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Mark Rotteveel
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Software developer, Nerd, whatever...
In the habit of going off on a tangent.

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mayintoronto.beige.party.ap.brid.gy
[May's tech-hype predictions for 2026]

May's tech-hype predictions for 2026 onwards:
- The month after major public pensions and governments buy huge stakes in the AI companies (OpenAI, Anthropic, etc), the US AI bubble will start crashing. This will happen in 2026.

- At this point, free […]
Original post on beige.party
beige.party
December 14, 2025 at 4:12 AM
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veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
December 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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mishavelthuis.social.edu.nl.ap.brid.gy
AI is the future.

From #lemmy: https://dubvee.org/post/4783061
December 2, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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adwright.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
So back in 1944, a German U-Boat Commander named Heinz-Wilhelm Eck did exactly what US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth ordered US military forces to do - kill the survivors of a destroyed boat at sea.

Now, as then, this is considered a War Crime.

In 1945, Commander Eck was tried, found guilty […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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youranoncentral.bsky.social
Two black and white photographs show a group of five adults standing outdoors near a wide body of water with industrial buildings in the background. They are dressed in long coats and appear serious and subdued. In the second image, only the older man in a heavy coat and flat cap remains, standing alone beside the water. The overall atmosphere is somber and reflective.
November 27, 2025 at 9:56 PM
mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Earlier this week there was a collision between a train and a truck in The Netherlands. Footage shows the truck was *reversing* on the rail crossing. What the fuck was that truck driver thinking? https://www.nu.nl/321158/video/nieuwe-beelden-van-treinongeluk-bij-meteren-tonen-moment-van-botsing.html
DPG Media Privacy Gate
myprivacy.dpgmedia.nl
October 31, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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jbaert.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Voor de miljoenste keer: het plan staat haaks op het principe van individuele privacy. Het is ONMOGELIJK om een veilige achterpoort in een E2EE-systeem in te bouwen.

Experts zeggen dit al 50 jaar (it's the maths, stupid), maar politici willen gewoon niet luisteren.
October 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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arianehsajadi.bsky.social
For those who don’t seem to quite get it yet.

🆘🇺🇸
September 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I've just released Jaybird 5.0.10 with a fix for a bug that only affects Firebird 2.5. See https://firebirdsql.org/en/news/jaybird-5-0-10-released for more information

Jaybird is the JDBC driver for Firebird.

#firebird #jdbc #Java
Firebird: The true open source database for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more
Firebird SQL: The true open-source relational database
firebirdsql.org
September 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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zelda.zone
Forgive me for sounding like an extremist, but if the purpose of society isn't to house, feed, and care for its members, what the fuck is the purpose?
September 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I guess some AI scraper has found my Firebird list archive on AWS...
Image of a stacked bar chart (from AWS). The title is "Cost breakdown", it's grouped by source. It shows stacks from April 2025 - September 2025. For April - Juli, the cost is just below $1.00, for Augusts around $1.50, and for September around $9.00. Majority of the cost is for Amazon Simple Storage Service, the remainder is for Tax.
September 16, 2025 at 7:59 AM
mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Perfect Effin' Birds alignment in my timeline from @effinbirds and @birdfeed
Two post by Effin' Birds (from different accounts). The first was posted by @effinbirds@mastodon.social and is marked 9 hours ago and its original alt text is "A painting of a bird next to the words "I didn't think I'd ever see shit this spectacularly dumb"". The bird looks down, towards the second post. The second post was by @birdfeed@effinbirds.social and is marked 15 hours ago, no original alt text, but it shows a painting of a bird (maybe a Toucan?) with a large yellow beak, black feathers on its head and back, wings and tail. Its eyes are surrounded by red, and has orange an yellow feathers towards its belly, the belly is red. The bird is looking up (towards the first post). Next to the painting is the text "okay. well fuck that".
September 7, 2025 at 9:18 AM
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marcel.waldvogel.family.ap.brid.gy
No comment.
Randall Munroe's "Dependency" XKCD comic with changed text. A brittle construction of toy bricks; on top labelled "All of modern civilisation", one small critical piece at the bottom labeled "A country which we all relied upon until January" Original: CC BY-NC 2.5, https://xkcd.com/2347/
August 27, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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pixelprophecy.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy
Alright, I couldn’t resist: Here’s the #knightrider theme as 8-bit #chiptune for the NES. Hope you like it! 😊

🔊Sound on!

#music #chipmusic #furnace #nes #retro #8bit
August 26, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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venite.mastodon.nl.ap.brid.gy
It’s less known but Theseus also had a car
An old BMW with a silver grey front, navy driver side door and green roof and back half. It’s parked in front of a light brick building on a sunny day.
August 25, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
August 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
Today I had a sarcastic "thanks Java 24" moment, when I discovered that java.security.Permission.checkGuard(Object) in Java 24 unconditionally throws a SecurityException, instead of being a no-op now there never is a security manager.
August 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
mrotteveel.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy
I have just release versions 6.0.3 and 5.0.9 of Jaybird, the Firebird JDBC driver. For more information, see https://firebirdsql.org/en/news/jaybird-6-0-3-and-5-0-9-released

#firebird #jdbc #Java
Firebird: The true open source database for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X and more
Firebird SQL: The true open-source relational database
firebirdsql.org
August 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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edent.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
August 1st - Googler asks the community if XSLT should be removed from the HTML living standard.
https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523

Respondents overwhelmingly reject the suggestion.

August 6th - Google starts work on removing XSLT from Chrome […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
August 18, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Signed #canada and the #restoftheworld
August 14, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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adamparkhomenko.bsky.social
holy shit this is a helluva ad from the Democrat running against Joni Ernst in Iowa. worth every second
August 12, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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djgummikuh.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Hey @intellij I'd much rather keep the old price and voluntarily waive my access to your AI shenanigans, thank you for your attention to this matter!
August 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
August 12, 2025 at 1:15 AM