Melliferous Oak
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Melliferous Oak
@melliferousoak.kind.social.ap.brid.gy
Profile pic: a portrait of a white horse with a rainbow mane

[bridged from https://kind.social/@MelliferousOak on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
Time for my 2025 music listening data!
The way last.fm prioritises individual songs over time spent listening doesn't really do it for me, so I spreadsheeted my way out of it, tracking the amount of time spent listening to each song / album / artist.

Total […]

[Original post on kind.social]
January 1, 2026 at 10:21 PM
Starting the year as I mean to go on: shrinking my Windows partition and giving the space to Linux
January 1, 2026 at 7:50 PM
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"non-consensual scraping"

Shudder worthy combo of words and happening on a server near you right now.
December 31, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]
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mastodon.social
December 17, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Zowie cannot believe it's already #caturday again. She asked me to explain how time works, but I said I didn't understand it any better than she did.
December 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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AI Warning: Google has been caught A/B testing replacing real article headlines with AI-generated substitutes, which are of course sometimes wildly misleading/against journalistic ethics. If you see a blatantly horrible headline in a news aggregator, check whether the site's own page matches […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
December 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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Cool Ranch may be young, but he has discovered the optimal approach for the gloomy days of winter.

#fosterkittens #CatsOfMastodon
December 1, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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November 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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An oscillator is a cross between an ocelot and an alligator.
November 21, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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November 3, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Try my new file format, OCSV: Oxford Comma Separated Values
November 1, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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I interrupted a #caturday nap. Emily continues her sleepy paw work with no further interruptions. #catsofmastodon
November 1, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Thought it was about time I did #thursdayfivelist: it's #thenightofthelivingband. Five bands who've come back from hiatus(es).

1: Candlemass: going stronger than ever. Can't go wrong with them, but here's the seasonally-appropriate Witches.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8ltdukMBoY

2: King […]
Original post on kind.social
kind.social
October 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Perhaps it's time to tap the chart again. Left-handed people were once seen as sinister (the word sinister, from Latin, originally meant "left" or "on the left side") so kids were forced to be right-handed. However, with advances in science it became clear […]

[Original post on mastodon.world]
August 29, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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*screams*
October 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Following Rishi Sunak and Nick Cleggs' move to advising tech companies, let's all wish Liz Truss well on her first day at Amazon Web Services.
October 20, 2025 at 9:09 AM
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I'm going to start a market for "Accessibility Offset Credits".

Your site may be an unholy mess of div elements, no alt text, and terrible contrast - but you can pay to offset your accessibility sins by buying credits from sites with perfect WCAG scores.
October 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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“In my day the computers would scream and scream when we connected them to the internet… but did we listen? No. We did not listen…”
October 10, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Today I learned that there are only three English cities with an electrical consumption greater than 200 megawatts: London, Manchester and Birmingham. By comparison, the people who want to build AI data centres here, which nobody asked for, want a supply of up to 1 gigawatt (1,000 megawatts) for […]
Original post on mastodon.green
mastodon.green
October 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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every 3-4 years when they are cleaning it the authorities allow visitors into the #lodz waterworks.
They are pretty fussy about security (I guess rightly so) but they do allow pictures.

#pictures #water
October 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The wizard is teaching a cantrip class at the library. They are learning prestidigitation today. It seems to be going badly.
October 8, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Reasonably sure Mastodon peeps like libraries and might like a peek at this wowzer I stepped into today.

#dascdmx
September 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM