Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Bubbles Briefing
The most voted posts on Bubbles, updated once a day.
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The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with personal data. And that I said “no” and turned it off. […]
Fresh Bubbles
First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.
Culture
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I like long reads and deep dive educational videos. I wanted to list the youtubers that provide value in my life. I’ve never been a short video person, it…
Life
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Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. – @chrismartin
Nature
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A lunch outing to Brooklyn, Sydney. To be honest I had never heard of this place before, but it wins the distinction of being the "northernmost suburb of…
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For the second part of the study, the researchers relied on detection dogs. They placed cameras where the dogs alerted to possible weasel presence, resulting…
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Two simple things we have done to prepare for the (potentially scorching) summer.
Tech
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Written for a 32-bit Café thread asking where to even begin with static-site generators. I go over the free resources I'd learn first (and why hand-rolled HTML…
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The older Internet felt more like a collection of places because communities had addresses, customs, memory, and edges.
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It has been 5 months since my last post about AI use in software development and whether I wanted to continue programming. Like all aspects of AI recently, the…
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Last year I ran an experiment to test the ability of modern LLMs to correctly answer a relatively straightforward question. Every single one of them got it…
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Two Muse stories dropped days apart, and read together they tell you everything. One is a journalist catching Meta's new AI agent lying to his face about what…
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Over on my ‘about me’ page, many years ago, back in the teenage years of this millennium, I wrote: My artwork has sold to collectors across the world,…
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source: sourceive been wanting to make this kind of post for a bit but of course a larger blogger got to it first...anywayswhile i do agree with forced…
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LLM agents can write a lot of code for you very fast, but they also take away opportunities to learn and grow.
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