the steam machine thing is a big tech milestone: a major tech company in 2025 launched a product and never mentioned AI
"If you're not on board with AI you're going to get left behind"
Boost if you'd like to be left behind and would consider paying extra for a life without this bullshit.
To my shame, the almost quarter century I've been using wikipedia I think this is only the second time I've donated.
They are only asking £2.75, but they ask for 35p to cover transaction charge. I changed donation to £2.76 because +35p = 311 pence which is a prime number.
Wiki could add a few more pence to make it 3.14 (π). #Pi
Honestly think #wikipedia are missing a trick in not pointing these out or having a "round up your donation to the nearest prime" button to encourage the #nerds
But on a serious note; #wiki is the best thing about the web and many powerful and rich people actively work against it. It needs protecting so if you use it and you can donate, think about doing so.
If I had a penny for every time I heard something like
"We're going to track increases in productivity that we gain by adopting GenAI"
1. So you're assuming it's an increase
2. Against what control group
3. With no acknowledgement of confounding variables or experiment design
4. Around the...famously open problem of measuring software engineering productivity?
While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973
Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition
We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum
FOSS software is not free as in beer or free as in freedom, it's free as in free kittens. You have to take care of them forever.
"In August 2025, Google announced that starting next year, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google." What this means for your rights, and how you can help: https://keepandroidopen.org
The Israeli army announced that a soldier in Rafah had been killed by gunfire on Tuesday.
Before the source of the gunfire could be confirmed, Netanyahu blamed it on Hamas, and gave the order for the army to launch “powerful strikes” on Gaza. The resumption of the Israeli bombing campaign killed over 100 people, 46 of whom were children, and 20 of whom were women, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health on Wednesday.
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#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News
Yesterday, Apple took the EU to court, to argue that it's "really mean" and "totally, like, not fair" to expect it to allow "stinky competitors" to access APIs on iOS. @fsfe intervened on behalf of "users" to argue why DMA 6(7) applies even to a small startup like Apple. Their hearing is at https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20251021-01.en.html