Fraser MacIntosh
@sdschap.bsky.social
Standard Nerd, collector of hobbies, ADD (go figure) + various other neuro-wossnames, Bi, Poly, NB… I’m sure you get the picture…
A late, yet very strong entry in the “worst religious take of the year” category from EdgeRunner737: Accusing The Pope of being holier than thou in his Christmas Eve message of helping the poor.
December 25, 2025 at 9:28 AM
A late, yet very strong entry in the “worst religious take of the year” category from EdgeRunner737: Accusing The Pope of being holier than thou in his Christmas Eve message of helping the poor.
Yorkshire Christmas fact:
You can sing “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night” to the tune of Ilkley Moor Bar Tat.
You can sing “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night” to the tune of Ilkley Moor Bar Tat.
December 21, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Yorkshire Christmas fact:
You can sing “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night” to the tune of Ilkley Moor Bar Tat.
You can sing “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night” to the tune of Ilkley Moor Bar Tat.
If ever there was a missed opportunity for a pun in a headline.
Louvre museum shuttered by…
Management blindsided by…
www.reuters.com/world/openin...
Louvre museum shuttered by…
Management blindsided by…
www.reuters.com/world/openin...
France's Louvre museum closed as workers begin rolling strike
The Louvre in Paris was closed on Monday after staff began a rolling strike to demand better working conditions and urgent renovations, disrupting access at the world's most-visited museum at one of t...
www.reuters.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:25 AM
If ever there was a missed opportunity for a pun in a headline.
Louvre museum shuttered by…
Management blindsided by…
www.reuters.com/world/openin...
Louvre museum shuttered by…
Management blindsided by…
www.reuters.com/world/openin...
Well… The AeroGlass update for my iPhone is in. Somehow apple have made the already piss-poor alarms function even worse. So you can see a single word of the actual reminder. The only way to find out what it says it to open the app, which cancels all of the ongoing snoozes.
December 13, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Well… The AeroGlass update for my iPhone is in. Somehow apple have made the already piss-poor alarms function even worse. So you can see a single word of the actual reminder. The only way to find out what it says it to open the app, which cancels all of the ongoing snoozes.
Just dropped the kids off at school and it seems that the Oxfordshire village we live in has had flags of St George attached to lamp posts overnight.
If you have to put flags onto lamp posts under cover of darkness, you are doing it for the wrong reasons.
If you have to put flags onto lamp posts under cover of darkness, you are doing it for the wrong reasons.
December 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Just dropped the kids off at school and it seems that the Oxfordshire village we live in has had flags of St George attached to lamp posts overnight.
If you have to put flags onto lamp posts under cover of darkness, you are doing it for the wrong reasons.
If you have to put flags onto lamp posts under cover of darkness, you are doing it for the wrong reasons.
Reposted by Fraser MacIntosh
Harassment, 'untruthful' evidence, and 'unusual' legal questions. Our reporter Xander Elliards looks at nine points from the Sandie Peggie ruling that the rest of the media has left out
December 9, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Harassment, 'untruthful' evidence, and 'unusual' legal questions. Our reporter Xander Elliards looks at nine points from the Sandie Peggie ruling that the rest of the media has left out
Finally getting round to maxing out the RAM on my second main server to 64GB (with an additional 2x16GB DDR4) I did the first one of these machines 18 months ago for about £70, so it'll be less than than now... Won't it?...
HOW MUCH?
(It's doubled in cost over 18months...)
HOW MUCH?
(It's doubled in cost over 18months...)
December 9, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Finally getting round to maxing out the RAM on my second main server to 64GB (with an additional 2x16GB DDR4) I did the first one of these machines 18 months ago for about £70, so it'll be less than than now... Won't it?...
HOW MUCH?
(It's doubled in cost over 18months...)
HOW MUCH?
(It's doubled in cost over 18months...)
New things in the museum at work - A 1964 IBM System 360.
December 2, 2025 at 4:46 PM
New things in the museum at work - A 1964 IBM System 360.
It’s December the 1st. World AIDS day. Here’s a good news story:
You can take a drug to prevent getting HIV, pre and post exposure (PrEP & PEP).
PrEP in tablet form is more effective than condoms.
In the UK the NHS has introduced a long term injected form of PrEP.
You can take a drug to prevent getting HIV, pre and post exposure (PrEP & PEP).
PrEP in tablet form is more effective than condoms.
In the UK the NHS has introduced a long term injected form of PrEP.
December 1, 2025 at 6:50 PM
It’s December the 1st. World AIDS day. Here’s a good news story:
You can take a drug to prevent getting HIV, pre and post exposure (PrEP & PEP).
PrEP in tablet form is more effective than condoms.
In the UK the NHS has introduced a long term injected form of PrEP.
You can take a drug to prevent getting HIV, pre and post exposure (PrEP & PEP).
PrEP in tablet form is more effective than condoms.
In the UK the NHS has introduced a long term injected form of PrEP.
Today I learned that the literal translation into English for the Japanese word for Mercury (metallic element) is “silver water”.
I also learned that it’s not that same as the planet, which is “water planet” this caused some confusion when talking about mercury vapour bulbs being phased out…
I also learned that it’s not that same as the planet, which is “water planet” this caused some confusion when talking about mercury vapour bulbs being phased out…
December 1, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Today I learned that the literal translation into English for the Japanese word for Mercury (metallic element) is “silver water”.
I also learned that it’s not that same as the planet, which is “water planet” this caused some confusion when talking about mercury vapour bulbs being phased out…
I also learned that it’s not that same as the planet, which is “water planet” this caused some confusion when talking about mercury vapour bulbs being phased out…
If any government is serious about making the economy and taxation fair, they have to get rid of the pensions triple lock. It has done its job and more. We are now in a position where the poorest group in society fund the wealthiest. Our kids will never own houses, yet pay for the pensioners houses.
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
If any government is serious about making the economy and taxation fair, they have to get rid of the pensions triple lock. It has done its job and more. We are now in a position where the poorest group in society fund the wealthiest. Our kids will never own houses, yet pay for the pensioners houses.
Reposted by Fraser MacIntosh
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
November 23, 2025 at 1:31 PM
There is a post circulating on Bluesky encouraging the moving of a frozen turkey straight into a pot of hot oil. We are combating this misinformation the best way we know how - through the power of dance music.
Reposted by Fraser MacIntosh
The theft at the Louvre demonstrates a key reason the Gold Standard is such a bad idea for a modern economy. If the material to which you’ve tied value can be made more valuable by making it into art, it is removed from normal trading, but that art is at elevated risk of theft and destruction.
November 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The theft at the Louvre demonstrates a key reason the Gold Standard is such a bad idea for a modern economy. If the material to which you’ve tied value can be made more valuable by making it into art, it is removed from normal trading, but that art is at elevated risk of theft and destruction.
Do you charge an EV with a 13A socket?
Did you know it needs a specially EV rated socket?
Suitable sockets are marked BS1363-2/EV on the backplate and labelled as suitable for EV charging. It should also be on an RCD protected circuit with a suitable type of RCD.
Did you know it needs a specially EV rated socket?
Suitable sockets are marked BS1363-2/EV on the backplate and labelled as suitable for EV charging. It should also be on an RCD protected circuit with a suitable type of RCD.
November 13, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Do you charge an EV with a 13A socket?
Did you know it needs a specially EV rated socket?
Suitable sockets are marked BS1363-2/EV on the backplate and labelled as suitable for EV charging. It should also be on an RCD protected circuit with a suitable type of RCD.
Did you know it needs a specially EV rated socket?
Suitable sockets are marked BS1363-2/EV on the backplate and labelled as suitable for EV charging. It should also be on an RCD protected circuit with a suitable type of RCD.
The stand of driving in Oxfordshire is piss-fucking-poor.
November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The stand of driving in Oxfordshire is piss-fucking-poor.
"Some people on the Internet got something slightly wrong, so I'm making an hour long video about it."
It's a promising start for a documentary...
It's a promising start for a documentary...
November 7, 2025 at 10:05 PM
"Some people on the Internet got something slightly wrong, so I'm making an hour long video about it."
It's a promising start for a documentary...
It's a promising start for a documentary...
Big code problem at a client, buffer overruns, crashes. Got the development team’s debug version of the container. Problem doesn’t happen when debug is switched on.
a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and the words khaaa written on the bottom of the image .
Alt: a close up of a man 's face with his mouth open and the words khaaa written on the bottom of the image .
media.tenor.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Big code problem at a client, buffer overruns, crashes. Got the development team’s debug version of the container. Problem doesn’t happen when debug is switched on.
Reposted by Fraser MacIntosh
Absolute marmalade-dropper, this. Well worth a read.
My latest: Move over bat tunnel, here’s the wild story of how HS2 were forced to build a multi-million pound bridge for a road that… doesn’t actually exist.
How HS2 built a bridge to nowhere
A state-of-the-art road bridge has been built deep in the heart of rural Buckinghamshire. Designed to carry traffic over the HS2 railway, there's just one tiny problem - there's no actual road.
martinrobbins.substack.com
November 3, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Absolute marmalade-dropper, this. Well worth a read.
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i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris
November 1, 2025 at 2:21 AM
i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris
The Horror!
Parents - check your halloween candy carefully. Someone may try to teach your kids the C programming language
October 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
The Horror!
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No one pays ransomware demands anymore - so attackers have a new goal www.zdnet.com/article/no-o...
No one pays ransomware demands anymore - so attackers have a new goal
Ransomware payments were made in around 85% of attacks in 2019. But things have changed dramatically since then. Here's why.
www.zdnet.com
October 30, 2025 at 11:42 PM
No one pays ransomware demands anymore - so attackers have a new goal www.zdnet.com/article/no-o...
Why are people disappointed that the Louvre jewellery theft people seem to have been arrested?
They specifically selected art to steal that would be easy melt down and sell as scrap. This is cultural vandalism. They are not heroes.
They specifically selected art to steal that would be easy melt down and sell as scrap. This is cultural vandalism. They are not heroes.
October 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Why are people disappointed that the Louvre jewellery theft people seem to have been arrested?
They specifically selected art to steal that would be easy melt down and sell as scrap. This is cultural vandalism. They are not heroes.
They specifically selected art to steal that would be easy melt down and sell as scrap. This is cultural vandalism. They are not heroes.
Reposted by Fraser MacIntosh
Reposted by Fraser MacIntosh
True story and *definitely* the plot of WarGames - @rayredacted.com at @saintcon.bsky.social.
October 23, 2025 at 10:03 PM
True story and *definitely* the plot of WarGames - @rayredacted.com at @saintcon.bsky.social.