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The Heart of the TARDIS @theheartofthetardis.politicalmemes.org · 08/10/2026

$(N\:‘;A el Hangover & w ‘élf @PromptAlan still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept Al slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them 6:42 PM - Sep 27, 2026 - 4.3M Views O 12« |$

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Gaston @gastonrampersad.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

“when two young women on a dark road ended up under his car”. Who writes like that?

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

Wife: I learned all about sunscreen and skins cancer tonight. It’s really important. See? You didn’t grow up with that. What level of sunscreen did you grow up with? Thirty? Me: Uhh… four? Wife: Four!?!?!? Me: I remember seeing as low SPF 1/2. Wife: WHAT?!?!? […] [Original post on sfba.social]

Bottle of Coppertone from the 1980s.

SPF 4 “moderate protection sunscreen”

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty. Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The C programming language has unleashed many horrors upon the world, but one of the most insidious and pervasive is that "*" means BOTH "a reference that points to this thing" AND "the thing pointed to by this reference". And of course #golang takes it too far, how else do you get syntax […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

“We showed that the tracking infrastructure of the web and mobile ecosystems—tracking pixels, SDKs, persistent identifiers, and server-side forwarding—has been carried into conversational AI, exposing conversation artifacts such as prompts, generated titles, and permalinks to third parties with […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

“Lobbying” is such a bullshit word for “bribery and blackmail”.

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Chloe Martindale @chloelono.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

MIKE is finally here and I am so excited! 80B public keys! 4.86ms secret generation! A proper NIKE! Security is just the isogeny problem! Short and simple constant-time implementation in both C and rust! This has to be the curve25519 of its generation. mike.isogeni.es

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

File formats need to decide whether they are documents or programs. If they are documents then they MUST NOT be Turing complete. If they are programs, then they MUST NOT be embedded in documents. It really is that simple.

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petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼 @peturdainn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Firefox about:config browser.nova.enabled = false you can fuck right off with your fucking ugly rounding, firefox </rant>

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

“OpenAI isn’t just defending their own supply of memory, but attempting to choke the market to cut off anybody else. There are reports that OpenAI is attempting to buy up the DRAM manufacturing equipment as well, to deny future manufacturing capability. This is a classic monopolist’s move!” […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Macbook decided (again!) to forget my login password and I can’t log in or unlock filevault. Fine, log in as admin and reset, right? Nope, “error resetting password”. The clue is buried in the logs: my user securetoken is invalid. But I can reset *that*, right? No, you can’t reset a user […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

“There are many aspects of Northern Ireland’s Education system that need to change. Some would like a more radical overhaul, resulting in a single, shared, secular system. That may be beyond the possible right now. But there is an opportunity for Integrated Education to act as a pioneer and a […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

I don’t know whether Putin actively wants to start a global war to save his political career, but if he keeps following his current strategy, he’ll manage it anyway.

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I still remember the day in 1976 when Gary Kildall typed in "dir" to an "A>" prompt on his hazeltine green-screen character display to show me a directory listing on his 8080-based, eight-bit computer running the first release of CP/M, the first real microcomputer operating system (that Gary […]

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Janne Moren @jannem.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@futurebird Not a fan of HTML email. But, I think we dodged a bullet by adopting it. At work, many people *really* want to format their text nicely. And MS was well on its way to get Word adopted as the de-facto standard for corporate email. That lost its momentum when html became adopted instead.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The Orange Order lost this particular fight 30 years ago. Picking at the scab now achieves nothing but chaos. There is no great principle at stake here, only the wounded pride of a very small number of people. Put on your big boy trousers and move on with your life. Everyone else has […]

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

What if ADHD is just where you have too many tabs open in your brain's browser and OOMkiller starts killing random processes?

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Tyler Loch @tylerloch.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/07/2026

When you run the office, you get to choose the pillow cushions. It’s a rule. (that I made up)

Modern couch with two throw pillows. One resembles a silica gel packet. The other resembles a faulty lithium polymer battery.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

“We're entering an era where privacy does not exist. At one point, the stock advice to people who were concerned about this very thing was "Well, if you don't like it, don't use it. But that doesn't protect you anymore. Muse can get access to your information via people who do use it. Apple has […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026

The software industry's original sin was "no warranty, even the implied warranty of merchantability", even on literal products for sale. Every evil we have visited upon the world — clickwrap licenses, instagram anorexia, AI dystopia — is downstream of the generalized ability for software to […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Pope Innocent III,who died in 1216, spoke of a certain kind of older man, who is "easily provoked", "will believe anything and question nothing", is "stingy and greedy" and "praises the good old days and hates the present." Reform UK's voter base has been knocking around for a very long time.

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 27/09/2026

I have a theory about how many of the world's problems are caused by people who were told they were the smartest people alive as kids, believed it, and then when they became adults and couldn't accept that maybe they weren't that special, started breaking shit if only to prove they were special

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mcc @dryad.technology · 25/09/2026

This has kinda been my experience with every neotld ICANN created the most perfect racket. The ongoing price of running the TLD is not so high but once your customers become dependent on you the price inelasticity is nigh unlimited

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

The AI doomers are terrified of a harmful system that its creators can't turn off. They should be more worried about a harmful system that its creators could trivially turn off, but are afraid to because if they did their company would go bankrupt.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173298914… Muse installs a rootkit inside itself and enables persistence, if you ask it nicely.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173247908… This thread is gold. Read to the end. tl;dr: Muse is a bucket of bolts.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

“U.S. military sends top-secret F-35 parts by UPS from Australia. China intercepts package in Hong Kong, won't give it back.” 🤪 bsky.app/profile/gabekahn.bsky.soci…

