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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 02/10/2026

The weirdest thing about Kinect is that it's actually technically really neat, much like the Hololens, the Zune HD, the ...

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 02/10/2026

I love how many are named after parts of England, to indicate how classy they are. "The Essex" always makes me laugh.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 02/10/2026

This is why LLM-based AI seems like such a life-saver to these people. The question we should be asking is "why are such people C-level executives in the first place?"

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 02/10/2026

They're literally the people who you can teach the trick to, and then they won't remember it or apply it to the next time they see the problem or something similar. They are less intelligent than the LLM, which can at least regurgitate the same answer it's read before.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 02/10/2026

All these posters inventing new wolf/goat/cabbage puzzles to demonstrate that "the AI isn't really thinking" ignore the simple foundation - that the people impressed with the LLM-based AI's answer to the base puzzle are incapable of understanding how it does even that.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 01/10/2026

At the very least, "Spooky Bob (verified as Bob Normal)" should be a decorator.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 01/10/2026

BlueSky needs to rethink this one. Someone gets their PhD and wants to add it to their verified name? Someone gets divorced, and wants to change their name? Halloween and everyone changes their name. There needs to be a rapid-fire name change approval.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 30/09/2026

Something in one of the earlier reports made me think "oh, they're just a bunch of guys siphoning red diesel out of farming equipment". Every subsequent report seems to feed into that - "there were no explosives found, just accelerant (gasoline)", etc.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 30/09/2026

After a week's PTO, it can feel a little like you're playing a version of Kim's Game, looking around to see if anyone's new, or if anyone's missing, since the last time you were in the office.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 29/09/2026

"Does anyone in your office say 'please review and do the needful'?" "No... no, man, I believe you'd get your ass kicked saying something like that, man."

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 27/09/2026

I would think the worst part of being a psychic reader is knowing how the book ends before you get part way in.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 27/09/2026

Waiting for The Needling or Onion to post Kalshi's odds on one or both of the pandas being shot or deported to Honduras.

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 10/10/2023

About to get thrown out of here for obvious reasons

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 27/09/2026

Keeps getting truer.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 27/09/2026

Looks like an OnlyFans episode of Diddy Dick & Dom.

Diddy Dick and Dom, sitting on a couch. The "Diddy" bit is that, while their heads are normal size, their bodies are small puppets.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 24/09/2026

Tried to read some classic sci-fi earlier and found it so full of random misogyny that was ignored in the 50s/60s, on the grounds of "that's just the way it is".

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 22/09/2026

Who owns the Slovenia cc tld?

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 20/09/2026

Some old guy set this restroom code. 5309.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 20/09/2026

Maybe speeding a little.

Dashboard display showing the car is travelling at 63 mph, while the car alleges the limit is 5.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 19/09/2026

Minecraft pansies.

A plant pot full of light purple pansies. Pansies always look like they have a face, but these look particularly like Minecraft creepers.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 17/09/2026

I paid too much for this phone/laptop for you to try and scratch another dollar out of selling unwanted access to my data and activities. I paid for a service, provide the service, stop insisting on other ways I might enrich you.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 17/09/2026

I cannot overstate how much I hate apps that force me to press a button to acknowledge a feature in already aware of. More so if I have to then click another button to disable a feature I already turned off a while back.

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Dee Lomas @deelomas.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The RNLI volunteer has told us that donations usually run at £20,000 per day. Currently running at £100,000 per day! Bloody brilliant!

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 17/09/2026

This is the forbidden knowledge I miss from the time I worked with you. Maybe not "miss", exactly.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 16/09/2026

(The hinge things can also help if a door doesn't latch properly. You'd be surprised how many problems are caused by loose screws and uninspected nuts)

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 16/09/2026

When you have a wooden door that rubs against the door frame, you can certainly fix it by shaving down that part of the door... but you can also fix it by screwing the hinges in more firmly, or by bending the hinges just a little bit. Be the person who can recognise the right fix.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 16/09/2026

Wondering if there's an FBI field office nearby.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 16/09/2026

We were encouraged at work to use Copilot in outlook to give us a summary of what we ought to be doing in a week. All it told me is I have far too many irrelevant emails coming in, and it's unfair to ask a machine to handle that. Whether it's unfair to ask a human...

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The Needling @theneedling.com · 16/09/2026

‘That Actually Happened in Unincorporated King County,’ Reports Guy from Enumclaw: tinyurl.com/38sr95j2

Man in a cornfield intently explaining something to another man.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 15/09/2026

The power company wins.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 15/09/2026

The original of that, since this is doing small numbers, appears to be from Edsger Dijkstra, in a 1984 memo.

cs.utexas.edu

E.W. Dijkstra Archive: The threats to computing science (EWD898)

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 15/09/2026

Nearly two dozen, actually, apparently someone submitted a new one on April 1, 2025. Despite my not having touched the code since 2006, and closed up the company, and told people they shouldn't be using it, because I'm no longer updating it. Code. Lives. For. Ever.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 15/09/2026

The amount that bacteria in our personal biome contributes to health, mood, even mental issues, really gives the phrase "gut feeling" a deeper meaning.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 15/09/2026

I like the expression that a computer is "thinking" in much the same way that a submarine is "holding its breath and swimming".

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 15/09/2026

I have at least a dozen.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 14/09/2026

It was over forty years ago, and I was a teenager, so excuse me if I don't exactly remember the algorithm, but it was basically in a very tightly-timed loop (I learned how many clock-cycles each instruction would take), and would switch "up" if one channel reached an "up" when the signal was "down",

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 14/09/2026

I remember developing my own two-channel 'music' program for the ZX Spectrum. I can't find it on my tapes, so it's probably on a Microdrive somewhere, waiting for me to get around to refurbishing them. Never did publish it, or understand why it worked.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 10/09/2026

Not sure when it happened, but the multi-month hasbro.com outage is apparently over.

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Where To Buy - Hasbro

Find where to buy Hasbro products from participating retailers.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 10/09/2026

Image needs more fingers on each hand. Possibly more hands in the handcuffs.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 09/09/2026

Michael Caine was our dads' generations' Jude Law. And you tell the kids of today that, and they say "who's Jude Law?"

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 08/09/2026

I remember learning that you should never pipe the output of wget or curl into shell, but now I see people willy-nilly taking the output of an AI and building whole apps from them, assuming it's not going to include some random malice from its training data.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 04/09/2026

I keep seeing adverts for a new action movie. As far as I can tell, its chief interesting point is that people run around with guns, and shoot them from time to time. This is, I guess, how you sell a movie to America. Or, at least, to some specific portion of America.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 04/09/2026

Complexity makes code less maintainable, which puts a greater cost on future bug fixing, and on future feature implementation. Overly-complex code is a bug.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 04/09/2026

We spend waaay too much time as an industry making software more complex, without making it more useful. Sometimes even making it less useful. Complexity is the enemy, not the goal. You should accept complexity into your systems only when it delivers something else of great value.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 03/09/2026

And yeah, maybe People Like Us is a bit much of a "Chris Langham vehicle", but it did feature some outstanding comedic acting from the other characters.

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Alun Jones @alun.pw · 03/09/2026

Now that Chris Langham's dead and can't profit from it any more, can we see some repeats of some of the (ensemble) comedy roles his presence has presumably kept off the air for the last several decades? The Sunday Supplement, People Like Us, Not the 9 O'Clock News, etc.

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