@[email protected] I love watching that happen! My mum once went through the whole process of ordering a meal in a kebab shop in the UK speaking Turkish (which is what the staff were using talking to each other). He not only replied in English, but then asked his co-worker why they'd complimented an English speaker on their Turkish...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@fediversereport/116409387146814121

A massive thanks to @laurenshof for actually attributing FediMod FIRES to me in his coverage. It means a lot to receive credit for my work!

i was quite surprised to discover that no one had registered deleteduser [dot] com, and was curious to see how many emails i'd get if i registered it, assuming many orgs 'delete' logic probably just overwrote the email address with [email protected] or similar.

The answer, is at least 3 different orgs in the hour that I've owned that domain and been listening for email.

And yes, all of those emails contain the actual PII of the person who has been 'deleted' 😁

#infosec

If all you do in your tech career is:

1. When something is slow, you look carefully at the output of a profiler or a query plan & make measured suggestions about what to improve;

2. When something breaks badly, you gently but insistently ask what & why until you truly know, then the next time similar work is needed you bring up how to avoid doing what broke last time; and

3. When someone lacks info, you make them feel good for learning instead of bad for not knowing;

You will do good work.

this Strait of Hormuz story makes IT decision-makers who get locked in to one SaaS vendor look remarkably responsible and forward-thinking

New blog post: Running individual Bun tests with Zed tasks https://mikehadlow.com/posts/2026-04-15-running-individual-bun-tests-with-zed-tasks/

the first rule of data breach opsec is: if you don't store data it can't be breached

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There seems to be a bit of a caffeine failure epidemic going around at the moment

Slow cooker garlic. Buy it peeled in a big bag, mix with generous olive oil, butter and salt. Set it to low, stir hourly for six to eight hours until it gets dark brown and soft, ladle into jars and this is your favourite new condiment, the richness of roast garlic with a minimum of effort. When a dish calls for fresh garlic add an equal portion of this and immediately secure the respect and admiration of your guests.

Er, what do you mean, Backblaze silently doesn't actually backup everything? WTF? You had one job!

https://rareese.com/posts/backblaze/

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I wonder if I should be concerned that I have a mental list of bad driven songs for when the caffeine fails mentally loaded up and ready to go at all times

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• Wing - Dopamine DnB remix
• Liquid Tension Experiment - pretty much anything?

@[email protected] In a variety of styles...

• Propellerheads - Spybreak!
• Bon Jovi - Keep the faith
• Gravity Kills - Guilty
• Paul Simon - You can call me Al
• KMFDM - Ultra

my best buds you guys, do not do anything if someone says your account is suspicious and they are from mastodon security team, just report and block. do not click on their link.

For years I've been hearing that "One day AI will be smarter than humans and we'll all be doomed."

"Nonsense," I said. "AI is very stupid, and not getting noticeably smarter." And I was right.

But I didn't think about the fact that there were two ways that prophecy could be fulfilled.

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And now I feel old. Also, Creative Commons is great.

@[email protected] Have you come across Dabrowski? The over simplified version is that he postulates that high development potential ("giftedness") isn't comorbid with emotional over excitability, but is driven by it. Well, that, or you self implode (he refers to growth via positive and negative disintegration as the excitability refuses to allow statis). I'm enormously over simplifying to the point of being dangerous inaccurate, but it may be worth a look if you haven't seen it before. dabrowskicenter.org/developm...

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One thing deeply lacking in the UK school system is some study of philosophy. I'm actually really glad my son has had the opportunity to study some here in Italy even if he's aiming towards engineering as a degree (and so is he!). I can't help thinking that the world could do with more people thinking about why we do things just at the moment.

Want to study #philosophy? We're nearing the enrollment deadlines in Leiden, where there's a Dutch BA, but also an English BA in global and comparative philosophy, and several English philosophy MAs (including the new 2-year programma Philosophy of the Arts)! And a lot of great teachers, such as my colleagues. 😎

@[email protected] Makes sense, I'm from down south with a some years in the Midlands, so I obviously speak proper like and don't know how you northerners would mangle the language :). I think I tend to use post for the postie and as a verb, and mail as the noun ("The postie delivers the mail" "I'm going to post the letter") but I'm pretty sure I'm not consistent in using either.