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• Post #4149926

  Thinking about starting a new tech user group with a Luddite/self|community owned slant (ala Human Emacs/codeberg decision on LLMs) as trying to put these kind of things into existing user groups is just too painful. It would be about AI skepticism (as that is just depressing me), but about what things are being built that aren't using generative AI to produce the code. I suppose all I'd need would be a speaker, a way to record, and a way to host the event (something that isn't tea...

• Post #4064856

  Which is easier?

• Post #3934309

  I do wonder if those who are relaxed about a single national id tied to all of your data understand how relational databases work, growing government authoritarianism and managerialism, the lessons of history, issues around data quality, statutory trade offs of data usage for finding small groups of people, or the actions of current governments' misuse of the data they have.

• Post #3761786

  Wordle English #1849 — 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟩🟩⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://wordle.global/p/SfnukzBE0Rg

• Post #3761785

  #Rogule 2026-7-12 🧝 5xp ⛩ 393 👣 streak: 5 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⚔ 🐗🧛🧞🧟🧟 🌰🌰🍄🍄 https://rogule.com Lot of luck there

• Post #3644594

  TIL that the patent on the #Brompton tri-fold has run out. Might make for some interesting bikes

• Post #3621715

  Are Sisko and O'Brien the only good dads in #StarTrek?

• Post #2113301

  clojure + c++ = jank, then add in a notebook and you get jank on civitas https://clojurecivitas.org/jank/hello.html #clojure #cpp #jank

• Post #1949120

  41.8kWh produced today. Not bad for April in Scotland #solar

• Post #1743554

  TIL tomatoes are perennials. We're pretty lucky with growing and overwintering chillis as indoor plants. I think it might be time to try a few short bushy tomatoes. Any suggestions? #gardening https://gardenchains.com/are-tomato-plants-annual-or-perennial/

• Post #1115237

  This is really good news for the Scottish Islands https://theorkneynews.scot/2026/04/03/these-flights-prove-that-electric-aviation-can-support-the-essential-services-communities-depend-on-every-day/

• Post #1014808

  Hannah Spencer is both normal and extraordinary. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/mar/30/wow-people-were-so-angry-at-labour-green-mp-hannah-spencer-on-politics-plumbing-smears-and-snobbery #ukpol

• Post #975940

  This feels like an appropriate UK parliament petition for today https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994

• Post #731527

  Those of us who can escape parts of capitalism and corporate control must. The things we learn can help others. The more we practice, the cheaper it gets. We need to build the world we want. Not just resist the horrors being pressed on us.

• Post #721314

  I'd love to find a #BikeTooter tag that didn't include close passes or bad infrastructure and was just about the joy of cycling. I agree there is a lot of work to do, but sometimes I just want to see the good things. #JoyOfCycling ?

• Post #653495

  Spring Clean Cycle in Dundee and Arbroath #BikeTooter #CriticalMass

• Post #265208

  The problem before us should not be: "How can we find common ground with racists?" We should ask more uncooperative questions: "How do we find common ground with everyone else to better exclude them, as long as they insist on making race an exclusionary principle?" https://www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-game/

• Post #93233

  I felt strangely compelled to create this gold frog after reading the latest from @cstross@wandering.shop Why do I feel so wrong after doing something that felt so right?

• Post #86198

  The difference in copyright enforcement between individuals bittorrenting things vs mega companies downloading it for AI is just a massive demonstration of how we live in a plutocratic oligarchy