

February 6, 2026 at 4:07 PM

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❄️ Guix System First Impressions as a Nix User // nemin.hu

nemin.hu/guix.html

#guix #nix #opensource

Nemin's Blog

My ramblings about programming and such.

nemin.hu

February 6, 2026 at 11:07 AM

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⚠️ Nvidia won't release new gaming GPU for 'first year in three decades' due to RAM shortage — and it's also slashing RTX 50 production

｢ AI ｣

www.tomsguide.com/computing/nv...

#nvidia #ai #openai

Nvidia won't release new gaming GPU for 'first year in three decades' due to RAM shortage — and it's also slashing RTX 50 production

Don't expect the RTX 60-series anytime soon either

www.tomsguide.com

February 6, 2026 at 12:47 AM

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🐧 Arch Linux February ISO Is Out With Kernel, Desktop, and Security Updates

linuxiac.com/arch-linux-f...

#arch #linux #opensource

Arch Linux February ISO Is Out With Kernel, Desktop, and Security Updates

Arch Linux has released its updated February installation ISO, bringing a new kernel, refreshed system libraries, desktop updates, and security fixes.

linuxiac.com

February 6, 2026 at 12:15 AM

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🕵️‍♂️ Leak shows Google's new Aluminium OS in action for the first time

www.pcworld.com/article/3045...

#Aluminiumos #osdev #google

www.pcworld.com

February 5, 2026 at 11:15 PM

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💊 We’re learning more about what vitamin D does to our bodies

www.technologyreview.com/2025/11/21/1...

#vitamind #science #medicine

We’re learning more about what vitamin D does to our bodies

The sunshine vitamin could affect your immune system and heart health.

www.technologyreview.com

February 5, 2026 at 10:15 PM

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⚕️ Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

#science #arthritis #medicine

Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis

Scientists at Stanford Medicine have discovered a treatment that can reverse cartilage loss in aging joints and even prevent arthritis after knee injuries. By blocking a protein linked to aging, the therapy...

www.sciencedaily.com

February 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM

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🦠 Microbes in Space Mutated And Developed a Remarkable Ability

www.sciencealert.com/microbes-in-...

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Microbes in Space Mutated And Developed a Remarkable Ability

A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International Space Station, and the changes these 'bugs' experienced in their travels could help us Earthlings tackle drug-resistant...

www.sciencealert.com

February 5, 2026 at 8:15 PM

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📢 Budgie Desktop 10.10.1 Released With Better Wayland Support

linuxiac.com/budgie-deskt...

#Budgie #wayland #opensource

Budgie Desktop 10.10.1 Released With Better Wayland Support

Budgie Desktop 10.10.1 released as the first maintenance update in the 10.10 series, with stability improvements, bug fixes, and better Wayland behavior.

linuxiac.com

February 5, 2026 at 7:15 PM

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📢 X.Org Developers Conference 2026 Being Hosted By Arm In Toronto - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com/news/XDC2026...

#xorg #opensource #confs

X.Org Developers Conference 2026 Being Hosted By Arm In Toronto

The X.Org Foundation has announced that this year's X.Org Developers Conference will be taking place in Toronto, Canada and hosted by Arm.

www.phoronix.com

February 5, 2026 at 6:15 PM

jbz

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📦 Leveraging urunc For Efficiently Running BSD Applications In Linux Environments - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com/news/urunc-F...

#freebsd #urunc #containers

Leveraging urunc For Efficiently Running BSD Applications In Linux Environments

While there is the Linuxulator as a kernel-level solution on FreeBSD for running unmodified Linux binaries that can even work for gaming on FreeBSD, running BSD applications on Linux isn't talked about...

www.phoronix.com

February 5, 2026 at 5:15 PM

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👾 Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options - Phoronix

www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD...

#freebsd #gaming #opensource

Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options

Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet

www.phoronix.com

February 5, 2026 at 12:15 PM

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⭐ GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building - Phoronix

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#gnuhurd #osdev #kernel

GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building

Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026

www.phoronix.com

February 5, 2026 at 11:15 AM

jbz

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⚡ Coi: A type-safe, component-based language for building high-performance web apps with WASM and fine-grained reactivity.

github.com/io-eric/coi

#coi #wasm #typesafe