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• Post #2326347

  My parents had this book. Thankfully they didn’t follow the advice.

• Post #2167316

  Regretting that Carpe Diem tattoo

• Post #1861630

  I think enough time has passed now to go back to the “boop deep doop lost data” Apple ad girl and ask her for real if she was stoned. #apple

• Post #1861629

  PocketOS’s disastrous problems with Claude are being wrongly framed. The company lost most of its live data, and a lot of backups. A lot of the reports blame the AI agent Claude for the loss. Blaming the AI agent is missing the point, utterly. The actual reason for the loss is incompetency on the part of whomever allowed any automated system the ability to delete such data in the first place, without the intervention of multiple humans. The fact that it was an AI agent is almost irrelevant, it...

• Post #1861628

  A genuine entry in today’s ToDo list: - Change G string There’s an old Blues trick, by replacing the G string (standard tuning) with a B string tuned up to G, it allows easier pitch bending as the B string is thinner and more elastic. #guitarists

• Post #1861627

  And you've been so busy lately That you haven't found the time To open up your mind And watch the world spinning Gently out of time - Blur, Out Of Time

• Post #1861626

  Pre-coffee I read : “Caching a large dir” as “Catching a large tiger”. And I thought “yeah, do what you need mate”

• Post #1861625

  Ordered a 1TB USB disk drive for someone last week. Person reported yesterday that they were thrilled to receive a princess costume for a 4 year old. It’s not even Apple Time Machine compatible. Part of me wants to go through the customer support experience trying to get backups to work on the item actually delivered.

• Post #1442287

  TIL London Zoo has a Zebra called Spot. That’s just the best thing eva. #zebras #TIL

• Post #1308878

  The guy was a deranged maniac 10 years ago, stop acting surprised only now. #uspol

• Post #1173874

  Don’t anthropomorphise machines, they don’t like it. #ai

• Post #1122225

  The street cleaners union has called for sweeping changes.

• Post #938273

  @DigitalDruid@cupoftea.social @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party ‘enveloped’. Perfect word for it, but ugh.

• Post #911550

  New book - “Aphex Twin - A Disco Pogo Tribute” “The book is edited by Disco Pogo editor Jim Butler and features interviews, essays and features from the best music journalists working today.” https://discopogo.ochre.store/merch/466898-aphex-twin-aphex-twin-a-disco-pogo-tribute Looks great. #aphex_twin #aphextwin #bookstodon

• Post #909502

  Got a ticket to see Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds at Montreux this summer. Woohoo. I’m an arms length fan of him, if that’s a thing. I have huge respect for him, but should really listen to more of his work. His collaborations with Warren Ellis have been great, dark, clanky rock. #livemusic #nickcavethebadseeds #montreux_jazz_festival_2026

• Post #909501

  Why do we call it breakfast cereal when we eat it between 1am and 3am? #insomnia

• Post #909500

  Put aside all the discussions of should we be doing this, are there better goals to aim for, etc, can we just stop for a moment and acknowledge that four people are on their way to our moon in a spaceship? All the collaboration and shared effort that went into making it possible, just that should be enough to make us pause and think what else could we achieve? Some people want to watch the world burn, and the rest of us was to light the touch papers under a million constructive, helpful, meani...

• Post #640270

  Tradition is no justification for maintaining legislation

• Post #640269

  Northern lights is what us southerners call you. Yeah? You want some? Come and get it.

• Post #640268

  Looking for something else to wuther, the heights are wuthered enough.

• Post #640267

  Funny business is the best of all businesses

• Post #640266

  I remember a time when it made sense to delete trailing spaces in documents to conserve disk space. A colleague of my mother used to advise this, ~1982. I can still remember the smell of the office from when I used to visit, toner, IT equipment. It smelled exciting, professional.

• Post #640264

  I know the reason I feel so blessed My heart still splashes Inside my chest, but she She is like a top She cannot stop She moves on - From She Moves On, The Rhythm Of The Saints, by Paul Simon Written about his then partner Carrie Fisher. Beautiful. #paulsimon #CarrieFischer #lyrics

• Post #640262

  Something James O’Brian of LBC pointed out : - Russia is aiding Iran, supplying them intelligence - Iran is using this intelligence to attack US military bases - Trump is easing the sanctions on Russia to lower the price of oil …and round it goes. #uspol #internationalpolitics #IranWar

• Post #464500

  Watch how a country wakes up to what anti-royalists have been ranting on about all this time #ukpol #monarchy

• Post #464498

  Arghgh

• Post #361657

  Moon hydrated tomatoes #showerthoughts

• Post #282660

  @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Come-on-bear?

• Post #282459

  @TheBreadmonkey@beige.party So is Bert, the big cheese at big cheese. Come on Bert!

• Post #232793

  @neoluddite@aus.social @Ex_spurt@aus.social @liamvhogan@aus.social I agree with the sentiment if not the practicalities. The ideal lies somewhere in between I think.