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Caoilte O'Connor
@caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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Usually hiking Travelogues

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preya.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Holy Shit, #valve did a product launch in 2025 and did not mention AI a single fucking time. So refreshing.
November 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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mastodon.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Me and some friends from #demsocs organised a 'dotocratic' intervention at the South London #yourparty founding assembly on Sunday. It was a lot of fun for everybody and introduced some badly needed democracy to the event. I wrote a report on the results […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 6, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy
The one and only reason the heroic train guard was there at all to save so many people's lives was thanks to the resistance of the magnificent RMT to driver-only trains.
RMT document on The Role of the Guard with the voice of union members
November 3, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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collectifission.greennuclear.online.ap.brid.gy
Now this is ridiculously catchy.

And yes, I bow to my socialist vampire overlords 🙇‍♂️
October 27, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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ivansanchez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I'm in a #github internal group for high-profile FOSS projects (due to @leaflet having a few kilo-stars), and the second most-wanted feature is "plz allow us to disable copilot reviews", with the most-wanted feature being "plz allow us to block issues/PRs […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
A screenshot of a github discussion titled "can't disable copilot code reviews" A screenshot of a github discussion titled "Allow us to block Copilot-generated issues (and PRs) from our own repositories"
October 24, 2025 at 4:17 PM
caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Zainab Ali very much taking up the baton from Noel Welsh on making Scala fun to play with by demoing her new Aquascape #fs2 visualisation library for her standout talk at #lambdaworld. https://zainab-ali.github.io/aquascape/

Masterclass presenting tricks on show included,
- drive-by demos of […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 24, 2025 at 3:50 PM
caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Still fuming about the AI keynote from the #lambdaworld conference this morning. Some audience members asked if there was any risk AI models wouldn't continue to improve and the speaker explained that there wouldn't be vast amounts of money pouring into AI if it wasn't going to keep improving.
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Looking forward to Lennart Augustsson explaining how these fun features of Epic Games new functional logic language Verse will make coding Unreal engine games easier. Not entirely convinced yet that he will... but it sure is interesting... #lambdaworld
October 24, 2025 at 9:26 AM
caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
This is more or less the anti-clockwise circular route that I hiked out of #grazalema. More or less because several of the paths didn't actually exist and I ended up cutting through brush and up/down mountain sides instead. Gambling on which goat trails […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 AM
caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
The weather above #grazalema was variable. The clouds kept rolling up from the south and breaking over my head so I never got the promised view of Gibraltar or Morocco. However the first picture here was a nice view south east from the Simancón peak towards […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 24, 2025 at 8:24 AM
caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I stopped off in #grazalema for a couple of nights before #lambdaworld to explore. The first day I set out to climb Mt Simancón (1,569 m - 2nd highest peak in the area) on a circular route above the white village. In these two shots shortly after the first […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 24, 2025 at 8:18 AM
caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Californian Entrepeneur Anurag Mendhekar giving a very upbeat keynote on AI coding tools continuing to greatly improve at #lambdaworld presaged on the axiom that, "no tool ever gets worse". And yet my experience is that even before enshittification many tools […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 24, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy
hm. i wonder what this may cause
A screenshot of a statistic titled “Crime: Mentions of suspects' origins by German media” TV Reports mentioning origin in 2025: 5.4% Germans, 94.6% foreigners. Newspaper reports mentioning origin in 2025: 9.2% Germans, 90.8% foreigners. Police crime statistics in 2024: 65.7% Germans, 34.3% foreigners. Source: Thomas Hestermann, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences.
October 21, 2025 at 8:59 AM
caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
In response to #lambdaworld audience questions on the future of #scala, director at JP Morgan Jack Higgs bemoans that because of the vast amount of macro generated code his team has - no viable migration path exists for them to migrate from Scala v2 to v3. When v2 gets EOLed thay will have to […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
caoilte.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Very low key shoutout for #smithy4s by JP Morgan director Jack Higgs during first day #lambaworld keynote. Later elaborates that meta-programming, complex domain logic and safe concurrency are just about the only viable use-cases left for functional programming languages in large businesses.
October 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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acb.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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/
How I Bypassed Amazon's Kindle Web DRM Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
blog.pixelmelt.dev
October 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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cryptadamist.universeodon.com.ap.brid.gy
new ayn rand just dropped

#argentina #milei #javiermilei #bailout #uspol #aynrand #atlasshrugged #meme #memes
Cover of Atlas Shrugged, but with new title "Atlas needs you to spot him like $20 billion", 1st argentinian edition
October 11, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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sheislaurence.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
#israel's government is totally unhinged and gives zero fucks about committing #warcrimes. Why? Because our #tax money is funding their #genocidal campaign and our governments are giving them a blessing and guaranteed impunity. 137 global #sumud #flotilla […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
While those deported seem to be in good health, they have raised serious concerns about the wellbeing of others still detained. “They dragged little Greta (Thunberg) by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag,” Turkish activist and flotilla participant Ersin Celik told journalists. “They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others.”
October 4, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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pojntfx.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Whenever you see someone recommend Cloudflare or something else that decrypts and re-encrypts TLS for something, esp. for something related to open social media or media storage etc., reply with this picture from the Snowden leaks
The "CloudFlare: SSL Added and Removed Here :-)" picture from https://www.agwa.name/blog/post/cloudflare_ssl_added_and_removed_here
September 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Radical Anthropology Group Autumn programme begins on Tues Sept 30, 6:30pm at UCL Anthropology Dept.
Everyone welcome, we are LIVE and on ZOOM (details to follow)
Sept 30 Chris Knight/Camilla Power How to resist alpha males
Oct 7 Volker Sommer In praise of lying.The […]

[Original post on c.im]
Collage of images from Hugh Brody's documentary 'Tracks across Sand' which followed the progress of the Kalahari ‡Khomani San's historic land claim. This shows faces of women who were key figures in the campaign and the restoration of the ‡Khomani language which had been believed extinct
September 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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aj.gts.sadauskas.id.au.ap.brid.gy
South Korean media reports LG's energy solutions division has pulled the plug on a new US manufacturing plant in Georgia.

It comes after 330 of the staff and contractors working to set up the facility were detained by ICE: https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=81698
September 15, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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radicalanthro.c.im.ap.brid.gy
Reported in insulting terms by both BBC and Guardian, this was a moving powerful determined interethnic, intergenerational demo. People were down on the grass for seven hot hours in the sun while the predatory police circled like wolves to pick people off. Once scooped up, they faced a slow […]
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c.im
September 7, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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subetealanutria.bsky.social
Resubo con alt.
Tuit de @jackdexterity (traduzco): Para enseñar a mis hijos una lección sobre el socialismo, le de día cada uno una lista de tareas de las que podían encargarse, pero les di la misma propina a todos. Luego dice que la CIA me asesinara y me sustituyera por un papá títere. Original: To teach my kids to listen about socialism, I gave all my kids a list of chores that I thought they could handle, but set their allowances at the same level. Then I had the CIA murder me and install a puppet dad.
August 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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rmounce.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Elsevier "hybrid" journal called _Ecological Modelling_ which charges an APC of USD 3,040 (excluding taxes)...

...publishes THIS abomination as a graphical abstract. 🤣

Source:
Zhao et al (2025) Designing Ecological Networks to Foster Regional Economic […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
gibberish graphical abstract clearly made by some gen AI model
August 26, 2025 at 9:29 AM