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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I know I must sound like I'm whining about #youtubemusic's recommendation engine but how many of these new releases are actually by real humans?

A grid of album and single cover images from YouTube music's new releases page with a number of the images having distinctive AI vibes.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Another one? #Reform's Dan Thomas resigns as #Wales leader after arrest www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqde0xk…

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Here is another in a series of attempts to divine information from #qemu's issue tracker. I think this is showing that #AI #bugpocolypse reports tend to be verbose, a lot of sanitizer reports are probably mislabelled (quite often the agent will show the […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

A heat map graph showing bug types correlating with reported tooling usage and the avg size of the initial report.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Pretty good showing from the Count. Entirely unsuprised that Farage makes up some bullshit to avoid being on the stage of his own media circus. Nigel Farage wins Clacton by-election that major parties boycotted: www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5y40d11zewt […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

a picture of a failing politician at a lectern

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

This is scientific vandalism. Not only does #Jodrell Bank still do cutting edge science it makes the North West a hub for radio astronomy and a leader in the SKA. We should be boosting science funding, not cutting it: Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

a large radio telescope pointing sideways against a sunset on the Cheshire planes.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026

Well pyrocumulonimbus seems like a new thing we have to worry about in this rapidly heating world: France and Spain wildfires: Bordeaux threatened as lightning storm created www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cvgzd34kq5dt #wildfires #france #spain

two firefighters dragging a line in front of some burning trees in a forest.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/07/2026

And then you get reminded there are even more unhinged nutters than Reform: Restore Britain leader describes Dunblane tragedy as 'one murder' www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj3gdj3… #guncontrol #uk #bbcnews #bbc

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/07/2026

You know it's serious #history when you get a blue plaque. #edsac #retrocomputing BBC News - Blue plaque awarded for Cambridge computer creation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyk5d1…

Blue plaque celebrating EDSAC on the 6th May 1949

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25/06/2026

Hmm not sure if the #qemu issue rate is accelerating or not. Is that a hockystick? #graphs #vibed

A graph purporting to show the issue raising rate for QEMU

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 31/05/2026

Hadn't noticed this before in #github's UI. I wonder if this is automatic or something the repo owner have to enable:

GitHub issue box with a hover over saying: "This issue is highly active. Reconsider commenting unless you have read all the comments and have something to add."

and "Add your comment here, be kind" in the preview text box

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/05/2026

I may find the heat of our recent #weather a bit hard to deal with but we have officially crossed the cost-neutral line with electricity exports exceeding the cost of imports. #solargeneration #solar #graphs

Graph of daily energy costs showing generation exceed consumption around mid-May

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/05/2026

Finally finished by issue triage marathon for #QEMU and we now have zero untagged issues. Of course that doesn't mean they are fixed (as of today we have 1271 open issues) but now hopefully it is easier to ensure bugs get routed to the right people. I've […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

Screenshot of the QEMU "Work Items" page showing 0 unlabelled items in the open state.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 16/05/2026

Working in code is much easier than trying to align and drop things with the #freecad tools. I need a better way cut out the excess though - some sort of plane operation? I think I'll use more #openscad in future. github.com/stsquad/gridfinity-rebui…

Close up of a grid of gridfinity bays with magnets with a handle at one end.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

A more useful graph from processing the #qemu issue data myself.

A stacked line graph showing the cumulative total of open and closed issues.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 12/05/2026

Time to start digging into the #qemu issue #analytics. Yep we are seeing a peek since march. We are not immune from the #ai #bugpocolypse

Bar graph of issues raised/closed over time from May 2025 to May 2026 showing an uptick recently.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 10/05/2026

It's always a treat when a @bennjordan #video drops if a little terrifying. Robot Dogs Are A Security Nightmare: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8WuXDXfcI #malware #cybersecurity #robots

3 robot dogs frolicking, one on a leash. The caption reads "I think I found malware"

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 03/05/2026

My #3dprintingwaste box arrived so I was finally able to sort out my overflowing wastebasket. I left a bunch of the #filamentpoop just because its harder to make sure the PLA and PETG ones are separated. While paying £54 for the privilege of #recycling my own […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

A plastic basket with hexagon shaped holes in the size filled with stringy plastic waste from a 3d printer. It is sat on a bench with a 3d printer just in view on the side.

