I reluctantly asked for some Microsoft business account admin rights to increase a bus factor to two.

I cannot overstate the infuriating engineering and design. Anyone who continues to recommend its use has either a severely underdeveloped moral compass or is a bad actor sabotaging the workplace.

🐧Everything #Linux, goddammit. Spare me the facile excuses.

#Microslop #Microslop365 #Microsoft #Windoze #Windows

🤦 Okay. My current brico.be account password is 91 characters long, quite safe according to https://xkcd.com/936/

To change my email it asked me to first change my password because it's supposedly not strong enough.

I proceeded using a 50-characters strong password containing A-Z to Extended ASCII.

❗" Sorry, please use a password between 8 and 16 characters."

Seriously? How is this safer?

#xkcd #passwords #Opsec #CyberSecurity #Brico #BricoPlanit

The utter disappointment when enjoying a medieval song, checking the artist, and discovering everything is made in 2025 and AI generated.

#GenAI #LLM #AIMusic

I saw the devil.

Bad shot but cool nonetheless. Though, I am biased, I love all Corvidae indiscriminately.

#Corvids #Corvidae #Crow https://stardust.pixelunion.eu/s/gallery/photos/4f3be673-9286-43d6-823d-e6d2d11707b3

WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Ban Ray-Ban, for frick's sake.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/2166072/women-unknowingly-filmed-in-brussels-with-meta-smart-glasses-raise-concerns

#MarkZuckerberg #Meta #Creep #Voyeur #Privacy #RayBan #BanRayBan

Instead of LLMs, consider the productivity and happiness gain by getting off the Web, into the forest, and feeding the crows. They'll outwit us all while the ouroboros eats itself.

“Take off the wings, and put him in breeches, and crows make fair average men. Give men wings, and reduce their smartness a little, and many of them would be almost good enough to be crows.” ―Henry Ward Beecher (1813–1887)

#CognitiveDecline #LLM #learning #intelligence

My new photography page: https://www.smetterling.eu 🦋.

Thanks to Immich & PixelUnion.
→ #Immich is a free, open source, self-hosted, non-destructive cropping, image management software.
→ #PixelUnion offers up to 16 ㎇ free European image hosting using Immich; going above is super affordable!

IT isn't that difficult; mostly it's either because of bad documentation full of assumptions due to a lack of communication skills, or intentionally gatekeeping knowledge to maintain artificial superiority.

Wouldn't be surprised if this hypothesis applies to other fields as well. 🦉

On that note, ethics > smarts.

#IT #computing #science #learning #teaching #ethics

In case there's something gone awry with your email, people are trying to contact you @jwz: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/xscreensaver/-/issues/5#note_376477 #XScreenSaver #ArchLinux

The "utopian" vision of the Web and search engines is manifesting again; no ads, people first: https://blog.kagi.com/small-web. Why "utopian" or "again"? Because that's how the Web used to be at inception, and how it's supposed to be.

#Kagi #SmallWeb #deshittification of #Enshittification @kagihq

Because #Codeberg Pages is under indefinite development, and Microsoft et al. more evil by the day, I've updated this Github Pages to Codeberg tutorial: https://www.arscyni.cc/file/codeberg.html

It simply offloads the hosting to https://www.statichost.eu whose founder was kind enough to answer even trivial questions.

#BuyEuropean #Enshittification #GDPR #DataTheft

TIL that one of the most important skateboarders in #skateboarding history - Rodney Mullen - is a #Linux user.

In this video he's wearing a #Debian shirt!

He invented a lot of modern skateboarding tricks including flatground ollie, kickflip and 360 flip!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1BiPyyEwWc

Before/After. Meaux Street, Paris.

https://feddit.nl/post/36809616

3d julia set hybrids looking 🌀🌌

#fractal #3d #creativecoding #IFS #abstract #animation #mathart #space #art #nuclearfusion #FractalFriday

“Oh yes, let's sit on this bench, very cozy.”

#CarBrain #FuckCars

The career of garbageman or cleaning lady is generally looked down upon by the common people, yet it is the common people's garbage they are cleaning. The latter should be frowned upon, not the former.

#environment #garbage #climate #waste #minimalism

Alan Turing died by suicide on 7 June 1954. Turing was convicted of gross indecency in 1952 and given a choice between imprisonment and probation. His probation would be conditional on his agreement to undergo hormonal physical changes designed to reduce his libido. Turing's conviction led to the removal of his security clearance and barred him from continuing with his consultancy for GCHQ. He was denied entry into the United States after his conviction.

#AlanTuring #GayRights #OnThisDay

🗣 A tax-funded national news outlet should always contain a comment section on every article—🪪 with ID verification to prevent trolls.

If articles miss nuances and/or insights they are so often provided by succinct comments.

🚫 A tax-funded radio station should not be allowed to run ads.

I'd love to listen to classical music radio #Klara, but their ads completely undermine the musical peace of mind.

#VRT #tax #advertising #ads #FreedomOfSpeech #HiveMind #ethics #Belgium #Europe @EUCommission

Sorry, I couldn't resist