⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@qoto.org

1. Today, brave brave John Edwards ran away.

To thank the UK Information Commissioner for all the fish, here are FIVE EPIC FAILURES he's made during his tenure. Or, to paraphrase his own words, the five best attempts at humor that were inappropriate.

Thread below 🧵

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eyq7rnn22o

"Life's a beach"
John Gerald Bishop
US-LT, 2021
"Müsy dienos
kaip šventė"
https://openbenches.org/bench/43664

Any gog.com people here? If you're wondering why I haven't spent money with you for ages, it's because your Mac support is terrible. Half of the 'works on Mac' games in my library do not even start. Most of them do work if I download the Windows version and configure it with WINE, DOSBox, or ScummVM myself, but the entire point of paying you money is that I don't need to do that. Several of them bundle a 32-bit x86 version of WINE, which doesn't work on modern Macs. Simply upgrading the WINE version makes them work again. I'd rather have an untested version than a definitely-known-not-to-work version.

This is not new, but the way. Smugglers V looked fun but it crashed on startup on every version of OS X I ever tried it on, for over ten years. At some point, I just give up assuming anything that you sell works.

@mkristensson I've said it before, passkeys were designed by people who have three monitors in their desks, use the latest iPhone (and have the disposable income to replace it immediately when it breaks) and they work great for that population

RE: https://mastodon.social/@craignewmark/116770722780594757

From a strict security perspective this is true. But as my family's IT manager, both passcodes and single sign on are nightmares that I now actively avoid. They perpetuate lock in by large companies, removing any flexibility in who/when/how you can log in.

Need to share a log in with your spouse? Impossible.
Teenage kid traveling without the family and wants to watch a show? Impossible.
Mom in the hospital and you need to pay her utility bill for her? Impossible.

Dipshit Nazi Pete Hegseth:

- renames it the Department of War
- names himself Secretary of War
- fights one war
- refuses to call it a war
- loses the war

You had ONE job. Which you gave yourself.

"when did Star Trek get woke??"

In the very first episode of Star Trek: the original series, we see a white Captain reporting to his black Admiral boss, a black woman on the bridge just a couple years after Jim Crow was abolished, wearing a short skirt (a symbol of feminist liberation at the time), a Japanese helmsman on the bridge only 20 years after the internment camps, a Russian crewmate on the bridge during the Cold War [edit: actually did not appear until Season 2 but the point stands], and the foundation of the modern concept of queercoding.

In the very first episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we see male crossdressing crew members, a female officer on the bridge in charge of security, a literal ship's counselor stationed at all times on the bridge, a single mom raising her teenage son on her own while juggling a full career in medicine, a blind mechanic whose "disability" is shown to be a strength, and an angry, all-powerful godlike being who is revealed to be simply a petulant child masquerading as a deity.

In the very first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space 9, we see a black man gain a powerful command position, respect the hell out of the customs of a religion he didn't understand, show respect and equal treatment to members of three other alien races he didn't understand, appoint a female guerilla fighter who defeated imperialist fascists to a position of authority within his administration and defer to her judgement in areas of her expertise, accept his friend's gender change, and tell his son he loves him.

Star Trek has always been woke. You just grew up to be a bad person.

4 hours sleep is inadequate, but I was too chuffed to go back to sleep when I woke early and saw that Andy Burnham easily exceeded the combined fascist vote yesterday. Hopefully the fash will also be pushed back to the train station when they march in Birmingham tomorrow.

The #curl project will not accept or otherwise handle any vulnerability reports during the month of July 2026. We call it the curl summer of bliss.

https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/06/15/curl-summer-of-bliss/

Reform lost every national and local by-election they contested yesterday.

Makerfield wasn't even close, with Andy Burnham securing 55% of all votes cast.

Aberdeen South and Arbroath & Broughty Ferry were straight fights between the SNP and Tories.
Tories gain Aberdeen South. A seat they held from 2017 to 2019.
SNP hold in Arbroath.

Reform also failed to win 9 local seats. Including losing two they were defending following the resignation and expulsion of Stuart Prior for extreme racism.

I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M

Link: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/elkjop-forced-consent-fine/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48589501

@mntmn oh like in the good old days when PC tower cases were sharper than razor blades, that was fun!

@kravietz

@viticci Figured out why OpenAI is hemorrhaging money on inference

RT: @owenjonesjourno Read that again:

“The average terror suspect arrested in England and Wales is now a white woman in her 50s.”

That’s because of the proscription of Palestine Action.

It is absurd. It is self evidently absurd.

And history will damn every last person implicated

Needless to say, do not sign up for W or give them your ID information no matter how simple they eventually manage to make it.

You simply don’t need to.

You’re already in a far superior – non-corporate, federated – space.

Do not sign up for W. And warn your friends.

The only time you have any power to stop this is now. If they succeed in gaining network effects, you will be as powerless to stop them as you are with X.

And yes, they’re just another venture capital funded surveillance capitalist, people farmer, and burgeoning Nazi Bar. They just happen to be based in the EU. (As Nazi Bars traditionally have been.)

#WSocial #NoWNoX #surveillance #capitalism #BigTech #VC @_elena https://mastodon.social/@_elena/116770291207686239

How to create an account on #WSocial in 13 easy steps:

choose a username
choose a password
choose your interests
download the #WIdentity app to your phone (two options: Apple AppStore or Google Play Store)
scan a QR code
create a PIN code

(optional: enable biometrics; re-enter PIN)

choose whether you simply want to verify that you're human or if you also want to verify your name
choose the verification method (automatic photo review, request a manual review or scan your passport chip)
scan your passport's picture page
scan your passport's chip
take a selfie
scan a QR code to link the W Identity to your W Social account
enter your PIN code

Congratulations, you're verified*!

(* for two years)

Demonstration in all its simple glory here:

📺​: https://inv.nadeko.net/Vcq4MiabpEQ

Please save this toot as reference if you ever hear somebody say that IT'S TOO COMPLICATED TO JOIN THE FEDIVERSE BECAUSE YOU NEED TO PICK A SERVER 🤡​

#SocialMedia

This dataviz is just amazing https://visquill.com/gallery/uk-a1