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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I have complicated feelings about the (presumably) vibe-coded Creative Cloud clones that just popped up. getartcraft.com/apps On the one hand, it's really irresponsible to ship software you don't understand to people who will use that for real work. On the other, absolutely fuck #Adobe.

Kevin from The Office (U.S.) weighing up whether he wants double fudge brownies enough to put up with Angela.

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Finally, a CAPTCHA that doesn't require me to instantly know what American fire hydrants or school buses look like.

A grid showing 16 different Roman busts, with the rubric "Please click each image containing an emperor of the Flavian dynasty
If there are none, click skip"

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Rewatched #Booksmart - what a truly charming film. I had remembered some of the motifs over the years with some unease but watching it again it's not just a lovely hang and a good laugh but a beautiful-looking movie. So many moments are just elevated by gorgeous cinematography and ambitious […]

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The new #ItsAlwaysSunny hit for me, even as a baseball-agnostic European. The owners box got me. #TV #Comedy

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rar is win @xyla.zip · 06/10/2026

(boost pls 🥺) i NEED a person who owns the winrar bag. like, not in the romantic sense,, i just wanna have a photo of it with the ikea rat plushie placed on top of it. i can arrange the details, ship the rat to you, pay for the shipping, whatever. i just need the photo picrel

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The wonderful #DungeonsAndDonuts in #Galway is running a 25-hour tabletop gameathon to raise money for charity. What a lovely idea! www.facebook.com/events/22353325972… (apologies for facebook link, they've no site :-( )

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Spent some time writing code (by hand!) to remind myself that I still could. It felt lovely! #Godot #GDScript #GameDev

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

With a heavy heart, I am having to replace my laptop. Has anyone, preferably someone who writes for a living, particularly loved their laptop's keyboard. My main concern is getting the perfect clickety-click and a spacious layout, but also the feeling of the keys.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

So the "I left $AILab for ethical reasons" grift is starting up:

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Listening to @pj talk about his experience of the social internet rhymes with my own. As a millennial I had a great time on Twitter in my twenties. It was a mostly pro-social experience (for me as a white dude, but also many of my female friends). Now 15 years later, that internet is gone. It's […]

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M⑨ddie @mjdxp.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

okay, that's pretty good

Except from a Wikipedia article:
During the 2001 Microsoft antitrust case, the names MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 were humorously used to refer to the companies that might exist after a proposed split of Microsoft.

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

I'm not on bedtime tonight, so wild night planned - watch the new It's Always Sunny, sip a beer and then log some more time in #Cyberpunk2077 which is starting to really sink its teeth into me, and runs like an absolute *dream* on the #SteamDeck. #AlwaysSunny #ItsAlwaysSunny […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

C'mere, have any of ye fine folks using #Fairphone and #MurenaOS aka /e/OS tried using #Revolut?

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Made a bone headed mistake this evening and bricked a brand new gadget I got _yesterday_. A humbling fuck up. Going to have to go pay a grown up to unbrick it.

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

I don't buy it that AI is uniquely dangerous as autonomous systems. I mean, give an unpredictable piece of software control over real world systems, yeah, shit will happen. But like. Maybe we just don't do that? And then it will be fine?

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Oh good. We beat them. We shouldn't be playing games with a nation actively exterminating people. We shouldn't engage in a nation-to-nation sport. We scored the most goals, but Netenyahu won today.

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Found this old time-lapse from a trip to Connemara during Covid lockdown, when we were only allowed travel within our own county.

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I think part of #Zuck's inability to connect with people is that when he tries, it's clear that he considers billionairehood somehow winning at life. Buy a Meta Quest, and watch basketball courtside, like a billionaire! I take calls on my jetski, lol, the life of a billionaire! He and I are […]

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

You know, in his defence, I bet that absolutely _killed_ in rehearsal. youtube.com/shorts/kAs3UaYluEE #Zuck #Zuckerberg

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Uh uh, uh uh “a big computer did it and ran away” is now a valid defence, gotcha

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Niléane @mastodon.nileane.fr · 22/09/2026

You can tell it’s a bubble because “local AI models” keeps being presented as the use case for newer CPUs and consumer tech products, and yet at the same time it also seems like these local AI model users just aren’t in the room with us

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: social.lol/@db/117313366685749740 "The AI industrial complex does not do consent. You will use it. You cannot look away, it will be stuffed down your throat and if you say “no” they’ll cut out your tongue … Call me a radical but I’ve chosen not to kowtow to billionaires."

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eri :neofox_flag_nb: :fox_floofing: @eri.mk.moth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

this game fucking sucks what am i supposed to do

various failed commands in a linux terminal
"look up" "go north" "grab key"

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Feeling a bit listless about my usual media consumption patterns. Podcasts, games, movies, etc. That ever happen to ye?

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

'My "I'm not complicit!" T-shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt' energy off of poor #EdSheerin atm. #Macklemore

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

This is getting so tedious. www.theguardian.com/technology/2026… I am really pissed off by the uncritical anthropromorphising of cloud software. Turning engineering carelessness into investor-bait.

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I am still of the position Nvidia will be fine after the AI bubble pops. Nvidia still sells real things people want that are the best in their field. It'll be a good business after the crash too. I think it's even likely Jensen can stay CEO after the crash if he wants to - because Nvidia will […]

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Ben @ben.social.ben.ie.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Very excited to learn there's a new #Bobiverse #book out! Going to start into The Infinite Extent this week.

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aburka 🫣 @aburka.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Me: I'll just start the dishwasher and then go to bed, so it'll be done in the morning Also me 20 minutes later brushing my teeth: WHAT IS THAT NOISE WHO IS BREAKING INTO MY HOUSE

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