⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

British Government legal logic:

Kill someone with a car - 2 year suspended sentence and 10 points in your licence

Kill someone with a bicycle - LIFE IMPRISONMENT

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn0w8g18x9no

Linux developers consider discontinuing support for 486 and other CPUs

Ancient processors could soon no longer be supported by the Linux kernel. The goal: less complexity and testing effort.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Linux-developers-consider-discontinuing-support-for-486-and-other-CPUs-10363824.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#IT #Linux #LinuxKernel #Prozessoren #news

There was one thing I missed this week.

Yesterday was 40th anniversary of powering up ARM1 chip.

Chip so low power that it run on current from i/o lines.

Absolutely incredible introduction on why #enshittification by @pluralistic . 🤯 Simply put, I'm going to and to recite this every time people talk why things keep getting worse in tech.

https://dot-social.simplecast.com/episodes/cory-doctorow

Git geeks be like “Just did a --squash=<ref> before my interactive rebase with autosquash but I forgot to realign the dilithium crystals so it failed and this is fine so don’t you dare complain about git’s usability you normie!”

Tiny #UK museum on anti - #trans ruling: “Speaking in a professional capacity as [a] museum of biology: this is not how biology works,” the Crab Museum’s statement read in part. “There are no binaries in nature, and biology, like all sciences, should never be taken for granted or assumed to be ‘self-explanatory.’ Even worse, it should never be used to justify weaponised culture war issues. This ruling is an abuse of #science.” 💯
https://www.them.us/story/crab-museum-anti-trans-supreme-court-ruling

This is your regular scheduled reminder that the purpose of a dating app is not to find you true love, a one night stand, or even a date: it's to generate revenue from repeat customer visits. If you find your one true love via a dating app, they've FAILED.

You're the product, the product is you.

I think that @theverge is underselling it - the gold here isn’t the chrome browser, it’s chrome’s automatic background update system. It’s root on billions of machines.

https://www.theverge.com/chrome/656613/google-chrome-buyers-openai-yahoo-perplexity

To my Canadian friends who have an important election next week, I’ll give you some advice my dad once gave me, which has stuck with me all these years and seems very relevant to this situation:

“Jerry” he said
“Don’t fuck it up”

https://tavianator.com/2025/configure.html

I was reading this thinking, “the purpose of a Configure script is to run the compiler a few dozen times to make absolutely sure that 1995 hasn’t come back.”

is ds9 called terok nor again

Update The Gaussfest is NO LONGER homeless !

https://mstdn.social/@Extelec/114807228495691498

We have been running the Nottingham Gaussfest for 24 years. Our current hosts are unfortunately no longer able to host us for this year. So we are looking for a new host.

The Internet of Things ended up being the internet of unsupported products.

Google is ending support for 1st & 2nd generation Nests and completely pulling out of Europe.

Imagine having to replace the thermostats in your home because a reorg at some big tech meant it was no longer a priority.

https://www.theverge.com/news/656332/google-ending-support-nest-thermostats

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