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You should try OneNote but it's only usable on Windows. I've been on Mac / Linux since 2013 and only recently started using Windows again (gaming and Apple stuff just breaks constantly).

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 9h

Yeah I'm paper first. But technical things, those I need in grepable form and sometimes to share so they're in markdown. Prefer paper, those Oxford 5mm square pads rock. Started coding on them (6510 assembly) in the early 90s and never looked back.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 9h

I write markdown files and store them in git repos. But 20 years ago there was a magic time when we had OneNote which worked. This was before all the cloud crap was pushed down our throats (like the foei gras geese we are to them). Best "take notes from things I do on computer" tool. Sucks now :(

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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 17h

She fought apartheid, defended Nelson Mandela, and helped change how the world prosecutes sexual violence. Today, at 85, Navi Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. What an extraordinary woman. 💜 #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

Navi Pillay smiling in a red and gold academic gown and black hat, seated at a table signing a book.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 11h

I cannot understand why, after such a long time, this march is even still a thing. Aren't all the people who gived a rat's arse dead already?

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 11h

Palm Pilot + Office 2000 were the peak and the last time anything involving calendars and note taking just worked. You had to learn to write in the Palm shorthand (grafitti) but once you did it was faster than modern smartphones (if you could spell).

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 11h

We knew nothing else in the 90s. They still have them at my kid's middle school because those Microsoft TV things keep breaking.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 11h

Isn't it smarter from a protectionist stand point to cut EV imports and allow hybrid? Then strengthen the emissions bands hybrids are treated as petrol cars?

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 11h

Why are we getting China to cut HYBRID exports to the EU? It's a dead tech, everyone is moving to electric and the Chinese make the best and best value EVs in the world. This looks like a red herring China could throw away to leave the EVs unchallenged. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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China agrees to ‘halve’ hybrid car exports to EU in landmark deal

Brussels says Beijing’s shipments could fall by more than half over four years, cutting millions of vehicles amid fears for European jobs

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 11h

They paid their staff peanuts, they were all super super young (so cheap) and I'm 99.9% sure their Black Forest Gateau came from Aldi. That's straight out of the Trump book too.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 11h

They were living off of a reputation earned 50-60 years prior, their customers 70+ers who did very well for themselves and wanted the social status. Old, unable to taste the food and even then they'd never had anything amazing (WW2 generation) and the menu hadn't changed in 80 years.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 11h

Everything about Trump reminds me of an exclusive 5* hotel in Sidmouth where my wealth old relatives used to stage occasional family events. It was extremely expensive, of course. Edwardian decor. Silver and China. Only the silver was dirty, everything just a bit off, and the food terrible.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 17h

Wonder if you can nick some of his arguments and tailor them for the Dutch-language audience @ilyazn.eurosky.social.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 17h

Finally at the end: it gets better! This is the most complete and honest coverage of the LLM boom so far. It goes right into Yudkowsky and co, the limitations of LLMs, the bullshit. It's a shame that Cal isn't active here; he'd make a great part of the community.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 19h

Really good interview on Prof G today with @author-calnewport.bsky.social over AI covering use in education. "Education is about training the mind; we don't train our muscles with a pully we train with the weight" www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuII...

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Cal Newport: The AI Industry Is Betting On The Wrong Kind Of AI

YouTube video by Prof G Markets

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 19h

I am kinda worried that there's something else to it, like he came out as a Reform supporter or something. There have been a few of those situations in the software world where previously somewhat reasonable people suddenly went full WTF.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 19h

There was a big tweak to the YT algorithm again this year so presumably his views collapsed. Happened to a lot of channels. Shame as his coverage of new releases was good.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 22h

They're a cancer, you have to irradiate them.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Pro should really plan certain tactical votes in on Sunday then take Monday off instead. Saves money too because it's all off-peak travel!

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

We should have the vote on Sunday morning.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

These guys have such massive nonce energy that they're radiating it.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Het zijn geen neo-. Gewoon nazi's. Vanaf het begin af: www.doorbraak.eu/gebladerte/1...

doorbraak.eu

SGP-oprichter: God strafte Joden met Tweede Wereldoorlog

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

That and I have enough self-control (most of the time) to think strategically and not emotionally. You seem to have more of a "point of the spear" personality. Which I respect. Progress doesn't happen without the vanguard.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh wait you're the Professor who said what we were all thinking about that Christian Nationalist loony in the US? 🤣 Look, I'm someone who grew up in an evangelical-adjacent fundamentalist Christian milieu. From middle-England. I know how the silent majority think, how vapid they are.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I'm not telling the kids anything? I quote-replied someone whose profile says that she's a professor who studies/specialises in protests with a slightly random thought on them?

