I’ve just signed the petition below calling for the Government to end all contracts with Palantir - the US surveillance tech firm with a track record of enabling human rights abuses. If you want to sign, the petition is here: https://38d.gs/08lu #saynotopalantir

It's good to see the #bbc doing what they do best on #bbcqt, giving the #frogfacedfascist's party a platform.

It's good to see the #bbc doing what they do best on #bbcqt, giving the #frogfacedfascist's party a platform.

Yes, the #eu has a lot of regulations. But remember that thanks to those regulations you can use a single USB-C cable that can charge anything, rather than 10 different connectors and adapters as it was common until 10-15 years ago. Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you no […]

Once you couldn’t tell the difference between the political parties YOU CAN NOW #VoteGreen in #Gorton&Denton #VoteHannahSpencer #JoinGreenParty> join.greenparty.org.uk gorton-denton.greenparty.org.uk

I first installed an XMPP server back when it was Jabber over 20 years ago, and I remember chatting to people on Google Talk, before they decided to do their own thing. Having just installed Prosody (#xmpp) and Tuwunel (#matrix) servers, both of which are excellent, I am personally of the […]

Less front bench, more park bench. #reformuk #toryfailures #ukpolitics #ukpol

Gentoo is migrating its source code repository to Codeberg: https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=showheadline&story=20134

Don't you just hate it when you accidentally hit "Rebuild Solution" rather than "Build Solution", and you have no choice other than to go and make a sandwich and a hot drink? Putting them next to each other on the menu makes perfect sense, not. #softwaredevelopment #visualstudio

A petition started by Rupert Lowe has hit nearly 700,000 signatures. It's calling for offshore detention centres and mass deportations. It's very sad, but looking on the bright side, should this come to pass we now have a list of nearly 700,000 to deport first […]

"Google has criticized the European Union’s intentions to achieve digital sovereignty through open-source software." Umm...ok...I think I can see why they did that, but lets read further... "The company [Google] warned that Brussels’ policies aimed at reducing dependence on American tech […]

So farewell then, Abigail Slater, head of the US DOJ's antitrust division, who wanted to go hard on Big Tech Regulation but butted heads with intellectual giants Pam Bondi and JD Vance. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/us-antitrust-gail-slater-ousted-trump-administration

I now have functional Matrix and XMPP servers running on my own home server. That's the easy part. The hard part is persuading everybody I know to dump WhatsApp and Messenger. #homelab #selfhosting

Does anyone know of an XMPP echo bot address I can have a conversation with, to test my newly installed #prosody instance? #xmpp #jabber

#snowscape #landscapephotography

A different set of rules’: thermal drone footage shows xAI’s power plant flouting clean air regulations Images confirm xAI is continuing to defy EPA regulations in Mississippi to power its flagship datacenters […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

I'm sure its more nuanced than this but Sam Altman accusing Deepseek of stealling OpenAI's IP by "distilling" (asking it questions in "unauthorised" manner) is just too funny for words! #AI #generativeAI #llm

A country that demonstrates clear signs of fascism, is detaining lawful citizens in what amounts to concentration camps, and is denying entry to numerous other foreign nationals, is not a suitable host for a global sporting event. https://footballagainstfascism.org #fightfascism

I'm not a party person. I just want a fairer, kinder, greener world. I'm delighted to see how well the Greens are doing. But we also need a strong and sincere Labour Party, and it is an absolute tragedy to see how Keir Starmer and his moral bypass of a government have ruined it.

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

Musk really is a grade one racist ****. Tell your friends… don't buy his cars, don't use his vile microblogging platform, don't buy his spaceships (or something), don't use his space-polluting satellites. Just don't! #muskisaracist #muskisafascist

On the 27th November I emailed [email protected] asking if my accounts could be manually removed from their chat rooms. Despite not running a #matrix chat server for over a year, and returning a "410 permanently gone" status, I was still getting constantly spammed by several thousand servers. I […]

Do all international sporting bodies exist in a moral vacuum and are a cesspit of bribery and corruption, or just FIFA and the IOC? The treatment of the Ukrainian skeleton athlete is unforgiveable. Advertising is OK, but expressing any kind of human sentiment isn't. #ioc #winterolympics […]

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Well done Nitrokey GmbH for making your position clear! The image is a scan of a business card that was included with my Nitrokey purchase 😀

A-ha... my #manjarolinux is not going to sleep because of the tab I have open in #vivaldi that's connected to my #ubiquiti router management interface. I'll just have to hibernate it when not in use, or remove the pin.

