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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 20h

Awesome - I’ll target this at Gedge, on of my friend’s big dumb “gedge hit it” characters from my petty bureaucrat/ Walter Mitty character…

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I am going to appropriate the saying “less chat, more splat” and introduce it to my GF, to whom it absolutely doesn’t apply… ;)

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

One of my prized nerd possessions is a full Inmos Transputer wafer. It is, of course, a complete nightmare to take an ad-hoc photo of…

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Move over Adam Ant, there’s stiff competition for the Dandy Highwayman… (And yes: I am bang up to date with my cultural references.)

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

A friend did a phd in the field which they summarised as: Think of the kind of people who are attracted to the pursuit of regulated money. Now consider the kind of people attracted to the pursuit of unregulated money.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reese-Mogg is absolutely not an aristocrat, his father was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer. This does not make you an aristocrat any more that the ridiculously affected way he chooses to talk.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

What you’ve got to understand is that the vast majority of people in the UK think that Jacob Rees-Mogg is an incredibly privileged idiot. If they are aware of Tucker Carlson they’d also say he was also an idiot. Why did we fight ww2 isn’t exactly an intellectually challenging question.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I came here to say the same thing...

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The greatest trick the devil ever played was convincing developers that it is reasonable to use whitespace to define codeblocks.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m still amazed that people don’t recognise the washing machine or the dishwasher, come to that the thermostat as home automation.

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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Water for bovine agriculture in Utah has become a grim obsession of mine since it is such a small, insiginificant part of their economy, irrelevant to their food supply and presents an imminent, deadly threat to its population via the Great Salt Lake drying up and creating poisonous dust clouds

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Badenoch admitted to defacing a Labour MP’s web site, which as far as I am aware would have been a crime under the computer misuse act (IANAL) Somehow she got away with saying sorry. news.sky.com/story/tory-v...

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Tory vice-chair Kemi Badenoch admits hacking Labour MP's website

The Saffron Walden MP, a rising star, is apologising for accessing the website and changing it to "say nice things about Tories".

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It’s also what happens when pretty much all science fiction is dark future, post apocalypse, machines are the enemy. I think the unequivocally positive future sci fi can probably be counted on one hand: Star Trek Futurama Ian M Banks’ The Culture

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Tim Harford @timharford.ft.com · 23/09/2026

"They should have thrown away their graphs and hired a science-fiction writer." as.ft.com/r/0e69b26e-1...

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The problem with P(doom)

Predicting AI catastrophe has gone mainstream with predictable consequences

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A big problem I find with reporting on IT stories is that there’s this presumption that a Computer Scientist knows everything about IT, including infrastructure engineering, service provision etc. This makes about as much sense as believing that a physics degree qualifies you in civil engineering.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I understand that it’s probably the last weekend in the UK this summer that Bikers will be able to go out for a ride. I’m not entirely sure this means they can do nearly 80+mph in a 50 limit and overtake round blind corners on double white lines… again and again…

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

*A common way for abusive ex-partners to screw with their exes when they haven’t been locked out of HA accounts is to remotely flash lights, turn the heating up/down, etc. A modern version of gaslighting.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I know whoever owns it is using it as it has turned on. I’d like to tell them their home automation security is somewhat lacking, but short of flashing it on and off* or going door to door asking who’s it is there’s no way, meh. I excluded it from my network and blocked its IEEE address.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Setting up a new zigbee light switch yesterday… sets the controller to include mode on zigbee2mqtt… walked over to switch, set the switch to include. Ooh, look a Phillips hue bulb… Hang on, I don’t have any hue bulbs… Asked a few neighbours and none of them do either…

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today I presented an unscheduled opportunity to see if Windows Server 2025 will run on an HP ProLiant Microserver Gen8 as hyper-v server. It will. It didn't even complain about BIOS rather than UEFI, lack of secure boot, or lack of a TPM (which is a pluggable option)...

