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Stewart X Addison

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#openByDefault Adoptium (java - Eclipse Temurin) PMC member NodeJS collaborator + build/docker/release/performance Working Groups Fedora Silverblue user OSS, tech toys etc […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ fosstodon.org/@sxa, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

The issue with Big Tech ... This is a screenshot from trying to log into #Meta #Facebook from one device I have. It gets stuck in a loop at the #Google (!) #reCaptcha Let's be realistic, neither of the two companies involved are ever going to give me any idea […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

On a note positive note I think I have a working build environment on my SpacemiT-K3 #RISCV board that has successfully built V8.

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

So it seems that today, if I try to paste something into #Slack, the application locks up and I have to restart it. Not useful, although it makes me realise how often I try to cut and paste things into slack ...

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Edent/117360281774… Seems I'm not the only one having failed deliveries from China to the UK today :eyeroll: ...

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

<sigh> Got a delivery from China today. Had already paid the import duty and tax. Opened the package and ... it's the wrong item. Great. This will be fun ...

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

I've seen various music playlist transfer services such as tunemymusic, soundiiz, freeyourmusic, musconv but it doesn't seem that any of them are opensource. Ideally I'd like something simple, self-hosted, or command-line driven so I can run it on anything (like #RISCV). My primary use case is […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

The first thing I thought of when I heard about OpenAIs #dots was the #DoctorWho episode "Dot and Bubble" (S14E05) tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Dot_and_Bubb… #AI

Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Nine hundred and sixty. The number of partners that this site is sharing your information with to provide targetted ads. When I looked a few years ago there were a few close to 1000 - perhaps I need to run those checks again. Al;though kudos for making the […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

A cookie notice on the MSN website with the following text at the bottom: Number of Partners (vendors): 960.

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Compiled #python from source today. Don't think I've had to do that before but it seemed the easiest way to get an earlier version than what was on my machine ...

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Nura @postmarketos.org · 27/09/2026

After a one and a half year selection process, the new name of the operating system formerly known postmarketOS has been announced during the mystery talk of our very own conference. From now on this project is known as Nura! Blog post: nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename Mastodon […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

Intrigued by #ebay seemingly encouraging the use of Google Pay instead of PayPal during their checkout process ...

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Well that was a pain ... On a Zoom call and for no obvious reason my Linux box kept repeatedly dropping the microphone input level to under 20% so I couldn't be heard. Ended up mostly holding the slider up at maximum with the mouse. Not useful #linux #videoconferencing #zoom

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Fell down a rabbit hole after looking at some bits of Arm processor history after a conversation where someone was talking about armv7 being bi-endian (although outside embedded stuff it's effectively exclusively LE) I did not previously fully appreciate that the Raspberry Pi 1's BCM2835 […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/11732467… This sort of stuff is insane. It's always been insane. It's unforgivably insane in an age where attack surfaces make a difference and security is paramount. Side rant: Then again, the general public will install any old crap on their […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Is this the first beach of government data by #AI? Or just the first that wasn't state sponsored and so we don't know about it? "The breach happened in June but OpenAI only became aware of it in August and didn't tell the government till 10 September via an email, Albanese says OpenAI says it […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Word of the day: "solipsism": The theory that the self is the only thing that can be known and verified. Referenced in www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiDUg_uylyM where Cory Doctorow is talking about Billionaires.

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Do you use #NodeJS? Share your views in the 2026 user #survey which helps the project know what things are important to you. It lets you say which newer features, frameworks and package managers you're using and asks if there are other things you'd like to see Node.js do. If you're not using any […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

"[China's] creating a pool of talent: young engineers and researchers who now see their country as a place of opportunity, partly because tensions with the US and Trump's restrictions on immigration have soured the American dream. Fewer students and researchers are heading to the US, and more […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

Travelling on holiday. Four hour outbound flight ... Spent most of it refreshing my x64 assembler knowledge from a (yes, real, physical) book. I'm not sure I'm mastering "holidaying" yet 😛 My co-travellers (a reasonably big group) have been giving me looks of 🙄 but I've promised them it's only […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I sort of feel #O2 should be capable of adding data units into these text notifications ...

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

I have found where "The Cloud" is located!

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

Curious as to how many "Agentic AI workflows" these days are just triggered scripts and not particularly #AI in any meaningful sense...

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

MapQuest, which was openly dismissive of the president’s 27 August executive order directing federal agencies to refer to the smallest of the Great Lakes as “Lake America” amid a trade spat with Canada, leapfrogged rivals Google Maps and Apple Maps to top the most-downloaded list, as first […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026

RE: mas.to/@rhazn/117189517084218626 If I wasn't workibg on open-source language runtimes I'd love to be working more witgh@openstreetmap@en.osm.town Definately a very important #OSS project that more oeople should ve aware of. So many people seem to think that online maps=google (or […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Not just #Facebook/ #meta being slapped with fines at the moment. #Google agrees to settle UK app developers' lawsuit for $353 million ground.news/article/google-agrees-t…

Google agrees to settle UK app developers' lawsuit for $353 million

Google has agreed to settle a mass London lawsuit brought on behalf of app developers for £260 million ($353.21 million), according to a deal published on Thursday.

Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Definitely something odd happening with #github #actions #cron jobs at the moment. We've been seeing huge delays in things being triggered - one thing that usually runs as a cron workflow every five minutes it taking hours (most recently only one in 8 hours). Looks like we're also not the only […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@libreoffice/11717227… This is a great article about a piece of software that lots of individuals and companies use, yet only 10% of their donations comes from organisations rather than private individuals. "Donations are channelled into constructive […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

I wasn't expecting this: "The prototype was demonstrated to guests and is presented as an operational biologically integrated data centre for research and early commercial use" ground.news/daily-briefing/nus-laun… #datacenters #stemCells #borg

NUS Launches World's First Biological Server Rack

Singapore's National University of Singapore (NUS) has launched what it describes as the world's first independently operated biologically integrated server rack, housing 20 CL1 biological computing units at the NUS Life Sciences Institute.

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

Current status: Paused because "My code's compiling" (Three different jobs on different machines). May be time for a lunch break anyway ...

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 20/08/2026

RE: masto.es/@andrewblasco/117116298104… Well that sucks somewhat. I do have one of my #Pixelfed accounts on that site ... It's one of these things on the #Fediverse. Unless you run the service yourself you're still ultimately beholden to whoever runs that instance since the data […]

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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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kim_harding ✅ @kim-harding.mastodon.scot.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

Google buys crashed airline Spirit’s data at auction, because AI www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/… $10 million buys over 100 million emails, 30 million recorded phone calls, reams of stuff from Teams, Oracle […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

In a world of AI assistants I'm finding more and more of my time being spent trying to follow up with people to get answers (especially on email) Do people expect AI to be doing so much that some 1:1 interactions and, you know, actually working and communicate with people get deprioritised? Is […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Pet hate of mine: "Can someone review this PR" on Slack. I go to it, it's frequently already merged. Waste of my time. I feel that unless there's an understanding to the contrary, begging for reviews should be discouraged, or if you insist on doing it, delete the message after it's been merged […]

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PINE64 Community @pine64.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

Hi everyone! Just a quick reminder that due to the current DRAM/eMMC shortage, there isn't any plans to continue producing more Linux devices in the near future. Whether production continues or not depends on the pricing situation for those components after mid 2027. Devices like the PineNote […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@zev333/11710982287… Currently watching this video from #FrOSCon which covers "Right To Repair" topics for software to help people keep running on systems that most people have stopped using. A relatively unusual approach particularly the "un-deprecating" of […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 17/08/2026

When #AI face recognition nets GDPR: "When someone is identified, a 2D image flashes up on the store's iPhone. But, and this is wild, for GDPR reasons, it disappears after a few seconds once staff have seen it. So even the store manager has no idea whether staff saw an image of someone who […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

A look at how the film/movie industry is embracing #AI www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/1…

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‘I see the incredible promise’: on set of an AI film shoot as new studios embrace controversial tech

Amid fears for jobs, some film-makers say AI could enable them bypass studio giants and take more creative risks

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

RE: mastodon.online/@tomshardware/11708… Another reason modern internet life sucks. We rely on cloud services you have no control over as a business. First time I've noticed it with a big service though. Like consumer streaming services: When people stopp buying MP3s they […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Have now got to a state where I can start the build of Google's #V8 JavaScript interpreter outside #NodeJS on #RISCV ... Took a while to get a valid toolchain and configuration in place here but it's now shugging away and is about 10% of the way through (Running under Ubuntu 25.10 for "reasons" […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Had a portable USB battery pack plugged into my Jackery solar penel in the garden today. Seems it didn't charge much. Took it inside and attached it to a normal charger - it kept briefly showing it was taking charge in and then switched to "out" so was getting confused. Seems it might have been […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Interesting to see Mark Zuckerberg's Meta pushing the open-weight AI model "Muse Glimmer" similar to the Chinese companies, but in contrast to most US ones. llama.cpp integrations available at launch [1] I also like this quote: "The notion AI is so dangerous that the only safe path is an […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

"When you next reach for AI to complete a cognitive task, pause to consider: What capacities are you developing, and which might you be surrendering?" mast.wmclark.com/@wm/11682157882698… #AI #psychology

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/08/2026

While I'm not sure how many developers would recognise the particular defibition of "Sprint" giveb in this article it is a view into software decelopment abd the US market in particular at companiea deserate to compete at the tip in the AI race for supremacy. Do you think AI could give you a […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

At the Knockhill race track in Scotland (as a spectator). Unlike yesterday when it waa quieter I'm struggling to load the TSL Luve Timing today. But it works if I enable a VPN. Odd Could maybe be DNS I guess.

Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 09/08/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@Edent/117064015037… This is a real problem which I totally get and analogous to how I use favourites on Mastodon(which I fon't go back very often unless they're recent ones) Thinking about it I now want an ActivityPub server I can store these to, whike adding […]

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Rosanna Sibora @rosannasibora.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

“After just “10 minutes of AI-assisted problem-solving, people who lost access to the AI performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it”. An MIT study showed that test groups who used ChatGPT had the lowest brain activity and “consistently underperformed at neural […]

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/08/2026

It really sucks wheb you considsr a domain name and find that either: a) It's registered and redirects to some random other site b) It just doesn't seem to be responding as an http server when you go to look at it. What's the point in having a good idea when the netbis like this?

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 05/08/2026

More dodgy behaviour from #AI systems ... www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1w1lvn…

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Stewart X Addison @sxa.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/08/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@masek/11703592506… Sounds about right. Don't know if it's a specific problem when third party authentication is used but it often does this then when you ask it to re-auth again it goes to the third party ID provider, realises it's already signed in and […]

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