Tautology

My car's app just tried to invite me to a survey, when I tried to close it down I got this dialogue. I'm confused as to what to click.

Its What3Words accounts filing day! They're doing so great. Nothing to worry about. I'm sure "the launch of our advertising revenue stream" will offset the "lost major Enterprise customer". Ads are really profitable now, right? find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0843...

A few years ago, I was working on making a dungeon crawler for the Sharp MZ-80A. It used a mix of traditional character graphics and pseudographics. Development eventually stopped, and it's been sitting around collecting dust since then.

Joachim has put together an awesome package here full of his great games for the Sharp MZ and to top it off he created a really cool manual in the style of the old club newsletters we used to have back in the day. It's a fun read but also looks so cool. Please check it out! ko-fi.com/s/f0e274af58

Make a band bigger Toolshed

Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.

Internet, how was your day? Today I managed to get Doom to run on a coffee machine.

Procrastinating by cleaning up the garage. Found my old CD case, which contained these this CD from about 20 years ago. I'm half curious as to what's on it.

@steelcon.info n I went to put in the bottles of hendos in the "to be used" part of the cupboard and found an unopened one from last year. What can I do with four bottles of hendos? I'm not certain hendowine would work.

On my way, Clacton.

🧵I’d rather spend my weekends doing something else than post about Nigel Farage’s murky finances, but his behaviour poses such a threat to our democratic norms that I wanted to flag a number of points in the public interest.

Baryon Asymmetry xkcd.com/3263/

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Well this is nice to do as our first post! Supporting #WomenInCyber is super important to our team. So we're funding a CybHER bootcamp scholarship this summer - details on how to apply are in this blog: cyberr.ai/blog/you-do-... Please do share and tag anyone you think may be interested!

Other things that you can't use whilst plugged in and that don't warn you in a timely manner before they run out of power (like headsets). My beard trimmer. I go out in 25 minutes and it failed halfway through trimming. Can the trimmer get enough power in time?

Slightly diminish a book Tolkien's The Lord of the Ring

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This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee. What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

I have deleted my original debunk of this story as it appears it is actually an amalgamation of 2 stories... (Don't let anyone tell you I'm not prepared to be corrected!!) So let's look at them individually: We'll start with the photo... So what's going on? 🧵1/12

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Go see this, I've seen Morgan's research and it's stonking!

For those who missed it yesterday, our CFP is now open.

Ported my Spectrum Rick Roll code across to the Sharp MZ-700. What took the longest was writing the code to match graphics to the highly restricted SharpSCII character set tautology.org.uk/blog/2026/03...

“Governments should halt plans to roll out age checks on online services until privacy and security concerns are addressed, hundreds of academics said today” https://alecmuffett.com/article/147820 #AgeVerification #censorship #surveillance

Social Media Bans are like the “Peanut Allergy” Bans of the 1990s/2000s: they will unnecessarily create a generation who cannot cope with the digital environment https://alecmuffett.com/article/147662 #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #censorship #ofcom

I do not see what is mirthworthy with the title of the news article.

Thrilled that they've arrested Mandelson after the broadcast of yesterday's episode of Mock the Week on tlc. Thanks for waiting, fellas. Why not watch the show, if you like seeing TV shows that I am in?

Quick write up of creating a rick-roll video on the ZX-Spectrum (back in 2019, it takes me a while to write stuff up): tautology.org.uk/blog/2026/02...

I have been told by many game developers that it's not their problem that their games allow workshop mods to perform RCE. It's no surprise that they keep getting found ...

On almost everything – fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation – evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers. But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

You might be interested in this other map experiment where someone asked LLMs to decide if a particular gps coordinant was over land or water: open.substack.com/pub/outsidet...