⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

What a wonderful story about building products and a startup.

https://weli.dev/blog/half-baked-product/

What in the fuck is this 24h clock that came with my phone's recent update.

I have never seen anything so horrendeous.

DON'T THINK OF IT AS DYING, said Death. JUST THINK OF IT AS LEAVING EARLY TO AVOID THE RUSH.

Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman, Good Omens

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

Video Game History Foundation Says Piracy Remains the Only Viable Preservation Method https://games.slashdot.org/story/26/07/03/1652234/video-game-history-foundation-says-piracy-remains-the-only-viable-preservation-method?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

I am the word witch.
I have the magic.

The men behind the machines keep stealing the spells after they're cast, but they can't recreate the magic because they aren't the source, and no matter how clever they make their machines, they can only steal, not create.

We are the source.
We have the magic.
Don't forget it.

Adobe is just fucking trolling at this point.

Listen to my PDF as a podcast? What the fuck are you even talking about.

This is a “no bad ideas” whiteboard session about “creative uses for AI” come to life, and it sucks.

Within 9 seconds, attackers had made these GETs:

58 /
6 /favicon.ico
2 /___proxy_subdomain_cpanel
2 /login.action
2 /info.php
2 /graphql/api
2 /graphql
2 /.git/config
2 /ecp/Current/exporttool/microsoft.exchange.ediscovery.exporttool.application
2 /.DS_Store
2 /debug/default/view?panel=config
2 /console/
2 /config.json
2 /api/graphql
2 /api/gql
2 /api
2 /actuator/env
2 /about
1 /wp-config.php
1 /wp-admin/setup-config.php
1 /.well-known/security.txt
1 /_vti_pvt/service.pwd

What the trolls ruining social media actually look like.

[📹 BestMoon_boxphonefarm]

Why I love Mastodon: someone famous got married to someone else famous today and my wife told me about it. I didn’t see one person talking about it here. Thanks for being great.

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82

https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-logs-off-at-82/5266624

Physicist, philanthropist, and pioneer of pocket computers, SSDs, smartphones… and duvets

<- by me on #TheRegister

@lproven @jonpsp @m @openDemocracy Great article!

New post: IPv6 Foundations.

IPv6 isn't "the future of the internet." It's the internet. IPv4 is the relic we keep alive on NAT life support.

A laid-back tour through the basics: how the addresses are built, the two rules for crushing out the zeros, a /64 per subnet so you stop counting hosts, SLAAC, and why blocking ICMPv6 is a self-inflicted wound.

And no, dual-stack isn't a destination. It's a burden.

https://blog.hofstede.it/ipv6-foundations-the-internet-protocol-you-should-already-be-using/

#IPv6 #Networking #SelfHosting

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/28/escalating-us-iran-strikes-threaten-interim-peace-agreement

Unsurprisingly, disagreements about vague or unspecified crucial details of the draft US-Iran peace deal have led once again to an exchange of fire.

What I'm listening to today: "Can You Feel", Torchkas (Namco WSG remix by Abstract 64)

The sound chip in the "Pac Man" arcade cabinets turns out to be a really fascinating piece of engineering, a 4-bit wavetable synth like the tiniest, cheapest Korg Wavestation.

Covering a vaporwave chiptune originally for SNES, A64 makes a song using only the "Pac-Man" waveforms and a WSG emulator, and it's *so* evocative. Definitely the best song I've ever heard to sample "Pac-Man".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SQ31UdIXNc

Let's Encrypt Later

https://letsencrypt.status.io/

Beating the heatwave with fun!

#Apple ‘#HideMyEmail’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real #Email Addresses

https://www.404media.co/apple-hide-my-email-vulnerability-reveals-peoples-real-email-addresses/

#privacy #HideMy

Hasn't had much coverage, but David Potter, founder and CEO of Psion, died yesterday. One of the patron saints of alt.fan.pratchett in its early years.