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• Post #4161200

  LinkedIn gleefully tells me "You’d be a top applicant" for a gig at PostNL. If the public face of the organisation is representative, one only needs to bother to turn up for work perhaps twice a week, and then throw the job in the bin, or leave it in the office and tell customers to finish the job themselves. I don't know that I could manage to be good enough for these exacting standards.

• Post #4139195

  Token bills are killing IT Industry profits! We left this chatbot prompt blank so you can help. 🏴‍☠️

• Post #4070020

  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267733536588: The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended. Only if the intended purpose is to burn your house down. More horror pictures behind the link.

• Post #4008150

  I'm fascinated that Andy Burnham has a ten year plan. Does he seriously expect to still be in power in 2036? There's just the minor detail of the next general election, to be held no later than August 2029, which is by no means a foregone conclusion. It's going to be a three-horse race between Reform, Tories and the Greens, with Labour's contribution being the source of the suspiciously-cheap lasagne in the racecourse canteen. Given how well his predecessors went, he shouldn&#39...

• Post #3916219

  At least when Theo de Raadt was being obnoxious, he was usually in the right. Has anybody pointed out to Linus Torvalds that the only people left who are prepared to work with him are those who are being paid to do so, and many of those only grudgingly?

• Post #3834350

  If you don't stop Nazis coming to your bar, you will eventually have a Nazi bar. If you don't stop AI bros committing to your project, you will eventually have a Nazi bar.

• Post #3789786

  How can they call it a 2CV if it doesn't have a thick cloud of soot and unburnt petrol fumes behind it? I bet they don't even preinstall the compulsory CND bumper sticker! https://www.cityam.com/citroen-2cv-returns-as-a-13000-electric-car-and-the-timing-is-no-accident/

• Post #3603809

  In which a bunch of preppers decide that they do want the power of the state after all: https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/07/04/help-us-save-meshcore.

• Post #3435310

  RE: https://universeodon.com/@UncleDuke1969/116822232922791565 This is also a metaphor for CEOs who want to eliminate their skilled staff.

• Post #3204372

  RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116704285750838861 Proton Mail is allegedly a Milkshake Duck.

• Post #3204371

  RE: https://mas.to/@alternativeto/116700575439878752 Yes, this means that if you don't want Google to pound your site and steal your content, you need to sign up for a Google Account and agree to their terms. Or just null-route all of Google's networks, and nothing of value will be lost.

• Post #3204370

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116704666251127858 This sounds a bit like the setup for a "In Soviet Russia Ukraine" meme…

• Post #3204369

  TIL they are making brand new 5¼″ floppy drives: https://www.micropolis.com/micropolis-1255-floppy. Which interface, you may ask. All of them! (And how did I not find this out from @foone?)

• Post #3204368

  I see that the AI circle-jerk on LinkedIn is somewhat muted this morning. Did the Claude bills just arrive?

• Post #2415556

  TIL about Kartoffelhaus, a restaurant in Munich specialising in potato dishes. But don't book that trip to Germany just yet because it's sadly closed down. That's right, it's had its chips.

• Post #2415555

  It has been [zero] days since Rabobank has misused my personal data and broken the law.

• Post #2415554

  Watching a documentary from 1992 about the BBC's computer literacy project from 1982: "Today, a personal computer is as common as a typewriter." So, quite rare then…? (Typewriters were obsolete by the 1990s.)

• Post #2415553

  Tired: "Rust" job listings for blockchain, Metaverse, AI. Wired: "Rust" job listings for quantum computing. …but what is the target triple for a quantum computer, and is it Tier 2 or better?

• Post #1447351

  "Spec-driven development" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spec-driven_development) is the new buzzword amongst those with AI brainworms who have finally realised that "vibe coding" is used by everybody else as a term of derision. Be sure to call it "vibe waterfall" whenever you encounter that phrase.

• Post #1090963

  RE: https://flipboard.com/@tomshardware/tom-s-hardware-c60sbsq8z/-/a-DepORkHIQomRQysybHrhmQ%3Aa%3A1829740277-%2F0 Don't threaten me with a good time.

• Post #1090962

  RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116357696157633577 We ought to call JavaScript frameworks out for what they're doing: gatekeeping.

• Post #1090961

  @fasterthanlime Whatever it was must have been quite spicy:

• Post #1090960

  Apart from the egregious misuse of personal data which is just par for the course when it comes to the USA, I have one question: how can one trust an age-estimation service which trained its dataset from a dating site? I suspect most people lie about their age when filling in a dating profile. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/okcupid-match-pay-no-fine-for-sharing-user-photos-with-facial-recognition-firm/

• Post #1090959

  Well, I've finally seen it on the job sites: a company wants 7+ years experience in LLMs, Claude Code, etc.

• Post #1090958

  RE: https://aus.social/@dgar/116372935527447101 10/10 no notes all the notes.

• Post #1090957

  Let's see how Labour are getting on in the polls with their lurch to the right to woo Reform voters. Plus a zoom-in on the range 17–18% to see just how well they're doing. Time to get a lettuce out for Keir, I suspect. (Data from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election.)

• Post #1082369

  If "AI-enabled" makes killing people legal, I'm launching my new startup making AI-powered guillotines. The AI shall be used to find people worth at least a billion dollars. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/

• Post #989216

  I'm still digging out stuff to flog off to cover the rent this month. Buy early and buy often! This time, rice up your old Amiga to ridiculous speeds: https://www.amibay.com/threads/vampire-500-v2.2458418/ …and if you don't have an Amiga to rice up, look at my other listings. That Vampire pairs very nicely with an A1000!

• Post #828480

  Before I chuck it at eBay, who would be interested in buying my Philips Videopac 7000 and a couple of dozen games? It's in the Netherlands. Sensible offers only, please. The console is perhaps better known as the Magnavox Odyssey2, but this is the original PAL variant.

• Post #772374

  Let's see how much better DuoLingo translations are now it's pivoted to AI. Oh.