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@CiaraNi@mastodon.green I searched Mastodon, and it says that Swift is a programming language mostly used on Apple devices, and is not eligible to marry in most states 🤷♂️
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mastodon 4.7.2I solve business problems with technology. Field engineering, fast/big data, Open Source, Apple, running, dad jokes. He/him.
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Wearing my "Hang on. Let me overthink this" shirt today, and at lunch a man came over and said that he liked it. Now I'm wondering why? What was his motivation? Should I be worried? Threatened?
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@CiaraNi@mastodon.green I mostly knew because my youngest used to be a huge Swiftie, but, you're right, not a peep here.
It's Canada Day. Be nice to each other, eh?
I’d like to publicly apologise to the leaf blower guy. Today I’ve learned that there is a greater menace. There is a man with a saw, tearing up the road outside my house. There is also someone in a high-viz watching him. He seems pretty quiet.
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@nicklockwood@mastodon.social Having lived through IE6, it’s so annoying to think that we mostly just swapped Microsoft and Google.
Wow, Gruber is *so* close to understanding the point of GDPR.
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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social Why are schools so bad at communicating? Do they not, you know, teach English?
I’m not very sure what to do with this warning.
I don’t think I ever really appreciated Kate Bush until I watched Top of the Pops reruns on BBC4. You get all the boring late seventies guitar bands and then… boom… Wuthering Heights. The proverbial ice water in hell. https://music.apple.com/gb/playlist/kate-bush-essentials/pl.4878fcbb51b0490a90e797f124ce6518 #totp
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@mackuba.eu @ianRobinson@mastodon.social I guess everyone has a different trigger? Don’t get me wrong, I love the screen, but the display on my wife’s iPad Air looks… fine. I could probably live with it just fine. But I watch her getting frustrated with Touch ID and realise I made the right choice for me!
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@leeloo@c.im @nicklockwood@mastodon.social As a general point, what I don't like about Chrome being so dominant is that Google are an advertising company. I don't feel like my interests (privacy) are aligned with theirs (selling my data). Still, I'd rather it's Google owning Chrome than, say, Meta.
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@ianRobinson@mastodon.social Ooh, exciting! I assumed the gig would be promoting an album but I hadn’t realised that anything had been announced.
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@SergKoren@writing.exchange I’m sure she’s never heard of me, so…. wait, that’s not what I mean.
What are the odds that Tove Lo would announce a gig in London on the same date that I already have tickets for another gig?
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party If they were in Hoxton when you wrote that, they’ll be near Tower Bridge by now.
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@TheBreadmonkey@beige.party Life gave us potatoes, but we forgot about them, they grew eyes, became spongy, then we threw them out. Your strategy is better.
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@ianRobinson@mastodon.social It was Face ID that swung it for me. https://www.zx81.org.uk/posts/2025-11-21-ipad-m5/
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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social If your kids’ school is anything like mine, it’s not the words as much as the lack of clarity. Garbled thinking more than writing. But yes, like you, I spend much of my working life sending emails and Slack messages. Hopefully I make sense.
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@Nickiquote@mstdn.social Have you seen Red Dwarf recently? I rewatched the first few episodes (trying to educate my wife) and I didn’t think it stood up. Loved it when it was first broadcast. So disappointed!
My bank is now expanding into… being a mobile provider?!
RE: https://zeppelin.flights/@sixcolors/117287204597281532
This is interesting. I wouldn’t think to use AI for probably most of this stuff, but, actually, it likely would save time…
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David Pogue tests Siri AI (Link) https://sixcolors.com/link/2026/09/david-pogue-tests-siri-ai/
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@leeloo@c.im @nicklockwood@mastodon.social Chrome and IE have different failures. IE stagnated. What people forget is that IE started off as a really good browser! Unfortunately, MS won and they just stopped investing in it. Google obviously has different incentives, but the issue is that it doesn't matter whether Chrome implements standards correctly or not. Firefox could have a better implementation, but it doesn't matter if everyone uses Chromium.
I always think this is one of the most underappreciated Pet Shop Boys songs. Funny and sad and recognisable. And, compared to all the Steps and Craig Davids, the look is still unique. #totp
How many syllables in the word “sacrifice”? #totp
Flame-bait headline (that I'm falling for). Quite apart from the sketchy methodology, the thing I object to most is the framing. Even if true -- big if -- falling *unintended* pregnancies would be a good thing.
Listening to Erasure on #totp and reading about them in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/oct/02/erasure-vince-clarke-andy-bell-interview
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“The controversy over vibe coding reached a new high this week after a developer added hidden instructions to his open source Java testing app to sabotage projects performed by AI coding agents.”
Destructive edits as a protest is a huge breach of trust. He could have made a similar point by asking the LLM to output only in Esperanto or make every fifth word “duck.”
LOL, the first minute of today’s OGWN hasn’t aged well.
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@tewha@appdot.net I think that's right. Non-consumable happens at a point in time, it's not like a time-bounded subscription.
Why didn't Starmer sack him earlier this week?