Heavy dose of nostalgia there. I remember the Sun SPARCstations at uni and changing my desktop environment every other week.

JPEG XL? It’s 2026 and I’m still waiting for JPEG 2000 to become mainstream

I installed it 3 weeks ago and I’m really impressed with it and the companion mobile app

The very same

Oh, I thought it stood for Fuck Off, Miserable Osborne

The only good use of AI would be to use the heat from its excessive power consumption to keep our sausage rolls warm

You perfectly summed up my feelings on this

My brain instinctively put ‘Jean’ in front of his name 🙈

Meanwhile the upgrades to transport services in the rest of the country consist of wiping down the rear window on a few buses 🤣

But they need to get to 2035 in order to survive by 2035 🤔

Never mind that, what is ‘coated poultry’? A chicken in a puffer jacket?

In the case of the UK and utilities, at least, public ownership.

I hate how, over the last 30 years, the burden for people to not be ripped off by companies has shifted to the individual. Why must I use my limited free time and mental capacity to shop around for car insurance, contents insurance, buildings insurance, rail travel, energy suppliers and now vets? To hell with ‘free market capitalism’.

A really nice essay, I agree with the sentiment of it. We don’t need European tech billionaires, we need government support for open source

Nope. Had enough of tech giants. We need bold policy moves to limit the creation of huge tech companies.

Hmm, doubt it’s for security. Seems more likely they’re looking for backdoors in order to spy on users. There are far too many governments desperate to backdoor encryption and messaging apps to trust any government’s stated intent when it comes to technology

The rise and fall and rise of RIM. Blackberry, here we go!

I love the way you delivered the punchline - very reminiscent of Douglas Adams

How do we persuade our elected politicians to stop trying to speedrun authoritarianism and fascism?

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