spacehobo.teh.entar.net.ap.brid.gy - Profile | ThreadSky

A computer can never PERCEIVE THE INEFFABLE OR SUBLIME Therefore a computer must STICK TO HIGHLY EFFABLE AND SUPERLIME TASKS

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

Going to brave the 30°+ weather by bike and train to go to the #PermaComputing meetup in Peckham tonight. Perhaps the first one at which the organiser @anmeisel might attend?

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Image description: Piers Morgan takes a sip of tea after explaining to Jordan Peterson that a bike lane has just been installed on his street.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

I'd like to nominate for the #Darwin award the 200 or so #motorists who tonight drove past (nearly over) a #motorcyclist who was lying on the ground after a serious #roadaccident on #TulseHill #London. Clearly no fucks given about human life, they just beeped and drove round over the pavement […]

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

This is libellous and there are hundreds of thousands of witnesses.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Someone in an IRC channel I idle in was asking how to do something with a piece of expensive equipment they'd bought, stating that they chose the gear based on "research" done with #ChatGPT, which had told them that the thing they wanted to do was possible. I […] [Original post on teh.entar.net]

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Anker really need to be slapped HARD by the courts for printing the model number in pale grey on medium grey in an unreadably tiny typeface. Even if the compliance marks can be that small, the model itself MUST be legible. https://zeroes.ca/@trendless/114766974306616363

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

55 Canadians detained by ICE. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/approximately-55-canadians-have-been-detained-by-ice-minister-says/ Where are the travel advisories? #cdnpoli

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Oh that's just terrible....🪭

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

No, I do not want to log into your site. No, I do not want notifications from you. No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter. No I do not want your cookies. No I do not want you to send me offers. And when you wonder why I am taking my business elsewhere, this is why.

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Can you follow Zohran Mamdani on the Fediverse? Maybe through Threads or Bluesky?

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

If you don't know what Cuomo is doing or where he is, it's always a safe bet to assume he is in his car.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This is why I cancelled my Microsoft subscription. (Publishers love Word .docx files; they also love contracts that require the author to warrant that the manuscript is 100% their own work. If I use Word today my compliance with my book contracts could be open to question.) […]

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Last weekend we were happy to support local historian and author James Marshall’s guided cycle ride of the Great West Rd today celebrating its 100th anniversary #LFA2025 @LBofHounslow

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Slightly belated thanks to everyone who joined the midsummer rides to Richmond Hill 2 weeks ago and enjoyed the gorgeous sunset!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Our member Winston Gordon has done so much to help people cycling in the area (Dr Bike, Smoothie bikes, leading rides and much, much more) He is leaving London and we had a farewell party for him last week. Thanks for everything Winston!

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

🚵‍♀️ Can any ride be improved by a dog? Yes, it most certainly can... 🐶

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/28/village-dorset-eviction-private-money-power-rural-england

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

🤦‍♂️ From cost to storage, so many Londoners face a variety of problems when it comes to buying a bike... Sadiq has the power to start sweeping those problems away 🧹 📣 Tell him to do more today: bit.ly/43YSUC7

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Joan's latest video essay (also up on the podcast version) echoes something I've always been kind of mad about in tech development management practices: https://youtu.be/Op2m9AwHwmU Namely, the metaphor of the "road map" is never used to its actual potential. If I were to choose an ASCII […]

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

1. Researching my latest column, I was astonished to stumble across this. Sarah Langford presents herself as a guardian of the countryside and champion of rural people and their culture. Yet it’s hard to imagine anything more damaging to rural people than “living between” two homes. 🧵

submitted 2 days ago • 24 comments

A special shoutout to the person who left a review for this history book about the civil rights movement and marked the review as hidden because of spoilers.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I know that corporate branding for Pride Month is a regular joke, and rightly so. But you know what? Maybe in 2025 the companies that are still doing it maybe aren't as shallow as the ones that suddenly stopped.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

So ... Parents can't get their kids gender affirming care but they can prevent schools from teaching that trans kids are human beings. That's how parental rights work?

submitted 3 days ago • 30 comments

👩‍🎓 As a student, Mishkat was looking for a cheap way to get around the capital, but buying a bike was seen as too expensive an option... 🛠️ In came the team at upCYCLE, who got Mishkat set up with a bike of her own, and helped give her the confidence to ride London's roads!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

@katemorley I've been poking around with the firefox inspector on your grid live page, and noticed that the colours aren't always the ones from https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/. Did you revise the 12-bit palette, or tune it for dark mode, or decide to change it at all? I'd love a […]

