⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

#doctorwho 🥳

This is biggish news I think.

Disney+ Doctor Who is over.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wvy88eeeeo

#DoctorWho

JLR parent Tata Motors somehow put their AWS secret keys on their own website

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/tata-motors-confirms-it-fixed-security-flaws-that-exposed-company-and-customer-data/

I'be started using "Look, it was the *nineties*!" to justify every bad decision I've ever made or questionable opinion I've ever held. It works surprisingly well.

Since the Harvard Astronomer is getting excited about the Wow! signal now, this is worth boosting:

“[...] We report the detection of narrowband signals (10 kHz) near the hydrogen line similar to the Wow! Signal, although two-orders of magnitude less intense and in multiple locations. Despite the similarities, these signals are easily identifiable as small interstellar clouds of cold hydrogen (HI) in the galaxy. We hypothesize that the Wow! Signal was caused by a sudden brightening of the hydrogen line in these clouds triggered by a strong transient radiation source, such as a magnetar flare or a soft gamma repeater (SGR). A maser flare or superradiance mechanisms can produce stimulated emission consistent with the Wow! Signal. Our hypothesis explains all observed properties of the Wow! Signal, proposes a new source of false positives in technosignature searches, and suggests that the Wow! Signal could be the first recorded event of an astronomical maser-like flare in the hydrogen line.”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08513

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

Why don’t monsters eat ghosts?

I have nothing but respect and sympathy for @ThePSF in their decision to withdraw from the NSF grant program in order not to compromise on their mission to keep #Python a diverse and welcoming open source community

It's hard to turn down that kind of money

So, here's my .02c for it, metaphorically. I'll personally make a $1000 donation to help fill in that gap. There are certainly 1500 of us who can spare that much, in the global python community. Who's with me?

https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659188615376

To conclude: my silver lining hope is that AWS going down can be a learning moment, in which the risks of concentrating the nervous system of our world in the hands of a few players become very clear. And that this can help us craft ways of undoing this concentration and creating real choice ❤️ 13/