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Thanks @pimlicat.bsky.social @quietriotpod.bsky.social for highlighting this positive story 🙌👇👇👇👇👇 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Bloody good timing as I just finished Andor last night 😁

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Scavengers Reign (2023) The best recent sci-fi show that almost no one has seen.

submitted 8 days ago • 65 comments

*Fetch, boy

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Thus it begins.

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Before WikiLeaks, there was Cryptome – whose extraordinarily truculent founder has died, aged 89. www.theregister.com/2025/05/24/j...

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Weighted Round Robin

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Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾 Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨ Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆

submitted 13 days ago • 15 comments

I was recently prevented from installing software by a bad regex...

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Today's thread is about something I'm rather experienced with... How to Get Fired With Both Grace and Aplomb

submitted 18 days ago • 4 comments

Ian Lance Taylor deserves an award for the most patient person in Open Source. He also has an amazing ability to translate the clarity of his thinking into the written word. He has had such impact on the way people create software. I really hope he continues to contribute to Go.

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

North Americloud

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Fil-C is some great engineering. github.com/pizlonator/l...

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The Swiss are *very serious* about #CrossChannelRail trains to London, and this is the latest evidence of it www.watson.ch/schweiz/inte... There is space in Basel SBB and Zürich HB for terminals, Genève is harder, and rolling stock should be ordered next year

submitted 24 days ago • 17 comments

The view over St David's Head & Ramsey Island, west Pembrokeshire, this afternoon during @rcahmwales.bsky.social aerial survey ☀️🛩️ Glorious clear air but a bumpy north wind & freezing 🥶 with the window open for photography 📷 Mobile phone pic from 2000ft #AerialArchaeology

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

For followers of my work, I have some very exciting news, both personally and professionally. A new challenge. A new beginning. I'm going back up on the high wire, to see what happens next. Details below.

submitted 28 days ago • 194 comments

Pangolins: "the warrior caste of the Clangers"

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

It is, today, the 54th anniversary of a gift to satire: James Arkell’s solicitors writing to Private Eye, prompting everyone’s favourite reply. First, though, the initial letter:

submitted 34 days ago • 7 comments

I love Brighton. There's a guy juggling in the road while the traffic lights are red. No reason.

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Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

submitted 40 days ago • 661 comments

In the Beano this week Bananaman’s enemy General Blight becomes the head of DOPE - the Department of Pure Evil.

submitted 40 days ago • 71 comments

Master and Commander/TNG Intro this was rendering all day while I was out lol

submitted 43 days ago • 6 comments

This is really shameful.

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Hopefully an interesting overview of what's going on inside your (admittedly quite x86like) CPU. More in depth than my Computerphile videos anyway :)

submitted 46 days ago • 3 comments

People arguing about the scientific definition of "female" and ignoring there being no clear line scientific definition of "human"

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

This is marvelous, and an introduction to something I knew very little about. Ian and Dorian do an amazing job of making the story digestible without trivialising.

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