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I run bitfolk.com and do dog sitting (dogsitter.services), so you should expect too many photos and videos of greyhounds with a bit of tedious […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ social.bitfolk.com/@grifferz, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Hurrah. we're giving up on leap seconds! They were a bad idea and everyone was (rightly) scared of a negative pone. www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026/resolutio…

No more leap seconds. Sorry, about the title, but I couldn‘t resist. Comments

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Poppy has all the toys (there's another under the duck!) #Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Bertie - belly rubs must never stop. #Greyhounds. #AdpptDontShop

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Where are mummy and daddy going?? Bertie and Poppy, Kennington SE17 #Greyhounds #AdpptDontShop

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

There's a talk by @liw at UCL on Tuesday 10 November. It's free to attend but needs registration. I hope to be there. pretix.eu/ARC/lug-20261110-liw

The Early Days of #Linux

Tue, Nov. 10, 2026

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

[uspol] Look if wheeling out a disabled man who's been in jail since 2013 anyway and shooting him to death on livestream in order to demonstrate that being a terrorist is bad isn't enough to win me the Nobel Peace Prize this time, I really don't know what is going on in the heads of the […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

People who use tagged unique addresses when they sign up to shitty guest wifi are really discovering how many of those are run by Onelink

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Apparently if that 3.8 million tons of diesel that Trump has arranged to give Putin vast amounts of money for, if they do materialise and they do all go to the US only, would represent about 10 days of consumption.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

Social media companies: As free speech absolutists we determined that the content you reported did not breach any of our content policies. AI companies: We are going to ban people who are mean to our spicy autocomplete

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

More usefully something like: include "/etc/nftables/rules/local-*.nft" parses them all (if any) in alphabetical order.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

A useful feature of nftables: optional includes. Inside your usual ruleset if you do something like: include "/etc/nftables/rules/foo.nft" and that file doesn't exist, the rule set won't pass a check. You'll get a syntax error there. But if you use a wildcard like: include […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

From this day in 2020, the first Covid autumn. Dog sitting bookings were sparse what with no one going anywhere, so I couldn't choose to only care for sighthounds. It was an eclectic household of mostly small fluffies: 3 chihuahuas, 1 bichon frise, a […] [Original post on social.bitfolk.com]

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Also he is credited with the invention of the term "punchline"

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

I was listening to a documentary about stand up comedy. It seems the earliest known example of stand up comedy was performed by Charlie Case, a black American, in the 1880s. He was a vaudeville performer who grew tired of having to perform in blackface and switched to humorous monologues about […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Pixies - Here Comes Your Man (6 Music Live Room) www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNvMHYshktk

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

[Spoilers for Silo season 3] I think the problem is that the nanotech weapon subplot is too big. It's a bigger deal than the silos, or nuclear annihilation. To have it at all is a bit much but to have it be *Iran* developing it is really far out. I haven't read the books so please no spoilers […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

[Spoilers for Silo season 3] Silo was going so well but has let itself down a bit for me by suggesting that Iran was able to develop clouds of nanotech capable of intercepting and taking control of fighter jets. The basic idea strains credulity but they could have picked so many other enemies […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Happy Chairs Without a Throw Are Too Slippery day for all who celebrate www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnYD0eXkRUI #Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Later that day I got an email from the NHS inviting me to book a flu vaccination and a COVID one. Booked them for today. Impressed to get an appointment just 3 days later. Went there today and tolkd I can have my flu one but the criteria for free COVID vaccinations have now changed and being […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

It's strange because I recently listened to James O'Brien interview Eric Idle and normally I find O'Brien to be a good interviewer but it was pretty wooden, Idle didn't seem very animated at all and it was all just a bit meh. This one's not like that.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I reached the end of my "topical" podcast queue and actually started on the backlog, so this one of Adam Buxton interviewing Eric Idle from a year ago came up. I think any fan of Monty Python would enjoy this one, it's really good, lots of gossip, lot of stuff about George Harrison, a bit of […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

I mean I hope it goes without saying that the British were an absolute shower of bastards as well, but I now have Bret-induced PTSD and no longer know what goes without saying.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Just listening to a podcast about the war of 1812. Apparently the American president of the time entered into a bun ch of disastrous trade embargoes that crippled the economy, and was quite keen on annexing Canada, saying it would be as easy as a short march. Crazy times.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

There was me, thinking I better put that footnote to head off a tedious display of pearl clutching. But oh no, Bret had other ideas, and also provided a fascinating insight into their views on what they fear men might do in sheds. We aren't here to judge, Bret […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Things younger than sharks (450 million years): Grass (30 million years) Kids today, touching grass. We had to wait 420 million years for grass to be invented

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Did not know that Meta pervert glasses have been banned in Texas and Illinois for longer than Meta pervert glasses have existed (because those states ban gathering of biometric without consent).

