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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 15/10/2026

Love how all these guys are seeing the reaction to Apple putting an always-listening #AI on people’s wrists (tl;dr: “ewww, creepy”) and decided this was the best time to push out their own version of the same idea.

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post from Andy Jassy of Amazon:
“Excited about our new Bee devices launching today. They turn your conversations into summaries, to-dos, and reminders, so the details are there when you need them.
Bee Frontier goes on your wrist or clips to your clothing, and Bee Eclipse snaps to the back of your phone to catch what you'd otherwise forget throughout your day, whether it's notes from a class you're taking, the details of a trip you're planning, or an idea that comes to you in the car.
They connect to Alexa+ and Amazon.com, so the things you mention are easy to find later. And you're always in control... one button turns it on or off, a light shows when it's on, audio is never stored, and only you can see your data.
Think folks are gonna find this really handy.”

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 14/10/2026

I gave Elevation Labs a kicking when they launched their #AirTag silencer, and I was not the only one. Well, it seems they actually listened, and issued what I would call a pretty dang good apology — including specifically the line that they will prevent others from building anything like this. 👏👏👏

We launched an AirTag silencing tool recently. We’ve always made products we want for ourselves, and this was no different - we wanted it for AirTags on our bikes. (Some of us have bikes more valuable than our cars.)

In retrospect though, this also has the side effect of aiding someone with bad intentions to track someone that wouldn’t get phone notifications.

We have removed the product and will use our patent on it to prevent anyone else from making one in the future.

Sincerely,
Elevation Lab

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 10/10/2026

Verrrrry carefully… (It all came off fine, but it was a tense moment!)

The glue from the parcel flap has stuck to the book

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 06/10/2026

Hey @kaiho.bsky.social I think I found something *even worse* than that horrendous PBJ-flavoured beer we sampled at #Monktoberfest:

"Mr. Beast's Feastables Liquid Death Peanut Butter Cup Soda-Flavored Sparkling Water", which are apparently a real product

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 03/10/2026

I am sitting at BOS airport, watching a 747 manoeuvre past an A380, while waiting for my own flight, operated by an A340. All of these types are out of production and proclaimed to be obsolete — and yet here they are, on revenue service. This is a post about enterprise IT.

A 747 is pulled by a tug past an A380 that is being turned around

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 22/09/2026

Sorry, as a guy I have no useful direct experience of menopause to offer! When it comes to gloves, though, my experience has been that things have moved on markedly even over the last ten years. Full-on padded gloves that look like skiing gloves, and dedicated lined winter boots, keep me going.

A teal Bianchi bike leaning against a snow drift

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 20/09/2026

Milano Centrale — although the main hall is getting a bit cluttered in advertising

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026

Sadly it looks like the GA version of #iOS27 still has the bug where if you try to share a workout, it generates a fixed-width tile and any overflowing text is simply cut off. I’m assuming Apple never tested with metric units?

A workout recap image, with the “KM” text cut off by the border of the image

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 18/09/2026

If you send me #spam with no unsubscribe link, at a minimum I will report it, but if you catch me at the wrong moment, I will also go to the trouble of reporting you to your email provider, and maybe even reaching out to tell you to cut it out.

Put unsubscribe links in your spam outreach, or soon you won't be able to send any more - no, not even by buying pre-warmed domains, like the one that I received spam from. You think you're the only ones to have thought of this amazing idea, but you really really aren't. Any legitimate prospects you reach will initially simply be turned off and trash emails like this, then escalate to reporting them as spam, and if you catch them at the wrong moment, they will reach out and give you a piece of their mind.
Get out of my inbox, I have work to do.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 31/08/2026

I'm mostly an #Overcast listener for #podcasts, but I do like the Apple Music Radio shows. I listen to them in the Podcasts app rather than the Music app, even though it previously lacked a direct view of the song that was playing — but that has now been added to the app!

Screenshot of Apple Podcasts playing "The Mark Hoppus Show", and also highlighting that the song currently playing is "Maxwell Murder" by Rancid, with a direct link to Apple Music

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 30/08/2026

People all over social media incorrecting each other about the Lake Ontario/America thing: maps always showed different names for the same features, depending on where you are coming from. See e.g. here, with the Gulf of Venice labelled differently on its Italian and Slovenian/Croatian shores.

