Are you in Adelaide today? Come down to U-City where See Differently are hosting Tech Fest. There are lots of organisations here with everything to help you make the most of your tech - including James and Quentin from NV Access!
#SeeDifferently #TechFest #NVDA #NVAccess #technology #screenReader
A.R.G.U.S. would be under the jurisdiction of D.H.S.
Fortunately it's fictional. But let that sink in.
@frameworkcomputer sponsors a transphobic developer: Vaxry, developer of the Hyprland compositor.
xcancel.com/FrameworkPuter/sta…
Vaxry has been known to harass trans ppl. If Framework is putting money towards that, maybe I won't put money toward Framework anymore. Maybe you shouldn't either, until they stop this.
Transphobia is not appealing, especially for the kind of people who would normally be interested in Framework's devices.
#framework #frameworklaptop #transphobia #fascism #lgbtq #linux #hyprland
We're happy to keep sponsoring and enabling more of the Linux ecosystem! We've also just recently joined @linuxfoundation and become (maybe the first?) corporate sponsor of LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service).Nitter
Taco Bell: We’re going back to the 2000s with our taco covered with another taco and our other taco drenched in Doritos powder
Me: go back to the early 90s where your menu was taco, burrito, tostada, nachos, Meximelt or starve
Ask: what did Apple *want* in return for bending the knee?
Answer: the end of the rule of law in Europe, and with it, an example for others.
Shot:
migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-app…
Chaser:
politico.eu/article/von-der-le…
“I want to be crystal clear on one point: whether on environmental or digital regulation, we set our own standards, we set our own regulations,” says EU Commission chief.Pieter Haeck (POLITICO)
It's October, here we go again! Also how is it October already?
Starting off with a quick one after a late toddler bedtime.
Inktober day 1: Mustache
#inktober #inktober2025 #ink #drawing #mustache
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
theguardian.com/environment/20…
This is definitely something to celebrate! 🎉
That said, please remember, the goal here is not to have ever larger part of our energy generated from renewables.
👉 The goal is to have coal, gas, and other fossil fuel based energy generation to go down in *absolute terms*.
⚠️ And sadly, in a lot of places including EU and US – as the article mentions – fossil fuel based power generation is *still growing*.
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report findsJillian Ambrose (The Guardian)
So if we are adding so much renewable power generation capacity, why are we not shutting down coal and gas powered plants? Why, in fact, are we *adding* more?
A large part of the answer here is – *siiiigh* – AI.
Most coal-fired power plants will delay retirement to feed AI boom, energy secretary says
reuters.com/sustainability/cli…
AI could keep us dependent on natural gas for decades to come
technologyreview.com/2025/05/2…
Consider this next time you use ChatGPT for something. 
AI data centers are driving a surge in new natural-gas power plants around the country. What does that mean for our clean-energy aspirations?David Rotman (MIT Technology Review)
And if you hear anyone claiming – like heavily AI invested¹ Bill Gates has claimed² – that "AI" will help solving the climate crisis, remember this:
We really don't need a supercomputer to tell us what needs to be done. This is not rocket surgery. We need to lower fossil fuel emissions. That's it. And we already know this.
AI "helping" with climate crisis is purely hypothetical at this point. But the harms related to this bubble are already here. In form of coal plants not being retired.
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In the 28.7 days since the #curl release, we have merged 233 bugfixes (8.13 per day)
Yeah, its a little crazy here right now. Those kids with the new tools reporting problems... 😁
Newcomers: I’m not going to yell at you about alt text.
But I will tell you, just as a factual matter, if you don’t add alt text to your images they may get fewer faves and boosts. There are people here who rely on it to know what you’ve posted, and many more who won’t engage with media that doesn’t have alt text.
Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!ebooks.qumran.org
RE: infosec.exchange/@vxdb/1153389…
I've been trying to get the cybercrime journalist @vxdb to abandon their seat at the Nazi Bar, or at least to also post here. So please join me in giving them a follow and a friendly hello.
Two 17-year-old boys have been arrested after a cyberattack on nursery chain Kido. Police say the pair tried to extort the company by leaking photos of children, alongside the names, addresses and contact details of their parents and carers.vxdb (Infosec Exchange)
I'm a death lawyer. It's nice. But what surprises me is how rarely people do cool stuff with their money (or their bodies) when they die. "UhHhH tAkE cArE oF mY wIfE wHeN I DiE," "i LoVe My ChIlDrEn EqUaLlY." Grow up.
Where are the bequests of fortunes to shirtsleeve relatives in exchange for spending a night in a haunted house? What about having your remains loaded into a cannon and fired into rush hour traffic? Where are the scholarships for bagpipers and other undesirables?
