Apparently calling prompt-generated slop "slop" is offensive. OK, so maybe we should simply call it what it is - machine-generated plagiarism. scripting.com/2026/03/13.h...

I'm slowly weaning myself off #VirginMedia. Phone lines have gone digital via another service. (@[email protected]) E-mail will go (through relays) to my own server, once I get that tied down. Progress is being made in that direction.

So, it turns out that #Argos are another idiot company that don't allow "+" mailboxes in their online order and reservation forms. Guess I won't be ordering, then.

Gotta love services that insist on email MFA, when the email takes 48 hours to arrive...

Is there an open source application that can run natively on Windows 11 as an X server?

Google's proposals to force developers to pay a fee and register to lock down Android control will restrict innovation and markets in mobile applications to those with the deepest pockets. Their published justification for this, is barely credible.

A reminder that our first public ticket sale will be this Monday (the 9th) at 20:00 UK time (21:00 CET), on: www.emfcamp.org/tickets You can see the prices and ticket options there now.

My University laptop has stopped rendering international flag emoji. Is there some idiotic Mickey$oft policy setting that allows them to block specific renderings? It's utterly mad.

Warning: Overtly political post Funny how the people most vociferous about the UK supposedly losing its military readiness and influence tend to also be the ones who do everything they can to not pay taxes... Ironic, appealing to memories of imperial power but not being willing to foot the bill.

Disappointing... www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

The problem with any civil, compassionate, trusting society is that there will always be that minority lacking those qualities and willing to abuse them in others for profit, power, and influence (#Meta, #Amazon, #Oracle, just for starters). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

QotD: "I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'wouldn't it be much worse if life *were* fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them?' So now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe."

Glad to see there is something of an exodus from the Mickey$oft/Copilot-infested platform. #Codeberg is the way. fossforce.com/2026/03/gent...

One very annoying things about University life... The Christian society are like a rash all over the Union event calendar. Almost as many as all the other societies put together.

Awww. Mickey$oft had a tanty... tech.slashdot.org/story/26/03/... 😆 😆 😆 😆 #StreisandEffect

"I don't assume the universe obeys my preconceptions, but I know a frelling fact when it hits me inn the face."- the wisdom of Rigel XIV

I find it incredible to think that in a couple of weeks it will be 40 years since Giotto approached Halley's comet. 40 years!!

Never mind government of the people, by the people, for the people. The US currently has government of the people, by the unscrupulous, for the wealthy.

Inspired by the film Sneakers: "Pholiota Comus".

I love that India is modernising, but it is probably a mark of my almost entirely British upbringing and life experience that I see photographs of what hip bars and restauraunts are serving, and my first response is "WTAF is that!"

It troubles me that - for whatever reason - otherwise decent people still feel the need for a presence on Xitter...

When I was a child, pre-teen, my Dad was cultivating links with his company's home office in the US, and after a couple of trips out there my parents were giving serious consideration to emigrating there.

a man in Oklahoma was speaking out against a data center in his community. He went a few seconds over time and the city had him arrested for trespassing

Prisoner: Cell Block HRH

The changes this man lived through, and to some degree inspired... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c3... But the irony of the Tangerine Troll hailing him as a good man - that's off the scale.

Worth watching this whole video, but the key point here is a seminary-trained Christian telling it like it is: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?... "Christian Nationalism is the worship of power in the name of Christianity." There's hope for America, yet.

Don’t be fooled by Ring’s latest attempt to make mass surveillance and real-time identification the new norm in our neighborhoods. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I just had an extraordinary thought: there are children walking around now whose *parents* have never known a world without the Internet and the Web...

As a Putin arse-kisser this comes as no surprise. If there is any surprise at all it is that it has taken this long for him to come out and say it.

Tax cuts for giant corporations and the super rich. Paid for by cuts to the social safety net for everyone else. Trickle-up economics.

So... the Notepad++ update server got compromised. notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacke... If you use it, best re-download and reinstall. And maybe sweep your machine with a suitable AV tool.

I don't know why I was expecting any different, given my past dealings with #VirginMedia, but changing a service package when you don't want their retention offers is like pulling teeth...

All hail Ivan Walrath, the master of the Yonkfnorbus!

"It’s really a shame that I learned all of this too late."

Why the hell are developers suddenly intent on over-riding the user's own window decoration preferences? I like #Zim as an application, but it has now started suppressing the system window titles and imposing its own style. Why? Why do devs do this!?

So does this mean that SpaceX also intend peppering the world with Starlink-style up-downlink units? uk.pcmag.com/networking/1...

Museums and cultural centers across the U.S. are readying their programming for Black History Month. At President Trump’s Kennedy Center, however, the online calendar lists no scheduled events to honor Black history.

As a new anniversary of Brexit arrives, here's a reminder of the chillingly methodical moment when the UK flag was removed from the EU Council building in Brussels. Since then, not a single Brexit promise has come true – and the majority of us now want that flag put back again. #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺🕊

Note to self: getting bleach in an open wound is probably not the greatest idea.

Please Don’t Say Mean Things about the AI That I Just Invested a Billion Dollars In buff.ly/DfXm4xi “[Nvidia CEO] Jensen Huang Is Begging You to Stop Being So Negative About AI” — Headline from Gizmodo

www.closertotheedge.net/p/the-dildo-... As serious as the situation was I am laughing.

The Bible Society claims a resurgence in religious observance of Christianity... apparently not. www.thetimes.com/uk/religion/...

Very disappointing to find university advice on personal development and awareness promoting the MBTI despite its questionable academic soundness.

ICE Issues Ransom Note Demanding $65 Billion If U.S. Wants To See Minnesota Again https://theonion.com/ice-issues-ransom-note-demanding-65-billion-if-u-s-wants-to-see-minnesota-again/

Does this come as a surprise to anyone? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A message to the media: stop calling it a "healthcare crisis." Call it the "Republican healthcare crisis." Stop calling it an "immigration debate." Call it "Republican terror and violence." Be accurate. #FundHealthcareStopICE

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis