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Software Engineer in London Twitter handle was @BRMatt
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I have (hopefully, maybe) vanquished my CI woes (for now) and released otel-desktop-viewer 0.2.0, now with DuckDB 🦆 - Today we tackle log ingestion. 🪵 - Then we ingest the metrics. 📏 - Then we rewrite the whole-ass front end. 🍑 github.com/CtrlSpice/ot... PS: Please excuse the mangled change log.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

"capture all of Gaza and remain there indefinitely" is, by another name, forcible annexation and displacement/destruction of the people living there

submitted 34 days ago • 1 comment

See also: Ok, ladies, now let's get in formation

submitted 50 days ago • 8 comments

Basically yes

submitted 55 days ago • 6 comments

It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 55 days ago • 94 comments

Entirely predictable. Forming policies to chase Reform voters, such as anti-immigration, increased anti-trans and attacks on the disabled, not only don't go far enough for those who actually support such moves, so don't pick up Reform votes, they also lose left wing and progressive support.

submitted 59 days ago • 11 comments

Petabytes of critical government research that is marked for possible deletion cannot be archived because of technical and legal restrictions, meaning it is very likely to be lost forever: www.404media.co/nih-archives...

submitted 64 days ago • 191 comments

@lewisgoodall.com was listening to your recent newsagent episodes about the tariffs, would be interested to hear your take on this angle bsky.app/profile/matt...

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

@dlectronique.bsky.social you still at the karaoke?

submitted 66 days ago • 1 comment

The details are so much worse. In her French op-ed, she explains that the issue raised was that she had a table that showed Gaza as having had the highest number of “humanitarian victims” of 2024. Her merely acknowledging the fact that Gazans are being mass murdered was a problem.

submitted 69 days ago • 2 comments

Looking at the media response to the Rivers of Blood speech for a thing and this was the start of the first comment piece in the Telegraph a week later (by Peregrine Worsthorne). The arguments never change...

submitted 75 days ago • 17 comments

A gobsmacking story. Water companies let toxic waste disposers, for cash, dump their loads into sewage farms. The sewage sludge is then spread, untested, on farmland, potentially poisoning vast areas, entire ecosystems and the people (you and me) eating the food. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 79 days ago • 216 comments

@newsagents.bsky.social seems like there’ve been a few episodes of yours where ads at the end of the episode kick in halfway through someone’s sentence. Is this a known issue?

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

The new issue with reporting what was said, besides all that goes with it, is that LLMs will just repeat it as true without the context that invalidates what was said

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Hey! Are you gay? Trans? A cis woman who enjoys wearing pants? You need ssd.eff.org in your life. Like right now

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