Musings:

I remember C S Lewis saying that when people stop believing in God they don't start believing in nothing, but rather start believing in anything. I don't agree on the specific topic as it happens but...

I've seen the following many, many times. Someone has an implicit trust in an authority. That authority gets something wrong. The person then questions everything that authority says as potentially untrustworthy. They extend that to all authorities. They become "Do your own research" people. They mistake this rejection of all authority as critical thinking, and they end up a cultist or a conspiracy theorist.

What they've missed, and I wish I could convey this to everyone starting down that path, is that claims must be evaluated by weighting, by likelihood, by trustworthiness of an authority and it's not binary, never binary. Total acceptance of an authority and total rejection of it, are the same error.

Anyway, as you were.

the fact that the Internet Archive got into bigger trouble for lending books they paid for than Facebook did for reproducing books they pirated tells you everything you need to know about copyright.

#fuckAI

Pretty good description on offices.

#work #religion

I’ve just noticed that, if you don’t want Meta AI to go through slurping up all your WhatsApp messages, you have to go through and turn this on *for every chat you’re in*.

Can everyone please move to
@signalapp already? This is getting absurd!

PNG is back!

https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/ (by Chris Blume)

A new PNG spec was just released! […]

[…] After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor!

What's new?

* Proper HDR support (future‐proof, too!)

* Finally recognizes APNGs (animations!)

* Officially supports Exif data

* General tidying up—fixing errata, clarifications, etc.

#png

I'm super happy to share, that the #Fairphone (Gen. 6) was just announced, and we've been able to already publish a lot of code for it!

* #postmarketOS support is submitted
* 59(!) patches were sent to bring up upstream #Linux on the SM7635 SoC and enable the device.
* The stock Android source code is public on code.fairphone.com

This has been a lot of work over the last couple of months so it's awesome to finally be able to share it!