Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 18/01/2026I disagree. Water can be desalinated and/rationed. If we avoid war over oil, I think the next wars will be fought over food supply or inhabitable land :-( 010
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 05/01/2026AltTxt: a mug from podcast "The AI Fix". A picture of a confused-looking pigeon and a question "Would you trust pigeon?" 000
Reposted by RuzEmma Dingle @emmadingle.bsky.social · 24/12/2025Couldn't resist, Freida is a very aesthetically pleasing cat. 0274
Reposted by RuzChloe Howie @chloehowie.bsky.social · 16/12/2025NEW VIDEO IS NOW OUT!!!! GO GO GO GO GO GO GO GO!!! SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON GO AROUND ON THE SUBSCRIBE BUTTON!! youtu.be/Wm1_UJCvRkgyoutu.beThe Pilot's Nightmare From Hell 🇳🇴 The Bizzare Case of Braathens Flight 239 🇫🇮 ?YouTube video by Disaster Breakdown 56015
Reposted by RuzJason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 14/12/2025I heard a rumour that the new Star Trek films will be set in the Kevlin timeline 3395
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 01/12/2025I agree, but cynically I think "They make money when you are happy. They make money when you are angry. So they don't care." 010
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 30/11/2025The believers frighten me more, because they'll still be around after Trump is out of office. They've gotten so used to being mean to people that I can't see them giving it up overnight. 010
Reposted by RuzKevlin Henney @kevlin.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Long version (90') of my talk on The Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages at the @accuconf.bsky.social this year www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-3Q...youtube.comThe Past, Present and Future of Programming Languages - Kevlin Henney - ACCU 2025YouTube video by ACCU Conference 1174
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 21/11/2025p.s. PL/I type checking was OK at a basic level. But if you overlaid a function pointer with a basic pointer (using BASED), you could point the basic pointer at anything, which might be some home-grown machine code, then run it by calling the function pointer. This was *frowned upon* :-) 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 20/11/2025Nice dig at PL/I :-) At the time it was seen as big and resource hungry compared with COBOL, when bytes and CPU cycles were expensive. COBOL has added the useful facilities that PL/I bigots like me would use to laugh at COBOL programmers, back in the day. And gcc is bigger than PL/I was :-) 200
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025All my favourite mastodon servers seem fine. Oh, *that* other site! ;-) mobile.other.site is as dead as that squirrel.mobile.other.site 000
Reposted by RuzDylan Beattie @dylanbeatt.ie · 18/11/2025Cloudflare is down... I use UptimeRobot to monitor sites. UptimeRobot is also hosted on Cloudflare. It is VERY BROKEN right now. DownDetector is another useful tool for checking site availability. Also hosted on Cloudflare. DownForEveryoneOrJustMe... yep, hosted on Cloudflare. GOLLY THIS IS FUN! 1218774
Reposted by RuzLiz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 18/11/2025When Cloudflare goes down but you still remember how to program without Copilotmedia.tenor.coma small kitten is standing on its hind legs looking at the cameraAlt: A small kitten dancing on its hind legs 1275
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 18/11/2025pingability.com still seems to be working fine. And my website on mythic-beasts. Kryten: engaging smug modepingability.comPingability.com: Web Site Monitoring and Alert ServicePingability.com: Web Site Monitoring and Alert ServicePingability is a server and website monitoring and alert service. It monitors your server or website and alerts you when it goes down. 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 17/11/2025That sounds like the "MED files" episode, a corker of a story :-) 010
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 16/11/2025A Greggs bag in UK claims "BAG SOME JOY" is a registered trademark. Seriously? 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 16/11/2025Oh, now that's *very* musical! Bought it on Bandcamp after listening once, which is rare for me :-) 000
Reposted by RuzEmma Dingle @emmadingle.bsky.social · 14/11/2025Creative writing time. What did the reindeer do to deserve this fate?! 242
Reposted by RuzPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 14/11/2025“They’ve accidentally released you?” From the new Private Eye, out now. 018922
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025{chomp! chomp!} ... and the world carries on without a pair of nonce bastards. 030
Reposted by RuzEmma Dingle @emmadingle.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Post an image that will always make you laugh 021
