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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 3h

Misty morning in liminal space (Orchard being replanted with new trellis system)

A cold, foggy, empty farm field with dozens of tall, grey concrete posts arranged in straight, parallel rows stretching into thick grey-white mist, thin horizontal wires strung between them forming an empty trellis for vines, the ground bare dark brown mud with small green weeds, the sky and distant background completely lost in fog, no people or plants, quiet, still, and lonely like an early winter morning.

Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 7h

There aren't many bits of music that make the hair stand up on the back of my head (Fanfare for the Common Man is one if them). This was an unexpected entry to the list… "Cornwall my home" by Fisherman's Friends www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNCcSJiZR1I #music #moving #cornwall […]

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I loathe the ad auction system and all the profiling that underpins it at the best of times, but then knowingly delivering malware to specific targets is another level. At least it's another reason to recommend adblockers […]

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

And then this gets published a few days after I send in a written complaint (freepost, thankfully, assuming that means it doesn't get chucked in the floor somewhere) www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5ynp0… #RoyalMail

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@kim I did wonder that too, but they provide no address to which I can send such a thing. And I'd probably have to pay for the privilege of complaining to them! Update is that we've had a stack of post come through today. Now to work through it...

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

We've had no post for three week, despite no disruption being noted on their service page for our area. (www.royalmail.com/service-update) It seems that the only way to submit a complaint about the #RoyalMail is to do it by phone. However that phone line says its wait time is anything […]

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Tim J @timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Bring back þe letter þ. How can you þrow out þe only rune in your alphabet? Also bring back ð. But ðis time, except in very common words like þe which look nice þe oðer way round, don't treat ðem as interchangeable. Use ð for þe voiced one and þ for þe unvoiced one, like ðey do in Icelandic […]

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Sunset over Antwerp (on the train from London to Amsterdam yesterday) #sunset #antwerp #eurostar #crossborderrail

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

let this be your only doom-scroll this week

screenshot of the doom video game on imposed on an antiqued paper-scroll.

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

[re: Born in the 80s. Feeling old.] @moof #nsfw + time, I blame general relativity

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

@WiteWulf Enjoy the run-up and do yell if you want a natter 😊

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

This week we took child1 to university. I was not prepared for the emotional turmoil this would provoke. It's not dissimilar to grief. Sharing here because if it can hit me randomly in the middle of the day, it might hit you or someone you know/work with. Check in with your friends/colleagues […]

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Half way up Beinn na Cro, in the Red Cuillins on the Isle of Skye looking south over Loch Slapin. In the distance is the Sleat Peninsula and, farther away, is the Isles of Rùm and Eigg. #scotland #highlands #skye #cuillins #torrin #strathaird #isleofskye

A wide aerial view of a sea inlet winding through green hills and low mountains under a dramatic cloudy sky. The water curves into the distance, with patches of shoreline, wetlands, and a small road tracing the landscape.

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

RE: social.jpoesen.com/@jpoesen/1172292… I just don't understand how anyone in a position of power can conclude this is an ethical thing to do. Whether or not it's legal (and it arguably isn't), it's not ethical. #lg #privacy #ethics

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John Altringham @johnaltringham.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Rubha Hunish, the northern tip of Skye. Synthetic walnut ink - behaves like the real thing but light stable and acid-free. The ink is still wet but I've been kicked back into the world. 75 x 20 cm. #Scotland #Skye #art #landscape #sketching

75cm wide ink sketch in walnut ink (warm brown) of a long coastal cliff from a narrow peninsula beneath it. The cliff of columnar basalt recedes to the distant horizon on both sides of the sketch.

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2026

I've been looking for a set of "smart scales" that can push data into my phone's local Health system (eg Apple Health or Google Health) without needing a cloud account … ie I don't want the data to leave my device. I don't mind the data traversing a third-party app so long as it stays local […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

The latest party political broadcast from Count Binface is an absolute banger. youtu.be/ujHphnnDaGg?

