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ConcatenatedNonsense

@concatnonsense.bsky.social
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Tech nerd in Wales working in academic HPC research, making cool things in an accessible way, rides bikes - he/him

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Accessibility Awareness @a11yawareness.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If you have a hashtag with multiple words, write the hashtag in #PascalCase or #camelCase to help users of screen readers. That helps the screen reader to read out the words out individually, rather than trying to read them in one long word.
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Martin Lewis @martinlewis.moneysavingexpert.com · 23/07/2026
Pls spread word. Three digits can help protect you from scams: 159. If you're suspicious of a 'call from your bank', politely hang up and dial 159. It connects you to a switchboard that puts you through to your bank's real number. Watch the video for why its extra protection
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ConcatenatedNonsense @concatnonsense.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Car brain truly is a ridiculous thing, those barriers aren't flipping the cars over it's the distracted drivers driving into them which causes a collision. The barriers are protecting the vulnerable road users which those selfish people may have otherwise killed.
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ConcatenatedNonsense @concatnonsense.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Chiropractors believe some absolutely out of this world shit and they are an active danger as practicioners. Go see a physio instead.
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Sue Smith @suesmith.lol · 12/06/2026
"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially." Aye, if only any of us had been saying this from day one 🤡 www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...
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The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways
What two years of telemetry data from 22,000 developers reveals about AI's real impact on developer productivity, code quality, and business risk in 2026.
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ConcatenatedNonsense @concatnonsense.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Absolutely spot on assessment of the current state of things, well worth a quick read.
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Report URI @report-uri.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
We’ve open-sourced passkeys-php, the WebAuthn library we use at Report URI, to help the community deploy passkeys more easily and safely. Small. Auditable. MIT licensed. Built for real-world PHP apps. Our founder, @scotthelme.bsky.social, shared the details today: scotthelme.co.uk/open-sourcin...
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Open-Sourcing passkeys-php: A Security-Focused WebAuthn Library for PHP
We've open-sourced passkeys-php, the WebAuthn server library we use at Report URI to protect logins with passkeys, security keys, and platform authenticators like Touch ID, Face ID, and Windows Hello....
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Report URI @report-uri.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Great research from our founder, @scotthelme.bsky.social, on one of the hidden risks of passkeys. Passkeys reduce phishing risk, but malicious JavaScript in the browser can abuse registration and create persistent account takeovers! Client-side visibility matters. scotthelme.co.uk/xss-is-deadl...
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XSS Is Deadly for Passkeys: The Hidden Risk of Attestation None
A single XSS vulnerability can turn passkeys from a phishing-resistant login mechanism into a persistent account takeover backdoor. If malicious JavaScript can run on your page, it may be able to regi...
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tante @tante.cc · 07/05/2026
"Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship."
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Programming Still Sucks. — Writing
Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 03/05/2026
We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.
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ConcatenatedNonsense @concatnonsense.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Do yourself a favour and click through to the full resolution image, absolutely beautiful.
Captured by the Artemis II crew during their lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, this image shows the Moon fully eclipsing the Sun. From the crew’s perspective, the Moon appears large enough to completely block the Sun, creating nearly 54 minutes of totality and extending the view far beyond what is possible from Earth. The corona forms a glowing halo around the dark lunar disk, revealing details of the Sun’s outer atmosphere typically hidden by its brightness. Also visible are stars, typically too faint to see when imaging the Moon, but with the Moon in darkness stars are readily imaged. This unique vantage point provides both a striking visual and a valuable opportunity for astronauts to document and describe the corona during humanity’s return to deep space. The faint glow of the nearside of the Moon is visible in this image, having been illuminated by light reflected off the Earth.
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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 29/01/2025
PSA: 1. If you are not silly, it is vital you become silly 2. If you are silly, you must stay silly 2. If you used to be silly but have stopped, you must make all efforts to return to silliness
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Cartes du Monde @cartesdumonde.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
France 🇫🇷 Des soldats Français utilisent l'application STRAVA durant leurs footings sur le porte-avions Charles de Gaulle. Résultat ? La position du navire est clairement identifiée.
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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · 13/03/2026
We're taking beavers on tour! Ever wanted to see one of the UK's most elusive mammals up close...?
A beaver sat upright, looking on to a body of waterA beaver eating some greeneryA beaver and a younger beaver partly submerged in waterA beaver having a scratch while perched on a green riverside
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
"Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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The political effects of X’s feed algorithm - Nature
Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...
