⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

I need the help of the Fediverse! We have two old camcorders that have been sitting around for ages and I am trying to resurrect them.

One is a Canon, it works great but the tape mechanism doesn't fully open, it raises up but the second part doesn't move out to allow tape entry.

The second, a Sanyo, works but just shuts down after around 5 seconds.

Both are powered off the mains using their factory chargers so it's not a battery issue.

Anyone with any ideas?

Thanks, Sammi

#camcorder #repair

Matilda, Dead Metal and Sir Killalot will return in Avengers: Doomsday

Parkytowers: Thin Clients

https://www.parkytowers.me.uk/thin/

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What's this site about?
It's about repurposing Thin Client hardware.
What do they get used for?
A quick get-out is "Only limited by your imagination"…
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Out for a walk today in the old Green & Lovely, where of course it was raining, and came across one of my favorite small Irish things, a “⁊” symbol, or “Tironian et”, seen here in the old Post and Telegraph mark embedded in an access point on a footpath. I wrote a thing ages ago about this symbol and its long history: https://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2016/04/08/tironian-notes/

Hmm, now it says this

So much for its nothing on our side, you'll have to take your phone back to where you got it

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Windows, is in fact, Copilot/Windows, or as I've recently taken to calling it, CopilotOS.

This from @tomstafford is about a succinct a description as I've yet seen: "The #AI age will mean it is easier than ever to give the superficial appearance of conveying information, and easier than ever to neglect the hard work of saying something valuable about ourselves or the world"

https://tomstafford.substack.com/p/model-collapse

Dang @openrightsgroup are doing an event in #Manchester but I'm gonna be busy talking at at #maccTech about music rights and home streaming.

You should go though!

https://www.meetup.com/org-manchester/events/312896595/?response=3&action=rsvp&dispatch_id=6970a14f3bf88a477823dd58db2431ad

#privacy

Ubuntu 26.04 is shaping up nicely.

https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-26-04-release-features/

#linux #ubuntu

@mcc I follow the primary developer on here and I've been watching him go from "oh ffs I spent an hour on this report and it was bullshit" to "oh God they're all bullshit" to "I have been invited to give a keynote about the scourge of AI-generated bullshit" to "we are shutting down the bug bounty due to the overwhelming amount of bullshit."

In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy. The infamous Pentium FDIV bug is remembered by many, and even earlier CPUs had their own issues (the 6502 comes to mind). Nowadays they've become so common that I encounter them routinely while triaging crash reports sent from Firefox users. Given the nature of CPUs you might wonder how these bugs arise, how they manifest and what can and can't be done about them. 🧵 1/31

Ever driven the same car or used the same camera or power drill for 8-10 years and thought: "I wish all these buttons and levers were suddenly in different places and did different things"?

Yeah. Me neither.

This is a toot about operating systems.

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https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/2 OH MY FUCKING GOD complete auth bypass in inetutils telnetd for over a decade and obviously nobody inside that decade should have been running a telnet daemon but wow

Mozilla starts offering RPMs of Firefox Nightly

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/20/mozilla_offers_firefox_rpm/

More packaging options for the leading all-FOSS browser

<- by me on @theregister

If You like @firefox now you have a chance to show @mozilla how much you DO NOT WANT the AI in the browser :)

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201