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Software Engineer. Interested in Infosec, Java, and tech news. Some interest in economics, science, and history. London, UK.
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I once worked on a visual novel game where all the surveys and focus groups said that nobody wanted romance, they only wanted mystery and sci-fi. Then 75+% of clicks in-game went to stories with explicit romantic or sexy themes. www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

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Studio pro tip: get a deeply unsettling standalone sink installed next to your organ setup

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Amazon Prime interrupting a movie to show an ad for Reacher, a show they know I am watching and like. I'd like to hear what's the business case for this.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Oh do piss off

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Heaven Installs Spikes To Keep Cherubs From Shitting On St. Peter’s Gate theonion.com/heaven-...

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finally some innovation in tech press.asus.com/news/press-r...

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Brushing up on using PGP from the command line, like it's 1995.

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Petition to cast David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson for True Detective season five.

submitted 3 days ago • 72 comments

discord.gg/numetal-nation

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Literally me at networking and team bonding events.

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Today the traditions of my home country specify roast meat dinner. I made a somewhat healthier version of it. Wine recommended by the local french wine merchant.

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please read to the end of the paragraph

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Thanks for clarifying

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Imagine Mohammed bin Salman being the good guy in the room

submitted 5 days ago • 141 comments

In happier news I'm thinking of creating a dedicated shelf for books written by my contemporaries to provide a daily reminder of my own failings...

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Support will not help if: 1. chatbot with multiple choice questions 2. jovial AI chatbot 3. A polite person reading a script 4. They keep pointing to "the website" Your problem will be solved by a human going "Yeah this company is shite bro, no one cares. But give me a sec I'll bypass a few forms"

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

"sociopolitical strategy"

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Our industry has been trying (and failing) to do speech recognition for decades. It fails at critical points and it doesn't acknowledge that it does. Let's see if we'll finally get it right on the next AI hype cycle, but have little hope.

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Phone now sends me transcriptions of voicemails. Very confused by this one until I listened to it. Turns out ‘sexy literally’ is in fact ‘Specsavers Bletchley’

submitted 6 days ago • 47 comments

Retailers that send me 3 (three) emails asking me to review their product, are really begging for a negative review.

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That’s more like it.

submitted 7 days ago • 1170 comments

Anti-Aging Millionaire Announces He Has Put In Purple Contact Lenses theonion.com/anti-ag...

submitted 7 days ago • 38 comments

Book recommendation: "A short history of the world according to sheep" by Sally Coulthard. History like you don't learn at school. Favourite facts:

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

LOL, if you buy socks for your loved one today, they put in a pair of "mystery socks" for free. Can't stop laughing at "mystery socks".

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Protect A. Chiles at all costs. Our ultimate national treasure. Perfect embodiment of Britishness.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

oh no

submitted 11 days ago • 15 comments

If you're a Trekkie and have seen every episode multiple times (like me), I've started sharing my favourite funny moments/screenshots here @trekkiehumour.bsky.social

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i've never actually seen Severance, but from what i've heard online, it seems to deal with the outlandish, science fiction premise of "what if you worked at Accenture?"

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

Had to Google "shoogly". Will adopt.

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

Nice of them to offer both names for us poor and confused Europeans. I am hearing you only see "Gulf of America" if your IP places you in the US.

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Looking to buy clip on mudguards for my bike and reading warnings like: 1. Unsuitable for children 2. This toy offers no protection Concerned "mudguard" might also be some sort of sex toy.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

submitted 13 days ago • 44 comments

A central result from the past decade of web app consulting: high-functioning orgs should ban SPAs and stacks premised on them. Some should grant exceptions for specific products, but that comes with heightened oversight. Any org that can't rattle off what that entails should not grant exceptions.

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments