⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

we're not teaching kids to understand computers, to control them, to create their own computer experiences and bend the machine to their will

we're teaching them to ask corporations to give them what they need or want

that's no education, that's a trap

Comic by @clearconfused

Whenever I see "GenAI basically can do the work of a junior dev", I assume that those people are using junior devs very differently from me. To me, the value of a junior developer is maybe like 20% the code they write, and 80% is a down payment to a future where they no longer are a junior. I still haven't found an AI that could do that second part.

Paxos accidentally mints more than twice the global GDP in PayPal stablecoins

October 15, 2025
https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=paxos-accidental-mint

Because there may be a few #vintage computer nerds here 😄, here's a story of how #BBC #Wales handled the decision, for the 40th anniversary of #Eastenders earlier this year, to show the BBC1 globe ident as broadcast in 1985.

Instead of simply using a recording of the ident (which was only on screen for a few seconds) as other regions did, they instead managed to dust off & use the original signal generation hardware that had been sitting in a basement corner!

https://www.tvbeurope.com/live-production/how-bbc-wales-returned-live-to-1985

#TV

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion & zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/united-kingdom-commissioner-addresses-human-rights-issues-in-policing-of-protests-and-the-situation-of-trans-people

We have a new release available – out in the iOS app store as well as all of our usual Android channels!

Some highlights:
· Turn penalties for bicycle routing
· Add penalty to toll booths when routing
· Search recognizes shortened street numerals like 3rd
· Android: Fix opening_hours time picker in the editor
· iOS: Adjustments for iOS 26
· Update icons for communication and generic towers, nightclubs, flagpoles (outdoor style)

See the full list of changes here:

https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases/tag/v2025.10.09-3

Watched Tron Ares this weekend. Disclaimer, I'm a fan of the original.

It hooked me all the way, which is more than most movies manage to do. Great pacing.

I liked the references to previous movies and a few of the ideas, overall entertaining, but lacks iconic scenes.

#Tron #TronAres

RIP Drew Struzan, very few people left their mark in cinema history the way he did.

#DrewStruzan #StarWars #BackToTheFuture #ET #TheThing #Movies #Cinema #CineMastodon #FilmMastodon

If you are about to reply saying ‘no Kevin, AI is the future, you can’t put the genie back in the bottle’… that was a great talking point in 2022, which wasn’t true then either.

Generative AI is a group wank of dying men onto soggy tweets. There’s no genie and no bottle, eventually people are going to go ‘…oh, this isn’t really a game changer is it?’. No, it’s just people trying to monetise copyright theft.

Framework's recent sponsorship has raised questions.

https://news.itsfoss.com/framework-hyprland-sponsorship/

#linux #opensource

NEW, by me, the one some of you have been asking about:

Months After Being Notified, a Software Vendor is Still Exposing Confidential and Sealed Court Records

https://databreaches.net/2025/10/13/months-after-being-notified-a-software-vendor-is-still-exposing-confidential-and-sealed-court-records/

I don't usually ask for boosts, but if you are in a position to help spread the word about this vendor and that its clients need to check their security, that would be great.

#dataleak, #incidentresponse, #infosecurity, #cybersecurity, #SoftwareUnlimitedCorp #FBI #CISA

@zackwhittaker @euroinfosec @campuscodi @therecord_media @GossiTheDog @briankrebs