⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

This is what happens when you try adding "is Trump showing signs of dementia" in to a Google search. It removes the AI Overview https://www.theverge.com/news/789152/google-ai-searches-blocking-trump-dementia-biden

by setting the entire thing (https://codeberg.org/whitequark/mail.whitequark.org) up from scratch on a never-seen-before IP using a completely fresh server in about a day on new-to-me NixOS, i want to put the folk wisdom of "you can't self-host email in 2025 and even if you did gmail won't accept it" to rest. evidently, it can be done.

Microsoft 365 however apparently will hate your email no matter what. you learn to live with it

3/3

@wyatt watching old school anime like God intended: from a laser disc, on a CRT, with subtitles overlaid via an Amiga genlock

https://soc.megatokyo.moe/objects/8ef1c5cd-b17b-4789-8dfd-568e6fd13cb9

#RetroAnime #Amiga #BubblegumCrisis

We're seeing requests to www.bbc.com return to normal-looking levels from Afghanistan - since about midday UTC today (1st Oct 2025).

#Afghanistan #Censorship #WebDev #InfoSec #Taliban

After 18 months I have used every women's toilet cubicle in the office building I work in. But they want to schedule me on some weekend shifts. I think this means I can pee in all the men's toilet cubicles, too.

This is a bit annoying / sad.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee gave a brilliant speech when he was awarded Freedom of The City of London several years ago.

But it appears to have dropped off YouTube.

The original livestream is dead https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDsnwfrxbwY

As is the link I was previously using https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XIUaOyaAds

I still have all the photos from the day (https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2014/09/tim-berners-lee-and-the-freedom-of-the-city/) but I can't find the speech anywhere.

#YouTube #Archive #MissingMedia

AOL has now shut down dial-up service as of September 30.

Let us play the forgotten music...

You just heard Battery-Powered Shareholders. Now hear Bureaucrats On Crack

#johnpeel #johnpeelbandnames

I know it has fallen out of the news but the UK Govt's proposed Digital ID has not gone away.
The petition to stop it is stubbornly sitting around 2.6 million signatures.
If you feel inclined and have not already done so it is still open for signatures.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

‘Digital IDs really become about surveillance and profiling the population. Once these systems are in place, they expand and expand.’

Listen to James Baker, ORG’s Platform Power and Free Expression program manager on @LBCNews

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7syy-VfxQ4&t=4s

They'll never believe me.

@Fiona @david_chisnall

> I’m actually not sure anymore whether a cookie-banner can even be used to legally consent:

No, a cookie banner has never been sufficient.

Nor has it been necessary on most websites in the first place.

This is just what companies want to sell as "this is what GDPR is causing" to make people angry at the GDPR and the EU.

Report: The UK Labour Party conference has officially accepted the findings of a recent UN Commission of Inquiry report that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza....

...and has backed comprehensive sanctions on Israel & a full arms embargo.

"This must now become government policy", said Ben Jamal, Palestine Solidarity Campaign

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/labour-conference-votes-sanction-israel-and-recognise-gaza-genocide

#UKLabour #GazaGenocide #UKPol #Europol #USPol #BDS #Palestine @palestine .

Google's dev registration plan 'will end the F-Droid project'

The F-Droid project, which distributes open source apps for Android, will end if Google goes ahead with its plans to enforce developer registration for app installation, according to the project's board member Marc Prud'hommeaux.

Last month, Google said that from next year, but with a gradual rollout, Android certified devices will only install apps that are registered by verified developers, even when sideloaded, meaning that they are installed from a source other than the official Play store.

Users should have the right to run whatever software they want on a computer they own, Prud'hommeaux said.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/29/googles_dev_registration_plan_will/

#Fdroid #Android #Google #WalledGarden

My business plan for artisanal, hand-crafted software now includes boutique spreadsheet and document creation, formerly known as "actually doing work."

https://www.theverge.com/news/787076/microsoft-office-agent-mode-office-agent-anthropic-models

⚠️ New track out Friday, October 3rd 👾 #chiptune

“Microsoft says its (vibe working mode) in Excel has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in SpreadsheetBench, a benchmark for evaluating an AI model’s ability to edit real world spreadsheets”

Imagine being a hiring manager and hiring somebody to use Excel who says they do their job wrong about half the time. Welcome to AI.

I have access to the new vibe working feature (lol) in Microsoft 365 and just asked it to "make a spreadsheet about how our EDR tool blocks 100% of ransomware".

It did it, completely made up the data for me, off to send this to CIO now and go play Fortnite.

It's quite inspiring to see Keir Starmer come up with a policy proposal that's managed to unite all five of Northern Ireland's main political parties.

In opposition.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yv2gj5pd4o