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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 15/10/2026

You're remembering right, YouGov seem to be misrepresenting this. www.gov.uk/government/p...: "On the basis of evidence available to us we cannot conclude that overdiagnosis is occurring at scale, particularly given the gaps in population prevalence data and data reporting."

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Independent review into mental health conditions, ADHD and autism: executive summary

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 15/10/2026

No worries, not taken that way. And I know and agree, I don't have any issue with Mark, my apologies if the lack of tone suggested otherwise

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 15/10/2026

"I don't think people should be forced to fund the BBC either. Fuck the BBC. It's rancid." really wasn't remotely defending the BBC. Hating the BBC is the one thing everyone in here seems to agree on, Reform, sloane, Quark Bee, you (IIRC), me.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 03/10/2026

Literally one of the first generative AI applications generally available to the public was DeepNude in 2019, a few years before ChatGPT would be created. Hard to not see it as a main use case of GenAI with that history.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 14/09/2026

You're interpreting this far more positively than I am: I'm reading bsky.app/profile/vikk... as forcing barbershops to close being the primary objective, not an indirect consequence. But I do know I'm pretty negative in general; hopefully your interpretation will turn out to be right in the end.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 14/09/2026

Actually probably agreed on that part, but the motivation behind the bill doesn't seem to be to ensure that barbers are qualified: if the MP is saying it's because there are too many barbershops, we have to assume the motivation is to force barbershops to close, don't we? Or is that too pessimistic?

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Looking over my contract for a skincare company: “This says emollients and I think you meant emoluments.” Them: “that’s no mistake, if you don’t like it here’s your E45”

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 11/09/2026

That sadly has been the case with their previous AI stuff as well, the ability to opt out only appeared when they enabled the AI stuff.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 11/09/2026

More seriously, the picture in the first post shows a "Turn Off" link at the bottom?

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 09/09/2026

This is correct (on Linux, at least) and strace will confirm it: create an empty file, chmod +x it, strace ./empty fails execve(), and strace -f -e execve sh -c ./empty shows execve() first failing, and then re-execve() successfully through /bin/sh.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 08/09/2026

No need to say what you expect when we can check what actually happens: www.gmp.police.uk/news/greater... (sentenced to four and a half years) and www.lbc.co.uk/article/met-... (sentenced to one year, increased afterwards to two). Nowhere near seven and a half years.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 01/09/2026

A slightly different perspective on this: that is a falsehood developers believe, but it's sort of true in our case: the surname on its own does start with a capital letter by Dutch rules. The falsehood that applies to us is that you can get the full name by combining the first name and the surname.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 24/08/2026

There is another specific use case for this: when posts show up on "Popular With Friends" that are so bad that you want to know whom to unfollow and/or block.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 22/08/2026

I'm with Elizabeth, I think the "I know what a prince and lover ought to be" only makes sense if "prince" is used metaphorically, but regardless, "Marry him or marry me" means there's only two suitors in total, it can't be two princes plus one poor guy.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 21/08/2026

Yeah I've seen the groundbreaking movie where a leading man plays two different brothers

A scene from Knight Rider, Goliath, where Michael Knight faces his evil twin Garthe Knight, both portrayed by David Hasselhoff.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 11/08/2026

There was previously a setting to disable all reposts from all accounts in the Following feed (bsky.app/settings/fol...), you might be thinking of that one? This new option is about disabling reposts from specific accounts only.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 01/08/2026

Wiktionary notes that ἴδιος (idios), where ἰδιώτης (idiotes) comes from, had alternative forms ῐ̔́δῐος (hidios) in Argolic and ϝῐ́δῐος (widios) in Doric, so might it possibly have been picked up from a dialect that actually did have that H sound? Or would that be impossible for other reasons?

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 31/07/2026

I sent a message to Amnesty NL asking them if the Amnesty UK stance is shared worldwide. Will update if I hear back.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 31/07/2026

Edinburgh, Utrecht, Antwerp. If you asked any other day that third one might well have been different, but the first two for sure.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 27/07/2026

What makes you think I know anything more than what he said in that interview? Obviously I have no way of seeing into his mind.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 27/07/2026

"It's about changing the nature of the support and making some of the support conditional upon people taking opportunities that are presented." This was about a minute after the bit you're referencing. Argue merits as you like but he's literally taking away support that people are currently getting.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 22/07/2026

Less the moment in time, more the number of times (once). It's the same word: in Middle English, 'for then anes' (for the once) became 'for the nanes' (for the nonce) and then that N stuck. It's similar (but opposite) to how 'an orange' and 'an umpire' should logically be 'a norange' and 'a numpire'

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Dominix @dominix.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

King Charles told me the public keeps eating his prime ministers so l asked how many prime ministers he has and he said he just goes to the parliament and gets a new prime minister afterwards so I said it sounds like he's just feeding prime ministers to the public and then his son started crying.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 18/07/2026

It's not for no reason, but it is a poor change implemented in a poor way. It was changed as part of github.com/bluesky-soci... to make the likes not just show a number, also show which of the people you follow liked it. They didn't enable that yet, but it still moved the likes around already.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 17/07/2026

I started to write a joke about Theseus but I lost the thread

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 16/07/2026

I like what I'm seeing. An issue I had with __attribute__((cleanup)) is that it requires a separate function to call, which means it cannot be used with va_end which is not required to be a function, and is also not permitted to be invoked through a helper function. defer would work for that, right?

