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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

TIL that on the French-Italian border there is a mountain called “Mount Bigmountain” and I love it.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Public service warning. Turn on airplane mode when passing through Monaco on the train. This is not a drill. 💸

From Three: Welcome to
Monaco. Your base rates are as
follows; All rates inc. VAT. and
will apply once any applicable
add-on allowance has been
used. Call home or locally for
EUR 6 per min. Receive calls
EUR 2.02 per min. Send texts
for 35c. Data out of allowance
is EUR 4.99 per MB. See
https://www.three.ie/roaming/
for all rates or freecall +35383
3333 330. Opt out of
messages Freetext
"''WELCOME STOP''" to 50232.
Call 112 for emergency services
and ensure you know the local
emergency numbers of where
you are travelling.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Now I’m getting Russia sanctions evasion spam. Anyone want some jet fuel? 🤪

We LLC ENGINEERING LUBRICANT COMPANY
MISCOM" a well registered mandate / agent company in
KAZAKHSTAN who deals with reliable and reputable seller
companies / refineries of Russian and Kazakhstan Origin to
supply petroleum and petrochemical products e.g., D2, D6,
EN590, MAZUT, DAP, JET FUEL A1 /54, LNG / LPG,
GASOLINE, UREA 46%, LIGHT AND HEAVY CRUDE OIL,
etc., to any world safe port hereby request for your
corporation to work with us to negotiate on your behalf with
our seller companies for a very profitable business deal.
Kindly review the below attached SCO and revert back to
us.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

@riffraff @2legged it actually looks like its intended to provide extra access roads to adjacent fields.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

I’ve seen some crazy housing development plans, but this. This? This is... Wat.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

It’s a bad sign when it’s been sitting like this overnight… 🫣

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

WTF DPD? This is shady looking shit, if it is even genuine. You never needed my eircode before eircodes were invented, but you can put my address into the eircode finder and get it yourself. I don’t live in the sticks, I live in a proper house with a proper house number.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Distinct failure to read the room here. 🫠

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

How on earth (and when?) did the godaddy app appear inside the photography folder of my iphone? I didn’t know godaddy had an app. I definitely didn’t download it on purpose. And I would never have added it to a “Photography” folder. Curious.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

TIL that Fortigate firewalls expose a management service on their WAN interface by default, which enumerates system details such as model and serial number without auth. 🤦‍♂️ You can turn it off, but it's buried in the settings. WTAF.

A Shodan screenshot:

Open Ports
541/TCP

Fortinet FortiGate

Device: FortiGate-60F
Model: FGT60F
Serial Number: REDACTED

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

There’s a beauty in building sites, when they’re quiet.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

WHICH DISK, MOTHERFUCKER? #apple has had twenty years to fix this shit. Here's some of my humble suggestions for the multi-billion dollar company that still can't do basic shit right: 1. Don't use case-insensitive drives for Time Machine. 2. Don't use […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Time Machine couldn’t complete the backup to “Backups3TB3"
A disk you are backing up is case-sensitive, but the backup disk is not.
Select a different backup disk or exclude the case-sensitive disk from backups.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/06/2026

Technology has advanced to the point where websites now automatically assume that I need to read a tutorial in order to help me learn how to read the website.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

This #ios feature seems like a good idea, but it isn’t. Moving unlnown callers to a second screen doesn’t disable notifications or unread counts, so now I have to manually click into the “unknown callers” screen to make the unread count go back to zero. This is a […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

I have a Yubikey security key on a machine account. I want to set up a different Yubikey on the account. I don't want to set up a passkey (it's not appropriate for this account). I am an expert in IT security with 30y experience. I have no idea what this screen wants me to do.

Passkeys and security keys

(Big blue button that says "Use passkeys")

With passkeys, you can securely sign in to your Google Account using just
your fingerprint, face, screen lock or security key. Passkeys and security
keys can also be used as a second step when signing in with your password.
Make sure that you keep your screen locks private and security keys safe,
50 that only you can use them.

Passkeys can be created on your devices or on security keys.

(Big greyed-out button that says "Create a passkey")

Passkeys

Create passkeys on your devices, or you can create a passkey on your security key.

YOUR SECURITY KEYS

* Security key (27 Sept 2019, 10:10:05) Created: 27 September 2019
Last used: Just a minute ago, Firefox on Mac in Galway, Ireland (edit) (delete)

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

#Apple’s UX team have all been fired and replaced by LLMs. It’s the only possible explanation.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

The big blue room was nice today. Ten minutes later it was raining sideways. 🤷 #galway

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

It’s like drinking Lyons tea out of a Barry’s mug. #galway

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Taken in total, my proposal would eliminate all private vehicle traffic across the city centre bridges, with the exception of Bridge St, which would provide in/out access to the school and Quays car park. All cross-city car traffic would be diverted to either the […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A google map of Galway, with a No Cars zone covering (almost!) the entire lower end of the peninsula southwest of Bothar na mBan and Fairgreen Rd.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

And because there is still through traffic across the three old city centre bridges, we get nightmare places like Abbeygate St Upper, which is one of the most pedestrian-hostile streets anywhere in the country. 5/n

Google street view of a narrow city centre street with too many cars and pedestrians competing for space.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Here's the Terryland junction. A nightmare of disappearing/reappearing bus and cycle lanes, and still the city's greatest traffic bottleneck. And this is the modern, improved version! It used to be an even more terrifying five-armed roundabout. Note the […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A google maps view of a large, multi-lane crossroads.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Partly as a result of the narrow central bridges and the bleakly hostile Terryland area, cycling is dangerous. And because there are few dedicated bus lanes, public transport is slow and unreliable. And because so much traffic still crosses the city centre […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Google Street View of the Quays area of Galway, showing car traffic travelling diagonally across the public square.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

You can see here the problem with Galway. It's on a peninsula between a river and a salt inlet, with limited access from the land side and three narrow, aging bridges across the river in the city centre. The "quincentennial" bridge is the only new bridge in the […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026

But *of course* the LLM agent tool is using an LLM agent to spam the fedi with self-promotion. 🤪

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

Sigh, even with reduce transparency turned on, the clock on the #ios 26 lock screen is still unreadable. I liked the plain white text. How do I get it back?

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

My home Mastodon server (via @ivory) can tell me that this newish account has three posts, but it can’t show me what they are, and offers no facility to forcibly refresh from the source server. I can go to the source server but then I can’t reply because I don’t have an account. 😖

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

If you hate liquid glass as much as I do, thankfully #apple have decent accessibility controls for people with visual impairment. Remember, you don’t have to be visually impaired to use them! It’s perfectly acceptable to turn them on if you’re just sick of […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Transparent backgrounds are shit UX. They have always been shit UX. Russell Crowe writes on a window pane in *one movie* and suddenly people think it’s a great idea to write on window panes and now transparent backgrounds are *everywhere* and everyone thinks they […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

Well, now we know why Signal made their icon look ugly. It was to match the ugliness of the rest of #iOS 26. 😖

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 18/12/2025

Sigh. In what world is “famous people have their photograph taken” a “top news story”? 🤪

BBC News Top Stories
@bbcnewsfeed@mastodonapp.uk
William and Catherine release annual
Christmas card portrait

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 17/11/2025

I ordered some third-party ink cartridges from the internet. They appear to be exactly the same as the ones I bought previously, but these ones come with… … a bluetooth connected, usb-c powered tool to update the firmware *OF THE INK CARTRIDGES*??? What is this […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A plastic wrapped multipack of ink cartridges

A blue, cuboidal container with four spring contacts visible on the inside of the bottom.

The same container from the back, showing a usb-c port

An instruction booklet showing how to use a tool with spring contacts to connect a phone app to an ink cartridge. The tool looks nothing like the one in the previous photos, aside from having four spring contacts.

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Andrew Gallagher @andrewg.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025

Look at this nonsense in a recently-developed neighbourhood near me. LOOK AT IT. That's the dead end of a cycle path at the top of that earthen bank. All of this could have been prevented if the cycle path had actually gone somewhere when it was first built - […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]