Damn Jordan, what a sad title. I know dear reader, I know… 2 weeks ago I published a blogpost about the upcoming plans of GNOME 49 and the eventual removal of the X11 session. Since then, instead of looking at feedback, bugs and issues related to the topic, we all collectively had to deal with...

Let’s set Substack’s “Nazi problem” aside for a moment. What if the bigger issue is being stranded on a collapsing platform... with a bunch of Nazis?...

E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ultra long battery life. - GitHub - ericjenott/Evertop: E-ink IBM XT clone with solar power, ultra low power consumption, and ...

Security officers from private firms are being paid to patrol some UK neighbourhoods in an effort to deter burglars - but how much can they really do?

What do you bet it'll be?

Alex Chinneck reimagines a Georgian townhouse facade into a playful portal for Clerkenwell Design Week 2025.

Cool art

Introducing oniux: Kernel-level Tor isolation for any Linux app. This torsocks alternative uses namespaces to isolate Linux applications over the Tor network and eliminate data leaks.

Very cool stuff!

I built a custom energy dashboard for my house using this beautiful, 2-bit colour, e-paper display. Hardware, software, data and design.

Keep, share, and discover the best of the Web using linkhut.

Discovered from post by Drew Devault.

The Turkish capital I is dotted, İ. This can trip up seemingly simple code!

The Supreme Court has ripped up the Equality Act without hearing a single trans voice — it’s time to take on a ruling that breaks the UK’s own human rights laws

Going up to the European Court of Human Rights!

Shows the live status of Great Britain’s electric power transmission network

Scene Spotlight from New Music Fix on BBC6Music focuses on the Fediverse

drive your life back.

Insane stuff.

You wouldn't download an illegal font ... unless you wanted to use it to sell a modem for the Sega Genesis?

The agency cited a "xenophobic, anti-minority, Islamophobic" rhetoric among the reasons for the designation. The label gives authorities more power to surveil the far-right party.

Trussell is calling on the UK government to take action to alleviate pressure on our already stretched public services and lift millions of people out of hunger and hardship.

Researchers at Trussell have found that the UK government could save billions if it increased universal credit to help tackle hunger.

Trussell article on their report

: The spreadsheet from Hell

https://github.com/NSG650/LinuxInExcel

Welcome, weary traveller from the orange site! Let me tell you the tale of roons — a kit for building mechanical computers.

The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

Software from a company called Alphonso can be used to listen in to the environment around a user, to work out what they’re watching

Try to survive and perhaps eventually even tame an unknown planet in this incremental semi-idle game.

​A minimalistic digital logic simulator

The social platform is testing age checks using facial scanning for access to sensitive content.

smolweb.org promotes simple unbloated web. It provides resources to actors who want to participate.

The newsletter platform’s lax content moderation creates an opening for white nationalists eager to get their message out.

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Our review of the best tools for measuring the carbon impact of your website and how best to use them including Ecograder and Digital Beacon.

The car rental giant attributed the breach to Cleo, whose customers had data stolen by a ransomware gang in 2024.

Let's learn how to set up our own private network for secure self-hosted services.

Like a DIY Tailscale.

A comic about google's unending violations of privacy.

Snapshotting and AI processing a screen every 3 seconds. What could possibly go wrong?

Long seen as untouchable in Brussels, the GDPR is next on the list of the EU’s crusade against overregulation.

Also see Privacy Guides forum post on this

CCC's statement against racism and fascism.

Chaos Computer Club publishes statement against racism and fascism.

The statement itself

Free but needs email to get. Apparently SIL Open Font licensed.

Broughlike about a trinket-loving magpie

Make your own rail network!

Hatzune Miku delivers leeks

It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.

Your printer is a snitch. It's a homing beacon for law enforcement– even offline.

Exclusive: Algorithms allegedly being used to study data of thousands of people, in project critics say is ‘chilling and dystopian’