Spotted my first tiny balancing sheep in the wilds of Wales!
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John Leach
@johnl@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Programmer, sysadmin, guitarist, singer, cyclist. haproxy fan boy. Co-founder Brightbox.
#socialism #feminist #antiracist #lgbtqrights #transrights
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Touring around the west coast of Scotland this week and the dog is already exhausted.
Weird how Microsoft, the owner of one of the biggest LLM code assistants in the world has so many reported but unfixed issues in their software projects huh.
If you're a techie and enjoyed the Chuck Norris memes but don't enjoy his bigotry then maybe you'll enjoy a website I made (years ago): https://www.schneierfacts.com
Neighbour messaged to tell us the cows have got into our garden again. Confirmed with the CCTV. Does anyone know of a ZigBee-controllable cattle prod?
When I first started playing online chess I was very amused to find that, when angry and frustrated at my poor chess game choices, I would be able to click "flip board" and presumably rage quit, throwing all the pieces in the air. #chess
My @roastinghouse coffee beans arrived today! Roasted fresh yesterday in Sheffield and arrived today in home-compostable packaging.
I've been looking out for new fermented beans since my local roastery made it a bit more difficult to buy theirs. These beans were delivered next day, a fair bit better and a comparable price.
Support businesses on Mastodon when you can. Leaving the bad place isn't so easy when your income depends on it.
I'm a big fan of Rage Against the Machine but never saw them live. Luckily I was able to see the very next best thing: Nic Cage Against the Machine. A RATM cover band fronted by Nic Cage. The music was absolutely on point and while I don't really know anything about Nic Cage, the singer was very entertaining. Definitely better than someone trying to be Zack de la Rocher and most likely failing. #ratm
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@sindarina my friend is currently doing a personal heist film festival and has his list online. 96 in total so far (though he admits some are a bit heist adjacent). https://sleepykev.com/heist_2026/
Had a long weekend in North Wales. Drove around with a Meshcore radio device but barely saw any data. Managed to get a couple of messages back to a friend in Huddersfield but delivery acknowledgements couldn't get back to me.
Looks like there is coincidentally a lot more meshcore activity in the North of England, where I live!
Although I do think I need to learn a bit more about how it works as I'm not sure my testing was the best (mostly just watching the packet logs!)
I actually enjoy chatting to Jehovah's Witnesses but it's funnier being out and the CCTV capturing them walking all the way down our steep and uneven 100m-long drive and then walking back up without having witnessed.
I know I'm on holiday when I reach the end of my mastodon feed (first time in weeks!).
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And while £5.5m may be $7.34m currently, he is still the six million dollar man before VAT.
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@pikesley@mastodon.me.uk *raises voice over the sound of a thousand desperate screaming inner daemons* Andressen: No I have no inner daemons.
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@ifixcoinops he narrates his own audiobooks as well. I recently enjoyed his "Thatcher Stole My Trousers" which was part auto-biography and part history of alternative stand-up comedy in the UK, and funny too of course :)
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@PetraPhoenix@beige.party so very sorry to hear this but thank you for the advice. I'm going to make some changes here.
Punching myself in the face by not reporting bugs in the azure terraform driver because I am not paid by Microsoft, but then having to keep experiencing the bugs over and over. #azure #terraform
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@ericholscher@fosstodon.org it's so weird that it's not just a button isn't it. There is a lot of hype around cloudflare that fizzles out as soon as you try to use it properly! iirc, you create rules to block (or demand captchas) for the various categories of suspiciousness.
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@hejsna@ruby.social "somehow, he has yet to grasp" ... "it's mind-bendingly strange how [he] doesn't get this."
The answer stares us in the face: He does get it. He just doesn't care.
He simply holds these beliefs and is using his power to impose them on people and accepts the costs.
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@quinnmx thanks for writing this up. that's where we're headed from Spotify too, just not quite made it happen yet. thanks for the nudge!
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@getajobmike@ruby.social @hejsna@ruby.social yes! and the reason you shouldn't debate these people. They use debate only to spread their ideas and increase their power.
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@ChrisMayLA6 @rpluim if a government freely chooses a fiscal stance that causes a problem then why don't you consider that the cause of the problem?
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@bart@floss.social haha what a waste of resources! Weird they don't trust their own LLM though, huh.
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@jamesbritt@mastodon.social oh you were so lucky to get tickets for that! iirc it was just before they blew up but I still missed out. How big was the audience? I have tickets for October now and they've already upgraded the venue since I booked!