⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

ME: I will intentionally read Iain M. Banks' non-Culture novels because I want to see him when he is at his more experimental and risk-taking.

IAIN M BANKS: (📎)

ME: Ian you're killing me!!

This is to collect research for HTML input pickers such as date, time, datetime and colour. "Please send us examples of good (or bad) ones. Even if they have extra functionality that doesn't exist yet (e.g. date ranges, perhaps we can add that in)." https://github.com/openui/open-ui/issues/1371

@Tallish_Tom “No, no, no! WE are supposed to steal from YOU!” 😂

I need a new phone and I want to distance myself from Google services. Hence I am considering a Fairphone 6 running the #Murena /e/OS operating system. My one concern is that it may not play nicely with the RBS banking app. Has anyone any experience of the OS, in particular running the RBS banking app?

Please re-toot for greater exposure.

Many thanks

https://murena.com/shop/smartphones/brand-new/murena-fairphone-6/

Billboard outside the Old Trafford football stadium in Stretford, Manchester, England.

Breaking: banning Palestine Action was “disproportionate and unlawful,” judges rule. 2,500 people+ were arrested because Labour *broke the law* in banning Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws. All of this bcs Labour chose to protect Israel at all costs. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

UK Palestine Action ban ruled ...

So while the proscription remains in place to allow some further legal argument & a possible appeal by the Govt. for now the High Court has concluded (on two out of the four counts raised) that Palestine Action's proscription was unlawful.

The proscription did not fully follow the Govt.'s own rules on proscription & the proscription also failed by contravening, Articles 10 & 11 of the ECHR.

(See analysis of the judgement below).

#Politics #PalestineAction #protest
https://publiclawforeveryone.com/2026/02/13/the-high-courts-judgment-in-the-palestine-action-case/

#Tusky 32.1

New feature: You can now remove your post from other posts that quote it.

And crash fixes, compatibility improvements for non-Mastodon servers and older Androids, and more.

https://codeberg.org/tusky/Tusky/releases/tag/v32.1

Reddit post:

My wife called Meshtastic "Tinder for Linux users"

I'm never going to emotionally recover from this.

Just arrived from Japan!

I hope the floppy still works.

#AppleNewton
#MessagePad
#NewtonOS
#NewtonLanguageKit

hot take: Claude Code being able to spit out a (very shitty) C compiler is not that impressive at all.

Did they exclude all C compilers from it's training set? No?

So you compressed a bunch of a existing code, including C compilers, into a multibillion parameter vector, and then were able to recover enough to construct (through trial-and-error) a functional-ish C compiler.

And it cost $20.000, just for the recovery part, in credits priced by a company that is burning cash at an insane rate

Not to mention that really a C compiler is not that complicated a thing to make, it's just a whole lot of mappings between constructs in C and assembly. Building a good C compiler is very hard of course. (They did NOT do this)

But sure, go ahead and write a dumb blog post with a vague and ominous ending about how scary this is we basically made jarvis or whatever.

We did it, everyone! The Kickstarter campaign for Technofascism Survival Guide is over. But late pledges are still accepted. Nudge, nudge, wink, wink if you know anyone else who might be interested in the book.

This is rather auspicious. And I have a couple of new journalistic sources who used to work on the inside of the NSA and CISA (the US cybersecurity agency) who have been completely disillusioned by the alliance between the US military intelligence/law enforcement/Silicon Valley industrial complex and have similar motives to Ed Snowden or Chelsea Manning for coming out. But they are anonymous (I know their real names, I think), and I don't think they'll share anything with me that'd endanger them in any way.

There's a lot of valuable information online about all kinds of things, even though way too much of the web is now the horrific output of Gen AI. If you know how to do internet research properly, you don't go to ChatGPT (the horrors) or even Google search (these days). You delve into OSINT resources like the Internet Archive, Shodan, and Maltego. You web search with DuckDuckGo (Duck.ai turned off!), maybe Kagi, maybe Bing directly, and learn how to tweak SearXNG into being more usable.

But also my offline resources and offline OSINT are absolutely crucial too. Tomorrow is Friday, which I find is generally a good time to go back to Robarts at the University of Toronto or the Toronto Reference Library, with lots of cash for photocopies. As long as it's during that ideal 10am to 4pm window, I can research in peace and also have the full attention of librarians as needed.

And I have some real human sources too. The people I can name are Dwayne Monroe, Olivia Guest, Ryan Wilson. And there are several sources who are anonymous, including people who have organized notable hacktivist ops and people who used to have security clearances.

My "blind spot" as far as human sources is concerned is people with extensive 20th century political activism experience. Message me via Signal app at crowgirl.84 if an anonymous source would rather stay anonymous with me, too.

I would say the book is roughly 5% to 10% written right now. That's the easier stuff for me to write, the stuff where I just pour the knowledge and opinions that I already have into LibreOffice Writer, and simply fact check it in a couple of months when I fact check the entire draft.

2025 was a horrifying year for me, at least as much as it was for most other people. It definitely negatively impacted my productivity when I wrote Digital Safety in a Dangerous World.

But now it's 2026, and although the world is seriously fucked up and getting worse, my personal life situation and finances have stabilized a bit since last year. That definitely helps me focus on Technofascism Survival Guide rather than my broken heart or how the hell am I going to pay my rent?

I'm going to post this update, I will also post to LinkedIn and Mastodon. Then I will prepare my Bookfunnel links for the people whose pledge includes Digital Safety in a Dangerous World, send that to those backers, then set up Calend.ly for Zoom consultation scheduling and send that link to those backers.

Then I'm going to play another session of Satisfactory or Caves of Qud or Clair Obscure: Expedition 33 and take the rest of the day off!

Thank you so much to my wonderful backers!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/