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

It's Violet's 14th birthday today! Really good going for a greyhound. We didn't see her today but her humans sent some photos. Last photo is one of mine from her 13th birthday last year. #Greyhounds #AdoptDontShop

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

[ukpol] But being generous it would struggle to make up 2% of the income tax take. So maybe don't worry about what the most awful of 150 people do resulting in some tiny fraction of 2% being lost.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

[ukpol] Adn even the BBC when discussing this can't help itself but to trot out the line, "the top1% of earners in the UK pay 25% of all income tax." Nice stat. Perfectly believable. Also entirely irrelevant and and in many cases an intentional misuse of people's inability to comprehend just […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

[ukpol] Certainly hearing Hargreaves say, "UK isn't sliding, it's slid. It's never coming back," and Fred Done say, "I'm too old to leave the UK but I wouldn't wish to be born there now" does strongly influence my chances of giving money to Hargreaves Lansdown or Betfred (ha!)

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

[ukpol] These billionaires that have or have threatened to leave UK because they're scared Labour will raise taxes on them. 1. Good riddance. 2. If they ever want back in, I hope the entry fee is all the tax they didn't pay while they were gone 3. Strip of honours (e.g. CBE), lifetime […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

TIL there is a councillor in Namibia called Adolf Hitler Uunona who won election in 2004. In 2025 he changed his name to just "Adolf Uunona" and won re-election. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ompundja_Cons…

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Text message from my GP: "Dear Patient Please complete the consent and questionnaire for your seasonal flu vaccination before booking appointment. This is" (entire message, no link to anything provided)

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

There's a browser.nova.enabled toggle in about:config which makes it look right again.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Blech, Firefox has updated from 156.0.1 to 157.0 and with it comes this Nova redesign thing which seems to move the container tab colour from the right side of the tab to a thin line on top. Which looks bloody awful when you use vertical tabs, as I do. So much for "vertical tabs are now a first […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Though Hairman Mao thinks the game is 4d chess while the rest of us just see a big pile of sticky tiddlywinks.and some detached doll heads and try not to think about it too much

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

It's okay folks, no one at any of our banks knows what the hell is going on either. We're all just board pieces in Rommel McDonald's game. Martin Lewis: What's the confidence level that interest rates will be up by over 0.5% by the middle of next year? Jack Meaning, Chief UK Economist, Barclays […]

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If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

The current CEO of Identity Digital (_formerly Donuts Inc_) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet. Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Just been seen by a nurse that lives in my road.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

WOW! Just £1 a can. Why not have two!? This vending machine is Here To Help. Ealing Hospital

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

rustlang goes to so much trouble to enforce code style and then lets people use the phrase "blazing fast" in so many descriptions. Also the emoji 🚀 needs banning.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

On the left is my father-in-law in 1973 in front of his beloved red 1970 Ford Escort. Shortly after this photo was taken it was stolen by joyriders and left wrecked. It was deemed uneconomical to repair and the insurance wrote it off and paid out. It was […] [Original post on social.bitfolk.com]

An old photo of a man in his mid 20s wearing jeans and a flannel shirt leaning against the right (driver's) side bonnet of a red Ford Escort

An up to date photo of a man in his 70s wearing dark jeans and a grey shirt leaning against the right (driver's) side bonnet of a red Ford Escort. It is the same person and vehicle from the first photo.

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

sshd-session[1854871]: Failed password for invalid user <html style="height from 43.156.91.175 port 59952 ssh2

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Eye injections this morning. The nurse was very good and made it as easy as being stabbed in the eyes ever can be I think. An air bubble has been left in my left eye though. This manifests as a perfectly black sphere like some portal to another dimension, that tends to live at the bottom of my […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Spam email from "Barrister Christ". I really miss that web site that drew cartoons of what the artist imagined spam looked like. I'm picturing one of those Japanese RPG courtroom things. Barrister Christ: Your honour, I object!

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

These people are completely unhinged from the world of audio documentaries. It's like something out of W1A where they make a terrible app at huge expense and then sabotage everything on it until you agree it's good, actually

Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

e.g. Andrew Hunter Murray's Hitler Diaries Scandal for the History Podcast. 10 episodes cut to FIFTEEN MINUTES EACH. With a minute or two of ads for other BCC shows and the Sounds app itself in each one. So 12 minutes a time. Guy has sat down and made a 2 hour docu and you cut it into 15 minute […]

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

The infuriating methods of BBC Sounds. First off, for some shows they make them exclusive to the (awful) BBC Sounds app for up to 4 weeks. OK, be like that then. My podcast backlog is currently at 22 days of constant audio so all that means is I'll never use you for current affairs and anything […]

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