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@wishy Is @NESO_DFS_BOT dead or just sleeping? It was great when it worked.

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Roasting House Coffee @roastinghouse.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15h

I was accused of stealing bananas by a machine at #Morrisons today. A human had to come and confirm that bananas were actually in the bagging area. What the machine couldn't handle is two bunches of bananas being weighed at the same time but being put on the bagging area scale in two motions […]

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 14h

@TimWardCam Google and Amazon benefit. Firstly, many people will just vary and repeat the Google search in the vain hope of getting less ****ing useless results because they remember it used to work. Some will even trust the Google Chatbot answer. Secondly, Amazon benefit whether or not you buy […]

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

#nowreading The Dark Triad: Trump, Musk, Putin To be clear, this isn’t an “I told you so” moment. It’s an “I’m still telling you so.” broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark…

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The Dark Triad: Trump, Musk, Putin

Or why now’s the time to buy a wind-up radio

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Leave X - Protect Democracy @leavex.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

If X silences Saudi dissidents, what will it do to 'European traitors'? www.brusselstimes.com/eu-affairs/22… "If tomorrow Elon Musk would start a platform for information sharing and political debate, no one in […]

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Nicolas Fressengeas @fresseng.universites.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

""" Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz is on X, though Musk explicitly used the plaform to influence the election campaign in favour of the far-right AfD. The European Commision is on X, though Musk has called them "traitors to their own people". UK Prime Minister Andy Burham is on X, though […]

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 25/10/2026

@Techaltar thank you for taking that difficult question from mastodon on the nebula version. I don't think that it's secure to trust the US corps to attest, but it's arguable.

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Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 @osma.fishpool.org · 24/10/2026

The stick is very, very simple. Ban the collection, use and resale of cross-site behavioral tracking for advertising purposes. GDPR has teeth, if we just enforce it. That one change, and Meta, TikTok and Google lose all their traffic leverage. Of course that's precisely why lobbyists want to […]

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DavidS @pionir.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 24/10/2026

Remind me again why more gas and not more renewables will save money on energy bills?

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

From cars to cargo bikes: How families found freedom eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/tr… A new study shows that households using cargo bikes can halve their car miles – and a scheme is helping Norwich residents make the shift

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From cars to cargo bikes: How families found freedom

A new study shows that households using cargo bikes can halve their car miles – and a scheme is helping Norwich residents make the shift

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

@Edent oh crikey. That "known problem" in Edit 2. The link mentions being able to deal with it if the phone is rooted. Have you spotted how? I hate how hard it is to find stuff on moz's support.

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Any #Android devs able to explain app file sizes to me? The Firefox APK is about 70MB - but #GrapheneOS reports an install size of 447MB. Why? I get that the browser cache will be large - and I can clear that in the app. But what's the 4GB of "User Data"? […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Android screenshot showing massive file sizes.

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

@mconley same hell as every day </dinner-for-one>

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Roasting House Coffee @roastinghouse.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

Since world leaders have been unable to break their addiction the destroying the planet, the #BeReady campaign has been launched by the UK government. We're willing to barter #coffee for things we might need that you have. I would say bookmark us but assuming the web is down that won't do […]

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

🆕 blog! “More phishing messages via Booking.com and Novotel” A few days ago I booked a Novotel hotel on Booking.com - two days later I received these phishing messages via WhatsApp. Both knew my exact name, phone number, location of stay, and date of stay. Luckily, both were fairly inept […]

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NorthHerts4Europe @northherts4europe.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

‘Cheaper food’ in #BrexitBritain: LSE researchers estimated #Brexit food barriers cost households about £250 each by 2023. x.com/lizwebstersbf/status/21119162…

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xssfox (crossy) @xssfox.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

someone should invent a search engine where if you put in two keywords it finds pages that have both the keywords

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Roasting House Coffee @roastinghouse.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Yesterday, we got an email complimenting us saying they are creating a website to make it easier to find indie coffee roasters. This is an almost weekly event, most of it is obviously spam but this looked genuine from a proper domain - they had scraped our current coffees, the bio of us was […]

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

@quixoticgeek I can see how getting that many chocolate bars is repetitive, but why's it annoying? Have there been that many that you now have storage problems?

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

@Edent isn't this one of those "Choose Your Pain" decisions? There is no way to avoid all pain.

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Today seems like the perfect time to wear my "I'm only here because you broke something" t-shirt.

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Rachel Lawson @rachel.norfolk.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

The BBC being absolutely on the button. Their Cyber correspondent had never even heard of php before? Really??? 🤦‍♀️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckgel5xp2xv… #php

screenshot of the story linked in post showing a section saying:
Cyber correspondent Joe Tidy says he didn't know PHP existed until yesterday morning - it's "one of these things we take for granted", he says.

