We're pleased to #announce that as part of the wider @Endof10 campaign #dublinlinux will be hosting an #endof10 event with @tog 13 September 2025, details on https://endofwin10.ie/ #linux #opensource #windows10 #windows #microsoft #ireland #dublin #tech #computers #laptops #technology
Tribute to the revolutionary Amiga 1000, which pushed digital audiovisuals to new heights in 1985.
I loved the Amiga conversion of Marble Madness, and completing the game with a joystick was harder than using a mouse.
PRIVACY FOLKS: Stop fucking forgetting about accessibility. People with disabilities deserve privacy too - and in fact probably need it more than you do.
Signed,
So fucking tired of not being able to use privacy focused alternatives to apple and google, their native aps for various things from email to navigation, and suchlike.
Grundy NewBrain, microcomputer.
Gotta love good ol' 1-bit pixel dithering (ordered, Floyd-Steinberg, etc.) 
𝙈𝙖𝙘𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙩 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙙-80𝙨 𝙎𝙩𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙇𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙨 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙏𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮
(09 Jul) Using ROFI/FZF with MPV And RSS Feeds To Manage And View Videos.
If you don’t want to watch videos from … a particular site … using your browser, this linux script may help you out.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/hq2bc
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/kWdcc ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/b8wex
For anyone else who has a Samsung Android who has disabled Gemini and thought they disabled all the Google assistant features only to suddenly have the power button not work as a power button and brings up a "try saying" menu:
https://www.howtogeek.com/729343/how-to-turn-off-the-google-assistant-power-button-on-android/
This had been irritating me since the 25th of June update, a feature I don't want and didn't ask for.
Building my own paper tape punch
Looks like it's time to migrate ancient data. Thanks, @9to5Mac !
Luckily, I've got an ancient iMac running Linux. Can use Firewire and the format, and Modern Linux Mint runs great on it.
#HeadsUp #UpToDate #TimeToMigrate #ThanksForEverything #Computers #Apple https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/114815443115334357
The rise of smartphones has created an interesting phenomenon: #computers communicating optically by scanning barcodes on each other's screens.
This has some interesting #infosec properties:
* Humans can see when communication happens and control which devices are communicating (by pointing them at each other).
* Only a few bytes of data can be exchanged. This limits attack surface: there's no room for a non-trivial attack payload.
* This requires line of sight. No attacks through walls.
I switched browsers and I am beginning to like this one the more I use it though it is a lot more technical than what I'm used to.
Good challenge. I like learning as I go.
(clicks unknown setting--smoke drifts from laptop vents) -that is a joke btw...no smoke is coming from my computer.
MICROSOFT ELIMINATING PASSWORDS
Mastodon Post
Microsoft Is Eliminating Passwords in August: Here's What You Need to Do to Prepare
Microsoft Authenticator has already stopped autofilling passwords, but the biggest change comes next month.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/microsoft-is-erasing-your-passwords-next-month-do-this-asap/
I have been with Windows since pretty much the beginning. My first Windows computer, at work, was Windows 2. The guy across the hall had Windows 1, which I sometimes used. These days, Microsoft and Dell keep prompting me to upgrade to Windows 11, an OS that is about to take a first step toward becoming obsolete. I'm giving very serious thought to upgrading to something other than Windows.
Windows once was cool and the Windows team was a bunch of cool people. Those days are dead and gone. At some point Windows staff got in touch with their inner NAZI. This is a small example. Microsoft is eliminating passwords because customers don't use passwords THEIR way - CORPORATE orientation. Their updates are a form of inexplicable mania and their use of OneDrive is equally insane. It is getting harder and harder to use my computer MY way because of Microsoft's extreme and growing CORPORATE orientation and their pretty nearly nonexistent CUSTOMER orientation.
Microsoft thinks its judgment prevails on fantastically too much, it thinks its ways of doing things prevail, and I, for one, am getting fed up.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy says, People keep getting technology when what they really want is just stuff that works. Microsoft management needs someone to explain that to them.
: #computers #corporateorientation #customerorientation #dell #dellcomputer #dellcomputers #marketing #microsoft #passwordauthenticator #passwords #pins #technology #windows :
Consequential facts of electronic #tech in the world today: #mobile devices (i.e. portable #computers) are used by most everyone; and nearly all populated areas have some internet.
The question is, what are we doing with that power: watching TikTok or making a better #future?
@ormand.bsky.social We've been all #Linux since #Ubuntu 6.06, and always on #computers schools I worked at were ditching. Essentially free computing here since 2006...
I loved the "#GendBuntu" rollout. The article says #RedHat appears to be a choice for Europe. Strange, as anything American-based would seem to have similar privacy and data security concerns. They make a good case for the France-based #Mint (which I use too!).
Have you tried https://www.winehq.org/
A very well done piece:
How Doom didn't kill the Amiga -
A detailed account of the rise and fall of an Amiga zealot
Debian 13 RC2 fixes the APT CD-ROM source issues!
#Debian #Linux #DebianLinux #APT #TechNews #TechUpdates #Computers #Laptops
