⊥ᵒᵚ⁄Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Bad ads aren’t just a failure of Meta to moderate content.

It’s a feature of their surveillance capitalism model that harvests your personal data and tracks your activity.

But you can say no to being profiled for ad sales!

Use our tool to #StopStalkerAds (UK residents)

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/meta-opt-out

#dataprotection #meta #facebook #adtech #advertising #privacy #GDPR #surveillancecapitalism #ukpolitics #ukpol #data

Some of my Babylon 5 art.

Enjoy.

#scifi #SciFiArt #fanart #Babylon5

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Okay, the Recall database is still an SQLite database in AppData. Same path.

Accessible without admin rights and without triggering UAC using TotalRecall.

It's encrypted using a .net now, AesGcm - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.security.cryptography.aesgcm

I think I've found the decryption key, one for another day as I've teevee to watch now.

I’ve just pushed the latest changes to the public repository.
In particular:

- Do not generate the "Tags" menu if there are no posts with tags (adapted by Tom's patch)

- Allow a custom pages/index.md (with slug "index") that will be shown as homepage. This allows to create a custom homepage for the website, without the "Latest Posts" list. (adapted by Tom's patch)

- Render automatically generated post excerpts (used when no explicit `description` is set in frontmatter) as HTML instead of raw markdown on list pages (index, tags, archives).

- Partial rewrite of the caching code, index generations, etc. Now only the modified tags and/or archives will be regenerated, speeding up the rebuild time.

- Many, many other bugfixes and improvements

Please, test it and let me know if you find any issues. A new release is just around the corner.

#BSSG #SSG #Bash

Apple's Going to Take a Peek at Your On-Device Data to Improve Its AI
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/157586/apples-going-to-take-a-peek-at-your-on-device-data-to-improve-its-ai
With an upcoming OS update, Apple will compare synthetic AI training data with real customer data to improve Apple Intelligence—but only if you opt in.

Our BBC, Our Future
https://www.bbc.co.uk/send/u193491675
We’d love to know your views on the future of the BBC. Please take part in this short questionnaire.

for the past few years, i'm sure many of you have read my many lamentations about the death of the old, small web many of us grew up with.

there are tons of static site generators out there, but none of them did what i wanted: something that could build an entire site without futzing with javascript and library dependencies. i wanted something that we would have had in 2005, but didn't have in 2025.

in january, i decided to do something about it instead of whining. i started gluing together a few php scripts i had been using to build blogs, rss feeds and mini homepages. i even wrote a new mini markup language.

i thought it would take me a week. it took >3 months.

it ran for the past month as globaltalk.network's interactive site, and many of you asked if i'd ever let other people spin up an instance. i can finally say: yes!

today, kiki is officially finished and released for public use. named after my little black house demon, it's small, fast, and sometimes well behaved. and, it's all written in php without a single external dependency. just unzip and go.

it's released as shareware - in the oldest, finest, jankiest meaning of the word: you're free to goof around with and share the unregistered version. build your own little kiki instance, and customize the heck out of it until it feels like your own little home in the world wide web:

http://tomodashi.com/kiki

#kiki #homepage #worldWideWeb #smolWeb #smallWeb #php

Bluesky didn't reach a federated stage where you could choose a service provider in a free country before they started to censor people based on authoritarian demands.

How old am I?

I'm so old I remember when Google search provided more value than surveillance advertising.

I'm so old I remember when an operating system was not considered an advertising platform.

I'm so old I remember when "Artificial Intelligence" was a serious enquiry filled with brilliant people, and not a scam machine populated by sleazebags.

I'm so old I remember when "user" didn't mean "product".

I'm so old I remember when "corporation" didn't mean "person".

So, yet again my small high street cookshop in a rural English town has paid more tax than Starbucks entire UK operation.

Cynically, Starbucks is more than profitable enough to pay £40m of royalties to its US parent company, thereby incuring a loss of £35m.

Global revenue for 2024 was $36billion.

As a Green Party district councillor it makes my blood boil.

#ukpol #GreenParty