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cait, probably overthinking @cpf.sh · 13/10/2026

@cdarwin > Microsoft’s records showed that at that exact same minute, a Windows device carrying GDID g:6755467234350028 had visited the ngrok signup page. Three hours later, the same GDID visited the retailer’s own website, through the same Tzulo proxy address used to set up the ngrok account […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

I asked a trusted colleague for comments on a written document and they fed it in to chatGPT and sent me back that output and I just want to cry. Guess I won't be asking that person for help or advice on anything anymore. Enshittification happens in people's writing skills too, I guess. I also […]

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Alter Kaker @alter-kaker.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Here's an email I got today from Bnei Avraham, a group of religious Israeli Jews who work for justice in #Palestine/#Israel. Boosts welcome. --- “The thoughts of the righteous are to do true justice, to rescue the oppressed from the hand of the oppressor.” Metzudat David on Proverbs 12:5 […]

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Rob Jess @rob-j.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Looks like Fairphone have managed to fix the IPv6 issue!!! I will no longer have to turn off WiFi to check the weather!

Screenshot of an Android Update Changelog, it reads:

Resolved Issues
- Fixed an issue where applications would fail to load (or load slowly) on IPv6 Wi-Fi networks

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?

Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?

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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Seven charged with damaging tRump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/au… Course at Donut tRump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 […]

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Quixoticgeek @quixoticgeek.v.st.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

RE: c.im/@BBC/117144240968313104 Years ago when I lived in Canterbury, they brought in a phone to pay thing for parking. I wrote a letter to Canterbury city council saying this was a bad idea as someone could put a sticker over the phone number, and scam people for their credit card […]

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

i wonder if MNT Station will launch on Crowd Supply today?! (hard to predict!)

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Elena Brescacin @elettrona.poliversity.it.ap.brid.gy · 07/08/2026

Let me say this: now that Matt Mullenweg has explicitly declared he doesn't really care about WordPress accessibility, I'm exploring alternatives. I have PureBlog and Eleventy currently in hand; Ghost is potent but its accessibility is very, very poor. My strong fear on switching to another […]

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Wendy Palmer @wendypalmer.mastodon.au.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

Friend sent me this and I feel attacked #books #TBR #Tsundoku

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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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Rairii :win3_progman: :win3: @rairii.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than `curl | sh`

Install with an AI agent (recommended)

The fastest way to get ghidrasql running end-to-end is to point an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, etc.) at the bundled installer prompt:

(link to install-prompt.md)

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Raphael Mimoun רפאל מימון @raph.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

The police and army eventually left. The relatives of the driver arrived and took the car. The young Palestinians who had stopped to help also left, and we left. Nobody will investigate. There will be 0 consequence for the settlers who were behind the attack. If a Palestinian teenager had done […]

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

I also REALLY WISH EVERYONE BUT ESPECIALLY CYBER RESEARCH ORGS WOULD STOP USING AI SLOP IMAGES IN THEIR POSTS. I almost didn't link to JFrog's post due to their lazy use of such garbage.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

RE: ec.social-network.europa.eu/@HennaV… "Gigafactory" is a term coined and popularized by known fascist and racist Elon Musk. "AI Factory" was coined by NVIDIA to make investments into their graphics cards look like a reasonable way to use one's resources […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@hannorein/11699373… So... after naively asking @hannorein earlier in the week for advice on someone for the first time asking me for vibe-coding review (because it relates to a paper we're working on that's *almost done*), I've now been asked two more times […]

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

Just imagine if we'd invested over a trillion dollars in green energy rather than AI.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

A barrister represents his clients in court. Clients who are political dissidents. He now faces criminal prosecution for doing so. Not Turkey. Not Egypt. Not Russia. England. Astonishing, deeply disturbing, and part of a long slide towards authoritarianism. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

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Palestine Action barrister’s prosecution criticised as ‘chilling’

CBA chair says contempt charge over closing speech by Rajiv Menon KC has left lawyers fearful of doing their job

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Lars Marowsky-Brée 😷 @larsmb.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

Anything not being a social warrior project at this point in the timeline is a mildly concerning positioning statement

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Harwell’s Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) could be getting a new energy centre. The proposed 20m high building will use the excess waste heat energy from the data centre across the wider campus. RAL says this will support it in moving away from its current gas based heating systems.

Proposed Energy Centre at Harwell, from its planning application.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The townspeople of Watlington are banding together to buy shops on their High Street, so they can “let them at fair rents to tenants who benefit the town” and keep them out of the hands of “landlords who want to maximise their yield”. They are raising £600,000 and have targeted three properties.

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Jared White (ResistanceNet ✊) @jaredwhite.indieweb.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

Reminder: undisclosed slop machine usage, even in so-called "human in the loop" scenarios, is a form of reputation laundering. That is, you are using your reputation as a human with expertise to provide cover for a technology which stands in direct opposite opposition to human expertise. If […]

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lj·rk @ljrk.todon.eu.ap.brid.gy · 20/07/2026

#emfcamp was absolutely awesome. Something a bit unusual that stood out positively but was not mentioned though (I think) was the toilet situation: I think I've never seen toilets so clean and cared for, least smelly and generally in good order on any camp/festival yet.

