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Infrastructure Engineer, Maker, Electronics, Amateur Radio, LoRa, IoT, Satellite, Raspberry Pi, GoLang, ADHD, Autism. Learn Addict, Unexpected Engineer. Views my own.

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I wish more people understood that autism is a dynamic disability:

- Just because we can do something one day doesn’t mean we can the next
- Our abilities change with context, environment, stress levels and support
- Co-occurring conditions also affect our autism and functioning

#AutismAwareness

06.09.2025 16:23 πŸ‘ 226 πŸ” 68 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 3

Genius idea!

06.09.2025 16:27 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lib Dem logo

Lib Dem logo

Reform logo

Reform logo

Which of these parties has more ELECTED MPs?

72 v 4

Which gets more broadcast media coverage?

Sign this petition now &pass on. Democracy depends on it.

@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
@skynewsrss.bsky.social
@itvnews.bsky.social
@channel4news.bsky.social

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

25.08.2025 06:35 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 77 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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Get ready for fracking, Reform UK tells energy firms The party is serious about going after shale gas - but critics argue it's too difficult and costly.

They have 4 MPs. We are four years away from a GE. Yet our broadcast media is talking like they’re a government in waiting? This over platforming must end and end now! We have other parties and they must be heard. Sign here now. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

25.08.2025 07:28 πŸ‘ 508 πŸ” 225 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 10
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24.08.2025 13:52 πŸ‘ 1506 πŸ” 390 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 28
A dark blue background features a vertical yellow and blue strip on the left side, representing the Ukrainian flag. To the left of the Ukrainian flag is a vertical strip with five yellow stars, representing the European Union flag. The words "YOUR FREEDOM IS OUR FREEDOM" are written in bold, white uppercase letters on the right side of the image.

A dark blue background features a vertical yellow and blue strip on the left side, representing the Ukrainian flag. To the left of the Ukrainian flag is a vertical strip with five yellow stars, representing the European Union flag. The words "YOUR FREEDOM IS OUR FREEDOM" are written in bold, white uppercase letters on the right side of the image.

Today is Ukraine’s Independence Day.

We celebrate a nation and its people who are bravely resisting Russia’s war of aggression.

For their freedom. Their peaceful future.

We stand by them for as long as it takes for a just and lasting peace.

With Ukraine, unwaveringly.

24.08.2025 07:23 πŸ‘ 333 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 8
1. New policy.json file with options for disabling community plugins, themes, Sync, Publish
2. Command line options for --policy-file "path/to/policy.json"
3. Command line options for --policy-json "{json contents}"
4. Environment variable for OBSIDIAN_POLICY_FILE and OBSIDIAN_POLICY_JSON same as the command line options

1. New policy.json file with options for disabling community plugins, themes, Sync, Publish 2. Command line options for --policy-file "path/to/policy.json" 3. Command line options for --policy-json "{json contents}" 4. Environment variable for OBSIDIAN_POLICY_FILE and OBSIDIAN_POLICY_JSON same as the command line options

We're considering ways that IT departments can more confidently deploy Obsidian to employees and students. What do you think about this approach?

19.08.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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T3 Chat - Advanced AI Assistant & ChatGPT Alternative Access premium AI models including GPT-4 and Claude for just $8/month. Free tier available. The smartest AI assistant for work and creativity.

Vibe Coding on t3.chat like it's 2025 πŸ˜† I love it! 😍

Building an agentic group discussion, where a group of agents with different characteristics can discuss a topic and ask questions to each other or to the group, with the text being read out using piper-tts. Fascinating results!

10.08.2025 20:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

When I think of an Internet domain name that I should buy, it's such a relief when it's already been taken.

#DemandAvoidance #DomainHoarder #ADHD

09.08.2025 08:34 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The art of saying yes: How I do so many things Senior Software Engineer

I'm often asked: 'How do you do so many things?' - newsletter, podcast, speaking, illustrations, full-time job + 3 kids under 5. So I wrote down exactly how I do it! (spoiler: it's not that complicated).

What side projects are you working on?

brittanyellich.com/say-yes-do-a...

07.08.2025 06:18 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Many ADHD/AuDHD folks have been raised to be attuned to other people's feelings instead of our own. While that gives us a strong sense of others’ needs, it often blinds us to what we truly need ourselves.