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Vulvarine @zwergi.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

We’ve officially reached the point where hearing your spouse’s voice on the phone isn’t enough proof that it’s actually them. That sounds ridiculous until you realize voice-cloning scams are already here. Have a code word. Call the person back directly […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot from another platform:
Just had the creepiest scam ever happen
20 minutes ago.
| got a call from my wife telling me she forgot her
wallet and needed the credit card to pay for her gas.
Except my wife was at home with me, and drives a Tesla.
Same voice, bit... off, weird cadence but 100% sounded
just like her. If she wasn't there, and it wasn't about
gas | would have fallen for it.
| entertained it for awhile to get more out of it, | was so
confused. Must be some sort of voice deepfake.
The responses were too fast for ai, | think it was a voice
filter. | wish | had thought to record it.
The future is about to get fucked. Warn your loved ones,
do verbal passwords with your kids.
Bit taken aback.

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Casey Whitaker @alphacentauri53.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Competent white men must be in charge if you want things to work,” Beattie once wrote on X. “Unfortunately, our entire national ideology is predicated on coddling the feelings of women and minorities, and demoralizing competent white men.” An amazing article by @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu💙⭐️

Alberta is in the middle of Canada. If the province were to detach itself, eastern Canada could be physically cut off from western Canada, the country would lose a substantial portion of its oil and natural-gas production, and the provinces important contributions to the national budget would vanish.
Canada might cease to be a viable country, especially if other provinces started to question the union. That may be the point: In 1990, Pat Buchanan, the intellectual grandfather of the MAGA movement, declared that if Quebec ever broke off from Canada, America should "pick up the pieces." This now seems to be, if not the publicly stated U.S. policy toward Canada, then at least the predator clan's policy: pressure the economy, break up the federation, pick up the pieces. And no, it is not a joke.
THE IDEA THAT a dedicated group of Americans has a plan to dismantle Canada, or that businessmen with opaque links to the U.S. government might want to create political conditions for a U.S. takeover of Greenland, may surprise Americans. It shouldn't. Every single tactic used against Brazil, Canada, or Denmark has also been deployed elsewhere—not to support democracy, not to build American prosperity, but to spread the illiberal revolution and make money for the predators who support it. Here is a partial list.
The Atlantic
September 20, 2026
Anne Applebaum

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

The mafia have taken the USA, and they are coming for your country next. The remains of the free world must hang together, or hang separately […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

“it is no longer possible to pretend that the broken ideology that put us on this trajectory is still somehow compatible with the harsh realities that surround us. It is not clear to me if democracy can survive a deregulated Internet. A deregulated Internet filled with LLMs that can perfectly […]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

“Privacy regulation will get there too. Not because the industry repents because industries don't, but because this is how every one of these stories ends: seatbelts, smoking sections, lead paint. Normal, then scandalous, then unthinkable. Someday someone will ask what an ad network for children […]

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Israel & Russia issue is not complicated. You either oppose atrocities regardless of who commits them, or you don’t. Everything else is noise. We don’t need protestors, zealots, influencers, celebs, or anyone to tell us what international law says or what is right and wrong.

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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It’s important for everyone to acknowledge any atrocities and injustice committed by our countries in the distant past so we may never repeat them but it is more important that we accept the existence of and confront the atrocities being committed by Israel, Russia, and the US today.

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Ruth Mottram @ruth-mottram.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

This, from the European Correspondent, is a very good way of showing that even though they fill a lot of the media time, the far right are very far from the majority in any country (possible exceptions are Poland Hungary), the main question then is how to […] [Original post on fediscience.org]

A poster titled going far right where multiple boxes each representing one European country has purple shading showing the proportion of voters who voted for far right parties. Only two get even close to having 40% of the box filled with purple. Most are much much lower

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Has anyone in the EU tech policy space considered just making it illegal for services to charge more for MFA, SSO, audit log streaming, and break-glass/split privilege accounts? If y'all are serious about improving SME security, that's an easy win.

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Dr. Serge Zaka @sergezaka.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Je n’ai plus les mots pour qualifier ce qui se passe actuellement en France. Les prévisions météorologiques ne cessent de repousser l’échéance du retour des pluies. Désormais, presque aucune précipitation significative n’est attendue sur une grande partie du pays jusqu’au 6 octobre.

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Alberto Cottica @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Reflecting on @quinta 's excellent post on the role that Google and Apple could have played (but probably didn't) in the #AutisticiInventati fiasco: "should your Google account be suspended, apps on your phone would fail the Play Integrity check, and therefore would be prevented from running. [ […]

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I agree that young kids shouldn't be on most social media. But for the same reason it's probably not great for many adults either. 5/5

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Personally I'd like to have "have a right" to know if online content is an advertisement or not and a "right" to not see any ads easily. The default position should be "no ads, no tracking" Age restrictions are for casinos and adult content. That we think we need them for social media in […]

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Claire McNab @2legged.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

That depends, @andrewg, on what relationship you think the Vatican has to God. A significant chunk of protestant theology views the Vatican as the den of the antichrist.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Monaco is to money what the Vatican is to God.

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“I used to want a software engineering job. That dream for me is dying.”

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

“People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter.”

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@vOxium
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I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company.
Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.
Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow?

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

There's this thing I'm seeing more and more websites doing, where if you were previously logged in and you revisit the site after the login timeout has elapsed, it briefly flashes the logged-in page, including content that should only be visible to you when you're logged in, before logging you […]

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking

Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth

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·J Mopp @jmopp.masto.ai.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

git config --global alias.shove 'push --force'

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