⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

God stop trying to tell me about the problems with X11, I worked at SUN FUCKING MICROSYSTEMS

Thirty years ago today, Socket Communications announced the PageCard Wireless Messaging System for the Apple #PowerBook and Newton #MessagePad.

#AppleNewton
#Retrocomputing
#LookMaNoWires

https://web.archive.org/web/19991007064519/http://product.info.apple.com/pr/press.releases/1996/q1/951011.pr.rel.socket.html

Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for each one. That’s how skewed this whole nonsense is.

20 years ago, Hayabusa (original flavour) collected a sample from asteroid Itokawa. Damaged by the largest solar flare in recorded history, the spacecraft still successfully returned the sample capsule to Earth in 2010. With no way to save the spacecraft, the JAXA team rotated Hayabusa so that its cameras could see Earth one final time before burning up in the atmosphere 🛰️.

When #Scotland comes to #Cheshire.
#macclesfield

Excellent post by @arya on the @frameworkcomputer mess.

https://crimier.github.io/posts/Framework-Omarchy/

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Multiple things can be true at once.

Nirav seems to be a genuinely good guy. I don't think he's racist or bigoted.

Framework is investing a tremendous amount of time, money, and effort into improving the Linux ecosystem and making the best hardware I have ever used (I love my Framework 13).

At the same time, Framework has also decided to actively fund projects that (at minimum) allow members to express white supremacist, anti-LGBTQ views on platforms (Discord) moderated by the projects.

If you build an app that is fighting fascism, anywhere in the world, please reach out. I’d be delighted to offer as much free accessibility consulting as you need.
#accessibility

Free upcoming webinar about the #OnlineSafetyAct, for people who run small, low risk, sites/services.

# Ofcom Q&A: the OSA for Very Small Low-Risk Websites

> ​A Q&A session with Ali Hall from Ofcom and colleagues, organised by Careful Industries. Please submit questions in advance on topics relating to compliance with the Online Safety Act. Deadline for questions is 15 October; please submit them using the event booking form.

Sadly - and don't let this put you off - I will not be there.

https://luma.com/rhah4fbl

@Strandjunker
Go to The Hague. Go directly to The Hague. Do not pass Stockholm. Do not collect a Nobel Peace Prize.

Over the next 24 months, GitHub will be migrating its entire infrastructure to Azure. This infrastructure priority will result in delays to some feature development. This is the last step to kill the complete independence of Github and tighten up the grip on GitHub. https://thenewstack.io/github-will-prioritize-migrating-to-azure-over-feature-development/

🎉 Big #WIN for student privacy! 🔒 Austria’s DPA has issued a decision finding that #Microsoft 365 Education illegally tracks pupils and uses student data for Microsoft's own purposes.

📰 Read the full blog post, including a comment by Max #Schrems 👉 https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-win-microsoft-365-education-tracks-school-children

"Asking enslaved people if they actually want to work the plantations for free would kill the cotton industry."

-- Nick Clegg

#AI #AIcon #exploitation #BigTech

Windows Product Activation Creator Reveals Truth Behind XP's Most Notorious Product Key https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/09/1850202/windows-product-activation-creator-reveals-truth-behind-xps-most-notorious-product-key?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

The AI Bubble is also a data center bubble, and by extension a commercial/industrial real estate bubble.

When it pops, it’s not just going to affect tech workers. It’s also going to hit construction workers, electricians, plumbers, and pipefitters, to name a few.

And we’re suddenly going to have a shitload of giant data centers, many sitting on what used to be residential land — the 2020s answer to dead malls.

#aibubble

@kevin @mcc Just be glad you're not over here: is the option you need listed as "United Kingdom", "Great Britain", "Britain" or (variously) "England", "Wales", "Scotland", "Northern Ireland"?

"no way to prevent this from happening" says identity verification industry where this didn't happen until they came along

https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/115344945575874225

So we remain vigilant & deeply grateful to our allies.

For Signal, Chat Control is an existential threat. If we were *forced* to choose between building surveillance into our services or keeping our integrity, we would choose integrity & leave the market. We hope it never comes to this. 7/