@davidgerard @froztbyte This is quite unironically why "software engineers" need to have liability.
I would GLADLY pay liability insurance the same way doctors and "real" engineers do if it meant that clowns pretending to be software engineers could have the utter HAMMER dropped on them when they do stuff like this.
A cow, a pony and a donkey walk into a pub.
"So why the long face?" said the journalist.
"Someone called the cops on us" said the pony.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-28/no-bull-a-cow-a-pony-and-a-donkey-walk-to-a-pub-one-night/7549454
(from 10 years ago, but I only just stumbled across this)
#Australia
if you really *must* play Fortnite on Linux, here's how to bypass Epic's EAC2 rootkit
https://codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/p/epics-eac2-v2-seems-fairly-easily-bypassable/
“We are deeply concerned to hear of the arrest of journalists covering a protest in #Leicester, particularly given they had identified themselves as such to police. If reporters cannot cover protests freely, the public is left in the dark about events it has a right to know about. #Policing and government must ensure that journalists are free to do their jobs without interference.”
#UKPol #Protest #PalestineAction
https://www.leicester.news/we-were-arrested-under-the-terrorism-act-for-doing-our-jobs/
Epic Games goes full vibe code: MAXIMUM AI ACCELERATION
‘No more hand-written code’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1UGgcs0H3s&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/episode-20261015 - podcast
time: 5 min 08 sec
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/10/15/epic-games-goes-full-vibe-code-maximum-ai-acceleration/ - blog post
I am adding another to my list of design rules
Always design technology intended to be installed quickly and cheaply by a contractor to be idiot proof, because it's cheaper to do that than stop hiring idiots.
just learnt the french created the word "vroomer" for people who like car centered infrastructure a little too much and i think the english language could benefit from this
Epic's remote-attestation plan for Linux is actually a cunning plot to produce a market for USB TPM dongles that can be reset at runtime and programmed with arbitrary PCR values
RE: https://mograph.social/@dilmandila/117432072219819451
Please help finance GIMP, Inkscape and Krita instead of spending your money on trying to get Claude to make you a Photoshop clone.
https://www.gimp.org/donating/
https://inkscape.org/support-us/donate/
https://krita.org/fr/donations/
When you have adequate English skills and top tier comeback skills
RE: https://mastodon.nu/@rogeradolfsson/117438535383652064
This is just too fun! [Turned out to be wrong tho, see edit!]
Like, "You are absolutely right! I should not have deleted the soon-to-premiere TV show. I will adjust my parameters" (etc).
(An AI has deleted the final edit of a TV show on Swedish TV4 - possibly the whole season it seems, and apparently there is no backup - it seems like they will have to redo the cutting and editing.)
Edit: TV company says it wasn't because of AI, but due to human factor & backup issues!
> The [UK self-regulatory advertising rules] CAP Code required that persons must not pay for ads for an identifiable “less healthy” food or drink product to be placed on the internet.
Took the very hard decision today to suspend shipping to the US as new regulations come in to force in a few days.
My job should be designing, testing, and shipping cool #RC2014 kits. The new regulations look like I won't have any time for that as I'll spend all my time buried in paperwork
I will keep an eye on things, and maybe when they have settled down I'll see if there are workarounds, exemptions or other ways that mean I can resume US shipments.
In the meantime, I hope all of my US customers have passports and have friends/family overseas that they want to visit. I'm happy to ship elsewhere if needed.
Anybody interested in a free ride in a helicopter, flight for 4 people?!
I'm still looking for 2 more people to join us. We leave early Saturday (October 24th) morning from Manchester and will fly to Poole in Dorset where we will have breakfast and then on a yacht for lunch.
Then we’ll have a flight to Jersey and return to Poole for dinner, then fly back home.
If interested please DM me. Preferably someone with a helicopter and yacht, otherwise we can't go.
Dutch tax authorities cancel Microsoft 365 cloud rollout – and turn toward open source https://www.zdnet.com/business/dutch-tax-authorities-cancel-microsoft-365-cloud-rollout/ via @ZDNet & @sjvn
Another European move toward digital sovereignty has curtailed the adoption of the US workplace suite in favor of an #opensource approach.
If you use Bumble I'd recommend finding a different dating service and deleting your prior data if you don't use it now, as it sounds likely it is being purchased for AI training data.
"Dating app Bumble has been bought for $1.3bn (£980m) in what the new owners called "a bet on the future of humanity"."
Tempest 4K runs perfectly standalone on Frame and looks fantastic if you make the virtual screen as big as possible BUT for some reason although the SFX work the music doesn't play. Bummer. And it's not just the volume defaulting to zero, the music just isn't there.
Also we have to make our stuff without some Windows option menu on launch, it's a real pain having to fiddle with that on launch.
English-speaking followers! WAIT!
*STORY TIME*
A few years ago, I met a producer who asked me if I was tempted by the idea of writing for TV, and offered to talk about it around a drink. I spent the whole week thinking about it, took some notes, played a thousand scenes in my head…
Moose: (n) originally from Moo SE, Moo Special Edition.
NEW: Fraudsters stole $470 million last year from Americans who need help paying for food.
Adopting the same microchip that credit cards have had for years would prevent most of the theft, but Congress won’t pay for it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/food-stamp-snap-benefits-theft-skimmers-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #SNAP #Crime #Theft #Fraud #Congress #Government #Poverty #Hunger