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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

If I install your app using a package manager, then no, your app should not check for updates and nag me to run your own updater, nor should it show a badge or modal that you need to update. I am using a package manager to manage packages. Spend your time writing something useful instead of […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@bobcardboard This Is All Your Fault! (Honestly, this is very cool indeed! Thanks for pointing it out.)

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

does this programming language support tables?

a print copy of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" supporting one leg of a table on uneven ground.

(I took this photo myself at a picnic hosted by a compiler engineer in 2018)

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Jenny Fx @urbanfoxe.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I have learned something new today but as it is not really appropriate to teach at the Kindergarten level I am telling you instead. Did you know that semen is a non-Newtonian fluid? It is because the shear rate affects its viscosity. Isn't that mad? We're going to stick to Ooblek in the […]

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MrAlanCooper @mralancooper.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I still remember the day in 1976 when Gary Kildall typed in "dir" to an "A>" prompt on his hazeltine green-screen character display to show me a directory listing on his 8080-based, eight-bit computer running the first release of CP/M, the first real microcomputer operating system (that Gary […]

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josh buermann @buermann.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@buermann/113206030… Happy #StanislavPetrov Day to all those who celebrate, live it like it's your last. I guess I could observe this year's #Ramadoom by refusing to use LLMs but you'd have to make me in the first place. Like the one where the Catholic gives […]

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Kit Malone @thekitmalone.hoosier.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Your 50s is a special time where, one at a time, you learn that you cannot eat any of your favorite foods ever again.

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 22/09/2026

Everyone loves variable pricing when it pays you to use electricity! *5 days later* We regret to inform you that prices can go up as well as down. In the UK, they're capped at a maximum of £1/kWh - we'll nearly hit that this evening. Can you avoid doing laundry in the evening? What about cooking?

Graph showing a price of 90p/kWh during the evening.

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Terence Eden @edent.tel · 18/09/2026

Tomorrow, between 1am and 9am, we'll be paid to use electricity. Our home battery will charge itself automatically for use later in the day. Probably not worth me staying up all night to bake bread 🤣 - but it does go to show how the green energy transition is accelerating.

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CM Harrington @octothorpe.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

The last thing I need is a sticky header. I know how to scroll up (or all the way down). What I don’t want to do is fucking play peek-a-boo with your navigation every time I change scroll direction. Dear web designers: YOU SUCK. GET GOOD OR GTFO.

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Jon Henshaw @henshaw.social · 15/09/2026

Apple found a new way to sabotage and ruin PWAs. When you add a PWA to the Home Screen, it forces this fade onto it, and you can't remove it. Unbelievable. #Apple #iOS27 #PWA

Apples forced a fade over the top of PWAs on iOS 27

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chris actual @lackattack.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I am pretty sure I cracked the code for my #cats to understand time. For the last month, when its 10 mins to feeding time, I put both hands up in front of me and declare '10 minutes'. At 5 minutes, I put one hand up and say '5 minutes'. Then at feeding time I fill their bowls. I've noticed […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: mastodon.ie/@shezza_t/1172632378714… So much malware… It’s like playing whack-a-mole - the malware seemed able to install more malware.

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

I still lurk on the r/London subreddit and came across this hilarious piece of activist art which turns a bin into a "smart glasses amnesty bin" that apparently is just across the Ray Ban store. 💅 www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/1w… #pervertglasses

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Charnock @printdevil.dice.camp.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Photoshop just crashed on me there because "an AI token had become invalid" I was on the welcome screen, new-file. No ai at all. This doesn't bode well.

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Eric Bono @ericbono.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The Canadiano is my favorite vindictive espresso drink name change that has probably been lost in all the chaos this week. #uspol

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Sarah Perez 💙 @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

Apple Watch’s new AI features are normalizing the idea that technology is always listening techcrunch.com/2026/09/09/apple-wat…

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Story Concept: In a far future with the virtual and real worlds are often seamlessly blended our protagonist is excited about her new job with much better pay. She shops for new work clothes, sets up her new apartment, buys some nice food, but most of all she keeps talking to her high school […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

One week tomorrow in #Carrickfergus > The BIG CARRICK COLOUR RUN is a fun-filled charity event where you'll walk, jog or run your way around our colour-filled course while being showered in vibrant Holi powder at every colour station. Whether you're taking part in our: > 12:00pm Family Colour […]

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/09/2026

Saw this photo on LinkedIn. It's quite a clever idea! Rather than having to press potentially dirty buttons in a toilet, use a gesture instead. Nifty! Except… Here's how they describe it on their website. > No specialist hardware. No complex setup. Just […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

No body wants to press a button in a public toilet so we took the button away. A gesture in the air to record feedback.

