⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Just ordered a Kobo Libra Colour so now the only money I’m paying that asshole Bezos is for a couple of S3 buckets that I haven’t had time to move off of AWS.

Very much looking forward to the time when his fascist collaborator ass doesn’t get a single euro cent from me.

(Another plus: Kobo works with Overdrive and I checked and Dublin libraries support it so you should be able to check out library books directly on the device. And I’m quite looking forward to a little bit of colour and the notetaking features.)

#ebooks #ereader #kobo #amazon #bezos #trump #USA #fascism #notAnotherCent #boycott #EU #Ireland

Do I know any front-end dev freelancers with Shopify or Craft CMS experience who have availability?

We have a bit of a crunch at my work at the moment so we're looking for some contract support over the next couple of months.

Microsoft is about to launch Recall for real this time

The long-delayed feature will begin gradually rolling out to Windows Insiders.

https://www.theverge.com/news/646911/microsoft-recall-windows-insiders-preview

#microsoft #windows #windows11 #copilot #recall #ai #privacy #surveillance #enshittification #tech

Have any of you written any DRM-free, easy going, hopeful / not-too-depressing sci-fi books recently?

I'd like something new to read.

Please do share purchase links!

#author #books #bookstodon

Just woke up to find out the president has revoked the security clearances of everyone at a cybersecurity company because Chris Krebs went to work there. Krebs was his director for the agency in charge of Cybersecurity & Election Security during his first term and refuted his claim the 2020 election was "stolen".

Revoking the clearance of every employee basically kills the company's ability to do government contracts, which is a major source of revenue for cybersecurity companies. The White House press release also restates the false claim that the 2020 election was "rigged and stolen".

The US is basically a fascist dictatorship at this point. One where the president goes after entire companies because a single person spoke out against his verifiably false claims. You'd have to be completely insane to travel here right now.

Framework Laptop 12 pre-orders are now open, with first shipments in June! DIY Edition starts at €569/£499/CA$719. Full specs are up on our website.

A SEC unit goes rogue in Murderbot trailer
"Now that I've hacked my programming, I can do whatever I want... as long as they don't find out."
https://arstechnica.com/culture/2025/04/a-sec-unit-goes-rogue-in-murderbot-trailer/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Gentlemen, I appreciate that courtesy isn't dead, and modesty won't forbid me from acknowledging that I look like a total smokeshow today but I beg you to cease holding doors open for me into secured facilities.

After installing April's updates, Windows 10 and 11 systems now have an empty C:\inetpub directory.

This seems... unexpected?

Keyboard.io makes high-end angled and "split" keyboards

they wrote a letter to customers explaining how Trump's new tariffs will affect them

it's bad news for them -- prices have already shot up, and new tariffs Trump is threatening would *double* prices

their description of "why building something as complex as a keyboard is an inherently cross-border enterprise" is really interesting

they have to ship wood to China! that sort of wood isn't readily available there

https://shop.keyboard.io/blogs/news/an-open-letter-to-u-s-customers

And a lot of these components have profit margins of low single digits even when manufactured in a low labor cost country and country that doesn't give a shit about massive polluting processes.

Even if you do onshore this sort of design and manufacturing, it's going to be orders of magnitude higher cost as those corps have to try to recoup the shitloads of money they invested to build it all out all over again.

There's one city in China that manufacturers like 99% of zippers for the whole world. Making billions of zippers that cost literally pennies, it's not like it would ever actually be profitable for someone else to try and compete on price, even with a 100% tariff.

@josh @clive
@mattmay

Framework has stopped selling versions of its base laptop model in the US because of tariffs. Says that if it kept selling them in the US it would lose money. Framework is the only company that makes reliably upgradeable, repairable laptops

https://www.404media.co/framework-stops-selling-some-of-its-laptops-in-the-u-s-due-to-tariffs/

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

A few people in my mentions seem convinced I’m about to write something that advocates choking so I’m gonna say clearly: it’s pretty accepted knowledge in kink spaces now that there is no ‘safe’ way to choke someone. Deliberately restricting someone’s breathing risks cardiac arrest, restricting blood flow to the brain risks seizure. Creating resources that educate people on this, as well as offer alternatives for activities that may be lower risk (examples in next post) is valuable imo.

If you want to see the 1:1 scale ED-209 up close, watch this video. If your asking me what an ED-209 is, ugh, don't talk to me! I'll spoil it a little bit, it's fibreglass and vacuum formed plastic on a wooden frame!

Adam Savage Meets the Original ED-209 From RoboCop!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFMJ514lz5w

The Disney encode is terrible but despite that, if I may be so crude, I think the kids say

Tron: Ares | Official Trailer | In Cinemas 10.10 | Disney UK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlBD45duK-Y

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

"I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/05/i-was-a-british-tourist-trying-to-leave-america-then-i-was-detained-shackled-and-sent-to-an-immigration-detention-centre
"She is advising anyone planning to travel to the US not to go. ‘First, because of the danger of what could happen to you. And, secondly, do you really want to give your money to this country right now?’"