⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

Here in Manchester, U.K., we're waiting for the inevitable. PM Rishi Sunak is going to announce the scrapping of the HS2 rail link from London to Manchester. Then, without any sense of irony, he's going to get in his helicopter and make the journey from London to Manchester for Conservative Party conference. Of course he is.

#UKPolitics

Boris Johnson slams Rishi Sunak as 'HS2 leg to Manchester to be scrapped'

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/boris-johnson-slams-rishi-sunak-27772498#ICID=Android_MENNewsApp_AppShare

Wuppertal: The imaginatively titled LEGO Brücke 2.0

UK Home Office's recent attack on e2e encryption moves into the realm of baseless propaganda, diverging significantly from much of the rest of UK gov & from established expert consensus, complete w media salvo

Let's review, it's important to recognize what they're doing...1/

“Elegant and powerful new result that seriously undermines large language models”

Like I’ve been saying for a while now: LLMs do not think or reason. They are not on the path to AGI. They are extremely limited correlation and text synthesis machines. https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/elegant-and-powerful-new-result-that

Good for Signal! If a willfully misguided government regulation fundamentally breaks your product in a way that compromises user safety, it doesn’t make much sense to continue offering it in the affected market. #E2EE #ForeverCryptoWars #CryptoMeansCryptography

Meredith Whittaker Reaffirms That Signal Would Leave UK If Forced By Privacy Bill - Slashdot https://it.slashdot.org/story/23/09/22/1913215/meredith-whittaker-reaffirms-that-signal-would-leave-uk-if-forced-by-privacy-bill

@pwaring I’m in camp 3: Use the version of $thing that ships with your distro, that way you know it gets patched. Assuming a sensible distro such as Debian.

New: Major manufacturer of smart glucose monitor for people with Type I diabetes warns customers not to upgrade to iOS 17 because it might break low glucose alarms that are a core functionality of the device

https://www.404media.co/ios-17-could-break-diabetic-glucose-monitor-alerts-manufacturer-warns/

The Internet of Shit / Broken Things strikes again

https://htmx.org/essays/right-click-view-source/ is an interesting piece on why View Source is important, philosophically. I agree with this, hence writing https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2018/07/23/inside-out/ a few years ago :)

For over a decade Philips Hue offered lights that work without sharing your data to the cloud. This is changing soon and we need your help to make some noise to convince them to revert this decision.

https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/

#homeassistant

What I'm listening to today: "Beyond your mind", Reinos

This is a eurodance DOS tracker tune from 2004, with sampled (?) acid synth noises and some fun stuttery violin sounds. Take this into a club in mid-1996 and it would have been the hypest thing.

This was posted on YouTube by the artist, and as the artist does not link the .xm file, and the website advertised in the .xm file on screen appears to be dead, this is probably the only copy of this track on the Internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6Ls25NaTU8

Let's see if Mastodon is any good at selling property 😃

Our lovely 2 bed flat in Woking, UK, is for sale.

* Freehold on a private road
* No cladding issues
* Huge gardens + gardener
* Short walk from Woking train station
* New windows
* 1Gb fibre
* Pet friendly (upstairs have a lovely cat)
* Separate garage

https://www.mannersresidential.com/property-details/5959/surrey/woking-37

Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program

No fees for Personal tier or old/current projects, new 2.5% revenue cap, and more.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/unity-makes-major-changes-to-controversial-install-fee-program/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Nice work by Full Fact here exposing Sunak's lies

https://fullfact.org/environment/sunak-environment-proposals/