Fireworks have now been a daily occurrence for the last fortnight and our 1 year old puppy is really suffering (we're not doing much better). Please sign https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/732559 .

From 1988. https://archive.org/details/crash-magazine-57?view=theater#page/n67

Can anyone recommend a good firm UK mattress (and possibly bed) available in EU Kingsize (160x200cm)? #bed #shopping

When did restaurants and cafés stop putting menus on windows etc so you at least got an idea of what they serve (if not prices)?

Ah corporate takeovers: making it difficult to figure out if Kellogg's Corn Flakes are made by the major UK vet-chain and dog food manufacturer Mars (they also make chocolate bars) or Tik-Tac and Thorntons chocolate maker Ferriro.

"Wherever we looked for the prominent flaggers and leaders of this movement, we found people smugglers and sex doll salesmen, people with dubious criminal pasts and people willing to put in a good word for Adolf Hitler. Farage told us the flag-raisers were just ordinary folk sticking it to the […]

FFS. Fireworks at midnight are bad enough but a f'ng midday?

Can't overstate how fucked up it is that unraveling what is arguably the greatest achievement in the history of humanity is now a motivating issue of one of the two dominant parties in the U.S.

Never cared much for Omarchy: It's being made by a right-wing dipshit with no experience with Linux and distributions who's whole "Opinion" seems to be that "90ies Hacker movie look" is what makes a good operating system. But when I read this actual review https://マリウス.com/a-word-on-omarchy/ I […]

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I'd say 90% chance Trump demolished the East Wing with the full intention of a "well, we ran out of private money, and now we have to use a few billion of public money to complete the project given to my cronies".

Does anyone remember a post about a floppy disk data-recovery PLL algorithm on either here or birdsite? I wanna say it was by @whitequark but I'm not sure. (I'm also interested in other algorithms folks might know, other than the naive binning/windowing method) #digipres

Kind of amazing to think about how different the world might be today if PayPal had just... failed early on and shut down. You can trace so much nonsense today back to PayPal getting bailed out by eBay.

On top of having `us-east-1` as your single point of failure, it's worth asking yourself: What happens when any single corp one day decides "ope, you violated our terms of service, we're shutting you down". One call from a fascist government, and most of the corps are going to be more than […]

Somebody is slightly offended by the "Seek" application's recognition of its species.

Hey people with connections with UK property websites: Can you please make it easy to select "accessible properties" and exclude "retirement only" ones? Not all disabled people are a) retired b) looking to rent or c) on "social housing".

Well, my autism means I like calm and quiet and regular familiar routines. My ADHD means I like different and novel stimulation and exposure to lots of randomness. Oh so they cancel one another out? No it just means my brain is never content.

The Day My Smart Vacuum Turned Against Me https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/ Would you allow a stranger to drive a camera-equipped computer around your living room? You might have already done so without even realizing it.

I have a photographic memory. Unfortunately, it's a pin-hole camera and it's a cloudy day.

Hacker gets annoyed at Amazon’s Kindle apps, reverse-engineers the Kindle web reader’s protocol (which basically sends each page as a set of glyphs in a deliberately broken variant of SVG). Such obscurity, much security. https://blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-drm/

Me when a monster tries to jumpscare me

Thought I had found a cache of unlisted benches for @openbenches.org but turns out @Edent hasn't implemented any duplication checking... Well, I was kinda keeping my eye out for simplish programming to ease myself back into things... Sorry for the duplicates!

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/115343246885448739 Rumors that the fediverse can't do mobile identity have been greatly exaggerated: #fep_1580 is now in draft status - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/1580/fep-1580.md This is a proposal for how to migrate all your […]

Hey, for anyone looking for an alternative to #meetup, just a heads up that there's a Fediverse alternative. It's called Mobilizon. https://mobilizon.org I'm starting to use the US instance (mobilizon.us) for tech and dance events here in the DC area. And hey, #elixir people? It's written in […]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

Happy first-full-live-performance-of-Huntrix to those who celebrate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y-ViyUk7Dk

What I said: "Hey Google, set the downstairs loo hallway to fifty percent" What Google thought I said: "Activate Nightlight" Yeah #ai is up to the task of performing complex actions /s

Why is it when looking for an app on my phone, it can take ages despite it not changing its name, logo or even position the app list. But if an app changes its logo even slightly, I notice it instantly.

