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Andrew Katz
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Open source, music, travel, family.
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I can’t see DeForest for the Trois.
September 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The Bosch car battery selector has a VR feature which allows you to see how lovely a nice new car battery would look when installed on your sideboard.
September 2, 2025 at 1:10 PM
The only reason I’m sitting in Schiphol airport watching a little mouse with clogs on for the foreseeable while I wait for Lucy is Nigel sodding Farage.
August 22, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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The EU is a colossus. So why is it cowering before Trump like a mouse? | Alexander Hurst
The EU is a colossus. So why is it cowering before Trump like a mouse? | Alexander Hurst
With its woeful trade deal, Europe prostrated itself before the president. We need a leader who will tell him where to shove it, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:52 AM
I wrote a paper years ago about the Roman law of slavery, and some American academic has just berated me for being insufficiently attuned to the moral issues.
June 15, 2025 at 8:15 AM
You know you’re ancient when your social feed starts sending you ads for incontinence pants. Come back Beyoncé’s arse, all is forgiven.
May 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
I’m in a beautiful park near the Barbican having a ver pleasant cup of coffee. It’s popular with parents who have young children. I have learned that for 50p you can get a “babycino” which is a tiny cappuccino with sugar sprinkles on top designed to wean kids onto the hard stuff.
April 12, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Slowly but steadily getting everything off my Google Drive and on a personal and a work NextCloud instance (managed hosting in Germany at Hetzner).

That is some huge effort (though rclone helped), but I'm trying to reduce my footprint on US services as much as I can.
March 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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An important statement from the American Bar Association. www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...
March 3, 2025 at 11:35 PM
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I'm super excited to announce that we had a last minute panel accepted into the #FOSDEM main track on Saturday at 5pm in Janson! I'll be joined by @binford2k.bsky.social, Brian Proffitt, and Stephen Walli to talk about open source rug pulls, relicensing, and forks: fosdem.org/2025/schedul...
FOSDEM 2025 - Forked Communities: Project Re-licensing and Community Impact
fosdem.org
January 27, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Although Edward Estlin Cummings was an accomplished writer, he signed his name with little ease.
January 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It’s village Christmas party day. We had a lovely lunch involving School Governors. I have had a glass or two, and unaccountably I now feel the urge to listen to Marillion. Seriously?
December 14, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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So yeah the Spotty Rapping thing is happening. We did ok. Pretty well even. But numbers don't matter. What matters is you boogied with us. And for that we ❤️ you all
December 5, 2024 at 9:16 PM
This is a tiny UPS which is basically just a box of rechargeable batteries. It’s ideal for broadband routers and things like that which don’t need graceful shutdown, where it would be useful to keep them running if there’s a short power cut or brown out.
November 30, 2024 at 1:01 PM
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Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.
November 28, 2024 at 8:06 PM
This is getting beyond a joke.
November 27, 2024 at 8:59 AM
Thanks, Greenpeace, for providing me with a pdf form which is uneditable, so
I have to print it out, complete it manually, and then scan it in and send it.
November 17, 2024 at 2:36 PM
Just completed the Bluesky email verification step. I’ve never seen one that relies on 36^10 permutations before.
November 17, 2024 at 2:35 PM