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Coleen Walter @coleenwalter.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

This tortoise navigated rocks and other obstacles meant to keep him out of the Montezuma quail’s food. Nevertheless nothing will stand in the way of this tortoise getting snacks. Some of us may sympathize with the quail because we may have had roommates or […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Panel 1
Caption: With the windows open in the summer heat, a breeze blows through the punctuation factory, scattering newly-minted marks across the countryside.

Image: a small factory with windows open and punctuation marks coming out

Panel 2
Caption: Confused locals find their conversations peppered with unexpected pauses and unwanted emphasis.

Image: Two people talking as punctuation marks float around them One says

This, is “very odd”

The other replies

…(Indeed)*

Panel 3
Caption: Naturalists note that the effect is not limited to human communication.

Image: A duck on a pond surrounded by punctuation marks says
Qu’ack?

Panel 4
Caption: Fortunately, a cloud of exclamation points drift into a district council meeting which proceeds with unusual efficiency

Image: Councillors talk in a cloud of exclamation points
Something must be done!! !
Close the windows! !!
Install air conditioning! !!
Immediately!!! !

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

Today's bugbear(s): 1. Specifications which define a thing which can have more than one value but don't define how the ordering of that value should be interpreted 2. Software that doesn't understand "short form" IPv4 CIDR addresses (eg. `172.16/12`)

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Maartje @maartje.dev · 20/07/2026

I looove failed digitalisation enshittification. If a hotel has staff pushing me to the self check in… then fails recognising I have a company contract, the employee working out a reservation number to then end on it recognising it was pre-paid by company to just result in a (btw way faster) […]

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

In one of the #TNC26 talks (part of the Rebooting the Old Reliables session) one of the speakers mentioned an article about "Rewilding the internet". It's been around for a few years but is a fascinating and inspiring read… www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-… #rewilding […]

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUComm… Encouraging (and providing accessibly ways for) students to experience other cultures and ways of teaching & learning is a fantastic tool for broadening horizons and improving understanding & tolerance. It was a travesty […]

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

Latest #firefox #ESR (v149.0) appears to have stopped reporting the HTTP error code when something goes wrong… in this case for a 403. It used to include the HTTP code and some useful words. In this error, it looks like the connection just didn't work […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Screenshot of Firefox saying:

Looks like there's a problem with this site
Firefox can't connect to the server at ip.mafoo.org.uk
What can you do about it?
The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

Below is the Inspector showing the request returned a 403

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/03/2026

My search has, thus far, been fruitless so I am asking here as a last ditch attempt … I am looking for a self-hostable web based application to be an inventory of the (real, rather than e-) #books in the house. It should be able to accept a list of #ISBNs as input for importing items and look […]

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/03/2026

@quixoticgeek Thinking "mainline" services (rather than those within, say, airports), in the UK at least it's probably something like this… en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Rail_…

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British Rail Class 139 - Wikipedia

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/03/2026

This deserves a slow-clap for Apple… > An update to macOS 26.3 is overdue. You can install it now or it will be installed automatically Yesterday, 20:06 #fail #macos #apple #slowclap

A screenshot from macOS reading: An update to macOS 26.3 is overdue. You can install it now or it will be installed automatically Yesterday, 20:06.

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

That's great. But it's such a bore and happens pretty much everywhere. I was forgivable at the start but the shell shouldn't allow such things now it's "mature".

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/01/2026

If anyone's following along, now streetmap.co.uk has disappeared, a very similar (arguably easier to use) site with #ordnancesurvey #maps (1:25k and 1:50k and larger scales) is: www.sysmaps.co.uk/sysmaps_os.html #uk

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Jim Killock @jim.killock.org.uk · 05/01/2026

What we should be doing - starting with the CyberSecurity Bill debate tomorrow - is defining how we get out of this dependence and extreme risk from US Big tech. The answers exist.

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Matthew Slowe @fooflington.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2025

I am getting increasingly irritated by #Booking_dot_com weaselling their way into search tools and, by default, spinning up a second tab with "hotels in the place you're going". It's underhand and they just need to stop. Like this pre-enabled "Explore […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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