Steve Holden

Socialist. Child of 311.3 ppm. Long-time software technologist. Actions speak louder than words. We are lied to daily on an industrial basis. All you need is love. #FreePalestine! Shalom.

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2026-05-04 12:52:25 UTC

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Unsophisticated people are all too ready to believe his weasel words, and have long forgotten his immediate post-Brexit denial of the promised £350m a week for the NHS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=3BNCmn208SfbRO5m&v=cA3XTYfzd1I&feature=youtu.be
But as Mark Twain pointed out, it’s easier to fool people than persuade them they’ve been fooled. 2/2

2026-05-04 12:52:11 UTC

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Victims of their own (un)popularity. The real question is which pretender to government do we collectively think will provide the best future. I don’t see Farridge having much insight into, or concern about, the average voter. 1/2

2026-04-20 07:40:51 UTC

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thanks - I believe that removes my misunderstanding: it's effectively a capacitance mic with a built-in impedance converter?

2026-04-20 06:49:17 UTC

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As I understand it, electrets don’t draw current - am I wrong? (It’s been known to happen).

2026-04-16 07:54:07 UTC

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Why does the government always insist on immediate repayment after they’ve caused a problem? Seems quite unnecessarily punitive.

2026-04-15 21:39:24 UTC

Poll: the nation which most threatens world peace is:

2026-04-10 19:38:52 UTC

Hey, @npub1p09…m5vl, can you tell me why I appear to be the only person who has ever used the #OfCourseItsGenocide hashtag?
I surely can't be the only person supporting that belief.

2026-01-12 15:53:24 UTC

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increasing specialisation/optimisation leads to increased fragility? Who would have thought?!

2026-01-04 09:49:18 UTC

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once collared a Beeb PR person at the Labour conference and took him to task: pure Teflon, the shit just wouldn’t stick. The empire-supporting self-righteousness was off the scale.

2026-01-03 10:49:17 UTC

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what a pleasant change from their Israel coverage!

2026-01-03 09:39:22 UTC

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Sounds like our wonderful BBC, which never saw an Empire it didn’t approve of.

2025-12-19 19:57:48 UTC

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consider it an affirmation of your design and a warning (unless you were just scratching an itch) to do more thorough competitive research. Certainly not all bad news …

2025-12-01 08:04:41 UTC

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the Python Software Foundation has jumped in to enforcement with both feet, with no credible attempts to take any other actions than excluding community members. It’s sad to see an organisation one worked hard for go so wrong so quickly.
The Code of Conduct is enforced by a self-appointed group. The only way to get on it is to be approved by the other members - a recipe for groupthink and intolerance.

2025-11-13 07:53:54 UTC

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great merciful heavens, is it six o’clock already?!!

2025-11-08 17:15:13 UTC

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What happened to “Sal the news that’s fit to print?” Nowadays it’s more like “all the news that’s cheap to gather.”
This is the problem with putting accountants in charge.

2025-11-08 15:22:33 UTC

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donated. Happy birthday, Joy!

2025-10-10 12:44:42 UTC

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good luck with that project! Too many gullible voters want to believe the lies, because it’s easier than thinking for themselves.

2025-10-09 06:56:57 UTC

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you think that will stop Trump declaring whole groups to be antics and persecuting them to the point of death?
Spoiler: it won’t. The law means nothing.

2025-09-28 21:21:33 UTC

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well yes, but thanks to the old guard who actually made this shit work, users don’t really need to understand the details anymore. I have only skimmed the surface myself!
I taught TCPIP classes for approximately 20 years, and throughout that period, the uptake of IPv6 was consistently felt by the industry to be “10 years away“. 🤣

2025-09-28 21:17:08 UTC

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I’m old enough to remember when TCI/IP was invented, and anyone smartcenougb to have deployed it could be trusted by default. And you tell these young folk nowadays, etc., etc. (stumbles off, mumbling and stroking into beard).
I miss those days. The UK Internet Consortium was influential (even though nobody even remembers it). It achieved its goal, and the UK uses the same (more efficient) standards as the rest of the world.

2025-09-26 19:11:54 UTC

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Bullshit jobs are bad enough, but bullshit unemployment is a level up.

2025-09-26 17:00:59 UTC

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Same being unemployed in the UK. It’s almost a full-time occupation. The waste is criminal.

2025-09-26 13:07:29 UTC

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Most people have no idea how expensive being poor is.

