BudgetKratos

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Why is it so hard to describe myself? Somebody asks me this and I completely forget every single thing I've ever done...

# WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account

I should be surprised if Windows will ever be suitable outside niche hobbyist communities with this kind of unreliable behaviour.

Real users need consistency and stability.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/wireguard-vpn-developer-cant-ship-software-updates-after-microsoft-locks-account/

WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account | TechCrunch

The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and are blocking their ability to send software updates to users.

TechCrunch

If a human right is in the way of your "innovative" technology, the expected solution should be to modify your technology to respect this human right, not to reduce the protections to this human right.

Technology and innovation must be in service of humanity, not the other way around.

#HumanRights #DigitalRights #Privacy #AI

One more reason to get away from Windows. VeraCrypt is excellent software!!
Source: https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/

We've shown how to use it in the past if you want to see how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C25VWAGl7Tw

Kane's Munich masterpiece 💫

🎨 @[email protected] | #UCL

Artemis II gives me hope for humanity.
The Artemis astronauts were gearing up Saturday for their long-anticipated lunar flyby, including reviewing the surface features they must analyze and photograph during their time circling the moon. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/04/05/world/science-health/artemis-astronauts-lunar-flyby/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #sciencehealth #space #astronomy #nasa
Artemis astronauts preparing for historic lunar flyby

The next major milestone of the approximately 10-day journey is expected overnight Sunday into Monday, at which point the astronauts will enter the 'lunar sphere of influence.'

The Japan Times

RE: https://mastodon.social/@CAPETOK/116346459548837070

#Football fans, this is at #Pele god-level.👇🏆♀️

Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

Electronic Frontier Foundation

"I warn my students:

- Yes, AI can generate the code for this assignment. Don’t let it. You have to write the code.

I explain that, if they don’t write the code, they will not be able to effectively read the code. The ability to read code is certainly going to be valuable, maybe more valuable, in an AI-based coding future."

This is 💯 the advice I'm giving young folk right now.

https://htmx.org/essays/yes-and/

</> htmx ~ Yes, and...

In this essay, Carson Gross discusses his advice to young people interested in computer science worried about the future given the advancements in AI.

every generation thinks they're the smartest group of people to ever live. Yet here we are, inventing apps to remind us to drink water and stand up sometimes