⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

@netblocks We're seeing the same. Traffic to www.bbc.com and www.bbc.co.uk from Iran has fallen off a cliff.

So, has most of the output capacity of these two states gone out in a continual stream against targets in Ukraine, or has Iran built up enough of a stockpile for its own use in enough hardened locations that eventually the various US allies around the gulf run out of Patriot missiles, sidewinders, etc. with which to counter them?

"The first war of Donald Trump’s Board of Peace era has begun – an unprovoked attempt at regime change in collaboration with Israel, with no legal foundation, launched in the midst of diplomatic efforts to avert conflict, and with minimal consultation with Congress or the American public."

~ Julian Borger

#Trump #Iran #war
/1

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/28/trump-unprovoked-attack-on-iran-has-no-mandate-and-no-clear-objective

"Four days after delivering a State of the Union address in which he boasted of ending eight wars, and spent just three minutes discussing Iran and a preference for 'diplomacy,' we are now bombing, maiming, and killing.

Anyone who has doubted Trump’s intention to replace American democracy with a dictatorship should now be fully disabused."

#Trump #Iran #war
/5

“I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb.” https://www.404media.co/meta-director-of-ai-safety-allows-ai-agent-to-accidentally-delete-her-inbox/

"I don't have the answer to peace and stability in the region, but I do know there's no example in history where you bomb people to democracy," said #Polanski on #BBCLauraK

This meme is circulating on social media today. I haven't been able to track its origin or creator, so can't give credit — but I think it's very apt.

#Trump #Iran #war

@ryan Poke @Mer__edith @signalapp could you please remove this dark pattern from your client.

The Windows 95 user interface: a case study in usability engineering

If this isn't catnip to the average OSNews reader, I don't know what is.

Windows 95 is a comprehensive upgrade to the Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11 products. Many changes have been made in almost every area of Windows, with the user interface being no exception. This paper discusses

https://www.osnews.com/story/144509/the-windows-95-user-interface-a-case-study-in-usability-engineering/

#Windows

@simontatham @fanf

As this weekend's post-mortems of the Gorton & Denton by-election get under way its worth making the key point that I'm sure will be made anyway:

Its not so much that Labour voters have abandoned the Labour Party, but more the Labour Party has been abandoning its Left voters for years;

the lesson of Thursday is taking the Leftish for granted only works when there is no Left alternative.

If Thursday changed anything, it made that much, much clearer!

#GortonAndDenton #politics #Greens #Labour

If the Green Party win tomorrow, I will run up Sevenoaks High Street in my pants

This is both a promise and a threat

😆😅🤣😂

#gortonanddenton

With all the discussion around detecting when a code repo contains commits authored by an LLM, I think it is important to note commits like the following in Mozilla Firefox from 2 weeks ago:

"Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author"

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a400dbd434e4df37087960d94b764791

I don't think it's a good thing that Mozilla seem to be explicitly encouraging unattributed LLM code in Firefox.

83% of requests (globally) to our apex homepages (bbc.co.uk/ and bbc.com/) are from "Python Requests".

That's 84 million requests per day.

In the words of Bricktop...

#BBC #WebStats #PythonRequests #BrickTop

Don't remember the last time I felt a by-election was so significant - at least to my mood, if not the country. A Green victory, giving a dual rebuke to Reform's racism and Labour's determination to alienate its voters, would feel like the sun rising after a long winter.

@Strandjunker

Oh gosh, I’ve just seen the news.

RIP Rob Grant, it seems.

https://youtu.be/aEeCFnKkL5s?si=Q7bFHpaaQtG2jsc1

https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/8655/rip-rob-grant/

I'm Rob, an illustrator from the UK. I love to draw spaceships, robots, and imaginary places. I've worked on several books, including my own sci-fi project - Weird Field World. I'm available for private and commercial commissions.

You can find me here…

https://t.co/xhb7rtK4E2

Firefox 148 adds master switch for browser bot bother

https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/25/firefox_tbird_148/

While Thunderbird 148 improves MS Exchange support and sign-on security

<- by me on @theregister