He/him
This is like Twitter in the old days. Yikes.
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People tend to have a mental model where a system is stable until disturbed, far more often than they have one where the system is balanced because it is constantly intervened with.
The latter is a more useful approach to thinking about complex systems.
Especially in the light of Zuckerberg's recent behaviour, please consider using Signal, it's actually good and a pretty easy replacement for Whatsapp
To everyone who dismissed Pixelfed because it lacked a mobile app:
Great news - we now have an official app, and true to our values, it's fully open source.
The wait is over.
Welcome to a new chapter of mobile friendly, decentralized photo sharing.
This is the Bitcoin-on-a-hard-drive-in-rubbish-dump case report
https://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/Ch/2025/22.html
Highly impressive and convincing reasoning by the judge on each point, especially the complex trusts arguments.
In particular: Judge absolutely correct that ownership of the Hard Drive transferred to council when delivered to the dump.
Rightly struck out.
But the black bin bag situation comedy in paragraph 15 had me howling.
@hacks4pancakes ghosts UK or US?
Agreed with everything @kevinriggle wrote here. Another angle on this to try with people who simply do not understand what software engineering •is•: “What’s the impact on the other 7/8?”
AI can generate code fast. Often it’s correct. Often it’s not, but close. Often it’s totally wrong. Often it’s •close• to correct and even appears to work, but has subtle errors that must be corrected and may be hard to detect.
*joins teams call*
“This month instead of our usual meeting we’re going to do a fun festive quiz!”
*leaves call*
Also watch out for norovirus, that one is HORRIBLE to get even if it's not a hospitalisable case.
lol i feel like fosstodon people lack self-awareness, for some reason
but anyway, thanks for affirming my point for me in the most absurd way possible
American football shoulder pads and helmets are the perfect recipe for a broken neck. That heady combo of safety equipment giving a sense of invulnerability plus rigid stuff all around causing the neck to be a crumple zone. Either add in neck braces, or just grow up and accept a broken nose.
Bellingcat is hiring! First of all, we’re looking for a freelance software engineer consultant to support the Tech Team in improving our auto-archiver tool. Check the vacancy here: https://www.bellingcat.com/software-engineer-consultant-freelance/
Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night
I bet my girlfriend that this picture of our cats could get 10 billion boosts on Mastodon.
She said she doesn't believe me. She said there's only 15 million accounts on Mastodon. She said there aren't even 10 billion people on Earth. She said it concerns her that I struggle to comprehend large numbers.
Let's prove her wrong everyone. Boost away and show her just how awesome the Mastodon community is.
great thread about dangerous ux
This is going to piss off all the right people. 😘
“Taken together, our results suggest that anti-phishing training programs, in their current and commonly deployed forms, are unlikely to offer significant practical value in reducing phishing risks.”
https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/sp/2025/223600a076/21B7RjYyG9q
Some more #weeknotes here, where I wax lyrical about governance. You laugh, but in my community this is how we flirt.
S14E04: Who’s in charge here? | Caffeinated Punctuation
https://caffeinatedpunctuation.co.uk/2024/11/15/s14e04-whos-in-charge-here/
Remember comrade, communist jokes are not funny unless everyone gets it.
:comm:
Bluesky is the Microsoft Word of social media, which I mean in the derogatory sense, as the fediverse is the LaTeX of social media, which I also mean in the derogatory sense
My wife's work has a meeting called Quality Improvement Meeting. They refer to this as the 'Quim' meeting, and this will never not be funny for either me or her. She tells me they even sometimes talk about a "deep dive in the quim". Incredible.