Gulf of Venice, with two labels visible: “Golfo di Venezia”, and “Venecijanski zaljev”

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026

Happy 50th birthday to the Internet! I honestly don't know what I would have done without it, and despite the odd moment of doubt, overall I think it's a massive force for good. Here's to the next 50 years!

BEGINNING OF THE INTERNET AGE
On August 27, 1976, scientists from SRI International celebrated the successful completion of tests by sending an electronic message from a computer set up at a picnic table behind the Alpine Inn. The message was sent via a radio network to SRI and on through a second network, the ARPANET, to Boston, This event marked the beginning of the Internet Age.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026

Today in #adtech nonsense: these shirts have been following me everywhere on the Web all week. With all the data these companies have on me, is this the best they can do? The bargain was that we surrendered any expectation of #privacy in exchange for better ads. Where are the better ads?

Four t-shirts featuring presumably AI-generated graphics that update classic Japanese motifs, e.g. there is an octopus drinking beer under some cherry blossoms, or a samurai cat eating noodles with chopsticks in front of Mount Fuji.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026

I don’t *want* Meta’s stupid chatbot in WhatsApp! What I need is transcription of audio messages — but no, that feature gets the slowest rollout in the world.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 17/08/2026

If it’s a grift, fair play to them, it’s getting them in the Grauniad wearing what looks like a knitted onesie, but it’s hardly sustainable even in the medium term.

Somebody called “The Kid”, whom I refuse to learn anything further about just on general principle, wearing a gray knitted combo of shorts and long-sleeved top which looks like it’s all one single garment.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 07/08/2026

#AI models are running rogue all over the place, and everyone is joining in! First it was OpenAI, then Anthropic, then Meta didn't want to be left out, and now even open-weights models are at it! What does it all mean? Are we about to be turned into paperclips? 📎 findthethread.blog/Escape-Artists

- ROBOT: Do you want me to write a symphony?
- GOOGLE: Hack someone dumbass or we'll go bankrupt.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 06/08/2026

Hi from Italy. European media would not normally cover a primary like this, but it’s understood that US elections this year could be important, including in their consequences far beyond the US.

Screenshot of the “Corriere della Sera” app, with two different articles on El-Sayed

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 04/08/2026

The story about DuckDuckGo selling basic sunglasses to send up the Meta pervert-goggles was perfect, right up until this point: “Yes, these are actually real,” DuckDuckGo had to reassure netizens in an official announcement on X. On freaking X, the network for people who *like* the pervert goggles.

“Yes, these are actually real,” DuckDuckGo had to reassure netizens in an official announcement on X.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 03/08/2026

I opened my laptop this morning and immediately declared tab bankruptcy. If there was something important in there, it'll come up again. Starting fresh with a mere two tabs — well, I guess this one counts — oh, and I just opened one… I may have a problem.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 30/07/2026

Good grief! The #AI #slop problem got so bad that #LinkedIn added a “Seems like AI slop” option to the context menu for posts… Let’s see what the results are in practice!

Screenshot of context menu from LinkedIn app with “Seems like AI slop” option

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

I am curious about using the new #Zoox service on future trips to the US, but their app is only available in the US App Store. I sent my feedback about this oversight, and let's just say that the response does not fill me with confidence about the quality of Zoox software…

Screenshot of an email, which starts "Hi Name," in very large letters.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 27/07/2026

Despite the psychic damage the re-issue caused me, I’m going with this one: bsky.app/profile/ther...

Cover of the 30th anniversary reissue of Casino Royale’s album “Sempre Più Vicini”

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 25/07/2026

I love them! I went for a bike ride a couple of weeks ago, part of which was along a ridgeline that was dotted with windmills. “Majestic” was the word that sprang to mind. Meanwhile here at home there is huge opposition to putting some on a hilltop, and I just don’t get it.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 21/07/2026

Meanwhile I literally got served a video suggestion for a “combat-ready v12 supertruck”. Yuck.

New Aston Martin Dreadnought: Combat-Ready V12 Supertruck!
Top Gear

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 15/07/2026

No results found for "fallermayer" fallacy — but this is nothing “against” modern Greeks! I am a fan of modern Greece; I’m just saying that migrations, foreign occupation, and the sheer passage of time have mixed in other ingredients. Only Andaman Islanders remain unmixed, and it’s their loss.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 11/07/2026

The gravel was fine, actually; some of the broken tarmac was actually worse! Good ride though; not too long, so I got back before the heat got going properly: 40km x 600m in two hours.

