⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Prime's gonna add more ads. They brought in ads in January, and people didn't cancel their Prime subscriptions, so Amazon figures that they can make Prime even worse and make more money:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/10/amazon-prime-video-is-getting-more-ads-next-year/

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/03/mother-may-i/#minmax

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Tor Books has just published two new, free "Little Brother" stories: "Vigilant," about creepy surveillance in distance education:

https://reactormag.com/spill-cory-doctorow/

And "Spill," about oil pipelines and indigenous landback:

https://reactormag.com/vigilant-cory-doctorow/

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Just an FYI, on Thursday (2 days) we will be re-attemping our 5-in-1 update. It will be a very major update so expected as much as 3-days downtime as we are finally moving to the new architecture. We **will** be up at the other end with hopefully everything working and a few new features.

I am still as excited about computers, networks, and the law as I was when I first started out in this space 24ish years ago. I hope to continue for years to come.

But wow have I got grumpier, and more concerned, in that time.

Day by day, Free software, and the rights of privacy and freedom of expression, feel ever more important to me.

So it was only a hundred years ago- 1924 -when someone figured out the Sun, and all the rest of the stars, were made mostly of hydrogen with some helium. All the other elements were in trace amounts

She was a student at Harvard named Cecilia Payne.

At the time the consensus was that stars were made up of pretty much what Earth was made of.

It took 4 more years for a man to claim the discovery before it was widely accepted, with him as discoverer.

It's all hers now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecilia_Payne-Gaposchkin

@mcc This is the writeup: www.evilsocket.net/2024/09/26/Attacking-UNIX-systems-via-CUPS-Part-I/

When you build vehicles with remote functionality, you get security and privacy problems like this. For the love of God, please stop building cars with the ability to lock/unlock, stop/start the engine from an app or a website.

https://www.wired.com/story/kia-web-vulnerability-vehicle-hack-track/

We accept donated hardware, including old servers.

Currently, we are in need of Dell R710 power supply units - in case someone has one to spare.

LG Smart TVs have started displaying ads when idle https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/26/24254935/lg-smart-tv-oled-screensaver-ads-idle-mode

Five years ago exactly I was setting up my Micropolis MOCs in the Lego House Masterpiece Gallery wondering how on earth I had got there, it was very surreal. It still feels like I dreamt it!
So I’m wishing all the new exhibitors a fantastic setup day today - I know they will enjoy all the experiences that Master Builder Stuart & the team have planned for them, & they will make some great AFOL friends along the way.
PS. HOW is it 5 years ago?!

#LEGO #AFOL #Microscale #Micropolis #BlockHeadUK

Nerds! My friend James needs your help to rescue #Teletext data from lots of old #VHS tapes.

https://takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/my-vhs-nightmare

If you can assist - please contact him directly.

For users of Avanti's West Coast rail line a disappointment;

Despite the rubbish service, legal advice gained by the Department of Transport seems to indicate that the firm has not broken is legal/contractural obligations & thus cannot be stripped of its franchise.

So, that means nationalisation will only happen at the end of the contract (one of longest waits of any franchise)... but also, might prompt the Q.

If this service doesn't break their legal obligations what would?

#railways
h/t FT

Retro gamers!

Please tell me: how do you pronounce the word “Psygnosis?”

I’ve always pronounced it SIGH-gnosis and that’s my hill to die on and I don’t care what the official pronunciation is.

So there.

(Boosts much appreciated, I’ve only just found out that the official pronunciation is SIG-nosis and I don’t like it)

#RetroGaming
#Psygnosis
#Amiga
#Atari
#Commodore
#AtariST
#PlayStation

Tetris turned 40 in 2024.

Feel free to boost this if you are older than Tetris.

#Tetris #RetroGaming #OldGamer #VideoGames #Tetris40

Oh good, fb made itself incompatible with Slim Social 3.x again, so that'll wean me off fb nicely.