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thumbstone.bsky.social
@thumbstone.bsky.social
Observing the discourse. Low expectations, occasional surprises.

It's 30s all over again :(
Agreed, many of those seem so great. I'm actually looking for the right ones right now: one for micro NAS and docker, one for the media server.

Too bad I don't have _too_ many choices (like at least twin 2.5G Ethernet, etc), but it's a good place to be in anyway.
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
51%? Those are rookie numbers. What about 65%?
November 13, 2025 at 10:26 PM
FBI had a lots of time to scrub it :(

I still hope some of the agents understood how important it is and copied the data in their hands.
November 13, 2025 at 10:08 PM
And I'm not going to waste my time on going through your profile, like, come on :)

Would you waste yours going through mine in the good faith? No? That's what I thought :)

Take care.
November 13, 2025 at 9:35 PM
You said:

> "he’s never confirmed or denied that he’s gay, which means that he is"

Which is both an "affirming the consequent" fallacy ("argument from ignorance") and also a common false dillema.

If being called out on this triggers you to that extent? I don't think I'm an asshole here :)

QED.
November 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
The guidance will be amended, I'm sure you know that.
November 13, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Oh wow! Amazing.
November 13, 2025 at 5:40 PM
(the guy being implicated in one of the biggest scandals notwithstanding.

It's just this unfunny "he didn't say he's gay, therefore he is" is frankly a bit... lazy. Feel free to block me, that's the only way you can win with a horse.)
November 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I'm seriously moved that you feel so offended.

The fact I exposed your "he neither confirmed nor admitted" as a confirmation of the assumption as a sheer, errrr, long shot, shouldn't touch the nerve unless you knew it's not, let me put it gently, thoughtful.

Sending hugs, you clearly need some.
November 13, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Wes Streetling is a paid lobbyist in the government role: goodlawproject.org/how-private-...

This should tell you everything about his motives. It looks like corruption to me, sorry.
How private health has invested in Wes Streeting | Good Law Project
More than 60% of the registered donations accepted by the health secretary come from people and companies linked to private health. But are they expecting a return? By Max Colbert
goodlawproject.org
November 13, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Awww, and here I was, hoping you'd mention detectors' bias against people who learnt English as a second language, from books, maybe from their favourite TV shows.

> (...) 89 of the 91 TOEFL essays (97%) were flagged by at least one of the detectors.

hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-dete...
AI-Detectors Biased Against Non-Native English Writers | Stanford HAI
Don’t put faith in detectors that are “unreliable and easily gamed,” says scholar.
hai.stanford.edu
November 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
I don't like the word "sleaze", it always looked like an attempt to spin something pretty clear: corruption.
November 13, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Doubtful. There's been plenty of doctored photos of weird claims. Like we needed fakes for anything.
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I neither confirmed nor denied that I'm a horse so it certainly means I am.
November 13, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Go away, I was wondering how far I'd have to scroll down.

PS There are open source libraries that will make it work.
November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I hope by then they'll be thoroughly audited.

www.theregister.com/2025/11/11/u...

(I know access for OTA updates is nothing new, very recently Jeep bricked at least 25 thousand of Wranglers, all the vendors do OTA)

Don't forget Huawei: open.substack.com/pub/microurb...
UK.gov probes security risks of Chinese electric buses
: Norwegian testers claim maker has remote access, while UK importer says supplier complies with the law
www.theregister.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
That's not what napalm is.
November 11, 2025 at 7:45 PM
It was always like this. Always. Maybe not in the open to that extent but always since I'm here.

And worse.

(I stay due to the personal circumstances, not the affection to the country that treats me like a cancer)
November 11, 2025 at 7:42 PM
But this seems to be the underlying intention and goal of this administration.

To make it hurt, to destroy, to destabilize, to damage the standing of the country.

Accidentally anything to benefit said adversaries.
November 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
You have to admit, that part was really funny:

> making “undeliverable” promises to voters ahead of the next election [...] could leave them disappointed
November 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Seriously, treating ANYTHING he says as if it was said in a good faith 🙄
November 7, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Too late, too little.
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM