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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Good thing all this unauthorized computer access is somehow not illegal and magically nobody is criminally liable for it or it would be really expensive and professionally damaging! www.axios.com/2026/09/26/openai-ant…

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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I think someone in my street doesn't appreciate how my upstairs neighbours park their bikes, so decided to passive-aggressively park them in front of *my* door.

View from a doorway to outside; three bikes are parked in front of it (with some room to walk out)

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JonaLendering @jonalendering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Een Nationaal Archief is, zoals de naam al aangeeft, het archief van de natie. Het heeft dus een openbare taak, die vooral vergroot moet worden (open access!). In plaats daarvan wil men de publieke taken afstoten en dat is onacceptabel. Ik beveel deze petitie met klem bij u aan […]

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Anna Lighthouse Emoji @venite.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Non-Dutch friends often ask me how it’s possible that everyone has a bike here. It’s very easy. You just try a few of your friends’ bikes, then pick the one you like best, take a cutting, and grow it to the size you prefer. #cycling

Three Dutch style bikes in a rack, overgrown with vines and leaves

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stib @stib.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Me too, little metal peeps, me too

three pieces of steel that have been drilled and countersunk so that the pareidolia kicks in and they look like three shocked faces

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Bert Hubert NL 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦 @bert-hubert.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Technisch expert en oud-toezichthouder Bert Hubert is daarom kritisch. ‘De wet staat vol met nieuwe bevoegdheden en schaalt de toetsing en toezicht enorm af.’ Hubert hekelt de PR rond de nieuwe wet, die ‘Wet bescherming nationale veiligheid door de inlichtingen- en veiligheidsdiensten’ moet gaan […]

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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Interesting bug in JetBrains Youtrack (the original titles have @EventListener) @jetbrains

Fragment of IntelliJ release notes, incorrectly showing "@Roman Platonov":

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Bug IDEA-391963 Spring: "Inapplicable @Roman Platonov for early application events" inspection misses the classes=/value= attribute form
Bug IDEA-391964 Spring: "Inapplicable @Roman Platonov for early application events" warning text is factually wrong for ApplicationContextInitializedEvent/ApplicationPreparedEvent
Feature IDEA-374141 Spring: show warning for @EventListeners for some application events
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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

This and last week, the nearest mini library was a treasure trove of classic scifi.

Book cover. Arthur C. Clarke - 2001: A Space Odyssey - The City and the Stars - The Deep Range - A fall of Moondust - Rendezvous with Rama - followed by a picture of a space ship (look a bit like a bird or dragon), and the text Complete & Unabridged.

Covers of two books:

First: H.G. Wells - The Time Machine - The Island of Dr. Moreau - The invisibile Man - The First Men in the Moon - The Food of the Gods - In the Days of the Comet - The War of the Worlds - Complete & Unabridged

Second: John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids - The Kraken Wakes - The Chrysalis - The Seeds of Time - Trouble With Lichen - The Midwich Cuckoos - followed by an image of lichen - Complete & Unabridged

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praisetheteapot @praisetheteapot.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Op een website met rubberproducten. Ik gok dat het in het Engels “seals” was 🙃

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Marc van Oostendorp @fonolog.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/06/2026

Vacature voor een schoonmaker: "Zwabbertechnisch onderlegde teamspeler en boegbeeld van een universitaire vloer van de vijfde generatie: open, afneembaar, vlekonafhankelijk en gericht op het samen stof afnemen. Weet vanuit gezamenlijkheid en schurend vanuit verschillende perspectieven op basis […]

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Ge0rG @ge0rg.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/06/2026

From the "Pivot to woodworking" department #InfoSec #ShitPost #DevOps #Logs #VennDiagram

Venn diagram:
left: forest ranger
right: devops engineer
middle: looking for bugs in logs

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Karin @navifax.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/06/2026

Zolang jongemannen naast me in de trein blijven klagen over de hitte om in dezelfde adem te vertellen over hun o zo lekker goedkope vakantie op Tenerife (voor 60 euro heen en weer!) blijf ik wanhopen. Met uw welnemen.

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argonaut @argonaut.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

🤣 “Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers” 👍 “A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for false claims in its AI-generated search overviews. “The court treated the AI overviews as Google's […]

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bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy @bontchev.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/06/2026

It's a good thing that the military photographer didn't disclose the location, otherwise foreign spies might have been able to determine where this happened...

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Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉 @djoerd.idf.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/06/2026

To conclude, I feel ashamed by the "AI and sustainability" strategy of the university, I cannot support it. The people that discussed the strategy missed two red flags. 🚩1: Some of our most talented professors object! A university strategy should be based on consensus. If your strategy is a […]

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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

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Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

Firebird External Table Generator (or ext-table-gen) version 3.0 is out. This versions adds support for binary floating point types (float and double precision), decimal floating point types (decfloat) and variable length string (varchar). Firebird External Table Generator is a tool to convert […]

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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/05/2026

Mooie suggestie van LibreOffice als spellingcorrectie voor probleemoplossers: probleemoplosseks.

