⊥ᵒᵚ⁄Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

UK ISP Zen Internet Boost Core Network with 400Gbps Neos Networks Link https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2025/09/uk-isp-zen-internet-boost-core-network-with-400gbps-neos-networks-link.html

What's the best way to transform a 256 colour image to a 64 colour one where the second 32 colours are the same as the first 32 except with half the RGB values and I don't want to use dithering? Someone must have done a good one for Amiga EHB mode at some point but I am having no joy whatsoever in finding one, and I am not good enough at colour theory to know how to work sensibly within that constraint

@Edent "What if, instead of updating emoji, we instead update Android to be unable to install unsigned sideloaded apps? Everybody loves that, right?"

how do you think things are going in the alternate universe where instead of USB, we standardized on ethernet?

external peripherals plug in over ethernet, and just communicate over tcp/ip. usb hubs? you just use ethernet hubs. you recharge your phone and laptop and ebook over PoE.

There's PoE powerbanks and many people keep them in their purse/bag

I keep looking at #firefox headlines and can't help but wonder how the fuck we got to this point. Like you folks were supposed to be the good guys.

Canon is Bringing Back a Point-and-Shoot From 2016 With Fewer Features and a Higher Price https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/09/1932201/canon-is-bringing-back-a-point-and-shoot-from-2016-with-fewer-features-and-a-higher-price?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

i love living in the future, in which i have to hold my web browser very gingerly so it doesn't replace the thing i'm reading with the carbon farts of a stochastic white supremacy machine https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/shake-to-summarize/

Tim is talking up the Apple Glass user interface, which is a sure sign that it's bullshit they're subliminally nervous about.

The Job Market Is Hell

Young people are using ChatGPT to write their applications; HR is using AI to read them; no one is getting hired.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/09/job-market-hell/684133/

Paywall free link https://archive.is/ShlvE

For anybody confused about how this happens, basically:

- For about the past 15 years every business has been developing apps by pulling in 178 interconnected libraries written by 24 people in a shed in Skegness

- For about the past 2 years orgs have been buying AI vibe coding tools, where some exec screams "make online shop" into a computer and 389 libraries are added and an app is farted out

The output = if you want to own the world's companies, just phish one guy in Skegness

Great write up by Jay Peters of The Verge with regards to the Nova Launcher/Branch situation that I wrote about this morning.

Dominic reached out to me via LinkedIn this morning and asked some questions to get some insight.

You can read that here:

https://www.theverge.com/news/773937/nova-launcher-founder-left-kevin-barry-branch-open-source-android

#NovaLauncher #NL #Android #Apps #Google #Branch #BranchMetrics #News #Tech #TechNews

I was laid off recently so I'm looking for a new job!

I have a decade of experience as a web backend dev writing APIs in Python and Ruby in a variety of frameworks. I'm usually the git and Postgres expert on the team, and if you leave me alone I'll start writing tests and doing security updates. Used to help run PyLadies Vancouver, now PyCascades. More: https://hollybecker.net/resume/

Looking for: full-remote, hiring in Canada, minimal LLM nonsense

#GetFediHired #Vancouver #Python #Ruby #PyCascades

finally evaluating @kde Plasma desktop for MNT Pocket Reform (with external secondary dell 1440p monitor + mouse + keyboard) and taking notes. it'll need some little tweaks before we can ship it as a default, but so far it feels pretty fantastic. love the configurability and the attention to detail everywhere