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

...I made a comment looking three or four steps further, it's fine if you don't want to engage / think / talk about that. I'm at a distance so I'm thinking of that. I've also been thinking that students in other countries should start taking action in support of the French kids.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Yes that's how police forces through the West react to protests from the left. They've always been like that because they're fundamentally fascists. That's why the coddle the far-right, the farmers and rent-a-mob...

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I organised and did my bit in protests in the 90s and 00s (around football clubs) and this is exactly what we did. Lower stakes sure but cut a lot of complains coming from older generations.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Reframes the story, changes the narrative. Especially if it's done by the protest organisation not the government or pigs chasing people down for vandalism. The best bit - it makes the farmers look like the assholes they are - as they make the most mess, get their own way, and never clean up.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Because if you check the right-wing (or centralist) papers, they're always complaining about the "clean-up costs for graffiti". This protest is about getting money for education. Clean-up afterwards (when the schools have the money) and it neuters any spin attempts.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I've changed my view on forced sterilisation. People like this should not be able to reproduce, both for their kids as for future generations.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

After all this is over, they should get the kids to clean it off. Spray paint is very very easy to remove but if there's one thing politicians like it's paying firms 100x as much as they should to remove it. Win. Then clean up any temporary markings. De-fangs the opposition.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Oh what a shame. Poor Russians. How will they find the hole in the ground they use for a toilet without internet?

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Am I right in saying that, where this to happen, it would see that massive block of "dead" bitcoin from Satoshi be liberated?

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This would be absolutely amazing as it both kills a turd of an industry and I can be super smug to people I've warned away from cryptocurrencies due to the the quantum and >50% risks.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I just learned that my toilet has an ESP32 in it with bluetooth. Just updated the firmware O_O

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The world isn't black and white it's shades of grey. Although why we let billionaires exist, I don't know.

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Metje van Elten @metjevanelten.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

PVV’ers zijn hoogstpersoonlijk zelf het gif voor onze samenleving. Met dit soort valse frames. En wat dachten we van zo’n Maikel Boon die nog steeds namens die rot’partij’ in ons parlement mag zitten na z’n gefröbel met a.i. waarna Frans Timmermans met de dood bedreigd werd.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

She was the first younger girl I fancied (she's 4 years younger) when she was in Buffy. Have to say I was shocked to find out how young she was. Such a sad story too. Poor girl.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

..and I don't know if I would act differently. He was extremely dangerous two years ago and he had the ear of one of his main rivals, a man who is far far more dangerous than Trump (Musk).

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

To be fair to him, of the tech billionaires, he's the one who looks the most like he's just doing the minimum he needs to jump out of Trump's bulldozer. I have issues with Amazon, they stole my Macbook, however Bezos is clearly not exactly on Trump's side.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

First: from age 7 to 11. Second: from age 12 to 15.

Penny from 1980s Inspector Gadget with her "computer book"

Title from a 1990s Nick series featuring teenager Melissa Joan Hart.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Netanyahu made October 7th happen. He's as bad as Putin. I can remember reading a google translation from one of the Hebrew-language papers which had credible claims of Mossad arming certain groups within Hamas. Time to connect the dots and get this motherfucker where he belongs: in jail.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's the same on AI: the same people who were telling us that bitcoin, then NFTs were the future, or were calling climate change a "hoax" are now telling us that AI will destroy the world unless we give all our IP, money and a monopoly to Anthropic, Open AI and Grok.

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Credit to the US for making the point the conference was trying to make about US foreign interference in European democracies for them, and bringing more attention to the conference and its themes than they could have possibly hoped for. www.politico.com/news/2026/10...

politico.com

EU, Canada and Lithuania pull out of disinformation conference after US pressure

The Trump administration was bothered by panels that referred to the U.S. as a disinformation threat.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Isn't this what the Zuidas do? Help Russian oligarchs buy up property in NL and the UK and otherwise hide their fortunes from sanctions? Or does it only count when it's the Amsterdam gangs?

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Why don't we give a fuck? Because software companies have conned the world with the liability waivers. Something we need to kill.

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Ryan @radicalbyte.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Software Engineering is honestly rotten to the core. The lack of rigour and attention to correctness has made me hate our industry. I spent two decades working extra hard, I create robust systems which fail safely. Only I find myself alone atop the mountain in a world which doesn't give a fuck.

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