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brad

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Middle-aged know-it-all and newly-minted Irishman. He/him, cis.
We must stop the perpetual-GDP-growth insanity, property hoarding, and churches' influence in public institutions.
Born at 336.13ppm CO2.
More biscuit than man.
44 TTL chips and a ham sandwich should be enough RAM for anyone...

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“I think there’s a view quite broadly shared in the community that much of the good fortune that Australia has been endowed with over millions of years we’ve been doing our level best to piss up against the wall,” he said

He's not wrong https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jan/29/australia-polluter-pays-levy-fossil-fuels-rod-sims-ross-garnaut-superpower-institute-report

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RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115978465547350348

How about it, Ireland? Should we become the Ireland of disenshittification? I'm up for it!

(Read the thread, it's long but good.)

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Well how about that - Woodbrook Station is open (it's been a while since I last took the DART 😊). About time!

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Entertaining and accurate - https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/an-ai-premortem/

"By one count evolution has delivered “serious intelligence” no less than three times ... in mammals, corvids, and cephalopods. If you take it broadly, you might include ant colonies as well. Intelligence can’t be that special. Oxygenic photosynthesis evolved exactly once and that took 1.5 billion years. That’s special."

and

"If you are smart about it an LLM can be useful. But selling to clever people is not a trillion dollar opportunity."

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Good grandkids don't let their grannies and grandads be suckers https://youtu.be/ey6kuKHFBP8

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We see you, Parnell, we see what you're about, and we think you need to take a hard look at yourself. Grow up.

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Poor bloke must be doing 1200 RPM at the moment, to see what's become of his party... https://youtube.com/shorts/ua30t5k6hMw

josh0 ,
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@brad @Binder hook him up to a dynamo and put coal and oil out of business!

@brad@1040ste.net avatar brad , to random

@aral By the way, ar.al is down (there's a link from small-web.org that's broken), is that permanent or a hiccough?

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@brad Hey Brad, thanks for the heads up. Managed to crash Hetzner’s console while attempting to fix the issue so I’m locked out until they fix the issue on their end. Hopefully will have it up again tomorrow. I’m planning on fixing the core issue towards the end of the week after I’m done with the updates to Kitten’s renderer. The joys of eating your own dog food and all :)

brad OP ,
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@aral No worries - yeah doing your own tech support is a sure way to lose days in rabbit holes 😄 Wouldn't swap it though!

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@mcc @AlgoCompSynth Ah, Links. nods

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@brad @AlgoCompSynth Yes. But Links is no longer maintained and the javascript engine doesn't work anymore! kicks things

I started making this but I stalled out. Maybe when the expanded Servo embedding API drops. https://github.com/mcclure/cuervo

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