⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

"The UK Government is trying to pass new laws that would criminalise sleeping on the streets with a fine up to £2,500, or even prison."

What kind of fucknut thinks you can criminalise homelessness away? What kind of arsebiscuit thinks homeless people have money to pay fines? What kind of cockwomble thinks a homeless prisoner will think, "Well, thats me told. I won't be homeless ever again"?

A conservative, thats who.

#politics

> Beginning in late November 2023, the threat actor used a password spray attack to compromise a legacy non-production test tenant account and gain a foothold, and then used the account’s permissions to access a very small percentage of Microsoft corporate email accounts, including members of our senior leadership team and employees in our cybersecurity, legal, and other functions, and exfiltrated some emails and attached documents.
https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2024/01/microsoft-actions-following-attack-by-nation-state-actor-midnight-blizzard/

#Microsoft #InfoSec #MidnightBlizzard

"You lived under the floors?"

"And in the walls, yes," the imp nodded, casually eating a discarded candy wrapper.

"But not the attic or rafters?"

The imp shook her head, "Nah, that would've breached the peace accords with the bats."

"There's bats," I asked excitedly, peering up into the darkness.

"I thought this was my interview?"

"Oh, yes. So how did you come to own this lovely home?"

The imp smiled proudly, "Ate the landlord."

#TootFic #MicroFiction #Writing #TerylsTales #UrbanFantasy

Schrodinger’s Rail Terminal: A trip to Old Oak Common

https://jonn.substack.com/p/schrodingers-rail-terminal

A quotation from Adams, Douglas:

«
I’ve come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:

1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.

2. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can prob…
»

Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/adams-douglas/66399/

#quote #quotes #quotation #technology #progress #perspective #nature

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PSA: when I’m unanimously elected Grand Pooh-Bah and Emperor - it’s only a matter of time, since the current political model certainly isn’t working - the whole “Sunday is the first day of the week” nonsense in the US calendars will go away.

Just so you know.

Yeah, I can deal with it by just setting my locale to be UK instead of US, and since I’m ok with 24-hour time anyway, that works well for me.

I just want to save everybody else from this insanity. Who is with me?

So to prepare for that inevitable day, I would strongly suggest that any calendaring app writer already make “Monday is the first day of the week” an option. You know it’s what most people think anyway.

Kudos to Google Calendar for getting this right when so few others do (eg the “snooze until” calendar in gmail does not 😒).

This is sad, but so predictable: Ello launched with a grand vision of being an alternative to profit-driven networks, took VC money, then tried to become a profit-driven network, failed miserably, sold itself and got shut down https://waxy.org/2024/01/the-quiet-death-of-ellos-big-dreams/

Descent to the lunar surface begins at the auspicious hour of midnight.

20 terrifying minutes later we will be on the Moon... dead or alive.

Live YouTube broadcast kicks off at 11pm JST

That's 3pm London, 10 am New York, & 7am LA.

Also, I am the English live feed. Gods all help me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvXLt3ET9mE

The BBC's 6 month trial of using the Fediverse will be ending soon.
They want to measure if they have enough reach and engagement for the effort they expend running their Mastodon instance.
Give these accounts a follow if you agree that public broadcasters should live in the Fediverse:

@BBCRD
@BBC5Live
@BBCRadio4
@BBCTaster
@Connected_Studio
@BBC_News_Labs

👍

What browser do you use? Curious what the stats look like on fedi. Boosts for visibility appreciated.

Crazy read: detecting positions of players in Counterstrike by *listening to their GPU over a microphone*

https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~genkin/papers/lendear.pdf

To be fair, not yet as bad as searching on Amazon

https://gizmodo.com/google-search-results-are-getting-worse-study-finds-1851172943

USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701
(Part One)

This is the build I focused on for most of the long lockdown of 2020. It began with the #SaucerSection which I'd always planned to build to minifigure/playset scale. As time passed I expanded to the rest of the ship, bulk-buying parts online as I went. If you zoom in you will see the scale of the #Minifigures in the various sections...

#LEGO #StarTrek #MOC
#LEGOStarTrek #USSEnterprise
#StarshipEnterpise #TOS #SNW
#AFOL #Minifigs #Minifigures

Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse

'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study No, it's not just you - search engine results really are getting worse as the internet is flooded with low-effort garbage from SEO farms and affiliate link sites, a group of German researchers has concluded. …
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/01/17/google_search_results_spam/

@revk Much cleaner than the one I get.

Do you remember when people used to care about first impression with web-pages?

Can't even tell what's going on with this noisey bollocks.