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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

If the Greens had a spine they would have made legalized cannabis sales for adults a bottom line if Labour wanted to be in government in 2017. Either we would have got it without the referendum malarkey. Or, we would have given English and the Nats the poison pill of governing with Winston […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

"New analysis came out this week ... Teen marijuana use declined significantly in every [US] state that legalized adult use. Every single one." #ChrisFowlie, 2026 feeds.95bfm.com/link/22115/17498685… Why do these drug […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

The power of denial summed up in a single image.

Screenshot from The Gentlemen, with Freddy looking at Edward with a balaclava on his head, saying "we're not criminals, Freddy".

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

Goggle Search: We're organising the world's information. Goggle Gemini: We're disorganising the world's information. #Google

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

I feel duty bound the comment on the Buck the Sheep controversy. I'm kind of embarrassed that both theSpinoff *and* John Oliver stole a march on me on this one. I've been busy doing fuck all, and is the nature of burnout. But I digress ... In brief, I when the Greens and ACT/ Free Speech Onion […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

My entries for the caption competition (see above); 1) The ACT party, outstanding in someone else's field 2) Putting ACT leaders out to pasture? Where do I vote for that? #ACT #NZElection2026 #MZPoliticsMemes

A meme of an ACT party billboard in an overgrown vacant lot, with the text "The ACT party, outstanding someone else's field".

A meme of an ACT party billboard in an overgrown vacant lot, with the text "Putting ACT leaders out to pasture? Where do I vote for that".

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I was recently reminded that the fediverse.party update infrastructure that I inherited when I was shoulder-tapped as Lead Goose depends in part on npm. This is a critical security bug, and I'm embarrassed it had skipped my mind. I intend to get it fixed ASAP, even if it requires rebuilding the […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

So now the NZ Parliament website is trying to pull browser scripts from this third-party domain; "UNPKG is a fast, global content delivery network for everything on npm." unpkg.com npm is a software repository for JavaScript slop. A full accounting of its history would require a long […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

I'm think about a new project, codename; #DeadPage. The idea is to set up a service that mirrors the homepages of public interest commons projects, like those developing Free Code software. With some kind of archive.org style header to make it clear that it's a mirror. The mirror would be […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

"You'd have been an idiot, or an education union member, to kid yourself that Erica Stanford's education reforms weren't working." www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch/20… Yeah, what would primary teachers know? They only do a 3 […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

How the rest of the country sees The Tron ...

Photo of money machine by sign with "That warm Hamilton hello", but the 'o' obscured by the angle.

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

#ADHDTips: Leaving a thing in your visual field can be a good way to remind yourself to deal with it. But it only works in an otherwise uncluttered environment! If you haven't responded to a visual niggle within a few hours or days, it will fade into the background. Eventually you won't even […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 19/10/2026

Oh, and in case anyone is wondering, I'm not an Opportunities official, nor even a member. I'm not working with their campaign. I haven't even given them campaign advice, except in the same way I give it to the Greens, or the Alliance, or the Cannabis party for that matter. In public, or […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

@Kiwiana13C This is some seriously Mirror World stuff right here. If anyone's been running a concerted attack campaign it's Greens partisans against Opportunity, not vice versa. Despite your election strategy being all about building bridges not flaming the Evil Other […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

A reminder to kiwis about the imminent General Election. A farcical aquatic ceremony, which gives this or that group of cynical, corporate-arse-licking clowns full Executive power over the NZ Parliament for the next 3 years. If you decide to participate (and I wouldn't just you for not […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Does anyone know of a tool that can check source code repository for signs of auto-generated code or commit messages without itself using a generative model backpropagation/ transformer? Obviously it would need to use some kind of AI, in the broadest possible sense of that term. It might even […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

A sensible NZ govt would distance themselves from Orange Stalin's régime as much as possible. But not by making ourselves a 'Switzerland of the South Pacific. The Swiss posture of 'neutrality' empowered the Nazis, so in effect that's who they sided with. Instead, NZ diplomats should be […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

To help out on fediverse.party, all you need to know how to do is use a web browser and a search engine, open issues on CodeBerg, and edit a wiki. You don't to be able to wrangle a Git repo, wrestle with static generator, or debug a CI It's like an iceberg, where the website is the tiny tip […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Social media bans for children? Barlow called it 30 years ago; "You are terrified of your own children, since they are natives in a world where you will always be immigrants. Because you fear them, you entrust your bureaucracies with the parental responsibilities you are too cowardly to […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Would you like develop an app? A fediverse app to be precise. With 90% of the work already done for you? You don't need a generative model for that. (1/2) #FediverseParty #DelightfulLists #VibeCoding #AI

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I've now got 3 vibe-coded LockedIn-a-likes on the list of fediverse projects using generative models in their development; codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wi… The value of a professional social network is in the crowd of […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

I just noticed a bonus effect of @Codeberg's new policy against hosting vibe coded slop. If a project moved off CB in the second half of 2026, after the policy was adopted, you can pretty much guarantee generative models are being used in its development. Or will be. Not only does the policy […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Does the nomad@opennomad.net protocol have a client-to-server API? Are there any third-party apps that use it to work with streams or Forte? #Forte #streams #Nomad #C2S #FediDevs

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Maybe it's just a case of OMYAC syndrome, but I've been noticing more and more ludicrously noisy motor vehicles and reckless driving these days. Anyone get the eerie feeling we're now living in the first Mad Max movie? We're not at the Road Warrior stage yet, but it's starting to feel more and […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

In the last few days I got inspired to do a work on rebuilding our fediverse (client) app watchlist on the wiki; codeberg.org/fediverse/fediparty/wi… Figuring out how to structure it was a quite a challenge! For now, I've settled on sorting apps into […]

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Matthias Pfefferle @pfefferle.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@strypey @johnonolan @writefreely we made a landing page on WordPress.com wordpress.com/social-web and produced an awesome video series with @docpop that explains the fediverse in general but we also talk about the blogging part […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I just went to enable the ATProto support on Wafrn and quickly realised this is *not* the native ATmosphere integration it's been promoted as. The 'enable BlueSky' page in Settings says; "To enable Bluesky, you will log in through the Bluesky flow and authorize your account." Seems that it's […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@funkwhale@social.funkwhale.audio I just tried to visit retribute.me and got a 502. With text linking to the FunkWhale status page (which BTW still links to @funkwhale@fosstodon.org). What's up there?

