⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@rmondello And passkeys are causing their own disaster, locking out users who have been prompted to use them without understanding the ramifications, and combined with the abysmal account recovery protocols and lack of customer service by firms like #Google, the same category of people who have been left to swing in the wind before are getting the shaft again.

The uptake of passkeys has nothing to do with understanding the issues, it's the way Google and others are pushing so hard for users to accept them when they don't understand them and will be screwed by them later. And Google doesn't care.

Just posted on Six Colors: The hammer falls on Apple’s malicious-compliance scheme

https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/05/the-hammer-falls-on-apples-malicious-compliance-scheme/

It's been genuinely surprising (and yes, inspiring) to me how many ordinary, non-technical people tell me (without prompting on my part) how much they despise the AI being rammed down their throats by Big Tech, and how utterly useless they consider the garbage created by these generative AI systems to be.

#UN Gives the Encrypted Open-Source Office Suite #CryptPad a Try

https://fossforce.com/2025/04/un-drops-google-for-cryptpad-an-encrypted-open-source-office-suite/

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/30/is-doctor-who-doomed-ncuti-gatwa-russell-t-davies

#DoctorWho

i'm looking for some kind of low-fi time planning/prediction tool. i'm sure something like this must exist, but not sure how exactly it's called. ideas? this is what i have in mind:

- inputs:
- list of tasks with time estimates
- some urgency score
- list of available future work days/hours (or ruleset to generate these)
- some knobs (inflating the work or reducing the available time, model different outcomes)
- outputs:
- fuzzy calendars/timelines with all the tasks fit in

1/2

well, 6 month contract extension turned in to only 1 month. Time to look for another #linux #sysadmin role and get #fedihired?

It can be hard for those that don't do a lot of programming to understand, but programmers do not think in Plain English (or whatever their native tongue is). They do not, for the most part, spend their time wrangling & getting frustrated at their tools.

Instead, programmers think in abstractions that sit beyond the realm of natural language, and those abstractions are carved through dialect with the machine. The machine pushes back, the chisel strikes the marble, and the abstraction evolves.

Another entry in my erratic #Amiga Isometric Game #DevLog has trundled in. Finishing off the second zone and approaching half the rooms built. Hang on to your hat!

🧙🏻

gemini://s73.girv.in/glog/2025/2025-04-30-amiga-isometric-devlog-10.gmi

https://s73.girv.in/glog/2025/2025-04-30-amiga-isometric-devlog-10.html

#RetroDev