@ShaunKL

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I am serious about what I do, just not necessarily the way I do it.
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#framework announcement felt underwhelming compared to the amount of hype they were generating.

The new features of the 13 pro actually are discouraging me switching my computer setup to the Framework 12 since new Intel hardware seems like it will be much better for that form-factor.

For a company their size it makes sense that they can’t update too much of their hardware at once. I just wish they would manage the hype, felt a little distasteful to me.

I understand but lament the choice so many thoughtful people have made to publish their newsletters on the odious Substack. Surely they recognize that they are, at least indirectly, helping some of the worst people in the world spread and monetize malignant views.

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This is huge for Who fans. The first and third episodes of The Dalek Master Plan have been found.

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/tv/news/doctor-who-episodes-missing-daleks-master-plan-b2937732.html

When U.S. President Donald Trump took office in January 2025, he canceled a first-of-its-kind assessment of the health of nature. The researchers compiled it on their own and have released an 868-page draft for public comment and scientific review. Here's the @newyorktimes story about the Nature Record [gift link]. At the second link, find the draft itself.

https://flip.it/L4usEB
https://naturerecord.org/chapters

#Environment #Science #ClimateCrisis

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

A draft assessment of the health of nature in the United States is grim but shot through with bright spots and possibility.

The New York Times

Not sure where #Google asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with #FLOSS devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their #Android users

#FDroid did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person

They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"

@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to #keepandroidopen

Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html

An Open Letter Opposing Android Developer Verification | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

As we wrote about back in September in F-Droid and Google’s Developer Registration Decree, Google plans to enforce mandatory developer registration as a requ...

Finally finished Indiana Jones and the Great Circle so I can complete my primary objective of watching the final part of Noclip’s MachineGames documentary.

This image is from January 1st 2025 and, in my opinion, has remained unbeaten as the most iconic photo of the year.

If you think of a better candidate for photo of the year, please share it in the comments!

#2025wrapped #photography #photo #trump #cybertruck #tesla

Looky here, America
What you done done---
Let things drift
Until the riots come.

Now your policemen
Let your mobs run free.
I reckon you don't care
Nothing about me.

You tell me that Hitler
Is a mighty bad man.
I guess he took lessons
From the Ku Klux Klan.

You tell me Mussolini's
Got an evil heart.
Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont
That he had his start---

Cause everything that Hitler
And Mussolini do,
Negroes get the same
Treatment from you.

You jim crowed me
Before Hitler rose to power---
And you're STILL jim crowing me
Right now, this very hour

Yet you say we're fighting
For democracy.
Then why don't democracy
Include me?

I ask you this question
Cause I want to know
How long I got to fight
BOTH HITLER---AND JIM CROW.

Beaumont to Detroit by Langston Hughes (1943)

Linux has plenty of its own problems and I am not the type to push it on even adventurous nontechnical people. But I feel confident in saying that a Linux system will never get this deeply toxically screwed up. To screw up this badly two trillion dollar corporations made a pact, and thousands of resultant engineering and UX decisions, in the belief their users are cattle who do not deserve even the most basic respect. Absolutely cooked company.
https://www.osnews.com/story/143376/dark-patterns-killed-my-wifes-windows-11-installation/
Dark patterns killed my wife’s Windows 11 installation – OSnews

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