⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

This October Organic Maps update adds speed limit display in Android Auto, GeoJSON import, recording track statistics, shows OSM description tags (type ?description in the search box to see them), and saves a bookmark on a track on iOS. There are also many improvements to the user interface, OpenStreetMap editing, and various bug fixes across all platforms: https://organicmaps.app/news/2025-10-07/android-auto-speed-limit-geojson-support-recording-track-statistics-osm-description-display/

@tante @slowtiger

This is what the study last year on usage at Google showed: self-reported increase in individual productivity correlated with decrease in overall measured team productivity. People are able to be wrong faster, which slows down everyone around them.

hey wanna see something kinda interesting? this was the entire fix to the iPhone Antennagate in 2010. 20 bytes.

(this is going to be a very long thread 🧵)

Starting day 1 of the @w3c/@ietf@mastodon.online TAG & IAB workshop on Age-Based Restrictions on Content Access.

Adult content, alcohol, social media restrictions, advertising/tracking…We’re looking at the technical and architectural choices in solutions.

https://www.w3.org/events/workshops/2025/iab-w3c-workshop-on-age-based-restrictions-on-content-access/

Prime Day returns on October 7th, and this is the hottest deal yet: save 100% of the price of any item on Amazon BY NOT BUYING IT.

Follow me for more money-saving shopping tips!

@CStamp @mattblaze @QasimRashid

The old truism that men are afraid of women laughing at them, and women are afraid of men killing them is fairly easy to modify for the 21st century.

The GOP are afraid we'll laugh at them, and everyone else is afraid the Grand Old Pedophiles are going to kill us all.

Last month Judge Diane Goodstein ruled against the Trump regime, and blocked the State of South Carolina from giving millions of voter data files to the DOJ.

Last week Harmeet Dhillon of Trump's DOJ openly condemned Judge Goodstein's ruling in a tweet.

Yesterday Trump lackey Stephen Miller called "left wing judges & lawyers" as "terrorists" requiring force to rebuke.

Now this is Judge Goodstein's home, on fire, and being investigated for arson.

Probably just a coincidence.

@MichalBryxi
As for toilets we already have a problem with people questioning the gender of anyone who doesn't look gender conforming (mainly 'butch' CIS woman getting caught by this as far as I can make out) but ID will make this far worse ... and what gender will be on your digital ID?

Given recent pronouncements by Labour it's likely to be birth gender, even if you have a gender recognition certificate, are post op, and have "passed" for years.

Want a beer?
- Where's your digital ID?

Want to claim benefits?
- Where's your digital ID?

Want to use a toilet?
- Where's your digital ID?

Want to take an internal flight?
- Where's your digital ID?

The list goes on and on.

Don't be fooled, sign the petition today.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

2/2

A few days ago Oracle, via the media, blamed their own customers for not installing a July security update.. then when the media coverage stopped, quietly released a new security update for the actual exploited vulnerability. 🥴

Rembrance of the Daleks.

I like how they don’t waste time leaving the Dalek reveal to the end of the episode. Since it’s not a surprise when you name them in the title sequence.

Extra budget for the anniversary allows levitating Dalek! Not the first time one has levitated, but rare considering the challenges required.

Lots of little references in this one.

Fun stuff.

#DoctorWho #ClassicWho #7thDoctor #SylvesterMcCoy #Daleks #Ace #SophieAldred

Having lived through Jack Straw and David Blunkett's terms as Home Secretary I had no particular optimism that Starmer's pick would be any better, but Mahmood is knocking the authoritarianism right out of the ball park: seems to have calibrated her jackboots against those worn by Patel and Braverman.

This is just so cool!

#GameBoy #Lego

I would like to transfer my old #macos and #windows #plugin licenses to new owners. For small money.

My goal is simple: make a little money while bringing joy and utility to someone else. 😇

https://amadeuspaulussen.com/blog/2025/plugin-licenses-for-macos-windows-for-sale

#musicproduction #secondhand

#MetropolitanPolice in #London have yet again courageously defended the city against #terrorists with hand-written signs opposing #genocide in #Gaza and supporting #PalestineAction. The arrestees included a #blind man with a cane, and — for the third time — 83yo retired priest Rev Sue Parfitt.

There's no cntrl+F, but there's also no computer involved.

Edit: what I mean to say is, look mum, no computer.

⚠️ Call to action: Use your retro IBM-compatible PCs to help the MegaZeux DOS port! ⚠️

In the late 90s/early 00s, MegaZeux introduced a mode called "Super MegaZeux": using an undefined behaviour of enabling 256-color VGA mode in text mode, it allowed the use of 256 colors on some graphics chipsets.

We'd like to know which graphics chipsets these are. Legacy compatibility lists are very limited and of poor quality, so we're building a new one. Here's how you can help:

1. Get your retro PCs out. The only requirement is a VGA-compatible graphics chipset; any 8086+ laptops and desktops are supported otherwise.
2. Download and run SMZXTEST.EXE from https://asie.pl/files/smzxtest.zip
3. Take a photo of the screen! (If you want, take another photo after pressing A to see if an alternate undefined mode works better on your machine.)
4. Reply with the photos and a description of the machine (which graphics chipset/card it uses; for laptops, a model of the laptop is also welcome).
5. Once verified, I'll add it to the list at https://www.digitalmzx.com/wiki/Super_MegaZeux#Compatibility

Thank you in advance and good luck!

if this ai bullshit was really a "singularity" you'd see people vibe coding a better AI, not generating videos of a man eating spaghetti

Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet.

The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

#Perseverance #NASA #Mars #Mars2020 #Solarocks #3IAtlas #Astronomy #Astrodon

On October 14, the EU will vote on the so-called Chat Control — a dystopian law which will require messaging apps to facilitate mass surveillance.

President of Signal Foundation Meredith Whittaker says, if the EU adopts the law, her organisation will pull their Signal app from the EU market.

I am both angered and worried by the prospects. Encrypted communication is absolutely crucial, when I speak to sources in countries where people are killed for talking.

Read more:

https://netzpolitik.org/2025/anlasslose-massenueberwachung-messenger-signal-wird-deutschland-verlassen-wenn-chatkontrolle-kommt/#netzpolitik-pw