⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

I have actually had #GitHub #Copilot enabled for me for free for several years and I can tell you the exact number of times I have used it: zero (0)

#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #Signal #privacy
So proud of my family. After two years of badgering them about privacy, this weekend the entire 10 member family group text chat moved to Signal. Even my 73 year old sister, who thinks she is the matriarch of the family and still can't do a Zoom call, said just tell me how to do it and less than 2 hours later she was on. ❤️ OK...I'll work on the Amazon problem next.

🚨 Today, we have filed our second complaint against Ryanair.

👉 The airline nudges customers towards a highly invasive biometric facial regonition process to verify their account.

👉 Customers are also forced to create a permanent Ryanair account

https://noyb.eu/en/want-book-ryanair-flight-prepare-face-scan

Framework 13 AMD Review on Linux: Almost Perfect (and a Capable Gaming Machine!): https://boilingsteam.com/framework-13-amd-review-on-linux/
#framework #laptop #linux #linuxgaming #update #release #hardware #gaming #proton #steam #review

#HomeAssistant opened the annual user survey, link is in the blog posting. If you are a user, go and help shaping the next features.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/12/16/community-survey-2024/

#Automation #HomeAutomation

Folk, be really careful with believing anything you see.

My fellow sent me this:

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Last night I finished up The Mercy of Gods by "James SA Corey" (the guys who wrote The Expanse.) It was a mixed bag for me. As many have previously noted, I mostly found it dark and depressing, although it kept my interest and was mostly well-written. It reminded me of a modern take on an old school scifi story from the 50s or 60s... It's the 1st book in a new series & apparently destined for an Amazon Prime show, which I have very mixed feelings about. Fingers crossed. #scifi #book

7 MHz | Amiga 1000
#Commodore #RetroComputing #Voxel

European Commission: "Today, we have opened formal p…" - European Commission on Mastodon
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/113667953191464986

This machine you think you drive directly is going to save your life hundreds of times a second until its engineers cannot defeat the laws of newton and soft body physics on your organs. It's going to let you do this. That's what you paid for.

#Atheism #Atheist #ReligionIsPoison

Happy Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve.

#Introduction Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

#astrodon #astrophysics #space #science

It’s been 30 years since Netscape Navigator 1.0 was released and 10 years since I wrote about it being 20 years.
https://adrianroselli.com/2014/12/20-years-since-netscape-navigator-10.html

#Netscape #browser #web

Why good morning Patreon, thankyou so much for flagging my latest post about the harmful impact age verification will have as "sexually gratifying" and hiding it, always delightful to wake up to such egregious bullshit

This is Apple Intelligence’s summary of Mona’s (Mastodon client) notifications regarding replies. Note the “@“ symbol icon Mona adds for those types of notifications, on the right of the bubble.

This is emblematic of faux-AI: it understands nothing, but is designed to produce output using the language of understanding, and is thus always a lie — and a dangerous one — even when coincidentally accurate.

@cstross I want to make a movie so painfully obvious in its satire that everyone who understands it lives in perpetual psychological torment inflicted on them by all the people who don't.
— Paul Verhoeven on Starship Troopers movie

I know the etiquette is evolving around this so here's my quick guide to sharing the road with self-driving cars:

If you find yourself in a city whose political leaders are corrupt and vain enough to have allowed this scourge onto their streets, you absolutely do not owe them the basic courtesy you would extend to any driver.

Bearing in mind safety and basic physics, it's perfectly fine to, for instance, not let them proceed at a stop sign; not let them merge in traffic; take the lane and bike super slow in front of them; take your sweet time in a crosswalk; accidentally leave your personal traffic cone on its hood; etc, etc. Just remember that they are recording you, should you choose to escalate your discourtesy beyond the the obnoxious-but-basically-legal.

Self-driving cars do not deserve the right of way, because rights are for sentient beings, not roving death cameras.

If you are worried whether someone is riding in back, just imagine it's Jeff Bezos and he's on his way to a very important meeting. The more inconvenient these things are to hire, the more ordinary people will choose better options, the more swiftly these businesses will fail and disappear.