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Great! A bunch of people here wanted it. Now it exists. 👍 It's a "dark archive" of the arXiv - a non-public backup to save the data in case of attack by hackers or government. The arXiv, I hope you know, is the biggest source of modern math and physics papers. Who got the job done? The TIB […]

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/cost_of_microsoft_dependency/ Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond <- by me on @theregister

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I always love when Californians go abroad and come back with ‘omg in Malaysia / Indonesia people don’t recycle!!’ And I love telling them ‘well it’s because you keep sending us all your shit that actually can’t be recycled?’ You can almost see the existential crisis […]

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

We're in this month's @publicsectorfocus.bsky.social writing about how the City of London (aka Square Mile) has outstripped 3 of its 4 2030 transport over five years early. Anyone else busting their transport targets? No? Well, you need to read how City did it then! flickread.com/edition/html...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

It was nice to see a couple of the (many) hire cycle bays I've designed make it out into the wild, and even nicer to see them being used 😊

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Nope. Nothing I might add could improve this headline.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

I keep seeing memes about people furious with #WEBP, but it's clear that it's a pretty good format that just needs better adoption. I recently hit an old #BOFH excuse generator, and one of the listed excuses (from the early 90s) was "50% of the manual is in .pdf readme files". There was a time […]

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“Sometimes I think we do ourselves a disservice by calling such options ‘bold,’ when frankly they’re often just really pragmatic & ‘common sense’ given the real challenges that our cities face. The truth is, we think of them as bold because not enough cities are doing them, even though they should.”

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Not one of Ealing's Labour MPs saw fit to oppose the cuts to Personal Independence Payments for disabled people. Balancing the books on the backs of the most vulnerable is wrong.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

I was looking at some of the laws which have gone into affect in Virginia. One that got me was SB 1416. "Makes it a traffic infraction not to stop for pedestrians; becomes a Class 1 misdemeanor if it results in serious injury or death to a vulnerable road user. The penalty of killing someone.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

📖 “Does London heat really feel different?” https://www.londoncentric.media/p/london-heat-feel-different-to-other-hot-countries #London ____ Scroll to the bottom to read the report. It’s definitely the case that in London there’s few places to “escape” from the heat, so you get no respite.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

https://youtu.be/B6aEGroZuQs ← I am BEGGING people who present remotely to get headset or lav microphones. Your room's resonance plus the receiving side's resonance will result in unintelligible speech. Echo cancellation can only do so much: closed-back headphones and a low-gain mic close to […]

A computer can never PERCEIVE THE INEFFABLE OR SUBLIME Therefore a computer must STICK TO HIGHLY EFFABLE AND SUPERLIME TASKS

Going to brave the 30°+ weather by bike and train to go to the #PermaComputing meetup in Peckham tonight. Perhaps the first one at which the organiser @anmeisel might attend?

Image description: Piers Morgan takes a sip of tea after explaining to Jordan Peterson that a bike lane has just been installed on his street.

I'd like to nominate for the #Darwin award the 200 or so #motorists who tonight drove past (nearly over) a #motorcyclist who was lying on the ground after a serious #roadaccident on #TulseHill #London. Clearly no fucks given about human life, they just beeped and drove round over the pavement […]

This is libellous and there are hundreds of thousands of witnesses.

Someone in an IRC channel I idle in was asking how to do something with a piece of expensive equipment they'd bought, stating that they chose the gear based on "research" done with #ChatGPT, which had told them that the thing they wanted to do was possible. I […] [Original post on teh.entar.net]

Anker really need to be slapped HARD by the courts for printing the model number in pale grey on medium grey in an unreadably tiny typeface. Even if the compliance marks can be that small, the model itself MUST be legible. https://zeroes.ca/@trendless/114766974306616363

55 Canadians detained by ICE. https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/approximately-55-canadians-have-been-detained-by-ice-minister-says/ Where are the travel advisories? #cdnpoli

Oh that's just terrible....🪭

No, I do not want to log into your site. No, I do not want notifications from you. No, I do not want to subscribe to your newsletter. No I do not want your cookies. No I do not want you to send me offers. And when you wonder why I am taking my business elsewhere, this is why.

Can you follow Zohran Mamdani on the Fediverse? Maybe through Threads or Bluesky?

If you don't know what Cuomo is doing or where he is, it's always a safe bet to assume he is in his car.

