I am reminded of an IT manager who put a list together in Excel, printed it out and then added it up using a calculator on their desk...

Tech startup idea: instead of starting your car with your key, you get in, turn on the display panel, enter your password, get your phone out, open the authenticator app, enter your pin, enter the timed passcode, then open the start menu, then helpdesk, then "request engine start", then submit a tic

Wavefunction Collapse xkcd.com/3134/

As said by most of Northern Ireland since forever

PSA: go apply the urgent security update to your Apple devices. Don’t wait. Do it right now

The evolution of "vibe coding production software as a non-dev" the last few months Success stories do exist... ones I see all come from people who are/were software engineers Learning to code / build software not a waste after all?

Every Reason Why I Hate AI and You Should Too malwaretech.com/2025/08/ever...

I'm laughing, I'm crying... I'm mostly crying www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXPp...

Ahhhhhh, very nice. Very nice indeed. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Oh my god... it knows all the tricks (Claude's response to failing to make a test pass for the third time)

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets into secret Strava wars with people.

"Pedro"

Fake IT support calls hit 20 orgs, end in stolen Salesforce data and extortion, Google warns

"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning. You don’t know your code. You’re babysitting it". Indeed, a very good read, harsh but realistic.

The “spirit” of gravel. youtube.com/watch?v=cZk2...

You don't even need the graphs, the first image says it all www.ft.com/content/b418...

For Americans who didn’t get the joy of living through the Truss/Kwarteng budget, this is the point where the government starts to call the stock market left-wing and/or woke.

So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base! and they want to do it ... ... in *a few months* I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ... ... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here 1/9

Picard management tip: Some of your decisions are going to be mistakes. You have to make them anyway.

Right now there are a lot of new eyes on Signal, and not all of them are familiar with secure messaging and its nuances. Which means there’s misinfo flying around that might drive people away from Signal and private communications. 1/

The war on encryption is dangerous—We have ceded so many of the core operations of our lives and institutions to tech, we must recognise that strong encryption isn’t the enemy of security — it is security… www.ft.com/content/a934... @meredithmeredith.bsky.social @financial-times.bsky.social

Note the only secure thing in this is Signal. Who needs to break E2E encryption when you have people to do stupid things?

For the day that’s in it #paddynotpatty #stpatricksday

BRB, submitting a series of WaPo op-eds on the personal liberty to get an abortion and how oligarchs strangle free markets.

Preach! youtu.be/cimcogNc02I?... 13:30-16:30

This is your regular reminder that government mandated backdoors for end-to-end encrypted comms are bullshit, make everyone less safe, and should be resisted at maximum volume.

Three questions about Apple, Encryption, and the U.K. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/23/t...

Globalisation has interesting side effects. Everyone relies on everyone else.

In the current environment of tin pot dictators simply bypassing laws and bureaucratic controls the UK government decides that our individual privacy isn't important. Read the room @yvettecooper-mp.bsky.social www.theverge.com/news/617273/...

As is the iMessage encryption key...

The best time to turn on Advanced Data Protection was before the U.K. forced Apple to disable it. If you’re not in the U.K., the second best time is right now.

The people who think they are good at everything because they are good at coding are also bad at coding.

I want better software with less features made by humans who are paid more to care about how it works and I'm not kidding.

Professor James Reason passed away a few days ago. The Reason model - often known as the Swiss cheese model - of accidents revolutionised aviation safety and risk management practices, as it did for many other fields. Vale.

The U.K. government's insistence that Apple creates an encryption backdoor undermines our right to private spaces. Apple must resist these efforts.

Secret UK order requires blanket access to protected cloud backups around the world, which if implemented would undermine Apple’s privacy pledge to its users. Some of us have been waiting for this showdown since 2016 when the Snoopers' Charter was passed. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

🚨BIG SCOOP: Musk’s DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm’s servers. Now he has access to sensitive government information. 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If you're going to actually use a burner phone then you're almost certainly going to leak your identity somehow anyway, and if you're not then what's the point just leave your phone at home

See now I’m starting to think that these people want a machine to summarize things for them because when a human does it, the human uses words like “no” and “that would hurt people” and “that’s illegal.”

I've been thinking about this a *ton* lately -- in the context of my own writing, but also when it comes to internal transparency. I've been frustrated lately by how often people complain that we should "be more transparent" about things we've actually shared MANY times, in many ways.

The way I explain AGI to non-tech people is it's the belief that if I read enough book to my dog, there is some threshold at which it becomes a blackbelt in Karate.