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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

And what exactly the fuck kind of screw is this, #IKEA? Explain yourself.

Close up photo is the back of an IKEA LED lamp made of plastic and held together by unusual screws: the screw heads are round, flat on two o opposing quarters and raised in two opposing quarters. The raised quartets are slopped so that a spanner bit ("snake eyes") can screw them in, but not out.

αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

"Suggested donation: 750$", really? Are you taking the piss, #GoFundMe? 17.5% tip? Wow. Who is even setting these ridiculous levels?

Partial screenshot of a GoFundMe donation page.
The "Enter your donation" section shows the following suggestions:
£2,000 £1,500 £1,000 £750 £500 £200
with the 750 option marked "suggested"

The actual box is filled with 50 GBP.

The screenshot continues:
Tip GoFundMe services
GoFundMe doesn't charge a platform fee for organisers. Only a transaction fee is
deducted from each donation (see pricing page). This is possible through optional donor tips to support GoFundMe:
with a slider bar set at 17.5%

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Good to see our head nerd Cory @pluralistic get continued (and growing) recognition. Here is #Enshittification (the book, not the depressing phenomenon) on a display at the entrance of Foyles on Charing Cross road, one of London's biggest and most visited book […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Photo of the entrance of the Foyle's bookstore with a table covered with Cory Doctorow's book Enahittification. An A4 sized display above it reads:
"The core thesis of enshittification is that tech bosses destroyed the internet because they _could_."

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

Have you tried to read The Courage to be Disliked? It's terrible. It reads like a 14 year old's first brush with philosophy. Fell out of my hands after 30 pages. I hope it was a case of the original Japanese not being well translated into English, but at the same […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Photo of an advert in the Tube:
"From the author of the Japanese phenomenon "The Courage to be Disliked*

Are you tired of trying?
it's OK to be __ordinary__"

With a photo of the book The Courage to be Ordinary by Ichiro Kishimi.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

The state of the modern web and Internet. Blocked from reading Ansible docs because Cloudflare said so.

Screenshot of docs.ansible.com displaying a large red circle with a white cross and the message "Sorry, you have been blocked"

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

Just delighted to see that up until 5 min ago, this laptop had #SecureBoot signatures from trustworthy organisation such as, uh… Baramundi Management Suite, EAZ EasyFix, Spyrus WTGCreator of course and who could forget WhiteCanyon blancco!

Screenshot of the results of fwupdmgr, after upgrading the BIOS:

Secure Boot dbx Configuration Update

UEFI Secure Boot Forbidden Signature Database

This updates the list of forbidden signatures (the "dbx") to the latest release from Microsoft.

Some insecure bootloaders were added, due to security vulnerabilities that allowed an attacker to bypass UEFI Secure Boot. The additional entries were from:
• Baramanudi Management Suite
• EAZ EasyFix
• Finland Matriculation Examination Board
• NTC IT ROSA Linux
• PC-Doctor
• Spyrus WTGCreator
• WhiteCanyon blancco
• Some ancient shim releases for OpenSUSE, Oracle and Red Hat

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

"Be the best", "you belong here", the whole thing is so on the nose, so transparent, it's basically a poster from John Carpenter's They Live, but where you don't even need Hofmann lenses to see the truth.

Poster for the film They Live, showing the two main characters wearing the Hofmann lenses sunglasses and armed in the streets of Los Angeles, surrounded by the iconic black on white posters with messages such as "OBEY", "CONSUME", "NO THOUGHT" etc.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026

Oh wow, who could've seen it coming? The militarisation of every day language is now being used in reverse by the military to convince you (ie: convince kids) that you are already part-military, and really why don't you just join at this point, right? This is just […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Photo of an advert for the UK army on the London tube.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

The level of bullshit some companies will spout with a straight face is amazing. Case in point, rental car company Sixt has a website dedicated to getting customers to pay for damage to the rental car they returned (3 weeks after return), the whole website is built […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Screenshot of the "Help" section > Damage > Request a call back
Q: I would like a call back (astute reader, you'll note this is not a question)
A: Unfortunately, the UK damage department does not have an operating phone line, therefore we are unable to make any outbound calls or receive any inbound calls. Due to this we kindly ask that all communication is done in email form.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 13/06/2026

L' #algospeak envahit jusqu'à la radio publique. Des années à se battre contre la censure sur internet avec les camarades de @LaQuadrature pour finir par voir en 2026 franceinfo s'autocensurer dans ses sous-titres pour bien obéir à l'algorithme d'un géant chinois […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Capture d'écran d'une vidéo de france info sur les accusations de viols, d'agression et de harcèlement sexuel au sujet de Patrick Bruel.

