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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

BBC News - Porn showing choking or incest to be banned from early November www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmpqgep… OK, but after the OSA I wonder how many people are using a vpn, and will continue to have access to this content via that. Anyone know how many big platforms actually […]

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

@sxa I've used Hong Kong camera companies that post everything as "return from repair" to avoid that. At least they used to, no idea if they still do

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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

OTD in 2002 🇺🇦 began decommissioning its nuclear capable Tu-22 strategic bombers & Kh-22 cruise missiles, as per the Budapest memo. 30 bombers & 230 missiles were destroyed over 2 & half years in exchange for promise 🇷🇺 would never invade. But you can believe our promises now

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Canonical Ubuntu @ubuntu.ubuntu.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Hear that roar? Ubuntu 27.04 has a name. Make way for Tenacious T-Rex! 🦖

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Andy Smith @grifferz.social.bitfolk.com.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

[uspol] Look if wheeling out a disabled man who's been in jail since 2013 anyway and shooting him to death on livestream in order to demonstrate that being a terrorist is bad isn't enough to win me the Nobel Peace Prize this time, I really don't know what is going on in the heads of the […]

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@sxa yeah but my first point about whether anyone cares? I'm sure they're more worried about whether payment cleared

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@Edent tbf I'm not sure mine do much from 0 to 50, but even having them reliably keep power so I get notified to water when dry would be great. Have had mine years and never got around to properly utilising them

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@Edent interesting, I don't think mine can be calibrated. Then again they're cheap and the batteries don't last well so they don't do much for me at all (should probably try some LiIon AA tbf)

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The Heart of the TARDIS @theheartofthetardis.politicalmemes.org · 08/10/2026

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$(N\:‘;A el Hangover & w ‘élf @PromptAlan still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept Al slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them 6:42 PM - Sep 27, 2026 - 4.3M Views O 12« |$

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bryan newbold @bnewbold.net · 07/10/2026

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

old photos of a woman (Margaret Hamilton) standing next to a tall stack of books (printouts of Apollo space mission software source code)

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn’t top Stardust, the top-rated human-made bot. On Friday, GPT was facing […]

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

@sxa mine other TV is the same, no Netflix as they've turned off support for the apis and the manufacturer doesn't do updates. Currently using an old xbox to get occasional use of that TV

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@Edent @Edent yeah exactly this. I have a quite pricey Garmin for running. As a smart watch I use it to see messages on my wrist and tell the time. I hardly use payments, I mostly have my phone anyway. The part that justified the price was gps running tracking with maps and navigation, including […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

my friends wanted to pass on the reminder this Spooky Season that black food dye (often made from activated charcoal, which is used for treating poisonings) can cause your medications to be ineffective

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@Edent I don't have a current meter on my oven so it's hard to isolate the cost but I wonder what heating the oven plus 20m cooking actually uses...

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@Edent ah yeah the timing sound painful. I assume you don't have a battery for the house to flatten that out?

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

@edent.tel @Edent 37p doesn't sound too bad to me... Only marginally above my 36.49 day rate, but i only get down to 17.19 at night, nowhere near negative Quite a range though from one to the other there

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Massive Qi chargers for cars! electrek.co/2026/09/18/its-finally-… I can see the utility of using this for slow charging. But is it really that much of a faff to plug in a cable? I wonder how perfectly aligned the car needs to […]

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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The WAR ON WALKING has taken many forms around the world. It’s often as simple as how we signal who space is and isn’t for. Once our eyes are opened to all the ways we’ve prioritized cars over people, we can’t unsee it. Frustrating photo contributed by @stadsplanering.bsky.social. #WarOnWalking

Background photo from North Macedonia, where “sidewalks are mostly used to park cars” as explained by photo contributor Carl-Henrik Barnekow. Text says “Don’t buy the lie that there’s a war on cars. They’ve been waging a war on walking for a century.” Via the Urban Truth Collective. #WarOnCars #UrbanTruth

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@Edent also amused that their "high" electricity usage house is 4MWh... Lasy year we used 13 😱 (though some of that was self-generated and a chunk was for the cars)

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@Edent ah thanks, NI is a different energy market

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

@edent.tel @Edent I'm so jealous, would love a free car charge, never mind being paid to charge my car!

