Jonathan Spark

@jsparknz
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TIL that to change the UI font in Windows 10, you have to hack away at the Windows Registry. So bizarre!

A Light and Dusty Night

Image Credit & Copyright: Rodrigo Guerra

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211002.html #APoD

The world's biggest carbon capture plant, Orca, opens tomorrow in Iceland.

It will represent 40% of the world's direct air carbon capture capacity.

It will remove ~870 cars worth of CO2 emissions per year.

🤯So little so late🤯

https://qz.com/2055951/climeworks-is-opening-the-worlds-biggest-carbon-removal-machine/

The world’s biggest carbon-sucking machine is switching on in Iceland

The price per ton of direct carbon removal is still much too high.

Ship of Theseus - Wikipedia

Are Microsoft really are going down the Ship of Theseus route with Windows?

https://github.com/microsoft/wslg

GitHub - microsoft/wslg: Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios

Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios - microsoft/wslg

GitHub

The Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery has just published my editorial, "Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants," explaining how interoperability was once an engine for competition and user empowerment - and how that ended.

https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2021/10/255710-competitive-compatibility/fulltext

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Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants

Seeking to make Big Tech less central to the Internet.

First Microsoft 'saving us' with a plan to build an Azure zone in NZ and now Amazon... https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/126468116/amazon-to-spend-75-billion-making-auckland-a-centre-for-cloud-computing massive Digital Corporate Colonialism incoming.
Amazon to spend $7.5 billion making Auckland a centre for cloud computing

Investment will take place over 15 years and create more than 1000 jobs, company says.

The Framework laptop is the first laptop to ever score a 10/10 from Ifixit for repairability. But it's no thick-as-a-brick throwback the size of a 2005 Thinkpad - it's approximately the same dimensions as a MacBook.

https://frame.work/

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Introducing the Framework Desktop and newest Framework Laptop 13

Choose between our latest Framework Laptop 13 powered by Ryzen™ AI 300 Series processors or our brand new Framework Desktop with Ryzen™ AI Max Series processors.

Framework

Do yourself a favour and read every post in this thread:

https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/105991409235206008

#colonialism #capitalism

SilverSpookGames (@[email protected])

Neofeud is anti-capitalist, anti-racist & anti-imperialist cyberpunk. I'm a Native Hawaiian who made this game while working 40+ hrs in social services / teaching in ghettos, while homeless. Neofeud is my life, in art. Thread 1/? https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud

the Octodon
I agree with many of the sentiments in here: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/on-the-inside/451895/geoffrey-miller-new-zealand-could-be-the-big-winner-of-aukus-fallout - it represents a great opportunity for NZ to forge better relationships with other EU countries and countries in Asia... The US and its lapdo... er, close allies are driving a wedge into their international relations. Oh, and we should drop out of 5 Eyes, because 4 Eyes would be so much better on at least a couple levels.
Geoffrey Miller: New Zealand could be the big winner of Aukus fallout

Opinion - China's level of anger at the new Aukus defence pact between Australia, the UK and the US was only to be expected. France's was not, Geoffrey Miller writes.