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@thegareth.com

Nerd doing cloud stuff.

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Something something redeploy your core infrastructure

11.03.2026 14:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The near seizure inducing app->web->app->web->… bouncing when an app doesn’t support all URLs for a site is amongst the most janky bits of iOS you can experience.

(I get it’s not a functional thing but janky)

Yes, i did just experience this.

11.03.2026 08:04 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

"Sloppelganger" is one for the ages

10.03.2026 20:59 πŸ‘ 1059 πŸ” 256 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
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can't see Toad without being reminded of the time philip glass tweeted this out

10.03.2026 16:02 πŸ‘ 26 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Given that all policies tend to get watered down in implementation, why not start from a position that’s a bit more ambitious than β€œwould you like more of the same”

10.03.2026 12:03 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Why do I get such a guilt trip when I use an LLM to improve my code.

It applied a bunch of standard stuff making it objectively better, helped me add extra guardrails and easier config.

I don’t code enough to do that in the same time myself…

But was that worth however much energy I just used?

10.03.2026 11:08 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Lebanon: Israel Unlawfully Using White Phosphorus The Israeli military unlawfully used artillery-fired white phosphorus munitions over homes on March 3, 2026, in the southern Lebanese town of Yohmor.

Human Rights Watch says they've verified that Israel has used white phosphorus on civilian populations in Lebanon.

10.03.2026 01:38 πŸ‘ 855 πŸ” 543 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 37

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

10.03.2026 07:26 πŸ‘ 7792 πŸ” 2633 πŸ’¬ 234 πŸ“Œ 144

🎢There are no ethical billionaires🎢

10.03.2026 02:42 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's 2026.

Puberty blockers have been banned on the basis of a fake study conducted by a generalist paeditrician.

Hormones for under 18s have been banned on the basis of a fake review conducted by a head injury specialist.

Both remain available for cis kids because that's 'different' somehow

09.03.2026 08:24 πŸ‘ 1477 πŸ” 477 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 9
This image shows diagrams of what life looks like with car centric cities vs one that has a multimodal transportation network.

This image shows diagrams of what life looks like with car centric cities vs one that has a multimodal transportation network.

Love this! Cities are inherently for people, not cars. Yet, we allocate so much precious space to the automobile. There's a reason why cities with the best quality of life around the world have fewer cars. More room for greenspace, more housing and less noise.

Credit: @urbancyclinginstitute.org

08.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 71 πŸ” 14 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 3

I mean that doesn’t take a lot…

09.03.2026 21:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Attacks leave dead vs killed

09.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 10093 πŸ” 2637 πŸ’¬ 141 πŸ“Œ 123

Strange. You'd think that the British people would be persuaded by such compelling arguments as 'we don't have a plan for regime change but a friend of a friend does' or 'Keir Starmer smells!'

09.03.2026 17:53 πŸ‘ 560 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 27 πŸ“Œ 7
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lol

09.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 10506 πŸ” 1423 πŸ’¬ 578 πŸ“Œ 219
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Tony Blair has criticised the British government for not joining in the war in the Middle East, in the surest sign yet Keir Starmer might be doing the right thing

09.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 230 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 3
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If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

09.03.2026 08:34 πŸ‘ 11707 πŸ” 2785 πŸ’¬ 68 πŸ“Œ 83

β€œHey babe, are you an app I coded because the vibes are off the scale”

09.03.2026 14:34 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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In accepting his WGA award, Stephen Colbert named and said something funny about each of his 20 writers so they’d be hired when his show ends πŸ₯Ή

@wgaeast.bsky.social
#WGAAwards

09.03.2026 01:35 πŸ‘ 1018 πŸ” 147 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 18

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

07.03.2026 15:46 πŸ‘ 21829 πŸ” 6564 πŸ’¬ 89 πŸ“Œ 161

If you drill a smaller tunnel it’s cheaper.

Great. This is known.

It’s also known that you can’t run trains and so you have no capacity, and you can’t have emergency exit from the human drive Teslas \o/

Groundbreaking.

07.03.2026 18:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Plus when it’s working the graphs start looking boring

07.03.2026 18:10 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Without extra checks they’re not valid, maybe it’s that email account access could be lost but the iCloud login remains?

07.03.2026 18:09 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I need to stop using this gif. But.

07.03.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The easy oil has been extracted. It’s why they’re proposing/trying to use CO2 sequestration to force it out.

(Carbon capture, the technology has never been shown to work at scale)

07.03.2026 12:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah that’s about right

07.03.2026 05:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Reminder that the man who discovered the SRY gene said this is not how any of this works

06.03.2026 14:14 πŸ‘ 125 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
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My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you.
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Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h β€’β€’β€’ My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72

β€œI have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit

06.03.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 20781 πŸ” 4426 πŸ’¬ 767 πŸ“Œ 1140

Maybe β€œwould the community brigade an immigration van like in Glasgow” is a better measure

05.03.2026 14:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Oh. I did know.

But yeah. All those very specific facts and nothing about the appropriate levels of passive-aggressive shrugging which are far more indicative.

05.03.2026 14:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0