⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

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Ever wanted a PicoGUS or PicoMEM but for PCMCIA? yyzkevin's PicoPCMCIA adds modern WiFi networking, Sound Blaster, GUS, CD-ROM, and storage to any computer with a PCMCIA slot. He's getting closer to launch and is now taking deposits for the first run of cards. https://www.yyzkevin.com/picopcmcia/

Both the Sound Blaster and CD-ROM emulation on the PicoGUS originally came from this ambitious project so it's awesome seeing it get close to done!

What was originally intended to be a 3 month project to provide a chatbot that could answer legal questions to help navigate the Alaska court system has taken over 15 months with no end in sight due to concerns about accuracy.

This is a terrible use case for LLMs and will never get to ship quality.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/alaskas-court-system-built-ai-chatbot-didnt-go-smoothly-rcna235985

@arstechnica@mastodon.social lmao who wants to watch ai slop on their tv

Phones being taken from #AsylumSeekers

Further to my promise this morning ...

A previous High Court ruling found that the Home Office's blanket policy of seizing phones from all migrants was unlawful.
The court determined that the seizures violated the claimants' rights under Article 8 of the ECHR, which protects the right to privacy.

However, as part of the Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act, which aims to combat people smuggling, a crime, which is not against THE PERSON.

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Anyone in my retrocomputing and vintage electronics network want a free vintage Garmin serial cable?

It's in Ireland. I'll post it if you cover postage.

Edit: I used this with an eTrex around 2001.

The UK is woefully slow on the #Digitalsovereignty debate. While the problem of dependence on US Tech is understood at political level in Denmark, Germany and France, the UK is not yet having the discussion.

My niece comes to the U.S. most years from Europe to visit her grandfather.

This year she was stopped at the airport, taken into an interrogation room, accused of being a prostitute, had her phone taken and scanned, and released.

You know, in case you were wondering why tourism to the U.S. is down.

PSA: If you have a postal vote in England (and possibly other parts of the UK), you now have to renew it every 3 years instead of it being indefinite. The deadline for most existing postal voters is 31st January - if you don't renew by then your postal vote will be cancelled. You can renew online, but it's not automatic and you have to wait for approval.

This is to stop 'voter fraud', which is practically non-existent in the UK.

https://www.gov.uk/apply-postal-vote