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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Jul 21, 2026

Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink

@mxchara@seattle.pink That's the sort of messy desk I have! 😁

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Jul 08, 2026

Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink

@mxchara@seattle.pink @ireneista@adhd.irenes.space That link gives me "500 Internal Server Error" 🙄

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Jul 07, 2026

Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink

@mxchara@seattle.pink It's actually "The *love* of money is the root of all evil" - https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/1-Timothy-6-10/ As Richard Murphy eloquently explains - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRUKvVfM0tM - money can be a useful mechanism for organising human cooperation, the big mistake is to start thinking it has value independently from that.

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Jun 30, 2026

Replying to @lproven@social.vivaldi.net

@lproven@social.vivaldi.net I strongly agree that an update of the "Raspberry Pi Desktop" for x86 PCs would be very welcome. I have an old notebook PC which I only use when travelling. It works great with RPD, but I worried that was getting too old, so put a newer Debian on it. This led to great difficulty with WiFi etc., so now I have reinstalled RPD. #raspberrypi #debian #linux

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · May 12, 2026

Replying to @dkf@cyberplace.social

@dkf@cyberplace.social So AI but not LLMs?

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · May 11, 2026

"‘London is a case study in hope’: Sadiq Khan on 10 years as mayor" - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/may/11/sadiq-khan-10-years-london-mayor-labour-environment
#london #labour #ukpolitics

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · May 07, 2026

Replying to @JackTheCat@mastodon.scot

@JackTheCat@mastodon.scot They do say "Charity begins at home". 🙄

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Apr 30, 2026

Replying to @SmudgeTheInsultCat@mas.to

@SmudgeTheInsultCat I'm driving somewhere in a film. I always find a spot to park right in front of my destination. 😎

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Apr 26, 2026

Replying to @rbreich@masto.ai

@rbreich Hmm, Jeff Bezos is not WORTH $271B, Jeff Bezos HAS $271B ! 🙄

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Apr 18, 2026

Replying to @woe2you@beige.party

@woe2you @babe If it's a BMW you will probably find that you can't just buy the indicator, it only comes as part of an integrated unit so you have to replace the whole wing, the part has to be ordered from Germany and will take three weeks to arrive, and together with fitting will cost you more than the whole car is worth. 😒

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @SecurityWriter@infosec.exchange

@SecurityWriter Hmm, I think HA is High Availability, but RPO? BCDR? 🤔

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Apr 14, 2026

Replying to @catileptic@chaos.social

@catileptic Dear telecomshop, since you are not willing to fulfil my order, I am now cancelling it and ordering from your competitor instead. Have a nice day.

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Mar 27, 2026

Replying to @gmh@mastodon.social

@gmh@mastodon.social I don't know why it's different, just reporting my experience. The phone is nagging me to verify my age, which I don't intend to do, my Apple account is not old enough to bypass that.

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Mar 27, 2026

Replying to @gmh@mastodon.social

@gmh@mastodon.social Hmm, I've just got iOS 26.4, I have not done age verification, but I can turn off "Share my location". 🤔

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Mar 12, 2026

Replying to @neilmadden@infosec.exchange

@neilmadden@infosec.exchange HN discussion on this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348475

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Feb 11, 2026

"The finance curse is killing Britain" - https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/02/11/the-finance-curse-is-killing-britain/ from @RichardJMurphy@mas.to and John Christensen.
#finance #inequality #ukpolitics

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Jan 10, 2026

Replying to @njr@mathstodon.xyz

@njr@mathstodon.xyz @pluralistic@mamot.fr Cory, I wonder if you can comment on this objection, which claims that WTO rules would block the strategy you propose - https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1q9200w/trump_may_be_the_beginning_of_the_end_for/nysnibh/ ? #enshittification #wto #tariffs

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Dec 28, 2025

Replying to @ukscone@cupoftea.social

@ukscone@cupoftea.social @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt Wow, somebody else who remembers "The Sensible Solution"! #retrocomputing

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Nov 29, 2025

Replying to @cstross__dup_483@wandering.shop

@cstross@wandering.shop Wow, somebody actually found a worthwhile application of CMake! (When I was programming professionally I sometimes had to wrangle with CMake. I never understood what problem it was trying to solve) 🤔

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · May 05, 2025

Replying to @gnome@floss.social

@gnome@floss.social This is great, but for some people in some situations switching away from windows may not be practical. In such cases it may be worth considering paying EUR25/yr for third-party extended support - https://blog.0patch.com/2024/06/long-live-windows-10-with-0patch.html Note that this does not require reinstalling everything, which is needed if you take the Windows LTSC route. 💻 #microsoft #windows #win10eol

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Mar 19, 2025

Replying to @endrift@social.treehouse.systems

@endrift@social.treehouse.systems How about a server that sits on the floor, under the two desktop PCs?

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Jun 20, 2024

Replying to @MissingThePt@mastodon.social

@MissingThePt@mastodon.social "Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Now and Hunger Games actor, dies aged 88" - https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/jun/20/actor-donald-sutherland-dies-hunger-games-dont-look-now

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Colin Macleod @CGM@mastodon.scot · Jan 27, 2023

Replying to @jennifercobbe@someone.elses.computer

@jennifercobbe "new GDPR laws" - sounds dodgy to me, I would decline this and go somewhere else.

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