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@neil Oh please don't give them ideas 😩
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Tired techie. Often lost in another tab. Professional lurker. Permanently bewildered. 
Formerly at 👉 twitter.com/eLearningTechie
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@anguinea one of my Read Aloud TTS voices taught me that pronunciation last year and I've been calling it that ever since.
The other TTS pronunciation I've adopted is 'Blooskee'.
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@grickle@mstdn.social I can relate. I feel like the smallest dragon most days, especially before the first cup of coffee of the day.
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@grickle@mstdn.social Me every morning, trying to reach optimal coffee levels to get my brain to function.
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@eclectech@things.uk TGIF!
Dunno about you, but somehow this 4 day week has felt like 9 days...
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@dec_hl@mastodon.social That's a great one, too! My absolute favourite is the Turrican Medley (SunSpire Remix) - have listened to that one on repeat .. repeatedly. 🤭
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@lifewithtrees @Tamtam @mvsde flipside: both sides not understanding each other creates jobs for those of us who have an arts background but are also sufficiently techie to sit in the middle as translators. 😅
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@sellathechemist@mastodon.social Bravo! Thank you for doing the right thing. RS's inaction on this is indefensible.
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@alternativeto@mas.to happy birthday! 🎂
Thank you for being there whenever I need a replacement for something that got enshittified or shut down. 🫶
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@hamatti it's the most wonderful relief from the so-called 'real world', isn't it? Much needed in these dark times.
Krobie and I will be celebrating on the farm later when CA's video goes live on YT.
🎂🎉
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@seven_708@infosec.exchange @jon@social.vivaldi.net Yes please - that would make your good browser a great browser!
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@matthartley agree with @Sammy ! Thanks so much for creating this. Accessibility is one of the most common reasons people in my field (education) give me for why the can't recommend or switch to Linux. This will make such a difference. 🫶
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@grickle@mstdn.social This still tickles me every time I see it. Thank you for your doodles.
"A Chinese court has ruled that it’s illegal to replace human workers with AI." - https://www.theregister.com/2026/05/04/asia_tech_news_roundup/
Interesting.
"The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis. [...] The authors have not responded to correspondence regarding this retraction." - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-026-07310-z
(via https://www.404media.co/nature-retracts-paper-on-the-benefits-of-chatgpt-in-education/)
"OpenAI is pausing its planned Stargate datacenter project in the UK just months after announcing it, citing the regulatory environment and cost of energy as reasons for putting it on hold." - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/09/openai_puts_stargate_uk_on/
Good. Gives people more time to brew up anger and rebellion at this pointless waste of resources that are already overpriced in the UK.
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ties in nicely with all the fraud and deception Ed Zitron talks about in his latest audio release - https://youtu.be/j7ffCUb7cnM
TL;DR: Give Scam Altman all your bio data, so that we can solve a problem he and people like him created -
https://news.zoom.com/zoom-and-tools-for-humanity/
What a world we live in.😞
"British adults are now less active on social media, according to Ofcom, with just half of users actively posting, and fewer now believe the benefits outweigh the risks of being online." - https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/07/ofcom_social_media_use/
Probably too busy with their chatbot boy/girlfriends these days...
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@ubuntustudio@mastodon.art I get "Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private." when I click through from here > https://ubuntustudio.org/2025/12/coming-to-26-04-lts-three-layouts/
WTF...?
Oh noes my bread dough escaped its holding pen 😱
How's your weekend going so far?
"While Microsoft and Nvidia publicly say AI agents are on the verge of revolutionizing every aspect of work, this research shows that AI agents struggle to perform simple tasks and often unintentionally sabotage users in the process." - https://www.404media.co/nvidia-and-microsoft-researchers-say-ai-agents-dont-care-about-safety-or-reliability/
Or put another way, humans are sabotaging themselves by treating the slopmachine as if it were an even slightly intelligent fellow human...
"Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. (...) Users who have had their accounts stolen say that there is no way to escalate their problem to a human." - https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/
Just wait until they discover your bank's slopbot...
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@eclectech@things.uk Oh don't get me started! I am surrounded by these fascists and I've felt quite sick all day after once again having confirmation that I live in an area full of spiteful little Englanders 😡
"During testing on Ubuntu (...) only nine system processes made internet connections. By comparison, macOS reportedly showed more than one hundred processes communicating externally." - https://linux.slashdot.org/story/26/04/09/0617212/little-snitch-comes-to-linux-to-expose-what-your-software-is-really-doing
Blimey.
Surveillance dressed up as 'green AI data centres' - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c98r4e594p7o
🙄
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@hisham_hm I'm also only attending remotely, but this one was fun https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/XHSRAF-microsoft-bob-adversarial-interoperability/
This from the Waterpark Sim dev team is ConcernedApe level care for their players:
"...apart from creating the new content (...), we have been working hard to improve the performance of the game for all. This was always a goal of ours, but with the current prices of Pc parts, we decided it was even more important than ever to make sure as many people as possible can enjoy the game without having to worry so much about their machine specs." https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/3293260/view/678497276169028546?l=english
🥰 🏊♀️💦
Amazing numbers from a survey of 200+ businesses:
81% Reported an increase in production incidents due to AI-generated code
70% Say maintaining their test suite is now a bigger burden than writing code itself
52% Reported a significant increase in software development output due to AI coding tools
92% of business leaders expressed confidence in the production readiness of AI-generated code
source: https://www.cloudbees.com/lp/2026-state-of-code-abundance-report
Is it a coincidence that both 'fail' and 'entertainment' contain AI...?
TGIF!
When 'AI' does all sorts of damage to open-source projects AI bros and vibers simply shrug.
When open-source bites back AI bros and vibers are outraged: how could anyone harm their precious little agents...? 🙄
"An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality" - https://www.404media.co/microsoft-wants-to-make-people-addicted-to-scout-its-new-ai-assistant-internal-documents-reveal/
Where to even start ...