Open post Murat Kaan @muratk5n@mastodontech.de · 7mo ago Replying to @pojntfx@mastodon.social <p>The fact that I can use a Linux phone in China and be a fully participating member of society, including mobile payments and everything, but I can't do that in any EU country, the US or Canada due to the payment methods there requiring SafetyNet and China not requiring that, has really broken my brain a little bit</p> @pojntfx Which Linux phone are you using? I believe you said HarmonyOS is non-Linux?
Open post Murat Kaan @muratk5n@mastodontech.de · 5mo ago Replying to @WesternInfidels@mefi.social @muratk5n @codinghorror They force-fed Copilot into Notepad: https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-added-ai-notepad-security-flaw When people didn’t like that, they addressed the matter... with branding: https://www.analyticsinsight.net/tech-news/microsoft-replaces-copilot-in-windows-11-notepad-with-writing-tools-update @WesternInfidels @codinghorror 😂 Its so terrible its funny
Open post Murat Kaan @muratk5n@mastodontech.de · 5mo ago Replying to @GeofCox@climatejustice.social <p class="quote-inline">RE: <a href="https://mamot.fr/@Neoresistant/116418680332129347" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mamot.fr/@Neoresistant/1164186</span><span class="invisible">80332129347</span></a></p><p>"These bourgeois morons are going to give us power" - Joseph Goebbels, 1932.<br />This is a message that can't be repeated often enough: in Europe in the 1920s-30s the fascists - Hitler, Dollfuss, Mussolini, Franco - did not get into power by winning enough of the popular vote - they created political chaos in the context of economic breakdown, and 'the Establishment' (in the form of royalty, aristocracy, judiciary, business leaders, religious or military top brass) INVITED them to take power...</p> @GeofCox The rich prefer any fascist rule to a left-wing alternative. Goebbels' observation is incorrect. They are not morons.
Open post Murat Kaan @muratk5n@mastodontech.de · 6mo ago Replying to @kralcttam@mastodon.social <p>Fate, it seems, is not without a sense of irony.</p><p>“The most fossil fuel-friendly government in recent U.S. history has shown us all just how risky reliance on oil and gas can be — and taught the world that true energy security lies in accelerating toward a cleaner, electrified future.”</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opinion/oil-crisis-iran-electric-solar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.240k.MpkE9q5FNDiG&smid=nytcore-ios-share" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2026/04/01/opinion</span><span class="invisible">/oil-crisis-iran-electric-solar.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XlA.240k.MpkE9q5FNDiG&smid=nytcore-ios-share</span></a></p> @kralcttam@mastodon.social I agree if we subtitute "electrified" with "clean gasified". Electricity is not an efficient way of transferring and storing clean energy https://muratk5n.github.io/tw/en/2022/01/clean-fuel-is-the-solution.html muratk5n.github.io
Open post Murat Kaan @muratk5n@mastodontech.de · 5mo ago Replying to @codinghorror@infosec.exchange <p>I am continually amazed that Microsoft managed to make <code>notepad.exe</code> -- barely an app in the first place -- WORSE. Like, A LOT WORSE. This some Ig Nobel Prize worthy bullshit. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel_Prize" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ig_Nobel</span><span class="invisible">_Prize</span></a></p> @codinghorror What did they do? I haven't been on Windows for ages