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

I almost emailed a journalist who I know works there but late on a Friday afternoon after a week of exhausting and emotionally draining educational work I cannot write a polite email about this. Fortunately, no interviews schedule this weekend (...yet). I need to spend time outside, under stars […]

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Max Inden @mxinden.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/07/2026

We have an open position for a student worker on the Firefox Networking team in Germany. We work on the full stack, from high level HTTP all the way down to TCP / UDP. Some C++, some Rust. Help us fight for an open internet for everyone. www.mozilla.org/en-US/careers/posit…

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Mozilla Careers — Necko Student Worker — Open Positions

Mozilla is hiring a Necko Student Worker in Remote Canada, Firefox, New Products, Firefox, Core Services, Firefox, Mozilla Foundation, Core Services, Mozilla.org, New…

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/07/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@spacecom/spacex-6lea… I used to be excited about rocket launches. Fuck you, SpaceX, for taking that away from me by destroying the sky, the atmosphere, and dropping shit on me because of your terrible safety and […]

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Evil Jim O’Donnell @eatyourgreens.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2026

Thanks, packages.debian.org. Web pages that don't work without JavaScript break the web too.

A blank white web page that says: AI scrapers break the web. To use this page you'll need JavaScript enabled.

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James Smith 💾 @floppy.org.uk · 14/07/2026

This morning I've had three "hey I'd like to work on this" comments on various GitHub issues. Nowadays I have to waste my time looking at the accounts to make sure they're not LLMs or people wanting to use LLMs, and all those 3 were. One was out and out pretending to be a human; two were doing […]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/07/2026

Here's an old favourite thought of mine. When you see something really old that people made, such as Late Palaeolithic cave art or the Göbekli Tepe monument, you may think "This truly says something of humankind's origins". But you're wrong. Because these things are quite late in our species' […]

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Raj 🇬🇧🇪🇺💻🖥(🌻🇺🇦;🇵🇸) @realcainmosni.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 02/07/2026

UK Tax returns have gone digital, which is fine in principle. What is not fine is that pretty much only paid solutions are acceptable for submitting a return. If electronic tax returns are mandatory, the government should be providing a cost-free means […]

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Alexis Bushnell @alexisbushnell.toot.wales.ap.brid.gy · 29/06/2026

RE: mastox.eu/@novaramedia/116831982578… This reads to me so much like Khan has been told by someone higher up "give them the contract or else." Our government is owned by evil US corporations and they aren't even trying to hide it anymore

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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2026

fucking springer www.science.org/content/article/why… their plagiarism bot decided Max Planck was self-plagiarising and retracted hundred year old papers

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Springer Nature has removed two studies by Max Planck

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Karsten Schmidt @toxi.mastodon.thi.ng.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

[Fundraising for Open Source work & maintenance] I don't do these often (only once or twice a year, if at all), but since I just lost the main sponsor of my open source work (forever grateful for their long & major support!), I urgently need to reach out to other people (especially users) for […]

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TC Won't Give In To Lies @tcatinreality.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/06/2026

Britain has it arse-backwards with thousands facing terrorism charges for holding a sign, while real terrorists are marching in the streets or burning cars and houses.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Oxford University and Diamond Light Source are partnering with the French synchrotron SOLEIL + two Paris research institutes to accelerate research on women's health, infectious diseases and pandemic preparedness www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-05...

UK and French flags with text saying UK and France launch landmark biomedical and AI health alliance to accelerate research into major diseases, University of Oxford.

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Things are fucked up and bullshit, but I planted a bunch of fruit plants today and w/in minutes of putting the strawberries in there were two bees reporting for duty.

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Thanks for your expressed concern for my well-being in these testing times. Yes, it is exhausting and I did 50 hour work weeks already before this. My wife and family help me keep sane and are effectively "non-digital activities" that help me to momentarily let go of these things once in a […]

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Oxford Clarion @oxfordclarion.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

NHS staff and teachers are to get free bus travel and Park & Ride parking in Oxford, funded by the city congestion charge. The plans were agreed at today’s Oxfordshire County Council cabinet meeting, which heard that schools and hospitals accounted for 42% of workplace parking within the ring road.

Oxford Bus Company bus outside the John Radcliffe hospital

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HyperCraft3r DECT 6830 @hypercraft3r.chaos.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

Anyone hiring? My work told me they will not be giving me a job after my apprenticeship (as a Developer) ends in the summer. I am skilled in DevOps and have great joy in organising things (from confluence spaces to events.. I do it all). I have a permit for carrying weaponised autism in problem […]

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Rob Jess @rob-j.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

Just had someone take a shit on our driveway... Not a nice way to end the weekend

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