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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

The main problem with working for yourself from home is that there is nobody around to stop you from nerd-sniping yourself into planning (dreaming) stupid things, like building a power station.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Tech has gone from "I run Windows instead of Linux because I value my time" to "I run Linux instead of Windows because I value my time" in an awfully short period.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

LaTeX would be at least 5x more popular if the default font wasn't Computer Modern.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/08/2026

Shopkeeper: Has anybody ever told you that you look a little bit like Andy Burnham? Me: ... Shopkeeper: Don't worry, it's a good thing. I could have said you look like Margaret Thatcher. Me: Yeah, fair.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Spent three weeks waiting for it and it still scared the shit out of me.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Is it just me, or did we used to be able to input latitude and longitude into the search bar on Google Maps and get a result, and now it doesn't?

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Turns out there is a wrong way to coil a USB cable.

A vacuum cleaner head with a USB charging cable wrapped around the rotating brush.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

Random programmer in their first post on forum.osdev.org: "I hand wrote an operating system kernel, GUI, browser rendering engine, several video card drivers, and it runs Windows 64bit executables as well. Oh, and it's published in a single commit in a monolithic GitHub repo that was pushed […]

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Bought a new floor mop online. It comes with a free sample of "universal eco cleaner". The touted benefits: - No bleach. - No chemical nasties. - Eco certified. (???) I look for the ingredients. Right on the bottom, in tiny letters, next to the "please email us for a MSDS.' It's 0.2% […]

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nytpu the wyvern @fedi.nytpu.com · 10/06/2026

All Modern Digital Infrastructure #AI #LLM #LLMs #FOSS

The XKCD "All Modern Digital Infrastructure" meme, of a bunch of rectangular blocks precariously balanced, representing modern software stacks. The title has been edited to add the parenthetical "(Post-AI)", and many of the blocks have been replaced with the meme of someone riding a bicycle sticking a pole into the spokes of their own front wheel, about to make themselves fall down.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

Of the many, many things I love about tennis, by far my favourite is its wild approach to measurement units for racquets: 98in²: absolutely fine measurement, nothing wrong with that. 650cm²: nobody measures in centimetres, even the French! Madness! Meanwhile... 11oz: WTF is wrong with you? […]

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

Every time I boot into Debian Linux I breathe a sigh of relief at how much better it is than Windows 11. Every time I open Thunderbird I despair at how much worse it is to use than Outlook. Outlook! The bar was on the floor. Please recommend me a better email client for Debian. I don't mind […]

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 20/05/2026

I really enjoy seeing the number of people who smile and wave to the #train as it passes by. People love trains. We should have more of them.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

Accidentally played in my first tennis pennant match last night. I had so much fun, and didn't do quite as badly as I was worried I would. But holy hell am I sore this morning! #tennis

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

Xero's "Ultimate 10" plan actually means 10% annual price inflation. #Xero #SmallBusiness #Enshittification

An email warning of an upcoming price hike for Xero.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/05/2026

If Microsoft doesn't want us to develop software for Windows, they can just say so... (the screenshot was taken in Edge) #Microsoft #VisualStudio

A screenshot of a warning message in Edge: "VisualStudioSetup.exe isn't commonly downloaded. Make sure you trust VisualStudioSetup.exe before you
open it."

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Glyph @glyph.im · 28/04/2026

like the fact that LLMs "really can" do some parts of programming reads to me not as a demonstration of their economic utility but as a brutal indictment of our tools *for* programming. it feels productive to have these things emit mountains of boilerplate because *we constantly need mountains […]

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

Couldn't find a powerboard that would securely screw to the underside of my desk. So I bought a small audio engineering style rack and screwed that to the underside of my desk and got a rackmount PDU instead. I'm sure this is every logical person's solution to this problem...

