⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

print "here" must be the most common debugging tool.

Followed closely by print statements with various swear words and emojis that have "implications"

Will you join over 1.9k people who’ve signed our petition to keep what’s stored on Apple iCloud encrypted?

The UK government is gambling with our security and playing into the hands of hackers and criminals.

Send a message: save encryption before more services are hit with technical notices.

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

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

My hot take on Mastodon is that, yes, it doesn’t have the user base of Threads or the “juice” of Bluesky, etc.

But as a journalist, I have no plans to ever completely abandon this platform, because, if nothing else, the *overall structure* is de facto more durable than anything else out there. That durability is proven, and in an unsettled world, could prove vital to getting out information should other platforms fail/get taken down, etc.

Also, folks are mostly pretty nice here.

@neil Here's a story free to be retold regarding "effective age verification technology":

Setting up an account for my middle kid, age 9, on his new gaming toy I entered whatever suitable birth date would make him 18. The service immediately locked the account, claiming irregularities (idk what/how). When I logged in to dispute the service gave him the choice to upload a profile photo as verification.

Realizing he wouldn't pass for 18, and neither myself (50), I went and asked his elder brother. Who's 12.

That worked perfectly. So, I can now from personal experience state that the age verification technology used by one of the biggest companies in the world will allow a 12yo to pass for 18.

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

Here's a cool hack for your Alexa to get it to stop spying on you and your guests:

1. Look for the little cord coming out of it, it's like a thin rubber encased wire

2. Trace the wire back to the end. It should have a little "brick" that's plugged into an "outlet"

3. Remove brick from outlet.

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

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