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• Post #4494529

  Because i'm often asked to settle arguments, here are the best songs from the Cocteau Twins. 10/ Blue Bell knoll 9/ Cherry-coloured funk 8/ Summerhead 7/ Squeeze wax 6/ Bluebeard 5/ Fotzepolitic 4/ Frou-frou Foxes in Midsummer Fires 3/ Lorelei 2/ Iceblink Luck 1/ Carolyn's Fingers

• Post #4491641

  #blessed

• Post #4491463

  I almost wish it would rain to end the heatwave and drought, except I know some pompous smartarse will use it as an opportunity to tell social media about "petrichor". Oh bugger I just did.

• Post #4487682

  I see the that the Arschlochtruppen of a group calling themselves "White Vanguard" were demonstrating in a town near me over the weekend, wearing black shirts and niqab.

• Post #4441638

  Microsoft admits it force-installed AI-powered OneDrive on Windows 11, says it’s not training on your faces (really) https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/07/microsoft-admits-it-force-installed-ai-powered-onedrive-on-windows-11-says-its-not-training-on-your-faces-really/ So, that's OK then. You didn't want that storage space, did you?

• Post #4435977

  "My general rule of thumb however, is that added shareholder value is in inverse proportion to human nutritional value." says Felicity Lawrence, about Ultra-Processed Food. It's my rule of thumb about most industries. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/07/ultra-processed-food-firms-sue-harm-products-regulation

• Post #4423807

  @malarkey@mastodon.social I know! Mind you, it was the Chopper that saved it from administration when we were kids. And I think we're more suited to Segways now.

• Post #4415958

  @malarkey@mastodon.social Yup. You're the Leslie Philips to my Jim Dale.

• Post #4413514

  @malarkey@mastodon.social See, I'd got you down as a Charles Hawtree devotee.

• Post #4392071

  WARNING.- HOAX.- SCAM !!! If someone knocks at your door and says they're carrying out a survey and need to see your bum, DON'T SHOW THEM. IT'S A SCAM. They just want to see your bum. I wish somebody had warned me, I feel so stupid.

• Post #4392070

  Farewell, Spectator journo Rod Liddle, who wrote "the one thing stopping me from being a teacher was that I could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids … I don't think I'd have dabbled much below year ten" (eg, 14-15 years old). Yet the Right are mourning him. https://spectator.com/article/a-teenage-girl-a-maths-teacher-and-a-righteous-tabloid-fury/

• Post #4392069

  At @Vivaldi we 😘 the Web, so are looking to make Web App installation more visible (on all platforms that don't think they own the machine that you bought). I mocked up a button design that I felt gives PWAs the prominence they deserve, and dev genius Filip loved it so much it's in an internal test build!

• Post #4392068

  I'm always delighted when a new regulator contacts us to ask questions about the villainy of Big Tech, but -by Darwin!- it takes an age to gather all the info together. Just another 5 Qs to go…

• Post #4372743

  The best photo of Sid James smoking a pipe while sitting on a Chopper you'll see today.

• Post #4355862

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@ecosia/117008148726987183 Nice to see our chums at @ecosia@mastodon.social making use of the European Search Perspective. (Shameless plug; I interviewed Ecosia's Wolfgang Oels about the project for my For A Better Web podcast https://vivaldi.com/blog/wolfgang-oels-ecosia-for-a-better-web/)

• Post #4282292

  Having a day off so La Daughter can colour in my Fathers Day tattoo

• Post #4160780

  RE: https://mastodon.world/@oldrawgabbit/116996540497017061 Once they've got "privacy", these ultra-left radical marxists won't stop until they've destroyed capitalism, and left us with nothing but a verdant wasteland without a single data centre, TERF, immigration enforcement agent, tradwife, Dubai-based influencer, or billionaire emperor.

