⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Fucking BANGER of an opener in @pluralistic 's latest newsletter:

The Secret IRS Files revealed the fact that many of America's oligarchs pay no tax at all. Some of them even get subsidies intended for poor families, like Jeff Bezos, whose tax affairs are so scammy that he was able to claim to be among the working poor and receive a federal Child Tax Credit, a $4,000 gift from the American public to one of the richest men who ever lived
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https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax

#EatTheRich #AntiCapitalism

Took about an hour, most of which the disk resizing and here is my M1 Air dual booting Fedora with KDE Plasma 6.

Installation process is easy these days *if you read what’s on screen* and can type three letters in a Terminal. There’s no GUI install at this point but once you’re there it looks like a snappy Linux machine on ARM .

Ukrainian drones just struck Russia’s largest explosive manufacturing plant.

The plant, located 900 kilometers inside Russia, produces artillery shells and explosives dropped by aircraft.

This attack is one of several long-range drone attacks targeting sites deep into Russia.

https://kyivindependent.com/ukrainian-drones-struck-largest-factory-for-explosives-in-russia-source-says/

🆕 blog! “You can use text-wrap: balance; on icons”

A fun little CSS experiment! There's a new(ish) feature in CSS which allows you to set the way text is wrapped. Ordinarily, a long line of text might be split at an inopportune time. For example: This very long headline ends with a single word Having a dangling word doesn't always look great. Using text-wrap:balance […]

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10/you-can-use-text-wrap-balance-on-icons/
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#css #HTML

@andypiper I've been considering doing this very thing. Instagram also, my only Meta account 🤢

The ActivityPub talks and chat at @oggcamp have motivated to properly embrace the Fediverse.

A dedicated server has been acquired and initial research on what stack I'll use to self host my own platform from ActivityPub blog comments to, photo rolls, live streams and video hosting 👍

Hopefully this will make for a talk at #oggcamp next year 🙂

I'm headed to London next week. I've never been there. Anyone know of interesting used record stores there? I'm mostly interested in jazz, classical, folk, the odd field recording (the sort of stuff I post here)

@vinylrecords

When I mention that the Commodore Amiga has a multi-planar animation system built into the KickStart ROM, I am not exaggerating! As a professional game developer, you wind up reinventing all of this stuff anyway, so why not just use this?

What other contemporary system even had something remotely close to this?

Do any of the Amiga designers want to comment on this? (RJ Mical, Dale Luck, etc?)

We were on BBC Radio 4's You and Yours this week - Fiona spoke about the growth of repair cafes in the UK, our new reports released this week and they even paid a visit to Huddersfield Repair Cafe where we hear repairs in action!🪛🌱

Listen from 25.45: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0023y04

#RepairCafe #Repair

I received the Gerber files for the PCB of the #MIDI #interface for the #Commodore #Amiga, from a person nicknamed Buttersoft. It's a nice design, employing SMD components that fits inside a standard DB25 shell. They authorized me to publish the files on my webpage, so here they are: http://davbucci.chez-alice.fr/index.php?argument=elettronica/midiint/midiint.inc #retrocomputing #music I like to see that people seem to appreciate my design, based on a few transistors and passive components.

Move slow and fix things.

Fuck Microsoft and Fuck Nadella.

As expected, the 24H2 update installed 'Recall', it can't be uninstalled.

To disable the Microcoft spyware, run this as admin

C:\Windows\System32>Dism /Online /Disable-Feature /Featurename:Recall

Can't vouch that all the people you share your screen, code, IP, private details, will disable theirs. consider NOT sharing anything ever again.

@rabbit @munin As I translated @pluralistic 's DRM talk given at Microsoft oh so long ago I still remember it well. It includes: When his defense asked "Which computer has Jon trespassed upon?" the answer was: "His
own." https://craphound.com/msftdrm.txt Cory, you need to go to Microsoft and repeat the talk, they forgot it in these twenty years.

My favourite line from this:

"anyone still a member of the Conservative party these days may be considered so diehard they are potentially undead"

#ukpolitics

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/18/kemi-badenoch-robert-jenrick-gb-news-tory-contest

MORE FUN FACTS:

it turns out the device has a database on it which lists the location of every single other redbox machine. full addresses.

HTTP is, as always, the poor man's IPC

I've complained about this before, but GitHub projects with a stale bot make me far less likely to want to take the time to carefully report issues. I think it's disrespectful of reporters' time to auto close issues they possibly put a lot of effort into filing. I don't often file bugs against Apple products for the same reason: the bugs just go into a void most of the time with absolutely no feedback, especially if they get closed as duplicates. What's the point of me investing possibly hours of my time writing thorough bug reports if they might just get closed and practically lost without a glance?

Hi. Yes, we have a full outage right now (https://status.codeberg.eu).

This acknowledgment comes from the social media manager that _isn't_ a system administrator. I can't share more details right now, so all I have to say is the following for now: It has been a weird and challenging week, sorry for the inconvenience. ~n

EDIT: We're back for now. :)

Troubled HS2 rail line will run from London Euston to Crewe, LBC understands

https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/hs2-london-euston-to-crewe-labour/

— It's a good start: now budget for the northern connection to Glasgow and Edinburgh, with a branch to the bridge over Beaufort's Dyke leading to Belfast and Dublin. *THEN* we're moving in the right direction!