⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Finally something I recorded fits on bandcamp!

This is a 24min live mix from this weekend. 24bit, highest quality flac.

It's good old fashioned wompy acid techno with fresh, locally sourced ingredients just like your grandma used to make it.
 
https://ld50303.bandcamp.com/track/stb-liveset-2026-05-25

boosts appreciated, enjoy :)

#music #dawless #liveset #techno #womp

If you're looking for some light, not-entirely-depressing, reading: My recent newsletter is all about how live music serves an exceptional role in bringing people together, how it seems to be having a renaissance, and why AI "music" is so offensive. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/music-ai-c...

The Mothership Connection

Similar story at Microsoft about the cost of AI tools.

Microsoft will cancel most Claude Code licenses by June 30. It has another motive as well - to move engineers toward using its own GitHub Copilot CLI product.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/
https://quasa.io/media/microsoft-is-pulling-claude-code-from-its-core-product-teams-and-forcing-a-switch-to-github-copilot-cli
#AI
2/n

@weirdtreething I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, systemd/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the systemd corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the systemd system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of systemd which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the systemd system, developed by the systemd Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the systemd operating system: the whole system is basically systemd with Linux added, or systemd/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of systemd/Linux.

HP QuickWeb, Singular & Pointless

https://gekk.info/articles/hp-quickweb.htm

<- 15Y ago, in a last gasp of HP innovation, it offered _3_ DIFFERENT pre-boot environments that gave you The Internet quicker than Windows booted – 2 of them just for Outlook!

Absolutely astounding stuff.

Please share! 🎉🎉🎉

This campaign is for Technofascism Survival Guide, the book that I'm publishing in a couple of weeks or so.

It's timely because of shit like this: Palantir, OpenAI, and the entire "AI industry" collaborating with the US government for technofascism.

My book is full of advice for good, ordinary people. There are lawful ways that you can protect yourself.

I know it looks like my campaign raised a lot, but that's a cumulative total since January.

I need your late pledges to pay my rent.
My Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/

Please share! #palantir #NoAI

Classy Lady ☕

#CodeGals #Art #FediArt #MastoArt #Krita #DigitalArt

For they were, all of them, deceived.
For the Dark Lord Sauron had embedded deep within his EULA the right to change the terms and conditions without notice
And once the users had become dependent on the service
He started increasing the cost of his tokens

@jorge @2something @LAS Lmao at you being weirdly rude and dismissive turning into a minor PR disaster for Flatpak

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/I86HqEwd5I

It truly costs nothing to be kind when someone asks you a genuine question.

@MichaelBishop Funny you say that, I was just thinking a bit nostalgically about old Yahoo and AltaVista.

There are companies that would do this for us. They would also charge us six figures to do so. We're just hobbyists. We ain't got that sort of money. Nobody's gonna drop that kind of cash just so that future generations can run Commander Keen slightly more accurately.

There are only a handful of people on the planet that are set up to do this as a hobby, and unfortunately most of them are retired from the art.

If you know anyone who can do implant ROM staining and is willing to be compensated for their time, effort, and materials, please get in touch. We have hundreds of 286's (seriously). We are willing to send them anywhere on the globe.

The Space Shuttle could hold a flying laboratory called Spacelab in its cargo bay. Three French-made computers ran Spacelab. I opened up a Spacelab computer and found that instead of a microprocessor, it is built from a multitude of simple chips. Let's take a closer look at the computer...

Toto just told Kimi to STFU on the radio for the second time.

#f1 #formula1 #canadiangp

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #microcode #reverseengineering

THIS BITMAP RUNS DOOM

I'm incredibly pleased to announce that the microcode for the Intel 80386 has been decoded.

It was a group effort by a bunch of talented people to extract and correct the physical bits, but the major work of decoding them was done by reenigne - you may know him from such incredible PC demos as 8088 MPH and Area 5150, as well as being the person who decoded the 8088 microcode previously.

Please, check out his writeup.

https://www.reenigne.org/blog/80386-microcode-disassembled/

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #microcode #reverseengineering

Access to information shouldn't be ransomed for our personal data.

We’ve gone from ID checks for porn to potentially age-gating social media, livestreams, websites and more.

Safety doesn't come from a surveillance-based Internet 🚫

Respond to the UK consultation by 26 May ➡️ https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation

#onlinesafety #ageverification #privacy #digitalID #ukpolitics #ukpol