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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2026

Whoever hacked AO3 so hard that they're forecasting being down for a month is not prepared for what happens when every random bored paper-pusher between you and being identified and arrested has her yaoi taken away

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Dusk to Don :blobraccoon: @dusk.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 27/10/2026

The year is 2040. You see another traveler, wandering towards you across the arid wastelands. "Like 'n' subscribe," he mumbles, nodding to you as you pass. "Like 'n' subscribe," you reply.

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/10/2026

I *think* today is "break even" day for our solar panels. We had them installed six years ago at a price of ~£7,500. They've since generated 27 Mega Watt Hours. Assuming an average electricity price of 28p/kWh - they've now made back what they cost. (These are all very rough figures.) #Solar

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Everyone, I have a suggestion: New Skill November. #NewSkillNovember

NEW SKILL NOVEMBER

[an art nouveau painting in autumn colors of a woman playing the harp]

LEARN A NEW SKILL OR REBUILD AN OLD ONE; THE ONLY RULE: DO IT YOURSELF, DO NOT USE AI

Sketching, knitting, whittling, a musical instrument, a foreign language, a tricky video game, cooking, weaving, changing oil, riding a bike, painting, pixel art, website design, digital image editing, bookbinding, calligraphy, identifying mushrooms, embroidery, soldering, that one thing you've been putting off

Do the hard part yourself, no matter how imperfect it feels. Learn and internalize how it really works. Consult guides written by human experts, and ask your fellow human beings for help. Take pride in knowledge and abilities that are an intrinsic part of your existence and not dependent on renting from corporations.

art by Charles Louis Hinton for a November issue of Harper's Bazaar, 1896
banner by 0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

@Edent I had that problem back when I used zigbee - identical sensors having very different battery usage. When I looked in the logs I could see the sensors chewing through the battery were also the ones sending updates every second instead of every minute or every ten minutes. Some of the cheap […]

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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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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@Unixbigot Ooh - thanks for this offer of recommendations. I have an M1 Mac Mini running k3s on Asahi, and it's struggling. There's some I/O problem I haven't tracked down, but even so it's struggling with just 16Gb and I'm thinking about something with more RAM. I've previously used a couple […]

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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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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

@seand.me.uk Ha! Zigbee, Matter/Thread, WiFi, or something else?

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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 · 05/09/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 17/? You will end up giving nearly your entire wardrobe to charity. Mentally, this will be surprisingly hard. What if you put the weight back on? #Mounjaro #GLP1

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

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 16/? You'll hate the idea of clothes shopping when you've shrunk enough that your clothes no longer fit. It'll be months before that happens but you'll dread it. And when it happens, you'll get cheap temporary clothes and be amazed […]

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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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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 15/? Anhedonia sucks. Sometimes it's like looking at your life through a window. It's not a persistent problem for you though. #Mounjaro #GLP1

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 14/? Rings will fall off your fingers. Those curly ring resizers are OK, but the UV-activated glue-type stuff for increasing the inner size of rings is terrific. #Mounjaro #GLP1

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 13/? Someone told me: losing weight is like taking paper towels from a roll. When you start, you take off a sheet and it makes little difference to the size of roll. Near the end of the roll though, every individual sheet makes a big […]

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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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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 12/? "The coldest winter I ever spent was that summer on Mounjaro." #Mounjaro #GLP1

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 11/? You won't regret (so far...) ordering from Pharmulous, who are good at the order and delivery process, are maintenance-friendly, and have an actual doctor available instead of just prescribing-pharmacists. #Mounjaro #GLP1

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 10/? You can safely use monj.co.uk to find the cheapest prices for Mounjaro in the UK, if all you want/need at the time is a new pen. They're all verified to be registered pharmacies and the terms of the basic service are […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 9/? Mounjaro will help with weight loss, but... On its own it will change you from a very unfit fat person to a very unfit non-fat person, and you don't want that. So take up some exercise when you can.

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 8/? You will build a Dreaded Dispensary of Doom Drawer, full of GI medication. You hope never to open it again.

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 7/? Ah, the 'golden dose'... UK KwikPens used to come with an additional 0.8ml for 'priming' the needle. You usually don't need that much, and a full dose is only 0.6ml, so if you were canny you could extract a fifth free ('golden'!) […]

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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] 6/? In the UK Mounjaro is always sold in a 'KwikPen', a 4-dose injector. You don't need to worry about different pharmacies selling different sizes or different mechanisms or different price structures - they all charge for a 4-dose […]

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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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Geoff @opinionatedgeek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

[Things I Would Tell Past-Me After A Year On #Mounjaro #GLP1] @harpaa01 Heh, psyllium husk is popular over here. I was just so used to not having to think about such things!

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