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Matt Cengia @mattcen.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/04/2026

Stop 👏🏻 emailing 👏🏻 OTP 👏🏻 codes 👏🏻 instead 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 prompting 👏🏻 for 👏🏻 passwords! Latest culprit is Netflix. I have a password. It's in my password manager. Ask for it *before* sending me an unsolicited email and making me dig for the "just use a password" option! 🤬

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026

Open Street Maps: directs me through a road closed due to roadworks. Google Maps: directs me to drive down a pedestrian walkway and through a tennis court. I think I'll just read the road signs. #Google #OpenStreetMap

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/04/2026

Setup really did complete in approximately 39 minutes. #retrocomputing

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/03/2026

It really annoys me how HTML has <head> for putting CSS in but no <foot> for putting JS in. And yes I know it would serve zero practical purpose, but the asymmetry is bleurgh.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

@robin I'm getting a HTTP 502 error on your website 😞

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

Helping my mum clean out her pantry. The tin of white pepper powder from 1994 is apparently staying. Please send help.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026

Caught up with some friends I haven't seen in ages today. Feels good. That is all.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/01/2026

Just got presented with an advertisement *inside* the #Azure portal. What the actual are #Microsoft thinking?

A view of an SQL database management page inside the Azure portal, with an ad reading "Join us at SQLCON Atlanta..."

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/01/2026

My prediction for the next few days: everybody will suddenly learn how to spell Venezuela.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/12/2025

The Australian Taxation Office: We've updated an API with a breaking change. By law, you will be required to submit testing results against the new API to prove you are compliant with the new requirements of the API. Also the Australian Taxation Office: But don't worry, we didn't bump the […]

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot

I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/12/2025

Imagine having the confidence of the person who designed the new Outlook desktop app and thought they did a good job.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/12/2025

If I had a dollar for every time I've seen "closing as stale" on a GitHub issue, I could afford to pay for the new Hobart stadium all by myself.

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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/11/2025

Fuck your half hour video, this could have been three paragraphs, five bullet points, a code block, and a screen shot if you wanted to get Fancy. Half hour of my life and I could have just skimmed.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2025

"Tier 1 Datacentre" sounds really impressive until you realise you've just described the linen closet of the average r/homelab user.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2025

Logged into the Microsoft 365 admin portal this morning to do... something. Got so infuriated by the "new dashboard" just being an ad for Copilot that I completely forgot what I logged in to do. Ah well, guess what I probably wanted to do was cancel my subscriptions (I wish).

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

Two new arrivals in one day! They must have known about the severe weather warning for tonight! #Farming #CowsOfMastodon

Photo of a cow with her calf. A different cow and calf to the last photo.

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luna system :moon_badge: @luna.post.airsi.de.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

y'all ever think about how there's decades old archives of newsgroups, mailing lists, forums, irc rooms, so on and so forth, freely accessible to those with the ability to use the wayback machine... and now we have entire software projects whose documentation is in discord, where you cannot see […]

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

Decided to start playing around with a self-hosted instance of GitLab for my work CI/CD. Initially it was going to just be a backup in case Azure DevOps or GitHub disappeared (or enshittified), but I'm liking the features so much it might become our primary platform quite quickly. #GitLab […]

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2025

Writing a device driver for a video card (ATI Rage 128) using QEMU for testing, and I've found a bug in QEMU's mouse emulation that's utterly hilarious. If you set up a hardware mouse cursor in the video card hardware with a fixed location on screen, and the OS makes no updates to that location […]

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Daniel Keys Moran @fatsam.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

I genuinely don't have a beef with rich people. You should be able, by your hard work, to provide for yourself and your children. But the number matters. When wealth provides for generations of idleness, when wealth corrupts our government, when children go to bed hungry while filth like, oh […]

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025

Today in #OSDev: I started writing a device driver for the ATI Rage 128 (circa 1999). Using hardware registers, not VGA/VBE BIOS calls. Soon I might be able to run it on real hardware!

A screenshot of a QEMU window showing a 1024x768 framebuffer on an ATI Rage 128 Pro, with the top part of the screenshot full of fun colours.

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Jack Scott @jackscottau.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2025

Behold! The world's worst-performing mouse pointer (plus some hardware probing). www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxNrSH5F6WU #OSDev #Programming #GUI

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