⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

#Matter is dead. Long live #Zigbee and #Zwave for #HomeAutomation #HomeAssistant #Homelab!

I gave Matter years of my live, sweat equity and precious real money. No more. This article tells it. I made the decision a couple days ago to dump my devices that require Matter. The battery issues, network fragmentation, latency, … it is all as the article says. Meanwhile, my Zigbee network has scaled nicely, batteries lasting up to 2 years, stable and responsive.

https://www.xda-developers.com/matter-promise-is-a-mess-and-im-going-back-to-zigbee-only-devices/

The Linux Foundation spends 2% of its money on Linux (kernel) and twice as much on "blockchain". https://techrights.org/n/2026/05/08/Over_97_of_the_Linux_Foundation_s_Budget_Goes_Not_to_Linux.shtml

@fediderps @mkljczk @mariusor

'AI' isn't a technology. AI is a marketing term. Marketing departments get to decide what they call 'AI'. Mozilla's marketing department decided that they wanted to jump on the hype train.

These days, it's (according to Gartner) mostly a negative-value marketing term: people are more likely to avoid a thing advertised as being 'AI' than actively choose it.

Mozilla had a choice to call these 'efficient on-device translation', or 'AI translation'. They chose the latter. That's not a technology choice, that's a marketing choice. And it gave a load of tech bros the opportunity to say 'look, AI is useful!' and use it as an example when justifying things that are completely different uses of machine learning.

New Linux 'Dirty Frag' Zero-Day Gives Root On All Major Distros https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/05/08/1913238/new-linux-dirty-frag-zero-day-gives-root-on-all-major-distros?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

The Scottish Parliament now has a pro-Independence majority.

Phew!

One of the reasons I resigned from Infinite Monkey Cage was show’s executives saying it was not acceptable to mention ( on my personal social media account) known pedophiles who have been very close to the Monarchy - that’s why I will be in Trafalgar Square tomorrow at midday

@letsencrypt is in the middle of an active incident. Issuance of new certs has ceased. Heads up. https://letsencrypt.status.io/

I saw a local message that a garage needed to be cleared out today, because junkers were coming tomorrow. Everything free.

Which is why I now have a working (apparently?) IBM 5153 CGA monitor.

Difficulty Level: I don't have anything that outputs CGA video. I'm going to go look for someone's weird "generate a CGA test pattern with an Arduino/Raspberry Pi" project notes, but please send me a link to such if you have one.

#Retrocomputing #CGA #Boston

@lostsettler
Over the next year or so, a lot of people are gong to find out their local council don't have power over immigration policy and also don't know how to provide local services.

We voted out the Tories, only to find that, after a long 14 years of waiting, a Labour government adopts and extends some of their worst policies, while entirely failing to excite or inspire. Now Labour and its supporters on this platform blame us for turning away. What aren’t they seeing here?

No one expected Keir Starmer to solve our pressing problems overnight. But what we did expect – and had every right to expect – was that he would lay out a clear vision and roadmap for doing so. Instead, we’ve had drift, appeasement and a startling absence of ideas, values and ambition. 🧵1/6

There is one week left on the Runaway to the Stars Kickstarter! If you wanted to get in, remember to do it soon!

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ironspike/runaway-to-the-stars?ref=bftk76

Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8

This is a report on "Dirty Frag", a universal LPE that allows obtaining root privileges on all major distributions. This vulnerability has a similar impact to the previous Copy Fail.

#linux #security

🆕 blog! “I've found just the right paper for my Bottom Hole problem”

A few weeks ago, I went on a mad quest to find the newspaper used in 1995's Bottom Hole TV show.

During the episode, Eddie starts reading this newspaper:

Obviously, the "Hammersmith Bugle" is not a real paper and they never ran a headline "No News Shocker". But judging from all…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/ive-found-just-the-right-paper-for-my-bottom-hole-problem/
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#comedy #newspapers #tv

time to look at BSSG

https://bssg.dragas.net/

@EUCommission Allow me to assist

UK council elections today. Racists and the terminally gullible will doubtless overlook sleaze when it comes to putting their kisses down for the anti-establishment party led by a public school educated ex-stockbroker millionaire, and Dubai Dickie - a tax dodging BizBro who demonstrates his patriotism by living in UAE.

New Single user instance, please re-toot when you see this to help propagate to the 'verse

This is *brutal*...

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

ETA:
This is by @stevendotjs, who absolutely nails a bunch of things I've been feeling for a while now, but had no idea how to articulate...

“All those moments will be lost in time, like cum in rain…”