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  I've just spent a cheerful hour of my time writing a program on my computer that will tell me instantly what the volume of the mound was. It's a very neat and sexy program with all sorts of pop-up menus and things, and the advantage of doing it the way I have is that on any future occasion on which I need to know the volume of a megapode nest, given its basic dimensions, my computer will give me the answer in less than a second, which is a wonderful saving of time. The downside, I suppos...

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  LinkedIn gleefully tells me "You’d be a top applicant" for a gig at PostNL. If the public face of the organisation is representative, one only needs to bother to turn up for work perhaps twice a week, and then throw the job in the bin, or leave it in the office and tell customers to finish the job themselves. I don't know that I could manage to be good enough for these exacting standards.

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  Token bills are killing IT Industry profits! We left this chatbot prompt blank so you can help. 🏴‍☠️

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  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/267733536588: The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear, but is fully operational and functions as intended. Only if the intended purpose is to burn your house down. More horror pictures behind the link.

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  I'm fascinated that Andy Burnham has a ten year plan. Does he seriously expect to still be in power in 2036? There's just the minor detail of the next general election, to be held no later than August 2029, which is by no means a foregone conclusion. It's going to be a three-horse race between Reform, Tories and the Greens, with Labour's contribution being the source of the suspiciously-cheap lasagne in the racecourse canteen. Given how well his predecessors went, he shouldn&#39...

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  At least when Theo de Raadt was being obnoxious, he was usually in the right. Has anybody pointed out to Linus Torvalds that the only people left who are prepared to work with him are those who are being paid to do so, and many of those only grudgingly?

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  If you don't stop Nazis coming to your bar, you will eventually have a Nazi bar. If you don't stop AI bros committing to your project, you will eventually have a Nazi bar.

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  How can they call it a 2CV if it doesn't have a thick cloud of soot and unburnt petrol fumes behind it? I bet they don't even preinstall the compulsory CND bumper sticker! https://www.cityam.com/citroen-2cv-returns-as-a-13000-electric-car-and-the-timing-is-no-accident/

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  In which a bunch of preppers decide that they do want the power of the state after all: https://blog.meshcore.io/2026/07/04/help-us-save-meshcore.

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  RE: https://universeodon.com/@UncleDuke1969/116822232922791565 This is also a metaphor for CEOs who want to eliminate their skilled staff.

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  RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/116704285750838861 Proton Mail is allegedly a Milkshake Duck.

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  RE: https://mas.to/@alternativeto/116700575439878752 Yes, this means that if you don't want Google to pound your site and steal your content, you need to sign up for a Google Account and agree to their terms. Or just null-route all of Google's networks, and nothing of value will be lost.

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@MAKS23/116704666251127858 This sounds a bit like the setup for a "In Soviet Russia Ukraine" meme…

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  TIL they are making brand new 5¼″ floppy drives: https://www.micropolis.com/micropolis-1255-floppy. Which interface, you may ask. All of them! (And how did I not find this out from @foone?)

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  I see that the AI circle-jerk on LinkedIn is somewhat muted this morning. Did the Claude bills just arrive?

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  RE: https://flipboard.com/@tomshardware/tom-s-hardware-c60sbsq8z/-/a-DepORkHIQomRQysybHrhmQ%3Aa%3A1829740277-%2F0 Don't threaten me with a good time.

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  RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116357696157633577 We ought to call JavaScript frameworks out for what they're doing: gatekeeping.

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  If "AI-enabled" makes killing people legal, I'm launching my new startup making AI-powered guillotines. The AI shall be used to find people worth at least a billion dollars. https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/

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  Let's see how much better DuoLingo translations are now it's pivoted to AI. Oh.

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  I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired. What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample! I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that. I've also done commerical #Scala, #...

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  As far as I can tell, the only people who have watched Melania are Trump and Melania (who must have been cringing in her seat), the producer, random "celebrities" nobody has heard of who are desperate to be in the public eye, and a bunch of lickspittle hacks doing their usual job of being stenographers for the rich and powerful rather than the journalism they claim to be doing. But remember, democracy dies in darkness, support the Guardian, buy a TV Licence, and subscribe, subscribe,...