Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today.

#DasCDMX

NASA is facing backlash after reportedly being ordered to destroy a fully operational satellite that plays a crucial role in monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere.

Imagine a perfectly good, high-tech spacecraft gathering invaluable data on carbon dioxide
– a key player in climate change
– only to be sent hurtling back into our atmosphere to burn up.

This isn’t the plot of a sci-fi movie;

It’s the reality for the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite.

https://www.africaninspace.com/space/nasa-ordered-to-destroy-fully-functional-carbon-monitoring-satellite-despite-its-vital-climate-data-contributions-49273/

AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-findings-ai-coding-overhyped

#tech #technology #ai #artificialintelligence #coding #programming #developers #coders #vibecoding #code

Thursday's #CINvsDEN injury report:

📰 » https://buff.ly/Yel5gx4

On to Week 4️⃣

If you even just think about buying Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses that record everyone around you without consent,
I will judge you as a creep, and avoid and report you like I do with other creeps.

Don't. Record. People. Without. Consent.

#Privacy #Consent #Meta #RayBan

“It is astonishing just how fully right wingers have come to dominate social media. The default for teenagers who are on the internet is for them to be sucked into a world where they are bombarded with content from Ben Shapiro, Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate, Fuentes, Peterson.” Dreadful but important 🧵

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:miczfsfixolk42l7343z3bpd/post/3lzvqy3f53s2e

@amszmidt you can only get back what you put in :) help make this shit a social space.

Your factory Android system is tracking every detail every second of what you do, reported and sold to third parties of billionaires. The only escape is free and open source software on hardware you bought.

#grapheneOS #android #privacy #fascism

https://threecats.com.au/comparison-of-custom-alternative-android-os-roms-grapheneos-divestos-calyxos-iodos-eos-lineageos-stock-android-aosp

Let's get ready for day two of the Nextcloud Conference. 🚀 Starting out with a Keynote from Michael "Monty" Widenius, creator of #MySQL and co-founder of #MariaDB

https://nextcloud.com/conference-2025/#sunday-28

#Nextcloud #NextcloudConf25 #Berlin

The UN Human Rights Office maintains a database of companies operating in illegal Israeli settlements in the Palestinian West Bank https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2025/09/un-human-rights-office-updates-database-businesses-involved-israeli

Here’s a link to the most recent PDF
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/hrbodies/hrcouncil/sessions-regular/session60/advance-version/a-hrc-60-19-aev.pdf

[1/3] https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/23/dubai-uk-remake-careful-what-they-wish-for-populist-right

*Dubai presents the hard-right vision of utopia: a place stripped of workers’ protections or the right to protest, a place of pure environmental dereliction, a place where everyone drives everywhere, a place where the queer and the gender-fluid are told from birth that they simply do not exist, a place where citizenship is defined along narrow ethnic lines and everyone else

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/17/yulia-navalnaya-widow-of-alexei-navalny-says-lab-tests-confirm-he-was-poisoned-in-prison

*Widow of Alexei Navalny says lab tests confirm he was poisoned in prison.*

🛠️ Title: Odamex
🦊️ What's: A libre, enhanced Doom engine with a focus on online play
🏡️ https://odamex.net/
🐣️ https://github.com/odamex
🔖 #LinuxGameDev #Flagship #LibreEngine #FPS #Doom
📦️ #Libre #Arch #RPM #Flatpak
📕️ https://lebottinlinux.vps.a-lec.org/LO.html

🥁️ Update: 11.1.1
⚗️ Signific. vers.: 3x💎1x📟️14x🐞️1x⚙️
📌️ Changes: https://odamex.net
🦣️ From: https://mastodon.social/@holarse/115276701146545149

💎(0.6.2) https://www.youtube.com/embed/0uWb4vYxc_o
🎲️https://www.youtube.com/embed/sIh7G0GF5yw
🎲️https://www.youtube.com/embed/x-N0Dy2spDk
🎮️https://www.youtube.com/embed/gTrg4YNN1vA
🎮️https://www.youtube.com/embed/03L_FdNLqnY

Someday when a nuclear power plant powering a huge data center feeding AI servers so kids and dumb adults can waste time generating stupid unneeded images melts down, the survivors will be even more heavily taxed than before because the aftermath of meltdowns is lengthy and expensive.

Or we could skip the data centers, skip the nuclear power plant, and cut directly to the chase:

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES NOW

The longer they're hidden, the more obvious the cover up. I'd say on a scale of 1 to 10, the cover up is now at 27.

Coming soon:

Trump orders the detention and deportation of all Olympic athletes who are not from the USA, thereby guaranteeing a CLEAN SWEEP of all the medals in every sport. "We're number ONE!" he bellows, hitching up his diapers and dripping orange face colorant.* He threatens to attack any country which protests; then is reminded that our military no longer includes any officers and is a state of disarray. And so it goes: one of our possible futures.

*Or could it be antifreeze? Is the old boy overheating?

I visited the big one today. More pictures asap. #hamradio

Duck Duck Go has added a tremendously useful feature to their search -- a permanent block. Any site can be added to a block list to never show up in any of your search results again.

I will be using this on any site that is obviously spitting out AI generated "articles."