This is why I cancelled my Microsoft subscription. (Publishers love Word .docx files; they also love contracts that require the author to warrant that the manuscript is 100% their own work. If I use Word today my compliance with my book contracts could be open to question.) […]

Last weekend we were happy to support local historian and author James Marshall’s guided cycle ride of the Great West Rd today celebrating its 100th anniversary #LFA2025 @LBofHounslow

Slightly belated thanks to everyone who joined the midsummer rides to Richmond Hill 2 weeks ago and enjoyed the gorgeous sunset!

Our member Winston Gordon has done so much to help people cycling in the area (Dr Bike, Smoothie bikes, leading rides and much, much more) He is leaving London and we had a farewell party for him last week. Thanks for everything Winston!

🚵‍♀️ Can any ride be improved by a dog? Yes, it most certainly can... 🐶

An entire village in Dorset is facing eviction – proof that private money holds all the power in rural England https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/28/village-dorset-eviction-private-money-power-rural-england

🤦‍♂️ From cost to storage, so many Londoners face a variety of problems when it comes to buying a bike... Sadiq has the power to start sweeping those problems away 🧹 📣 Tell him to do more today: bit.ly/43YSUC7

Joan's latest video essay (also up on the podcast version) echoes something I've always been kind of mad about in tech development management practices: https://youtu.be/Op2m9AwHwmU Namely, the metaphor of the "road map" is never used to its actual potential. If I were to choose an ASCII […]

1. Researching my latest column, I was astonished to stumble across this. Sarah Langford presents herself as a guardian of the countryside and champion of rural people and their culture. Yet it’s hard to imagine anything more damaging to rural people than “living between” two homes. 🧵

A special shoutout to the person who left a review for this history book about the civil rights movement and marked the review as hidden because of spoilers.

I know that corporate branding for Pride Month is a regular joke, and rightly so. But you know what? Maybe in 2025 the companies that are still doing it maybe aren't as shallow as the ones that suddenly stopped.

So ... Parents can't get their kids gender affirming care but they can prevent schools from teaching that trans kids are human beings. That's how parental rights work?

👩‍🎓 As a student, Mishkat was looking for a cheap way to get around the capital, but buying a bike was seen as too expensive an option... 🛠️ In came the team at upCYCLE, who got Mishkat set up with a bike of her own, and helped give her the confidence to ride London's roads!

@katemorley I've been poking around with the firefox inspector on your grid live page, and noticed that the colours aren't always the ones from https://iamkate.com/data/12-bit-rainbow/. Did you revise the 12-bit palette, or tune it for dark mode, or decide to change it at all? I'd love a […]

Great! A bunch of people here wanted it. Now it exists. 👍 It's a "dark archive" of the arXiv - a non-public backup to save the data in case of attack by hackers or government. The arXiv, I hope you know, is the biggest source of modern math and physics papers. Who got the job done? The TIB […]

What if Microsoft just turned you off? Security pro counts the cost of dependency https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/26/cost_of_microsoft_dependency/ Czech researcher lays out a business case for reducing reliance on Redmond <- by me on @theregister

I always love when Californians go abroad and come back with ‘omg in Malaysia / Indonesia people don’t recycle!!’ And I love telling them ‘well it’s because you keep sending us all your shit that actually can’t be recycled?’ You can almost see the existential crisis […]

We're in this month's @publicsectorfocus.bsky.social writing about how the City of London (aka Square Mile) has outstripped 3 of its 4 2030 transport over five years early. Anyone else busting their transport targets? No? Well, you need to read how City did it then! flickread.com/edition/html...

It was nice to see a couple of the (many) hire cycle bays I've designed make it out into the wild, and even nicer to see them being used 😊

Nope. Nothing I might add could improve this headline.

I keep seeing memes about people furious with #WEBP, but it's clear that it's a pretty good format that just needs better adoption. I recently hit an old #BOFH excuse generator, and one of the listed excuses (from the early 90s) was "50% of the manual is in .pdf readme files". There was a time […]

Not one of Ealing's Labour MPs saw fit to oppose the cuts to Personal Independence Payments for disabled people. Balancing the books on the backs of the most vulnerable is wrong.

I was looking at some of the laws which have gone into affect in Virginia. One that got me was SB 1416. "Makes it a traffic infraction not to stop for pedestrians; becomes a Class 1 misdemeanor if it results in serious injury or death to a vulnerable road user. The penalty of killing someone.

https://youtu.be/B6aEGroZuQs ← I am BEGGING people who present remotely to get headset or lav microphones. Your room's resonance plus the receiving side's resonance will result in unintelligible speech. Echo cancellation can only do so much: closed-back headphones and a low-gain mic close to […]

But e-bikes.

It’s incredible that NYers out voted the SuperPACs