⊥ᵒᵚ⁄Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

to whatever software engineer implemented this: you are a bad person. I know it wasn't your idea and I don't care; the nuremberg defence didn't work for nazis and it doesn't work for you

#enshittification at #theguardian

So now I have to pay extra, on top of my subscription, to have no ads or you'll pass my details on to your 150 "partners"? (You sound like a cheap date, Viner).

Nope. Cancel subscription because where's the benefit? I like my privacy, thank you very much, and I have a #pihole and #grapheneos for a damned good reason.

Message scanning tech on everyone's phone would expose us to dangerous new threats.

How does that achieve online safety?

Tell Ofcom NOT to break end-to-end encryption in their consultation, ending Monday 10 March.

Use our tool to say #PracticeSafeText 💬

https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text

#e2ee #encryption #onlinesafety #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ofcom #whatsapp #signal

Small, low-risk sites should be out of scope so long as providers have a reasonable belief that children will not come across harmful material on them, say campaigners.

https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/legislation-regulation/call-to-exempt-small-sites-from-the-online-safety-act

#onlinesafetyact #osa #onlinesafety #technews #uk #ukpol

@girlonthenet @RomanticIsa Damn. And I had only just discovered it about a fortnight ago!

My new song 'Raster Bar' is out now everywhere! 👾
👉 https://fanlink.tv/raster

@bert_hubert @jospoortvliet @niels @Karlitschek https://github.com/nextcloud/server/issues/51335 << bug is there

Well, The Vaults (https://www.vaults.wales) just got their food standards visit.

These are unannounced (unless an Indian, etc, as then they are told so they can have an interpreter, apparently ?! You would think an English pub in Wales would be afforded the same).

But the hard work Tom and Amanda have done has clearly paid off - not just in terms of the kitchen and equipment and so on, but also on training of staff.

I am so pleased for them.

Hi everyone, for several hours we are currently fighting with potentially malicious crawling. We are seeing distributed access on Codeberg that could have been crawling, however it seems to only use the most expensive routes. And each time we block an access pattern, a new one pops up immediately.

We are doing our best to keep the performance up.

Another one bites the (Moon)dust!

This is Intuitive Machines' #IM2 lander that once again toppled over after trying to land on Mons Mouton near the lunar south pole.

The picture had lots of detail hidden in the shadows which I brought out in processing.

#IntuitiveMachines #CLPS #NASA #Moon #Earth

My latest #globaltalk connected devices for #MARCHintosh. An SE/30 running System 7.1, a PowerBook G3 running Mac OS 9.1, a PowerBook G4 running Mac OS X 10.4.11 and a #newton eMate running Newton OS 2.0. All can see all zones and can download files. Next up will be a bit trickier - an Apple IIGS (which I have connected to GlobalTalk before) and an Apple IIe with an Apple Workstation card.

@stilescrisis @cR0w

Who owns GitHub? Microsoft.

Who is disabling ad blocking? Microsoft and Google.

Why is Chrome or a Chromium derivative nearly the only choice for browsers? Because of Microsoft and Google's anti-competitive behavior.

Just hearing a bit of the #intuitiveMachines press conference.

They're still not sure if they are upright or not. One bit of data - from the "Inertial measurement unit" suggests they are on their side. Some rocket engine data suggested they were upright.

Good data comms apparently, so they'll be able to do some things.

New blogpost: "It is time to make the Online Safety Act 2023 fit for purpose"

I am concerned that, without rapid, targeted intervention at legislative level, the OSA will have a unwarranted and detrimental effect on the plurality of sites and services available to people in the UK, and impede and put at risk people running sites and services in the UK, for no material impact on the safety of people in the UK.

The government should:

Exempt small, low-risk services from Part 3
Fix an accessibility bug in Part 5

https://decoded.legal/blog/2025/03/it-is-time-to-make-the-online-safety-act-2023-fit-for-purpose/

#OnlineSafetyAct

"The ground-breaking new analysis finds that legalising and regulating cannabis for non-medical adult use in the UK could generate over £1.5 billion in annual net benefits to the Treasury from tax revenue and savings across the criminal justice system and create over 15,000 new jobs."

Or we could just continue following America's orders from Nixon to not even THINK about drug policy.

[Yes, I know heroin's dreadful, but cannabis is less harmful to society than alcohol.]

https://mailchi.mp/transformdrugs/dont-be-a-harold-9403020

To conserve power and to extend the life of the mission, one more instrument on each of the Voyager probes is being shut down - Voyager 1's cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Feb 25 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instrument on March 24.

The Voyagers should have enough power to operate for about a year before the team needs to shut off another instrument on both spacecraft. The 2 probes could operate with at least one science instrument into the 2030s

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2025/03/05/nasa-turns-off-2-voyager-science-instruments-to-extend-mission/
1/n

It is starting! ”[Lindt] announced that it will shift its Canadian chocolate supply from U.S. factories to European production facilities to circumvent additional duties.” 🇨🇦

https://retail-insider.com/bulletin/2025/03/lindt-shifts-canadian-chocolate-supply-to-europe-amid-tariffs/