A generic Welshman — one of those guys you get in an RPG game if you don’t fiddle with the sliders.
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Last Notes npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…cawt @nprofile…fy8a How about just not putting them in at all? If people want worthless slop, they’ll call Microsoft. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin Starting to question whether I was hasty in nuking my Microsoft account. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…y789 @nprofile…jg96 Mike Downie did it on his show, Downie Live (Downie Express on Nebula). https://nebula.tv/videos/downielive-taking-the-train-from-the-arctic-circle-to-africa-full-series/ npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin Ooh, #ubuntu 26.04 LTS is out tomorrow. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…xnks I’m with you on Tekken and the Switch. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…a4ar @nprofile…3qha Sort of. There are ways to value companies and their share price, but the likes of Palantir or Tesla are mostly traded on hype (read: lies). They are the Simpsons Monorail of companies. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…uptt @nprofile…v9vp Yeah, Framework, the laptop maker discovered what happens when people talk about the ‘big tent’ when it endorsed software from a white supremacist. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/14/framework_linux_controversy/ npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin So long, Chuck. Thanks for all the memes. #ChuckNorris npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…cgh2 @nprofile…ugpy You only use an AI summary if you don't really care about the answer. Which begs the question, why get an LLM to summarise anything? npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin It’s a start. I’d like an app that permanently bricks nearby smart glasses, please. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…p227 @nprofile…sejq He has now. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin The main difference between the #dotcombubble and the #aibubble is that websites were still useful after the bubble burst. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…77lw I gave up being fancy, I bought a 25m ethernet cable and a load of cable tacks to attach it to the skirting board. 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin “AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more.” - by @nprofile…998y npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin Ok, so Moving Pictures by #Rush is really good. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…38uv Welcome back and, I've commented to say I had similar issues with my Asus X670E-F. I think the early BIOS were decidedly 'beta'. 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…60lz Both were set in motion by the 2008 financial crisis, where we bailed out bankers instead of jailing them. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…pye9 I think the main thing to remember is, the main man Linus is definitely not one of them. https://news.itsfoss.com/linus-torvalds-woke-communists/ npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin Ok #SciFi hivemind, if you were going to watch a movie this evening that scratched a similar itch to Johnny Mnemonic; The Net and other late 80s/early 90s nerd stuff, what would you watch? npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…lf5v @nprofile…cwgl I have long suspected that. Perhaps Robert Galbraith, her pseudonym is actually her true self. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin The latest version of @nprofile…x9jw has developed a bit of a quirk. Every time I launch it it opens a random side panel. Sometimes it is the history one, sometimes it is the Obsidian web-clipper, sometimes Downloads. Always annoying. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…pam3 Tech bros have finally invented ‘a bathtub’. Given a few more years of VC funding they’ll invent the shower soon. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @nprofile…pam3 You do the right thing by your loved ones, but end up trapped in poverty as a result. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1sdk…0kgj Popularity isn't everything --there's a reason why I don't invite the whole street into my house. 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1sdk…0kgj Surely Mastodon will be around as long as there are people willing to develop it. Blue sky, not so much. That relies on funding from investors, who will want a return at some point, leading to the inevitable enshittification of the platform. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx That would require a fundamental shift in how we pay for news. Right now the clickbait these grifters generate is keeping their lights on. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx I think the reason for their apparent inconsistency is that they genuinely don't believe in anything. They just say things to stay in the news. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx Many would call genocide and ethnic cleansing pretty shameful too, Mr Netanyahu. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx Oh great, more consolidation... 😬 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1tvq…l6jk Netizens have developed a classic case of Narcissistic personality disorder since the early 2010s. Everything on a website must be for the benefit of ME ME ME at all times. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx Now they're questioning it? Where were they 8 years ago? npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin I think my highlight of the week is actually getting a photo that I really liked. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx Possibly both. 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx We still have a classic red one in the village. It appears to be filling up with books and DVDs rather than graffiti. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx I love how England can just award itself a bank holiday because some gents kicked a ball into a net, but we can't have one for our patron saint. 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx It didn't take long for the Fast to start fighting like rats in a sack, did it. 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub12rk…uvf3 What I find odd in this day and age is nobody would bat an eyelid if someone took that photo with their phone. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx You'd think he'd be more grateful after the BBC platformed him week in week out for the past decade. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1r7e…mre3 Another mask slip from the fash. They can only pretend to be civilised for so long before their true colours show through. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin Call me nostalgic, but I really miss being able to click on a link without then spending 10 minutes opting out of all the cookies it seems to think are really important. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx That’s not going to please his mate Musk is it. 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g Had Microsoft not pivoted so hard to surveillance capitalism it may have been easier to give them the benefit of the doubt. Now I just see Recall as a means to extract behavioural surplus from its users. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1tvq…l6jk Not sure why we would want Fortnight on the Deck...we're a more discerning audience than that. 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx It begs the question why we were killing a large but completely harmless shark in the first place. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub15zu…s7lx They were doing the same with 20mph limits in Wales https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics/english-tory-politicians-running-facebook-28449407 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g I still think of the 90s as just a decade ago. 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g It's a great, if sobering article. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g Are you daily driving Linux now, Ian? I don't think I've done that since Gnome 3 was released, but I think I'm going to jump back in on the desktop at least. 😃 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1lrv…z549 @npub1yyx…qa5g If you are in Wales, we also have this: https://repaircafewales.org/ 😃 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g I think they know they've lost. Their plan will be to end as many public services as possible before the next election, knowing it would be an uphill battle for Labour to reinstate them in the short term. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g It is purely self-interest from a cabinet of oligarchs. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g I think they’ve realised that not even gerrymandering is going to save them, so now they are just going to take what they can, while they can. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g I always assumed Nextcloud was rolling your own. 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g @npub1lsl…9c2x Is it better to go in with Apple, knowing you'll never own your hardware, but morally they seem slightly less repugnant...or go with the convicted monopolist who wants to AI all the things, whilst supporting a transphobic Bill. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g Do you think the Microsoft of today under Nadella is any more palatable than Microsoft of old? npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g Why do I feel like I'm going to regret turning over now... 🤣 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g I couldn't help noticing how "free speech absolutists" were mostly about ensuring that free speech was protected for nazis. Weird, huh!? 😂 npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g So, apparently allowing a petrostate to host COP was a really bad idea. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g I subscribed just to make the Squarespace go away. It didn’t work, because now they talk about them in the video instead. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g Unfortunately I have to use Office 365 and Windows 10 for work and I've come to the conclusion Microsoft has no idea what it is doing. Features arrive and disappear from one version to the next; the UI is all over the place and power management continues to be a bin-fire. The work laptop will rinse the battery within 30 minutes on sleep. npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g Unless the opportunity they took was to shoehorn more advertising onto the desktop of their £180 operating system? npub1ckwk872z42yfqky5ys62va24szd2kmcd28gup547f02scj7ew23q2z6zem Gavin @npub1yyx…qa5g Has that license key been used with W11 since though? I'd be surprised if it activates...😉
