⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

There's currently debate going on about how, exactly, Ukraine managed to pilot this many drones — local pilots? Networking? AI? I know that Ukraine has been working feverishly to perfect mass control systems, allowing for drone swarms.

I remember when everyone was so concerned about cloning, and whether the clones would have souls. This is, of course, silly, because of the existence of twins.
One of the twins has a soul and the other doesn't, and you'll never know until it's too late.

✈️🔥 Details of Operation "Web" from Yuri Butusov:

▪️SBU agents transported 150 small attack drones and 300 ammunition to the territory of Russia.

▪️116 drones took to the air.

▪️The attack on the Tu-95 aircraft base at the Olenya airfield was particularly successful - drones hit refueled fuel tanks and a large number of aircraft burned to the ground.

▪️As a result of the attack, 41 aircraft at 4 bases were confirmed to have been damaged.

To make it easy to find, I have set up

https://tindie.revk.uk/

to go to my Tindie store.

Meet the new moderator team at #Fosstodon 🥳

https://hub.fosstodon.org/team/

Those of you who use an *open* text chat solution at work, what protocol is it based on?

Select multiple options only if you use more than one of these with some regularity, please.

Boosts appreciated.

(For avoidance of doubt, "something else" does *not* include proprietary solutions like Slack. If all the chat options you have at work are proprietary, you're not an intended respondent. 🙂 But you can still boost!)

🆕 blog! “Mobile Phones of Doctor Who - Season 15”

Is it Season 15 of New Who? Series 2 of Ncuti Gatwa's Who? Series 1875 of the UNIT dating controversy? Either way, welcome back to this increasingly silly series of blog posts where I try to identify all the mobile phones used by The Doctor and their companions.

This weird and wonderful series has, sadly, a paucity of …

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/06/mobile-phones-of-doctor-who-season-15/
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#DoctorWhoPhones #DoctorWho

Le Sigh. RTD gonna RTD. #DoctorWho

Ugh, can we stop bringing back all the best classic Doctor Who baddies as dumb, weightless blobs of CG, thanks?

When the Rani was all "We'll use his body to create a new race of Time Lords!" I really wanted the Doctor to remind people that Omega doesn't actually have a body anymore. Like that was kind of his whole thing. But nope.

#DoctorWho

#Linux systems are not just something for power users. My 78 year old mother has used a #Debian desktop system for 20 years since she retired from an MS Windows office job. No, she hasn't done the install herself. No she hasn't fixed major problems herself. But, also she never did those things with Windows either. FAI will reimage a machine faster than you can debug some stupid problem. A bootable live USB can be enough fallback to get you in remotely to fix something fully broken.

“Could it be mitochondrial DNA?”

“No, ma’am, it doesn’t work that way.”

“And it’s not just a random mutation?”

“No, we’ve had 174 pairs of identical twins volunteering, and it’s always the same. In each pair, there’s this one DNA edit in the same place: an almost identical gene, but at the end of the strand one sibling has a different base - CGAT - than the other.”

“And we don’t otherwise know what this section of DNA does?”

“Well... that’s where it gets interesting. All people have this gene, but it has some edits near the end of the strand. We thought it was random mutations on an inactive gene, but it turns out, each person has different bases. In twins it’s just... consecutive.”

“You mean...?”

“Yes, ma’am. It’s a serial number.”

#microfiction #scifi #dna #creepy

Well, at least we know she'll do Big Finish.

So they brought Carole Ann Ford back for the one second unit shoot but didn't think to give her a "Don't sacrifice yourself Grandfather, the world needs you!" line at some point during the prolonged ending?

Thirdly, Russel came THIS CLOSE to canonizing looms, but didn't bring it over the finish line. Shame.

#DoctorWho

#DoctorWho #DoctorWhoSpoilers

A picture of EPROM burner. That is how older generations used to get updates 🤓

More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPROM

TOTALLY FASCIST NUTS: Rubio says lack of social media presence, or having non-public profiles, might be enough to deny a visa

Has anyone set up kernel debugging with a Windows 11 target with Proxmox (QEMU-KVM)?

This only works with Win10, Win11 doesn't boot for me:

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/windbg-remote-kernel-debugging-and-proxmox-not-working.163625/

Serial would also be an option if I could make them recognized by guests:

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/two-windows-guests-communicating-via-serial-console-comn.67588/

@arstechnica
When netflix and hbo have ads in their paid service, the people deserve the cognitive freedom to avoid them

… and I went ahead and implemented <details> for the Need Help? bit on the Newton Glossary search page.

https://newtonglossary.com/search