Simon Wood
Lecturer in Medical Education at Cardiff University, lapsed mathematician, garden railway builder & Doctor Who appreciator.
Lecturer in Medical Education at Cardiff University, lapsed mathematician, garden railway builder & Doctor Who appreciator.
A tale of two countries
Australia - https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-03/energy-retailers-offer-free-power-three-hours-dmo/105965472
Mind blowing.
“Well-gauged comedy” 👏 👏 👏 https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/jul/12/the-market-deeping-model-railway-club-review-nottingham-playhouse
Carspreading can be reversed https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/12/britain-car-suv-big-large-vehicle-road-pedestrians
Oregon raises electricity rates by 29.7% for data centers and cuts residential electricity rates by 1.3%.
👉 Ireland / elsewhere please take note (!)
https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/07/oregon-data-center-general-electric-rate-hikes/
Generally speaking, I am NOT going to push every video I post here, at least not until I get to Taiwan and start making (hopefully) more crafted videos.
However, I have been vlogging my trials and tribulations (and descent into madness) and will be using these “prolog” videos as filler over the next few weeks to give me time to get set up in Taiwan.
Here is my channel; once I get to Taiwan, maybe I’ll have something interesting to show. Meanwhile…
@hongminhee I think that's a very good description of one of the key attributes of ActivityPub and the difference with AT Proto. ActivityPub can add something to the existing web, it allows for great diversity, and adds huge value in doing so. But over on AT Proto the way that infrastructure is composed is supporting a lot of completely new apps and developments, which is also exciting in its own way.
One thing I keep coming back to when comparing #ActivityPub and AT Protocol: ActivityPub is basically a convention on top of the #web stuff we already have. An actor is a JSON-LD document you GET. An inbox is an endpoint you POST to. If you already run a website, you can bolt this on without changing the site's basic shape. Ghost didn't set out to join the #fediverse, and then years later it could, just by adding an endpoint.
AT Protocol feels less like that to me. Running a PDS means a signed repo, a Merkle search tree, a firehose, a DID. It's not a layer you add to an existing site. It's closer to standing up another backend beside it.
I think that's why ActivityPub keeps making sense to me. You can join later. You don't have to have built the whole thing with federation in mind from day one.
It’s here! Today, we’re announcing the launch of Blacksky-Only Posts! Now, anyone with a blacksky.app handle or anyone on the Blacksky feed can make a private post on blacksky.community.
This marks a significant step forward in advancing permissioned data on the open social web.
A Hollywood legend has just taken on a very unexpected new role in a south Wales seaside town 🎬🏴 Full story 👇
https://swanseabaynews.com/porthcawl-quentin-tarantino-becomes-vice-president-of-towns-male-voice-choir/
@bensmithuk I buy from Kobo and get Calibre to load them onto my Pocketbook ereader. No idea how Kobo stacks up against Amazon ethically, but they let me download the ebooks so that's already 1000% better in my book.
Every hobby starts with curiosity and ends with storage problems.
You learn something new every day: I always thought spam was made from pigs.
@Flittermouse @Edent Yes! I thought something similar (“complaints can be forwarded to the transport regulation authority only when signed in triplicate, sent in, sent back, queried, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters.”)
All services currently suspended due to a giant rabbit in the southern tunnel.
Oven stops working.
Call OvenCo: Sorry, out of warranty. New oven, only $1400! $200 installation!
No, OvenCo. Nothing is visibly wrong with it. We fix it.
OvenCo: New oven computer bits! $450 plus $200 installation!
No, OvenCo. Nothing is visibly wrong. Continuity check says, blown thermal fuse.
OvenCo: New fuse! $44 plus shipping. $100 installation!
Do I get a warranty back?
OvenCo: Oh no. Definitely not.
Hang up on OvenCo, pull fuse, open DigiKey.
New fuse is $3.
For 5 of them.
Mastodon has automatic age verification built in, no scanning your face
✅ if you join here you're old
✅ you've seen too much shit
✅ you're tired of said shit
🎉 Manyfold v0.146.0 is out, with another huge new feature: PLUGINS! Now anyone can write extra features that can be added into Manyfold instances that want them! Developer docs are being written, but we have code samples and our first plugin already available!
🗞️ Full release notes: https://manyfold.app/news/2026/07/02/release-v0-146-0.html
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🏷️ #3DPrinting @3dprinting #SelfHosted
HTTP Status Code
571 - Goose Not Valued
Used whenever a service goes down due to laying off tech workers or forcing them to use AI coding tools.
@NanoRaptor It's tiny but I love how far it's spread - The encoding of Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics in last.fm's robots.txt. I was astonished to find that people have copied it all over the internet, even on massive websites.
Scroll right to the bottom: https://www.last.fm/robots.txt