standardizing on communications tools like Discord discriminates against and excludes everyone who, either for physical safety reasons, or personal preferences, cannot give up their privacy to participate, due to its demands for personally identifiable information like IP address, location, and phone number

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What if your car worked like so many apps? You’re driving somewhere important…maybe running a little bit late. A few minutes into the drive, your car pulls over to the side of the road and asks: “How are you enjoying your drive so far?” Annoyed by the interruption, ...

Deeply embedded in Apple’s ecosystem and frustrated by a company that used to do the right thing. Cook needs to go. Cook’s call for “deescalation” is meaningless without specifying which side he’s calling upon to change course, and there’s no weaker sauce than the weak ...

To be fair, Apple’s mantra is “Think Different” not “Act Different” lol.

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Reddit has some communities I am interested in due to my current situation (medical, financial etc) but 15% seems low for AI slop posts. The data backs this up. 54% of LinkedIn posts are now likely AI-written (Originality.ai). 15% of Reddit posts too, up 146% since 2021....

That’s procurement for you. I’m also angry that the small webdev businesses we have here in the UK were left out of this - for less than 5% of the cost, we’d have a better website and help out small businesses who actually care about their work, instead of handing the pr...

Frankenstein (2025)

Rated: 8/10

Added: 2026-01-25

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What I’ve been listening to this month. Freebird II - Parquet Courts I Don’t Know How To Reach You - Suede How High - The Charlatans Kiss Me - Sixpence None the Richer Together in Electric Dreams - The Human League Just Can’t Get Enough - Depeche Mode Field...

Cybaa to the rescue In April 2025, Probely announced that the Security Headers API will discontinued in April 2026. As far as we know, the free website service will remain available for the foreseeable future. If you were using it for anything below, you now need an a...

I’m still skeptical of vibecoding in general. As I mentioned above, I would not trust my vibecoding enough to make these into products. If something goes wrong, I don’t know how to fix it. Maybe my LLM friends can, but I don’t know. But vibecoding is 100% viable for personal stuff like this: we now have apps on demand.

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The Rip (2026)

Rated: 7/10

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Probably. AI is very good at small scope, low risk papercut type issues. For example, I used AI to create an activity tracker web page as editing the provided PDF was hard and needed saving/finding each time (3 times a day) I needed to fill it in for my health care speciali...

This is great, except for when the AI gets it wrong and it’s on my permanent health care record. My notes say I suffer from “hiccups and had a hangover”, when describing gastrointestinal issues like heartburn and acid reflux and that ME brain fog is worse than any hangover ...

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Setting all the aesthetic issues aside – which are to some extent a matter of taste – it also comes at a cost in terms of usability.

Since upgrading to macOS Tahoe, I’ve noticed that quite often my attempts to resize a window are failing.

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Amber Alert (2024)

Rated: 5/10

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A Time to Kill (1996)

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Chelsea experienced a 44% increase in injuries between June and October compared with the previous season, a report released on Tuesday has found. This year’s period covers their participation in the Club World Cup and its aftermath. The figure, which goes some way tow...

What I’ve been listening to this month. Tell Me Ten Words - Idlewild We Have All the Time in the World (Copa Cabana Version) - Fun Lovin’ Criminals Rolling Along - Holly Golightly Desertion - JJ72 Broken Down - JJ72 Take Comfort - The Cooper Temple Clause C...

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Death Wish (2018)

Rated: 4/10

Added: 2025-12-15

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Madame Web (2024)

Rated: 3/10

Added: 2025-12-15

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Troll 2 (2025)

Rated: 4/10

Added: 2025-12-15

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F1: The Movie (2025)

Rated: 9/10

Added: 2025-12-15

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AI slop is coming for your ears A company called Inception Point AI is flooding podcast directories with content. In general I don’t have a position on what Castro users choose to listen to in their podcast apps and would like to help them find content they’re looking fo...

Last month Reuters, after reviewing a cache of internal Meta documents, reported that Meta internally projected late last year that it would earn about 10% of its overall annual revenue – or $16 billion – from running advertising for scams and banned goods, internal co...

Any chance some recouped money could go to ME & Long Covid research? The Covid Counter Fraud Commissioner, Tom Hayhoe’s, final report to Parliament finds many schemes - including Bounce Back Loans and Eat Out to Help Out - were rolled out with huge fraud risks and no...

Things that will make your dev team take _longer_to deliver _worse_software: Adding more people to the team Making them work longer hours Cutting down on work that “slows them down”, like writing automated tests Maximising team utilisation and scheduling more w...

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