#bbc kills the planned #doctorWho Xmas special for this year, ditches entire current creative team...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2026/update-doctor-who-future

#tv #scifi

Are the @oggcamp talks meant to be streaming? Where if so.

#oggcamp #oggcamp26 #oggcamp2026

Ho ho ho! Now I have a train ticket!

See me Sunday at half 2 on the main stage!

#oggcamp #oggcamp26 #oggcamp2026 #geek

Some light #retroComputing reading arrived for the long weekend..

#appleNewton #Newton #retro

@catsalad @saxicola look up
You'll see the punchline going overhead

My Samsung phone is so frustrating. Even when I'm using an alternative keyboard, the OS insists on autoincorrecting my typing. I cannot find a place to turn it off.

Apart from the annoyance where I need to watch out for it corrupting my words or inserting or moving around periods, it also means that in e.g. Termux the terminal won't receive characters until they form a full word.

All autocorrect is turned off in AnySoftKeyboard. On a Huawei, that works as expected. I've turned off all autocorrect in Samsung Keyboard, in case that would help. It doesn't.

Help?

#fedihelp

#Samsung Galaxy A52s 5G, One UI 6.1

Oh, just powering my #AppleNewton over USB-C

#retro #retroComputing #apple #newton #newtCom #dongle #3dPrinting

2 million !

Do not introduce Digital ID cards - Petitions
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194

#no2id #digitalId #idCard #idCards #ukpol #labour #privacy #bigBrotherWatch #openRightsGroup

@openrightsgroup how come the "apple encryption" support campaign form *requires* a postal address?

Oh, cool, @andypiper is an #afol too

#firesideFedi #podcast

“Could it be mitochondrial DNA?”

“No, ma’am, it doesn’t work that way.”

“And it’s not just a random mutation?”

“No, we’ve had 174 pairs of identical twins volunteering, and it’s always the same. In each pair, there’s this one DNA edit in the same place: an almost identical gene, but at the end of the strand one sibling has a different base - CGAT - than the other.”

“And we don’t otherwise know what this section of DNA does?”

“Well... that’s where it gets interesting. All people have this gene, but it has some edits near the end of the strand. We thought it was random mutations on an inactive gene, but it turns out, each person has different bases. In twins it’s just... consecutive.”

“You mean...?”

“Yes, ma’am. It’s a serial number.”

#microfiction #scifi #dna #creepy

@neil you were great on the @firesidefedi podcast!

"
Made in #Switzerland,
Like the Internet and #LSD
"

This half time song should have been an entry!

#eurovision #cern

My MP wrote back to me after I emailed them about #onlineSafetyAct so at least the awareness is out there.

Exert: "I will be monitoring
closely to see how heavy-handed Ofcom is on small creators and platforms. If you see cases that you think it would be helpful for me to know about then please do drop me a line."

#timRoca #macclesfield

Hadn't appreciated how much two million, five hundred thousand tons of metal was till I tried spinning it myself

#Babylon5 #scifi

I signed. You signed. We all signed.

No Trump state visit to UK

https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/no-2nd-state-visit-for-donald-trump

Looks like flawed #uk #onlineSafetyAct is going to be used to censor legal porn:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q1wx3nzy9o

Expecting more "ban kinks we don't like" from #ukGovernment later today :-(

/cc @pandorablake @neil @rachelcoldicutt @JamesBaker

Thanks to everyone who came along to this. My conclusion is that the next needed step is that there is even more stuff than I anticipated to work through, and that the UK indie web could with some kind of organising/intermediary body to make sense of it https://lu.ma/qijpvfnl

I think I figured out what is so annoying about #onlineSafetyAct - #ofcom has written all its' docs assuming you are complicated bespoke service with dedicated staff to do "legal stuff". There's no pre-done, "just you use this" for perfectly standard, ordinary, foreseeable cases.

We shouldn't be arguing about "is every spammer who emails me porn a 'user' of my email service".

#uk

If you run a low-risk community site in the UK and have questions about your duties under the Online Safety Act, lunchtime Q&A session with Ofcom on 12 Feb - sign up here https://lu.ma/qijpvfnl