⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@geerlingguy When you buy a Framework you are not paying for the hardware, you are paying for the commitment of a better industry where everything doesn’t need to become e-waste right out of the factory, where you can keep your hardware for years to come and not to satisfy a board of directors and their billionaire delusions.

While we can’t fix the current industry trends, there’s a price to pay.

The failure of the New Glenn rocket is going to have big implications. It thoroughly scrambles NASA's Moon plans, and greatly increases US dependence on SpaceX.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/05/heres-why-the-failure-of-blue-origins-new-glenn-rocket-is-so-catastrophic/ #space #science #tech

Aphex Twin LIVE at Day For Night Houston (FULL SET)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6erFwsRmpo

#music

A lengthy, two-part interview with Trevor Dickinson (A-EON Technology) has been published.

In his answers to twenty questions, he mentions, for example, his financial support for the release of Amiga Forever and later C64 Forever as well as the realization that, in hindsight, he should not have pursued the development of the X5000 and A1222 Plus models simultaneously, as this left too few resources for the software side.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-05-00125-EN.html

#Amiga #AmigaOS4 #AEON #interview

local man who has alarmed tens of thousands of people into worrying he’s not emotionally stable enough to be in charge of Wordpress and Tumblr reassures everyone that the problem is merely that so-called “lawyers” are the mocking mask of the threefold demiurge, Shoggoth Golem Jagannath, who emerged through a hell portal to torment him for reasons unknown but clearly unrelated to the last few years of his increasingly alarming behavior

I doubt he will see my post but, Mr. Mullenweg, a) I sincerely hope your friend having heart surgery will be okay b) LOG OFF. DON’T POST. TOUCH GRASS

https://wordpress.org/news/2026/05/wp23/

Just called my GP and for the first time had the experience of 'talking with' SOFIA the NHS AI chatbot.

SOFIA is going to kill with incompetence.

It took me 15 minutes of it failing to understand
- Words
- Numbers
- Letters
- The Phonetic Alphabet (and yet it suggested I repeat myself *using* the phonetic alphabet)

It ended the call, sent me a message saying it needed additional details and, when I followed the link to give that information, I received a model error in response because it was overloaded

There are people who wouldn't dream of going to hospital if their GP hadn't told them to, no matter how bad their symptoms. This system will kill them.

I have already spent more NHS cash in AI tokens trying to phone them than the cost of a receptionist for the same period

Fuck you Wes Streeting. You did this, you chicken fisting gnome choker.

UPDATE:
I tried again - it told me i'd talked to it in the last 48hrs, go away

cc: @davidgerard

Does any country take trump seriously anymore?

"Trump rejected a plan that would see Oman and Iran jointly charge a toll for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz."

trump to reporters at a White House Cabinet meeting: “We’ll watch over it, but nobody’s gonna control it. It’s international waters. And Oman will behave just like everybody else, or we’ll have to blow ’em up. They understand that. They’ll be fine.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/27/trump-oman-hormuz-strait-iran-00938713
#UsPol
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DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode. Is anyone surprised by this result?

https://xcancel.com/DuckDuckGo/status/2059371174023348514

Someone suggested me to target my apps for iOS/MacOS. But had to get rid of the old machine as it wasn't mine.

What would you suggest so I can release my apps for both iOS and MacOS (Apple Silicon).

... Or even, how to get started with a test that I can run on an iPad without having a physical machine to test feasibility?

Unpopular opinion:

The vast majority of people won’t notice any difference between a real SID chip and the latest replacements/emulations in a blind test. I include myself, especially for the newer 8580 SIDs. My hearing is quite good and I’m a trained audio engineer.

DON‘T rip SIDs out of C64s!

@catileptic even wikipedia is getting enshittified, say it ain't so!

I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.

So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

SINE WAVES ON SUNDAY
Sunday 31 May 2026, 1500 BST, Voice FM

Featuring live music from Kraftwerk, and new electronic tunes by @boardsofcanada, @CCirco, @thisoccasionalsociety...

www.voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/shows/sine-waves-on-sunday-with-max-williams/

#electronicmusic #SineWavesOnSunday #kraftwerk #boardsofcanada #southampton #bournemouth

The “Undo” icon on Apple Newton MessagePad contains more whimsy than the entire current macOS.

Horizontal deflection never stops - the path of the beam in vertical flyback, if you could see it, would look something like this.

Sleeping seems to hurt the Windows 11. Won't wake. Not sure yet what's going on.

I promised I'd use new Outlook. I'm using new Outlook. It's miserable.

I installed Fedora with KDE in a VM on the MacBook Pro via UTM, and it is so damned fast. Even from the live boot image. And it turns out that I really like KDE. I’m still going to try Mint/Cinnamon first on the ThinkPad when it arrives, but hmmm.

@petergleick

Peter I follow you for sound environmental commentary not for you to post AI genera...

What?

It's actually real!

WTF!

Now he is just taking the mickey