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

Explanatory note: Scotland is muh less transphobic than England. The Tories have staked their voter "appeal" on going full right wing transphobic. Scotland's parliament just voted to allow self-certification of your gender, without medical intervention … and the Tories are going to use a constitutional nuclear option to veto it (blocking the royal assent).

Scottish independence was polling 52-56% support. But the Tories just threw gasoline on the fire.

The 🇬🇧UKs Competion and Markets Authority has released an issues statement on their market investigation reference into Mobile Browsers and Cloud Gaming.

They are seeking input into the issues and remedies raised.

New "Rendering like it's 1996" blog post is out. This time we'll suffer from DOS Nostalgia and learn more about bitmap fonts than we ever wanted to know.

https://marioslab.io/posts/rendering-like-its-1996/dos-nostalgia/

If I delete my twitter account some jackass can swipe my name. So not going there. If it stays inactive for too long it might be deleted anyway, so I'm going to tweet a single character once a month. And I'll also use it for commercial announcements—new books, convention appearances, and so on.

But as a social outlet, @cstross@twitter is now defunct. @cstross is my home now.

(I reserve the right to reconsider this policy once @elonmusk fucks the hell off.)

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https://www.thenational.scot/news/23251204.home-office-seeks-remove-video-suella-braverman-confrontation/
The Home Office has asked charity Freedom from Torture to remove a video showing UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman telling a Holocaust survivor that she “won’t apologise” for describing refugees as “swarms” and “an invasion”.

Any #Linux nerds able to help me with an irritating #Flatpak problem?

https://github.com/flathub/com.calibre_ebook.calibre/issues/153

For some reason, #Calibre doesn't have any window decorations and my mouse cursor is the wrong size. This is the only Flatpak which acts this way. Any clues on what incantation I need to fix it?

#CFCamp 2023 Call For Papers is available now.

https://www.papercall.io/cfcamp2023

#cfml #coldfusion #lucee #adobe

(via https://twitter.com/cf_camp/status/1614376550765563904?s=20&t=g8Z0xMi6mwoir8_EkbopqQ)

@angusm @paul I have no doubt it was for all those reasons, plus the fact that 3rd party apps allowed much more curation of what one did and did not want to see, as well as when.

They made Twitter a place that one could control one's experience I had not logged into a twitter app or web version in years.

Not going to now, so .... to me: twitter is offline. It's down. Timeline stopped night before last.

Really cuts down on my doomscrolling. 🤔

I’m building a #Lego minifig-scale Delorean from Back To The Future and it’s so much fun! Come join in as I #stream: http://www.twitch.tv/TransBricks

It's THE day.
The Expanse ended one year ago today.

I will celebrate this anniversary in a few days, with an exclusive interview dedicated to the design of the many spaceships :)

I'm disappointed with the current trend of light festivals using what3words for their location information. W3W is a terrible system, and completely proprietary. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqK0ciE0rto

I asked someone to apply at a job because of some "basic" but well-thought-out PowerShell in their GitHub that approached a problem in a very ingeniously elegant way.

Meanwhile, we had humans doing the same thing by hand as their entire job.

That's the real world. Your competing with malaise.

Man, remember when google returned information instead of 20 rewrites of the same basic intro to the thing you googled spewed out by content farms

There's definitely been articles/drama/other stuff that I've completely missed since I got kicked off twitter. But on the other hand I now have a better quality of life

User Stories From The Blokechain

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2020/01/user-stories-from-the-blokechain/

#blockchain #users