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  @ilias@discuss.systems @lina There's absolutely a Mastodon Party Line and more broadly a List Of Acceptable Subjects To Get Engagement On Mastodon, and it's part of the reason that this place both frustrates me and bores me to tears. Honestly Lina's post is a breath of fresh air because it very rarely actually gets talked about just how isolating and dull it can be having your entire feed be a bunch of Linux users patting themselves on the back for hating AI, Microsoft a...

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  I went on a far too long rant about how #Google ruined #Fitbit with "Google Health" and especially how their AI Coach fills me with bilious rage. https://joebaldwin.me.uk/blog/google-ruins-fitbit/ #health #fitness #wearable #PixelWatch

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  Rapidly coming to the conclusion that some people’s definition of “clout chasing” is just “expressing interest in anything other than computers”

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  Wrote a thing about my app nobody uses except me going away, and the reasons why I wrote it - namely that the Apple Watch is awful for weight loss. https://joebaldwin.me.uk/blog/sunsetting-budgie-diet/ #iOSDev #Apple #AppleWatch

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  I'd say I'd love to meet someone who thinks that somehow "business" and "world events" are things that don't interact and knowledge about one is optional to understand the other, but I actually really don't

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  Currently "I am a hideously awful person"-maxxing and fully "I am a terrible unfixable creature"-pilled

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  Me considering reopening my Bluesky account

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  @jannem@fosstodon.org @lina@vt.social I know all this. But the discovery is still bad and the network is still very much awash in one specific kind of person (Linux user/nerd/open source/anti-AI/at least vaguely leftist). Which is far as fine as it goes but it just overwhelms everything else. And also, maybe sometimes I want to see pictures of birds - I do not want to follow hashtag-bird and then see every single picture of a bird everyone on Mastodon ever posts. It’s a poor alternative to an al...

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  @davidgerard@circumstances.run If you're looking for something budget, can heartily recommend Anker Soundcore Space Q45 (or the earlier Q30).

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  OpenClaw really is just an obviously bad idea from any perspective where you’ve not taken so many drugs your brain is leaking out of your arsehole

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  @q@social.quotequack.xyz I wouldn't say noticeably faster (without getting into the realms of the "it's so snappy!!!" stuff) but it's definitely not "slow", the installation was fantastic and it comes with various little niceties I really like, so I'm pretty sold

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  @m000gletje It had appeal to both sweaty gamers and more casual ones. Also a massive impact on online culture because of stuff like Garry’s Mod/SFM and some of the insane shit you could do with it.

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  You all sound like RMS

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  Because the one thing that the British people, on balance, really specifically love is Tony Blair's attitudes to war in the Middle East

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  Imagine putting out transphobic agitprop and you only get made to take it down because of a complaint from Ian fucking Huntley

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  People are whinging about this person's complaint being "snowflakey" or whatever, but if any organisation I was a customer of spoke to me like this, I think a polite complaint would a generous response on my part. (ht @stephenkb.bsky.social) https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/mar/07/monzo-customer-language-year-in-monzo-review

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  Ah well, it’s not all bad https://news.sky.com/story/soham-murderer-ian-huntley-dies-after-prison-attack-13512943

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  This Mastodon app doesn’t have Giphy so please imagine I posted a gif of Pingu exploding into a nuclear fireball with the caption “mood”

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  @valoisdubins.bsky.social It’s like, at the point someone considers it to be woke purity politics to object to someone having tattoos of Nazi insignia, when is it ever going to be worth listening to them?

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  I think it would be good if every rental e-scooter exploded

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  @laurenshof@indieweb.social People complain about "clout chasing" but there's no more reliable way to get boosts and favs than to just post some oh-so-brave statement about how you think AI is ruining the world. Like what is that if not chasing clout, they're not articulating anything new or helping anyone understand anything, it's just "look at me, I hate AI, aren't I such a good and cool person?"

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@verge/116184357708795476 Yeah I mean I wouldn't be looking to launch a loss-leader thing that depends on large amounts of memory either this year either

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  Really says a lot that the current admin don’t even think that anyone is worth lying to, they’re more than happy to just be like “we can do this and we want to so we did it and you can just deal with it.” What a great time to be alive

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  One symptom of both Kemi and Farage being a bit too online is that they seem to not realise that most British people really, really, really do not like or appreciate the politics of Donald Trump, even if they are quite right wing.

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  Decided that the way the placebo effect works is that if I tell myself that crisps are an SSRI then they actually are

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  Rental e-scooter riders are just temporarily embarrassed Audi drivers

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  @cwebber@social.coop I don't think it's unfair to say that anyone who thinks it's acceptable to have a vested financial interest in there being a nuclear war is a complete monster.

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  RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116170579340186256 Anyone who gives themselves a financial vested interest in nuclear war happening is a ghoul who is beyond redemption

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  RE: https://masto.ai/@phoronix/116170532252621689 As much as I have mixed feelings about this stuff, at some point the usual FOSS assumption that it can just be ignored or got around is going to collide with reality in a really unpleasant way

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  This reminds me of when I had a Sony phone and it helpfully made a summary video of my "Highlights from April 2015" that featured numerous zoom ins on me making weird faces, with a soundtrack that sounded like an earthquake at a glockenspiel factory.