« tentative de viol » est écrit « tentative de vi0l »

Capture d'écran d'une vidéo de france info sur les accusations de viols, d'agression et de harcèlement sexuel au sujet de Patrick Bruel.

« harcèlements sexuels » est écrit « harcèlements s*xuels »

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 07/06/2026

The Holly Tree is a pub in the Forest Gate neighbourhood of #London that contains a miniature railway in its pub garden. The railway is, of course, mapped on #OpenStreetMap I bloody love OSM. Seriously.

OpenStreetMap standard map showing the Holly Tree pub and its miniature railway.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19/05/2026

Wow, Facebook is just inherently, irredeemably old and uncool. This ad is just so tone deaf and cringe, putting it up in Shoreditch won't make up for that.

Huge advertisement on the side of a building showing a man head and upper torso wearing a shirt and meta ray ban spy glasses.
The slogan reads: HEY META, FILM THIS, I DON'T DO SECOND DRAFTS.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

This computer has 32GB of RAM, a fast CPU and is connected to high speed fibre, it still took over 10 seconds to display this image when loading it from preview.redd.it. Truly remarkable.

An image of a table: 4 columns, 4 rows
Account, Payee, Payment, Deposit
A, --> B, $10, <blank>
B, <-- A, <blank>, $10
A, --> B, $10, <blank>

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

- Will you stand with us because they might come for you next? - No, I'll stand with you because they're coming for you now.

screenshot of a RPG video game in pixel art style, with the bubbles for the conversation of two characters:
- Will you stand with us because they might come for you next?
- No, I'll stand with you because they're coming for you now.

The first character is wearing the trans pride colours of white, pink and light blue (cyan, if you're pedantic like me).

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/03/2026

#AISlop incroyable à la FNAC St Lazare, à Paris. Vraiment en mode rien à foutre : rien n'est lisible, les éléments se fondent les uns dans les autres, la moindre attention au truc permet de voir que c'est n'importe quoi. Dur d'imaginer que qui que ce soit ait payé […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Photo d'une toile de fond générée par un modèle d'IA générative, imprimée et placée derrière des produits sur une étagère à la FNAC, au rayon hi-fi.

La toile est sensée représenter des amplis analogiques et des platines vinyles, mais est remplie d'artifacts infâmes d'IA.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 17/03/2026

I'm sorry, what Vimeo? Absolutely not.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

#AISlop in the wild. "Bumblebee knowledge" outside a bee themed café in London. The bumblebee itself in completely wrong (wings the wrong way up, what looks like 4 pairs of legs instead of 3, body that doesn't correspond to any referenced body¹) and the rest is […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Photo of a blue poster printed on a sheet of metal on the wooden enclosure outside a cafe in London. The title is "BUMBLEBEE KNOWLEDGE" with a large drawing of a bumblebee. The drawing is completely wrong: wings the wrong way up, what looks like 4 pairs of legs instead of 3, made-up body that is mostly black. The rest of the "facts" and details are just made up gibberish that looks vaguely bee-oriented with "words" written in the typical GenAI alien letters.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 23/02/2026

Ah yes, the next step in the "everything is an app" idiocy. The correct way to do this is: amenity=pub dog=yes pets_allowed=dog wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:dog

Photo of an ad on the tube. Text on a background designed to look like a chat app that reads:
Hey Lovable, build me an app to find dog friendly pubs

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 15/02/2026

This connects to a thing I've said multiple times: stop pretending LLMs have human qualities while denying that other sentient animals do. We have studies that show animals are much closer to us than people want to accept (because of the immediate moral conclusions) […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Photo of two dalmatian piglets playing together.