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Jérôme Petazzoni @jpetazzo.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I'm looking for recommendations for someone who is #blind (0% vision) and doesn't have a computer (so, using their phone). They're looking for a way to publish texts or blog posts. They tried and were very disappointed by substack and tumblr. And also potentially a Mastodon client. Is there […]

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Theodora Ward @theodoraward.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

if i rig up a random number generator to a bomb, program it to generate a number between 1 and 20 every five minutes, set the bomb to go off if i roll a 20, begin the random number generator, then leave the room, i am liable for when the bomb goes off. the fact that a deeply stupid […]

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

As a treat - here are a few more bats captured with thermal imagery.

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

I'm running London marathon next year for Action Cancer. All donations greatly appreciated. Also if I raise £3000 I'm shaving the beard off (probably after the race) www.justgiving.com/page/anton-piatek

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inpc @inpc.go.mxtthxw.art.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

I know it's unlikely many people here could reach an arts festival in the South East of England next month but just in case... I have work in the Ramsgate Festival Of Sound this year, which is an audio/visual piece approx 15 mins long in the crypt of St. George's Church in the centre of the […]

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TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️ @theevilskeleton.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

Hi, for those relying on a screen reader, we would like to have your feedback on what we could do to make GNOME Calendar friendly for you. If you would like to share some feedback on anything regarding the screen reader experience with GNOME Calendar, please consider reading and commenting on […]

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Terence Eden @edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/08/2026

I'm getting a bit frustrated with the various Mastodon apps for Android. Tusky doesn't support quote posts, and scrolling is janky. Fedilab scrolling also stutters. Pachli doesn't group notifications. Mastodon official doesn't let you swipe between the tabs or customise them much. I'm on a […]

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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Wow. "AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months. High-stakes entrance-exam scores fall by 18 and 24%, with the full penalty emerging only after about two years. " […]

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Gareth Harmer @gazimoff.gamepad.club.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

In Kent, in England, there’s a town called Sandwich. Nearby is a village called Ham. Which means that you get this street sign calling out “Ham Sandwich”. There’s also a bus that starts at Samdwich, goes through Ham, before finishing at the coastal town of Deal. English, eh?

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

This is what the billionaire press and many politicians were campaigning so hard to destroy. Their freedom to drive took precedence over our children's freedom to thrive. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

@sxa we tend to stick a merged emoji on them when done, and often 👀 to show you're looking to save someone else

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Free WiFi on an economy (trans Atlantic) flight, including streaming (but not calls, nor voip). ❤️

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Still not sure if a 6h direct flight from Dublin (meaning 1h45 drive at 5am) was better than Belfast Airport which is a 20m drive though indirect 12h flight. Will prob be thankful of the shorter flight when inland though

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

Early start for a flight to Canada for work. Was supposed to be there Monday but the airline had strikes

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

@sxa our github Entra auth is worse as it's about half an hour. Security have not found any control to tune it so we're just having to click through twice an hour. The worst is native apps that decide to log you out every two weeks. Frankly PayPal is one of the stupidest as I have biometrics […]

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

@sxa oh that's probably just an auth timeout setting in either piece of software. Sometimes your admin can control it if it's enterprise.

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

@sxa I found I had to login a lot recently for work accounts. Turns out some pages were going via ipv6 and some ipv4 and Entra was flagging that a suspicious 🤦‍♂️

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 03/05/2026

Yesterday, one of the younger electricians was telling me about the beauty of the new alarm systems he installs. While acknowledging the quality of my current one, he said, "It uses a SIM card and calls you. The new ones are 4G or Wi-Fi and use the cloud, so notifications go straight to your […]

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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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elle mundy @ap.exch.gr · 23/07/2026

maybe if ads were just simple little messages in the corner like on daring fireball instead of an assault to at least 3 senses (sight, sound, touch [device temperature]) and riddled with malware and surveillance, then i might be more inclined to allow them. but instead i’m blocking your site

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Anton Piatek @sldrant.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

@RonJeffries Tom Clancy? Not read his since I was a teen but loved the Jack Ryan ones then, also Rainbow Six

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 19/07/2026

🦌 Arctic reindeer are the only mammals whose eyes change color seasonally - gold in summer, deep blue in winter. They physically restructure a nanoscale photonic mirror inside their eyes to match Arctic twilight wavelengths, boosting night vision during months of polar darkness. #science #nature […]

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