"(...) break VPN access for the entire internet, and the unintended consequences of this provision could far outweigh any theoretical benefit. Almost everyone uses VPN's, not just people who want to watch porn anonymously. Businesses run on VPNs. Students need VPNs for school. Vulnerable people […]

Well that was quite a week. It started on Monday with our #docker clusters in degraded state after a routine reboot of some of the nodes and the Docker engine not coming back because `runc` had updated and an old (not updated for a while) glusterfs plugin didn't like it. This wrote off Monday […]

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. p.s. my new book of science cartoons 'Physics for Cats' is out now! Order from your local bookshop or online: www.tomgauld.com

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #unix v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973 Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum #retrocomputing

And so we come full circle … > General Availability of Microsoft 365 Local was confirmed, which brings Exchange Server, SharePoint Server, and Skype for Business Server to Azure Local. https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/07/microsoft_announces_strengthening_of_sovereignty/ #digitalsovereignty […]

I am getting increasingly irritated by #Booking_dot_com weaselling their way into search tools and, by default, spinning up a second tab with "hotels in the place you're going". It's underhand and they just need to stop. Like this pre-enabled "Explore […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Morning Twters, and happy #defaidodonday #dydddefaidodon! It's a great excuse to share this absolute gem again!

Two young mathematicians just broke a 330-year-old geometry riddle. Jakob Steininger, 30, and Sergey Yurkevich, 29, friends since maths-Olympiad days, have discovered the first known shape that can’t pass through a copy of itself, overturning a belief dating back to Prince Rupert’s 17th-century […]

I am getting increasingly irritated by #Booking_dot_com weaselling their way into search tools and, by default, spinning up a second tab with "hotels in the place you're going". It's underhand and they just need to stop. Like this pre-enabled "Explore […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Each day I like to play the game "how many articles on the BBC News site mention the BBC in the heading" Four in the first eight headlines this morning.

Yippe! New series of #shetland on #bbc #iplayer :blobhappy: https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p01s711r/shetland

Saw this on #linkedin

For those wondering why Dutch trains are so substantially built, this is why. Yesterday, a lorry got stuck on a level crossing, and the train (a VIRM) went right through it like it was made of butter. Even so, it's fortunate that nobody died. m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuvL...

#python is quite nice for a lot of things (spake the Perl/Java programmer). Please don't hate me but there are a few things about it that really wind me up. 1. Seemingly inconsistent functional or OO ways of doing things (like `list(thing)` rather than `.toList()` and `len(thing)` rather […]

Wondering if someone forgot to renew their domain at openssh.com as it appears to have recently changed hands and is offline… #openssh #cybersquatting #security

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

#whitby #abbey #englishheritage

I am become Death. Great crop for the end of the year, about 100g of fruit. At 1-2 million Scoville Heat Units, that's a LOT OF HOT. #chilli #komododragon

I'm begging of you please don't take my LAN 🎶

I have a photographic memory. Unfortunately, it's a pin-hole camera and it's a cloudy day.

New #britishrail #clock… I _think_ I like it! https://www.railwaygazette.com/uk/national-rail-clock-design-with-circulating-split-double-arrow-launched/69786.article

More signs of autumn 🍂

Absolutely *no one* saw this coming, right? 🤨😳😂 https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo

Hey, #accessibility friends in the UK! New job just dropped. Senior Accessibility Specialist at GDS. https://www.civilservicejobs.service.gov.uk/csr/jobs.cgi?jcode=1973202 Important role in a brilliant team - you should apply. Yes! You! (I don't work there. Please don't ask me questions about […]

Another way to tell it's #autumn, the boy pheasants are all out strutting their stuff 😝

All of the main thoroughfares that I used in #Copenhagen had separate cycle lanes and footpaths - that is there was a kerb between thr cycle lane and vehicular traffic. The busses stopped on the road and did not block the cycle lane. It looked great! […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

This week I was visiting #copenhagen and found this lovely park on a morning walk. #frederiksberg #København #cph

A cartoon from my new book, 'Physics for Cats'. Out next week: www.tomgauld.com

Of course #nordunet has #ipv6 on #eduroam ❤️ #love2eduroam

I am in, perhaps, the most basic hotel that isn't a hostel. There's nothing wrong with the room, but the deadlock doesn't work… I can't find the WiFi password… There's literally no staff… check-in is all automated and the contact us form is yet to yield a response (2 hours so far). I've not […]

This is a "Viking IPA" from Halifax Burgers in #copenhagen. And it is _yummy_

[Grumpy whinge fest with rhetorical questions about commercial aviation] I don't mind the act of flying (climate-change aside) but I really dislike airports and the palaver that each end of the flight necessitates. I am also reminded, today, of the epic class system that exists whereby, on […]

Another] Dear [#microsoft I don't need motivational encouragement from my software. Thanks #teams #notmyfriend

Dear #microsoft Intercepting Cmd-R (and, presumably, Ctrl+R) in #outlook (Web Access) is just rude. Kind regards, Everyone who likes reliable and consistent shortcuts.

At #twickenham for the #rugby finals! Switched down to 3G so to actually get some signal 🤦🏻

Dear $companies, Please do not send me emails with a subject line like: "Pending: 3 things" … when I do not have any actions to do nor do you have any authority to give me actions. It's not cool, it's not clever, it just makes me grumpy. #darkpattern #emailmarketing

[dark humor, be warned] It is not allowed to be decapitated by hanging out of the window!

When the news site's #adblocker detector openly admits that the site's #ads are "intrusive", you have to wonder what thought processes got us here… I'll carry on using the "Reader view" bypass for as long as it works, thanks.

Wind etched sand #beach #cambersands #eastsussex #kent #rye

#til "Precision Tram Driving" is a thing big enough to be a competition...! https://aus.social/@joannaholman/115189793680785086

Apparently, it's bad luck to mention a "MacBook" in a software company. You have to call it "the Scottish laptop".

Well that was an awful day… started a thing at 08:00 that we'd expected to be done by 09:00… it was done at 15:45 and full of rather stressful long periods of "is it doing anything?" waiting… Thanks #azure, it was fun (not).

Remember this one?

All three top stories on the BBC News app are about migration. The top story on #R4Today just now was also about migration. Is this (as the #R4Today presenter has just claimed) the media reflecting the public’s interest, or is it in fact the public parroting back […] [Original post on toot.wales]

"Buying" digital things is, arguably, confusing language… something that has irked me for many years (since Amazon started "selling" #kindle books which they could unilaterally remove from "your" device). Ars Technica reporting on [another] lawsuit on the subject […]

i hope all the people who had endless debates with me in 2021 about how NFTs are the future and not just some grift bubble feel... something. like, are you okay, man? how have you been???

The harvest road (Taken ascending the #northdowns just outside #harrietsham in #kent adjacent to the #pilgrimsway) #england #uk #vanishingpoint #clouds #summer #harvest #pastoral #agriculture #walking

My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

"Sideloading" is the rentseeker word for "being able to run software of your choosing on a computing device you purchased". There is no reasonable case for an operating system developer having a say over what programs you run on your hardware. #android #google

@[email protected] A friend pointed me at https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/despite-what-the-papers-say-operation