HP has previously paid millions for bricking printers, but not this time.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…
MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au likes this.
MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au reshared this.
I built the second-worst #ZXSpectrum emulator in the world with #Perl
fuzzix.org/building-the-second…
fuzzix dot org :: Building the Second-Worst ZX Spectrum Emulator in the World with Perl
I've always been interested in the idea of building a small computer emulator, but it always seemed to be within the realms of bizarre science experiment meets arcane magic trick. Softwar...fuzzix.org
Microsoft Emails Windows 10 Users Urging Them to Upgrade, Recycle Old PCs
With Windows 10 security upgrades ending in October, Microsoft ramps up its Windows 11 marketing campaign, encouraging people to give its newest OS a look—or else.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Voivod: The Nuclear Warrior got a store page
"A run-and-gun metroidvania set in Voivod’s dystopian universe. Battle biomechanical mutants, explore a twisted post-apocalyptic world, and recover fragments of your lost mind. Featuring pixel-art visuals, tight action-platforming, and Voivod soundtrack."
store.steampowered.com/app/358…
#steam #gaming #videoGames #steamStorePage
Currently learning how to play #Starforged and as I apparently enjoy the journaling part of it I just built myself a traveler's notebook 😊 Apart from two notebook inserts, this also has an insert for holding my character sheet and my assets, plus a move cheat sheet.
#making #leatherwork #solo_rpg #ttrpg
reshared this
The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury
engadget.com/social-media/the-…
#news #tech #technology #socialmedia #meta #instagram #facebook
The wildest details in the Facebook memoir Meta is trying to bury
Sarah Wynn-Williams had a front-row seat to some of Facebook’s most consequential (and controversial) moments. These are some of the most shocking claims...Karissa Bell (Engadget)
Via Joyce Vance:
Important point from Ruth Ben-Ghiat on the arrest #Turkey's opposition leader:
Autocrats everywhere are becoming more emboldened because they know that they will encounter no real consequences from the #Trump-#Musk administration for their aggressions.
open.substack.com/pub/lucid/p/…
Erdogan Arrests Top Opposition Politician
On CNN Int at 2:30pmET to talk about Turkey; My WIRED Video on Dictatorsopen.substack.com
Paul Cantrell reshared this.
reshared this
The erasure is horrific & of course they're trying to erase *people* not just history on websites: they want trans people to disappear from public life, women & people of color to disappear from the workplace, immigrants&dissidents to disappear into murder prisons.
We fight them or they destroy us.
19 March 1939 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Agi Singer, was born in Gyor.
In June 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
How is it possible that many automatically (exactly every 3 hours) spammed "victims" of the holocaust (pre-camp photos in particular) are NOT FOUND in the victims database maintained by IDF soldiers who colonized former concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau?
#Auschwitz #FrancescaAlbaneseIsRight #Gaza #GazaGenocide #Westbank #Lebanon #Syria #Yemen
Trump Weakens US Defenses Against Russian #Sabotage,🚨Aiding Putin’s #HybridWarfare.
Journalists reveal: US has quietly halted efforts to counter RU sabotage, cyberattacks, & disinfo., marking a dramatic policy shift under Trump.
The story details how Trump’s admin has ceased intel coord across mult agencies, effectively blinding: US to ongoing RU hybrid warfare.
NSC, FBI, DHS, & St Dept: reportedly suspended their ops w/o explanation.
Another🚨to amplify.
#USPol #Putin theintellectualist.com/trump-w…
Trump Weakens U.S. Defenses Against Russian Sabotage, Aiding Putin’s Hybrid Warfare - The Intellectualist
Donald Trump’s administration has halted U.S. efforts to counter Russian sabotage, cyberattacks, and disinformation, raising serious national security concerns. With intelligence-sharing suspended, is the U.S. enabling Putin’s hybrid warfare?TheIntellectualist (The Intellectualist)
Glyn Moody reshared this.
Via Bloomberg:
"Elon Musk's social network X has raised close to $1 billion in new equity from investors in a deal that values the company at roughly $32 billion, according to people with knowledge of the matter — a valuation in line with when #Musk took it private in 2022." bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
most likely Saudi money.
