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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I've been wondering, what if we think about LLMs as a solution rather than a problem? like, there are problems with LLMs, but consumers are paying for them because they genuinely solve problems. Maybe it's better to focus on the problems they're solving? The kinds of problems I'm thinking about […]

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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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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

new hat, who dis? the next iteration of my new hat by @kake mostly the final form but not the final fabric. @kake was testing out the stiffness of the brim. #sewing

bob leaning forward in a pinkish cricket hat.

bob looking to the side wearing a pink cricket hat

face on selfie of bob warring a pink cricket hat.

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Eleanor Saitta @dymaxion.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Here's the second part of my essay on how to actually get security work done at your company when you've decided to start a security program: www.structures.systems/blog/how-to-… Please give it a repost so the folks who need […]

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

videos from @DevOpsDaysLondon 2026 are slowly leaking out as our speakers approve them. like share and subscribe at youtube.com/@devopsdayslondon #DevOps #DevOpsDays #DevOpsDaysLondon

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

that @kake is currently iterating on a new cricket #hat for me in their continuing quest for us to mostly wear handmade clothes other than socks. #sewing the original pattern is the bucket hat one. the cricket hat involved kake having to do trigonometry

hat iteration number 2 on top of bob's head. it has stiff brim. a cricket hat.

hat iteration number 1 on top of bob's head. it has a floppy brim. a bucket hat.

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Julia Evans @b0rk.social.jvns.ca.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Are you interested in learning how to use Git for the first time? (or almost the first time) we're looking for Git beginners to give us feedback on a Git tutorial! The tutorial will be open source when it's released, so you'll be helping many future beginners! Sign up here […]

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Since @pikesley is feeling lonely on the #DevOpsDaysLondon hashtag i suppose i should say something as well. I quite liked our talks this morning. It mostly seems that people want to talk about #AI in the open spaces. For those who aren't here the videos should be up within the week. Im […]

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

in ways to ensure that you get up at 07:00 to get to @DevOpsDaysLondon on time I'm not sure I recommend having to deal with an alert at 06:15.

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"for months on end now, most of our teams have just been triaging bugs and coordinating releases. It has truly taken all the fun out of the job"

unbound vulnerabilities year to year showing 2026 take off like a rocket

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

We now have an arsebees tea towel. that @kake did the embroidery. #ArseBees

a geenish microfibre tea towel with arsebees embroidered on it.

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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

"1Password's CEO issued a blanket assurance to staff saying that the company doesn't "endorse hateful, dehumanizing, or exclusionary views, including those shared publicly by DHH.”" You don't endorse it, you just fund it. Gotcha.

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

RE: mastodon.me.uk/@bob/117232571794515… given not everyone was up as late as me. let's boost the thing which delayed my bedtime by 20 minutes. (I was aiming to go to bed early for me. I consider 02:00 to be an okay time to go to bed. )

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

the joy of having tracks at the end of your garden is that you get to watch some late night #rail grinding youtu.be/M1YJ1s45BJc

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

gotta a love a typo on your banks website. "but-to-let" www.barclays.co.uk/mortgages/buy-to… and yes i would be first up against the wall come the great revolution.

a screenshot of a menu bar. one of the items says but-to-let rates

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

made a thing to display some of our Croydon art. it keeps on falling off the wall other wise. I also glued another 2 bits of the table im building after having worked out how to do it this morning. (I'm faking half laps) #WoodWorking flic.kr/p/2szs8nw

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 05/09/2026

RE: mastodon.me.uk/@krans/1172176508213… This is true. The people with the spare time were the well-off white men. Myself included, there.

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 05/09/2026

Happy International #Arsebees Day to all who celebrate! Mainly @pikesley, to be fair.

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

today's sandwich for lunch included some of our home grown tomatoes flic.kr/p/2sz5KfY

4 halves of cherry tomatoes on some cheese.

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Looks like I'll be at #DevOpsDaysLDN on the 17th. Any of you clowns likely to be there?

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

today I have also been to raid the middle of Lidl and filled up the new bag. the most exciting thing I got was a set of digital calipers. things I also bought were a tarpaulin, a set of bungee cords, some ratchet straps, a pair of herb snips, a tap and die set […] [Original post on mastodon.me.uk]

a set of digital calipers in a green box

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

RE: mastodon.me.uk/@bob/117184130439454… out and about with the new bag today. currently having a cheeky pint of hsb at the royal standard after having seen the tentacles at the fairfield halls. #Croydon

the purple bag on a wooden table with a pint hsb and pint of tap water next to it.

Fairfield halls with green and yellow tentacles

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

my lunch was an overcooled dosa filled with mutton, gobi 65 and some mutton rolls sunny.garden/@kake/1171906208654075…

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

that @kake has made me a new bag from leftover and recycled shirt fabric. see sunny.garden/@kake/1171560760606774… for more details and needle issues flic.kr/p/2sy6vqT #sewing

side on view of bob with a new bag over his shoulder. the bag is mostly purple.

a slighty less side on view of bob with a mostly purple bag over his shoulder.

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

TIL what happens when you have 2 postgres docker containers talking to the same underlying file system. not good things basically. thankfully i was doing a restore from backup anyway. thanks to github.com/truenas/apps/issues/4648 so was good i caught the corruption early :)

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Immich database upgrade fails 15->18 · Issue #4648 · truenas/apps

My last Immich upgrade failed, because the postgres 15 binaries could not be found in the pgvecto_upgrade container. Postgres 15 was recently removed here: https://github.com/truenas/containers/blo...

