I build web experiences using spatialised sounds, videos, 3D models, and good old text. Free software enthusiast, filmmaker.
Co-founder at E-MUSE
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Today someone (who is not on Mastodon) released a collection of more than 570 distinct operating systems, pre-installed with VM configurations for the 250+ different platforms, going back all the way to 1948.
Now, I have to admit I'm posting this without trying it myself, as I'm running low on disk space on this machine.
Because the full download is 121GB (174GB unzipped!). There is also a lighter version at 14GB that will download stuff on demand.
“Alice laughed. ‘There’s no use trying,’ she said. ‘One can’t believe impossible things.’ I daresay you haven’t had much practice,’ said the Queen. ‘When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. – Through the looking-glass, Lewis Carrol To stay sane, we have to accept that our climate is going completely haywire, but that it is ok to mostly ignore that since saving ourselves is apparently not cost-effective.
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
Besides the obvious problems with device attestation in general, and with oligopolistic device attestion, I just don't understand how the bounce rate from something that requires me to dig out my phone is not 100%
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950091
Online age verification is the hill to die on
https://bactra.org/weblog/918.html
In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You
The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to dozens of departments about it, wrote guidance still in use today, and briefed Ministers on why it was so important. That's why I'm beyond disappointed at recent moves from NHS England to backtrack on…
I've bought a Xteink X4 off AliExpress, and I'm using it more than my Kindle. The advertising pictures a bit misleading, they make it look like it can stick to the back of an iPhone, it actually juts out. I just printed a cover and keep it in my pocket.
The default firmware is terrible, but this Open Source firmware is incredible: https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader
It can even be installed from a browser through webUSB. It only misses a dictionary, but they're working on it: https://github.com/crosspoint-reader/crosspoint-reader/discussions/1599
CONFIG.SYS: LOADHIGH
Christine Lemmer-Webber
