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Simon 🏳️‍🌈

@dalboz.bsky.social

I don’t always skeet but when I do it’s to plug an app that hides AI overview from google. Amazing apps.apple.com/app/id644584...

‎Customize Search Engine

‎Safari Extension to customize your search engine. --- Customize your Search Engine --- Change Safari's default search engine. This is the most basic feature. --- CSE for Private Browse --- Swit...

apps.apple.com

July 13, 2025 at 10:36 AM

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Press Gazette

@pressgazette.co.uk

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare is now blocking all AI scrapers accessing content by default in an industry first.

pressgazette.co.uk/news/major-u...

UK and US publishers back move to block AI scrapers by default

Internet infrastructure provider Cloudflare is now blocking all AI scrapers accessing content by default in an industry first.

pressgazette.co.uk

July 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM

Simon 🏳️‍🌈

@dalboz.bsky.social

iOS 26 is an absolute disaster DO NOT WANT

June 10, 2025 at 2:51 AM

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Casey Newton

@caseynewton.bsky.social

Wrote about why it's so hard to make an AI gadget that anyone wants www.platformer.news/openai-jony-...

t’s difficult to imagine a device that is not worn (Ive reportedly does not want to make a wearable) and not a phone (Ive clearly has some regrets about the world the iPhone created) that could do the things that people most use chatbots for. And it’s equally difficult to imagine other uses of AI in hardware that don’t simply lead back to building a phone.

Or perhaps I should say: it’s difficult for me. Presumably OpenAI was willing to pay Ive his billions because they have something specific, and compelling, in mind. The best-case scenario, as M.G. Siegler suggests here, is that they come up with something on the order of the iPod Shuffle: a cheap, handsome, useful gadget that knows what it’s for and does it exceedingly well. The worst is that OpenAI struggles to integrate its new talent, they spin in circles, and emerge in a few years with a device that costs more than $1,000 and looks like it was carved out of the hood of a Ferrari.

May 23, 2025 at 12:47 AM

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Jono with the good mo

@jono.gay

Every day Agile strays further from God’s light

A section from a list in an Agile textbook detailing different metrics you can use to measure your team’s work throughput, or “flow”:

Flow Distribution

Flow Velocity

Flow Time

Flow Load

Flow Efficiency

Flow Predictability

May 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM

Simon 🏳️‍🌈

@dalboz.bsky.social

It’s not that simple. The correct assignments are: Orange = English, Pink = HSIE, Purple = Maths, Blue = Physics, Green = Chemistry, Yellow = History. I won’t be taking questions.

WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · May 19

May 19, 2025 at 9:23 AM

Simon 🏳️‍🌈

@dalboz.bsky.social

Is it appropriate for Courtney Act to call the Norway contestant a twink? #Eurovision

May 18, 2025 at 9:52 AM

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Simon 🏳️‍🌈

@dalboz.bsky.social

Skeeple, help me fill out this playlist of moody dramatic orchestral pop songs

January 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM

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Andrew Fleer

@andrewfleer.com

Well shit

SIGNS that you are an NPC:

1. You get tired quickly (low hp and stamina).

2. Talk to people only when they ask you something.

3. You are in one location all day.

4. You always wear the same style of clothes.

5. Every day is similar to the previous one.

6. No events happen in life.

7. Getting stuck in the textures of the sofa and chair.

8. No inventory. Sometimes there are items that need to be gived to someone.

9. You have regular animations that constantly repeat.

10. If you talk too much, you will start repeating yourself, because there is nothing else to say.

11. All tasks are routine and similar.

May 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM

Simon 🏳️‍🌈

@dalboz.bsky.social

Me: searches windows for how to turn off search button
Bing: Here’s where to hide cocaine

May 16, 2025 at 9:46 AM

Simon 🏳️‍🌈

@dalboz.bsky.social

@bsky.app BEGGING you to add option to hide the ^ button

May 16, 2025 at 9:27 AM

Simon 🏳️‍🌈

@dalboz.bsky.social

The way I relate to this amazing woman is on a spiritual plane ✨

Laura Klein @lauraklein.bsky.social · May 14

I have now had 4 different people remind me that the Murderbot TV show starts on friday. It's good to know that I have a brand and that brand is "violent, autistic, competent cyborg who just wants to be left alone to watch media."

May 15, 2025 at 1:04 PM

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JB_AU

@jbau.bsky.social

If a potential employer ever asks me to do a video interview with an AI I will blacklist them for life.

Seriously, you save 70% of your time but my time gets wasted and I get graded by a bullshit machine that carries the worst of every human bias x1000? GTFO.

XINTERVIEW
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Kendall

May 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM

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Laura Klein

@lauraklein.bsky.social

I have now had 4 different people remind me that the Murderbot TV show starts on friday. It's good to know that I have a brand and that brand is "violent, autistic, competent cyborg who just wants to be left alone to watch media."

May 14, 2025 at 4:13 PM

Simon 🏳️‍🌈

@dalboz.bsky.social

@bsky.app where the iPad app

May 14, 2025 at 10:58 AM

Simon 🏳️‍🌈

@dalboz.bsky.social

@kieralesley.bsky.social

Cran-Brawly Sauce 🍂 @cantaffordbrent.bsky.social · May 13

Stop what you're doing and post a gif of your favorite anime.

Never missing a moment to tell folk about the glory that is Read or Die.

May 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM

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Kiera Lesley

@kieralesley.bsky.social

I’m having a rough reading time and have DNF’d 5 of my last 8 reads. Friends, please help! What’s your best read so far this year? (Does not have to be a 2025 release)

May 14, 2025 at 12:50 AM