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Martin Paul Eve @mpe.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 21h

"QS had expressed concern that Romi would get an unfair advantage over other candidates" SHE HAS TO WRITE BY BLINKING. WHAT ADVANTAGE? www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c6zxj8g… This is a very typical response to disability accommodations. They are seen as giving the disabled person an […]

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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 23h

As far as we know, 1234567 still remains secure.

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 21h

You want to be an author, a great teacher, a programmer, a dancer? All your ambitions are nothing next to simply being a good lap and resting place for, me, the cat. You are the island of warmth and this is your true purpose in life. You have a lap that I might rest. Hands that you might pet me […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Glasgow city council is consulting on a "Connecting Anderson" project. If you live near here you might want to respond. I've suggested getting rid of the M8 motorway; best possible enhancement to the area. www.glasgow.gov.uk/article/15982/Ge…

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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I'm more upset than I've been in a while. Windows 11 sets the default documents folder to onedrive\documents. Anything that gets saved there gets backed up to one drive. This includes various save games, all my Reaper stuff, and various other odds and ends that I like to, you know, save. To […]

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Atle 🧇🧅 @atlefren.snabelen.no.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Bill Watterson: fortsatt like relevant!

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 08/01/2026

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

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Moof! 🏳️‍🌈 @moof.space · 15/10/2026

TIL that there is a standard for technical English, originally thought up by the airline industry in order to have rules on how to write documentation for that makes it easier for non-native English speakers to understand. It’s called ASD-STE100, where STE stands for Simplified Technical […]

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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 #GamescomAsia @hey.paris · 17/10/2026

Saw someone sharing their A-ha Take On Me style shader, and as it's something I've been working on for ages (making things look like paper for our game, Leonardo's Moon Ship), here's a WIP of mine. #godotengine #godot #gamedev #indiedev

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Luca Hammer @luca.social.luca.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head. People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too […] [Original post on social.luca.run]

Mit 21 habe ich Webse en weiteren Unternehmen habe ich Back up now beitet und mich auf Konzeption, Skalierung und technische Machbarkeit von Geschäftsmodellen fokussiert.

In den letzten Wochen habe ich mir bewusst viel Zeit genommen, mich tiefergehend mit ChatGPT Codex und Claude Code auseinanderzusetzen. Mit Codex habe ich ein Plugin für mein Smart-Home-System gebaut, um mein Energiemanagement (HEMS) an unsere Anforderungen anzupassen.

Die Software basiert ausschließlich auf Open Source: Python, PostgreSQL und Flutter für das Frontend. Das Plugin liest via Modbus TCP den Wechselrichter aus, verbindet sich mit der Wallbox, der Batterie, mit Solcast für die PV-Prognose und meinen direkt ansteuerbaren Verbrauchern.

Vierzehn Stunden Entwicklung, fünf Stunden Testing, dann eine Woche Optimierung und Bugfixing - und nun automatisiert mein individuelles HEMS alles eigenständig.

Früher wurden dafür hohe fünfstellige Beträge ausgegeben. Jetzt ist es einen Prompt entfernt. Individualentwicklung boomt und die Möglichkeiten wirken grenzenlos.

Was mich daran am meisten beschäftigt, ist nicht die Technik. Es ist die Tatsache, dass Softwareentwicklung viel dynamischer wird und einem breiteren Publikum zugänglich wird.

Natürlich bedeutet das (noch) nicht, dass sichere und performante Software einen Prompt entfernt ist. Aber man benötigt keine hohe Vorstellungskraft, um zu sehen, dass KI sehr bald bei Security- und Architekturfragen vollautomatisch leistungsfähige Systeme konzeptioniert und baut.

Die Frage ist somit nicht mehr, ob man etwas bauen kann. Die Frage ist, ob es jemand benötigt und man einen Bedarf decken kann.

Eines ist aber klar: Menschen mit viel Kreativität haben nun ein Tool an der Hand, das ihnen dabei hilft, technische Hürden schneller zu überwinden.

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Pozorvlak @pozorvlak.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I Climbed Four Unclimbed Peaks In Central Asia Despite The Existence Of Helicopters; Here's What That Taught Me About The Future Of Mathematics

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

You don’t own your atoms. You are just borrowing them from eternity.

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Simon Brooke @simon-brooke.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

"for the moment... there's considerable belief in the power and potency of #LLMs: a belief that is convenient for a lot of people but also fundamentally irrational" — I'm very slightly misquoting @iris_meredith here, but I doubt this will cause offence. #LLM #GenAI There's little that's […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Analogous to how the far right extremists love to cry freedom of speech but only mean theirs, they love to clutch their pearls if other religions claim their freedom of religion rights. 'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

"Never has so much cash flowed into a new technology as is pouring into AI, eclipsing the sums splurged on railways or the internet when those technological revolutions sucked in capital." Reuters […] [Original post on glasgow.social]

Graph showing boom and bust of previous disruptive tech cycles. The AI boom is steeper and taking longer to level off before the inevitable bust.

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

You can have a ridiculously shaped helmet in a Tour de France time trial, but it seems a padded bra is a push too far. road.cc/news/fake-bra-size-aero-gai…

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

@TimWardCam Yes, but there was nothing stopping Starmer from reversing that decision; or indeed Burnham now.

