rascalking.com

https://bmi.usercontent.opencode.de/eudi-wallet/wallet-development-documentation-public/latest/architecture-concept/06-mobile-devices/02-mdvm/

So, it turns out the German implementation of eIDAS (electronic ID wallet for e.g. age attestation) will require an Apple/Google account to function

Absolutely pathetic

If I was on Artemis I'd spend the 40 minute radio blackout rigging all the clocks, logs, instrumentts etc to show that 6 hours had passed, then refuse to comment on what I'd seen on the far side.
This is probably why I'm not allowed on the Artemis.

Some great news to end the day -- Villa Mexico in downtown Boston is going to remain open. https://bostonrestaurants.blogspot.com/2026/04/villa-mexico-in-downtown-boston-is.html

#boston #restaurant

motivation

#oldknees

The part of me that used to work for a survey research nonprofit is screaming into a pillow

Then in 2011 those trolls the Dutch built seven bridges in one town that were all designed to look exactly like the imaginary banknote bridges. They even painted the bridges the same colors as the banknotes.

So now the EU banknotes depict the bridges of Spijkenisse, South Holland. (pop. 72,500)

"A formal mathematical proof from MIT and a preregistered empirical study in Science from Stanford arrived within a month of each other, and together they make the same unsettling argument: the danger of AI chatbots is not what they get wrong. It is how enthusiastically they agree with everything we get wrong. Not a chatbot that lies to you, but a mirror that reflects your beliefs back at you, slightly amplified, every single time."

https://c3.unu.edu/blog/the-echo-chamber-in-your-pocket

The fact that we are *not* seeing wildly improving software all around us tells us everything we need to know.

There is no flourishing of value delivery, new product categories, more needs being satisfied better. It’s the opposite.

All we are seeing is decreases in quality, because 👏 code 👏 creation 👏 is not 👏 the problem.

February in Servo…

⏯️📜 pause and resume in DevTools
🤏🖱️ Pointer Events API
🧲🪟 <button command>
🔰🎨 ‘@property’ and ‘:modal’
📦🌐 better JS modules support

https://servo.org/blog/2026/03/31/february-in-servo/

⚠️ Update: #Iran's internet blackout is now the longest nation-scale internet shutdown on record in any country, exceeding all other comparable incidents in severity having entered its 37th consecutive day after 864 hours.

Everyone, I'd like to announce my new project— a data serialization specification called JSON LD-50. It is, in structure, similar to JSON-LD— but far, far deadlier.

https://codeberg.org/mcc/json-ld50-spec

This is what tech is supposed to be. Innovation based on today's human knowledge to improve lives and prevent deaths. Not whatever this bullshit is that we're dealing with every day.

https://www.fastcompany.com/91519302/byd-nail-test-why-this-54-billion-innovation-is-terrifying-western-auto-executives

They kept taking turns yawning 😹 #FosterKittens #JellyBellyFriday #cats #CatsOfMastodon

What's your natural state?

This is a very accurate graph of anything in my lifetime in the US.

Found the tumblr post we were thinking about:

Used to be, if you had someone with a weird infection your local lab couldn’t sort out, you could send samples to CDC for testing. Now those labs are “pausing” testing. So anyway, Republicans are trying to kill you.

Good news!

Data centers are being cancelled.

https://futurism.com/science-energy/data-centers-construction-supply