⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

The next generation of laser show software for the next generation of laserists (and maybe a handful of the OGs as well). Amazing group of awesome people at the first Liberation day ever.

Thanks so much to @limehousetownhall for hosting us.

#liberationlaser #lasershow

Photo by @nicoturnervideos

"We’re taking legal action to uncover Palantir’s blanked-out contract"

"Even if you wanted to give the tech giant Palantir the benefit of the doubt, with its £330m contract to process NHS data there’s no way to tell: 417 out of 586 pages are completely blanked out."

#Palantir #PeterThiel #NHS #FederatedDataPlatform

https://goodlawproject.org/were-taking-legal-action-to-uncover-palantirs-blanked-out-contract/?utm_source=Good+Law+Project&utm_campaign=07402df831-EMAIL_PalantirContractRedactions_2024_02_17_11_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_db5adb9599-44c8842fd0-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=07402df831

🧵by Joyce Vance:

1/ #Trump's first criminal trial will start in NYC on March 25. Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump’s motions to dismiss the case Thursday. The trial should be over before the RNC & in time for the fedl case in the DC to be tried before the election if #SCOTUS acts expeditiously.

It’s Friday, unwind with Marina:

“the big question after last night is: precisely how many tax cut promises does it take to repel a grid of shit? Britain is in the lucky, lucky position of being about to find out.”

#Rishession is also going on the pre election bingo card. Is any disgruntled #Tory MP brave enough to say it as they flounce off to join the Just for Racists, Reform Party?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/sunak-reform-labour-byelection-wellingborough-kingswood

Yep, that CRT has lost vertical deflection.

Just my luck, I bought a 1 dimensional monitor.

I wouldn't normally be this annoying but ...

IF YOU ARE A WEB DEVELOPER/ and you live/work in the EU or a web-first business:

Fill this out:
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OR share it with others.

Because:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/

"NASA Selects Bold Proposal to 'Swarm' Proxima Centauri with Tiny Probes"

Think pebble-sized objects powered by laser beams that accelerate them to 10-20% of the speed of light. The distance to our nearest star but one is 40 trillion kilometres.

#PromixaCentauri #NASA #interstellar #SwarmingProximaCentauri

https://www.universetoday.com/165116/nasa-selects-bold-proposal-to-swarm-proxima-centauri-with-tiny-probes/

@MastodonEngineering and why exactly are these being releaser unannounced and on a Friday?

I worked on #Lemmings and am therefore old.

“It Was 33 Years Ago Today: Happy Birthday Lemmings! - The Scottish Games Network”

https://scottishgames.net/2024/02/14/it-was-33-years-ago-today-happy-birthday-lemmings/

God fucking dammit Mozilla

You just need to build a damn fucking browser.

You go on this AI path, you alienate your core audience and won’t attract any new users. It’s not like ChatGPT morons will suddenly switch to Firefox because it does ethical AI.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/

Me: I’ll just have one drink and do a bit of tidying.

Me, 5 vodkas down: I SHOULD SORT ALL MY LEGO

Nice. Use FreeBSD on your Framework as your daily driver. Test the things that usually go hinky with laptops (wireless, touchpad, battery usage).

For the intel wireless, you'll use this newer driver in RELEASE and CURRENT : https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi . It could use a deep dive. A tremendous amount of work has gone into getting this intel wireless interface in working order by #FreeBSD devs. It's been a priority with the foundation, too.

@codehead @frameworkcomputer @FreeBSDFoundation

European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of #E2EE - a death knell for #ChatControl

https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng/?i=001-230854 (para 76 onwards)

#privacy #security #confidentiality #humanrights #fundamentalrights #surveillance

DOSBox Staging 0.81.0 out now with new CRT shaders and lots of graphics improvements https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/dosbox-staging-0-81-0-out-now-with-new-crt-shaders-and-lots-of-graphics-improvements/

#DOSBOX #FOSS #Emulation

Not commenting the Mozilla layoffs or new direction but I see my timeline going “Oh no Firefox will go full hype on AI”.

This is only due to the framing by Techcrunch: If you read the memo that partially leaked, there's no sign that Firefox will receive a massive influx of generative AI features.

When you say you don't want AI in your browser. Really, you don't want translation services or copy text from image? Not all AI is equal.

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Dear @mozilla

The only trustworthy AI is no AI in the browser.

Knock it off.