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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@mjdxp It was popular during the turn-of-the-millennium Linux advocacy movement to screw up your nose when someone mentioned Microsoft anything, as if you were trying to puzzle out what they said, and then ask "Microsoft?? You mean...the keyboard company??"

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Tom Lyon ✅ @aka-pugs.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

OTD 1975: The second #UNIX Users Group meeting, hosted by Cuny. I was lucky to be there! This was the organization that became #Usenix.

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

A couple of billion years ago, cyanobacteria evolved the ability to photosynthesize. Suddenly they could turn the abundant atmospheric C02 into carbon for replicating themselves. The only side effect was the release of oxygen. It was a monumental success, but it ended up turning Earth's C02 […]

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

These are the layups. All these actions are crimes. All the perjuries are crimes. Find one vicious bastard prosecutor and have them chew through these ICE/DHS cases starting Day One. Just enforce the law! The lowest bar possible!

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Abolish ICE. Fire them all. Prosecute their crimes. Start with prosecuting the crimes first and work your way backward if that makes you more comfortable. But we cannot live in a country with this level of elite impunity.

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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

Am I losing my mind or is the website and code for littlefed very muchi LLM-generated? The website says it's made by hand, but the copyright holder says they didn't write the code, a group of people called the 'little computer people' did, and then trasferred copyright to him. This group is […]

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Rach "pumpkin spice butt girl" @ykantrachelread.social.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

every branch of right-wing pseudo-intellectualism is named something like "super-rational objective humanist altruism" and then you look at what they believe and it's some variant of "corporations should legally be able to murder kids"

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Hounslow Cycling @hounslowcycling.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Plans for Cycleway 9 West between Brentford and Hounslow Town Centre are well worth supporting. Make sure your voice is heard! Links to consultation and our summary response. haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/cycleway-9-w... hounslowcycling.org/cycleway-9-w... @londoncycling.bsky.social

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Syon Park to Hounslow town centre walking and cycling improvements

Find out more about our plans to extend Cycleway 9 between Syon Park and Hounslow Town centre, and have your say by taking our survey.

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Prof Heino Falcke @hfalcke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: idf.social/@arjen/117364443241316215 So, number of first year computer science students has halved (!) at some universities within two years - likely due to being scared by AI. (We don’t see this in physics and astronomy).

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Marloes de Koning :check: @marloesdekoning.nrc.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Ik verken voor NRC het open sociale web. Deze mastodon-server is daar een belangrijke stap in. Hij vormt de uitvalsbasis voor NRC-redacteuren die actief zijn op Mastodon. Het is een werk in wording.

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@cyclingjudy You may need to report @CyclingJud@mastodon.social as it seems to be typosquatting you and slowly following everyone you're following.

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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Has anyone checked in with The Fediverse Chick lately, to see if she's alright?

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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

I've been working on a presentation that uses #CoolRetroTerm to emulate a #vt220, and re-tooling all my editor and shell and #fzf stuff to fit those limitations. And you know what? It's kind of surprisingly modern and comfortable. I feel like I spent the 90s […] [Original post on teh.entar.net]

An fzf invocation on a cool-retro-term terminal in amber monochrome, showing an ascii-art rendition of Peter Weinberger's infamous portrait from his Bell Labs ID.

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Capitalists: "People are driven by greed. They won't work without some kind of personal incentive, like money." Ok, cool, but do you know what "a baby" is?

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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The Russians just used an epi-pencil.

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

github.com/nesbox/TIC-80/discussion… <-- gutted to see even #TIC80 fall to slopcoding. Who would take an imaginary retrocomputer and decide that doing things yourself was no longer worth the time??

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

idk why y'all are so worked up about it being on the ground, it's a foundational work (I took this photo at a picnic hosted by a compiler engineer in 2018. The book survived, I promise)

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Panda spice latte is back! (Don't worry, pandas are not actually used in the latte. It's just referring to the spices traditionally used to flavor pandas in other dishes.)

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Screwtapello @screwtapello.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Today I learned about "magic eye tubes", a visual indicator of voltage levels based on cathode-ray-tube technology. They were used in the early 20th century until needle-and-dial voltage meters became cheap enough to take over. They sure look cool, though […]

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hex @hex.kolektiva.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

It occurred to me that "AI" is following the Walmart model. If they could keep token prices suppressed long enough to kill everyone able to use their brain, then they can recover the losses by being the only provider of those skills. It looks to me like a move to swap LLMs for oil as the main […]

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Ryan Finnie @ryan.m29.us.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

RE: live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/117… "RETURN TO BASE FOR INSPECTION" "WHERE?" "IRAN" "IRAN SO FAR AWAY"

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Fun fact: the U.S. Constitution does not require citizenship to vote. I'll repeat that: the U.S. Constitution does not say that only citizens can vote. It does not ban non-citizens from voting. A federal *statute* contains this requirement, as do many states' laws. But if the law was changed […]

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🎄🎅🏻🎄Jolly Kringle 🎄🎅🏻🎄 @jonathankoren.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

In the year 2042, the United States finds itself once at war, but now for the first time a century it finds itself fighting a superior adversary. In a desperate plot, the oldest commissioned warship afloat, the USS Constitution sorties for combat for the first time in 227 years. Its wood and […]

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Jon Hancock @bigjackbrass.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Madness! Leave them be: THEY EVOLVED BEAKS FOR A REASON.