I'm very excited. I've just learned how to insert an interrobang on the Android keyboard. No more ?! for me. It's ‽ from now on, just to confuse the heck out of the readers/recipients.

I've had quite an interesting time over the last few days with #manjarolinux. It has a beautifully put together KDE plasma desktop, and it's really slick. However, it's definitely not for the beginner. For me, it was like going back in time a few years, but with the advantage of having #claude […]

I've had quite an interesting time over the last few days with #manjarolinux. It has a beautifully put together KDE plasma desktop, and it's really slick. However, it's definitely not for the beginner. For me, it was like going back in time a few years, but with the advantage of having #claude […]

Clearly the role of law has broken down in the USA. Detaining people who are legally allowed to be there, and holding them in concentration camps. I wouldn't go there if I was being paid to, which given that I work for an American company is actually a possibility […]

So glad to see George Cottrell being named in parliament yesterday. He was Farage’s head of fundraising when he convicted of an offence related to money laundering & is still close to & funding Farage. Crypto is an urgent democratic threat to the UK

"Google Workers Demand End to Cloud Services for Immigration Agencies. More than 800 employees delivered a petition to management, condemning the Trump administration’s use of Google technology in immigration enforcement": https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/business/google-employees-protest.html […]

Clearly the role of law has broken down in the USA. Detaining people who are legally allowed to be there, and holding them in concentration camps. I wouldn't go there if I was being paid to, which given that I work for an American company is actually a possibility […]

Reform-led Worcestershire County Council is facing "effective bankruptcy". Darwin help us if the Farage's flag fetishists ever won a general election. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckglgzpkpk1o

Who on earth thought it was necessary or a good idea to stick this on the #bbc sign in screen?

#landscapephotography #lofoten #Norway

Reform UK Treasurer is named in the Epstein files. He apparently had Epstein's number too, and possibly made money off a property deal involving Epstein. https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/03/epstein-files-names-reform-uk-treasurer/

The real truth of it is that, in the Gorton and Denton by-election here in the U.K., Reform have a vanishingly slim chance of winning. Any way you slice it, they just don't have the numbers. The real battle is between Greens and Labour. The other battle is to get Greens and Labour to admit […]

Cornwall councillors banned from using social media platform https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdx479625dno "A town council in Cornwall has agreed to stop using a social media platform for official business. Marazion Town Council said it was one of the first 213 councils in Cornwall to ban the […]

I'm a software developer with 40 years' professional experience, lucky enough to be considering early retirement. I love writing code and don't want to stop. I'm keen to give something back, and contribute to one or more open source projects. The questions are, to what shall I contribute, and […]

London's #MetPol #MetropolitanPolice continues its heroic crackdown on the new ‘crime’ of supporting #intifada against #Israel’s war crimes and #genocide. In England, nonviolent opposition to illegality is now "#hateCrime". #PeterTatchell was arrested today for […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

@scotlit Hi there. I notice that you have deleted your X/twitter account, so prob a good idea to remove the link from your profile page on here. Very happy to see you on Mastodon!

The UK's GCHQ (like a lower budget version of the NSA) undoubtedly spies on China. We undoubtedly scan for vulnerabilities and try to hack into their systems. We've hacked into the Belgians in the not too distant past, and they're supposed to be our friends and fellow EU members. Anyway, the […]

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The UK's GCHQ (like a lower budget version of the NSA) undoubtedly spies on China. We undoubtedly scan for vulnerabilities and try to hack into their systems. We've hacked into the Belgians in the not too distant past, and they're supposed to be our friends and fellow EU members. Anyway, the […]

I had no idea this existed. A public health dashboard for England, graphing metrics for everything from colds, to measles, to childhood vaccination rates and more. Fascinating stuff. https://ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/ #data #datavis #publichealth #dataisbeautiful

If you write about the messy reality behind "free" internet services: we're seeing #OpenStreetMap hammered by scrapers hiding behind residential proxy/embedded-SDK networks. We're a volunteer-run service and the costs are real. We'd love to talk to a journalist about what we're seeing + how […]

"Mosley, 43, is the current executive vice chair and head of Palantir Technologies UK. Not only is Mosley in the spotlight for his senior role at IDF-linked Palantir, but he is also the grandson of Oswald Mosley who rose to fame during the 1920s and 1930s as the leader of the British Union of […]

Commission opens proceedings to assist Google in complying with interoperability and online search data sharing obligations under the Digital Markets Act https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_202 'Assist"