⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@0xabad1dea
I read a post recently that outlined a likely reason: Facebook needs to stay a growth company unless they want to lose most of their value. It's the same reason NFTs moved into AI and why AI is simultaneously a god that will change everything and a poor word guesser.

Once a company transitions from "growth" to "stable" they lose the ability to print stock that will be accepted like money and their valuation tanks fast. That's why they keep making up bullshit that will never do anything -- to keep from maturing.

@neil in case you have not seen it already here's a thread with an overview and links (that I think you've already found) for further digging

https://mastodon.pirateparty.be/@surfhosting/115674236291033568

But TL;DR is that someone with little, if any, public OSS history has access to taking over maintenance with no warning or any other communication from the original maintainer. While there appears to not be any malicious changes on the new releases the whole process is suspicious AF. So I'd recommend disabling auto-updates

If anyone in the UK wants to purchase a Scanning Electron Microscope there is a very good deal on eBay UK right now. 🙂

Will probably need extensive reconditioning and setup as well as a large space to house it. But fuck that would be cool to own and use 😁

https://ebay.us/m/sS6kfe

~ £350 plus £180 for delivery.

#SEM #UK #Microscope

@book I don't get why this is such a big deal? After some research, it looks like they're using local AI models, with the option to use third parties. But... the third parties aren't included by default, you have to go out of your way to enable them. Local AI where nothing gets sent to the server is fine imo

The IAEA has confirmed that the new sarcophagus at Chornobyl lost key safety functions after a drone strike earlier this year,specifically its ability to contain radioactive material.

While no irreversible damage to structural or monitoring systems was found, the agency stresses urgent repairs are needed to prevent further degradation and ensure long-term nuclear safety.

@jmeowmeow @PeterLudemann When I visited ILM in San Rafael when they were filming the "Genesis Effect" sequence for "Wrath of Khan", I had a temptation to stick my hand between the CRT that was slowly drawing each frame and the camera pointed at the CRT that would click off completed frames. I didn't do it though.

I have trouble keeping track of these, so I was happy seeing this article: What does a blue USB port mean? I learned the truth behind all the colors, and it's wild https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-does-your-usb-port-color-mean/

Let me get this right: the person who is praising the destruction of fishing boats, who has sent masked thugs into US cities to kidnap children and wrest families apart, who is threatening Somalian-Americans and trying to influence EU politics while threatening Venezuela with massed naval forces and an airspace blockage, has been given a FIFA peace prize.

Don't they have enough hooligans to contend with at their football matches already?

#FIFA #FIFAPeacePrize #uspol #Trump

Cold War Steve

🚨 NEW: One of the largest COVID-19 vaccine studies ever (28 MILLION people in France) just dropped.

Results?
• 74% lower risk of death from severe COVID-19
• 25% lower risk of all-cause mortality
• No increase in 4-year mortality
• Vaccinated people had lower risk of death from any cause.
In short: mRNA vaccines weren’t just safe — they were protective across the board. 🔥📉 https://shorturl.at/GcZeK

We have our first victim of overreacting to the React vuln - the Cloudflare global outage was them taking down their own service while trying to spot an actually very niche vuln.

I'm really loving how Mastodon has become a refuge for all the grizzled seafarers on the ocean of the internet. They pop up in my feed and their bios all say something like

"I've been online for longer than the internet. I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. 56k modems on fire in the light of Usenet. I watched IRC forks glitter in the dark near the Gateway 3000. All those moments will be lost in slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify."

From my original profile:

https://mastodonapp.uk/@Janeishly/114235187781140336

@Viss I think the mistake was designing a wifi enabled fridge in the first place..

🎵❄️🎵
He sees you when you're sleeping
He knows when you've just ate
He knows full well he's normalizing
A mass surveillance state

AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches before blaming the site! https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/googles-toying-with-nonsense-ai-made-headlines-on-articles-like-ours-in-the-discover-feed-so-please-dont-blame-me-for-clickbait-like-bg3-players-exploit-children/

@TCMuffin

Whilst I'm in no way putting it forwards as a valid excuse, it's apparent that these organisations are being pushed backwards by threats of lawsuits. Imagine being so grubby, that your life is using rightwing funds to bully people out of diversity.

What these groups do need to do is to change their charters and constitutions to allow Trans members, in the same way that the government's response to the supreme court debacle should have been to reword the Act to remove any ambiguity.

But it's easier to throw up their hands in mock regret, a politically expedient solution which gets them off the hook with the phobes, whilst they make clucky apology-adjacent noises at the non-phobes.

Lmao. Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service. Microsoft simply doesn't know how to make profit out of AI because it is not profitable for anyone right now. So they are adding AI to Windows 11, GitHub, Office, and everything else they own, hoping that somewhere, somehow, profit will magically show up for shareholders.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/zig_quits_github_microsoft_ai_obsession/

A vector graphics workstation from the 70s

OK I promised computers, so let’s move to the Tek 4051 I got! Released in 1975, this was based on the 4010 series of terminals, but with a Motorola 6800 computer inside. This machine ran, like so many at the time, BASIC, but with extra subroutines for drawing and manipulating vector graphics. 8KB RAM was standard, but up to 32KB RAM could be in

https://www.osnews.com/story/143944/a-vector-graphics-workstation-from-the-70s/

#RetroComputing