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

"Need a bit more privacy? The laptop's webcam has an integrated webcam cover that can be open and closed on a whim." www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/peng… What, you mean no more sticky note over the webcam? I'm gushing now, I know, but these folks really do seem to […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

#TIL it's possible to register .foo domains. Not to be confused with *.food* domains, which are similar but different (no 'd' 😉). Domain.foo is taken (of course), there are innumerable other possibilities. I'm really surprised O'Reilly hasn't registered camp.foo for Foo Camp. What a missed […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Framework has had some impressive community marketing. So a *lot* of people know about them. But some of probably still suspicious of them after the funding they gave to various shady projects (notably Omarchy) ThinkPenguin laptops are also designed to be as repairable as possible, *and* to […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Woah. I just saw that fediverse.party is at the top of this list of fediverse stuff; alternativeto.net/lists/39111/fediv… This kind of things reminds me of what an important responsibility I've taken on, and lights a fire under me to get the site hacked into shape, after being […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

When I was younger I thought I was going to be a superhero. Turns out I prefer to be the Guy in the Chair ; )

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I guess a follow-up question, for people using generative models to do rubber duck debugging, would be; Why not just get an actual rubber duck? Even if it's made from oil-derived plastic, it's still got an overall environmental footprint that's *many* orders of magnitude smaller, and no other […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Does anyone know of an article that explains why someone might want to publish their blog or newsletter into the social web, and explains the basics of how to do that? Using simple, clear language that non-geeks can easily make sense of. #publishing #SocialWeb

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

This week's Midweek MediaWatch posed the question; do leaders' debates still make sense in 21st century elections? www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/m… I haven't bothered to watch any this time around, which […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

The things generative models can do, which can't be done with more deterministic forms of AI (a very broad category including a lot of genuinely useful automation), are all things that can otherwise only be done by humans. So a question I'd like to ask anyone boosting the use of generative […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

#Listening to Buttmachine. This song is on a 2007 album, The Moon is Disgusting by That 1 Guy, but it could have been written for generative "AI"; "..and just because we can It don't mean That we should And just 'cause It's modern Don't mean It smells good" […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

My granddaughter has this thing called a "toniebox" (™️, I believe) that she can use to play music or stories. It's a small amplifier in a decorated box, and the storage media are colourful little plastic figures. Mostly you buy pre-recorded stuff, where the design of the plastic figure matches […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Am I blind or did you forget to post this one here @norightturnnz? "TOP betrays its supporters" norightturn.blogspot.com/2026/10/to… Politics, as the old saying goes, is the art of the possible. Neither the Nat nor Labour block is going to legislate a […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Just received a new bank card. The colour pamphlet that came with it opens; "We've refreshed the design to reflect who were are as a bank; modern, thoughtful, and here to help you and all our customers to bank better everyday." Who writes this shit? It sounds like slop. Maybe it is. The bank […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

#TIL about #OpenReview; "OpenReview aims to promote openness in scientific communication, particularly the peer review process, by providing a flexible cloud-based web interface and underlying database API ..." openreview.net/about This opening sentence is followed by a long list of […]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Most dried pasta sold in this country comes in disposable plastic bags. Presumably, like most plastic, made out of toxic wastes from fossil fuel refining (if you can claim they have a use, you can rebrand them as "byproducts" or "coproducts") Anyway, l […] [Original post on mastodon.nzoss.nz]

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Strypey @strypey.mastodon.nzoss.nz.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I hadn't heard of the Public Media Alliance before I randomly saw the announcement about BPM joining (linked in previous post) via web search serendipity. Their Public Spaces Incubator sounds amazing! "Over a hundred prototypes have been designed by the team at the Public Spaces Incubator. Of […]

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Dr Pen @drpen.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Terrifying levels of digital illiteracy out there: "A browser is a search engine." NO IT IS NOT. You can choose your search engine completely separately from your browser. This applies to phones, tablets and laptops/desktops. Some good alternatives to google […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Wikipedia list of web search engines, with language and owners

Baidu Chinese Baidu
Brave Search Multilingual Brave
Dogpile English Metasearch engine
DuckDuckGo Multilingual Multiple
Ecosia Multilingual Google and Microsoft Bing
Excite† Multilingual Microsoft Bing
Google Multilingual Google
Kagi English Metasearch engine and Kagi
Lycos Multilingual Microsoft Bing
MetaCrawler English Metasearch engine
Microsoft Bing Multilingual Microsoft Bing
Mojeek Multilingual Mojeek
Petal Multilingual Huawei
Qwant Multilingual Microsoft Bing
Sogou Multilingual Tencent
Startpage English Google
Swisscows Multilingual Microsoft Bing
WebCrawler English Microsoft Bing
Yahoo! Search† Multilingual Microsoft Bing
Yandex Multilingual Yandex
Yep English Yep
You.com English Microsoft Bing

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