A black 45L plastic box with a smattering of failed prints and old prototypes in the base.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/04/2026

Finally an election graphic that is more confusing than the #LibDem dodgy bar charts. I think this is implying that if you don't vote Green then Reform will pick up the last of the proportionally distributed seats for the #Senedd. I don't think PR works that way.

green party election infographic showing 5 "people" in various party colours with the sixth half light blue and half green.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 24/04/2026

Ahh yes #gemini that is a totally sane way to present a #timeline 🤣

A bar chart with the origin at 2,000 presenting a timeline of namespace features as a bar chart.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 17/04/2026

This is apparently a thing that surveys have to do these days!

* 3. How would you describe yourself as a respondent? (select one)
O I am an agent
O I just want to mess with the researchers
O l am a bot
O I'm just lines of code
O Don't know or not sure

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 13/04/2026

I was in a rush changing spools when #3dprinting yesterday and didn't notice the difference in colour. I don't hate it though.

Some black desk organizer containers with a hexagonal side pattern accented with a purple top.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026

Plenty of puns in the example ballot paper for next month's #Senedd #election.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 10/03/2026

I quite like this #ai #contribution #policy. It's thoughtfully written and places the responsibility on the human and makes clear what is definitely forbidden: github.com/mastodon/.github/blob/ma… #opensource

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25/02/2026

This is an excellent video from #veritasium touches in the history of free software, #compression #algorithms and the dangers of supply chain attacks in open source projects. How One Hack Nearly Took Down The Internet (53 min): www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoag03mSuXQ #video #youtube #longform

thumbnail showing a red tux penguin with the letters xz for eyes and the text "Hacked" alongside.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/02/2026

It will probably be a month or so before the house reaches the true neutral energy cost. However I had the first free tank of hot water today. About 4kWh of excess #solargeneration went into the hot water and almost 6kWh to the grid. #graphs

Energy flow graph showing grid and solar input and the various energy sinks in the house.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 14/01/2026

Printed my first temperature tower to calibrate the non-bambu filament for #3dprinting. The eldest has requested some organisational units.

a tower of 3d printed test platforms annotated with temperatures from 230 at the bottom to 190 at the top.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 07/12/2025

It's #EmacsConf #2025! I didn't watch live but I'm catching up. I found this interesting because it outlines 3 very different ways to interact with #llm's. I must admit I'm not yet confident enough to hand over the keys to an agent until I'm satisfied with […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/11/2025

It may be cold 🥶 but it is very bright 😎.

a wide shot of a sunny local Welsh valley with the Blorange in the background and a white cottage in the foreground.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 29/10/2025

Is it#DNS? Microsoft Azure outage: Heathrow, Xbox and Minecraft among sites down www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rj45n…

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

Every goto in the Linux kernel / Just another day on the linux-kernel mailing list: www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Mfirg2-Z8 > Visualization of every goto statement in the Linux 6.17 source code.Commentary from a 2003 linux-kernel mailing list discussion […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

thumbnail titled Every goto in the Linux Kernel with a background made from goto statements.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2025

An excellent guide to dead internet theory and the dangers of not double checking your generative systems output: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0 #video #llm #kurzgesagt

a thumbnail titled "AI SLOP" showing a cartoon earth enveloped in sticky black tendrils

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2025

I would hope most of my followers are already pretty skeptical of #rfkjr's autism claims. The internet's #hankgreen has done a deep dive into one of the bogus claims if you want to see how the lie was constructed: Lying About Autism is a Full Time Job - www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpSfrD3Nzs

caption showing Hank Green with some autism assessment graphs behind him captioned with a large red "wrong"

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

You can see September came in hard and now we are paying for energy again. Hopefully we can hold on longer before the central heating starts taking up it's chunk of cost. #homeassistant #graphs

A cumulative cost graph showing the costs of electricity and gas and the point the export of electricity was overtaken by the increasing demand sometime around the 1st of September.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2025

Ok that #fork diagram is looking a lot better than the last one. Fixed a lot of bugs in the data processing and I am starting to see some useful #information in the diagram. #qemu #kvmforum2025

A network diagram showing the relationship between QEMU versions and forks of it.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025

Continuing to experiment with plotting the #fork network of #QEMU for my talk at #kvmforum2025. I need to figure out a way to filter out normal developer forks from the rest.

