All packed up and ready to go!

It's rude to show AI output to people

https://distantprovince.by/posts/its-rude-to-show-ai-output-to-people/

it is deeply funny to think google once claimed to be "organizing the world's information" when paired with the clockwork shutdowns and sunsets that happen every 18 months

the url shorterner being the current one on the chopping board is almost beyond satire

We all suspected it, now it’s confirmed.

#Musk ordered shutdown of #Starlink satellite service as #Ukraine retook territory from #Russia

A previously unreported order by #ElonMusk to cut satellite #communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order & its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

#power #corruption #oligarchy
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/musk-ordered-shutdown-starlink-satellite-service-ukraine-retook-territory-russia-2025-07-25/

@wotsac @da_667 and the point of this isn't "FreeBSD is great!" or "fuck systemd" or anything like that, since I genuinely don't care about the branding and have no loyalty to any one project, but rather that there's a philosophical disconnect between the current mindset of how the linux ecosystem does things and how I view the role of an operating system. I want a hammer, not a playground full of clever ways to hit nails.

My Android phone just performed a forced, unauthorized OS update, removing root access in the process.

Despite automatic updates being explicitly disabled.

The tech industry's understanding of "consent" is contemptuous.

"No" means "no", not "maybe later", or "unless you think you know better".

Also put some teak oil after that. Still have to get all the wood again and under the stuff being glued. I find teak oul takes a few coats to absorb well. 4/x #ReduceRepairReuseRecycle #furniture

Refinishing this old table that was on the side of the road, just for the heck of it. 1/x

#ReduceRepairReuseRecycle

I currently have an HDMI output dongle and an HDMI input dongle connected together and both plugged into the same computer.

"Why", you ask? The UK's new "Online Safety" law, and those were the most appropriate components in my junk drawer.

Using a VPN would be convenient. This is about principle.

I'm certain these new age verification systems are just piping selfie videos into some opaque "AI" classifier.

It seems only fair to respond with a bit of generative art. I'm going to enjoy the irony of defeating one black box with another.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I'm sharing my new 2025-01 Krita brush bundle under CC-0/Public Domain, I hope you'll like them!
Blog post to download: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1060/krita-brushes-2025-01-bundle

#krita

In an IEEE conf. last week, NASA engrs explained how they fixed the Juno spacecraft’s failing camera in late 2023 by heating and slow-cooling (annealing) its electronics.

After 8 years in Jupiter's radiation belts, JunoCam image quality deteriorated.

Engrs suspected a radiation-damaged voltage regulator. JunoCam was heated to 77F and much higher in a later step. And the images got clearer!

Annealing can change the crystal structure of materials incl silicon chips.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/juno/nasa-shares-how-to-save-camera-370-million-miles-away-near-jupiter/
1/n

Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue

Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway?

The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off

Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff

https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder

#hurricanes #weather #wx #satellites

It's important to give yourself, small, easy to achieve goals. That way you can quickly feel like you've accomplished things.

So this week I have planned the following.

1: Act strange
2: Be Weird
3: Make unsettling/inappropriate comments that are easily misinterpreted.
4: Paint the walls

Every odyssey has a destination

Two days ago, I contacted Adobe about disabling AI features on my account.

Adobe this morning:

Warning: fediverse scam alert

You've promised yourself that you'll sit down to just read a few toots and, two hours later, you've read 500+ toots, made six new friends, and installed Linux or BSD on your laptop.

What a scam.

On weekend I managed to connect all my selfhosted services that support it to the #Keycloak #SSO (single sign on).
Namely #Mastodon #Peertube #NextCloud #FreshRSS #Matomo and #grafana

Why to bother with such complication for apps serving only a couple of users?
First it's quite easy nowadays.
And second, because I want to get rid of passwords and just use #passkeys .

This is one of many examples showing that good apps should just focus on one task and just use standards to cooperate with other apps focusing on other tasks.

Peertube for example focuses on videos, not user management. I am very OK that they don't support passkeys, because they implemented OpenId Connect standard to allow me use Keycloak for better login options.

On the other hand, I am quite sad that SSO is often the one feature, that is proprietary and reserved only for paying customers. SSO is not for huge corporations anymore. It's also usefull for us, selfhosters with couple of users.

❤️

@maddiefuzz