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Munya Chawawa: My first thought was, it’s worked. You know, this 24-7 pipeline of hatred into people’s eyes and ears has actually changed people in the street. And, you know, this hatred, it’s like a cancer. It spreads because people will always say, ‘Oh, it’s just the illegals.’ It’s not […]

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

@ho1024 @Edent same as ever: set up intrusion detection measures aka "tripwires" and integrity checks and anomaly-spotters that should catch an intruder and send you an alert before the intruder can disable or hide from them

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

@jfparis ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/data-pr… and it's a ball-ache, the regulator is in limbo due to new laws, last I read the commissioner himself was suspended pending an HR hearing... but I'd still complain if I were you. Then WriteToThem.com to tell lawmakers how […]

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

@jfparis it already is illegal to hold onto data for so long, isn't it? The law says it can only be "kept in a form which permits identification of data subjects for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the personal data are processed [...caveats...]". I struggle to see what […]

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

This press release is gold: emudhra.com/en/press-release/emudhr… "Last weekend, an independent researcher found that the weak keys could be reverse-engineered possibly with AI-assisted techniques." Your private key was the number 4 […]

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

@quixoticgeek do you remember what the answers were? But I suspect a bigger question is "why were those talks gerrymandered like that?" and it's probably not one anyone on the panel could answer for sure. And maybe it wouldn't help. Maybe a better question is "how can we not be gerrymandered […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Ooof I started grumpy posting way too early today. Let me start over and try again. Good morning.

A really nice sunrise above a flat horizon, with a nicely silhouetted spruce tree on one side. The sky is orange close to the horizon, fading to light blue above. There are bright pink clouds scattered pleasingly around the sky.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk. Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism […]

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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @timwardcam.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@dangillmor Yes, well, if you're going to criticise the junta you're probably better off doing in via media that the junta don't control. Once Upon A Time one might have recommended a "bullet proof" hosting provider. But it seems that whilst they might be "bullet proof" they're not bomb proof.

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Connected Places @fediversereport.com · 18/10/2026

To add: Mastodon's chronological timeline also does actually make specific curation choices, and it does not actually show you all posts from an account you follow. Suppose you follow Alice. You only see replies Alice makes if you also follow the account she replies to, replies by Alice to […]

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

it's always the ones you most suspect fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/117453005618069047

Bradley M. Kühn
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@copiesofcopies

We are more in agreement than you realize:

I guess now is a good as time as any to “come out”: I'm using #Anthropic's #Claude on a regular basis to help me figure out what types of policies we should set for reasonable & ethical use of #LLMGenAI in #FOSS, & also to actually improve FOSS codebases.

I believe it is reasonable to use proprietary technologies as long as our eyes remain on the prize of defeating those technologies.

@cwebber, I suspect, doesn't agree.

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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

There are major account take-over problems happening right now on mastodon instances - all appearances are that the actor is using stolen passwords, probably from malware running on desktops. I've suspended hundreds of compromised accounts over the past 48 hours, but only two on mine. If you […]

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Jon Shell @jonshell.mastodon.energy.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

It is pure madness that we build appliances intended to be sent to the landfill. Refrigerators are almost entirely disposable. Leaks in refrigerant coils embedded in foam insulation are not repairable. Older designs were better but in general, refrigerators haven't had a lot of design love with […]

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Velocipede Rider @ruari.velocipederider.com.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

My neighbour mentioned that they needed a new front for one of the cabinets in their kitchen but was not sure how to pick it up as it would not fit in their (small) car. So I offered to pick it up for him. He then said, "How? You don't even have a car?" […] [Original post on velocipederider.com]

A cargo bike with a long cardboard box strapped on top. In the background are more bikes and a parked car.

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Jock Rutherford 🌻🇨🇦 @jockr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Russia's Yandex bot traffic nearly eliminated overnight after Ukraine drone strikes cripple multiple of 'Russia's Google' data centers — Ukraine intensifies bombing of Yandex data centers in response to Moscow’s strikes on Kyiv data centers | Tom's Hardware […]

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

@ORIOliver @TimWardCam it's a shame local governments have let it get this bad. I was happy to notice yesterday mine recently refused permission for the neon strip on the southeast edge of town to grow another car-centric ultra-processed foods barn and two more drive-through junk food shops […]

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Mark Taylor @markiswrit.ing · 09/10/2026

Thanks Microsoft grammar and style checker, very helpful

Text reading "I've knocked up a script to do these in bulk", with automatic style suggestions:
Direct language is clearer and won't confuse a reader.
pregnant
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Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 09/10/2026

Kemi Badenoch’s flagship party conference policy document overestimated the cost of net zero by nearly £500bn… …seemingly after someone accidentally double-counted figures on a spreadsheet. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Tories overstate net zero cost by nearly £500bn in apparent spreadsheet error

Exclusive: Badenoch’s flagship conference policy document cites £957bn estimate, twice the total in climate advisers’ data

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

we need to remake the social network movie but for mastodon and instead of it being bad it's just people chilling

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

Very long shot. Do I know anyone in or near Phuket who can do me a favour? I left my wallet in a hotel earlier this year. They've just let me know they found it. Anyone over there willing to pick it up & post it back to me? Happy to pay, of course.

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

@quixoticgeek yeah, that was fun after an early covid jab where they said not to drive but had no advice on cycling. In Cambridgeshire. And I've known people arriving by bike be told it's messed up their test results and they should have driven to it... told by a medic, who surely should be […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2026

Going through some old photos. I found this one I took of some wind turbines. And people say they are ugly...

A photo of a ridge silhouetted against an orange sunset sky. A row of five wind turbines are lined up across the ridge.

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MJ Ray @mjr.masto.bike.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@quixoticgeek tell the driver they're behaving like an English? 🙁

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