Paul G

@paulgeraghty
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Ex LAMP guy, data, metadata - now a tinkerer rather than an actual maker. Deep rural France, dogs, chainsaws, wood. Very little to say, but occasionally cross post between EE tech, software.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115992876912938270

no, this is what the majority of ppl in the US want, they voted, remember?

watched Eraserhead too many times, methinks.

RE: https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah/115971553015313207

ok, googled "what is this pornhub bollocks"...

well...

'could have someone's eye out with that!

After reluctantly catching up on the news during my snooze, this was the first bit I've read this morning that actually made me smile out loud (when you grin so wide and suddenly that your mouth actually makes noise):

via @cdarwin

"He was an audio engineer whose kid went to school in the area. No way in hell was he going to let anyone come for the kids on his watch."

"Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:y6vljnnpkl2lsteuzovhd67c/post/3mcyca2l2wk2j

Page by Margaret Killjoy | @margaret.bsky.social

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

"In China, driverless delivery vans have become a total meme, they plow through crumbling roads, fresh concrete, motorcycles, anything. Nothing stops them."

Lovely video about "worst in show" at CES 2026.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxZgILm95BU

#ifixit #enshittification

The Worst Devices of CES 2026

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I'm honestly very surprised a second front has never been opened on Russia.

The most thought provoking article I have read this week:

A Norwegian bus company wants to know if their buses could be abused by China in the case of war.

So they drive two buses deep into a limestone mine to isolate them from the internet and forensically investigate how they work.

In the mine, investigators discover a Chinese kill switch which could destroy all Chinese buses.

In Denmark, that is 57 percent of the bus fleet.

Source (Danish):

https://www.zetland.dk/historie/svNwC3c5-aOPVxA4K-224e5

Dybt i et norsk fjeld blev en kinesisk bybus splittet ad. En status på vores frygt

En kinesisk bus blev nøje analyseret for mystiske signaler.

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This post is both correct and irrelevant. If you get paid to write "good enough" code, agents are already faster—so it's rational for employers to expect you use them. I get 3x more done with agents, but the experience is so frustrating I hate coding now https://hojberg.xyz/the-programmer-identity-crisis/
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