⊥ᵒᵚ⁄Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

One more--this is just so cool:

Firefly Aerospace has just released the full image sequence of a solar eclipse from the surface of the Moon. The dark object moving in front of the Sun is the Earth. The lunar landscape is lit red by all the sunrises & sunsets in the world.

https://fireflyspace.com/news/blue-ghost-mission-1-live-updates/ #science #art

Last night I restarted Chrome and I got this message and just like that I'm a Firefox user again

@maltimore AI is a solid 6 or a 7 in terms of capabilities that’s being sold as an 11, so people think it’s a 2.

Amazon is ending the option to not send Echo voice recordings to the cloud https://www.theverge.com/news/630049/amazon-echo-discontinues-do-not-send-voice-recording-setting

Was explaining the whole self-hosted/small web movement to someone at work today, and they replied “Oh, so you’re like one of those preppers with a bunker, but digital.”

And I will not be taking any further questions at this time.

Bravo! Here is a first look at the solar eclipse from the surface of the moon taken by the Firefly Blue Ghost lander around 05:30 UTC.

"Notice the glowing ring of light in the reflection of the solar panel as Earth began to block the sun."

"We hope to downlink more imagery soon once our X-band antenna warms up from the cold temperatures faced in the darkness of totality."

Is the ring real or is it an artifact? Its size looks too large.

https://fireflyspace.com/news/blue-ghost-mission-1-live-updates/
6/n

The Vagina Museum is just one month away from closing. Forever. A perfect storm of circumstances means that we may have to close our doors permanently and cease all digital activities. But we're not going to go down without a fight. Save the Vagina Museum. https://www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2

One of the best dialogues in #Buffy

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0533503/quotes?item=qt0433753&ref_=ext_shr_lnk

'My wife asked why I carry a gun around the house.

I looked at her and said "Spyware". She laughed, I laughed, Alexa laughed, I shot Alexa, it was a good time."

#Amazon #spyware #Alexa #Echo #HomeAssistant
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/everything-you-say-to-your-echo-will-be-sent-to-amazon-starting-on-march-28/

Hot on the heels (wheels?!) of yesterday’s custom Sigfig Habitat is the one I built for Nicole aka Lady_mackbrick. This room holds a replica of her soapbox racer bed, which I thought was fitting to include. Can you tell where she’s from? #LEGO #AFOL #BlockHeadUK #MinifigureHabitat

Just learned this Fun fact: ””socialist Norway” has almost 2 trillion USD in their Sovereign Wealth Fund.
If everybody quit working today, Norway could maintain its standard of living for more than 400 years.
They nationalized their oil and gave the profits to the government, not shareholders.
Socialism is the enemy of billionaires, but the friend of the middle class.”

#Canada needs to do the same. The whole world needs to do the same.

Was there ever a Mac color driver for the ImageWriter LQ?

#RetroComputing #MARCHintosh

Apple encrypted data row hearing begins in secret
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9vy0m8ggz3o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business @business-BBCNews

Here it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon.

This is what last night's lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander's perspective on the Moon. Amazing!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace/54386246629/in/dateposted/ #space #science #art #tech

Anybody fancies going exploring. To mark its 7th birthday Joy Diversion is back on the 17th May. It is a great way to find new things and meet fellow explorers https://bit.ly/ODM-JOY17

In 2019, Iceland became one of the first countries to approve a four-day workweek. Here's how things have been going for them.

2021: "Trials of a four-day week in Iceland were an "overwhelming success""

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57724779

2024: "Iceland’s economy is outperforming most European peers after the nationwide introduction of a shorter working week with no loss in pay."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/25/business/iceland-shorter-working-week-economy/index.html

2025: "The effects of the shorter workweek in Iceland have extended far beyond the office."

https://www.wecb.fm/in-2019-iceland-approved-the-4-day-workweek-nearly-6-years-later-all-predictions-by-generation-z-have-come-true/

#news #labor #WorkersRights #FourDayWorkWeek #work #iceland

"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"

The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.

The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.

Other services will be hit.

https://therecord.media/google-refuses-to-deny-it-received-uk-tcn

Sign our petition https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted

#e2ee #encryption #apple #google #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #tech

Elon Musk's favorite supposed data expert, who he's retweeted at least a dozen times, claims she can only process 60,000 rows of data before her "hard drive overheats".

Perhaps someone should rescue her from where she's apparently stuck twenty years in the past, which is the only possible explanation for those hardware limitations and the apparent lack of access to cloud compute.

Unless, of course, she's just completely making shit up.

#USpol #USpolitics