06.08.2025 11:03 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
And yeah, I think that the DOGE folks at agencies kind of had unilateral decision making authority in a way that's kind of scary because they both had the we should come into government and do common sense things mindset without realizing that the most common sense things are actually the hardest to accomplish for very specific reasons.

And yeah, I think that the DOGE folks at agencies kind of had unilateral decision making authority in a way that's kind of scary because they both had the we should come into government and do common sense things mindset without realizing that the most common sense things are actually the hardest to accomplish for very specific reasons.

Coding interviews from people who left government earlier this year, and this is a fantastic quote in response to a question about what DOGE tech folk don't understand.

04.08.2025 19:32 πŸ‘ 1275 πŸ” 252 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 54
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04.08.2025 14:01 πŸ‘ 630 πŸ” 176 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 6
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Playing with the 8x8x8 LED Cube, creating new patterns using the built-in #Pixelblaze by @bhencke.bsky.social.
Get your own cube: lectronz.com/products/led...

03.08.2025 22:22 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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How AI is transforming the lives of neurodivergent people AI tools like ChatGPT are helping neurodivergent users communicate more clearly and confidently β€” though some experts warn that overreliance could come at a cost.

Great article about how AI can help our neurodivergent community. Annoyed that those who don’t have lived experience think their opinions matter: β€œExperts warn against over-reliance, fearing AI may hinder critical-thinking and self-reliance.” We don’t need to be infantilized.

28.07.2025 01:29 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

this is such a perfect illustration of the fundamental disconnect between what LLMs are and how they are sold and how people interact with them

it’s not a person, it does not β€œknow” things, it does not remember and learn from things the way a person does

it is predicting what someone might say

20.07.2025 19:22 πŸ‘ 1211 πŸ” 259 πŸ’¬ 54 πŸ“Œ 22
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Jason βœ¨πŸ‘ΎSaaStr.Ai✨ Lemkin (@jasonlk) .@Replit goes rogue during a code freeze and shutdown and deletes our entire database

This thread is incredible.

20.07.2025 15:01 πŸ‘ 4164 πŸ” 1221 πŸ’¬ 311 πŸ“Œ 622

I haven’t done this but I think it’s worth considering even for US citizens, especially for services with more sensitive data.

19.07.2025 13:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Host Your Own Bluesky PDS: A Complete Azure-Powered Guide How I built and configured a Bluesky PDS in Azure

I've just migrated my #Bluesky account over to my own Azure-hosted PDS (Personal Data Server)... here's how I did it! πŸŒπŸ’¬

blog.tophhie.cloud/host-your-ow...

#azure #pds #linux #vm

15.07.2025 10:51 πŸ‘ 36 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I've setup my own ATproto PDS to (hopefully) avoid the Bluesky checks coming in. I just don't want to give a random company that I don't have a choice of dealing with some personal information for pointless reasons.

15.07.2025 14:11 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, that is a good feature!

14.07.2025 15:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Migration of accounts between PDSes seem to be risky at the moment, so re-follow and delete seems the safer option.

14.07.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I wonder whether making PDSs even easier and better for self-hosting or community-hosting would have a negative effect on Bluesky as a company. E.g. in terms of funding and investment.

14.07.2025 13:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Enabling IPv6 support by default, as well as on bsky.social since it's the most popular instance Β· Issue #80 Β· bluesky-social/pds I believe that it's quite useful overall for simplifying overall networks hosting a PDS or at least reducing bottlenecks caused by translation methods (which while they will be needed for IPv4 only...

Whilst troubleshooting, I noticed outgoing connections going to Bluesky from the server. I came across this Github issue πŸ˜” It's probably not high priority.

github.com/bluesky-soci...

I'm going to delete my Bluesky based account, the requirement to verify my age in the UK was the deciding factor.

14.07.2025 13:23 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Self-hosting - AT Protocol Self-hosting a Bluesky PDS means running your own Personal Data Server that is capable of federating with the wider ATProto network.

It's a relatively simple setup for one user. Just needs a VPS hosted somewhere with IPv4 networking and some DNS entries. The only thing that has tripped me up (so far) is the IPv4 requirement, as I was running an IPv6 only server.

atproto.com/guides/self-...

14.07.2025 12:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm attempting to manage my own ATproto Personal Data Server (PDS), migrating my account @learnaddict.academy on Bluesky's PDS.

(Currently following everyone that I currently follow)

14.07.2025 12:40 πŸ‘ 9 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0