⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

Unpopular opinion:

The vast majority of people won’t notice any difference between a real SID chip and the latest replacements/emulations in a blind test. I include myself, especially for the newer 8580 SIDs. My hearing is quite good and I’m a trained audio engineer.

DON‘T rip SIDs out of C64s!

@catileptic even wikipedia is getting enshittified, say it ain't so!

I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.

So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

SINE WAVES ON SUNDAY
Sunday 31 May 2026, 1500 BST, Voice FM

Featuring live music from Kraftwerk, and new electronic tunes by @boardsofcanada, @CCirco, @thisoccasionalsociety...

www.voicefmradio.co.uk/on-air/shows/sine-waves-on-sunday-with-max-williams/

#electronicmusic #SineWavesOnSunday #kraftwerk #boardsofcanada #southampton #bournemouth

The “Undo” icon on Apple Newton MessagePad contains more whimsy than the entire current macOS.

Horizontal deflection never stops - the path of the beam in vertical flyback, if you could see it, would look something like this.

Sleeping seems to hurt the Windows 11. Won't wake. Not sure yet what's going on.

I promised I'd use new Outlook. I'm using new Outlook. It's miserable.

I installed Fedora with KDE in a VM on the MacBook Pro via UTM, and it is so damned fast. Even from the live boot image. And it turns out that I really like KDE. I’m still going to try Mint/Cinnamon first on the ThinkPad when it arrives, but hmmm.

@petergleick

Peter I follow you for sound environmental commentary not for you to post AI genera...

What?

It's actually real!

WTF!

Now he is just taking the mickey

Finally something I recorded fits on bandcamp!

This is a 24min live mix from this weekend. 24bit, highest quality flac.

It's good old fashioned wompy acid techno with fresh, locally sourced ingredients just like your grandma used to make it.
 
https://ld50303.bandcamp.com/track/stb-liveset-2026-05-25

boosts appreciated, enjoy :)

#music #dawless #liveset #techno #womp

If you're looking for some light, not-entirely-depressing, reading: My recent newsletter is all about how live music serves an exceptional role in bringing people together, how it seems to be having a renaissance, and why AI "music" is so offensive. www.bugeyedandshameless.com/p/music-ai-c...

The Mothership Connection

Similar story at Microsoft about the cost of AI tools.

Microsoft will cancel most Claude Code licenses by June 30. It has another motive as well - to move engineers toward using its own GitHub Copilot CLI product.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/22/microsoft-ai-cost-problem-tokens-agents/
https://quasa.io/media/microsoft-is-pulling-claude-code-from-its-core-product-teams-and-forcing-a-switch-to-github-copilot-cli
#AI
2/n

@weirdtreething I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, systemd/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, systemd plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning systemd system made useful by the systemd corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the systemd system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of systemd which is widely used today is often called “Linux,” and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the systemd system, developed by the systemd Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use.

Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the systemd operating system: the whole system is basically systemd with Linux added, or systemd/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of systemd/Linux.

HP QuickWeb, Singular & Pointless

https://gekk.info/articles/hp-quickweb.htm

<- 15Y ago, in a last gasp of HP innovation, it offered _3_ DIFFERENT pre-boot environments that gave you The Internet quicker than Windows booted – 2 of them just for Outlook!

Absolutely astounding stuff.

Please share! 🎉🎉🎉

This campaign is for Technofascism Survival Guide, the book that I'm publishing in a couple of weeks or so.

It's timely because of shit like this: Palantir, OpenAI, and the entire "AI industry" collaborating with the US government for technofascism.

My book is full of advice for good, ordinary people. There are lawful ways that you can protect yourself.

I know it looks like my campaign raised a lot, but that's a cumulative total since January.

I need your late pledges to pay my rent.
My Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/

Please share! #palantir #NoAI

Classy Lady ☕

#CodeGals #Art #FediArt #MastoArt #Krita #DigitalArt

For they were, all of them, deceived.
For the Dark Lord Sauron had embedded deep within his EULA the right to change the terms and conditions without notice
And once the users had become dependent on the service
He started increasing the cost of his tokens

@jorge @2something @LAS Lmao at you being weirdly rude and dismissive turning into a minor PR disaster for Flatpak

https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/s/I86HqEwd5I

It truly costs nothing to be kind when someone asks you a genuine question.