Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
It looks like it will be another hot day tomorrow.
Best to put your underwear into the freezer now, if you haven't already done so.
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Wikimedia Foundation -v- Secretary of State for Science, Innovation and TechnologyRather limited success for the Wikimedia Foundation's #OnlineSafetyAct challenge, but - on the basis of a quick skim - still some useful commentary in there.
https://www.judiciary.uk/judgments/wikimedia-foundation-v-secretary-of-state-for-science-innovation-and-technology-2/
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
New #blog post:
"Fixing my Pixel 6's USB port issue with a trimmed down cocktail stick"
The title rather says it all, really.
I am pleased to have extended the useful life of my phone.
Thanks to all of you who chatted about this with me yesterday!
https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/08/fixing-my-pixel-6s-usb-port-issue-with-a-trimmed-down-cocktail-stick/
#repair #GrapheneOS
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
New #blog post:
"'Here's what I do' versus 'You should'"
A bit of a gripe about people who tell others what they should do.
https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/08/heres-what-i-do-versus-you-should/
#fedimeta #Linux #FOSS
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
What a beautiful spot, on Brownsea Island.
With decent 4G and occasional 5G coverage.
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Welcome to the fediverse.
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Apparently the UK's Department for Science, Industry, and Technology has told some service providers that they are Online Safety Acting incorrectly, and have to do more to protect freedom of expression.
Parliament chose to implement only token protections for freedom of expression, against far more substantive obligations around restriction of expression, so really no surprises here.
Enforcement will, I suspect, be rather challenging.
#OnlineSafetyAct
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
'Self-host it' is not the answerI wrote this three years ago, and it remains my view (despite, or perhaps because of, my preference for self-hosting pretty much everything).
https://neilzone.co.uk/2022/07/self-host-it-is-not-the-answer/
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
I appreciate that people may have their reasons, but, as someone whose devices make no noise, boy is it stressful to come to a place where multiple phones and computers make noises for notifications all the sodding time.
Messages.
Calls.
Email.
News alert.
Weather alert.
Webpages.
Camera movement.
It is incessant.
Neil Brown@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk
Age verification could make the internet more dangerousI contributed to this short podcast about the #OnlineSafetyAct.
It starts at 01:30, if you want to avoid a massive opening ad for some kind of "AI" service.
https://observer.co.uk/listen/daily-sensemaker/age-verification-could-make-the-internet-more-dangerous