Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇮🇳💻🖥 (🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸)

Is there an open source application that can run natively on Windows 11 as an X server?

The external appearance is that Alphabet/Google wish to directly control the global market for their own financial benefit, and (in light of the current regime) censor and control information for their US government masters.

None of this is acceptable.

Google's proposals to force developers to pay a fee and register to lock down Android control will restrict innovation and markets in mobile applications to those with the deepest pockets. Their published justification for this, is barely credible.

A reminder that our first public ticket sale will be this Monday (the 9th) at 20:00 UK time (21:00 CET), on:
www.emfcamp.org/tickets

You can see the prices and ticket options there now.

My University laptop has stopped rendering international flag emoji. Is there some idiotic Mickey$oft policy setting that allows them to block specific renderings? It's utterly mad.

Warning: Overtly political post

Funny how the people most vociferous about the UK supposedly losing its military readiness and influence tend to also be the ones who do everything they can to not pay taxes...

Ironic, appealing to memories of imperial power but not being willing to foot the bill.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

Disappointing...

www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

The only way to protect them is to also cultivate a healthy cynicism.

And switch off any device you are not actively using, and stick it in an enclosed case, bag, or box.

ICO writes to Meta over 'concerning' AI smart glasses report Videos, including of glasses-wearers using the toilet or having sex, are sometimes reviewed by a Kenya-based subcontractor.

The problem with any civil, compassionate, trusting society is that there will always be that minority lacking those qualities and willing to abuse them in others for profit, power, and influence (#Meta, #Amazon, #Oracle, just for starters).

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

QotD:
"I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

Gentoo Starts Exit from GitHub’s Microsoft and Copilot‑Infested Walled Garden - FOSS Force When Microsoft turned up the AI pressure on GitHub, Gentoo started packing for Codeberg, butting open source principles first.

Glad to see there is something of an exodus from the Mickey$oft/Copilot-infested platform. #Codeberg is the way.

fossforce.com/2026/03/gent...

One very annoying things about University life... The Christian society are like a rash all over the Union event calendar. Almost as many as all the other societies put together.

Microsoft Bans 'Microslop' On Its Discord, Then Locks the Server - Slashdot Over the weekend, Windows Latest noticed that Microsoft's official Copilot Discord server began automatically blocking the term "Microslop." As shown in a screenshot, any message containing the word i...

Awww. Mickey$oft had a tanty... tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/...

😆 😆 😆 😆

#StreisandEffect

"I don't assume the universe obeys my preconceptions, but I know a frelling fact when it hits me inn the face."- the wisdom of Rigel XIV

The Blues Brothers 106 miles to Chicago YouTube video by D Winters

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbF2...

I find it incredible to think that in a couple of weeks it will be 40 years since Giotto approached Halley's comet. 40 years!!

Never mind government of the people, by the people, for the people. The US currently has government of the people, by the unscrupulous, for the wealthy.

Inspired by the film Sneakers: "Pholiota Comus".

Disappointingly, #Infosecurity Magazine, and their editorial staff are among them.

(e.g. a steel pan, on the table, of chips - fries - swimming in some white sauce or other, served with a slice of industrial white bread toast...)

I love that India is modernising, but it is probably a mark of my almost entirely British upbringing and life experience that I see photographs of what hip bars and restauraunts are serving, and my first response is "WTAF is that!"

It troubles me that - for whatever reason - otherwise decent people still feel the need for a presence on Xitter...

I hope my cousin (Indian male, south-American wife, two sons) and his family stay safe out there.

In the end they didn't, primarily because my mother didn't want to risk her children being conscripted (although the draft had already been abandoned a few years earlier). At the time I was happier to stay here, and I had all but forgotten about it for 50 years. Suddenly I am relieved again.

When I was a child, pre-teen, my Dad was cultivating links with his company's home office in the US, and after a couple of trips out there my parents were giving serious consideration to emigrating there.

It beats me that *anyone* in their right mind would want to be a tourist to the US right now. It's worrisome enough for people with citizenship.

"Fair"? Who said anything about fair? The major polar parties get a better chance at a bite of the governmental cherry with the flip-flop of FPTP. They don't want "fair".

Nothing more dangerous than a cornered predator. (Or a defeated narcissist.)

Man Opposing Data Center Arrested for Speaking Slightly Too Long An Oklahoma man tried to talk about a data center coming to his community. Police arrested him when he went a few seconds over his time limit.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

Prisoner: Cell Block HRH