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Jack Scott
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Hi everyone! I'm a software engineer running my own IT consulting firm, trying to make technology a little bit better for everyone. When I'm not doing that, I dabble […]

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1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Imagine having the confidence of the person who designed the new Outlook desktop app and thought they did a good job.
December 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
If I had a dollar for every time I've seen "closing as stale" on a GitHub issue, I could afford to pay for the new Hobart stadium all by myself.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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"Putting respect for country above colonial mythology"... what a great way to describe the brumpy shitshow in Kosciuszko. Sucko Barilaro!
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-28/nsw-upper-house-vote-scrap-brumby-bill/105916360
Controversial 'Brumby Bill' recognising horses' heritage value dumped
A widely criticised bill recognising the heritage value of wild horses in Kosciuszko National Park will be scrapped in a move celebrated by the Invasive Species Council.
www.abc.net.au
November 27, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Fuck your half hour video, this could have been three paragraphs, five bullet points, a code block, and a screen shot if you wanted to get Fancy.

Half hour of my life and I could have just skimmed.
November 27, 2025 at 1:19 AM
"Tier 1 Datacentre" sounds really impressive until you realise you've just described the linen closet of the average r/homelab user.
October 27, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Logged into the Microsoft 365 admin portal this morning to do... something. Got so infuriated by the "new dashboard" just being an ad for Copilot that I completely forgot what I logged in to do.

Ah well, guess what I probably wanted to do was cancel my subscriptions (I wish).
October 14, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Two new arrivals in one day! They must have known about the severe weather warning for tonight!

#farming #cowsofmastodon
October 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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y'all ever think about how there's decades old archives of newsgroups, mailing lists, forums, irc rooms, so on and so forth, freely accessible to those with the ability to use the wayback machine... and now we have entire software projects whose documentation is in discord, where you cannot see […]
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post.airsi.de
October 7, 2025 at 5:09 AM
Decided to start playing around with a self-hosted instance of GitLab for my work CI/CD. Initially it was going to just be a backup in case Azure DevOps or GitHub disappeared (or enshittified), but I'm liking the features so much it might become our primary platform quite quickly.

#gitlab […]
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aus.social
October 7, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Writing a device driver for a video card (ATI Rage 128) using QEMU for testing, and I've found a bug in QEMU's mouse emulation that's utterly hilarious.

If you set up a hardware mouse cursor in the video card hardware with a fixed location on screen, and the OS makes no updates to that location […]
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aus.social
September 25, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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September 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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I genuinely don't have a beef with rich people. You should be able, by your hard work, to provide for yourself and your children.

But the number matters. When wealth provides for generations of idleness, when wealth corrupts our government, when children go to bed hungry while filth like, oh […]
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mstdn.social
September 23, 2025 at 8:18 AM
Today in #osdev: I started writing a device driver for the ATI Rage 128 (circa 1999). Using hardware registers, not VGA/VBE BIOS calls. Soon I might be able to run it on real hardware!
September 22, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Behold! The world's worst-performing mouse pointer (plus some hardware probing).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxNrSH5F6WU

#osdev #programming #gui
September 21, 2025 at 7:06 AM