Wow! Why are people not up in arms? So Twitch can now tell you what to do if you want an account with them? Isn't that like selling your soul?
https://www.engadget.com/twitch-misconduct-policy-offline-off-platform-182935658.html

Charlie and I saw a cat tormenting a field mouse this morning. We tried saving its life, me making stupid "psssh" noises and Charlie barking. The cat, distracted for a second, saw the mouse limping off, sneered at us and promptly picked its victim up and waltzed off with it. Bye-bye Mickey.

I never owned an ATARI so clearly, I'm not old then?
https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/7-signs

I want to take this opportunity to apologise to the world for pooh-poohing the Astra Zenica (Oxford) vaccine on Sunday to the Mrs little did I know the shitstorm that would unfold by Wednesday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeF1JO7Ki8E

One for the Crypto kiddies: https://slashdot.org/story/21/04/06/2019243/bitcoin-mining-emissions-in-china-will-hit-130-million-tons-by-2024

Ah, internal company politics are a bitch. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/21/04/06/2154256/google-ai-research-manager-quits-after-two-ousted-from-group

Some things just refuse to die: https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/07/ibm_cobol_x86_linux/
Bring back BASIC I say.

Comet Electrical 1992 "It's 1.5 Gig mate, you'll NEVER fill it."
https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/07/seagate_three_zettabytes/

Hasn't Patreon been replaced yet?
https://techcrunch.com/2021/04/06/patreon-triples-valuation-to-4-billion/

Seems my original Haiku install was borked. Only takes a few secs to reinstall.

I'm clearly not 100% especially if I think Tea is just flavoured water. 🍵

The people in the houses that back onto our property have taken to hanging around in their bedroom(s) pretending to be doing things while actually looking at other peoples gardens and houses. One guy is pretty blasé about it and actually hangs out the window!

This is a fairly important ruling that could have far wider implications.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/04/supreme-court-sides-with-google-in-api-copyright-battle-with-oracle/

Firefox possibly falls behind in the browser popularity stakes. https://news.slashdot.org/story/21/04/05/2021232/microsoft-edge-user-numbers-keep-growing-as-firefox-falls although the article points out, there could be (Like mine) multiple browsers on any given system.

Looking through my feeds this morning, it dawned on me that now my website cannon-linux.co.uk is no more none of my spleen venting will appear on Planet OpenSUSE ever again.

I could never understand why #Archlinux removed the original installer? (I have my suspicions, though.) still, nice to see one back again. https://archlinux.org/news/installation-medium-with-installer/

Any SysAdmin worth their salt should have an automated Backup routine in place. Having said that, some folk prefer a manual solution for whatever reason so I kinda like the idea of a "Happy Bachup Day" maybe Twitter et al can post it very Friday? https://www.it-hure.de/2021/04/happy-backup-day/ P.S. This post is not propsing that by the way.

No more #FSF for #Fedora then?
https://fedoramagazine.org/fedora-council-statement-on-richard-stallman-rejoining-fsf-board/

Anyone fancy taking on Planet GNU?
https://blog.beuc.net/posts/planet.gnu.org_is_looking_for_a_new_host_and_maintainer/

I have just eaten a bowl of muesli; therefore, it's OK to eat Easter egg. The healthy counteracts the naughty, surely?

So I'm convinced the Government is telling the News media (Especially the BBC) stories to promote to get the country moving again. I bet the next big news story will be: "𝗚𝘆𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗱𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗹𝗼𝗼𝗸𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗙𝘂𝗿𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘆!"

Huzzah! The ghost of SCO rises again in the form of Xinuos and threatens legal action against Red Hat/IBM for supposedly nicking UnixWare blueprints, lying, and conspiring. https://www.theregister.com/2021/03/31/ibm_redhat_xinuos/

Quick! Dust off your VIC20 & 64 the Commodore Basic bug is fixed.
https://www.osnews.com/story/133247/fixing-the-oldest-and-nastiest-bug-in-commodore-basic/

This is weird? A Global Cloud-Based company insisting staff must come into the office? Is it just me that's noticed the UK press has been promoting news stories of returning to workplaces rather than #wfh?
Gotta protect Pret a Manga and Starbucks with lunchtime sales. :')
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56598933

No love at Nominet!
Nominet UK is currently delegated by IANA to be the manager of the .uk domain name i.e. .co.uk
https://www.theregister.com/2021/04/01/nominet_future_plans/

Wonder if AutoCAD is shitting itself yet?
https://opensource.com/article/21/4/open-source-news

10 Years! Now that's a contract.
https://www.engadget.com/microsoft-wins-10-year-contract-supplying-ar-tech-to-the-us-army-193910504.html #sales

𝗦𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗔𝗿𝘀𝗲: "Up to six people from two households can meet outside!"
𝗠𝗲: "But if you times that by 150,000 houses that's a lot of fucking people in one place!"

Oops! Steam is in a bit of a pickle.
" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://games.slashdot.org/story/21/03/30/2024227/sega-lawyers-demand-immediate-suspension-of-steam-database-over-alleged-piracy

Nothing scary about that, then?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/google-testing-its-controversial-new-ad-targeting-tech-millions-browsers-heres
"Big B̶r̶o̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ Google is watching you."

I could do with watching "All The Presidents Men" again.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-56585169

So is this a way of forcing crap or poor content on the viewer? I suspect "Clickbait" will increase on Youtube with the removal of the ability to see down or even upvotes in the constant scrabble for followers. https://www.engadget.com/youtube-dislike-experiment-181738178.html

Bye-bye Fork Truck drivers. https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/31/logistics-giant-geodis-partners-with-phantom-auto-to-deploy-remote-controlled-forklifts/

When did the "Circle of Trust" get broken? When did we stop being "The Good guys"? Remember when we all got into FOSS? And it was all about Trust? I see so many FOSS hacking stories these days.
https://linuxsecurity.com/features/features/recent-php-hack-highlights-the-need-for-better-security

Some arsehole around Qianhai lake, Bejing, China is trying to ssh in.
remote addr = 139.155.20.41
s client addr = 139.155.20.41
client latitude = 39.9288
client longitude = 116.3889

They're clearly not giving Stallman up, are they?
https://www.fsf.org/news/statement-from-the-fsf-board-of-directors-meeting-on-march-29-2021

I'm gonna need some factor 50 in a minute!">

There's one positive thing to come out of COVID. All the delivery drivers are now equal if not better than London Black Cab drivers and their "Knowledge" because of the number of parcels arriving at #castlecannon daily. I suspect drivers only have to see the surname and respond: "I know where that is!"

Red Hat leaves the FSF.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/03/red-hat-withdraws-from-the-stallman-led-free-software-foundation/

Ah, those country bumpkins don't need good broadband!
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/att-lobbies-against-nationwide-fiber-says-10mbps-uploads-are-good-enough/