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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Great, I’ve always wanted to watch a video of an audiobook.

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

@Iconfactory I’m not sure what was going on, but it seemed to work fine an hour or two later. Loving the update so far!

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

@Iconfactory All working well for me now, some great improvements! I do still get confused about which of my Mastodon and Bluesky feeds+timelines I can interact with directly (like/reply/bookmark), and which ones I have to open posts in the external app to do that. Is there any prospect of them […]

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Mrs Wildcat's Columbo-themed entry has been shortlisted for this year's Jancis Robinson wine writing competition! If you love #wine and #Columbo, please consider voting for her entry "Just One More Glass" at www.jancisrobinson.com/articles/our… […]

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

@timfoster I can safely say I've never had any kind of day off that's made me look forward to getting back to work.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

A fun new #UX dark pattern from an #NFL mailing list that I don't recall seeing before. Do you have to toggle the switch to the “on” position before you click “Update Preferences” to unsubscribe from all marketing emails? Or is it already in the correct “off" […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

A toggle switch in the “off” position, labelled “Unsubscribe all - unsubscribe from all marketing emails”.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

@timfoster Probably fine. I've only ever had Android phones too, but I've used an iPad alongside them for years. I've never figured out how to manage notifications on i.*OS properly, but I’ve never really had to. And I can't customise the sounds on i.*OS as much as I'd like. But otherwise it's […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2026

I keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI." People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate […]

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

@timfoster Pretty typical for a 1960s New Town. Was supposed to keep traffic flowing better than traffic lights.

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David Penfold :verified: @davep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2026

John Finnemore on the French horn/cor anglais: "I was idly wondering why the cor anglais has a French name meaning ‘English horn’, and the French horn has an English name meaning… well, ‘French horn’. I looked it up, even though I knew there would just be some reasonable but rather dull […]

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everton137 @everton137.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 21/05/2026

Interesting post by the author of @allaboutberlin on how AI is killing his awesome website. #AI #OpenKnowledge #Berlin

AI is killing All About Berlin. When you Googled something, you used to get a link to my website. Now you get an AI-generated answer trained on my work.

This has a devastating impact on traffic. It's hard to fund my work with 70% fewer visitors. In another year, it will be impossible. Instead of writing new guides, I spend my days preparing for that future.

Yesterday, Google announced two things: AI-generated answers will completely replace search results, and AI-generated answers will soon contain ads.

This is the future of the web. I don't know where All About Berlin fits in that future.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Attempted to fix the dodgy screen connector that has plagued my @playdate since I got it, still not quite right though 😕

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Noah K @coderanger.cloudisland.nz.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026

People keep telling me to treat LLMs as junior devs, as if "a junior dev who is structurally incapable of learning from mistakes" isn't a working definition of hell.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 03/03/2026

[Politics, War] Was chatting to an eminently sensible Iranian colleague today (now lives in EU) who’s absolutely delighted about what Trump and Netanyahu are doing to his country. Literally never seen him happier. Now don't really know what to think about anything any more.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

Congrats to cheaty #Canada on their curling gold, I guess. #TeamBruce

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026

Got excited there until I realised that was the start time. #sixnations #scotland #wales

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/01/2026

Hah, I totally recognised #Pittenweem on tonight’s #LAOTY before the artist said that’s where she painted it. (Haven’t even been there for 30-odd years.)

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 24/01/2026

Apropos of nothing, just watching the new #Lynley on BBC One, and noticed his Jensen Interceptor is running around on its real plates. Here's a picture of the same car in 1972: www.joc.org.uk/Interceptor_Mk_1/Cha… #oldcars

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

@kumarvibe Ah well. Better than I've managed, has started raining here now.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

Kp currently rising rapidly, for any #aurora hunters out there. (Cloudy as all get-out in my part of Ireland, so nothing to see currently.)

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/01/2026

It's not mentioned in many of his obits, but I see David Webb of Melbourne House fame has died. www.reuters.com/sustainability/sust…

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 12/01/2026

@timfoster I've been doing Pilates for years and the breathing still makes no sense to me.

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bit101 @bit101.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/01/2026

I made a venn diagram to help you understand Moiré patterns.

venn diagram. circles labeled "Angled lines" and "Different angled lines", they are filled with patterns of slightly different angled lines. the intersecting area is labeled Moire pattern and indeed has a moire pattern in it.

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Phil @paw.mstdn.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/01/2026

Timezones are so silly. New Zealand and Australia are in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 30/12/2025

A fun way to end to 2025, but we’ll still end the season mid-table and papped out both cups by teams we should’ve beaten, it’s the #MotherwellFC way. #ScottishFitba #SPFL

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Glyph @glyph.im · 17/12/2025

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

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Bruce Sterling @bruces @bruces.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/12/2025

They used to "laugh and call him nanes." Now they're all dead

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/11/2025

Bugger, that's been my starting word for years. #wordle Wordle 1,603 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2025

jetbrains is far from the first company to make this particular pair of claims but it is simply, on the most fundamental level, impossible to mass-collect people’s terminal and editor contents and also not collect sensitive or personal data. I realize they […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

screenshot: We’re now adding the option to allow the collection of detailed code‑related data pertaining to IDE activity, such as edit history, terminal usage, and your interactions with AI features. This may include code snippets, prompt text, and AI responses.

That sounds like a lot, and it is, but that’s where the real value for improvements comes from. If you allow us to collect this data, we will make sure that:
No sensitive or personal information is shared.

(Snippets of the text have been highlighted: “edit history, terminal usage, code snippets, prompt text … no sensitive or personal information is shared.”

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2025

It is WILD that we now live in a time where my job as an astrophysics professor has gone from "learn cool things about space" to "try to get someone to hold billionaires accountable for dropping shit on us from orbit"

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

A screenshot of a code editor. The line numbers are in the lefthand column, running from 121 to 125. There is a comment that says "Verify packages were created and check sizes" Then line 123 says echo Verifying Lambda packages were created... and Line 124 says echo checkmark emoji colon All Lambda packages verified successfully. There is no line in here that actually did anything.

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sam henri gold @samhenrigold.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2025

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door. Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2025

@juanfr Well, that certainly runs about ten times slower than I expected.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

@stroughtonsmith At least on Android, if you don’t know what a toolbar icon means, you’re supposed to be able to long press it to find out. Wish that was a standard iOS feature.

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daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

An Open Source sustainability story in two slides. (for a coming talk of mine) Slide 1: car brands using #curl Slide 2: car brands sponsoring or paying for #curl support

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2025

@juanfr I don't even remember Sinclair Programs doing reviews… must have been after I stopped buying it!

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 11/08/2025

@stroughtonsmith I hope not, because they would be either huge phones or a tiny iPads (in comparison to any phone or iPad I’d be interested in owning).

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2025

I ended up starting on the 8th, which was… 25 years ago today. #sunmicrosystems

Job offer letter from Sun Microsystems Ireland, signed by me, with intended start date of August 1st, 2000.

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Calum @scottishwildcat.mastodon.ie.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2025

@juanfr "Robert Maxwell has jumped in" is quite the prophetic opener.

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