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⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
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Lead dev at UK company for ☁️,📱 & 💻. Views own.

Got an AI degree before it was a bubble.

Likes : 🐕, 🧱, 🐧,🚀, sci-fi, whisky, electronic 🎶 and retro 🖥️
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Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
"Bringing back LimeWire to illegally rip copies of reporting suppressed by the government is definitely some cyberpunk shit."

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/12/yo-what-limewire-re-emerges-in-online-rush-to-share-pulled-60-minutes-segment/

#censorship #uspol
arstechnica.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:08 AM
December 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
Video!

https://exquisite.tube/w/qoHtHzpNXncHwrfqpx31tF

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This is a mobile phone video of the reading of a UNIX V4 magnetic tape at the Computer History Museum. Video originally by Jon Duerig, the people primarily responsible for the tape restoration are Al Kossow and Len Shustek
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Unix V4 Tape Reading
This is a mobile phone video of the reading of a UNIX V4 magnetic tape at the Computer History Museum. Video originally by Jon Duerig, the people primarily responsible for the tape restoration are ...
exquisite.tube
December 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
Airplane with incapacitated pilot lands safely thanks to emergency autoland system:

https://avbrief.com/autoland-saves-king-air-everyone-reported-safe/?utm_source=newsletter-88&utm_medium=mastodon

I haven't listened to the attached LiveATC recording, but there is one if you are curious how an […]
Original post on social.makerforums.info
social.makerforums.info
December 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
We have the binary image of the tape, link going up soon
December 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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December 19, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
"What Mozilla leadership has continually demonstrated for the last several years is that they not only fail to understand the values of those who believe in and use the product, but they also have no intention of figuring out a non-parasitic financial basis for the organization to operate." […]
Original post on tldr.nettime.org
tldr.nettime.org
December 18, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
Mozilla has a new CEO which:

- Has been at Mozilla for less than a year
- Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate")
- Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma")
- Is all-in on AI

That’s exactly the kind of profile the whole community has been waiting for.
December 16, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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December 16, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
Chart of the day

#infographic #brexit
December 12, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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FFS. @robinince has left The Infinite Monkey Cage because the BBC are cowards and transphobes seeking to control what their freelance contractors say and do. https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2w3eicjzblwvqo3nsxiivwgb/post/3m7tcbsr7522l
December 13, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
I'm working on a study of Bronze Age axes, and I find it a little hard to articulate why.

* I don't get paid.
* Another journal paper won't make any difference for my employability at this stage.
* Almost nobody knows or cares that these axes exist.

I think the main reasons I do this is

* […]
Original post on archaeo.social
archaeo.social
December 10, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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This really highlights how incredibly dependent we are on Starlink's continued perfect collision avoidance maneuvers. So far they've done it, but they keep adding more satellites and making it harder.

Other megaconstellations are now launching as well, and they all need to communicate PERFECTLY […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
The CRASH Clock uses the current density in altitude bins (averaged over eccentric orbits) of satellites, rocket bodies, and tracked debris, assuming typical cross sections for each type and orbital speeds. This calculation tells us how long to a collision if all orbital maneuvers were to […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
December 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
Today I discovered that the only way to get an immediate tax refund from HMRC in the UK is to go through an "open banking" service that gives a random third party company the right to see all your account details, including transaction histories.

Apparently this is better for people than a […]
Original post on social.vivaldi.net
social.vivaldi.net
December 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
December 9, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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"Why don't you just Amazon it?" asks my mum.

Because I walked up to the local shopping centre and I bought Christmas cards and actual gifts from a little gift shop. I get to handwrite the cards and wrap the gifts myself and it feels personal. I touched these soft toys and wrapped them and wrote […]
Original post on beige.party
beige.party
December 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
If anyone in the UK wants to purchase a Scanning Electron Microscope there is a very good deal on eBay UK right now. 🙂

Will probably need extensive reconditioning and setup as well as a large space to house it. But fuck that would be cool to own and use 😁

https://ebay.us/m/sS6kfe

~ £350 plus […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
December 7, 2025 at 8:14 AM
@revk I wonder if you are the right person to ask for ideas for a simple Home Assistant compatible analogue RGB (12v plus R,G,B) led controller?
Trying to bring some older lights in to the fold.
December 4, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
Hello fellow #retrocomputing enthusiasts. Do I happen to be connected to anyone who knows about an #ibm #rs6k 43P-150?

Mine is dead as a door nail. When booting I get "Unexpected Firmware Error:
DEFAULT CATCH!, code=fff00200 at %SRR0: 00c194d8 %SRR1: 00083030"

And the debug LCD reads E1DC.

If […]
Original post on mastodon.tmm.cx
mastodon.tmm.cx
December 2, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Reposted by ⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️
Special offer for AI companies: for a modest donation to #OpenStreetMap we'll give you a direct download link to our data in a machine-friendly format. Much quicker than juggling 100,000 IPs to scrape our website. Start here: https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate/ #odbl #licensed #planet 😏🤖🌍💸
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December 2, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Fellow folks at the interest-intersection of "public transport" and "queer activism" (I know you're out there!): I had an idea for a t-shirt.

Do I print it? Or give up on graphic design and go back to backend programming where I belong?

#note #trans #trams […]

[Original post on danq.me]
December 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM