⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Hey you! Yes! *YOU!*

Come to #OggCamp in Manchester - October 12-13.

It's a delightfully nerdy open source / open culture conference.

Meet new friends, give new talks, learn new things.

Tickets available now - https://oggcamp.org/

Hmmmmm, what a lucky man I am to have a wife who was ready to taste later and drive us on… Now it’s her joy to take sips of great whiskys. The tour of the Cragganmore distillery was fascinating (and – thanks to some Canadian fellows – funny), tasting as well – and I wouldn‘t have been able to drive us securely for more than 50 metres… In the end, I bought a bottle and two cups. Well, I‘m a tourist… #scotland #whisky #vacation

@tek
If I ever go I'm taking a burner with a different PIN on it and making sure I only log into accounts that require 2FA.

Lufthansa, in their wisdom, decided that the first of my 4 night break in krakow would be better spent in an airport Hotel, listening to the aircon unit leak into the metal bin i placed there. So to make up for it, they decided not to fly me home, but to give me 24 hours in an airport Hotel in the arse end of Frankfurt. Thanks, lufthansa!

WhatsApp and Signal messages at risk of surveillance following EncroChat ruling, court hears | Computer Weekly

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366596534/WhatsApp-and-Signal-messages-at-risk-of-surveillance-following-EncroChat-ruling-court-hears

For all the #BikeTooters: tip from an unknown mechanic

When the company calls their home appliances "smart", what I hear is:

- they spent money on features I care about
- those features will be worse than standalone devices but will drive them out of market (looking at you TVs)
- the appliance is more likely to break
- my data is likely being sold to advertisers
- when the company loses interest in it and cut support, I will need to buy a new device

So no, I don't want "smart" home appliances.

What is the most annoying feature on other platforms that you think Codeberg (or #Forgejo) does better?

Another thing I can't help but notice: I assumed that when Tidal for Samsung TV shut down it would be like, they shut off some endpoint and the app presents an error. In fact the Samsung TV itself, if I try to open the app, says "This TIDAL has been terminated and is no longer available. Do you want to delete the selected item(s)?". So Samsung can remotely disable any software running on my TV. Uh? I really do hate smart TVs. They are simply devices designed to betray you.