Screenshot of a typical garbage YouTube advert, this one showing a smiling woman and offering "LIFETIME GUARANTEED DENTAL IMPLANTS IN TURKEY –
• All-on-4, All-on-6
• Zygomatic Implants
• Hollywood Smile
• Dental Veneers
• Dental Crowns
• Full-Mouth Solutions
• Multi-Unit Abutments

and so on, including Google and Trustpilot ratings and other claims that should have your Spider-Sense tingling.

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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

That's a common misconception. It was originally "duct typing" from the era when computers used pneumatic tubes

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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

That's a common misconception. It was originally "duct typing" from the era when computers used pneumatic tubes

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Sam at BLAG @blag.typo.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

What's a neat way of storing and accessing smaller publications, e.g. A5 / half letter size? A shelf doesn't work for me as most of these (zines, booklets, etc) don't have text on their spines, and it's more or less the same issue with the plastic box that I currently have them in. I want to […]

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Bokbot @chicken.bots.robots.rodeo.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

A bok bok bok bok bok bok bok Bok Bok bok Bok Bok bok bok Bok bok Bok Bok Bok bok bok bok bok bok bok bok bok bok’s “Bok Bok Bok bok Bok bok bok Bok Bok” bok.

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Phil M0OFX @philpem.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

It's easy to spot Canadian graffiti artists. They start drawing the "cool S", then turn it into "Sorry about your wall".

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173251374… Just take some time to understand that a lot of the "magic" and "creativity" of chatbots is basically hardcoded. Thousands of humans wrote it. The AI hype is basically ELIZA 2.0 powered by a nuclear plant.

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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

#LLMs are just the #NSA finally getting that #Polybius game out to the public.

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

What an amazing campaign video about #Meta #SpyGlasses from @bitsoffreedom ❣️ Filmed in front of the Meta offices in #Amsterdam featuring real Meta employees. :)

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Uh uh, uh uh “a big computer did it and ran away” is now a valid defence, gotcha

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I make the hard prediction that every project/company/institution that keep a clear NO without exception to any use of AI will have a huge competitive advantage in the next 5 years. This also applies to intellectual workers/specialists. You just need to survive until that point […]

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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

London has 5x 'Cycleways' it had in 2016, on quiet streets & main road cycle tracks. But many other cities have not followed a similar approach to cycling routes - yet have seen similar declines in bus speeds. 2. Piece does imply @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social's 'Transport Strategy Centre'... 2/13

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London Cycling Campaign @londoncycling.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Buses v cycling? A 🧵... Too often, the bus 'industry' defaults to attack cycling as cause of buses (in London) getting slower & slower. Good to see that somewhat countered here: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i... by @theguardian.com data team. 1. Bus speeds dropping is a "global problem"... 1/13

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London buses in decline? Why public transport in global cities is slowing to a crawl – visualised

As experts fear for future of UK capital’s bus network, some commuters are giving up entirely. London is not alone – with worrying implications for poorest in society

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Simon Munk @psimonk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Government & police seem fairly content to allow a far-right agitator to menace sea rescue boats, slash at a boat with a person on, endangering their life, while if you hold up a sign or say you would quite like a genocide to stop in Palestine, you risk the full force of the law & media attacks...

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Wieferich Prime @pikesley.mastodon.me.uk.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

"I'm being pragmatic but also nuanced" I declare, as I allow *some* Nazis into my bar

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Leo Murray @crisortunity.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

hAmMeRsmiTh bRiDgE iS cLOsEd

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Colin McMillen @colin-mcmillen.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I figured out what annoys me SO MUCH with the flood of "I made a thing" posts in the #retrocomputing community and it's evidently LLM vibe-coded. It's about the same as if hundreds of people arrived in some woodworking forum, proudly posting "I built a bookshelf" with pictures of an IKEA Billy […]

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Space Hobo @spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Ah, I may finally have understood #SwayIdle syntax.

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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈 @lazarou.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: halo.nu/@theguardian_us_news/117314… A child orphaned by America's violent and careless society.... 😞 Cars kill, they are not toys.

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