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

Long, long shot here but I don't happen to know anyone (or anyone who knows anyone) that's familiar with Arts Council England grant applications, do I? It would be unbelievably helpful towards a very cool music project if so.

Met Police confirm willingness to open investigation into any crime for which you gather all the evidence and make a four-part TV drama https://newsthump.com/2024/01/07/met-police-confirm-willingness-to-open-investigation-into-any-crime-for-which-you-gather-all-the-evidence-and-make-a-four-part-tv-drama/

I really miss Maplin.

I miss being able to go into a shop and buy 3 meters of cable just by looking at the cable and going “that's the right size for me”.

CONGRATULATIONS CORY DOCTOROW @pluralistic 🥳

"2023 Word of the Year is “enshittification” – American Dialect Society

https://americandialect.org/2023-word-of-the-year-is-enshittification/

I just came across this strange object which is displayed in the scanner as a "green" blip, just as regular space stations are. Could this be a rock hermit? Do these even exist in the C64 version?!

#RetroGaming
#Elite
#Commodore64

I switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and it was remarkably painless for something absolutely critical that I need to work reliably, with zero additional friction, every single day.
I cannot stress how low-hassle it is to switch from Chrome to a browser with a business model that doesn't rely on tracking you.
Do it.

Speaking of AI art models...

If we take the use of copyrighted images out of the equation, let's say hypothetically that a new model, trained only on the art of consenting artists and the public domain, could produce as good art as Midjurney currently does...

Do you think it is still morally and ethically wrong to use it?

(Boost to help me satisfy my curiosity if you want :3)

MOC
#lego #art #afol #afob

@codinghorror I for one, will not miss every mobile phone manufacturer having their own proprietary power connector (or three).

Buying a phone charger in the late 90s~early 2000s was a bloody nightmare. It's like buying a printer cartridge today.

Oh, it's 2024 and people are still surprised by random app store rejections by Apple?

Just build a web app.

I've read the case filed by South Africa in the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of genocide. Have you?

No matter whether you think Israel's actions rise to the level of genocide or not, the facts and evidence in the filing are chilling and deserve international review and response.

https://www.icj-cij.org/case/192

We make computers for people who like computers.

We also make computers for people who hate computers.

As of January 2024 - 75 of the Top 100 most played Steam games work on Steam Deck https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/01/as-of-january-2024-x-of-the-top-100-most-played-steam-games-work-on-steam-deck/

#SteamDeck #SteamOS #Linux #PCGaming

The Atari 2600 LEGO set has 2532 pieces. YOU HAD ONE JOB.

#Babylon5

The 37C3 talk on TEA1 encryption (used by police and military units in europe) is hilarious.
The hackers announced they found a vulnerability in the encryption, and one of the ways the organization that standardized the TEA1 encryption downplayed the breach was by saying that it wasn't viable, because it required "high powered GPUs".

So they ported their algorithm to a Toshiba Satellite P1 running Windows 95, and re-cracked the encryption there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KhbJ4pqcOY

@mcc the phrasing “by turning this setting on” is a pretty dark pattern for a newly, silently introduced setting that defaults to on