We are very focused on Russia these days, but the Saudis are the second largest owner in the X owner group, and, let’s face it, the Crown Prince isn’t a huge fan of democracy or a democratic America that in close partnership with other western democracies promote renewable energy infrastructure in every corner of the world to diminish use of fossil fuel.
I know that Saudi Arabia and Russia are no traditional allies, but the rise in global climate change activism probably paves ways for all sorts of unholy alliances these days, hence the many meetings held in Saudi Arabia around the invasion of Ukraine. To think the Saudis don’t have a hand in that war is naive at best.
*The force (not the figure heads) behind Project 2025, comes from financing of roughly 100 members from the fossil fuel industry, including national wealth funds from UAE and Saudi Arabia. Not exactly poster children for democracy.
Billionaires know that keeping Twitter afloat is critical to their war on democracy.
businessinsider.com/elon-musk-…
Wondering which billionaires are bailing Musk out?
theguardian.com/technology/202…
Value of Elon Musk’s X ‘rebounds to $44bn purchase price’
Dramatic reversal of fortune for platform since billionaire owner became key ally of Donald TrumpMark Sweney (The Guardian)
Reup: I've been trying to track the things Trump has taken away. This is VERY much a work in progress, imperfectly presented. But please let me know what is missing (or better yet, steal my work)! www.emptywheel.net/2025/03/18/w...
Work in Progress: What Trump T...
Work in Progress: What Trump Took Away - emptywheel
A preliminary list of the things Trump has taken away.emptywheel
Glyn Moody reshared this.
I wanna puke.
"A senior official at #Musk’s DOGE is taking a leadership role at the U.S. Agency for International Development, giving DOGE direct authority over an agency that it has worked to dismantle, according to an email obtained by The Associated Press." #USAID
apnews.com/article/usaid-doge-…
DOGE official is taking a leadership role at USAID
A senior official at Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is taking a leadership role at the U.S. Agency for International Development, giving DOGE a top job at an agency that it has helped dismantle.Matt Brown (AP News)
Glyn Moody reshared this.
Sometimes I contemplate the merits of maybe having something like a "thinking license"
(Via tumblr: tumblr.com/despazito/777746442…)
I have an odd perspective on this: the problem is pretending that it's science.
It's magic. Admit it's magic, not science, and I'm fine with it. Pretending it's science is assigning it a reputation for accuracy that it doesn't deserve.
Does it really matter if we call a girl parrot "Bobby"? It does not. So using magic is fine here. As is flipping a coin.
@psychology
Humans aren’t the only animals with complex culture − but researchers point to one feature that makes ours unique
Animals can learn from each other, maintaining their cultures for long periods of time. What sets people apart may be the uniquely open-ended ways we invent new ideas and share and build on them.The Conversation
Google says more changes to Search in the EU would "reduce traffic to European businesses" and changes to the Play Store may expose users to "malware and fraud" (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
techcrunch.com/2025/03/19/goog…
techmeme.com/250319/p37#a25031…
Google search, Play Store falling foul of Digital Markets Act rules, says EU | TechCrunch
Google Search and its Play Store app marketplace are suspected of breaching the European Union's Digital Markets Act (DMA), per preliminary findingsNatasha Lomas (TechCrunch)
This is beyond…
#LeMonde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to #US after a #search of his #phone & #computer revealed messages critical of #Trump's #science cuts, "which [says #CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated.
#law #geopolitics #USpol #authoritarianism #dictatorship #FreeSpeech #ThoughtPolice #Nazis #ViewpointDiscrimination
lemonde.fr/international/artic…
Etats-Unis : un chercheur français refoulé pour avoir exprimé « une opinion personnelle sur la politique menée par l’administration Trump »
Le ministre de la recherche français a dit sa « préoccupation », mercredi, après cette décision des autorités américaines.Le Monde avec AFP (Le Monde)
audioflyer79🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺🏳️🌈 reshared this.
more like neSLANDERthals because this is total slander.
leave my red-head chunky cousins alone.
weather.com/news/weather/video…
#Wildfire smoke obscures Miami-area roads and snarls traffic, video from the Weather Channel. #ClimateCrisis
Wildfire Snarls Florida Keys Traffic For Hours
A huge wildfire shut down the main artery into the Florida Keys on Tuesday. Traffic was snarled for hours as smoke and flames in the Miami-Dade area got closer to the well-known 18-Mile Stretch of U.S. Highway 1.The Weather Channel
A parrot called the budgerigar controls its vocalizations with a flexible system.