Illustration of a Shoggoth-like monster, inspired by Lovecraftian Horror: the monster is a melted mass of flesh and eyes, with an extended protuberance holding a smiley face at its end, helping it present something human-looking.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

@molly0xfff you probably already know this, but Gemini is closing accounts with increasingly weird messages and justifications. Just received this. I never actually used the account beyond creating it, but it was associated with a unique email address and I never […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 13/02/2026

Honestly, I’m just glad we are burning the energy of a thousand suns for suggestions of this quality. Thanks, #Google. #LLM #GenAI

Screenshot of Google Meet's chat reply suggestions:
"… lunch ran late."
Suggestion 1: "Ah, no worries"
Suggestion 2: "ha, no worries"

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

I'm right behind you. (Greater London, 2026)

A photo of a small alley at night, the silhouette of a person can be seen just ahead, their shadow projecting on the ground towards us from a lone, bright white street light in the background. The sky is dark, the hedges on the sides are almost black and the ground is wet.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 06/02/2026

Providing some helpful and constructive feedback on the UK's Cyber Essentials scheme, a set of controls to ensure organisation have a base level of IT security. That's right kids, full disk encryption for laptops in not considered a bare minimum of #infosec for #CyberEssentials.

Screenshot of text:
12. Do you have any feedback or recommendations about the Cyber Essentials controls?
(clipped, complaining it's not adapted to…) cloud-first organisations, that don't run a traditional corporate firewall. It's also absolutely insane that it doesn't mandate full disk encryption for laptops.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 05/02/2026

Atlassian took like 10 years to make team avatars changeable in #Jira (not exaggerating) and it doesn't even work. The Gold Standard of enterprise project management etc. etc.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 02/02/2026

Je ne sais vraisemblablement plus parler français. Sorry.

Capture d'écran du site Numérama montrant le titre d'une section intitulée « Les bangers de la console:🥰 »

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 29/01/2026

Seriously, it's a chat system we use for business, you now a professional setting, why would you suggest I react with "😘" or "🫶", what's wrong with you? Also, the list of "frequently used" shows emojis I've literally never used. Again, what's wrong with you Slack?

A screenshot of Slack showing the supposed "frequently used" emojis: some of them like 🫶, 😂, 😆, 😏 or 🛝 I have never used.

🛝, really? Did you even know there is a slide emoji? I didn't, until i was informed it's "frequently used" (by whom Slack, by whom?).

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

How shady does this look? A Firefox add-on from "Developer" called "Wallet" that has the word Meta Mask in its description and a similar looking fox for a logo. Sheesh. #infosec

Screenshot from the Firefox add-ons website showing what's described in the message.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

Starting to wonder, what's the likelihood Trump does not realise Greenland is not the size of Africa, as the Mercator map projection would lead you to think, but much, much smaller, the size of Alaska and California put together? This much becomes obvious when […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

World map using the Mercator projection, where Greenland appears to be the same land mass as all of Africa.

$World map using the Gall-Peters projection, where shapes are distorted but relative areas are true to reality, showing Greenland to be a fraction of the land mass as all of Africa.$ World map using an approximation of the AuthaGraph projection, where Greenland appears to be about the size of the Arabian Peninsula, and much smaller than Africa.

World map using an approximation of the AuthaGraph projection, where Greenland appears to be about the size of the Arabian Peninsula, and much smaller than Africa.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/01/2026

Enjoying getting back into #Converge. Hard to believe a band can be as immensely aggressive, heavy and often overwhelming while also being simply excellent and completely focused. And some of the song titles :chefkiss: "Fault and Fracture", "Bitter and then Some" […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Screenshot from Genius.com:
– andmamightcallitnoise: Even with the lyrics right here I can’t hear what’s being said
– Cheremenin: welcome to converge

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

If you'd like more reasons to be angry at HMRC.

Screenshot:

"For your security, we signed you out

We did not save your answers.
Sign in"

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 16/01/2026

I find it amusing when people say "utilize" instead of, you know, "used", for no actual reason at all. "What's the cheapest phone that can utilize this feature, I wonder?" It feels like trying to sound French and sophisticated.

A version of the Sophisticated Pooh Bear meme with
regular Pooh: USE
sophisticated Pooh: UTILIZE

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

Look, i really like #NixOS, but downloading 12GB of packages from the café's wifi just to update a Raspberry Pi 4 and a VM feels like taking the mickey. This makes me wonder how workable this is on the long term for regular home user.

Screenshot of a terminal session running "nix flake check" on my Nix flake.

It shows that Nextcloud can be updated and then some information about the how the flake is being evaluated: it requires 587 packages to be built from source and 1459 to be copied (ie: downloaded directly from the cache), for a grand total of 12.106GB of data transfer.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 11/01/2026

@alex Yeti Sports ! Ça faisait bien longtemps que j'avais pas lu ce nom :D Je viens de faire 319.3 !

capture d'écran de Yeti Sport avec un résultat de 319.3

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2025

This is considered to be a multimillion dollar piece of real serious business software. It can't automatically make sense of a space in a regular pattern. But by all means Atlassian, throw "AI" at it to "improve" it, rather than fix snags that have made people's […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Screenshot of Jira's time tracking entry menu throwing an error when entering the 2h15m as time spent: "Check your entry matches the time format"

Screenshot of Jira's time tracking entry menu throwing no error when entering the 2h 15m as time spent.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 12/11/2025

Google is now showing you random images in Google Presentation, for "inspiration". This is supposed to be a work tool. What happened to this company?

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 11/11/2025

There are pro-Israel demonstrators in front of the Forum Kentish Town where #BobVylan are playing. There are weird hybrid Union Jack + Israel flags, and now they have started a chant of "Yes, yes to the IDF". A few minutes ago someone on a PA announced they were […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Pro-Israel demonstrators in front of the Forum Kentish Town in London, with a line of yellow vest cops in front.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 07/11/2025

@taziden je crois que cet emoji manque cruellement à notre serveur: :partybara:

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2025

Please explain why you need Alexa "AI" to answer the same question IMDb has been answering since the beginning of IMDB, Amazon? Did you forget how to do a basic SQL query?

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2025

« Gna gna gna, les fromages véganes c'est pas des vrais fromages, ils s'affinent pas… » Et là, ça va, il est assez bleu ce bleu ? :blobraccoon_peek: Brixton Blue de la Fauxmagerie, oublié pendant une quinzaine de jours.

Photo d'un morceau de fromage bleu végane Brixton Blue de la Fauxmagerie, dont la surface est entièrement recouverte d'une fine couche de cultures bleues grises.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2025

Big Tech does not understand "no", episode 2419103.

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025

Conférence à l'école Polytechnique. Je regarde une cafétéria du campus, qui affiche une magnifique infographie sur l'importance de réduire la consommation de produits d'origine animale pour limiter l'empreinte carbone de son repas. Je regarde ensuite l'offre : rien […] [Original post on mstdn.fr]

Affichette "l'empreinte carbone de votre repas" avec une infographie montrant un histogramme de barres verticales se réduisant.
La première barre est intitulée "Repas classique à base de bœuf" (sic).
La deuxième, un peu plus petite "Réduire les protéines animales".
La troisième, largement plus petite "Remplacer la viande rouge".
La quatrième, un peu plus petite que la précédente "Choisir des produits de saison".
La cinquième, un peu plus petite que la précédente "Choisir des produits locaux".
La sixième et dernière, environ moitié des trois précédentes et un 20e de la première "Repas végétarien de saison".

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2025

Apparently, this is what the most tasteful company in software design, Apple, considers good in 2025. Please, let's all try not too laugh too loudly. Via www.nngroup.com/articles/liquid-gla…

A screenshot of Apple's iMessage up using the new Liquid Glass design and an image in the background, as apparently encouraged by the app. A translucent message box with text in it is barely readable and images shown in the conversation are layered on top of the background image in a crowded and haphazard way.

The overall screen looks like a 9 year-old's idea of "cool".

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αxel simon :pride_heart: @axx.mstdn.fr.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2025

Extremely cool graffiti seen today in #Shoreditch in #London. The neon effect was even more striking in person. Very impressive and cool artwork and skill.

A graffiti of secondary Simpsons characters (Krusty the Clown, More, Barney) done in the style of fun fair neon lighting tubes, with orange and green palm trees, striking yellow lines for the characters and a giant blue and red glass around them (for some reason).

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