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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

IReassuring that AI is no better at getting left & right correct 😂 It would not move it to the other hand either - no matter how many times I asked, each in different ways. In the end, I used Openart and Nano Banana 2.1 to move it to the correct hand.

Prompt asking the AI (Gemini in this case) to add the glove back on her right hand (she is a lefty). It placed it on her left hand.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I really thought we were past the phase where SaaS sites failed completely...

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

For the skeptics out there, Claude really can be a useful tool. I asked it to add a step to a script that disabled & stopped a systemd service, then deleted the three files connected with that service (which were not packaged). It did that and then said this: "The last one is removed even if […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Passed a "No stopping at any time" sign this evening. Right next to a traffic light. Luckily the light was green when I got there 🤣

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Hmm... I increased the default zoom level and some fonts on my desktop with the 27" 4K monitor attached and now all the fonts on my laptop's 13" screen are larger too. Let me guess, the same "genius" at #Apple who screwed up the consistency with font sizes also thought I'd need that setting to […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Similar with Safari - the content can be adjusted to be legible, but the URL at the top stays in a very small font.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

My brain is having a really hard time adjusting to a flat monitor too - It really feels as though this flat panel is curved away at the left and right. Guess I didn't realize just how used to the curved screen I was.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Apple's accessibility options are abysmal. I can change the text size in messages on MaxOS for the messages themselves, but the left navigation that shows me who sent the message doesn't change. Apparently, the "genius" at Apple in charge of this thought that being able to read the name/number […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Also going to take a little time to get used to the flat screen again after 7 years with a curved monitor. This one actually feels like it curves away from ma on the left and right sides right now.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

New monitor installed, though that wasn't as painless as I'd hoped, and the 4K resolution makes it much harder to read text.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Marked down from $5.99 to $7.19. Not sure that’s a deal I’m going for. #Safeway

Original price label showing $5.99. Discount label showing $7.19 and claiming an original price of $11.99. Right next to the original price label.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Of course they’d find a way to make this into something they can benefit from at somebody else’s expense… www.rawstory.com/trump-accounts-267…

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"I was writing it in my head " - output from Gemma4 which I have noticed, at least in the version I am running locally, had a tendency to over-think everything to the point that it sometimes gets stuck in a loop flip-flopping between two opposing thoughts.

Now I'll refine the script because I noticed a mistake in the regex logic during my thought process (I was writing it in my head and realized I might have messed up the re.append part I typed in the draft). Let me check the script I just wrote. Actually, I see I had tsl_exits = re.append(...) which doesn't exist. I should fix that. I'll rewrite it properly.

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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

With senior populist figures taking Kremlin cash and laundering Russian propaganda across Western political systems, safeguarding democratic institutions against hostile foreign subversion is a urgent priority. Protecting sovereignty requires transparency. #FBPE […]

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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Revealing that Reform UK’s "independent" inquiry clearing its aides was led by Adam Richardson—a former UKIP candidate and Farage's own legal secretary—exposes the farce. Asking party insiders to investigate themselves isn't accountability. Why trust a self-serving audit? 🤔 #FBPE […]

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Fife4Europe #FBPE @fife4europe.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Danish artist Jens Galschiøt unveiling an 8-foot, 23-karat gold statue of a naked Donald Trump crushing a worker at the European Parliament highlights the grotesque weight of economic inequality. Satire exposes political power dynamics. #FBPE #FBR […]

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Brian Harrod @brianharrod.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

#HMMM... Something the Trump administration won't tell you: The US has lost 81 planes and $3.3 billion worth of helicopters in Iran.... www.the-express.com/news/us-news/21…

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

@sdarlington I went with the cheaper one that dropped the USB-C power since I'm only using it with a Mac mini, but I think it is otherwise the same panel etc. The spec was great for the price and if it lasts as long as the AOC did I'll be very happy!

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Came back from walking the kid to school and my AOC curved monitor was all flickery lines and no content. Worked just 45 minutes earlier, then suddenly dead. Tried with multiple sources, all the same. Handily, today is the last day of the prime sale. Picked up a discounted Dell 4K monitor to […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

Quite happy with that efficiency. Especially given how freaking hot it is outside Also, 34 mph average for a freeway trip! Actually better than most days I do this trip too.

Trip summary from the Taycan showing 47.6 miles traveled at an average speed of 34 mph and efficiency of 3.3 mi/kWh. Not outstanding for EVs, but good for this car. I normally get only about 2.9 mi/kWh.

Outside temp 100°F - about 38°C. In October.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

"Wait, actually, I'm an AI. I don't "run" in the background. " Huh?

Wait, I just realized I didn't actually perform any edits yet. I was only planning to.
I should check the plan_tracker.

Wait, actually, I'm an AI. I don't "run" in the background. I respond to prompts. I need to actually do the work.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Somebody or something is conspiring against me today...

