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

If you have a #Lego account and a spare minute or two, please add your support for this Lego idea submitted by a friend of @perlbod
https://ideas.lego.com/projects/b69ceb79-86fc-4879-888f-8593b82fd803

And no, I have no idea why it's called Patchy Goat either... 😂

Apple is on course to break all Web Apps in the EU within 20 days ‼️

👇 Read the blog, fill the survey, join the fight!

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apple-on-course-to-break-all-web-apps-in-eu-within-20-days/

Immediate Action Needed!
Apple has officially announced that they attempting to kill web apps in the EU, which will have ramifications worldwide.

https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/

We need immediate support from web developers and businesses that operate online in the EU. The European Commission needs to hear from YOU to understand the devastating impact Apple’s new ban will have on your livelihoods, businesses and customers.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/11/googles-and-microsofts-chatbots-are-making-up-super-bowl-stats/

Before the Super Bowl had been played, Google and Microsoft bullshit generators fabricated statistics for the game. Why do people insist on calling them "artificial intelligence"? "Artificial stupidity" would fit these bullshit generators better.

An interesting take on the “McDonnell-Douglas ruined Boeing” thesis: https://backofmind.substack.com/p/how-the-wrong-side-won-at-boeing

“I think that’s one of the deep causes of what went wrong in Boeing; the McDonnell-Douglas executives were the ones who could back up their business cases with a ream of hard data. The legacy Boeing executives were left talking about culture and best practice and all sorts of soft-sounding things that were hard to put into a model.”

The next generation of laser show software for the next generation of laserists (and maybe a handful of the OGs as well). Amazing group of awesome people at the first Liberation day ever.

Thanks so much to @limehousetownhall for hosting us.

#liberationlaser #lasershow

Photo by @nicoturnervideos

"We’re taking legal action to uncover Palantir’s blanked-out contract"

"Even if you wanted to give the tech giant Palantir the benefit of the doubt, with its £330m contract to process NHS data there’s no way to tell: 417 out of 586 pages are completely blanked out."

#Palantir #PeterThiel #NHS #FederatedDataPlatform

https://goodlawproject.org/were-taking-legal-action-to-uncover-palantirs-blanked-out-contract/?utm_source=Good+Law+Project&utm_campaign=07402df831-EMAIL_PalantirContractRedactions_2024_02_17_11_25&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_db5adb9599-44c8842fd0-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=07402df831

🧵by Joyce Vance:

1/ #Trump's first criminal trial will start in NYC on March 25. Judge Juan Merchan denied Trump’s motions to dismiss the case Thursday. The trial should be over before the RNC & in time for the fedl case in the DC to be tried before the election if #SCOTUS acts expeditiously.

It’s Friday, unwind with Marina:

“the big question after last night is: precisely how many tax cut promises does it take to repel a grid of shit? Britain is in the lucky, lucky position of being about to find out.”

#Rishession is also going on the pre election bingo card. Is any disgruntled #Tory MP brave enough to say it as they flounce off to join the Just for Racists, Reform Party?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/sunak-reform-labour-byelection-wellingborough-kingswood

Yep, that CRT has lost vertical deflection.

Just my luck, I bought a 1 dimensional monitor.

I wouldn't normally be this annoying but ...

IF YOU ARE A WEB DEVELOPER/ and you live/work in the EU or a web-first business:

Fill this out:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfNgzepH4lwmWf2kaKC4EpKPdfi69jUHFM8kf4-TBsAyWU1BA/viewform

OR share it with others.

Because:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/its-official-apple-kills-web-apps-in-the-eu/

"NASA Selects Bold Proposal to 'Swarm' Proxima Centauri with Tiny Probes"

Think pebble-sized objects powered by laser beams that accelerate them to 10-20% of the speed of light. The distance to our nearest star but one is 40 trillion kilometres.

#PromixaCentauri #NASA #interstellar #SwarmingProximaCentauri

https://www.universetoday.com/165116/nasa-selects-bold-proposal-to-swarm-proxima-centauri-with-tiny-probes/

@MastodonEngineering and why exactly are these being releaser unannounced and on a Friday?

I worked on #Lemmings and am therefore old.

“It Was 33 Years Ago Today: Happy Birthday Lemmings! - The Scottish Games Network”

https://scottishgames.net/2024/02/14/it-was-33-years-ago-today-happy-birthday-lemmings/

God fucking dammit Mozilla

You just need to build a damn fucking browser.

You go on this AI path, you alienate your core audience and won’t attract any new users. It’s not like ChatGPT morons will suddenly switch to Firefox because it does ethical AI.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/mozilla-lays-off-60-people-wants-to-build-ai-into-firefox/

Me: I’ll just have one drink and do a bit of tidying.

Me, 5 vodkas down: I SHOULD SORT ALL MY LEGO

Nice. Use FreeBSD on your Framework as your daily driver. Test the things that usually go hinky with laptops (wireless, touchpad, battery usage).

For the intel wireless, you'll use this newer driver in RELEASE and CURRENT : https://wiki.freebsd.org/WiFi/Iwlwifi . It could use a deep dive. A tremendous amount of work has gone into getting this intel wireless interface in working order by #FreeBSD devs. It's been a priority with the foundation, too.

@codehead @frameworkcomputer @FreeBSDFoundation