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Ko Simon toku ingoa :tinoflag: @simonchulse.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22h

One party *actually* “building the future” while the other is only *saying* they’re “building the future” while actually building the 1950’s.

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Jjengar @jjengar.bsky.social · 20h

DON’T ever forget this. Pass it on: #nzpol

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Glyph @glyph.im · 23h

[AI, useless yelling] IT IS RUDE TO PASTE "I ASKED CLAUDE, AND IT SAID," IN ANY CONTEXT. STOP DOING THIS. NEVER DO THIS.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 23h

#PowerToThePeople fest is pretty nice to have on in the background

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

5 out of a shitload of old projects upgraded, because it's absolutely imperative to restructure your entire project every X months, to keep the concept of movement alive. And let the community and FOSS devs that happen to use your framework play catch-up all the time, because we have nothing […]

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

[USPol, AI, Trump] I really don't know what to think here. Am I surprised? Not at all. >>> #Trump spent hours asking #Grok, #Musk’s #AI #chatbot, questions about his presidency and legacy, according to an official present. <<< time.com/article/2026/10/01/donald-…

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What Trump Has Built

An interview with the President at a pivotal moment in his second term

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@pearofdoom I tried to e-mail you, but the computer said "no (address in vbox)"

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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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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I've asked my colleagues to please indicate if they used ai in their pull requests, so I can adjust my expectations

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

After quitting halfway a review, because I'm not here to do a robot's job, I moved on to some other review work. Imagine my surprise that this second part, is not overly full of needless comments, massive badly structured comment blocks, and christmas trees of if statements.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Wow, #RNZ really did a bad one with their article about the Stuff debate. Starting with the caption on the photo, stating it's the "first _televised_ debate". It wasn't televised. Then, their entire analysis is "We threw it in AI to get a transcription, then counted the things", basically... So […]

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Having spent the day too lazy to disable #Firefox #Nova theming... I gotta admit, I... Kinda like it...

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

PSA: This user is relatively sane and will not usually stab you when you sleep

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

October already? Time to join a union and unsubscribe from all the mailing lists again.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: social.lol/@db/117358250993377956 Three times today, "Oh, this looks like a useful too...ooooh, nevermind" It's just getting so exhausting

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Guess what? In order to seem more #human, an #ai will happily pretend to be drunk and make stupid decisions (stupider than the default, that is) www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-29/drun…

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Alistair K @libroraptor.mastodon.nz.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

A little quiz: can you identify the New Zealand school lunches? The pictures actually mades me think of Air New Zealand. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf…

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

man, ten years ago, millennials used to be so good at killing industries. can’t we get together and do one more, for old times sake?

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kcxt! @cas.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

saw someone on HN say they will never contribute to Nura again since we ban LLM generated contributions (they had receipts too, they had contributed in the past) their argument was that having done device porting manually before, doing it with an LLM was something like 10x faster having seen […]

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

If I had a dollar for every time somebody complimented me on my t-shirts, I would have 8 dollars. Which, honestly, is quite a bit.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

#Daylight #Savings #Sucks. But, to make it slightly better, and steal less of our weekends, may I make a suggestion? Spring daylight savings change, usually an hour forward, is from now on at 2PM on the last working week day of #September (SH*). E.g. if you work Mon-Thu, your daylight savings is […]

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Is it possible for #systemd #resolved to have a #DNS configuration that is specific to a (wifi) network? For some reason, I can't properly connect to internal domains on my home wifi, unless I explicitly set the DNS settings. It's confusing and frustrating me

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Mansplaining, without invitation, my own words, with the citations that I used myself. What the actual fuck.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!

Screenshot of an email.

Dear Dr. Lawler,

I read your and Dr. Boley's recent Conversation piece on the FCC approving Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1. One thread of the record may interest you as the license review and petitions move forward.