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I was expecting a punchline, but nice slow burner… Top work… 10/10, no notes…

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Does use of aviation lead to psychosis or does being predisposed to psychosis lead to aviation? Is aviation psychosis even in the DSM?

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

What I’m criticisig is the idea that someone who has been working in the field for iirc three years, has little to no other experience in industry has quit his job and had a single tweet make global headline news. It should have been obvious by his age that significant further journalism was needed.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Right, but Einstein produced four detailed papers, this guy did a single tweet and flounced out of a job. You do see the difference?

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

He’s 27, barely old enough to hire a car. (Assuming whatever AI it was that told me this is correct…)

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

News journalists continually go to Computer Scientists to opine about IT infrastructure / operational IT or security stories where they have zero expertise. I don’t know why this is the case, I mean you never hear physicists being interviewed about civil engineering.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

It’s another news story that presumes everyone who knows about IT knows everything about IT. I’ve been saying for years that the people designing/running these models have zero idea about the design infrastructure or cost in terms of energy, storage, backup, compute, interconnects, software, etc etc

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I did a witticism about where I used to work in London while in a meeting with a load of US clients. It finished with “…but if you turned left and walked for 5mins, you’d get stabbed for crack” then had to be absolutely clear it was a joke as peoples’ faces dropped because they didn’t realise.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The 9th September is vintage drum machine day. May the beat go on for all those who celebrate.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Way back when I told a philosopher friend a related joke when he said he was doing lectures on Locke: Did you hear that John Locke won the million £/$ prize in Deal or no Deal? Which box was it in? It was in 8.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I heard someone claim this *on the radio* once, yet somehow I understood all of the interview.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I’d survive American Werewolf in London: I grew up in Yorkshire, right by the moors and I absofuckinglutely wouldn’t stray off the road/path and that is even if I was dumbass enough to be walking at night in fog.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Live coverage of a tapestry that was only completed 20 years after the events it depicts?

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

It’s worth being absolutely clear that under Badenoch, the Tories not have not only moved away from any pretence of “green and pleasant land” but they actively deselect any candidate who “believes” in climate change. Under Badenoch, Margaret Thatcher wouldn’t qualify to stand as an MP because woke.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Scrolls down… ooh, I used to have those curtains… Scrolls further… can’t see the curtains any more for some reason ;)

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Keep your jet engine safe in flight Real time fraud detection in banking compute Power transmission grid simulation Computer Museum code preservation Vaccine candidate identification Protein folding Noise removal/image cleanup/resolution upscaling in movie preservation

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

What I will say as an asthmatic who has converted to induction cooking and has seen a massive increase in battery electric and hybrid cars and busses etc: if the power you use for heat, transport etc is created where people don’t live, it’s much nicer where they do.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Whenever I hear these X isn’t perfect so don’t bother, I just want to sit whoever is saying it down and tell them at length about Nirvana Fallacy. It was the same when chip and pin was introduced “there’s this obscure edge case that can attack it, so best stay with magstripe.”

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In the UK it is very common for farmers to graze sheep on grass under solar farms.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’ve lost my storage… where is it?.. it’s got to be round here somewhere … rolls chair back… crack… storage is too small these days.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Just saw someone posted a huge article about strategy for r-type on one of the Switch 2. I haven’t read it but presume it’s something like this: If it moves, blast it If it doesn’t move, blast it until it moves, then blast it.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I am incredibly disappointed in channel 4, what has happened to the channel that used to run Equinox? I am not really surprised by the Graun’s review, their science reporting is pretty terrible these days. Again, considering they used to have the Bad Science column it’s fallen a long way.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

3. I have a label, which is quite useful. I’ll tell people I have ADHD, but that this is just so they know and am absolutely clear it is not an excuse. However: - if you want me to do something now, make it the second most important thing on my list & it’s ok to remind me of things.

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Fraser MacIntosh @sdschap.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

2. The very first thing I noted on the medication was I had no idea how anxious I was all the time, how crippling it had been. I would have kept that medication if it hadn’t helped with the ADHD.

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