⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

If you have a #Lego account and a spare minute or two, please add your support for this Lego idea submitted by a friend of @perlbod
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/b69ceb79-86fc-4879-888f-8593b82fd803

And no, I have no idea why it's called Patchy Goat either... 😂

Apple is on course to break all Web Apps in the EU within 20 days ‼️

👇 Read the blog, fill the survey, join the fight!

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/

Immediate Action Needed!
Apple has officially announced that they attempting to kill web apps in the EU, which will have ramifications worldwide.

https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/

We need immediate support from web developers and businesses that operate online in the EU. The European Commission needs to hear from YOU to understand the devastating impact Apple’s new ban will have on your livelihoods, businesses and customers.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/11/googles-and-microsofts-chatbots-are-making-up-super-bowl-stats/

Before the Super Bowl had been played, Google and Microsoft bullshit generators fabricated statistics for the game. Why do people insist on calling them "artificial intelligence"? "Artificial stupidity" would fit these bullshit generators better.

An interesting take on the “McDonnell-Douglas ruined Boeing” thesis: https://backofmind.substack.com/p/how-the-wrong-side-won-at-boeing

“I think that’s one of the deep causes of what went wrong in Boeing; the McDonnell-Douglas executives were the ones who could back up their business cases with a ream of hard data. The legacy Boeing executives were left talking about culture and best practice and all sorts of soft-sounding things that were hard to put into a model.”

The next generation of laser show software for the next generation of laserists (and maybe a handful of the OGs as well). Amazing group of awesome people at the first Liberation day ever.

Thanks so much to @limehousetownhall for hosting us.

#liberationlaser #lasershow

Photo by @nicoturnervideos

🧵by Joyce Vance:

1/ #Trump's first criminal trial will start in NYC on March 25. Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump’s motions to dismiss the case Thursday. The trial should be over before the RNC & in time for the fedl case in the DC to be tried before the election if #SCOTUS acts expeditiously.

It’s Friday, unwind with Marina:

“the big question after last night is: precisely how many tax cut promises does it take to repel a grid of shit? Britain is in the lucky, lucky position of being about to find out.”

#Rishession is also going on the pre election bingo card. Is any disgruntled #Tory MP brave enough to say it as they flounce off to join the Just for Racists, Reform Party?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/sunak-reform-labour-byelection-wellingborough-kingswood

Yep, that CRT has lost vertical deflection.

Just my luck, I bought a 1 dimensional monitor.

I wouldn't normally be this annoying but ...

IF YOU ARE A WEB DEVELOPER/ and you live/work in the EU or a web-first business:

Fill this out:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNgzepH4lwmWf2kaKC4EpKPdfi69jUHFM8kf4-TBsAyWU1BA/viewform

OR share it with others.

Because:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/

@MastodonEngineering and why exactly are these being releaser unannounced and on a Friday?

I worked on #Lemmings and am therefore old.

“It Was 33 Years Ago Today: Happy Birthday Lemmings! - The Scottish Games Network”

https://scottishgames.net/2024/02/14/it-was-33-years-ago-today-happy-birthday-lemmings/

God fucking dammit Mozilla

You just need to build a damn fucking browser.

You go on this AI path, you alienate your core audience and won’t attract any new users. It’s not like ChatGPT morons will suddenly switch to Firefox because it does ethical AI.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/

Me: I’ll just have one drink and do a bit of tidying.

Me, 5 vodkas down: I SHOULD SORT ALL MY LEGO

Nice. Use FreeBSD on your Framework as your daily driver. Test the things that usually go hinky with laptops (wireless, touchpad, battery usage).

For the intel wireless, you'll use this newer driver in RELEASE and CURRENT : https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi . It could use a deep dive. A tremendous amount of work has gone into getting this intel wireless interface in working order by #FreeBSD devs. It's been a priority with the foundation, too.

@codehead @frameworkcomputer @FreeBSDFoundation

European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of #E2EE - a death knell for #ChatControl

https://hudoc.echr.coe.int/eng/?i=001-230854 (para 76 onwards)

#privacy #security #confidentiality #humanrights #fundamentalrights #surveillance

DOSBox Staging 0.81.0 out now with new CRT shaders and lots of graphics improvements https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/dosbox-staging-0-81-0-out-now-with-new-crt-shaders-and-lots-of-graphics-improvements/

#DOSBOX #FOSS #Emulation

Not commenting the Mozilla layoffs or new direction but I see my timeline going “Oh no Firefox will go full hype on AI”.

This is only due to the framing by Techcrunch: If you read the memo that partially leaked, there's no sign that Firefox will receive a massive influx of generative AI features.

When you say you don't want AI in your browser. Really, you don't want translation services or copy text from image? Not all AI is equal.

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