• Post #4110418

  Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding https://archive.ph/2026.07.22-205736/https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/five-us-tech-giants-hidden-debts-soar-to-1.65tn-on-opaque-ai-funding#selection-2701.0-2710.0 Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows

• Post #4032914

  After Vivaldi's joint letter with Mozilla and DuckDuckGo on "privacy signals", we had a meeting yesterday with other EU stakeholders and officials. For the first hour, I was baffled by the acronym A.T.A.P., until it dawned on me that everyone was talking about "88b" - the proposed new article in GDPR for machine-readable indications of individual privacy choices to kill cookie banners. Doh! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:d567rk4c6myrizqws2lp2pjs/post/3mqok3ay3u225

• Post #4005690

  LG's Monitor App is automatically and silently installed when plugging in some of the company's monitors, with permission to use all system resources," as well as collect geo-location, device data, online activity, contacts, user credentials, transactions "and more." https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/21/lg-monitors-are-using-windows-11-feature-to-serve-adware/5275486

• Post #3984943

  "Airbus has named French cloud services provider Scaleway as the destination for some 900 applications, with an initial 70 getting priority onboarding, as it seeks to put critical systems and data under European control. AWS, like all American platforms, can't protect Airbus's crown jewels from Donnie the Data Burglar, so it's best to repatriate them sharpish." https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/07/20/airbus-takes-flight-from-aws-what-happens-next-is-critical/52741...

• Post #3933682

  The man that Farage calls "an important voice for men" has been arrested for rape, arranging or facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation and offences relating to indecent images of a child. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/jul/18/andrew-tristan-tate-arrested-miami

• Post #3858387

  Swiss Army knifes Microsoft. It's migrating to the German solution OpenDesk in record time. https://www.heise.de/en/news/Swiss-Army-breaks-with-Microsoft-Cyber-Command-relies-on-Open-Source-11361516.html "As long as corporations are subject to laws such as the US Cloud Act, they cannot be used for certain military contexts"

• Post #3854905

  The thing that offends me the most about how A.I. "music" generator Suno scraped decades worth of music and podcasts from the internet without permission, attribution or payment is that the CEO said "I think the majority of people don’t enjoy the majority of the time they spend making music.” https://www.404media.co/hack-reveals-suno-ai-music-generator-scraped-youtube-deezer-and-genius/

• Post #3808456

  My old testing iPhone X (inherited from a bankrupt previous employer) no longer receives updates, so I've had to buy a recon newer model. As I don't want its anti-Web Walled Garden vibrational frequency polluting my office, I'm keeping it with some garlic, a beryllium crystal to protect my chakras, a Turkish 'evil eye' repellant, a Ganesh figurine, and a lucky "Pants Glitter Money" badge, in an old Event Apart tin decorated with @zeldman@front-end.social and @Meyerw...

• Post #3803910

  I spoke to Mitch McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning about the proposed repositioning of the hand dryer in the men’s toilets of the Crown and Treaty pub, Uxbridge.

• Post #3717924

  Today, the European Commission preliminarily found Meta in breach of the Digital Services Act for the addictive design of Instagram and Facebook. The investigation focuses on features such as infinite scroll, autoplay, push notifications, and the platforms’ highly personalised recommender systems. https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1579

• Post #3695974

  Today, the European Parliament allowed the suspicionless mass scanning of private communications (“Chat Control 1.0”) to pass. (More MEPs voted against than for, but not absolute majority). US tech companies are once again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. This affects direct messages on platforms like Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Gmail. The interim regulation passed today will remain in effect until 2028, or until an agreement on a permanent regulation is r...

• Post #3693052

  Wanted: Web Apps based in EU (or with big customer base inside EU), ideally serving non-tech sectors. B2B, B2C, whatevs. Please let me know industry sector. If you can tell me size (customer base, turnover thru web app) please do.

• Post #3676333

  Poor put-upon Apple went to the European Court of Justice to argue that it is not a Gatekeeper by running its App Stores, and that EU requiring interoperability with competitors is simply mean and beastly. The ECJ dismissed the arguments. The struggling Cupertino start-up is Very Sad. https://www.reuters.com/world/eu-court-rejects-apples-challenge-against-eu-rules-reining-big-tech-2026-07-08/