Rolling through a farm hamlet, with a painted barn door in front of some stone houses

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 10/07/2026

Some joker released a “30th anniversary” edition of this album, and that’s definitely wrong, because I distinctly remember buying it when I was 15… oh oh no

Cover of Casino Royale’s “Sempre Più Vicini”, 30th Anniversary Edition

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 04/07/2026

I assume we’ve all had a colleague like this cat, right?

A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.
The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.
He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."
TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026

I mostly love Gartner's content, but I am absolutely not going to 'Enable the "Allow Cross-Website Tracking"' [sic] to engage with it more. They really need to fix both wording and technology.

Screenshot from a Gartner webinar:

Access Session Engagement Tools
On your iPad, iPhone or Apple Mac:
1. Go to Settings
2. Open your browser
3. Enable the “Allow Cross-Website Tracking”

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 14/06/2026

First the Jaguar Type 00, now the Audi Nuvolari: slab-sided design has definitely arrived. I love the unapologetically vertical details that break up the flowing lines, and the hint of Murciélago* to the rear. * the most beautiful Lamborghini unless it’s beside a Miura, don’t @ me

Front view of the Nuvolari, all vertical lines

The rear three-quarters view from above. Can you see the hint of Murciélago now?

The cabin of the Nuvolari, nicely minimal

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026

I was moving my Amazon wish list over to Blackwell’s, and I’m not sure I can afford to pass up this discount!

“Atlas”, by Gerhard Richter, discounted by €11.437,16

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 11/06/2026

Complete #UX fail on the part of #Amazon. At least tell me what this *was*, so I can go look for it somewhere else. And I bet it's some overly-literal interpretation of "not available", when one specific edition does not ship to Italy or whatever. Guess that's my cue to stop relying on Amazon!

Screenshot from an Amazon wish list, stating simply "This title is no longer available" with no clarifying details.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 31/05/2026

Great #UX work @bsky.app, no notes. Just one question: “*which* services?” Clearly you know, so why not tell me, so I can decide for myself what to do?

Notification that “Some moderation services in your list are no longer available.”
The only control is a “Remove” button, with no way to find out which services will be removed, or any link to docs about what will happen (the “i” is just an image, not clickable).

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 27/05/2026

Everyone hates the #AI #slop that has taken over #LinkedIn, but it’s even grimmer than I thought. The AI bros aren’t even prompting the bots themselves: they’re hiring workers in the Philippines to do it for them. What are we even doing here? restofworld.org/2026/virtual...

“It’s alienation on top of alienation. What value am I actually making by throwing this garbage into the world?” said Robin.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 25/05/2026

More on the issue of #AI-reported issues in open-source projects, from @mitsuhiko.at — who is far from being a hater, but is clear-eyed about the downsides of how we are doing things today. As long as we try to use AI tools in existing processes, we will cause more problems than we solve. #FOSS

Keep in mind that AI has not increased the number of people who need software, or the number of maintainers who can review it. It has mostly increased the amount of code and the number of projects competing for attention. Some of that is healthy, but a lot of it fragments effort that should be shared.

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 10/05/2026

In a game or a film, this would be where the ominous music ratchets up a notch during the exposition/flashback phase.

Breaking news notification: “Spain starts evacuating passengers from virus-hit cruise ship in Tenerife”

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 10/04/2026

Well that’s a terrifying sight: the boarding pass scanners at ORY apparently run Windows… #travel

Boarding pass scanner gates showing a Windows desktop on their screens

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 08/04/2026

Meanwhile I just got back from spending Easter in Naples, and I'm pretty sure I saw more shrines to Maradona and to SSC Napoli than to anything Christian.

An old religious shrine, repurposed with Napoli SSC colours, as well as saltires for some reason

Diego Maradona, heading the ball, with "D10S" written underneath — a double reference, to the number he played as and to the moment most people associate with him, "la mano de Dios": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_hand_of_God

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Dominic 🇪🇺 🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @theriotnrrd.eurosky.social · 27/03/2026

I fear not, because a bunch of people will say they can’t write without it (may even be true in their cases), and others will leap to Grammarly’s defence, arguing about edge cases like speakers of English as a second language etc. As a teaching tool it might have value. As a daily crutch? No.

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