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0…
Bravo, András Schiff.
We are a pariah nation now.
nytimes.com/2025/03/19/arts/mu…
Dismayed by Trump, the Star Pianist András Schiff Boycotts the U.S.
Mr. Schiff, who has refused to play in Russia and his native Hungary because of strongman rule, said he was alarmed by President Trump’s “unbelievable bullying.”Javier C. Hernández (The New York Times)
Paul Cantrell reshared this.
Small selection of ruru (Ninox novaeseelandiae) in care at Wildbase Recovery NZ 💛 #owlsintowels
Wildbase Recovery – World-class rehabilitation care for New Zealand wildlife
Wildbase Recovery will provide world-class rehabilitation care for endangered New Zealand wildlife. With your support, we can give our native species the best chance of survival.wildbaserecovery.co.nz
The Alchemist reshared this.
Quan Gin by 5martist
Source: artstation.com/smartist
#DnD #DungeonsAndDragons #ttrpg #character #characterart #art #digitalart #dndart
Do you use Mastodon's web interface? Do you get frustrated when viewing a thread with content warnings because you have to open lots of CWs individually?
There is a solution to this problem: just click the eye 👁️ icon in the top right corner to toggle all the thread's CWs open or closed. (If it doesn't seem to work, click again. It's a toggle switch!)
More info and questions answered about this feature at:
➡️ fedi.tips/what-does-the-eye-ic…
What does the eye icon 👁️ mean on Mastodon? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
A thing I've been thinking about a lot is how, whether, technology like computers and computer screens could be made "locally", i.e., within a limited area and without access to global trade in parts and minerals, even if you have to make drastic trade-offs to get there
theverge.com/news/631357/eleco…
A sodium-ion portable power bank comes to market
Elecom’s Na Plus sodium-ion power bank is safe to use in extreme temperatures and can be recharged nearly 5,000 times.Andrew Liszewski (The Verge)
New advertisement push from US Veterans
VOTEVETS | Stop Elon Musk's War On Veterans | Perry
"I did not put my life on the line to put some tech bro billionaire from South Africa to come here and try to destroy our country"
I caught her four more flies today because she still seemed hungry, but they kept escaping from her. I caught her a pantry moth, too, but a smaller spider I was previously unaware of caught it before she could. Eventually I caught her a pantry moth that she caught.
That was a lot of hunting by me to feed her two bugs
you must have enjoyed this song at some time in your childhood. youtube.com/watch?v=EoN14e8CCW…
"Spin, Spider, Spin" by Patty Zeitlin
Patty Zeitlin -[8]- Spin Spider Spin
VA Fuzzy-Felt Folkhttp://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1800CCE1DC218B3EYouTube
#weirdnews #weird #offbeat #odd #news laughingsquid.com/sledding-cat…
A Bundled Up Cool Cat Loves Snowy Sled Rides Provided by His Beloved Human
A cool cat named Fitz who lives in Canada, loves to get all bundled up in a warm coat and his oversized "bat-eared" hat to go for sled rides.Lori Dorn (Laughing Squid)
MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au
in reply to Ars Technica • • •I thankfully do not own an ink-jet printer. I switched to laser (Brothers). While the ink cost most, it surely last longer. Most importantly, I can let my printer sit there for years without printing anything, and my ink is still good, and my printer is not clogged.
The up front cost for both the printer and the ink may be more, but I gained myself both peace of mind and longevity for both (the printer and the ink).
MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au likes this.
MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au reshared this.
Stellar 🇫🇷
in reply to MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au • • •MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au likes this.
MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au
in reply to Stellar 🇫🇷 • • •MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au likes this.
MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au reshared this.
Chewie
in reply to MOVED to: @Linux@mastodon.au • • •mstdn.social/@osnews/114138684…
OSNews (@osnews@mstdn.social)
Mastodon 🐘