shot, chaser

An extremely welcome initiative from the 🇪🇺 #eu:

🔋Phone Batteries must retain 80% capacity after 800 cycles.

📱Phone makers must provide 5 years of updates,

🪛 are banned from discriminating against repair shops,

🔧 and must provide parts for 7 years after EOL

#EUpol #sustainability #tech #smartphones #CircularEconomy

https://www.androidpolice.com/eu-new-rules-will-shake-up-android-update-policies/

@lehtimaeki They are being built https://framapiaf.org/@peertube/114613219893538727

Did you know that Moore's Law would likely have stalled after 2012 if it were not because of the European Southern Observatory?

When EUV feasibility was evaluated, the optics design was considered a potential showstopper given the complexities of manufacturing such smooth mirrors. It's only because of a manufacturing breakthrough for ESO’s telescope M2 mirrors that EUV was considered feasible by 2001.

Yet another example of why defunding science is going to hurt your industrial competitiveness

I'm sick and tired of seeing articles like

'Introverted? Here's how to be more social'

FUCK OFF!!!

How about an article with the headline

'Extroverted? Here's how to shut the fuck up'

@3x10to8mps @lydiaschoch Neighbor said his kid wanted to learn Java so he could mod Minecraft. Did I know anything about that?

No, but I fixed up a laptop and put Linux Mint on it. Kid and I googled around and downloaded enough stuff to get him started. Kid has the spark of enthusiasm that can't be faked. Pure fun.

He and his dad were all THANK YOU THANK YOU, and I said "You're welcome." But what I was thinking was YOU KNOW HOW MANY OTHER KIDS' DADS HELPED AND ENCOURAGED ME IN THE EIGHTIES?

This feels ... psychotic?

https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/28/google_brin_suggests_threatening_ai/

EU bug database fully operational as US slashes infosec https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/13/eu_security_bug_database/

@hth A Dutch former public prosecutor and then Justice Minister became a bus driver after his political career.

It was a passion he had had for a long time and he finally had the time for it after leaving politics.

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

You know how politicians often end up in high paying roles at private companies after they leave politics?

Sadly that also does happen in Iceland.

However the nation's previous President decided that he would rather go and work as a national park ranger this summer (during winter time he is a professor of history at the national university).

This just feels too wholesome not to share.

https://www.ruv.is/frettir/innlent/2025-05-26-fyrrverandi-forseti-maetir-ardags-i-ljoma-i-sumarvinnuna-a-thingvollum-444735

Happy 50th birthday, cron! Thanks for remembering all of our jobs for us 😎

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

#cron #unix #linux #birthday

I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.

I think I have finally managed to articulate this very fundamental but slightly counterintuitive fact about how shell redirection works

Announcing: https://justaqrcode.com.

Tired of "free" QR code generators that are full of ads and trackers, that share your data, and that want to sell you something? Me too. Here's my act of resistance: I made a one-page site that works entirely in your browser to generate a simple QR code. And that's all it does. You can download the HTML page and run it locally, even. Read the source; nothing up my sleeves. Just a QR code.

My offer to you -- I will continue to pay for the domain name and web hosting for it, myself. If you find it valuable, you can pay it back by creating your own useful thing for the world and releasing it for free. Let's take back the friendly web, one vexingly-monetized utility at a time!

#QRcode #Free #FriendlyWeb #Resistance

Dear developers, stop fucking around with the icon for your app. This is like me coming into your home, and moving all the labels on all the switches on your appliances. Don't do it. You're just pissing people off.

Watching Microsoft’s robots telling Microsoft’s other robots that they need to agree to Microsoft CLAs in between Microsoft’s developers begging Microsoft’s robots to actually understand the problems they’re trying to fix in Microsoft's platform code on Microsoft's version-control website is kind of amazing.

This is definitely the future Terry Gilliam promised us.

Andor season 2 was exactly what I needed in my life these days. Can't wait for the conclusion!

#Adobe just raised its prices, some are over US$100 a month 😬

Stop paying rent on your tools, switch to #FOSS alternatives:

➡️ @kdenlive - Video editing

➡️ @ardour - Digital audio workstation

➡️ @tenacity - Audio editing

➡️ @Blender@mastodon.social (main) & @blender@video.blender.org (videos) - 3D animation & video effects

➡️ @Krita@mastodon.art (main) & @krita@tube.kockatoo.org (videos) - Painting & illustration

➡️ @inkscape - Vector drawing

➡️ @darktable - Organise & develop raw photos

➡️ @www.scribus.net.news - Desktop publishing (feed)

> github will soon start allowing github users to submit issues which they did not write themselves and were machine-generated

Sweet Jesus. We’re finished.

From: @mcc
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114536667832141959

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#mozilla #firefox #didntAskForIt #dontWantIt