⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

I dumped all things Meta. Zuck can kiss my ass.

https://badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/goodbye-meta-also-a-first-planetary-discovery-for-jwst

Also, paid subscribers can learn about a new planet discovered by accident in JWST observations!

10 years of the Plastic Bags Directive.

Taking centuries to degrade, they were among the top litter in the EU, often ingested by animals or breaking into microplastics & ending up in our food.

By the end of 2025, our goal is 40 bags per person per year.
Are you below this target?

For the Kali Linux users in the house.

https://news.itsfoss.com/kali-linux-new-signing-key/

#linux #kalilinux

As a grumpy old git -- it says so on my socks, it must be true -- I appreciate a properly grumpy website. Grumpy.website really is.

https://grumpy.website/

Profile is a link. Wolt+ is a submenu. Language is a dropdown menu. Contact Support is a link again. Log out is a button.

Welcome to 2025, where nothing has affordances and everything can look like anything else.

#Wolt #Button #Link #Dropdown #Affordance

31 years ago was a sad day. It was the day Commodore declared bankruptcy. What went wrong for Commodore? It's simple. And it's complicated. And mostly Irving Gould's fault. #Retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/why-commodore-went-bankrupt-in-1994/

@ahnlak I'm afraid it's one or the other at the moment. We are looking to support multiple disks in the future, but we have no timescale for this.

Game copy protection was an art form, as well as #cracking these protections. This cat and mouse game evolved over time, with protections including more and more complicated and well-hidden checks trying to identify poor or quickly made cracks. The best protections hindered the release of a crack long enough for the game to hit enough initial sales. After the initial sales the eventual release of a crack would no longer hurt (much).

Rewind to 2025 and legal purchase of early 90s PC games from places such as COG: Apparently, there are plenty of releases that have the poor crack built-in, and where the anti-crack checks kick in, making the game unplayable. The irony is that the only way to play is to get a proper "real crack".

Cool write-up of the protection in "The Games: Winter Challenge" and the associated problems of "legal releases":
https://mrwint.github.io/winter/writeup/writeup.html

#retrogaming #hacking

Apparently #PerplexityAI CEO is annoyed that people are sharing that article where he is quoted saying that their browser will track everything users do to sell more ads.

> “That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you,” Srinivas said.

This is that article, in case you'd like to share it:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/24/perplexity-ceo-says-its-browser-will-track-everything-users-do-online-to-sell-hyper-personalized-ads/

Receipt:
https://xcancel.com/AravSrinivas/status/1915812398470205461#m

#SurveillanceCapitalism #AI #StreisandEffect

Also interesting is that it takes electric power to restart spinning turbines, even when they're normally powered by gas or coal. The way Spain is getting their fossil power production back online now is with solar. Because it doesn't have that problem.
5/5

Terry Pratchett - 10 years :(

A reminder to add (or check) the X-Clacks-Overhead a non-standardised HTTP header on your web site.

https://xclacksoverhead.org/home/about

and more details

https://www.reddit.com/r/discworld/comments/2yt9j6/gnu_terry_pratchett/?rdt=58900

If you have already done this, check it, (I'd lost the headers package in an update in the last 10 years.)