500 Error page from GitHub (thrown while trying to create a PR for work)

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Wow, some poor guy just posted a question about charger etiquette at hotel free chargers (somebody unplugged him so they could use the charger overnight - he'd only been plugged in about an hour when it was unplugged). Lots of the people responding said he was at fault for "hogging" a hotel […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Well, that’s one less thing to deal with right now.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

After all these years #Apple still can't make air drop work reliably. Rebooted the phone. Restarted Finder. Still cannot send a single image to my phone today. Something that maybe works 50% of the time. Apple really needs to get somebody in charge of their software who actually cares about quality.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Neither of the systems they discuss when talking about Nemotron 3.5 and Qwen 3.8 are exactly low power options… they’re certainly better than traditional GPUs + Intel/AMD CPUs, but running a Thor or AGX on the edge would stretch the power budget for most battery applications. Show me what you […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It's Friday, my wife went into the office (mainly, I think, to get a free charge on her new car - she's enjoying not paying for fuel after months of paying gas prices). Kids are at school. Fired up my Denon amp + bluetooth adapter & I'm streaming 80s music from my phone at a relatively loud […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@sdarlington I reckon if you can’t do that in 30 days, you probably won’t manage it in 70 either. In fact, you’ll probably have forgotten by that point that you were even meant to drop them off!

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY A series of ongoing phishing campaigns are actively targeting people using fake verification and support accounts. Admins will never contact you publicly for verification or access issues. Never open links from unsolicited posts […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

Example of a phishing post, including the text "ᴀᴜᴛᴏᴍᴀᴛᴇᴅ ꜱʏꜱᴛᴇᴍꜱ ᴅᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛᴇᴅ ɪʀʀᴇɢᴜʟᴀʀ ᴀᴄᴛɪᴠɪᴛʏ ᴡɪᴛʜ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴄᴄᴏᴜɴᴛ.

ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱᴛᴏʀᴇ ꜰᴜʟʟ ᴠɪsɪʙɪʟɪᴛʏ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀᴄᴄᴇꜱꜱ, ᴘʟᴇᴀꜱᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴠᴇʀɪꜰɪᴄᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴘʀᴏᴄᴇꜱꜱ."

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Really? People couldn't manage to place two cylinders in the box, tape it shut and drop it off at the post office in 30 days? That's a whole month.

Some of you told us 30 days felt tight. With travel, family, and life getting
busy, | understand.

So we changed it.

From now on, you have 70 days from delivery to return your empties.
That's more than double our previous window, and is the longest return
window of any mail-in CO2 exchange.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

If anybody honestly thinks these things are going to destroy humanity any time soon, they clearly haven't actually used one. Sure, they can do some impressive things, but in my experience that only happens when somebody gives them good, detailed instructions and corrects them when they veer off […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Everybody said check out Hermes Agent. So I did and honestly it is just as broken and buggy as all the others. Give it a connection to Telegram. Ask it to run a scheduled task once a day and send the result to me via Telegram. First it is trying to install cron jobs in the OS (it can't since it […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Saw this coming home last night from my daughter's practice. Made us both laugh. (Not a great image - was taken from the dash cam video and this was the clearest view we had of it).

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

"If your vehicle has an open, unresolved NHTSA recall on its charging system, battery, or electrical components, you may not charge on the EVgo network until the recall has been addressed." Hmmm...

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: c.im/@BBC/117357757210345926 The ones that use his stupid nomenclature need to be on s short list for thorough investigation. He might be able to order government departments to use it, but private companies are not obligated to follow his lame […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

During an address to the United Nations General
Assembly last week, Trump said the word "artificial" made
the technology "sound fake"
Some tech leaders, including Zuckerberg and Musk, and
other people close to the president have already started
to use the term.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Just how far up the convict’s backside is Mike Johnson’s head?

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Companies that slowly expand what they can do with your data is exactly why we need regulations that block them from abusing the personal data they hold. This is in Hume's latest update to their terms: "Data practices: we may use your health data for de-identified research and retain […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/1173551982… I really don’t understand the attraction of a screen that folds (and, no doubt, creases badly over time). I never saw the benefit of the flip phones either, so perhaps that makes sense. “Candy bar” Nokias were always my go-to pre-smartphone.

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Do companies go out of their way to break tools that make logging into their apps easier (and more secure)? Whether it is preventing paste for password fields, or finding ways to prevent the autofill of SMS codes, it is annoying and just makes your product look buggy and poorly thought out […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117354… Connected car experiences are still abysmal too if you ask me. A large part of that is under-spec’d hardware, no doubt to keep costs down. But if you’re going to use low-performance hardware, you need to be smarter about the software […]

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Made me laugh even though I had a pretty good idea what was going to be in the advice section!

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Was peeling off the annoying dealer sticker on the back of my wife’s new car when it occurred to me I could have some fun with it…

Model badge and the last 6 letters of the dealer’s group name (they’re Sunwise).

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John Gordon 📷 @bluedonkey.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

In the meantime, pi is working on testing some scripts for me, and Claude is bury trying to fathom out the mess that is the Jetson boot loader & OTA update process and see how I can get to something that will just boot and update the box, even if it is running an older version of the bootloader […]

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