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Alex
@stsquad.mastodon.org.uk.ap.brid.gy
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Code poet and real ale aficionado. Low level trouble maker for Linaro working on virtualisation (#QEMU, #KVM, #VirtIO). Uses the one true editor (#emacs) to do […]

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It's #emacsconf #2025! I didn't watch live but I'm catching up. I found this interesting because it outlines 3 very different ways to interact with #llm's. I must admit I'm not yet confident enough to hand over the keys to an agent until I'm satisfied with […]

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thumbnail of the speaker
December 7, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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It may be cold 🥶 but it is very bright 😎.
a wide shot of a sunny local Welsh valley with the Blorange in the background and a white cottage in the foreground.
November 21, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Is it#DNS?

Microsoft Azure outage: Heathrow, Xbox and Minecraft among sites down

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rj45n4x5eo
October 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Every goto in the Linux kernel / Just another day on the linux-kernel mailing list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1Mfirg2-Z8

> Visualization of every goto statement in the Linux 6.17 source code.Commentary from a 2003 linux-kernel mailing list discussion […]

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thumbnail titled Every goto in the Linux Kernel with a background made from goto statements.
October 7, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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An excellent guide to dead internet theory and the dangers of not double checking your generative systems output: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zfN9wnPvU0

#video #llm #kurzgesagt
a thumbnail titled "AI SLOP" showing a cartoon earth enveloped in sticky black tendrils
October 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I would hope most of my followers are already pretty skeptical of #rfkjr's autism claims. The internet's #hankgreen has done a deep dive into one of the bogus claims if you want to see how the lie was constructed:
Lying About Autism is a Full Time Job - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdpSfrD3Nzs
caption showing Hank Green with some autism assessment graphs behind him captioned with a large red "wrong"
September 27, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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You can see September came in hard and now we are paying for energy again. Hopefully we can hold on longer before the central heating starts taking up it's chunk of cost. #homeassistant #graphs
A cumulative cost graph showing the costs of electricity and gas and the point the export of electricity was overtaken by the increasing demand sometime around the 1st of September.
September 9, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Ok that #fork diagram is looking a lot better than the last one. Fixed a lot of bugs in the data processing and I am starting to see some useful #information in the diagram. #qemu #kvmforum2025
A network diagram showing the relationship between QEMU versions and forks of it.
August 22, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Continuing to experiment with plotting the #fork network of #qemu for my talk at #kvmforum2025. I need to figure out a way to filter out normal developer forks from the rest.
A complex graph plot showing forks of QEMU and how they relate to the main releases.
August 21, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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The latest #homeassistant has #sankey diagrams for energy flow. I obviously need more energy tracking #sensors for the house ;-)
An energy flow diagram showing grid and solar sources and where the energy flows to inside Home Assistant.
August 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
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Dear #lazyweb,

I think I've reached the limit of #matplotlib trying to graph the forks from a #git repository. What I want to to plot the slowly growing trunk and then show the relative sizes of the forks from where they start in the trunk to their current […]

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A hand drawn sketch showing the fork diagram the author would like to generate. A slowly growing core cone representing the trunk with branches coming of showing the relative size of the fork.
August 15, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Sitting in the shade enjoying the first day of my holiday and I'm already half way through Rory Stewart's "Politics on the Edge". It's a beautifully written if slightly concerning run through his political career and how the system fails us. #ukpolitics #books
photo of a paperback title "Politics on the Edge" on a table with some other holiday detritus in the background.
July 28, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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There are many things wrong with #twitter's approach to moderation but at least asking for a community note when #grok gets it so very wrong worked:
Screenshot of a post on twitter where the grok llm incorrectly states the video is from a UK incident and is tagged with a community note explaining how it is wrong.
July 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Tux appropriate henna for a wedding tomorrow.
a tux design on the back of a hairy hand done in henna.
July 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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I saw some interesting artefacts in the clouds while doing some #openstreetmap mapping last night.
picture of a country lane with clouds above showing an interesting fractal-like disruption.
July 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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The man is a national treasure. I remember watching the Secret Life of.... shows back in my youth.

The Secret Life of the Home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqpvl-YGFD4&t=1820

> Tim looks back at his gallery at London's Science Museum. It opened in 1995 […]

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a frame from the video showing Tim Hunkin walking around an exhibit of household items at the science museum.
July 5, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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I think these guys are lost. #sheep #sheepofmastodon. I'm not sub-tooting.
a picture of a bunch of sheep who have escaped an enclosure and are not quite sure where to go.
June 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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I guess #ukraine have figured out that #trump won't apply pressure on #putin so they have to do it themselves:

Ukraine war live update: Drones 'emerged from trucks' before strikes on bombers during major attack in Russia

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cgrg7kelk45t

#bbc #news
footage of the aftermath of a drone attack on an airfield. Smoke billows in the distance.
June 1, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Dear #lazyweb does anyone know how this navigational marker should be tagged in #openstreetmap? I've been going through the wiki and I can find how navigational buoys are tagged but so far nothing for land based marine navigation aids. I believe the marker lines up with the inland lighthouse.
a large concrete marine navigational marker with a pointed top, painted white with a central vertical black stripe.
April 21, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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One thing that is very noticeable walking around a place that has no sheep is how much more variety there is in the ground cover. The pictures yesterday are mostly from the small islet of Gugh which is still recovering from a fire in 1972 but nevertheless […]

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entrance to a neolithic burial site surrounded by various heather and gorse varieties. a well worn path edged by various gorse and bracken species. a view of the local rise showing gorse and stones.
April 21, 2025 at 7:07 AM
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It looks like spring is starting to make itself felt. Hopefully the lines will cross next week at which point #solar generation will pay for houses electricity use. I think the next step is finding a decent #homeassistant integrable bi-directional car charger […]

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Two graphs, the top one showing total cost and total export values as they trend towards each other with the lower graph showing the current total generation for the day.
March 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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I've found a lot of Marks more recent videos a bit too noisy and excitable but the latest is I hope a return to form. Could #tesla's choice to have sensors as limited as our own sight make it less able to deliver safe assisted or self-driving? […]

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a you tube thumbnail showing a Tesla speeding towards a painted picture of a tunnel while a slightly crazed Mark Rober stares at the viewer while holding a wet paint brush.
March 16, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Well hello there. #pixel #pkvm #kvm
a screenshot of Pixel 7 running a terminal with Debian installed running under pKVM. After a mistyped uname the correct spelling emits the current kernel version of 6.1.0.
March 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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More on #deepseek from #computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY4Z-9QlZ64&t=1181

I'm still unsure on how "open source" the DeepSeek model is but I certainly prefer any steps on making these things reproducible rather than hidden behind someone's […]

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thumbnail of the Computerphile channel showing the words DeepSeek and the speaker.
January 29, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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This is an excellent talk (57mins) from Sophie Wilson which covers the history and current challenges of #scaling #computation as we reach the limits of More's, #amdhal's and Thermodynamic laws. The question about carbon intensity was left hanging at the end […]

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Introduction slide showing Sophie and the title of the talk: The Future of Microprocessors
January 26, 2025 at 4:22 PM