If you use Zen (UK) as your ISP, and you have multiple IPv4 addresses / subnets which are not part of a specific plan, it looks like you might either lose some/all bar one of them, or else have to pay for them.
Following recent news, we have cancelled Mullvad's sponsorship of EMF 2026.
If you'd like to contribute to make up for the lost income, you can still sponsor EMF through our ticket shop:
> The [UK Competition Markets Authority] is consulting on new conduct requirements for Apple and Google under the UK digital markets competition regime. The proposed requirements would remove restrictions currently preventing UK app developers from ‘steering’ their customers away from Apple and Google’s platforms for payment.
*goes off to find out how big a hockey puck is*
The new E&W criminal offence relating to "nudification" apps - apps which purport to create initimate images, non consensually - came into effect today.
Prosecutions will need to follow, if the legislation is to achieve its goal of protecting femme-presenting people.
https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2026/20/section/99/enacted
To be clear, 50 hectares relates to the estate as a whole, not just the swimming pool, but I'm still interested if it is just the swimming pool.
From five years ago.
I am willing to swap them for a small country estate with a swimming pool. Offers in excess of 50 hectares.
For my own sanity, from the 1st of July I will no longer ship physical goods to the EU from my web store. The temporary €3 duty per item type is now too much red tape and the lack of accessible guidance for sole traders makes it too much of a headache to figure out if it's something I have to do (as well as the whole product safety stuff)
You may still purchase eBooks though.
Choosing a public DNS resolver
Pick what matters to you, such as privacy, malware blocking, parental controls, speed, IPv6, or a specific jurisdiction, and the finder narrows 29 global public resolvers to the ones that fit.
https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html#finder
Of course, this may not be useful for someone who runs their own DNS resolver on RPi at home with Adblocker at DNS level or at work but this a great little tool for home users or anyone who wish to use 3rd party DNS resolver
Apparently there is a Toy Story 5.
This indicates to me that I have missed Toy Stories 2, 3, and 4.
I'm going to sleep. If anyone is wondering why the #inkscape website is down, it's because it's being crushed by AI bots again, so I've taken it offline.
I tried to put in more ip-blocks, and then tried to install Anubis. But I'm not a sysadmin and so this is just taking time to do. Can't do much of it tonight (this morning) so I'm afraid it's staying offline.
Edit: Thanks for the help from @thomzane getting the server back online. It appears to have been Facebook attacking.
> Scientists Think They’ve Uncovered the 15-Million-Year-Old Origin of Laughter
Surprisingly, not Bruce Forsyth.
The Man with the Golden Gun.
Film: man lives on remote island in a fun house with a solar reflective mirror concealed in a rocky pillar, which rises to direct sunlight through solex agitator as a prototype to control energy market.
Book: man annoyed that his hotel refurb project is delayed and over budget.
@mttaggart this is what the @fediversity project is all about.
I'm coming to the conclusion that community-owned and operated small clouds (co-ops) with easy onramps for self-hosting open source services like mail, storage, and VPN are the only way forward. Every corpo service is eventually going to make you ashamed to use it.
asking for #advice again, sorry.
i'm now officially #diabetic (type 2) and looking to control it with diet. (hence the last request for advice.)
information about nutrition on the internet has always been a hot mess, more so in these days of so-called "Al".
can anyone recommend an _authoritative_ source on the amount of carbohydrate in basic foods?
searching online i see *wildly* different numbers for, eg, potato.
edit: okay, wow! thank you, everyone! You'll all wonderful! Love this place!
Competition really is a bit of a myth when it is so hard to find a single solitary good search engine, or VPN provider, or whatever it might be.
It has been a useful thread, of alternatives to either of them!
Idly pondering as to whether I might suggest to F-Droid that it considers adopting an explicit LLM policy, for both the F-Droid project's own codebase, and for apps to be included in F-Droid's own curated app repository.
Anyone can run their own app repository for F-Droid, so if an app doesn't meet F-Droid's inclusion criteria, the developer can still distribute it. There is added friction, of course, since each user must add the third party repo.
Or someone could run and maintain a "pro-LLM" repo, which could be used to distributed multiple slopcoded apps, if someone so wanted.
(Pondering triggered by NLnet's https://nlnetlabs.nl/llm-policy/)