It is through this lens that we should assess whether Apple is genuinely concerned about security, or is simply using it as an excuse to block browser and browser engine competition on iOS.
🧵(5/7)
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/apples-browser-engine-ban-persists-even-under-the-dma/

@Daojoan in related news, most public squares are surrounded by bars.

The lengths Apple went to undermine the court's ruling were to say the least extraordinary:
https://www.theverge.com/apple/659296/apple-failed-compliance-court-ruling-breakdown
🧵(4/7)

We are going to need a wholesale reconstruction of the U.S. federal government if we are ever to restore anything like rule of law and pluralistic democracy in the U.S. I know I have said this before, but it bears repeating. If Democrats gain control of one or even both houses in the midterms they may be able to limit just a bit of what Trump, with Roberts Court, can do but that will be only a small patch on a government that must be completely overhauled. 1/

The 🇺🇸⚖️ US Supreme Court has declined to pause the order holding Apple in contempt in the Epic Games lawsuit.
🧵👇️ (1/7)

📖Read more:
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-supreme-court-declines-pause-order-holding-apple-contempt-epic-games-lawsuit-2026-05-06/

The world's first Fedify book, Practical Fedify: Introduction to ActivityPub Microblog Development (実践Fedify——ActivityPubマイクロブログ開発入門), has been published in Japan. This is also the first book I have ever published, and it feels quite surreal that my first book is in Japanese rather than my native language, Korean. This book is an expanded version based on the official English Fedify tutorial, Creating your own federated microblog, with various additions. Yumetsuki Mama (ゆめつきママ) worked on the cute book cover illustration, which features the Fedify dinosaur mascot, Misskey's mascot Ai-chan, and the Mastodon mascot together. It is scheduled to be published in both e-book and print formats on the 22nd by Impress NextPublishing. See also the Amazon Japan.

Courtesy Donny Dania.....

@CCC Oopsie Zwei: Sorry neues Phone, das alte ist leider...

one of my favorite facts about the US coal industry is that it employs less people than Broadway

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qlnirjwff4ibiw3wchmleszo/post/3mmaow5vwk22s

I am moving to a usage-based billing

Dear employer, I will no longer charger a flat monthly salary, instead I will move to token based billing. Included will be every token I receive as input, including but not limited to emails, slack messages, spoken words and mandatory multi-modal meetings that could have been emails. Included will also be output tokens in the form of code, documentation and small talk. Tokens will also be consumed by my internal monolog as I reason about problems.

#ai

One of the oldest and largest cities of the Bronze Age Indus civilization (Mohenjo-daro), contemporaneous with the pyramids, had no temples or palaces. Inequality in building sizes was small and declined over time. The city seems to have been both prosperous and egalitarian--a rarity then and now.

Summary: https://www.iflscience.com/one-of-the-worlds-oldest-cities-defies-the-rules-of-history-and-can-teach-us-a-lot-in-the-21st-century-83537

Original paper: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/inequality-declined-in-the-bronze-age-city-of-mohenjodaro/BF07ED4E516F2127F1C3E645C9C8F462

#Science #Archaeology #Governance #Inequality #Egalitarianism #Economics

@thegibson I suppose this was inevitable when CISA stopped hiring actual security people

This is your official notice that we'll be making a major security release for Sharkey on the 20th of May, 2026, between $[unixtime 1779282000] and $[unixtime 1779289200]. Prepare to update immediately upon release. If you are unable to update your instance at the given time, take it offline before the release.

Well! How lovely....now if we can just scale up Mohenjo-daro approach globally!

Must rid ourselves of the rentier parasites.

"Instead of gold-filled tombs and huge temples, Mohenjo-daro focused on sophisticated brick-lined drains and organized street layouts. Instead of allowing the perks of society to accumulate with a tiny elite, the city's amenities were widely distributed among the everyday households."
https://phys.org/news/2026-05-year-city-defied-history-equal.html

🤣 #trump #trumpmobile #leak #databreach

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYimk2QAuS2/

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/1ti3zkw/trump_mobile_customers_data_leaked/

@evacide
"This shift means that “searching the web” will increasingly be performed by AI agents rather than humans."

At first I read "shit" instead of "shift" and it made sense all the same.

@h4ckernews They should acquire a sec firm. 🤭

We somehow went from "script kiddies are bad" to giving any random office worker the power to launch hundreds of programs that will hammer unknown servers across the web to make mediocre power point presentations.

Not to mention the massive usage spikes that are now hitting public software and data repositories.

What a world.