Pete Houston

@oluwabaronn Where's Vinnie Jones?

Who is missing from this XI?

@A_Sober_Drunk @BecketAdams Nah, that's Joey Tempest.

@BecketAdams I can't say I've ever heard a moby song isn't he more a Europe thing?

People are still debating Kinks lyrics 56 years out, while no one can remember the *title* of a single Moby song.

I've never sen anything more accurate

@SilasOnLinux @nixcraft There are plenty of things systemd is not and robust is top of that list.

the unix philosophy sucks for modern computing. We don't need extreme fragmentation and mediocre ways of doing almost anything on every individual linux distro. There needs to be a robust and scalable init system. Plus all the other baseline things systemd (the software suite) provides.

systemd lost the plot a long time ago. they stopped following the Unix philosophy and now they're busy adding nonsense like age verification. Just like Firefox, systemd doesn't understand its core user base. There are plenty of distros without systemd

@CallMeOuta @nixcraft You have that backwards.

@nixcraft Unfortunately there’s no good ones without Systemd

@DoomChild2 @nixcraft It is warranted. It really is.

@nixcraft I think people need to watch this before mindlessly bashing systemd. It's absolutely not perfect, but the now tradition-based hate it gets isn't necessarily warranted. youtu.be/o_AIw9bGogo?si…

“But, as you see, it's a beautiful day, the Strait of Hormuz is open and people are having a wonderful time!”

Perro Araña

@context_outside When Paddington is shut you can make your own Marmalade sandwiches.

Dinner with son now over, here are the topics covered. He is a grown man btw. - Austrian Climbers and Manslaughter -Price of Lego (exorbitant) -Lord of the Flies (TV and variations from original text) -When did we last have lemon curd and what was it for other than lemon meringue pie? -Magic Realism in Small Prophets on the BBC -What and why is Bognor Regis (the setting for a Persephone Book) -Dream Symbolism -The Camino Ingles starting in Reading -Szechuan Cooking -Family and Friends in the UAE -Is vertigo genetic? -What to do when Paddington is shut -Avenue Q coming to the West End -Why the f was Reading twinned with San Francisco Libre (Nicaragua) in 1994 and why does that piss Dad (me) off?

@nugss_ Rice. Absolutely unstoppable on his day. If he plays the rest of the season like he can then it's all over.

I genuinely think it's hard to win the league without a standout player who makes the difference when it matters. Liverpool had Salah last season. City had Haaland in 2023 and Foden in 2024. Chelsea had Hazard in 2017. Leicester had Vardy in 2016. I look at that Arsenal team and I still can’t point to the one player who comes clutch and wins you the league.

@tc1415 @hwallop The nearest August bank holiday is receding.

@hwallop Technically it is correct, the August Bank Holiday is indeed approaching...

Why it’s worth employing a proofreader before sending out press release emails

A Valentine’s Day cartoon for @newscientist

Some people appear to have lost the ability to do anything for themselves and instead rely completely on their stochastic parrots to do it for them. 🙄

It's with much sadness that we announce the passing of our friend and colleague Ralph Giles, or rillian as he was known on IRC. Ralph began contributing to Xiph.org in 2000 and became a core Ghostscript developer in 2001¹ . Ralph made many contributions to the royalty-free media ecosystem, whether it was as a project lead on Theora or maintaining Xiph infrastructure that has been used across the industry by codec engineers and researchers². He was also the first to ship Rust code in Firefox³ during his time at Mozilla, which was a major milestone for both the language and Firefox itself. Ralph was a great contributor, a kind colleague and will be greatly missed. ¹ wizards-of-os.org/archiv/spreche… ² media.xiph.org ³ medium.com/mozilla-tech/d…

@OxfordPhysics @UniofOxford "AI" can also block scientific progress by leading you down dead ends, presenting prior art without citation, hallucinating or simply blatantly lying. Far better to ignore it, cut off the revenue streams from the leaches and save the open Web.

AI can accelerate scientific discovery, but only if we maintain rigor through open data, simplicity, and human understanding. Don't delegate ethics. Read this article in full via @UniofOxford ox.ac.uk/news/ #AI #science #research #physics #astrophysics

@849slesh @dev_maims MS users repeating this like a mantra while their OS spies on them, rips them off, crashes their rig, DRMs them to oblivion, obsoletes their perfectly fine hardware, blue screens them daily, shoves AI into every last bleeding thing, forces TPM, etc.

@dev_maims linux users repeating this like a mantra while spending 4 hours fixing audio drivers nobody asked about

LINUX IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS LINUX IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS LINUX IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS LINUX IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS LINUX IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS LINUX IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS LINUX IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS LINUX IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS LINUX IS BETTER THAN WINDOWS

@zachbuilds @dev_maims Every Goddamn thing.

@dev_maims Better for what?

@spenley @zsk @dallascampbell This is so important - the LLM bots are killing the open web.

Cracking error in the Gazette and Herald today (in a good news story as well) gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/25800370.… @KennetAndAvon @devizestc @fantasyradioUK @VisitWiltshire

@galleryofdoug @pistol147 Uncanny!

@pistol147 I do t know but here’s a drawing of mark Williams

Any Northern Ireland comedians who happen to be into their golf??? All recommendations welcomed