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I'm relieved that a majority in Makerfield saw sense.
However,
I suppose today's a good one to post a link to my Andy Burnham briefing thread.
https://mstdn.social/@markhburton/115951620471069261
And for the rather spin and little substance way he tal…

Andy Burnham’s Green Summit (2026)
Mark Burton Some 2,500 people attended Mayor Andy Burnham’s Greater Manchester Green Summit on Tuesday 3 March. The Mayor’s address Burnham, fresh from the controversy over the Gorton and Denton by…

After reading Jill Lepore’s
"The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State", I have a new destination for a time machine, should I ever finally get my hands on one.
I’d set the dial to some night in the late 1970s or ’80s and visit the boyhood rooms of the Silicon Valley titans Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and Sam Altman.
Then I’d confiscate all of their science fiction. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein—all of it.
As young people, the future billionaire…

How Musk, Thiel, and Altman Misread Science Fiction
Many of the tech billionaires who built our world have taken the wrong lessons from their favorite science fiction.

I don't know much about site or server hosting, but I got this message from one of my providers this morning.
My site (just for content aggregation and not publicly viewable) is down for *8* hours.
Couldn't they have handled the transition without this kind of downtime?
"As part of our ongoing commitment to improve reliability and prepare for future enhancements, we will be migrating all New York City customers to our new and upgraded platform in Salt Lake City…

Got the desktop-turned-VM-server added to the scopehal CI cluster.
I migrated the two Ubuntu LTS builder instances over to it, and added a third one so now we can run the regular Ubuntu CI, the asan/ubsan build, and the static analysis pass concurrently.
This box has a Xeon 5320 which is a bit slower than the 8362 on the main VM server, and has only 128GB of RAM rather than 512. But the compute-to-memory ratio is actually higher so after a bit of iteration I settled on 16 vCPUs a…

Have just started using Ente for secure, privacy focused photo back up and organisation.
So far I am actually pretty impressed. It's lightning fast and very easy to navigate - and I have tens of thousands of photos that it's definitely helping me to organise and search through easily. And share with non-Ente users too.
It's miles better than Flickr as a UI experience.
This is a test period before I decide if I migrate rest of family too.
However, I was under the impression the company was German/Dutch but it unfortunately appears to be US incorporated - even though the servers are supposed to be in NL, F and DE. It just makes me very suspicious that at some point the company will be sold off and the creeping enshittification will start again.
It is very frustrating. I could but am not very keen to self host. I have far too many other things going on in my life for that. But it does look like immich or memories for nextcloud is the only other good option. And this probably epitomises why most people just stick with (mostly US) big tech. It is so much easier and less effort than working out what the alternatives are.

Seeing the new hourly check option in Safari on iOS 27 prompted me to wonder when we added that option to OmniWeb. Somewhere in the migration of our source code from CVS to subversion to git the information was lost, so I had to do a little spelunking back to the subversion repository, and found the commit from @… in October, 1995. (A lot has happened in those th…

RE: https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/117230787962477974
If you’re looking to migrate away from @…, I just updated my guide with …

Oh my. The two 'Slack' instances I use through gritted teeth due to unfortunate historical decisions made by groups in which I want to participate (and, I hope, help migrate to technologies compatible with their values) have just got even more 🤮 with the unwanted appearance of a new 'Slackbot' ('AI' thing that no one needs). The enshittification proceeds with relentless sceptic vigor.

Using #Codeberg projects to #CodeFloe

Got everything migrated off the old switches except for trunks to the core.
All of the 100G ports on the new switch are occupied although only 4 of the 8 are actually operating at 100G. VM server and storage cluster nodes are stuck at 40 until I get more 100G optics.
Two of the 16 40G interfaces are operating as 40G trunks to the smol switches, four as 4x 10G breakouts, and two as 4x 1G breakouts. Eight are unallocated and available for future needs; I'll be lighting up some …