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 13/11/2025I think AI probably has a place as the uninhibited person in a brainstorming session where "there is no such thing as a stupid question or idea". 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025I still remember when it was -14°C in Cumbria, getting into a diesel Peugeot so efficient that it took 20 minutes to warm up the engine. It wasn't actually painful grabbing the steering wheel, but it was close :-) 000
Reposted by RuzPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 12/11/2025BBC Under Attack: Pot and Kettle Special The new Private Eye is out now. 21881350
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 12/11/2025Bizarre. I mean their business model seems to involve taking card payments, so I'd expect them to make that bit easy :-) 100
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025They're too busy solving "I want a refrigerator that spies on us, shows the family adverts in our own kitchen, and will probably fail when a cloud server goes down". 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025That's been a sales ploy, ever since nobody asked "Could we have razors we have to throw away?" and nobody asked "Can we have bottles with metal tops that can never be put back on?" 120
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025Yes. With a nod to Taxman, not the finest song but a proper poke at 1960s UK taking 95% tax on high earnings! 010
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 10/11/2025I bought it on CD (original version, not remastered) without knowing all the tracks, because I wanted to hear Tomorrow Never Knows as it was back in the day. I heard covers by Phil Collins, Steve Marcus and Monsoon with Sheila Chandra before I heard the original! 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025So foreign peops are scared of a finger wagging from our OSA? Oh dear, oh dear... Mullvad :-) 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Have you read Doctorow's Enshittification? For decades, USA has been dismantling protection against corporate monopolies and the damage they can do. Now, surprise! USA has monopolies so powerful they distort politics, the law, and even people's ability to see what is happening around them. 140
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 09/11/2025Some of the best people I know have USA passports. And some of the worst. Distillation is a good metaphor, because it separates fractions of the mix. This isn't 'left' vs 'right' to me. The cooperative fraction, the kind that actually built the modern USA, are ignored, and vandals rule :-( 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025Alt txt: Autobahn by Kraftwerk. Painted motorway leading off into the distance, with a Mercedes going one way and a classic BW Beetle going the other. 010
Reposted by RuzPrivate Eye Magazine @privateeyenews.bsky.social · 08/11/2025After reading the Eye's special report on how Tees Valley mayor Lord (Ben) Houchen’s flagship “levelling up” project became a taxpayer-funded scandal, a reader writes... Watch the full episode of Page 94 on YouTube. 4330101
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 08/11/2025@ecoflowtech.bsky.social I thought you should know this YouTube advert has maths that don't add up, and by the way "£9.9" is not how we quote prices in UK. 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025I was going to say something similar--we brainfucked ourselves, while China quietly got on with getting better at producing useful stuff. For me, the jury is still out on whether AI can do even one quarter of what is promised by the guys riding the AI money-go-round, but I have my doubts. 010
Reposted by RuzJeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 07/11/2025Gavin's video on the Slow Mo Guys channel (some glorious footage): www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1c7... And here's a GitHub repo (github.com/geerlingguy/...) and blog post (www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/co...) with the code and more detail.youtube.comHot Dog vs 7000 W Radio Tower at 200,000 FPS - The Slow Mo GuysYouTube video by The Slow Mo Guys 4241
Reposted by RuzJeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 07/11/2025When you ground a hot dog to an AM radio tower, it generates plasma. Can I turn that plasma into audible sound—without a microphone? Excited to finally post this Geerling Engineering video after working with @gavinfree.bsky.social to get the high speed footage! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMF3... 2623
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 07/11/2025Dear #Google get your filthy, toxic paws off my data. No love, Me 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025erm, should be 01:01:55 and I posted a link with a time stamp, but the link gets mangled. 000
Ruz @ruzrey.bsky.social · 05/11/2025Something in that episode reminded me of Dave Allen's sketch on voice control Find it in Best of Dave Allen vid at time 01:02:55 youtu.be/BqbEMmI78HY?...youtube.comBest of dave allenYouTube video by jasethehoo 100
