After 17 years of marketing Android as an open platform, Google is mandating developer registration for all apps. Independent developers, open-source contributors, and alternative stores like F-Droid face an uncertain future. @keepandroidopen.bsky.social keepandroidopen.org

If you copy and paste them into a text editor, and save it as EMOJI.COM, the result should be 1092 bytes with an md5sum of 95482be7ae8d8ddcefca5a1ebbc7363f. It should run in DosBox-X or DosBox Staging. Probably others, I haven't tried. #retrocomputing #dos #demoscene #dosbox #emoji

The following emoji are a valid DOS executable. 🐸☺️😖🐰😗😯😯😯😯😯😯😯😹😯🕳️😯🐮🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐⭐🍽️🍽️🍽️🍽️🐮🐰😔😬😬🗓️🍽️👁️📗🐪🗓️🧮🧯📗🐪🐮🗓️😿🧯🧯🧯🧯📗🐪🗓️🐮📗🐪🗓️🧮🧮🧯🧯👁️📗🐪🐮🗓️🧮🧯🧯🧯🧯🧯🧯📗🐪🗓️😿🧯🧯🧯🧯📗🐪🗓️😿🍽️🍽️🍽️🍽️🐮📗🐪🐮🗓️😯🍽️🍽️👁️📗🐪🐮🐮🐮🗓️😿🧮🧮🧮📗🐪🗓️🧮👁️👁️🍽️👁️📗🐪🐰😔🐐🐐♿🇹🇭⏪✋💕🐀🍥🐐📣🈚🌌🌋🏐🌕👻🌺🌻🍵🆙🌮🍝🌐🌋🍠🌋🐅🍜💒🌳👹🎇👹🉑🎎🉑💞🆖🌳🆎🎇👹🉑🎎🉑💞🐖👯🆖🌻🕕🌿🐐🍙👺👽🌳👹🎇💗🉑🎎🉑💞🖕🎎🌙👻🌺🌻🐻🎂🌻🌳👮🐖🐸🍤🕕🌻🐠🐻🍝🌻🌳🌷🐎🌷🍭🌌💗👻🐖🐖🌜🌛📛🍕🍓🍪🍷🌙🍘🍾🍪👻🌺🌻🌙🌘🌙🐗🌊🏐💗🎐🧯🔥🌉

Who remembers when PCs showed something like this on boot?

A brilliant knight sacrifice I found in a bullet chess game

I GOT THE DOMAIN! I FINALLY GOT IT!!!!!!!!!!1 🥳🎉 Paint​.NET is now at paint.net! Well, it will be just as soon as I push all the buttons to migrate content and set up redirects from getpaint​.net etc. For now it's just a "hey go here" redirect page.

Saved this working Sony Trinitron CRT TV from the trash

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Donald "the rapist & best friend of Jeffrey Epstein" Trump is now threatening to invade Cuba. "Maybe we'll have a friendly takeover of Cuba. We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba."

I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us) And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out

Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.

heise.de

seems like even macs are not immune from the ai demand and supply shortages. www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

OpenClaw-fueled ordering frenzy creates Apple Mac shortage — delivery for high Unified Memory units now ranges from 6 days to 6 weeks

AI is coming for high-end Mac Studios and Mac minis, too.

tomshardware.com

Imagine if HEALTHCARE WAS FREE in America, as it is in Greenland. Just imagine. 🇺🇸🇬🇱

Paying a subscription for a laptop you won’t ever own is extremely short sighted and simple minded.

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

I hope its not a problem, to say on this platform, that I dislike TERFs and Gender Criticals.

LibsofTiktok does not seem to be a bright person, or knowledgeable. To anyone who knows world affairs, one could easily tell that the flag described here is the flag of Saudi Arabia, an ally of the United States, but apparently she doesn't know that.

Why is there a two-month-old in a trailer prison in Texas yet these guys are still free? www.politico.com/live-updates...

House Dem identifies ‘wealthy, powerful men’ DOJ redacted in Epstein files

Rep. Ro Khanna read out the names of the six individuals on the House floor, where they will now be entered into the Congressional Record.

politico.com

Thank you to everyone who demanded freedom for Liam. We won’t stop until all children and families are home.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

macOS Seqouia 15.7.3 on my Mac mini (2018). My Mac mini is stuck with Sequoia as its final version and will not get OCLP, but here is hoping OCLP will support macOS Tahoe 26.x on my unsupported MacBook Pro. Liquid glass on macOS will be interesting.

The Holocaust was perpetrated by a regime that stripped millions of their citizenship, even in the nations that it invaded and occupied.

Bluesky looks a lot like old twitter, before the events of 2021 onwards, and I kind of like it because of it.

Use OCLP to upgrade your Intel mac to macOS Sequoia 15.x, I use OCLP and it has never failed me thus far.

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

German soccer federation official wants World Cup boycott considered because of Trump

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

bit.ly

In news from Gaza, Israeli tank shelling killed four Palestinians on Thursday. The killings came as President Trump was launching his so-called Board of Peace in Davos, Switzerland.

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization

It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

wfaa.com