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

While @kake was having Idli sunny.garden/@kake/1171506466963210… I was mostly All the Carbs! Bread Pakoda - a potato sandwich is then deep fried in batter Samosa Pav - a potato filled pastry in a bread roll Masala Fries - chips with mayo and seasoning. flic.kr/p/2sx2uaU

A plate with a congeled pile of masala fries in the shape of the of container they came in.
A punjabi samosa in a bread roll aka a Pav.
One half of a potato sandwich which is deep fried and still whole. the other half has been split in half to show the potato and green chutney filling along with the bread..
there is a also a fork.

the 'x all the y' meme saying EAT! ALL THE CARBS!

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@anon_opin/11710576… obviously someone hasn't worke at a place which enables the DLP features of office 365

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Paris has moved continents according the AWS Global View of regions. aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/…

A world map where an AWS region is highlighted. The pop up says that this point is Paris aka eu-west-3. The point is actually in Columbia, South America.

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

the thing about the Clacton by-election is that any result is hilarious.

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

"Young people today want to be paid more for less work" Doesn't everybody? Like, who wants to work *more*? Your head is full of capitalist brainworms

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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

i love seeing creative qr code designs, so i made this guide explaining what tricks you can (and can't!) do with qr codes while still keeping them very much readable have fun and make cool stuff!!

(ADVANCED) Guide to (not) fucking up qr codes
...while still making them look cool asf!
by Lyra Rebane

(1) Just have the QR code as-is, works the best!

(2) But leave some white padding, otherwise some scanners can't scan the code!

(3) Recolor the code using a light and dark color!

(4) But don't invert the colors, some scanners can't handle this.

Everything tested with: GrapheneOS, Samsung, iOS, Binary Eye

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(1) Depending on the error correction you can cover up to 30% of the data in the QR code. This will make the QR harder to scan, but it should still work on all scanners.

(2) But this only applies to the data and ec (green). You can also cover one of the format info parts (yellow)

(3) Counter-intuitively, it also only applies to entire codewords (bytes) at once. Therefore you should make sure to never mess up over 30% of the codewords, even by a single pixel!

(4) For example, I added a sneaky one pixel thick worm onto this QR code, which makes it unscannable!

(5) But this QR code I added that chonky snake with a pride scarf onto remains perfectly readable!

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(1) To scan QR codes, scanners will first find the three locators (blue) and then use the zebras (red) to create a grid over the code.

(2) This means that you can stretch, skew, or rotate your codes because the grid still stays intact!
Don't go too overboard with this, as some scanners can't handle extreme transformations.
Pretty much just make sure that straight lines can still be drawn!

(3) However, transformations that don't retain the grid - such as bends - can make the QR code unreadable. Keep this in mind when putting your QR codes on curved real world objects, such as posts and pipes.

(4) If you need to draw curved lines for a grid, the code cannot be scanned.

Note: the GrapheneOS stock Camera app might struggle with certain skews/rotations

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(1) QR code scanners use the grid to pinpoint the center parts of pixels, which means that the rest of the pixel does not matter!

(2) This means that you can shape your pixels however you want, provided that the middle stays unchanged.

(3) Or you can fill the rest of the QR code with a different image or even pure noise!
Note that a QR code like this could break after resizing or image compression, so use with caution!

(4) As with the other tricks, this reduces scannability, so make sure to test it with multiple devices, especially if you’re combining all of the tricks into one ultra QR code!

(5) This example still scans, but may not work properly or reliably everywhere!

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

RE: mastodon.me.uk/@bob/117077575363438… for some context. i was supposed to be off this week but since im on course of antibiotics for an infected wound and cellulitis i didn't fell like I would be able to have fun so cancelled my holiday. (and to be honest the original plan for this […]

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

currently trying to resist going full Dante with my colleagues. "I'm not even supposed to be here today."

black white image of Dante in the store from clerks with text in a meme format which says. "I'm not even supposed to be here today."

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

"so to make things more secure we have in fact made them less secure." me just now

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

TIL that you can use `gf` in vim and its variants to open the file path your cursor is currently over in a file. This is useful for me because my `~/.ssh/config` is a bunch of includes github.com/rjw1/dotfiles/blob/main/…

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@rjw1's dotfiles. Contribute to rjw1/dotfiles development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

One of the twitter accounts I miss was called "RateMyBuffers" where basically people sent them a picture of buffers, and the account owner would rate them. So in the absence of a single account, we'll have to crowd source the rating. How do you Rate My Buffers?

A set of buffers in a Spanish station comprising big hydraulic cylinders with silver rams and black bodies. In the background a pair of Renfe EMUs sit quietly. A member of railway staff in hivis is walking by.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

He tore a hundred credit note in half and handed me one piece. “You can have the other half if you’re still waiting when I get back”. “That’s a crime, you know” “So arrest me” “I cant. But she can.” “You’re under arrest for…” Another van pulled up “STOP. This is our jurisdiction” The […]

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

as the kids say "six seven"

a raffle ticket with the number 67 on it.

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 08/08/2026

Excited to announce that @fedipub (formerly known as Federails), the Rails engine for #ActivityPub that powers (amongst other things) @manyfold, has been awarded a grant in the latest round from @NGIZero. I’ll be building community, docs, rounding out features, and ideally making it usable in […]

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bob @bob.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

given who one of our prospective sponsors for @DevOpsDaysLondon is. I'm very tempted to give @Floppy and @pikesley free tickets and insist they suggest an open space about the incident.

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Larvitz :fedora: @larvitz.burningboard.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Rice is not anonymous white ballast for transporting sauce. Jasmine, basmati, brown, parboiled, Arborio, Carnaroli. They all have different jobs. And yes, the way you cook them matters. A short argument against the German Kochbeutel, plus my rice-cooker method for fluffy, chopstick-friendly […]

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