⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

It seems that we are about to see the PC hardware market collapse due to suffocation.

But perhaps this will be a blessing in disguise. Perhaps it will pull us out of this spiral where manufacturers constantly renew everything every year, if not more often, and usher in an era where we are all forced to make our machines last, and not just those who feel even slightly concerned about it.

Perhaps it will finally put global software development back on the path to optimisation, instead of ever-increasing resource consumption.

Users continue to struggle with the electronic patient record

One year after launch, the ePA is falling short of expectations. Doctors still complain about technical problems, and many insured people see little benefit.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Users-continue-to-struggle-with-the-electronic-patient-record-11181614.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#DigitalHealth #elektronischePatientenakteePA #Wirtschaft #news

I also managed to build some Tokens of Appreciation to give to the great MOCs I see at Bricktastic. As my Rainbow Dancers build sarted out as the Everyone is Awesome set, it meant I had a few Monofigs going spare, so I gave them an accessory and a stand. And of course, a fleet of tiny spaceships.
#LEGO #MOC #AFOL #BlockHeadUK

@liamvhogan

Biblically accurate outlet

https://kind.social/@PurpleJillybeans/115009836419952013

Overproduction

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater

So far 36/85 repositories moved from #github to #codeberg

Each needs small amounts of work.

- Sort git hub pasted images in README
- Migrate over, including issues and maybe wiki
- Add Claude refusal to new README.
- Delete old repository.
- Make replacement with README linking to new repository.
- Reset URL on any cloned copies.
- Check all submodule usage in all other repositories, update URL, and commit.
- Also update some internal Makefiles in some places for new URL.

A gradual process.

Microsoft loves to play word games stating that *they* did not evict the chief International Criminal Court prosecutor from the cloud. But this is exactly what they did, and now they are trying to correct the UK parliamentary record, where they had tried to spin this (incorrectly): https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/microsoft_asks_uk_parliament_to_correct_record/

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,

By popular demand! 🔥

We've set up a PeerTube channel where you can watch the global release of Nextcloud Hub 26 Winter.

📅 18 Feb, 2 PM (CET)
📍 Online global premiere

https://peertube.nextcloud.com/c/nextcloud/videos

In the next few months, we will keep adding footage to this newly created channel.

Joining us on PeerTube? We're looking forward to seeing you there!

But don't forget to still register to get access to the free post-launch instant trial!

👉 https://nextcloud.com/special-event-winter26/

We monitor how much traffic we get from each country per day to check errors/blocking etc. (as I've previously mentioned).

Big drop-off recently from Angola & as usual it's an ISP (TV Cabo) changing their "is the internet working" config.

That prompted me to (again) look at how much we're serving to Fortigate "is the internet working" checks per month, roughly:

- 109 million web pages
- 10 Terabytes of egress

What a waste.

Make `head` requests rather than `get`, please!

#BBC #WebStats

𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐚𝐦 - #ECSA2026
"𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑎 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑠𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑚𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑎 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛." - Magdalena Schieferdecker​

Meet everyone: https://www.ecsa.ngo/team-new/

"15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram"
https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/

this becomes less funny when you remember every Microsoft employee is mandated to morge 🫠

People should be able to write software for Android, and distribute it outside Google's Play store, without having to:

* pay Google
* give government ID to Google
* agree to Google terms and conditions

People should be able to install the software they want on their phone, from sources other than Google's Play store, without having to jump through Google-imposed hoops.

e.g. via F-Droid.

We've got until September this year to stop Google squeezing the open Android ecosystem.

https://keepandroidopen.org/

The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

If an "AI" company can sell you access to software that will replace a $250k/year software engineer. They're going to charge $249k/year for it.

That's how capitalism works.

Well, they're going to charge $20k/year at first, during the land rush phase. Wait for some competitors to die off. Keep it low a while longer to kill off the incumbents. Then it'll jump up a bunch, before finally being even more expensive than the original thing.

See also: Uber & AirBnB.

Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Gentoo-Starts-Codeberg-Use

#ai #copilot #github #gentoo #opensource

@Wen I avoid their brand entirely because of the actions of the owners. Not bad beer, but to be honest I prefer a lot of other real ales over them even before their continual bad behaviour.