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So with the Tate brothers on their way to the US I gotta wonder: How long until they get offered government jobs? They seem to have all the moral qualities ministers in Trump’s government need, and also a lot of experience with law enforcement, so they’d be ideal candidates for his cabinet, or […]

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Wow, this strikes me as highly unethical. This guy used to be our account manager at one of our suppliers, until the end of last year. Apparently moved on to a direct competitor, and emails us like this. The email address he uses for me, is one that he could […] [Original post on mstdn.thms.uk]

submitted 7 hours ago • 0 comments

My goodness. There is a new bot instance around at mastodon.grafa.com that’s spamming my timeline with dozens of posts per hour with posts in all sorts of languages. That I think is the first time I’ve de federated from an entire instance for spam… #mastoadmin

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Incidentally, I was recently asked about the current status of #FediFetcher because apparently it’s now stale. It’s correct that the previous release was about 3 months ago. Whether you consider that stale is up to you to decide - it's certainly a lot longer between releases than it once was […]

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I've just released v7.1.15 of #FediFetcher. This is a maintenance release that simply updates a dependency. Thanks @iMeddles for your contribution! For details and update instructions please visit the release page: https://github.com/nanos/FediFetcher/releases/tag/v7.1.15

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https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/25/apple-fixing-dictation-bug/ > “An Apple spokesperson told The New York Times that the issue was due to a phonetic overlap between the two words.” lol. I guess that’s why I can’t reproduce work it: with my thick German/British accent the words Trump and […]

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LOL, I don't think my kids' school understands the meaning of 'cashless’ 😂

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I guess this is good news, given the ugly stuff that's going on over there … #mastoadmin

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Got my 7 year old a board game called Carcassone for Christmas, and depending on your view it’s either the best or the worst present we’ve ever given him. It’s the best because he loves it so much and wants to play it nonstop. But it’s also the worst because […] [Original post on mstdn.thms.uk]

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg5d6l5lz4jo Direct to Cologne would be amazing (my parents live nearby). But how about opening Ebbsfleet? That would be even more amazing!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

https://www.theverge.com/news/615975/tado-smart-thermostat-tests-app-fee Well, that’s just great isn’t it. Paying £1 per month just for the privilege of adjusting the thermostat 😡

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

HTML emails are hard … #html #css #webdev #email

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Goodness gracious. First the chancellor then the business secretary. Is it a requirement for a post in cabinet now to lie on your CV, or just a nice bonus?! https://order-order.com/2025/02/18/business-secretarys-linkedin-edited-to-remove-solicitor-experience/

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1w07n8n3e7o lol. The Senedd is gonna be empty 😂

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

One of the annoying parts of collecting domains is that once you’ve bought one you can never ever let it lapse again, because you might never label to get it back …

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If anyone is interested in this whole Chagos Islands / British Indian Overseas Territory / BIOT saga / tragedy, here is a great podcast that did two episodes on this https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/empire/id1639561921?i=1000691407734 […]

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Lol, yeah, good luck Reddit! 😁 https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/114003100965856603

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

@404mediaco hi guys. Any chance you can implement a standard password login option? 🙏 Magic links are so annoying, and I’ve abandoned many an article from you simply because I couldn’t be bothered to log in, due to the annoyance of that.

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> "And perhaps most concerningly, I look to our very dear friends, the United Kingdom, where the backslide away from conscience rights has placed the basic liberties of religious Britons, in particular, in the crosshairs." (JD Vance) As an evangelical Christian in the UK I got to tell you […]

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Great combination…

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Apparently the search engine #Kagi that I have been paying for, and recommending everybody to use, might have ... issues. I've just witnessed the founder being challenged on their Discord about them doing business together with Yandex - where the founder […] [Original post on ioc.exchange]

submitted 135 days ago • 1 comment

I think I figured out what is so annoying about #onlineSafetyAct - #ofcom has written all its' docs assuming you are complicated bespoke service with dedicated staff to do "legal stuff". There's no pre-done, "just you use this" for perfectly standard, ordinary, foreseeable cases. We shouldn't […]

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Is there a way on Mastodon to see all content that our users produce? The "Local timeline" only shows initial posts, and not replies to other content. /cc @Gargron #fedihelp #mastodonadmin

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

ICYMI - we need to keep Mastodon secure, and to help everyone to enjoy the latest improvements. We support older releases for fixed periods (main release version “minus two”, for six months after release of latest; so 4.1.x ends 6 months after 4.3 is released) […] [Original post on macaw.social]

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#mastoadmin Any technical reason that when I search for `bsky` with elasticsearch I don't get the posts with links to bluesky, but when I search `bsky.app` I get them? (And I mean posts with the bsky term only in the link, not in the text of the post)

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

I just had to update my profile here, because since yesterday I’m no longer the father of two boys ‘only’, but to two boys and one girl 👶

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Hm, there appears to be a new search thingy around, this time incorporating AI somehow: https://seewallee.com/ Anyone know how it works and how it ingests data? #mastoadmin

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

It is the position of the administration that a post saying “Free Palestine” or talking about diversity should ruin your life, but a post calling to hate people from India should not. That’s their moral sensibility. Nazi scum.

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