⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

You might think: well maybe there’s a good scientific or engineering reason to test nuclear weapons and I’m here to tell you nah there isn’t

LinkedIn user in the UK, EU, Switzerland, Canada, or Hong Kong? Heads-up. LinkedIn has given you until Monday to stop AI from training on your profile

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/linkedin-gives-you-until-monday-to-stop-ai-from-training-on-your-profile

So after Angela Rayner was forced to resign of a housing management issue it now transpires the Chancellor has also broken (a different) housing law; this time renting a house out without a licence in an area where such a license was required.

We're going to see a lot of briefing form No.10 about how this is completely different from Rayner, but as so often Keir Starmer will make a decision based on how seriously the right wing press take the infraction....

#politics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd04d0yxnrvo

The Pentagon planning a 20,000 troop force for operations within the U.S., against Americans. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/29/pentagon-memo-quick-reaction-forces

Amazon:

Come back to the office or get fired.

You had to sell your house and move back? Oh well.

Oh BTW you’re fired.

And we helped pay for the Epstein Ballroom.

Who else remembers how we used to sync our iPods 24 years ago?

Steinberg Releases ASIO and VST Audio Interfaces Under Open-Source Licenses

Software developers can integrate the audio interfaces into open-source software in the future. This paves the way for broader use under Linux.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Steinberg-Releases-ASIO-and-VST-Audio-Interfaces-Under-Open-Source-Licenses-10963451.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Audio #GNUGPL #IT #OpenSource #news

I guess I'll get used to it but I'm currently at the "regret" part of the Five Stages of Upgrading MacOS.

#doctorwho 🥳

This is biggish news I think.

Disney+ Doctor Who is over.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9wvy88eeeeo

#DoctorWho

JLR parent Tata Motors somehow put their AWS secret keys on their own website

https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/tata-motors-confirms-it-fixed-security-flaws-that-exposed-company-and-customer-data/

I'be started using "Look, it was the *nineties*!" to justify every bad decision I've ever made or questionable opinion I've ever held. It works surprisingly well.

Since the Harvard Astronomer is getting excited about the Wow! signal now, this is worth boosting:

“[...] We report the detection of narrowband signals (10 kHz) near the hydrogen line similar to the Wow! Signal, although two-orders of magnitude less intense and in multiple locations. Despite the similarities, these signals are easily identifiable as small interstellar clouds of cold hydrogen (HI) in the galaxy. We hypothesize that the Wow! Signal was caused by a sudden brightening of the hydrogen line in these clouds triggered by a strong transient radiation source, such as a magnetar flare or a soft gamma repeater (SGR). A maser flare or superradiance mechanisms can produce stimulated emission consistent with the Wow! Signal. Our hypothesis explains all observed properties of the Wow! Signal, proposes a new source of false positives in technosignature searches, and suggests that the Wow! Signal could be the first recorded event of an astronomical maser-like flare in the hydrogen line.”

https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.08513

#Google trips over its own words, when they sell you #Android it's the best computing device in the world that does everything. After you bought it Google doesn't let you do anything *you* want to.

#Sideload is a made-up term. Putting software on your computer is simply called “installing”, regardless of whether that computer is in your pocket or on your desk.

What Do You Talk About When You Talk About Sideloading?

What does Google?

Here's #FDroid: https://f-droid.org/2025/10/28/sideloading.html

Why don’t monsters eat ghosts?

I have nothing but respect and sympathy for @ThePSF in their decision to withdraw from the NSF grant program in order not to compromise on their mission to keep #Python a diverse and welcoming open source community

It's hard to turn down that kind of money

So, here's my .02c for it, metaphorically. I'll personally make a $1000 donation to help fill in that gap. There are certainly 1500 of us who can spare that much, in the global python community. Who's with me?

https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/115446659188615376