Steve Hammett @bitflips@qoto.org

@dangoodin To remove the Gemini app, even on devices that do not allow you to disable it in the Apps menu:

𝗦𝗲𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗔𝗗𝗕

1⁠. Enable Developer options
- Launch ⚙️⁠Settings
- Go to About phone then Software information
- Tap Build number seven times
2⁠. Enable USB debugging
- Go to Developer options (in ⚙️⁠Settings)
- Enable USB debugging
3⁠. Install Android Debug Bridge (adb) on your computer
4⁠. Connect to phone via adb
- Connect with a good USB cable
- Run adb devices
- Click OK on Allow USB debugging?
5⁠. Disable Gemini app (left
- adb shell pm uninstall com.google.android.apps.bard
6⁠. Disable Developer options (recommended)
- Go to Developer options (in ⚙️⁠Settings)
- Disable by toggling On to Off

France, 2025. Un livre climatosceptique sur un écran lumineux, gare du Nord et Gare Montparnasse.
Si vous vous demandez pourquoi on en fait pas assez pour le climat, voici les irresponsables.

Yesterday, I fondly remembered my dear friend Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 94. His legacy lives on in our hearts. Just days ago, Bill Shatner celebrated his 94th birthday — wishing him continued health and happiness. Live long and prosper, my friends.

President Trump has signed an executive order intended to nullify union contracts in numerous federal agencies. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/exclusions-from-federal-labor-management-relations-programs/

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

Petition: Cancel Trump’s UK state visit

After #Trump’s treatment of #Ukraine’s President #Zelensky, Trump has shown that he is not our friend or an ally of democracy.

The tactic of trying to flatter him into doing the right thing has failed.

He is not someone who should be receiving honours of any kind. The offer of a #StateVisit should be rescinded.

Petition:
https://stoptrump.org.uk/petition-cancel/

#DictatorTrump #TyrantTrump #corruption #RussianAggression #RussianAsset #StandWithUkraine

Nearly a media Blackout of the Other Major California Fire

The lithium battery fire at the Vistra power plant in Moss Landing, Monterey County, California may be the largest ever battery fire anywhere in the world. Lithium fires burn at 2000 F and cannot be easily put out. Lithium does not burn through combustion, as carbon-containing fuels do. Trying to douse them with water only exacerbates the fire and can lead to explosions. And the lithium salts in the batteries are self-oxidizing, which makes them prone to reignite. Lithium fires can produce a variety of toxic gasses, such as Hydrofluoric acid, Hydrogen cyanide, Hydrogen chloride, and Sulfur dioxide.

Residents living as far as 20 miles away have been experiencing metallic tastes in their mouths, burning eyes, burning throats, and yellow residues all over their things. The fire’s been going for six days and only now has Governor Newsom decided to launch an investigation. This was the fourth fire at the site since 2019.

https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/monterey-county-sheriff-issues-evacuation-orders-due-to-moss-landing-power-plant-fire/

#fire #california #tesla #musk #pollution #environment #toxic #lithium

Issues with Color Spaces and Perceptual Brightness
https://johnaustin.io/articles/2025/issues-with-cielab-and-perceptual-brightness
#ycombinator

The list of those - for both good reasons and bad - who have turned down a UK honour.

Shout out for the artist L. S. Lowry, who turned down a knighthood, CBE, OBE and (twice) CH, Apparently he holds the record for the most honours declined.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_have_declined_a_British_honour

On a hilltop in Bavaria 🌬️❄️

If you somehow missed it, this is a political ad of the German party the richest man in the world has thrown his weight behind.

If you don’t see the roman salutes in the picture, you are part of the problem and not the solution.

(Hint: There are three)

#afd #romansalute #farright #nazis #elonmusk #88

Evolution journal editors resign en masse to protest Elsevier changes https://www.byteseu.com/600004/ #EverythingScience #Science

We're not going to make it as a species, are we?

Who did this? 🤣

edit: I found someone who is going to be able to help ☺️❤️

thanks a lot fedi - especially @miriamrobern@dice.camp 💕
ur the best Mimsy

In addition, the paper "Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, Esq."
by Luigi Federico Menabrea and translated by Augusta Ada Lovelace will be available pretty soon at PG.

Original files are available at @internetarchive
https://archive.org/details/scientificmemoir03memo/page/665/mode/1up

#books #computerscience