Ask not for whom the bell tolls
It tolls for ^G
For those who hear it tolling not,
It tolls but visually
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Rozhovor s muzikantem s ~milionem sledujicich na Instagramu:
"Ja zadnej link delat nebudu. Zadnej muzikant nikdy zadnej link nedelal. Linky mi posilaj. Poslete mi link a kdyz se mi bude libit, tak si ho dam na Instagram."
Kdybyste nevedeli, jak se dela sales v hudebnim svete, tak ted uz to vite. Poslete link.
Jdu delat link.
Too big too fail.
Kodak.
From 1983 to 2012 (it's Chapter 11 bankruptcy), Kodak had spent US$25B in R&D, and not a single successful hit product came out of it.
Morning everyone. Weird dreams about camping. Why would I dream about camping? I can't stand camping.
Hope you're all doing well, regardless of your opinions on camping.
“The ‘Freedom Convoy’ was a foreign-funded occupation and political destabilization movement, not a grassroots movement about COVID mandates." And of course #PeePee was its hand servant. cultmtl.com/2025/10/observatio…
#Cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative #democracy #FreedumConvoy
An ever-changing collection of commentary and observations by Montrealers or about Montreal politics and culture.Cult MTL
De opleidingscommissie van de Vakgroep Wijsbegeerte en Moraalwetenschap aan Universiteit Gent besliste om het gebruik van generatieve #AI voor bachelor- en masterproeven dit academiejaar te verbieden. Maar die beslissing wordt van hogerhand teruggefloten. #UGent omarmt generatieve AI en dat geldt voor alle opleidingen.
apache.be/2025/10/08/ugent-ver…
UGent omarmt generatieve AI en dat geldt ook voor opleidingen die bezwaren uiten.apache.be
I am a bit sad today, because I won't be able to finish the next animal illustration, inspired by the Ubuntu release, in time for the official release date tomorrow.
It will probably take another two weeks.
Nevertheless, Focal Fossa will ensure the focus remains high ☀️ 💕 
☀️ 💕
Boop the nose for good luck! 🍀
#art #mastoart #fediart #krita
Lol, #framework decided to sponsor Hyprland as well?
Did they swallow the entire #DHH pill?
Beyond disappointing.
xcancel.com/FrameworkPuter/sta…
We're happy to keep sponsoring and enabling more of the Linux ecosystem! We've also just recently joined @linuxfoundation and become (maybe the first?) corporate sponsor of LVFS (Linux Vendor Firmware Service).Nitter
reshared this
"After two years of genocide in Palestine, a massive demonstration converged in Mexico City to demand that the government sever ties with Israel. The march was blocked by police, who assaulted and arbitrarily detained protesters and members of the press. Later, at a rally in front of the US Embassy, speakers condemned the Mexican government's complicity and demanded an immediate end to all military cooperation with Israel."
piedepagina.mx/2-anos-de-genoc…
@palestine #Palestine #Israel #Gaza #Mexico #CDMX
A dos años del genocidio en Palestina, una multitudinaria movilización convergió en la Ciudad de México para exigir al gobierno la ruptura de relaciones con Israel.Pie de Página
Innovative and terrible product idea:
A mouth implant that automatically senses food/drink intake and releases flavors to optimize for your palate; it learns from your saliva production
Never again have to manually add salt to your food or sugar to your coffee, possibly in front of other people
Sensory sovereignty
Flavor cartridges are a subscription service; dentists sell/install/maintain, like Invisalign
We start off with sweet, sour, salty, bitter, and umami; version 2 includes capsaicin
Ran across this gorgeous diagram (at left) of the cyclic execution schedule of the software used on Skylab (1970s). I love this way of thinking about cyclic execution, but I didn't realize anyone else used it!
At right, one of my (less pretty and much less hand-drawn) diagrams from an article I wrote on graphics demo architecture... 40 years later. (And ten years ago, gosh.)
In the replies below, I talk about the old ways of drafting, if you're curious.
There's also some mild kerning inconsistency, which strongly suggests that the lettering (in Futura medium, naturally, this was the Space Age after all) was done with a dry transfer lettering sheet, or _potentially_ with a template guide at very large scale. But my money's on dry transfer.
Dry transfer lettering is a thing I'm _just_ old enough to have learned about in drafting class. For those of you who learned to draw post-computer, let me introduce you to Letraset:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letraset
Again, the artist was clearly a pro: the baselines are impeccable and the keming in general is near-perfect. But not machine-perfect. Which I like.
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in reply to Alex • • •Hi @frameworkcomputer, I am the sole IT purchasing decision-maker at my company. We recently switched to your laptops as our exclusive provider, but we are now back in the market for a supplier who doesn’t fund people who want me and my kind eliminated.
In case you were wondering if your political decision has financial consequences, yes it does.
@constancies