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2026

Much of the damage to university finances could have been avoided if the government had simply decided to exclude temporary student visas from migration data. Meanwhile, the head of the LSE warns against just relying on mergers in the hope of achieving efficiency savings. FT […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Markets can stay wrong longer than you can stay liquid, so don't bet against them. But if you know the market is wrong, you don't have to bet with it either. www.reuters.com/commentary/reuters-…

A chart showing booms and crashes: precious metals booming in the 1970s, crashing early 80s; Japan booming in the 80s to crash in the 90s; NASDAQ booming in the 90s before the dot.com crash in the early 2000s; and the NASDAQ/semiconductor indices booming now to even higher normalised levels - the coming crash not yet shown.

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026

The US-Iran deal - I'm struggling to see what part of this the Iranian government would have objected to before the bombing started. What was the point of the war?

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/05/2026

If he really wants an orderly transition, the correct move for Starmer is to give up his seat in parliament so that Andy Burnham can stand in a by-election. I didn't rate Burnham when he was minister for ID cards, but he was at least prepared to sit down with me over coffee after NO2ID […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/05/2026

Final results for Holyrood are in. I'm disappointed that Reform matched Labour (17) ahead of the Greens (15), but overall there is a strong pro-indy majority (73:56 = 57%:43%) and what appears to be sustainable growth for the Scottish Green Party, alongside increased tactical awareness by a […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Still provisional, needing the regional and constituency counts to be finalised, but look at all the Green list seats! And with at least 2 Green constituency votes, this would mean more Green MSPs than Reform. ballotbox.scot/#list

Provisional calculation of list seats for the Scottish Parliament, showing 16 Reform, 15 Green, 14 Labour, 6 Conservative, 5 Lib Dem, 0 SNP

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Holly Bruce in Glasgow Southside, 2nd Green MSP to win on the constituency ballot!

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Voters in Glasgow, on May 7th remember that "Independent Green Voice" is a far right, non-Green, non indy-supporting con that the Electoral Commission should have dealt with many years ago. If you want to vote green, vote Scottish Green Party (SGP). Look for the logo.

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

""Today, I own six houses, five cars and six boats. ... The Reform leader ... said he did not mean to "boast", asking Greer: "In your Scotland, do you want more people like me, or fewer people like me?" "Fewer people like you," the Green co-leader replied." […]

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/04/2026

I just saw the most amazingly corporate expression of "we did what the bosses wanted us to do, even though the research didn't support that." The actual phrase was: > The research employed a methodology that prioritized stakeholder voice over researcher interpretation. I wonder if a data […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/04/2026

We should be electrifying our economy far faster, but the link between electricity prices and gas prices could be broken very quickly if the government would commit to buying renewable energy at a reasonable index-linked fixed price, instead of buying all power at the marginal cost of the most […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2026

I have now chanced upon the latest big thread that people have been subtooting about for the last day or so. It has made my life no better than before I read it. Here's a picture of Charley cat sitting on a chair that she has recently decided she likes. She […] [Original post on glasgow.social]

White and black cat (cow-markings) sitting on a green chair (maybe looks blue in the photo). The chair is curved, which is great for cats to snuggle into. She was snuggled just before this photo was taken, but is sitting up now pondering whether to get up (she does).

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026

Scottish Green Party forecast to overtake Scottish Labour in Holyrood, to be 3rd biggest party after SNP and Reform, according to the Scottish Election Study. Not mentioned in the article, but the SNP are again predicted to get no seats from the list, due to […] [Original post on glasgow.social]

Table of vote share and seats for each party broken down by constituency, list and total counts.

SNP: Const.: 34%, 57 seats; List: 28%, 0 seats; Total: 57 seats

Reform: Const.: 18%, 1 seat; List: 19%, 21 seats; Total: 22 seats

Greens: Const.: 11%, 4 seats; List: 16%, 12 seats; Total: 16 seats

Labour: Const.: 14%, 1 seat; List: 14%, 14 seats; Total: 15 seats

Lib Dem: Const.: 10%, 7 seats; List: 10%, 3 seats; Total: 10 seats

Cons: Const.: 10%, 3 seats; List: 10%, 6 seats; Total: 9 seats

Other: Const.: 2%, 0 seats; List: 2%, 0 seats; Total: 0 seats

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Worst ever result in a by-election for the Tories (1.9%), according to John Curtice; so that's a nice bonus.

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/02/2026

Massive win for the Green party in the Gorton and Denton by-election; not even close in the end: Hannah Spencer (Green Party): 14,980 Matt Goodwin (Reform UK): 10,578 Angeliki Stogia (Labour Party): 9,364 Hopefully the UK government will now realise it needs to tack hard to the left. Chasing […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

Is it even remotely plausible that Trump would take Greenland and then not move on immediately to Iceland? "Iceland: The North Atlantic island is a NATO member but has no military, only a coastguard service." "It hosts U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime-patrol aircraft in a rotational deployment […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

I suspect that this could be the start of a (slow) turning point for government enthusiasm for AI. Embarrassment of a Chief Constable before a Commons Select Committee is going to lead to new questions about integrity of data in police reports in his force, and probably beyond […]

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

Pro-indy SNP supporters should vote for Scottish Greens on the list vote in May if they don't want to waste their 2nd vote and want to help keep Reform down: "The [SNP]’s likely success in [constituency contests] would mean that, despite not being awarded a single list seat, the nationalists […]

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Joseph Rowntree Foundation @jrf-uk.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025

We need this in Edinburgh!

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Geraint @drgeraint.glasgow.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/12/2025

"Tony Blair is an undeclared lobbyist. Ellison is his client. And TBI is an influencing machine whose tentacles spread across both the political and media establishments: if you read any article about digital ID that doesn’t include the Blair/Ellison connection, ask yourself why." […]

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