Comedian Robin Ince quits as host of BBC’s Infinite Monkey Cage

#qemu 10.2-rc3 has been posted: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/[email protected]/T/#u Please test and report any regressions that need fixing for the final release. There are a number of new emulated #arm64 features in this release including FEAT_GCS and […]

Apropos of yesterdays #vibe coding thread I do have one other observation. Looking at the #api usage stats you can clearly see how many more api calls and tokens are processed when using it this way. All those tokens can quickly add up to extra costs - my individual queries are basically noise […]

We're ready to take a chainsaw to the Brexit read tape. Are you?

I had a play with #vibe coding today to get an idea of its limitations. Obviously as I'm an inveterate #emacs user I needed something integrated to my editor so I thought I would try out #ECA which comes with Emacs integration as a first class citizen […]

Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal. We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.

Oh how does this keep happening to #reform? They really must be very unlucky to have so many wrong-uns in their ranks. Gill was the party leader in #wales : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c891403eddet #politics #cymru

It may be cold 🥶 but it is very bright 😎.

The HPV vaccine is so good that opportunities to teach colposcopy and LEEP are decreasing because there is far less need. Yay!

Ok @hankgreen.bsky.social is my anger translator regarding stupid controversies about Jimmy Wales and @wikipedia.org. I was going to say something, but Hank says everything I would have said here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months" China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

I wasn't expecting #qemu to get name checked in a @hossenfelder.bsky.social #video but there you go. Despite spending quite a lot of time experimenting with #ai tools I too get irritated by the defaults as big tech tries to enable it everywhere: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICjubxfeICo

Dear #lazyweb, It turns out I'm one of only a few people who are using the #znc #irc bouncer at work. As a result I'm looking for hosted bouncers. So far I've found #irccloud and #irctoday. Are there any other hosted options I should look at? I'm tempted by irccloud if the #slack integration […]

I can't wait for the breathless articles about how coming second in a by-election shows #reform is poised to sweep the #senedd next year. /s

I wonder if Amazon have tried turning it off and on again?

We’ve spotted several videos on social media claiming that the government is introducing a £10 charge for NHS GP appointments from next month. This is false.

This is a lie. There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years. But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious" I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge. We know exactly how LLMs work.

Anyone who thinks promoting a vicious racist conspiracist like Robinson is good for Jews has lost any grip on reality

This captures much of the frustration of today.

After a deep dive down a cooking rabbit hole I've decided the instructions "combine the butter and brown sugar in a pan and heat until bubbling. Set aside to cool" is far too imprecise for recipes involving boiling sugar.

I would hope most of my followers are already pretty skeptical of #rfkjr's autism claims. The internet's #hankgreen has done a deep dive into one of the bogus claims if you want to see how the lie was constructed: Lying About Autism is a Full Time Job - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpSfrD3Nzs

In discussion with a computer scientist from the University of Cambridge last night: Me: "you've described some of the things that AI is good at. How would you describe the category of things it's not good at? **pause** Him: "Anything where it has to be right".

This week’s main story is about ABC’s move to pull Jimmy Kimmel off the air, what it has to do with Brendan Carr and the FCC, what it means for free speech in the United States, and why it’s all giving Donald Trump such sweet dreams you could break his bedsheets.

So, given all that, what do general purpose VPNs add? What am I missing? Are they just security theater marketing? Or do they bundle other security features like anti-malware etc, and the term "VPN" now means a bundle of miscellaneous endpoint security features, like (shudder) anti-virus used to?

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Adjusted for inflation Spirited Away cost $22 million to make. The Triplets of Belleville cost $16.5 million, Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers cost $14.28 million, and Oscar winner Flow cost only $4 million. These critically acclaimed, made by real people films, cost less than this pile of actual vomit.

🎉 Home Assistant 2025.9 is here... and it's MASSIVE! www.home-assistant.io/blog/2025/09... A sidebar for the automation editor 🤖, tons of new tile card features 📈, a brand new Home dashboard ✨, analog clocks 🕘, storage insights 💾, and much more! #HomeAssistant

A perennial poem from @mitchbenn.bsky.social

realistic Star Trek

Naming things is hard. I finally landed on *hubi* or the *Homogeneous Unified Builder Interface*. There are many #build interface tools for #emacs and this one is mine: https://github.com/stsquad/hubi

Can you *imagine* the state of men, generally, if women are barred from buying them new socks, t-shirts, etc

Well that was a bit of a worry. I went to tidy up my #webpage links and happened to notice a #blog post about a film I don't remember watching. It very much looks like my old #wordpress instance had been compromised and subtly added movie link spam in the archive and I never noticed. When I […]

Apparently I should watch the season premier of the new #southpark. I wonder if I'll need to verify my age to do so? (narrator: he didn't)

"Great Escape" headlines on every back page 2nd edition please.

Ngl that is the luckiest penalty shoot win I've ever seen but we live to fight another day

What goes on behind the scenes when world leaders visit HM the King? 👑

Local graffiti has upped its spooky game 💜

This is incredible

I think these guys are lost. #sheep #sheepofmastodon. I'm not sub-tooting.

The #qemu contribution policy is being updated to make it clear we don't currently accept #llm generated code: https://patchew.org/QEMU/[email protected]/ Where's the legal line between LLMs trained on vast copyrighted codebases and human developers who've read […]

The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" is here! 🔥🐍 From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python. 🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel. Subscribe to stay updated!

traintimes.org.uk (the best train times site, which has saved me on countless occasions) now links to lifts.matteason.co.uk on the live departure boards! Thanks @dracos.co.uk

🚨BREAKING🚨 Liberal Democrats have GAINED Cambridgeshire for the first time ever. 🔶 11 GAINS to elect 31 Councillors!

Lead story Der Spiegel … Liz Truss getting a few more minutes of fame thanks to Trump

So it appears the new #trump #tariff rates are based on the differential trade deficits with other countries. So resource rich but consumer poor countries get an extra whack and input costs to any US manufacturing using those resources goes up right? Stable genius indeed 🤡 📉