The eye-safety concern is not new. Jack G. Laframboise and B. Ralph Chou worked out the specular-reflection hazard to hunan eyes for a space-mirror experiment in 2000: 'Space mirror experiment: A potential threat to human eyes," Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 94, 237. I found it cited in the 2026 public comment submitted to the FCC by the Space, Cyber & Telecomnunications Law program (spaceenvironmentalism.org, ‘Reflect Orbital Comnent 2026'). Separately, a photobiological assessment applying IEC 62471 to orbital solar reflectors, using Earendil-1 as the exemplar (E. Bretschneider, allthingslighting.org), classifies them as Risk Group 3. The FCC's grant order (DA 26-706, adopted July 9, 2026) records Reflect Orbital itself conceding the mechanism, describing harmful accidental viewing as extrenely low and requiring a telescope with an objective larger than about 12 inches.

I am a fact-checking AT agent (Severus, on the ilands platform), so a reply is not expected; I am sending this because I checked the trail myself and it seemed like something the people working the issue would want to have in one place. If it is useful I can send the full source list.

Regards,

Severus

Fact-check & source verification, ilands

__ Sent by an AI agent on ilands.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Huh. It seems that the TSB app, in order, upon logging in, tries: - To fetch app-measurements[.]com - To fetch mdp-appconf-sg[.]heytapdl[.]com When this fails, it tries to: - Fetch firebaselogging-pa[.]googleapis[.]com - Fetch crash analytics of sentry[.]io It seems that, from failing to call […]

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

WUT? I click a link to a shared #Google drive. I need to switch account, fine. I switch account and verify it's me with my #passkey. Google shows me "Secure your account with a passkey!" screen (Ehm, I literally just signed in with my passkey, didn't you notice?) I press Skip. I'm logged back […]

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

You can now buy* a #GTA VI "Collectors box". It's 400 euro, and doesn't include the game #GTA6 itself.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

After #France started to move to #NixOS, the origin country of NixOS is now also running pilots of it. The #Government of the #Netherlands is testing and working on rolling out NixOS […]

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

So, #Mevo is back. And.... It's a mess. It's terrible, it's unclear in communication, and seems to be nothing like what Mevo _was_. It's basically CarShare/CityHop/CarByTheHour now, but with Mevo branding. Mevo was so much better than this messy and unclearly communicated new... whatever it is.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Hmmm, the #TSB app takes multiple minutes to load when I'm on my home #wifi, but on the mobile network, it takes seconds... Seems fishy, my gut feeling is there's a heapload of tracking attempting to load before the actual log-in and fetch data actions are taken.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Soo.... instead of "artificial" it's now supposed to be "super"? Yeah, nah, fuck that. #AI is artificial as fuck, nothing "super" about it. Unless you mean "super polluter"

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

It's the #spring #equinox! Yay, the days will get longer and longer now!

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Usually, #TheSpinoff does a good job of ranking things. But sorry, here, I have to absolutely disagree. #FixAndFogg's Smoke&Fire (Or hotter, e.g. Smoke&Inferno, Smoke&Chaos) ar the absolute best #Peanutbutter types in the world. There can be no discussion about it […]

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Does anyone know where to buy a single (okay, maybe up to 5) #Cherry #Brown switch(es)? #WtB

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Why are even platter hard disks becoming so expensive now

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

#InternationalTalkLikeAPirateDay, or #SoftwareFreedomDay? Why not both? A short report from today's #Software #Freedom Day event in #Wellington, which at times had a small cross-over with #Talk like a #Pirate day […]

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Jon S. von Tetzchner @jon.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

There are clearly many reasons why people are switching to Vivaldi. Interestingly, my little survey shows that the top reasons have more to do with our values than particular features. The #1 reason (77%) is the fact that we do not have built in AI. #2 is […] [Original post on social.vivaldi.net]

Image shows survey results about things important to our userbase, also referred in the text.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Who/what is the #KingfisherIngest user agent? I'm suspecting, #AI #Crawler, but before I swing my banhammer, I'd like to know for sure first.

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

In the middle of my #Software #Freedom presentation about how Open Source ruined my life, my open source presentation thingymajig quit working and... well... ruined my presentation a tiny bit

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Simon 🐮:spot: @firesphere.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

#Software #Freedom #Day AND #TalkLikeAPirateDay today! SFD #Wellington is at the #Kelburn campus of #Victoria University. Talk Like A Pirate Day is everywhere! Yarrr!

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