⊥ᵒᵚ⁄Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Firefox is rapidly becoming a one-stop destination app for every thing I don't want Firefox to be doing https://floss.social/@omgubuntu/115152464864842429

Microsoft's decision to deny developers the ability to block its AI service, Copilot, from generating issues and pull requests has become a major point of pain on GitHub. This refusal has prompted many FLOSS developers to search for alternative platforms and workflows for code hosting

https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/05/github_copilot_complaints/

NEW: X has started rolling out it's end-to-end encrypted chat for all users.

I was invited to start using it yesterday, so I asked a couple of experts if users should trust it. The answer: no, nobody should trust it at this point.

There are several reasons why, which they explained to me here.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/x-is-now-offering-me-end-to-end-encrypted-chat-you-probably-shouldnt-trust-it-yet/

Mozilla adds CoPilot chatbot to Firefox in the latest nightly builds, plus previews new Task and Timer widgets for the New Tab page.

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/firefox-adding-copilot-chatbot-features?v2

#CoPilot #firefox #opensource

I am scared that Enshitification is looming

@andypiper right? It's almost as if Google bungs Apple 20 Billion a year.

Did you see this post?

(boost if you're able for science)

The lapsus$ guys are taking credit for the Jaguar Land Rover thing, speed run to see how many times they can get v&'d in 5 years.

@inlovewithpda @morgant @frameworkcomputer I’ve not use newton in forever (was always a Palm user). This seems satisfactory. Einstein is I assume a static compile. This is on Bazzite, just running the monolithic binary with the ROM in the same directory.

the PDP-11 boot ROM: each bit of the 32×16-bit memory being implemented by the presence or absence of a diode. tangible (extremely low-density) memory.

#retrocomputing

Why we no longer support the use of Cloudflare on our web and email hosting accounts. Spoiler: it's AI bot scraping. https://www.mythic-beasts.com/blog/2025/09/03/web-hosting-and-cloudflare/

Does anyone know 'verified' Linux Mint developers in the Fediverse who might be interested in an apparent high priority issue?

@linuxmint only (re)posts their blog entries and that account, as welcome as it is, has no indication of official status listed anywhere.

The component is in GitHub (and the issue isn't listed), but I've no account there and feel it's counterproductive anyhow to publish a howto in public...

Trusted #infosec pros with channels to Linux Mint may qualify to handle the brown paperbag forward.

I'd also ping Jamie Zawinski, but he doesn't appear to be around.

#linuxmint

Fuck every EV charger that requires an app to use. Just give me a goddamned credit card reader.

This is the *second* station we've stopped at today that required yet *another* app install and registration—only to have the fucking thing not work.

(Alice is ticked off)

#EVs #ChargingFail #FuckCapitalism #Enshittification

Alright Fedi. This is going to be my more far fetched question as of yet.

Do any of you happens to have, lying in a box somewhere, a Photo CD? And if so, would you be willing to part with it?

Just to clear any possible confusion, I’m specifically looking for a disc in the Photo CD format, not a CD-R on which pictures have been stored as files. Here is the article on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_CD.

Boosts are appreciated, as my search has not been fruitful this far.

The velocity for patching Critical vulnerabilities is set by standards and driven by criminal activity. 2000-2010, the acceptable timeframe was 30 days. That dropped to 14 days, from 2010-2020. By 2022, the 7 day standard became the norm.

The criminals, meanwhile? With Netscaler they had exploits within 12 hours of disclosure.

The Open Rights Group is working on an amendment to the OSA which would propose a small site exemption, for sites that are maintained without a view to profit, with a small number of active users, and which the owner reasonably believes to pose no risk to users.

If you want to give thoughts on various parts of the potential amendments, there's a form here:

https://cloud.openrightsgroup.org/nextcloud/apps/forms/s/dQB6GSRQ4jHzGjxiYG5tAnDB

#OnlineSafetyAct