Heavy dose of nostalgia there. I remember the Sun SPARCstations at uni and changing my desktop environment every other week.

JPEG XL? It’s 2026 and I’m still waiting for JPEG 2000 to become mainstream

Take down the whole family, there should be no monarchy in the 21st century

The very same

Oh, I thought it stood for Fuck Off, Miserable Osborne

The only good use of AI would be to use the heat from its excessive power consumption to keep our sausage rolls warm

A really nice essay, I agree with the sentiment of it. We don’t need European tech billionaires, we need government support for open source

Hmm, doubt it’s for security. Seems more likely they’re looking for backdoors in order to spy on users. There are far too many governments desperate to backdoor encryption and messaging apps to trust any government’s stated intent when it comes to technology

If true, God spends a lot of time dreaming up scantily-clad, uwu-looking cat girls for an army of socially isolated believers

Lizard on a Grand Wizard

Your cables break every 3 days

I bought this on a whim a while back and found that I love it! Well-balanced and fun, multiple ways to achieve goals.

3 months until we have Stranger Things: Settlers of The Upside Down

Not the TPS reports!

Vibe math. No thank you

Arthur C Clarke is an excellent author and the Rama series is one of my all-time favourites. I’d recommend anything by Philip K Dick, though honestly I think a good reference would be to pick works listed in the SF Masterworks collection, it’s how I found many of my favourite SF novels.

If you fancy venturing into modern SF classics, my favourites are by Peter F Hamilton, Iain M Banks and William Gibson; though does Gibson count? He doesn’t even have a middle initial 😄

The bat travelled 1,000 miles. It is not stated how far the car travelled.

No no, it’s ok, we can sell the government different AI to scan for those vulnerabilities /s

Note that it was City of London Police involved. The City of London is quite distinct and different from the London that tourists know of. The City of London is owned by the corporations (mainly financial institutions) within its boundary, it is self-governing and has the right to set up it’s own police force which can take enforcement action in any part of the UK, not just the City of London. They are basically an enforcement arm for corporations and are very interested in things like enforcing intellectual property claims.

Wireless Application Protocol. I can no longer say on my CV that I ‘worked on WAP in the early 2000s’.