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Justin Mason

@jmason.org

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Dublin-based software engineer; still linkblogging at https://jmason.ie/ . Nerdy stuff on https://mastodon.ie/@jmason . Works at NewsWhip, used to work at Swrve, Amazon and on SpamAssassin, nowadays mostly just being a dad in Dublin. Opinions my own.

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 17h

this is Pentagon-level shite dataviz

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 21h

election posters make great lining for chicken coops, in my experience!

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 22h

I really hope that happens. we need some left wing voices

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

The treatment of ME/CFS sufferers in the UK is a massive scandal. I am appalled by the contents of that Monbiot thread!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1d

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Amazon Caught Peddling AI Slop Version of Cory Doctorow That's So Ironic That We Have to Go Outside and Stare at the Sky for a Bit

The renowned tech critic's book "Enshittification" hasn't even been out for a full day, and Amazon is already selling AI-generated knockoffs.

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

we're back to the PGP Web Of Trust again

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

a true work of art from @conorsmith.ie

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

buying a car! yikes :)

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

I'm really hoping they can get through that phase, and soon

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

They generally pause at stops if they are far ahead of schedule, though

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

yeah it is 0 craic. My kids are delighted with it when it runs as it's straight from 10 mins from our house to the school -- but when it doesn't run, it's emergency-dad's-taxi mode for me :(

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

...it's still in the timetable, as far as I can see? and no messages on their X account about it.

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 1d

This morning, and y'day morning, the kids' N2 bus to school suddenly went out of service at the last minute, just after Broombridge. This resulted in hurried scrambles to give them lifts to school. Very odd that it happened two days in a row.... hopefully Go Ahead haven't decided to quietly drop it

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 2d

This statement can be both accurate and misleading.

It is intended to reassure Dublin’s largest employer (Google) that no effective regulatory action will be taken, while justifying that by the use of the word “precise” in the last line.

Without a definition, it can be used to avoid all action.

Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 2d

We told the DPC about this. It has known for years.
But yesterday it released this in a statement - perhaps in an attempt to absolve itself from the location scandal shown on national TV recently.
The statement is incorrect.

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Antonio Regalado @antonioregalado.bsky.social · 2d

Read this item by TB researcher whose grant got cancelled as 'dangerous gain of function.'

Ironic, because the administration (RFK), has promoted whole‑virus vaccines, whose development, especially if they are attenuated, probably relies on very similar techniques.

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 2d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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Justin Mason @jmason.org · 2d

It stinks of optimising for the wrong metric - lines of code committed, as opposed to bug free reliable features delivered

Justin Mason @jmason.org · 2d

It keeps coming back, longer and longer and lesser and lesser each time. But it does come back. All I can do is recommend becoming a creature of lazy habit, so that your lazy habit becomes "not buying smokes" and you can just get in the habit of no longer smoking