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Parker Simmons @parkersimmons.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Let Adobe know DIRECTLY how you feel about AI and subscription-based models!
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From the Adobe community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the Adobe community
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Johan Nohr @nohr.se · 01/02/2026
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
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Tom Warren @tomwarren.co.uk · 07/01/2026
Logitech forgot to renew a certificate so its macOS apps for its mice are broken. Windows users are unaffected. A fix is available for G Hub and Options+ on macOS, but it has to be manually applied 🥲 www.theverge.com/news/857377/...
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Logitech caused its mice to freak out by not renewing a certificate
That’s one heck of an oversight.
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Proton @proton.me · 31/10/2025
Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.
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Mike Keenan @mikekeenan.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I’ve just been to the world’s worst planetarium. One star.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 07/10/2025
Bonus Monster Month - Trypanohyncha Ocellus from Alien Earth
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Cassetteboy @cassetteboy.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!
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Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 22/06/2025
Once again, I must post this photo of Darwin, aka Science Officer Meow. He is here to make it better.
Not photoshopped. But you would almost think so. Perfect black cat wearing Spock long sleeve jersey and looking up with his paws on my legs. He looks like he is studying important things on the Enterprise.
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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Whatever it is, this is my favourite sport.
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I love my job as the guy who adds a fake “keep me signed in” checkbox to every website that does nothing
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Half of business owners on this Toronto street estimated that more than 25% of their customers arrived by car. In fact, it was 4%. And the % of customers who who walked or cycled? 72%. Retailers routinely overestimate the # of “car customers.” Via @carltonreid.com www.forbes.com/sites/carlto...
Toronto shopping street
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 24/03/2025
Hell of a protest photo REUTERS/Umit Bektas
A protester in Dervish dress at the Instanbul protest REUTERS/Umit Bektas
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Josephine beckbook.com Riesman @josie.zone · 04/03/2025
RIP George Lowe Your whole career was amazing, but it would've been legendary even if you'd only executed this line reading:
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Selzero @selzero.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
The Welsh told the Saxons this hill was called "pen" (meaning "hill"). The Saxons added their word for hill, "tor," and called it Torpen (hill hill). Later the Norse added their world for hill. So it became Torpen Haugr (Hill Hill Hill). Now the English call it Torpenhow Hill (Hill Hill Hill Hill)
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Ian McQue @ianmcque.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
virtue signalling
Ink drawing of a gnarly tree containing a hidden message for Mark Zuckerberg.
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ConcatenatedNonsense @concatnonsense.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
Keep an eye on this if you use LE in your infra, shouldn't be an issue but we all know how shouldn'ts go in tech
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Niki Tonsky @tonsky.me · 21/12/2024
I propose we replace semantic versioning with pride versioning
Diagram with large number: 2.7.123
First “2” is commented: Proud version. Bump when you are proud of the release
Second “7” is commented: Default version. Just normal/okay releases
Third “123” is commented: Shame version. Bump when fixing things too embarrassing to admit
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Mx. Fee @mxfee.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Do you sell #Art? #Craft? #HandmadeClothing? Anything people might wanna buy for Christmas? Drop your shop link in the replies and I'll reskeet it out! Share others' stores too 😊 Community time!! Please make sure if you're including any images to add alt text as I can't share without it.
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Izzy Fox, PhD 🍉 @izzyfox.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
PSA for newbies: Please include ALT text on your images. This is an inclusive space for blind and visually impaired people. Don't arrive late to the party and ignore a bunch of people. Also, please share this skeet, rather than liking it, to ensure the message gets delivered. Thanks!
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ConcatenatedNonsense @concatnonsense.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Looks like bskyx.app fixes video links shared in Discord but not Slack, anyone discovered a proxy service which works there?
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GitHub - Rapougnac/VixBluesky: FixBluesky: Embed Bluesky links in Discord!
FixBluesky: Embed Bluesky links in Discord! Contribute to Rapougnac/VixBluesky development by creating an account on GitHub.
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ConcatenatedNonsense @concatnonsense.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy
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ConcatenatedNonsense @concatnonsense.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
I'd love to know if there's a term for these signs which have been designed to be read horizontally but unintentionally read far funnier vertically
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ConcatenatedNonsense @concatnonsense.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
Slowly migrating here from Twitter, content to follow once I've worked out how to re-add everyone. Suggestions for follows welcome!
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