⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

In 1985, #commodore commissioned Andy Warhol to demonstrate its new #amiga computer. Jeff Bruette, the software engineer who assisted Warhol, was one of only two people who thought to keep copies of the original files. Last week, he came forward. #retrocomputing https://dfarq.homeip.net/andy-warhols-lost-amiga-art-found/

Twitter unbanned Tommy Robinson, which is driving a lot of this. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cl4y0453nv5o

@simon

every now and then i feel like im taking crazy pills because i remember when aaron swartz killed himself because he was going to go to jail forever because he scraped JSTOR,

and twenty years later your manager tells you “sshhhh it’s fine just scrape all of it don’t worry the CEO said it’s fine”

As Yvette Cooper (Home Secretary) and others set out the responsibility of social media firms for inciting the hatred & violence over the weekend, it must be time to examine the posts of various prominent Far Rightists (including the ubiquitous Mr Farage) and explore charges of incitement - as this was exactly what they were doing.

Social media firms are unlikely to act, so the police should be acting in the real world in which the incitement played out....

#riots #socialmedia

UK Government and Media seem to be offering “fix the internet” as only suggestion to fight far-right extremism, while failing to acknowledge the racism and Islamophobia at its core. #UKRiots #ToleranceParadox

The whole AI thing has me endlessly confused. Half the market is crashing because investors didn't see any signs of payoff in the quarterly earnings report, but I'm so lost as to what exactly they were expecting to see. Did they just not pay any attention at all to what these companies were actually doing with AI?

Were they expecting exponential Instagram usage growth as a result of Meta making it so you can have a conversation with the search bar? Or maybe everyone was going to buy 10 new Windows licenses in celebration of Microsoft announcing they want to install AI powered spyware on everyone's computer? Or was Google going to sell more ads by replacing all the search results with reddit shitposts. Either I'm missing something or everyone's 2 remaining brain cells are just really busy fighting to death for 3rd place.

@fesshole
You are Eccentrica Gallumbits and I claim my £5!

Toilets that signal *what* the infrastructure is, rather than *who* can enter.

📍: Bruges, Belgium

The Space Shuttle had a 59-pound printer on board, known as the Interim Teleprinter. Putting this heavy printer in orbit cost $1.5 million per flight, but it was a key piece of flight hardware,
providing the astronauts with mission plans, weather reports, and other documents from Mission Control. Let's take a look inside... 1/12

Okay, story time. I was asked for the tale of my laser eye injury, so here you go. I'm fine. Customers were fine. No children were harmed. The only victims were me and Bob's career. https://www.funraniumlabs.com/2024/07/how-i-got-my-laser-eye-injury/

If Codeberg is trying to "compete" against GitHub and GitLab, why does it refuse to take a look at AI assistants? Apart from infringing on authors' rights and questionable output quality, we think that the current hype wave led by major companies will leave a climate disaster in its wake: https://disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster/

Other _sustainable_ (and cheaper!) ways for increasing efficiency in software development exist: In-project communication, powerful automation pipelines and reducing boilerplate.

I have been writing C/C++ for like 35 years and *STILL* it feels like every single time I attempt to include a library into a project is a magical snowflake of an experience that somehow none of my prior years of experience have prepared me for

So many social norms are entirely based around nobody ever hitting F12 and looking at the network traffic

The "Stop Destroying Videogames" European Citizens Initiative petition just went live.

If you think it's wrong for publishers to add online-only requirements to their games and then make the games unplayable a few years later when the servers turn off, this is the petition to stop that practice.

Petition: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2024/000007_en

Petition explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkMe9MxxZiI

#gaming #games #eu #europeanunion #europe

The VP of engineering at Canonical doesn’t use ubuntu as a daily driver? That’s… a data point I guess.

https://lobste.rs/s/hetkwz

Do I have any road engineers among my followers?

I’m struck by the high road noise on this bus, but it was the same cycling in Cork yesterday.

Do Ireland (and UK too I think?) lay their tarmac differently to everyone else in the EU? It seems 3-4cm gravel chips are rolled into the tarmac - and do the gaps at the edge of these chips then result in more noise?

Dutch government announces that they'll make Mastodon available to all layers of the entire Dutch government, as a shared service of the government, starting in 2025!

The Mastodon pilot of the government celebrates their 1-year anniversary today, and as part of the evaluation they stated the Mastodon pilot "strengthens digital autonomy and [creates] a safe and reliable information supply".

Announcement (in Dutch): https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/1-jarig-mastodon-overheid-blikt-terug-en-vooruit/

Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works

https://www.theregister.com/2024/07/31/vanilla_os_friendly_radical/

In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so

<- by me on @theregister