⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

can a UI designer (preferably one who works at microsoft) tell me why there's a link in windows settings labelled "changing taskbar colour", which opens a bing search in edge for "change windows 11 taskbar colour site:microsoft.com", with colours spelt the UK way, which shows zero results but has a suggestion box containing a button labelled "open colors setting", with colours spelt the US way, which opens a new tab which asks if you'd like edge to open settings, which opens the windows settings app to the colour personalisation page, only to have the "set taskbar colour" switch be greyed out

Picture collection: Update of the Amiga Graphics Archive
Four images from Island Graphics from 1985 have now been added to the collection of early Amiga graphics:
https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2024-11-00075-EN.html

Let's Encrypt is 10 years old today!
Let's Encrypt is a free, automated, and open certificate authority brought to you by the nonprofit Internet Security Research Group (ISRG). Huge thanks to everyone involved in making HTTPS available to everyone for free

https://letsencrypt.org/

#tech #technology #security #privacy #encryption #https #letsencrypt #ISRG

The Power of The Cloud, with Azure! I'm 12% loaded after 50 minutes.

If you like watching game launch car crashes: https://www.reddit.com/r/flightsim/new/

Report: DOJ wants to force Google Chrome sale, Android de-bundling
Cutting off Google's control of the world's most popular browser may be necessary.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/11/report-doj-wants-to-force-google-chrome-sale-android-de-bundling/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Our article on passkeys has been published in The Register, where it is generating some spirited debate. https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/17/passkeys_passwords/

In ~82-83 my dad got a behind the scenes tour of the Jodrell Bank radio #astronomy centre, near us in #manchester , I vaguely remember being taken along.
Here are some pictures from it; including the control desk of the classic Mark 1/Lovell telescope.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodrell_Bank_Observatory

#retro

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon & the Fediverse whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

Some way towards exiting the #Apple ecosystem. I've been using a #fairphone for a while now (18 months) with de-Googled @murena ; and @linuxmint on the desktop. Final piece is my Apple laptop, which I'm replacing with a @frameworkcomputer

So far so good!

Yes, please help Mozilla find their way. Make absolutely sure to tell them to stop dicking around with AI. Like fill in all the optional fields with that info.

Also telling them not to keep hands off of advertising might make sense (even though the questionnaire is from the foundation not the corporation, but that distinction is mostly BS)

https://mamot.fr/@Siltaer/113487305585943186

This is an experiment. Please boost.

http://mastoddosnt.ddns.net/

Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.

I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

12 years of #Scarfolk (and my life) now deleted from Twitter/X...
The many political reasons aside, X's change to its Terms of Service are damaging for creatives, as their work - and all your data infact - is now training #AI.

The #xodus escalates. Most of these accounts that are no longer following mine in the last week are listed as “deactivated by user.”

Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind was released 47 years ago today.

What a fantastic movie.

Mozilla has a "what should we focus on?" survey where you can encourage them to focus on privacy, the open web, disinformation or open source.

Just in case anyone feels like adding another "NOT THE FUCKING AI, YOU IDIOTS" voice to the mix.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100

#Mozilla #Survey #GenAI

Mastodon is benefitting from the #X exodus (eXodus?) too: The official app downloads are up 47% on iOS and 17% on Android. Sign-ups are up approx. 27% compared to previous month with about 90K new accounts, while the MAU has jumped to 894K (across all Mastodon servers).

BREAKING: Ruby Rhod arrested in Fhloston Paradise after Governor Zorg's new anti-drag law goes into effect. Was Gemini Croquettes too "woke" in speaking out in support of Rhod? We'll ask some average Mangalores in this Fhloston diner, after the break.

Siri, show me physical technical debt

(We’re clearing out at least 30 years’ worth of accumulated cabling under a datacentre raised floor. Lots of voice copper, co-ax (voice and Ethernet), serial cables and even some AppleTalk!)