every piece of proprietary licensed software i use: dreadful ui, only works on windows or macos, annoying licensing, wants you to make an account every piece of foss i use: fine, normal, usually does not nag me to create an account, works

Bocchi the Rock

People keep using the "can't put a genie back in the bottle" metaphor for "AI", even though in the stories they always get back in and current "AI" is more of a "we're spending trillions of dollars and the energy output of a continent trying to keep this bastard out of the bottle" situation

ubuntu (major version) kernel update (and now subsequent reversion on my end) seems to have coincided with my win11 virtualbox vm deciding to break. i can't be arsed to figure out what constellation of things have caused this, so reinstalling win11.

Understanding the ‘working class’ in the UK involves a deep knowledge of signs and signifiers, such as owning a car, having a mortgage rather than renting, making six figures+ a year, perhaps having a regional accent, maybe owning a car dealership, or even owning the means of production

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS@dankaszeta.bsky.social · 2w ago

Buses, famously for the richer classes and upper orders.

really enjoyed today at @tvce.bsky.social symposium today, and now i'm having some delicious filipino food. today has been amazing :)

also talking of #emf2026, the food in the volunteer kitchen was sublime, thanks to everyone volunteering in the kitchen! can't wait to pick up some more bar shifts next time!! (music was so so good in nullsec bar)

massive thanks to kitt and leah at #emf2026 for witnessing me deed polling a new middle name, you are absolute angels :)

She's just like me

love my wife, love the furry transgender hacking festival, simple as awroooooooooo

after my fourth (possibly fifth) ear wax removal appointment, ear drum has been exposed on both sides, and after another period of olive oil drops we may (quite possibly) get the rest of the stuff out in the next appointment. never wear in ear headphones folks, not fucking worth it.

i estimate it's currently one billion million william degrees on the bus home at the moment, something something furnace of minecraft

Always the ones you most suspect. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Yacht-owning uni boss says rich professors inspire students

University of Bolton vice-chancellor George Holmes suggested that his own success could inspire students into high paying jobs.

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The Mill@manchestermill.bsky.social · 4w ago

Exclusive: Vice-chancellor George Holmes among those arrested on suspicion of fraud. It marks an unprecedented moment in British higher education - the first time a university vice-chancellor has ever been arrested in the UK as part of a criminal investigation. manchestermill.co.uk/exclusive-vi...

occasional reminder

i've reflected in my thesis on the difficulty of using (some) foss qualitative data analysis software for interpretative phenomenological analysis (and the dearth of updated and *good* to use foss qda software generally, taguette is the only serious option for qda from my experience)...

genevieve clifford@mun-tonsi.net · 4w ago

while i wish atlas.ti was available on linux (and was free and open source), i am glad i can just stick it on a windows 11 vm on this computer (and that i have enough ram where that isn't annoying haha)

while i wish atlas.ti was available on linux (and was free and open source), i am glad i can just stick it on a windows 11 vm on this computer (and that i have enough ram where that isn't annoying haha)

"Remember to always check the output," they tell me. If I have to read the original document to make sure the summary is accurate, then the AI is a *useless and pointless* extra step, and I can never seem to convince anyone at work of this.

Greg Pak@gregpak.net · 4w ago

If you use "A.i." to summarize something, you will never know what kind of mistakes it's excreting until it's too late and you've deeply embarrassed yourself or destroyed your business/reputation.

So it looks like Farage will be facing off against Binface. A tedious worn out joke of a perennial candidate who is given undue attention by a press who should know better and who appeals to some of my least favorite instincts in British politics. Choose your own punchline from the two below.

took part in a (closed) telephone interview yesterday with bf, and we managed to confuse the interviewer on relationship status (i live with bf, but i am engaged, and not to him); cue "now i am confused" and "let me work out how to code this" anyway, qualitative methods vindication, as usual

mech keyboard i got a year or so ago for the office is annoying me atm, perhaps it's because i'm using atlas.ti through a windows vm, but i'm getting a lot of double presses? typed "meeeting", then deleted it and ended up not pressing hard enough because i typed "meting".

Are you at #emfcamp this year? Do you want to change your name? Call us on NAME (6263) from a DECT or site phone and we’ll meet you with the paperwork and witnesses to make it official!

good morning EXCLUSIVELY to brunette trans women from the west midlands

meme of unknown provenance but constant relevance

I find it a bit sad that no tech reviewers or anything of the sort ever mention this as a reason for moving away from windows.

butterflygirl24@butterflygirl24.bsky.social · last mo.

Another reason to hate Bill Gates. Lock this MF psycho murderer up! #arrestbillgates

research feels like an endless sequence of "okay here's an idea, let's check the literature..." and then realising getting to the idea requires reading a, built on b, built on c and d, and then by the time you get to d, you realise it an hour has gone and you're not much the wiser about a

🔔 cool link alert 🚨 foxglove foxgloveapp.com “Foxglove protects your art before you post it. It strips tracking metadata that platforms use to profile you, embeds a hidden ownership watermark into the pixel data, and applies adversarial perturbation that corrupts AI training.”

Foxglove - Beautiful to humans. Poison for machines.

Poison your art for AI before you post. Strip metadata, embed hidden messages, disrupt AI training. Everything runs on your device.

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