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 15/07/2026

He got it from the 1954 Clovers song Lovey Dovey, but variations of the phrase go back decades earlier. mudcat.org/thread.cfm?t... lists a bunch of songs containing variations of the phrase. I think it's more likely that Shirley Jackson got it from one of the earlier songs, personally.

mudcat.org

Don't Like My Apples Don't Shake My Tree

I've found the lines

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 14/07/2026

Ugh. Without going into the pros and cons, the currently available AI code reviews are for sure GenAI. Doing that and at the same time claiming that they don't use any GenAI is either demonstrating they don't understand what GenAI is, or that they're relying on readers not understanding it.

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oliver levy @helicule.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You think you know a channel.

Google news alert:

Google • 34m
BBC Four arrested and officer hurt in violent disorder

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 01/07/2026

Their standards for "wholly generated" and "substantially generated" by AI are different: the labelling applies to both, but they say the latter can still be monetised even when detection improves: "We will therefore not knowingly attribute royalties to music we identify as wholly AI-generated."

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 30/06/2026

bsky.app/profile/cash... had "her fur" in the alt text

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

my kind of Jubilee, the Japanese national team vs. 100 kids

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 27/06/2026

It depends on the accent. Some parts of the country (mainly the South) distinguish between F and V, other parts do not. Source: I'm from the part that does voice the V :)

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 23/06/2026

Yes, but none of the examples here have padding and none of the comments were about padding. The comment was about initialization of missing elements.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 23/06/2026

For the avoidance of confusion, the zeroing out of elements for which no initializer has been given has been part of the standard since forever, even in C90 int array[2] = {0}; will initialize both array[0] and array[1] to 0. What C23 adds is the {} empty initializer.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 22/06/2026

The "Goods bought from a private individual" exception would not apply because even if you count as a private individual, people aren't buying goods. But that "expressly agree" exception, I'm guessing we'll see some form of that to stop people repeatedly subscribing&withdrawing?

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Luna @moonbase.lgbt · 13/05/2026

MAN: Hello, police? It's a terrible thing, you see, my wife was killed last night, I was hoping you could send someone to investigate OFFICER: Certainly sir, the great detective Columbo is in town. Go and see him, he will solve the case MAN: Ah, I see, very good. Oh, officer, just one more thing,

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 12/06/2026

I'm not sure this is the one you're thinking of, but: @jeffw.bsky.social deleted his Twitter posts but re-did his time travel joke here on Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/jeff...

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 09/06/2026

The new Renters Rights Act doesn't apply to NI, but even in England, there are situations where "strictly no pets" remains legal for landlords, e.g. when it's a leasehold property and it's not the landlord's choice whether to allow pets.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 05/06/2026

"Given that the minister responsible for the passage of the Equality Act has confirmed that the ruling reflected the intention of the then-Government" -- Does he really need to be legitimising that? Her interpretation of the SC ruling is completely at odds with the govt's interpretation of it.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 05/06/2026

Does it make a difference if the wheel of cheese is the one used in Gloucester's Cheese Rolling event, where it does perform the same function as other wheels?

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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

Picture of a TV screen with teletubbies going to bed with the subtitles: I know you were high during my mother-in-laws wake

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Emily | No Small Games @aspecificegg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Did Valve just quietly release an actually good, useful and well-designed feature for game discovery and release date tracking on Steam???? Hold on, I'm gonna need a minute store.steampowered.com/personalcale...

Screenshot from the Steam app, displaying a personal calendar showing a list of recently released games from the last month, with filters at the top for selecting specific tags, game count and a toggle for wishlisted games.

Screenshot from the Steam app, displaying a personal calendar showing a day-by-day breakdown of what games are coming out in June.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 02/06/2026

That sort of makes sense but it's hard to reconcile "the app you use today isn't changing" with "I used to be able to log in to all of the accounts before"?

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 02/06/2026

That was (also?) a German court: thehackernews.com/2022/01/germ...

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 01/06/2026

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_... ドラゴンボールZ Doragon Bōru Zetto

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Marcus Payne @nowtro.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

TGJones in Richmond. The name has been crossed out and replaced with WHSmith (its former name) by a disgruntled graffiti artist.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 01/06/2026

I neither said nor thought you would be responsible for that. I do think Bluesky would be responsible if they implement a feature that would be widely misused, so if someone suggests Bluesky do that, I think that misuse worth pointing out.

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Harald van Dijk @harald.gigawatt.nl · 01/06/2026

In theory great, in practice look at YouTube captions: we get autogenerated captions now for almost video but they are of significantly worse quality than anything manually typed up. People aren't using it as a starting point, they're just leaving it. Wouldn't the same thing happen with alt text?

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