I was wondering why my feed on here was ICE ICE TRUMP ICE AMERICA ICE TRUMP MINNESOTA NO-KINGS ICE and then I spotted that it was defaulting to the Discover tab.

This is a company whose value proposition to users is basically "all the world's music in one place", but where they're only willing to pay for one eighth of their catalogue.

And the best thing about this is that the age verification method BlueSky offers that doesn't send biometrics who-knows-where, i.e. a $0.05 credit card purchase via KidsWebServices, just fails inexplicably.

Happy UK Age Verification week! While I support the general concept, I think the fact that - like with cookie consent and similar laws - leaving implementation up to tech firms means it's basically a disaster. Do I want to upload biometrics to some server in the USA? No, I do not.
#OnlineSafetyAct

Tesco already deciding it's siding with Russia.

I'm not sure why I expected the new Government might be a bit less useless when responding to its own MPs about the proposed legal changes to favour generative AI over the creative industries, but no; utterly vacuous reply.

questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

A tale of two maps - the first is the preferred party in the recent German election, the second is the former West Germany and East Germany. History matters.

Modern computing:
Install version 7.10 of software.
Fail to install dependent software as it "requires 7.6 or above" of previous software.
Fail to submit a support ticket as browser tracking protection blocks the required 3rd party script.
Fail to download patches from forum due to transfer limits.

For years, the public has called them "fake artists." But internally at Spotify, the program has name: Perfect Fit Content. My investigation, and the first look into my book Mood Machine, is the January cover at @harpers.bsky.social
harpers.org/archive/2025...

Just claiming this username in case I need it in future. Not too fond of so-called 'social' media so I doubt I'll be here often.