2025-09-26 12:21:18 UTC

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I’ve had to lend someone enough money to get passports for her and her two kids, otherwise whe would have been unable to pursue her claim against a neglectful council landlord.

2025-09-13 17:32:17 UTC

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I don’t worry much about pixellated weapons, but still think (my opinion being worth no more than anyone else’s in this matter) that the psychology of these games is unhealthy.

2025-09-13 17:15:03 UTC

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that the majority can remain unaffected. I’m not concerned about them.

2025-09-13 09:51:12 UTC

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it hardly seems surprising that violence is becoming normalised when things like this are sold as entertainment. No matter how “harmless” they are generally, what about those extremely vulnerable to suggestion, for example?

2025-08-20 19:15:49 UTC

#OfCourseItsGenocide
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/115/062/674/015/919/523/original/c91a031682bd105e.png

2025-07-30 18:46:29 UTC

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he’s no slouch. Love his take on taxes.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/114/943/664/469/632/026/original/d1a658a9fc434190.png

2025-07-27 15:50:31 UTC

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if you believe that the official figures are the total extent of the damage. Which I don’t.

2025-07-24 16:28:27 UTC

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the last good thing I remember the EU doing for open source was funding pypy - must have been at least twenty years ago.
Microsoft need to butt out - too much American influence in tech already.

2025-07-15 17:21:03 UTC

Acceptable and unacceptable Palestine actions
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/114/858/382/005/158/780/original/561731b90a143e58.png

2025-07-15 15:33:28 UTC

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why must they have done anything wrong? Moral outrage is a broad spectrum treatment. They are citizens of a genocidal state.

2025-07-15 14:12:53 UTC

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you do realise, I hope, that equating Israeli nationality with Judaism is anti-Semitic?

2025-07-15 10:20:47 UTC

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There have to be consequences. This should be the worldwide response to citizens of a state that commits genocide.

2025-07-14 06:14:55 UTC

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would it surprise you to discover I find those remarks anti-Semitic? Many Jews oppose the Israeli regime. @TorahJews, for example.

2025-07-12 09:05:56 UTC

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imagine if this were normal in your life.

2025-06-25 08:26:38 UTC

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just another religious nut job?

2025-06-20 23:47:09 UTC

Yesterday I celebrated three quarters of a century on this planet. Looking back on the promise of the 1950s and 60s, frankly I’m disappointed in us.

2025-06-20 11:16:41 UTC

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It seems Ben Gvir is admitting he is a Nazi. Not before time, either!

2025-06-07 12:14:49 UTC

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maybe, but that came rather later. The real money was in the big metal - and that too was eventually overtaken by possibly inferior mass market products. I’m sure we’ve both watched many instances of corporate hubris play out. Remember Ken Olsen’s daft “Unix is snake-oil?”

2025-06-07 09:51:39 UTC

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I worked for Eric Schmidt’s division at Sun Microsystems when he took the decision to monetise development tools instead of keeping them open. This departure from the UNIX philosophy ultimately cost Sub dearly, I believe.

2025-06-06 19:39:11 UTC

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Sorry. Doing what I can to help the foundation. I know about foundations ...

2025-06-06 10:02:44 UTC

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You should definitely come to Python by the Sea. It should have a web site soon ...

2025-05-01 20:06:42 UTC

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The world will once. more have to learn how to do things bottom-up, but with a shared vision. Step 1: tax billionairedom out of existence.

2025-05-01 17:11:01 UTC

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in my (now outdated, UK-only) experience, academia knows little of solidarity.

2025-04-24 18:32:38 UTC

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sounds to me like you’ve swallowed some information you don’t understand.

2025-04-23 16:49:06 UTC

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as happened in my case in my mid-fifties. “Pre-cancerous,” I was told. Still here twenty years later!

2025-04-14 06:21:36 UTC

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I found the book highly interesting, but want to know why she stayed so long before realising FB wasn’t for her.

2025-03-22 22:28:07 UTC

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and what proportion of total income do those 5% recurrence?

2025-03-19 22:18:54 UTC

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green-fingered kid!

2025-03-03 08:18:59 UTC

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most important: use a toast rack to ensure correct crispness after toasting. Butter when required, early slices melt the butter, later ones less so.

2025-02-20 21:56:14 UTC

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One might paranoidly believe this was a name-collecting exercise. Am I wrong? I hope so.

2025-02-10 07:02:40 UTC

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only if you’ve selected a case-insensitive file system?