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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/05/2026

Yesterday, I was gifted this by a good friend. She really knows me well :)

A rectangular ceramic tile, white glazed, with the handwritten text "UGH. PEOPLE." in black. The tile is on a wooden surface.

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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/04/2026

My only concession to Koningsdag (Kingsday) today: an orange tompouce.

A picture of a desk with a plate with an orange tompouce and a fork. On the background there are two computer monitors, a keyboard and mouse. Also shown is needlepoint artwork with the text "Fuck it" and a (Effin' Birds) mug with the text "I bet this problem will go away if we have more fucking meetings" next to a black and white image of a duck (I think).

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Anna Lighthouse Emoji @venite.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2026

Dit is Zoab de snelwegkabouter. Als je door een rood kruis rijdt komt hij ‘s nachts je autosleutels verstoppen en neemt hij al je schoenveters mee. #nietVoorNix

Gebreide kabouter in de kleuren van Rijkswaterstaat: geel met blauwe strepen. Hij heeft een witte baard en neus en een oranje-wit gestreepte pilon als muts.

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Laurie Voss @seldo.alpaca.gold.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2026

Do you think Trump remembers that he invaded Venezuela and had some plans for it or has he just moved on?

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Niki @nikitonsky.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 08/04/2026

People pulling a locomotive and not the other way around is a perfect metaphor of LLM-assisted coding From bsky.app/profile/yurikrupenin.bsky.…

ClickHouse post: We use coding agents in ClickHouse, and they are a great tool for certain scenarios. ClickHouse itself is the primary component for agentic analytic... Show more

illustrated by a picture where people pull a locomotive

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Rijkswaterstaat Verkeersinfo @rwsverkeersinfo.social.overheid.nl.ap.brid.gy · 02/04/2026

Het wegleiden van een te hoge vrachtwagen gaat niet zonder slag(boom) of stoot. Helaas moet de Schipholtunnel (#A4) regelmatig dicht omdat een chauffeur de waarschuwingen heeft genegeerd. De afhandeling hiervan kost, vooral tijdens de drukke momenten, veel tijd.

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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/03/2026

I have just released Jaybird 6.0.5 and Jaybird 5.0.12. Jaybird is the JDBC driver for the Firebird database system. See lawinegevaar.nl/firebird/jaybird_6.… for details #firebird #jdbc #java #jaybird

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Jaybird 6.0.5 and Jaybird 5.0.12 released

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Colin McMillen @colin-mcmillen.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22/03/2026

Allow me to introduce #MLL coding, the counterpart to #LLM vibe coding. MLL (Manual Labor of Love) coding allows one to spend more time doing a thing, and lets one get better, faster, and 100% understood code.

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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/03/2026

Bit the bullet and switched my main desktop from Windows 11 to Bazzite (i.e. Linux). I haven't figured everything out yet, but my mail (Thunderbird) is working with my 25+ year archive of mails, as are some games. Tomorrow, I'll find out how things are with development and running Firebird for […]

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Jennifer 🍄 @jenyetagain.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 09/02/2026

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with. this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

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Birol Akkuş @akkusb.eurosky.social · 01/03/2026

In Dubai woonachtige Westerse belastingontduikers, pardon belastingontwijkers, die nu geëvacueerd willen worden door hun Westerse thuislanden: sorry jongens, we hebben niet voldoende belastinggeld daarvoor.

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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

I just released decimal-java 2.0.1, github.com/FirebirdSQL/decimal-java…. Decimal-java is a library to convert java.math.BigDecimal to and from IEEE-754r (IEEE-754-2008) decimal byte representations. Compared to decimal-java 2.0.0, this version adds JSpecify […]

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Fabio Manganiello @fabio.manganiello.eu.ap.brid.gy · 19/02/2026

Yes, the #EU has a lot of regulations. But remember that thanks to those regulations you can use a single USB-C cable that can charge anything, rather than 10 different connectors and adapters as it was common until 10-15 years ago. Remember that it’s thanks to those regulations if you no […]

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/02/2026

Dear People Who Talk on Their Phone in Public Using Speaker Phone, What the hell is *wrong* with you? Sincerely, The General Public

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HP van Braam @hp.tmm.cx.ap.brid.gy · 12/02/2026

Not to brag, but if anthropic had paid me $20,000 and given me a month I'd also have been able to write them a very shitty C compiler.

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Mark Rotteveel @mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/01/2026

I'm trying to release Jaybird, and of course Maven Central is acting up again :( It has been stuck "Publishing" for the past 45 minutes.

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Miguel de Icaza ᯅ🍉 @migueldeicaza.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/01/2026

The original one did quote:

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Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO @jmaris.me · 08/01/2026

I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside". I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

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