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Alan Fleming
@radioal.bsky.social
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Broadcast Infrastructure Specialist with Global. Software dev and radio geek. He/Him
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wolf.observer
Due to a windstorm-related utility power outage at the NIST, time may soon be destroyed
https://groups.google.com/a/list.nist.gov/g/internet-time-service/c/o0dDDcr1a8I?pli=1
December 20, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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ianvisits.co.uk
January bargain: Heath Robinson Museum drops £8 ticket for pay-what-you-can Fridays

www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/jan...

#London
January bargain: Heath Robinson Museum drops £8 ticket for pay-what-you-can Fridays
If you’ve never visited the Heath Robinson Museum in north London, then maybe January will tempt you with a cheap tickets offer.
www.ianvisits.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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viti95.bsky.social
Benchmarks, benchmarks, and more benchmarks! Getting ready for the FastDoom 1.2.0 release 😁
December 16, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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hackadayofficial.bsky.social
Building a Commodore 64 Laptop
Building a Commodore 64 Laptop
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
December 16, 2025 at 6:08 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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thetechknight.bsky.social
I propose a solution to our ongoing RAM shortage:
December 6, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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lgr-yt.bsky.social
Unreal Tournament can now be played IN A BROWSER

dos.zone/mp/?lobby=ut

Along with other late 90s PC FPS classics but yeah. UT99 in a browser window... just fantastic. Thanks to the r/LGR subreddit for letting me know about it!
Multiplayer Hub | DOS.Zone
Multiplayer Portal - is a best place to play classic DOS and Windows games online with your friends. No registration needed, no advertisment, just play! Quake, Half-Life, Heroes of Might and Magic, Wo...
dos.zone
November 14, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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anonopin.bsky.social
AI should be spelt Ai, especially when your name is Al
November 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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alexselbyb.bsky.social
Happy Longest Day Of The Year
Bar chart showing the number of hours in each day. Today, unusually, has 25
October 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
radioal.bsky.social
I enjoyed my flying visit to Glasgow this week. It was looking splendid in the autumn sunshine, though I didn't take nearly enough photos this time
An empty footbridge tunnel disappears into the distance, with overhead lights creating dark and light stripes on the red metalwork. A panorama of the Finnieston crane, north rotunda, Armadillo, Hydro, SEC and River Clyde on a crisp sunny morning. The hench Finnieston Crane looming overhead, set against a crisp blue sky.
October 24, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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hhackenbecker.bsky.social
Pay VERY close attention to the sender's address when you get what appears to be a legitimate password management request. In this instance the sender is not "Microsoft", but R N icrosoft, the R & N close together look like a lowercase 'm' at first glance.
October 19, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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scottygb.bsky.social
End of an era. Phone call voting is to end on BBC shows such as Strictly and Eurovision. All voting to be online. www.bbc.com/mediacentre/...
BBC says goodbye to premium-rate phone voting
www.bbc.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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samhenri.gold
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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joxley.jmoxley.co.uk
There's a realistic chance we get to a position where Wikipedia is blocked while official government accounts are posting on a site that created MechaHitler AI
clordtc.bsky.social Clord TC, Comics Guy @clordtc.bsky.social · Jul 26
OSA is gonna make us lose access to fucking wikipedia

write to your MPs.
July 27, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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ramiismail.com
Bye forever, WeTransfer.
WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI
July 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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louiseblain.bsky.social
That’s not the rule and you know it.
A video on demand movie rental screen showing the title The Ring. A sentence underneath says “you have 30 days to start watching this video”
May 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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labourlewis.bsky.social
Labour hasn’t confronted Reform’s worldview—it’s validated it.

You can’t spend nine months echoing your opponent’s values and then act surprised when the public decides to go straight to the source.
May 10, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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mdf200.bsky.social
From @respectisvital.bsky.social over on Twiter...
He hasn't posted this here, but it's important so...

For those who use iCloud, just beware, it's no longer going to be a safe space.

I'd switch off personal/important stuff going there if I were you....

He's brill BTW, give him a follow.
February 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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tubetime.bsky.social
estonia's power grid frequency right now!
a meter showing the current power grid frequency: 49.954 Hz. below the meter is a time graph showing frequency. there's a small amount of noise, but around the middle, the frequency starts to destabilize and wiggle around quite a bit.
February 8, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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avaragado.org
Tonight on Newsnight... cc @scottygb.bsky.social
BBC Newsnight, showing a remote speaker with an overlay dialog indicating the free meeting will end in 10 minutes
January 14, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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james.crid.land
Good post by @simonwillison.net - worth a read (and I agree) simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/2/t...
I still don’t think companies serve you ads based on spying through your microphone
One of my weirder hobbies is trying to convince people that the idea that companies are listening to you through your phone’s microphone and serving you targeted ads is a …
simonwillison.net
January 2, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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papapishu.bsky.social
Lossless Cut is a piece of software I would recommend everyone download because it’s just a frontend for FFMpeg that lets you trim clips without having to encode them again. Just snips off the offending parts.
ohhoe.goblinmo.de rachel @ohhoe.goblinmo.de · Dec 8
oh my god, this is hands down the best piece of open source software i've came across in YEARS. I just clipped a commercial compilation in literally seconds on black for a visual set i'm doing. this is saving me hours. i can quickly export clips with or without audio. github.com/mifi/lossles...
GitHub - mifi/lossless-cut: The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing
The swiss army knife of lossless video/audio editing - mifi/lossless-cut
github.com
December 8, 2024 at 11:32 PM
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danabra.mov
any React Native performance experts willing to lend a hand? i’ve been debugging feed scrolling perf on low-end Android for the past week but couldn’t make meaningful improvements. it’s very choppy on Galaxy A12, especially when scrolling past videos (but not exclusively). any help is appreciated!
November 16, 2024 at 5:59 PM
radioal.bsky.social
Just deactivated my Twitter account, and remembered I had a second unused one from some software dev I did years ago, so thought I'd deactivate that as well. Logged in, and oh wow! Without any blocked accounts it's wild! Wall to wall porn, racism, transphobia and conspiracy theories!
November 16, 2024 at 10:25 AM