Thing is Sainsbury have learnt nothing from this and reasserted theair faith in facial recognition, blaming human error in store for grabbing wrong person. I feel we'll see more of this in future.

I like your infographic, how was it made?

Hoping this tool lives up to its own hype:

PyInfra—where your infrastructure is actually code. Real Python. With loops that don’t require learning a DSL. With functions that are... wait for it... actual functions. With error handling that doesn’t involve praying to the YAML gods

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/VEQTLH-infrastructure-as-python/

Performance:

https://docs.pyinfra.com/en/3.x/performance.html

Recable that OP mentioned look great fun

https://en.recable.eu/

...braided charging cables coloured and named after birds.

Gopher guarantees readers that there will never be anything other than text and media served on a site. They don't have to trust the publisher, the protocol enforces it.

Parliament itself recommends VPN use for its members:

Labour's Lord Knight acknowledged that VPNs could "undermine the child safety gains of the Online Safety Act" but warned that age-gating the apps could be "extremely problematic". He said:

"My phone uses a VPN, following a personal device cyber consultation offered by this Parliament. VPNs can make us more secure, and we should not rush to deprive children of that safety."

I see this with flatpaks, the solution might be to grant permission to the app to the part of the filesystem your dragging from with flatseal/cmdline.

HOWEVER I do think the desktop is missing a pop-up which offers to do this for you when it happens. This is how android does it when an app needs access outside its own files, you just get a prompt to allow it.

This is the sandbox future - it's safer and you can trust that apps can't go snooping around your system but users shouldn't need to fiddle with perms all the time to get stuff done.

The EFF have a page on this, setting out the threats:

https://www.eff.org/wp/unintended-consequences-16-years-under-dmca

...which is mostly a link to:

https://www.eff.org/files/2014/09/16/unintendedconsequences2014.pdf

...whose summary reads as follows.

The “anti-­‐circumvention” provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”), codified in section 1201 of the Copyright Act, have not been used as Congress envisioned. The law was ostensibly intended to stop copyright infringers from defeating anti-­‐piracy protections added to copyrighted works.[1] In practice, the anti-­‐circumvention provisions have been used to stifle a wide array of legitimate activities. As a result, the DMCA has become a serious threat to several important public policy priorities:

The DMCA Chills Free Expression and Scientific Research.

Experience with section 1201 demonstrates that it is being used to stifle free speech and scientific research. The lawsuit against 2600 magazine, threats against Princeton Professor Edward Felten’s team of researchers, and prosecution of Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov have chilled the legitimate activities of journalists, publishers, scientists, students, programmers, and members of the public.

The DMCA Jeopardizes Fair Use.

By banning all acts of circumvention, and all technologies and tools that can be used for circumvention, the DMCA grants to copyright owners the power to unilaterally eliminate the public’s fair use rights. Already, the movie industry’s use of encryption on DVDs has curtailed consumers’ ability to make legitimate, personal-­‐use copies of movies they have purchased.

The DMCA Impedes Competition and Innovation.

Rather than focusing on pirates, some have wielded the DMCA to hinder legitimate competitors. For example, the DMCA has been used to block aftermarket competition in laser printer toner cartridges, garage door openers, videogame console accessories, and computer maintenance1 services. Similarly, Apple has used the DMCA to tie its iPhone devices to Apple’s own software and services.

Looks like this long-standing issue affecting all flatpaks run under MATE/marco:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues/301

Applications launched under Firejail and Flatpak include "(as superuser)" in their window's title even though they're not actually being ran as root.

Hedy is an open source programming language that is broken into levels for easy learning. As you progress the language gains more capabilities, so they are never overwhelmed with too much

In contrast to block based languages like scratch its goal is to leave students ready to switch to Python by the end.

Each level has small tasks to complete so you can tackle it piece by piece and get a sense of progression.

https://hedy.org/

Self-hosting anything that is deemed "content" openly on the web in 2025 is a battle of attrition between you and forces who are able to buy tens of thousands of proxies to ruin your service for data they can resell.

This is depressing. Profoundly depressing.

Sigh

Maybe look into autofs which will mount only when you choose to access the drives and then unmount on idle. Could be simpler then trying to react to network status.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Autofs