⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

If I was to nominate the two things I find most striking about Mastodon they'd be:

1. the ability to edit posts after posting; this (as my followers will know) is a facility that I use a lot (and thanks to my great crew of typo spotters);

2. the norm of civility that we all maintain; of course trolling & slamming is not completely absent, but at least in my timeline & discussions/conversations civility have been the over-riding characteristic of my exchanges.

#Mastodon #civility #SocialMedia

Hikers want to know how much they'll climb, everyone wants their search address to just work, and no one should feel like they're falling off the edge of the map. Thanks to our contributors, your good reviews, donations, and support, we've tackled all three — and a whole lot more in the April release or the app:

https://organicmaps.app/news/2026-04-07/hiking-cycling-routes-elevation-charts-us-address-search-antimeridian-map-wrapping-april-2026-organic-maps-update/

With love and care ❤️
The Organic Maps Team

Amazon just pulled Kindle Store access from every Kindle released before 2013. The hardware still works. Your books still work. Side-loading EPUBs over USB still works.

The fix is the same one that's worked since 2007 — and here's exactly how to do it, step by step:

https://lk0.eu/bks901m

#Bookstodon #ebooks #kindle #FediReads #OpenAccess

Yes. That's the plan.

http://Join.greenparty.org.uk

The reason why the Artemis mission has everyone so fascinated is because it is a showcase for the efforts of people who are very, very good at their jobs, at a time when the news cycle is dominated by people who are not merely terrible at their jobs, but awful human beings as well.

🗣SCIENCE, FUCK YEAH!

#NASA #Orion #Integrity #ArtemisII

Well hello and welcome to #nakeddiefriday -- the second one in April.

My pleasure to introduce you the guest of today: ATSAMA5D26C by Atmel. This is a SoC with one Cortex-A5 core and a boatload of peripherals.

Full-res map: http://infosecdj.net:8086/map/atmel/atsama5d26c-cu/infosecdj_mz_nikpa40x/

#electronics #reverseengineering #icre #microscopy

Video of the H2C Printer detecting each of it's toolheads on initial start up

#3DPrinting #Bambu

via Greenpeace:

in a class on using AI for data analysis and i genuinely don't want to work in information technology anymore. none of this shit works and everyone is required to use it anyway. it sounds like hell. i would literally rather flip burgers or whatever.

Amazing piece of hackery

https://bryankeller.github.io/2026/04/08/porting-mac-os-x-nintendo-wii.html

Yeah so let's refocus on the real perspective here. It doesn't matter at all how good these models are at code or finding vulnerabilities if we destroy our ability to seek and share knowledge.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation

The company that (last week) accidentally published the source code of their flagship product, which was in turn discovered to be a contraption riddled with security holes and included instructions to deliberately mislead people, is telling us (this week) that they've got a new product that is _too good_ at finding security issues so they need to make a special secret cabal and only share it with them because it would be too dangerous to show anyone else.

This is definitely all very believable.

Google’s AI Overviews are providing “tens of millions of wrong answers … every hour — and hundreds of thousands every minute.”

wow, i love the AI future!

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-misinformation

#tech #ai #google #generativeai #artificialintelligence

Dear Fedi friends,

Next week I have the honor of doing a presentation advocating for the Fediverse in a really prestigious venue (I can't share more now, but I will after it takes place).

I'm currently working on slides and I would love to hear testimonies from YOU. Why the Fediverse is so special to you in contrast to Big Tech platforms (bonus points if you speak French & can reply en français).

I'll share a selection of your testimonies in my slideshow presentation.

Merci beaucoup ❤️

AWS makes S3 a file system

AWS makes S3 buckets usable as a file system for the first time. The service supports NFS 4.1+ and automatically synchronizes changes with the bucket.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/AWS-makes-S3-a-file-system-11249368.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#AmazonWebServices #CloudComputing #Dateisystem #IT #Speicher #news

No F-150 in France? US automakers complain the EU blocks big trucks.
European buyers aren't interested in full-size trucks; US car industry doesn't care.
https://arstechnica.com/cars/2026/04/no-f-150-in-france-us-automakers-complain-the-eu-blocks-big-trucks/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@gottalaff.bsky.social

This war is a long way from over as yet https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04/08/this-war-is-a-long-way-from-over-as-yet/ Even if we do have a ceasefire this morning, the consequences of this war will last for decades, and we might all pay the price for that.