Modern computing is dead. Microsoft killed it by filing it with ads and tracking. Apple killed it by forgetting why their products were desirable. Google killed it by locking down the open platform. I’m just so depressed with my entire industry. These tools used to be limitless, fun, and clear […]

Just seen the UK government's response to the "Do not introduce Digital ID cards" petition ( https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/730194 ) - interesting they say "1 in 10 UK adults don't have a physical photo ID" because that's exactly what has been needed to vote since 2022 ( […]

"Do you do in-store repairs?" "Yes" "Do you do the Pixel 6a battery replacements at the moment?" "Yes, but we can't guarantee same day replacement". FFS.

The most bad thing of the mastodon and so-called "fedi verse" is that it has no people. It's just grug from millions of account, and to prove that, grug will now post this from all of them

Oh boy... Uhm... Yay science?! I guess... sorta... I will say the kid has a bright future. 6th grader's science fair project answers age-old question: 'Do cat buttholes touch everything?' ""Non-toxic lipstick was applied to their bum-bums, they were then given a series of commands (sit, wait […]

@mullvadnet Just trying to sign up now but when I try to create an account number the POST to /create errors out (200 HTTP response code, but JSON body is "type: failure, status: 504, [{data: "message":-1})]

Hopefully the problem with DWP's PIP is sorted. Even though I got the form to them a fortnight before the original deadline, 4 weeks before the extended deadline and confirmed they received it before that - somehow "notification that DWP ending payment got crossed in the post" (even though it […]

today in 'wow people are dumb': putting a train ticket barcode into ChatGPT and expecting it to generate a valid fake one, then openly admitting to it https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/caught-using-fake-e-ticket.290357/

I've just had this post https://mastodon.social/@DieMadFediblocker/115286630026826480 show up in my feed. Not reposted and I'm not following them either. Second mastodon.social account in 3 days (different account, same sort of content) to manage this. Anyone got any ideas how this was […]

FFS, DWP (UK's Department of Work and Pensions) - I sent off the form on the 16th of August, confirmed you received by phone on the 29th (you received it on the 22nd) and now you are saying you didn't receive it and stopping my wife's Personal Independence Payments (PIP) and the carers allowance […]

"Available for over a year": does that mean this iPlayer programme was first available before this time in 2024 or does it mean it will still be available after this time in 2026? #ambiguity

Yes, Windows 10, my machine is not connected to any networks. So much "not connected" that I am able to run a public speed test with 72Mbps download speeds to my supposedly disconnected machine.

Shopfiy has the DHH problem, WooCommerce/WordPress has the MM problem: is there a non-problematic ecommerce solution for a small business that you are aware of? (osCommerce?)

Wishlist: FedEx's fucking tracking system should not allow driver to mark package delivered without GPS signal matching delivery address.

#perl: older than some #programming careers, younger at heart than you think. It’s evolved a lot since 1999 — modern features, cleaner syntax — yet it still runs code you wrote decades ago. (And if you’re wondering: #perl6 was renamed Raku in 2019 — it’s a different sister language, not a […]

Had an appointment at my GPs today: got 3 reminders (inc notifications) via the NHS app about it. Went to check time today and appointment totally disappeared in the app (not under past/current appointments, messages on in medical notes) Check the old "no longer used/supported" Airmid app and […]

UK Supermarkets: "Maximum of 2 packets of Ibuprofen: no matter the size". UK Poundland shop "Yesh go ahead and get 3x 16 packets for £1"

Whilst waiting for medical news went to a local pub for food. First sign "Use courtyard entrance", second sign "Use bar upstairs". Had to ask if just sit anywhere or have to be seated. Self-seating was the answer. No menus on table just a QR code. Scan the code and just drinks menu. Get up to […]

"You have an appointment at 8am, please be at the surgery (1.5 hours away) 15 minutes before your appointment time" "Hah: jokes on you - the gates to the car park don't even open until 7.50am and the doors aren't unlocked until exactly 8am"

Maybe think twice if you have Wyze Cams and pay for their cloud subscription. If you have a supported camera, maybe consider the Thingino firmware. #privacy #wyze #wyzecam

The complaint form Ofcom says you should use to report websites for violations of the #onlinesafetyact does not allow you to enter URLs, because it might be illegal for Ofcom to look at them. What is going ON over there.