Rivaclaw🏳️‍⚧️ΘΔ @renbymon@computerfairi.es

Please everybody, if your posts contain something that could recall a traumatic experience to another user, remember to tag them by using the “Content Warning” button. That’s why it exists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trauma_trigger

Here are some topics which are commonly admitted to be best put behind a warning:
— sexism, racism, homophobia…
— death
— sickness
— war
— violence
— food
— sex
— common phobias (spiders, snakes…)
— politics
Thank you <3.

The best part about the London mayoral election? That the massively racist party (Britain First) are so unpopular that they were beaten by a man with a bin on his head (Count Binface).

Imagine how it would look like if they took their approach to Linux.

No installing your own kernels, that's naughty!

What, you're telling me you need that module for a piece of hardware you use?

Nobody should need a stamp of approval from a big tech company to have their system considered "trusted"

I wish more people would understand kernel-level anti-cheats are fundamentally incompatible with computing freedom, they're not just bad for privacy, that can be true of anything that is allowed to run as admin too.

But look at the language the developers of these things are using, they're all in on the platform security/trusted computing crap, they want hard attestation of your boot environment. And the reason they don't want to support Linux? They can't verify the kernel and all its modules, they especially can't do that across distros.

In the name of fighting cheaters they're willing to nuke all compatibility tools, and kill the chance of gaming on other operating systems taking off. And then they will complain about it not having enough market share to matter, which they partly contributed to.

They're willing to use the technology that treats the owner as the enemy on their own system and allows them to restrict their software choices to an approved set.

"reCAPTCHA is broken for [some|most|all] Windows users"

This is your periodic reminder that nothing the Chrome team or anyone at Google says about "loving the web" or "caring about the web" matters at all, because nobody at Google tests anything on any browser but Chrome.

more like EV2ON

The timing of this ended up beig accidentally perfect because I get to say "happy hatchday to me 🥳"

Have a dragony Calyo enjoying a bit more sharky hybridness by @felisrandomis

Can't wait for this trend to die

Hopefully will have a couple of things done in a few weeks :3

Fantastic pic by Digger the Fox (Bluesky, Twitter) of the Cyberwuff. Thank you so much!
#furryart

make sure to wear protective gear

#furryart #mastoart

This might be the single most frustrating bug report thread I've ever read.

GNOME, why are you like this?

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/adwaita-icon-theme/-/issues/288

People are currently dunking on this post that complains about Mastodon link previews DDoSing their servers - and they deserve every bit of it.

Pulling up this site in a browser with no privacy/sanity plugins installed, it made a total of 3740 requests within 4 minutes, which amounted to 267.22 MB transferred. It has ads left, right, bottom and center, and it has one of those annoying autoplaying videos, which ALSO has a video ad in front of it. The website would not scroll even close to fluently, and I'm doing this on a 24-core M2 Ultra Mac Studio with 128 GB RAM. I had to use the `debugger` command in the JS console in order to make the network panel in dev tools stop lagging.

In addition, they quote someone complaining about 114.7 MB being requested from their server over the span of 5 minutes. Not only is that less than half as much as you make a single user download if they don't actively cut into your bloatware crap, it also amounts to a whopping 3.06 Mbit/s that you're complaining about. THREE MEGABITS PER SECOND!

Your website is an insult to the internet.

https://news.itsfoss.com/mastodon-link-problem/?cache=bust

🚨 In case you missed it: We filed a complaint against OpenAI on Monday!

Read all about it on The Register 👇

https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/29/openai_hit_by_gdpr_complaint/

Commission for Kyowai

In anticipation of the Econet LAN Party at The National Museum of Computing on 18/19 May, I have just released a huge update to Elite over Econet.

Not only does it now run on all 8-bit BBC machines (including the unexpanded BBC Micro), but I've added live multiplayer scoreboards to the mix.

Here you can see six players competing live on three different bridge-connected Econet networks. The scoreboard updates as players play, with Elite transmitting player stats to a central scoreboard machine.

The idea is that you can run competitive Elite events between groups of players, all connected by Econet. You don't need any modern equipment - this all runs on standard 1980s kit - but if you use a PiBridge to connect networks over the Internet, you can even run live international competitions. 🙂

The LAN Party is imminent. Time to hone your Elite skills!

Full details can be found here:

https://www.bbcelite.com/hacks/elite_over_econet_scoreboard.html

LAN Party info:

https://www.stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=28552

#retrogaming #retrocomputing #bbcmicro

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