Ah, the London new year exposition-dump fireworks show is on again

Merry Christmas nerds

"impact of what happened [..] has led him to seek professional help." The bravery, honesty, humility and vulnerability demonstrated in this article is incredibly inspiring. I won't call him a hero if he doesn't want us to but I look up to him and I hope he finds peace: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Of course the beavers operate the dam :D

Very cool that I can test these for size 😎 everyone should have a 3D printer

randomNumber() will return a random number, which is always 7. But don't worry - it was written in Rust, so it's very secure.

Can someone explain to this old man how to follow FOSDEM discourse on Bluesky. I thought I had but the feed's last post was two months ago 🤔

There is a leak in our office. Someone helpfully put a bin under it to catch the water.

I understand why couldnt-give-a-fuck Evri drivers put my parcels in the bin as a "safe place" - why are unionised Royal Mail workers doing it too?

They gave me a blood pressure monitor yesterday after testing my blood pressure right after my flu jab and finding it to be "quite high". But they said I couldn't see the results. Thing is, this has a USB port on it..

"So in my naive head (which I'm protecting from my embittered body, lest it succumb).."

AWS Outage #itwasdns

Really thought-provoking talk, looking forward to sharing the video

"Welcome to OSM. I'm reverting your changeset."

Transport for Greater Manchester has an ingenious method for encouraging walking; bet you couldn't guess what it is.

What is everyone's favourite #raspberrypipico or #esp32 screen? LCD/OLED/Other? This would be for a scale..

#ComSum2025 😎

This was an incredibly fun episode of Ask Hank Anything. There's been a few of them now actually.

It was dns

"Bridging algorithms significantly weakened the link between partisanship and engagement and modestly improved viewpoint diversity, but it also increased attention inequality" This seems like a relatively good tradeoff, all things considered, but it sounds a lot like "old" broadcast media too. Hmm.

@ternbicycles.com When is the GSD S10 Gen 3 coming to the UK in beetle blue? All the advertising is in that colour but it's not even available to back-order :(

Is it just me or are lots of unsubscribe buttons on emails conveniently broken nowadays? 🤔

The evil one must summon, in their core, to oppose the expansion of rights for one group based on the unsubstantiated fears of another group, is insane. Especially when these rights have been long-held in other places in the world. And I cannot summon the diplomatic tongue to call it anything else.

The decision by Google to wind down AOSP clears the way for @fairphone.com to assert themselves as the manufacturer for those who want control over their OS.

I just created my first Cloud Run service with an image from the GitHub Container Repository. Wow, that was fucking horrible. Fuck you Google, I'll never get that time back.

"As these tools become more powerful and affordable, skepticism in media will grow. But the question isn't whether we can trust what we see and hear. It's whether we can trust who's showing it to us." Good, sober analysis. The camera always lied.

Stockport is lovely. I am genuinely taken by how lovely it is.

Japan's Game Preservation Society Is Safe For Now, And It's All Thanks To You. (Image: @gamepresintl)

Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with... How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb

Indeed, I think people are being super black or/and white about current tech. It also doesn't help that the loud voice for the tech (specially online) is from grifters, so a large number of end users don't want to accept if the tech might even be of the smallest help... Interesting times ahead.

"As a reminder, she was a victim of "saucissonnage" - meaning she was tied up by her alleged attackers like a salami." Ah, the French have a word for everything. Wait. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...

I just joined after reading this article, and you can too :) ~£15/year minimum, and you can pay monthly (and more!). It's just a stripe checkout once you pass the initial membership page. They need ~£750/month so if 50 of us can pay £15/month then 50 of us can stop this loss. Nice!

"<product> is janky and the (developers|community) think this is a feature" is my go-to warning for too many free software products.

So I hearted this on Skylight, and it's appearing here. My understanding was that atproto would serve different apps with different namespaces. But instead new apps are leveraging the network effects of Bluesky as a flywheel for their own. (Or I just got atproto wrong from the start..)

(for those who saw me delete and repost that last skeet three times because I'm apparently unable to computer these days: no you didn't)

My #fosdem #observability talk, "The Performance Impact of Auto-Instrumentation", is now up on YouTube: youtu.be/BI_EMz-T9Q0

I feel like I'm very strongly a sceptic - that is, I'm slow to believe something without evidence - but I find "sceptic culture" and the "sceptic community" is so alien to me that I'm incredibly uncomfortable with the label.

Have you heard the good news? #observability #fosdem

Singing your question to a #fosdem speaker is possibly the most egregious way to steal attention from a great talk. But I do enjoy singing, and I won't stop.

I had a dream that I missed my talk this morning because of a bug in my phone that changed the time every few minutes to something outlandishly wrong, and it skipped my alarm.

I've noticed a pattern of free software fans manufacturing beef between competing projects, while the developers generally just disagree politely, get on with their own work, and seek to collaborate where they can. Gnome "vs" KDE. Fedora "vs" Debian Mastodon "vs" BlueSky. Are there other examples?

Room full at #fosdem so it's time to roll the dice. What unexpected thing will I be learning about? Let's find out 😁

Is #fosdem happening on Bluesky? I did see something about #atproto on the schedule 👀

Hmm

If you use iwantmyname.com as your domain registrar, this is your notice to migrate away from them. Itch.io got back up fairly quickly, probably to avert a PR disaster. Are you as big as Itch.io? No? Then migrate today :)

We have all become tempered by fear

I just took a screenshot in Gnome on my personal laptop and it hurt how easy it is compared to my work macbook. Gnome is superior UX at this point, the only problem is adoption really. The worst part is that I run my own company so this is all my fault 😢

"As a project grows longer, the probability of having to recompile the kernel approaches 1."

Ah, am I witnessing the first bluesky dogpile? "Fun".