@knelf

Dr Scruffy (aka Jonny), Digital Librarian, ex-artsy game developer and inline skater - looking for the exit. The exit to what is a whole other question,

 UK
Joined March 2008
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I created my account in March 2008 yet I'm not allowed to view adult appropriate content without submitting sensitive personal information??? can I fix this for you? @X if (date. today() - accountCreationDate > Date(18, 0, 0) ) { contentRestriction = false; }
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[BREAK] 0LD RUN Mistake LIST 0LD OLD LIST 0LD Oh no.... #AcornElectron
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youtu.be/d-gxmhWRvfo?is=2R0q…

POV: You Used a VPN in the UK

POV: You used a VPN in the UK… and now the digital dictatorship is ...

youtube.com
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Not impressed with twitter re forcing log in then putting up a page that looks like there is no way to proceed without payment. They hid the X in the top left like some kind of big up yours to decades of UI design that puts the X on the top right
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Fighting not only for our jobs but the future of education and thus the country. Your fight is our fight, and our fight yours. Together we will win this and save our universities. #solidarity
UCU
@ucu
Jun 1
Our @UoNUCU members began a 2 month strike today to stop management taking a “wrecking ball” to the uni. 700 jobs to be cut, dozens of courses to be axed. Thank you to the staff and students speaking out👇 Shame on university bosses for refusing to even be interviewed ‼️
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There is absolutely no way you thought we were going to sit by and watch the UEB cut 600+ jobs at our university, did you? Join us, Unison AND Unite on May 6th for a rally to save our university. 10:30 AM, South Side of the Trent Building. We're ready to fight. Are you?
RALLY TO SAVE THE UNIVERSITY 10:30 AM Wednesday 6th May South side of Trent Building We won't let them get away with 600+ job cuts

ALT RALLY TO SAVE THE UNIVERSITY 10:30 AM Wednesday 6th May South side of Trent Building We won't let them get away with 600+ job cuts

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Heard some people like wheels？😁 Humanoid robots are the ideal form of general-purpose robots (perfect for general AI and human-derived data). They can work without wheels — but they can also have wheels if they want. Whatever works.
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I'd take it over #windows11 any day
hardmaru
@hardmaru
Mar 8
In an alternate timeline we’d be using Evangelion GUI designs rather than CLIs
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In six hours, my 68-y.o. father will, once again, appear at a #HongKong court for trial. The reason? My advocacy and organizational work for Hong Kong's democracy. This is the first time the Hong Kong regime has weaponized blood ties for its transnational repression campaign. 🧵
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UCU
@ucu
22 Dec 2025
Staff redundancies, course closures and pay restraint yet bonuses at the top keep growing.
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My least favourite thing to see in an email,
Brian Roemmele
@BrianRoemmele
28 Nov 2025
“I hope this email finds you well” Analog:
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It's time for Microsoft to have another XPSP2 moment. No more AI, no more features. Just fixes. When I was working on Windows XP, Blaster hit. It was a big enough deal that we set aside all feature work. For the next several months, all we did was improve security. We didn't add "security features"; we fixed bugs. Lots of bugs. Until there weren't security bugs to fix anymore. Then we fixed the ones we didn't know about yet. Put more simply, we stopped trying to "add value" to the product through features that PMs thought users would like, and instead we focused on the things that had been important for a long time, but overlooked. Like performance and configurability today. Rather than trying to improve and add value to the system through new AI features -now-, I argue it's time for Microsoft to stabilize, improve, and make the system more performant. And more usable for power users. Just for one release. Just till it doesn't suck.
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Evangelion Adult Swim Promo (2005)
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Imagine you could instantly search your entire local PC both by filename and contents and get immediate, local-only results. Now imagine it's 1989, because that was Lotus Magellan.
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Dear @Microsoft 5 minute ago, I asked #Windows11 to delete a small text file from my desktop. It's still showing no indication this was even requested, let alone carried out. How is this an Operating System?
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I wish employers would just come out and say it if they wanted 996 schedules. Like you can buy a 72 hour work week from me, but you’ve gotta say it to my face. Don’t just talk about commitment and enthusiasm. Tell me you want to buy my time, my every waking thought, my hobbies, my friendships, Christmas with my family. Tell me you want to buy these years of my life in their entirety and maybe I’ll sell them to you. But don’t you dare call that enthusiasm
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UCU
@ucu
4 Sep 2025
Labour says there’s no money left for workers. But somehow there’s always money for war. Trade unions are coming together, with one simple demand: wages not weapons.
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Tried some full on "vibe coding" last night. Interesting breakdown of time spent: - 30% installing a *recent* version of nodeJS on a Pi - 50% dealing with chatGPT gaslighting me - 10% fixing legacy calls - 10% actual programming
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R... S... 232 Serial for you! XD
Dave W Plummer
@davepl1968
15 Aug 2025
I was texting a friend about a wifi serial bridge, and he pointed out that no one uses serial anymore. So I said, "I'm bringing Serial back, baby!". And the rest wrote itself ;-) Hang in there for the bridge and share it if you don't unironically hate it. Maybe that old UNIX-wizard-looking-music-guy can produce it!
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Just won 800 #octopusEnergy points TWICE IN A ROW 8O having only ever won 8's before... time to buy a lottery ticket maybe...
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