⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

DOD reports 0 of 569 metric tons of aid has reached starving Palestinians

US officials confirm it’s not being blocked by Hamas. But we know Israeli settlers are blocking the aid.

When Yemenis blocked ships to prevent genocide they were bombed . When Israelis block aid to enable famine they’re ignored.

The white supremacy in our foreign policy is deadly.

Absolutely stunning fortune-telling from RTD to have 73 Yards shown just after an election was called.

#GE2024 #DoctorWho

Hey, Mastodon … I’m trying to track down an #AppleNewton developer named Stephen A. Cronin.

He worked at #AMD and operated a software company called TapTech based out of Austin, Texas in the late 90s. I’ve managed to contact his former software partner, Francis Preve … but Francis lost touch with Stephen years ago.

Together they released a sequencer program for #NewtonOS called NR404 and I’m hoping the source code still exists somewhere.

Boosts appreciated.

Why travelling on Eurostar from the UK is about to become much trickier. Spoiler alert: it's a Brexit bonus!

https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/may/26/why-travelling-on-eurostar-from-the-uk-is-about-to-become-much-trickier?CMP=share_btn_url

Yet another airport blocking SSH (and Wireguard) on their WiFi. Thanks for nothing, Stansted.

OK the last 2 episodes of #DoctorWho have been great. I felt the show got off to a pretty rough start with all the singing goblins and talking babies. The Maestro episode was much better (but the random song and dance number at the end - no idea)

But Boom! and 73 Yards were both excellent. Still a lot of questions unanswered, but I assume (hope) that's all part of the big plan!

Use your #Newton to place a call by... putting your phone on the Newton. #TopTips #RetroComputing

Over the centuries, mankind has tried many ways of combating the forces of evil...prayer, fasting, good works and so on. Up until Doom, no one seemed to have thought about the double-barrel shotgun. Eat leaden death, demon...

Terry Pratchett, alt.fan.pratchett

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

I had filed Sunak as fundamentally decent, but occasionally mouthfarting nonsense to appease the brexitty loons. I didn't expect full fat fascism. Fuck this gang. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cpddxy9r4mdo

We knew the data protection and digital information bill was getting dropped but still nice to see it reported by BBC after years fighting against it https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd11d37rpw9o #privacy #surveillance #digitalrights

Douglas Adams died way too early 😞
He would have been on Mastodon, you just know it

#towelday

The first three Ncuti Gatwa episodes of #DoctorWho didn’t do much for me. I was very much “meh”. They were “fine” I guess. But left me kind of flat.

But both #Boom and #73Yards had me locked to my TV. Absolutely excellent. More of that please.

Any IT auditors out there? Specifically those who audit security systems/programs. I've got a few questions for ya!

- What are some things that made you successful in your role?
- Are there any technical skills that are critical for your success?
- Any common challenges your face in your role?
- Do you have any advice for anyone trying to make a transition into auditing?
- Recommended readings?

#ITAuditor
#Auditing
#ITAuditJob

I just watched the last episode of PERSON OF INTEREST. Wow, I‘m still blown away. What a great show, I liked every episode. #PersonOfInterest

I'm working on some nice updates for the next #amiberry releases:
- Integrated the latest version of the FloppyBridge library. This improves the performance and compatibility with floppy drives further!
- Added a plugins directory, for external libraries
- improved styling support for the GUI. You can now design a dark theme easily. Maybe I'll even include one as an easy switch.
- Fixed various bugs here and there, as usual.
- Preview is now synced with the latest WinUAE beta.

Study Finds That 52 Percent of ChatGPT Answers to Programming Questions Are Wrong

https://futurism.com/the-byte/study-chatgpt-answers-wrong

Any “constitutional” or legal questions about the general election?

Ask below and I will reply if I can.

(I used to do this sort of thing on Twitter and I thought I would give it a go here.)

As for Rishi's excellent election, I have only one comment:

VOTE OUT TO HELP OUT!!!

Hey, @mozilla I'm really proud to be a paid Media Monitor subscriber, and I'm happy with the service, too.

But why do your emails pass their links through a tracking redirection service controlled by a third party?

My May statement links through https://blrv1ly5.r.us-west-2.awstrack.me/

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🆕 blog! “Gell-Mann Amnesia and Purdah”

This is a retropost. Written contemporaneously, but published long after the events. At the time, I was a Civil Servant in Cabinet Office. Now I am not. But as we're heading for another General Election, I thought I'd share this post. It's the evening of the 2019 General Election. I am plagued by two thoughts. […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/05/gell-mann-amnesia-and-purdah/
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#election #GE2024 #politics #retropost