A complex graph plot showing forks of QEMU and how they relate to the main releases.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2025

The latest #homeassistant has #sankey diagrams for energy flow. I obviously need more energy tracking #sensors for the house ;-)

An energy flow diagram showing grid and solar sources and where the energy flows to inside Home Assistant.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2025

Dear #lazyweb, I think I've reached the limit of #matplotlib trying to graph the forks from a #git repository. What I want to to plot the slowly growing trunk and then show the relative sizes of the forks from where they start in the trunk to their current […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

A hand drawn sketch showing the fork diagram the author would like to generate. A slowly growing core cone representing the trunk with branches coming of showing the relative size of the fork.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2025

Sitting in the shade enjoying the first day of my holiday and I'm already half way through Rory Stewart's "Politics on the Edge". It's a beautifully written if slightly concerning run through his political career and how the system fails us. #ukpolitics #books

photo of a paperback title "Politics on the Edge" on a table with some other holiday detritus in the background.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2025

There are many things wrong with #twitter's approach to moderation but at least asking for a community note when #grok gets it so very wrong worked:

Screenshot of a post on twitter where the grok llm incorrectly states the video is from a UK incident and is tagged with a community note explaining how it is wrong.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 18/07/2025

Tux appropriate henna for a wedding tomorrow.

a tux design on the back of a hairy hand done in henna.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2025

I saw some interesting artefacts in the clouds while doing some #openstreetmap mapping last night.

$picture of a country lane with clouds above showing an interesting fractal-like disruption.$

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 05/07/2025

The man is a national treasure. I remember watching the Secret Life of.... shows back in my youth. The Secret Life of the Home: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqpvl-YGFD4… > Tim looks back at his gallery at London's Science Museum. It opened in 1995 […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

a frame from the video showing Tim Hunkin walking around an exhibit of household items at the science museum.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 06/06/2025

I think these guys are lost. #sheep #sheepofmastodon. I'm not sub-tooting.

a picture of a bunch of sheep who have escaped an enclosure and are not quite sure where to go.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 01/06/2025

I guess #ukraine have figured out that #trump won't apply pressure on #putin so they have to do it themselves: Ukraine war live update: Drones 'emerged from trucks' before strikes on bombers during major attack in Russia www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgrg7kelk45t #bbc #news

footage of the aftermath of a drone attack on an airfield. Smoke billows in the distance.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2025

Dear #lazyweb does anyone know how this navigational marker should be tagged in #openstreetmap? I've been going through the wiki and I can find how navigational buoys are tagged but so far nothing for land based marine navigation aids. I believe the marker lines up with the inland lighthouse.

a large concrete marine navigational marker with a pointed top, painted white with a central vertical black stripe.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 21/04/2025

One thing that is very noticeable walking around a place that has no sheep is how much more variety there is in the ground cover. The pictures yesterday are mostly from the small islet of Gugh which is still recovering from a fire in 1972 but nevertheless […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

entrance to a neolithic burial site surrounded by various heather and gorse varieties.

a well worn path edged by various gorse and bracken species.

a view of the local rise showing gorse and stones.

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Alex @stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy · 28/03/2025

It looks like spring is starting to make itself felt. Hopefully the lines will cross next week at which point #solar generation will pay for houses electricity use. I think the next step is finding a decent #homeassistant integrable bi-directional car charger […] [Original post on mastodon.org.uk]

Two graphs, the top one showing total cost and total export values as they trend towards each other with the lower graph showing the current total generation for the day.

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