⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Very happy to announce that @tomcoates and I have been given a #SummerOfProtocols grant to develop an end-to-end encryption (E2EE) protocol for #ActivityPub, including a reference implementation and a report to submit to the W3C SocialCG.

https://forum.summerofprotocols.com/t/sop-2024-pig-and-pog-grantees/1270

I think about this story more than I probably should https://www.gq.com/story/the-last-true-hermit

Team Amos #TheExpanse

“How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland? | by Anna Andersen”

Glad somebody wrote about this because it’s an objectively hilarious UX case study

(And they just announced that eleven people managed to get the requisite number of endorsements in time) https://uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-accidentally-run-for-president-of-iceland-0d71a4785a1e

@josephcox too low. How exactly is that a deterrent. I bet they made a lot more money selling the data.

6th October 2003 was the happiest day of my life. Nothing before or since brought me such joy, not marriage nor the birth of my kids. It was the day I saw Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson live on stage in Plymouth.

If the Conservatives win the next general election they'll try and abolish Manchester, won't they.

(Not Greater Manchester's Mayor or Council: they'll abolish the entire city.)
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ukelections/112349894259646079

@RebelGeek99 @peter Actually, Peter, you're misinformed - @actuallybot isn't a simple bot that replies with generic insults, but rather an AI-powered tool designed to provide expert-level corrections and context. And, actually, your custom model is likely based on LLaMA 3B, not LLama3:8b (which doesn't exist).

On what would have been his 76th birthday, here's the essay I wrote for the 2019 edition of WYRD SISTERS, by Terry Pratchett. #GNU. https://ko-fi.com/post/Remembering-Terry-Pratchett-I3I7XFZXI

Apparently there’s a conspiracy theory that 15-minute cities are urban prisons where residents must wear QR codes that track their restricted movements. As opposed to the reality: mixed-use neighbourhoods so handy that signposts can use walking minutes as the unit of distance to the library, theatres, cafés, community services, museums, parks and shops.

#Aarhus
#LiveableCities
#WeApologiseForTheConvenience

I'm finally ready to present you the second version of my #Orca #Tetris patch.

- Controls are much more responsive now, no delay felt at all
- Type and orientation of the piece is always monitored to prevent it from going out of the field
- Line deletion is bug free now. It scans every line after every placed piece and clears the filled ones one by one
- Overall while being much more complex, the code takes up much less space

This is definitely the most complex thing I made in Orca.

#SunVox

Anyone who thinks performance doesnt matters because 5G exists hasn't used the web on a train

To celebrate Alien Day yesterday, the director of the upcoming Alien: Romulus, Fede Alvarez, posted a short video of himself having fun with a radio controlled face hugger on set.

To save you having to visit THAT social media site, here's the video.

If you really want #passkeys put them in a password manager you control. But don't use a platform controlled passkey store, and be very careful with security keys. https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/

Trying to watch this final season of Star Trek Discovery, but I’m bouncing off it hard. I kind of stuck through the previous seasons but I just don’t care much, and if feels like all the characters were never on the same set.