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Moaning aside there were at least two positive things this week.

1. Our main middleware dependency have finally gotten the memo and are releasing a Linux version towards the end of the year. Which means we can finally rectify the greatest architecture blunder and move our stuff off of msft.

2. Our R&D boss is finally done with IT's incompetence and called for making our own decisions instead of slavishly pushing everything into azure.

Two really nice wins, 10 and 5 years in the making.

The openSUSE project would like to hear from people running their distribution on 32-bit ARM devices: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20026

ChatGPT referrals to news sites jumped 25x since early 2024, but still can’t offset Google AI’s 69% zero-click searches. It’s becoming clear our news diet runs on AI summaries now - NOT a good trend, I might add. #AI #ChatGPT #News #CultureShift

ChatGPT referrals to news site...

“WHO DARES AWAKEN ME FROM MY AEONS-LONG SLUMBER?!”

“Yes, very good, nice delivery but you’re the sixth one today. You girls should have workshopped your jokes together before going into stasis”

“Oh. Ah? How long have we got until the big 10k, and how are my investments doing? And do you still have updog in the future?”

“It’s 2288, forget about year ten thousand we’ve got bigger problems. Your investments tanked in the quantum wars. And nice try but the last corpsicle got me with that one”

“Fuck. What now?”

“Asteroid impact is what
now”

“Cool, and you need programmers to calculate how to divert it.”

“Nope, we did that already.”

“And that worked?”

“Noooooot as such, no. Typo in the value of the gravitational constant.”

“Woopsy, so you need a cadre of 21st century digital girls to brainstorm a last minute plan B?”

“Nope, plan B worked just fine, the folks at the Indonesian moon base worked an incantation to kick the Earth a day forward in time, while the asteroid sailed through the empty spot. Well mostly fine; I can’t get used to the month being four days longer now.”

“Aha! You need us to work out how to get the moon back in orbit?”

“No, we’ll live with that. We need you to fix the timezone data files”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

"Gemini AI needs to be disabled on Android or it will override your privacy settings and gain full access to your texts, calls, and WhatsApp - even if you’ve turned off Gemini Apps Activity." https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android

And so, #Glitch has ceased hosting as of today. End of an era, there are emotions.

shapez 2 is aiming for the 1.0 update in November with a new game mode https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/shapez-2-is-aiming-for-the-1-0-update-in-november-with-a-new-game-mode/

#shapez2 #Gaming #PCGaming #Linux

NEW #MURDERBOT STORY!!

NEW MURDERBOT STORY!!

#Books @bookstodon

https://reactormag.com/read-a-new-murderbot-story-for-free-right-after-the-season-finale/

London’s low-traffic zones ‘cut deaths and injuries by more than a third’
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/londons-low-traffic-zones-cut-deaths-and-injuries-by-more-than-a-third?
#LTNs #SafeStreetsNow #LowTrafficNeighbourhoods

“Russia’s transportation minister found dead, likely of suicide, authorities say
Roman Starovoit found dead in his car with a gunshot wound on the same day he was relieved of his job as Russian transportation minister by President Vladimir Putin.”

Guess there wasn’t a high enough window nearby…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/07/07/russia-transportation-minister-suicide-starovoit/

@NanoRaptor Entire star systems have been rendered uninhabitable in the war between the Android Army and the Eyeos Marines. The Linux audio stack remains a complete, barely-usable mess. All UI buttons have the exact same icon of three dots between two parallel lines and nobody knows what it represents.

You ever take a look at a bunch of quests on @streetcomplete and just nope out?

I decided not to play in traffic today!

#StreetComplete #OSM #Mapping

Thank you #Apple. A +10GB upgrade, and the most interesting thing you really want us to be aware of, is 8 new emojis.

Anyone have a MC68040RC40 CPU they'd like to sell or know of a good reputable place to buy one?

#RetroComputing #VintageMac #VintageApple

@carnage4life

On the other hand, it'll keep these "idea guys" out of everyone else's hair for a while.

Brits can sleep safely tonight, after the heroic work of the Metropolitan Police. The Reverend Sue Parfitt, 83, a retired priest, was arrested in Parliament Square for holding a sign which read:

“I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action.”

Under British law, this now puts her in the same category as an ISIS or Al-Qaeda terrorist. The courts may impose a prison sentence of up to 14 years, to protect the public against the existential threat posed by this very dangerous woman.

Upgraded my #framework13 laptop to 64gig of memory in under 5 minutes while sitting on the sofa.

Seriously don't think I can go back to a non-self repairable laptops now. If I didn't have the Pixel 9 pro, I think the #Fairphone would be next.