Notices by Mike (VK1OMG) 🏴‍☠️ (mike_k@mstdn.social)

“Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, advised Donald Trump not to host Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, having called the Ukrainian president a “little fucker”, a “special-needs child” and “Mr Bean on crack”…”

The kind of big picture thinking that goes on in Dialog.

Seeing a lot of quiet quitting in foss. Whatever we're calling that now.

Distros actual people use where the latest kernel's from last year. Stuff left to rot, everywhere.

Well done corpo AI guys. You must be so proud.

Iran achieving regime change in America one secretary at a time

Goddamn art students.

Gentoo started leaving Github for Codeberg last year too apparently.

https://www.gentoo.org/news/2026/01/05/new-year.html

“Moxie Marlinspike… who set a new standard for private messaging with the creation of the Signal Messenger—is now aiming to revolutionize AI chatbots in a similar way.”

*walks away swearing*

2025

FBI releases images of shooting suspect and offers $100,000 reward for information.

Trump sues Murdoch! I wonder how the Murdoch papers are covering this.

Oh…
#epstein #uspol

Tootik: A federated, text-based social network with a #geminiprotocol frontend

https://github.com/dimkr/tootik

It’s Doctorow, but I liked

“This isn't capitalism – it's gangsterism. It's a system that will annihilate trillions of dollars in value to put billions of dollars in the pockets of Trump and a few of his cronies – at the expense of all the other rich people.”

The chicken coop!

https://i.redd.it/qks4nobvg7ga1.png

Hm, that sucks as a share… this is better, from the previous.

"Instead of aiming for the root of these harms, the concentrated power at the heart of the platform monopoly, the mass surveillance that is the engine of this business model... we see efforts almost to extend this surveillance and this monitoring and give governments a piece of it." – Meredith Whittaker, Signal, ex Google, etc.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/20/meredith-walker-signal-boss-government-encryption-laws

@RustyBertrand 2024, what a year huh

Cory Doctorow on walled gardens.