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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/05/2026

Johny Ive's new Ferrari design is marmite for sure, but I find the charging mechanism a departure from EV norms. This changes everything?

A Ferrari Luce upside down with a USB-C cable plugged into the underside.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/01/2026

As it turns out, the European Cucuteni-Trypillia culture invented the #Taiji (or 'Yin/Yang) symbol a thousand years before its earliest appearance in China. voloshin.md/en/cucuteni-trypillia #Taijitu #Daoism

Cucuteni-Trypillia pottery displaying a spiral Yin/Yang symbol

Cucuteni-Trypillia pottery house, adorned with two spiral Yin/Yang symbols.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/01/2026

So the real question right now to ask of people like Jeff Bezos is if the US sanctions your country and asks you to turn off the government services that rely on your cloud what are you going to do? Are you going to do what your government tells you to, or are […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

@Viss "The security firm praised EY's response as professional and effective, and a week later the incident was remediated." A WEEK LATER! Professional and effective?

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/10/2025

OH: Working with old versions of software is like Historical Re-enactment, you have to continuously think about whether what you're reflexively doing is appropriate for the historical time period you're meant to be operating in...

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2025

@meisterluk Ironically, there's something weird going on with your typesetting here:

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2025

Email to everyone at work yesterday imploring all to fill out the anonymous health check questionnaire, and to express views honestly, both positive and negative. I was going to comment about deadlines, poor quality of work, technical debt etc. Today follow-on […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2025

It's the company execs that have already gone rogue, and the market is cheering madly.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2025

Just in case you were in any doubt that the world of web development has well and truly jumped the shark.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2025

"A dependency-free frontmatter-aware framework-agnostic wrapper around a directory of static content."

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

You know, FT, you're not really selling me on subscribing here:

Headline of the Financial Times newspaper website: "The Bank of England isn't sure: using cutting edge language analysis techniques and quantitative reasoning we prove nothing".

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/06/2025

I'm not really sure where to start with unpacking this marketing messaging...

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/06/2025

@joel Sorry, I'm not ranting at you, but the author of the LinkedIn post. It reeks of Snake Oil.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/06/2025

WAT?! "Clawed Lobster Owl crochet pattern"

A "Clawed Lobster Owl" crocheted in orange wool.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/05/2025

I find it so sad that the consultancy that I work for (one of the best to work for in the UK apparently) issued its annual all hands 'next year's strategy' meeting yesterday, and the geniuses' answer to the bear market right now is... MOAR AI!!!!!!!!1111eleventyone

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/05/2025

PSA: If the only way your business model is viable is if you screw your workers, customers, or the environment, then you don't have a viable business model. Nor is what you're doing 'innovation'. infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/1144…

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

Today was World #TaiChi day, so we did some #taijiquan in the garden. It turns out it is surprisingly difficult to get a good still photo of Push Hands training (Tui Shou), but this one is at least amusing. Push Hands trains sensitivity, listening, adhering and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2025

Car meetup at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford aerodrome this morning.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/04/2025

I don't even know where to begin with what is wrong with this article. I'm not linking it because they don't deserve the traffic. #PeopleAreNotResources

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/04/2025

@joel Cute kitty! Our pear tree blossomed similarly while we were away last week.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 07/04/2025

From a video game (Far Cry New Dawn), but so a la mode.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 06/04/2025

I'm in Cortona in Italy under the Tuscan sun, and thoroughly enjoying being (mostly) #unplugged.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 04/04/2025

When it came out, everyone thought that the pretext to the conflict in The Phantom Menace was ridiculous. Now: not so much.

Opening text to the movie Star Wars: The Phantom Menace "Turmoil has engulfed the Galactic Republic. The taxation of trade routes to outlying star systems is in dispute."

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

"Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make". vmst.io/@jalefkowit/114275487990873…

Scene from the movie Shrek, with the Prince addressing his people from the walls of the castle saying: "Some of you may die, but that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make".

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/04/2025

Now would not be the time to be HODLing shares of US-market traded companies. I get the sense this is not a ride that you want to be riding to the bottom.

A man in Weimar Germany in the 1930s emptying a bucket overflowing with bank notes to pay for groceries. There are signs on the grocery counter like tomatoes 40000 marks and wurst 180000 marks.

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The Long Tail @sleepyfox.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/03/2025

"Mr Starmer is yet to say whether British soldiers will be permitted to fire at Russian forces if they attack." Frost: What the hell are we supposed to use, man? Harsh language? […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Scene from the movie Aliens with the team being told they can't fire their rifles.

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