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I think wikipedia does this intentionally to taunt people with adhd. Like hold on tell me about the cat

United States Treasury security

"Treasury Bill" redirects here. For the cat, see Rufus of England.

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Mark T. Tomczak @mark.mastodon.fixermark.com.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Thinking about the era of technology where the easiest way to display images was to take all the air out of a tube and point a death ray at your face. It's fine though. There was a thin screen between you and the death ray that caught all the death and turned it into pretty colors.

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Aaron @harpaa01.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] @OpinionatedGeek Past me would never believe how much future me cared about fiber intake

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Børge @forteller.tutoteket.no.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I want a map app where I can import all my gpx tracks and then ask it to give me a route to where I want to go. Not the shortest route, not the least hilly route, not the calmest route... but the route that follows my existing tracks the least. So that I can experience new places I haven't […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

I'm not into the whole retro-computing scene but I got hit by a whole bucketload of nostalgia today in Carrickfergus Library! 'Timeline Carrickfergus' had a 'hands-on celebration' of retro computers with nearly every home computer I saw growing up. Got all […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

An old BBC Master computer - cream-coloured with its incredible (for those days) keyboard and its row of 8 red function keys.

The small CRT is showing the demo screen for the game Chuckie Egg.

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 1/? Mounjaro is incredible. Mounjaro is terrible. At the same time. You want some of the effects. You don't want some of the side-effects. It's a difficult balancing act. Other people on Mounjaro have it easier. Others have it much […]

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

when another function deallocates some memory you was using

dude, where's my var?

parody of comedy film with similar name

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DistroWatch @distrowatch.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

We now have 500 actively developed distributions in our database. That's probably enough. Everyone, you can stop making new distros. It's okay, we have a complete set.

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Andy Wingo @wingo.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

via my sister: what is a nonbinary assassin’s preferred technique they slash them

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Aaron @harpaa01.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

@OpinionatedGeek GLP-1s seem to be unnecessarily stigmatized too (at least in the US) and I wish they wouldn't be. They are incredible drugs! They are excellent at reducing blood glucose levels in Type 2 diabetics (also useful for LADA/type 1.5 diabetes), they measurably reduce your risk of a […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

One year ago today I started taking Mounjaro. It's been quite a year! A weird thing: in the UK, about 2 million people are taking GLP-1RAs like #Mounjaro / #Ozempic / #Wegovy That's nearly 3% of the population. And yet... no-one I know IRL is taking a GLP-1RA. Is Norn Iron an exception and all […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Went outside to watch the #eclipse (92% here!) and encouraged some neighbours out to watch too. I shared spare eclipse glasses around. I may have outed myself as a geek. Them: "OMG WHERE DID YOU GET THESE? I TRIED..." Me: "I ordered them weeks ago..." Would've been spectacular but, being Norn […]

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Jenn / CaptainHanyuu 💖✨ @captainhanyuu.art · 12/08/2026

MY DISCO BALL IN THE BEDROOM IS SHOWING ME THE ECLIPSE, HOW COOL IS THAT?!

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

Where is the best, most incredible, most perspective-shattering night sky that you've ever seen? For me, it was the Tekapo dark sky reserve in New Zealand this past winter (I got up at 1am both nights I was there specifically so I could get some mostly satellite-free skies to enjoy). Second […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

If you've ever wanted to try playing a ukulele and you're near Belfast next Sunday (16th August), the Belfast Ukulele Festival is trying to get a load of people together for their Big Uke Jam - what they hope will be 'the biggest gathering of ukulele players Belfast has ever seen!' The jam is […]

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Grahame Gardner 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @scotdowser.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

1/ The forthcoming solar eclipse reminded me of the premise in Iain Banks’ ‘Transition’ novel about eclipses being a good place to spot aliens. The argument goes: 1. The fact that the moon is the right size and distance from Earth to perfectly cover the sun’s disc is a staggering cosmic […]

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Micr0byte @micr0.wetdry.world.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

A year ago I made Wellness Ping because someone I care about went silent and it took too long for anyone to notice. v2.0 is now out. It now works entirely over Signal, usernames or phone numbers, both for your check-ins and for your emergency contacts. Email isn't safe for everyone to use, but […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

> "/Today is August 4, 2026/," said a second voice from the kitchen ceiling, "/in the city of Allendale, California/." Today's that rare day (less rare as time moves on) of a date set way in the future in an old science fiction story. Enjoy the sad, endearing tale 'There Will Come Soft Rains' […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/07/2026

@spoonrefuter Happy Actual Birthday! (And Merry Crispmas!) 🎂🍻

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Jenny Fx @urbanfoxe.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

I'm rather shocked at the Glen Hansard news. We lived on the same street when we were kids. RIP #Mastodaoine

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