Wiredfire
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I was thrilled to find the audiobook on Borrowbox via my local library
December 3, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I was thrilled to find the audiobook on Borrowbox via my local library
Given the abomination that is iOS 26's liquid ass design I'm not surprised he's jumping ship.
December 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Given the abomination that is iOS 26's liquid ass design I'm not surprised he's jumping ship.
TV viewers alarmed at linear progression of time exists, more at 6
November 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM
TV viewers alarmed at linear progression of time exists, more at 6
The government: we have an aging population, the pensions bill & associated costs are only going to get higher
Also the government: let’s actively discourage people from saving into private pensions!
Their incompetence is as wild as it is horrifying.
Also the government: let’s actively discourage people from saving into private pensions!
Their incompetence is as wild as it is horrifying.
November 27, 2025 at 6:54 AM
The government: we have an aging population, the pensions bill & associated costs are only going to get higher
Also the government: let’s actively discourage people from saving into private pensions!
Their incompetence is as wild as it is horrifying.
Also the government: let’s actively discourage people from saving into private pensions!
Their incompetence is as wild as it is horrifying.
No, but then I don’t want to eat a chicken at all.
November 26, 2025 at 7:42 PM
No, but then I don’t want to eat a chicken at all.
Love this idea. I’ve read many but many others still hold adventures yet to unfold. I don’t get a lot of reading time right now 😭 but this would make a great Bluesky feed or mailing list or something
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Love this idea. I’ve read many but many others still hold adventures yet to unfold. I don’t get a lot of reading time right now 😭 but this would make a great Bluesky feed or mailing list or something
Ah well I’m sure they’ll just trot out the tired “waa waa we inherited a mess from the Toooooories”. Yes, you did, now STFU and take some ownership.
November 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Ah well I’m sure they’ll just trot out the tired “waa waa we inherited a mess from the Toooooories”. Yes, you did, now STFU and take some ownership.
Fixing? They going to stop insisting everyone makes the web unusable with those cookie consent things now? That would be most welcome, but ultimately kinda small-fry.. :-/
November 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Fixing? They going to stop insisting everyone makes the web unusable with those cookie consent things now? That would be most welcome, but ultimately kinda small-fry.. :-/
Then again remember when the government wanted to ban encryption? 😆😆😆 they’re clueless idiots of then highest order.
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Then again remember when the government wanted to ban encryption? 😆😆😆 they’re clueless idiots of then highest order.
And the real issue is it pushes the very audience they’re claiming, falsely, to be looking to protect into less and less monitored, and less able to be monitored, ways of being online and actively encouraging them to learn how to hide the tracks and their traffic. That is so stupidly dangerous.
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
And the real issue is it pushes the very audience they’re claiming, falsely, to be looking to protect into less and less monitored, and less able to be monitored, ways of being online and actively encouraging them to learn how to hide the tracks and their traffic. That is so stupidly dangerous.
Agreed wholeheartedly. Though it’s a cat and mouse game the government cannot win. Make VPNs illegal and we route them through Tor. Make Tor illegal (which would be abhorrent) and we use other methods to encrypt and hide traffic. Stupid thing is the harder they grip the less they have access to
November 17, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Agreed wholeheartedly. Though it’s a cat and mouse game the government cannot win. Make VPNs illegal and we route them through Tor. Make Tor illegal (which would be abhorrent) and we use other methods to encrypt and hide traffic. Stupid thing is the harder they grip the less they have access to
highlights how technically illiterate the financial ecosystem is. blockchain does a few bad things:
- puts data and transactions out of your control
- to be effective it is horricbly inefficient use of power
- At a reasonable level of power usage it’s open to manipulation
- puts data and transactions out of your control
- to be effective it is horricbly inefficient use of power
- At a reasonable level of power usage it’s open to manipulation
November 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
highlights how technically illiterate the financial ecosystem is. blockchain does a few bad things:
- puts data and transactions out of your control
- to be effective it is horricbly inefficient use of power
- At a reasonable level of power usage it’s open to manipulation
- puts data and transactions out of your control
- to be effective it is horricbly inefficient use of power
- At a reasonable level of power usage it’s open to manipulation
November 17, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oh, it is deeply grim and worrying. And while it has hallmarks of how some dictator ships behave that the political system is responding with so many alternative parties coming up and that we can indeed vote these idiots out tells us it’s not an actual dictatorship thankfully
November 17, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Oh, it is deeply grim and worrying. And while it has hallmarks of how some dictator ships behave that the political system is responding with so many alternative parties coming up and that we can indeed vote these idiots out tells us it’s not an actual dictatorship thankfully
VPN usage jumped 1800% the day the online “safety” act came into effect. That’s not even hyperbole 😆 it’s such a stupid and damaging yet instantly bypassable measure.
November 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
VPN usage jumped 1800% the day the online “safety” act came into effect. That’s not even hyperbole 😆 it’s such a stupid and damaging yet instantly bypassable measure.
It is FAR from a dictatorship and saying so hurts the argument. But Starmer has proven himself to be far worse than the simply incompetent I was expecting and is down-right malicious. I’d say about as much as the Tories before him, just slightly differently so. They can all get in the bin.
November 16, 2025 at 9:22 PM
It is FAR from a dictatorship and saying so hurts the argument. But Starmer has proven himself to be far worse than the simply incompetent I was expecting and is down-right malicious. I’d say about as much as the Tories before him, just slightly differently so. They can all get in the bin.
I lost mine in The Great iPod Sync Deletion catastrophe of 2004 😭
November 16, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I lost mine in The Great iPod Sync Deletion catastrophe of 2004 😭
Paging Dr @barns.bsky.social in case he's not aware!
November 15, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Paging Dr @barns.bsky.social in case he's not aware!
I’ve never seen one before, no-one has, but I’m guessing it’s a white hole
November 14, 2025 at 11:07 AM
I’ve never seen one before, no-one has, but I’m guessing it’s a white hole
Add a purple one too 💜 Would love to see that gain more prominence too.
November 9, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Add a purple one too 💜 Would love to see that gain more prominence too.