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Aidan Whyte

@bitcoaxer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy
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Sisyphus, but for Networks/Systems. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ mastodon.ie/@bitcoaxer, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026
[aipol] i've been mulling over the claim that "genAI is just like {compilers, LSPs, ...} because it improves productivity also! they're just abstractions of 2025!" and, sure, this is true at least in the facile and mostly useless "line of count" generated sense. but that's also irrelevant. I'm […]
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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026
Ye fucking gods, just like how techbros keep reinventing the bus, it seems in solar circles, the idea of putting solar panels in transport surfaces is an idea that a) should never had be got off the fag packet sketch, b) keeps coming back. We had the trial of a 100m long 18KW install in […]
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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/06/2026
The CRASH Clock paper is now peer-reviewed! So to celebrate, my co-authors and I wrote an explainer article (because how better to celebrate one article than by writing another... oh academia...) It's now published in The Conversation Canada […]
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juliette @juliette.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 17/06/2026
One of the best things on the Internet is NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Running every day since 1995. No bells, no whistles, just a one stunning and/or interesting picture every day with a caption. Nothing ever breaks, the code is feather-weight light. It just works […]
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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026
A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This is an important step to bring "AI" slop in line with all other products on the market: "AI" products are basically the only ones where a provider can just deliver unchecked garbage and put […]
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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026
The Russian botnet has now created over 2,500 inauthentic accounts on 180 Mastodon servers. These accounts spam propaganda, follow each other to increase federation, connect to Bluesky via the bridge to spread their content there, and create unlimited invite links for their bots to follow […]
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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/05/2026
I’ve been in the security business since 1999 and the past month has been like nothing I’ve seen before in terms of 0day vulnerabilities. We were told this wouldn’t happen until mythos was made public 🙃
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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/05/2026
🆕 blog! “GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source” Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general […]
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SellaTheChemist @sellathechemist.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026
I'm only just catching up with Ember's 2026 Electricity report and it is just staggering. 75% of new elec generation capacity came from solar last year, typically with battery back up. And both China and India are just flat in terms of emissions because the roll out of renewables is so fast […]
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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 13/04/2026
Estonia is correct. The responsibility to keep children safe falls on adults and platform operators, not on the kids. If social media isn't safe for children, it's not safe for adults either, because the safety this is about isn't about the content, but of what the platforms do with our data […]
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Alberto Cottica @alberto-cottica.mastodon.green.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026
If you are a European Union citizen, there is a concrete way you can support a peaceful resolution in Iran and Gaza: you can demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights. #peace #palestine #iran THREAD 1/
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Street Art Utopia @streetartutopia.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 30/03/2026
Sideshow Bob by Marquitos Corvalán. <3 When Nature Become Art (17 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/03/30/natu…
Street art mural by Marquitos Corvalán depicting Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons painted on a white brick wall, with thick green hanging plants above cleverly forming his wild, spiky hair. The character stands with a smug expression, wearing a green shirt and blue pants, while the natural foliage blends seamlessly into the artwork, creating a playful illusion where nature becomes part of the design.
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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026
This is a hilarious commentary on the US/Israeli war with Iran: "God is a comedian": no01.substack.com/p/march-19-21-god…
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March, 19-21: God is a comedian
A stiff drink is recommended
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Cromley @voiceofduum.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/03/2026
One of the things I like about The Onion, to which I pay cash money for the print version, is the "ads"
Fake ad for Aramco (national oil company of Saudi Arabia) in the current Onion. A joyous mom holds her smiling son up in a field of wildflowers on a sunny day. Ad text:
The sun will explode eventually.
Where will your precious solar power be then?
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matdevdug @matdevdug.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 06/03/2026
I wrote about the #fediverse matduggan.com/boy-i-was-wrong-about…
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It's JSON all the way down
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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was looking at the data that comes out of these tests and now I'm 100% positive that the heuristic is […]
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Aidan Whyte @bitcoaxer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026
This is just great :) "NASA repurposes Mars Helicopter’s ancient Snapdragon SoC to help Perseverance rover navigate .. Upgrade allows robot to travel ‘potentially unlimited distances’ without phoning home for help" […]
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 09/02/2026
This cartoon of his lives rent free in my brain.
A Kudelka cartoon about how no one listens to the IPCC.
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Aidan Whyte @bitcoaxer.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
A timely reminder when peace negotiations are under way: The NATO Expansion Myth waronomics.substack.com/p/the-nato-… "This matters because wrong narratives about how we got here lead to wrong prescriptions for what to do next. .. If you understand that Russia invaded a […]
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OpenStreetMap Ops Team @operations.openstreetmap.org · 28/01/2026
To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping. If you need OSM data, please don't scrape the website - use the official downloads at […]
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