The stand of driving in Oxfordshire is piss-fucking-poor.

"Some people on the Internet got something slightly wrong, so I'm making an hour long video about it." It's a promising start for a documentary...

Big code problem at a client, buffer overruns, crashes. Got the development team’s debug version of the container. Problem doesn’t happen when debug is switched on.

Absolute marmalade-dropper, this. Well worth a read.

i hate that AI has now caused me to question the authenticity of cute animal videos online, which is my primary use of social media. i don't even know if this baby penguin actually wore a beret to go buy a tiny baguette in paris

The Horror!

No one pays ransomware demands anymore - so attackers have a new goal www.zdnet.com/article/no-o...

Why are people disappointed that the Louvre jewellery theft people seem to have been arrested? They specifically selected art to steal that would be easy melt down and sell as scrap. This is cultural vandalism. They are not heroes.

True story and *definitely* the plot of WarGames - @rayredacted.com at @saintcon.bsky.social.

A major IT infrastructure outage and once again the go-to talking heads for much of the UK’s media are Computer Science professors. It’s like asking a physicist why a bridge collapsed, you’ll get an idea, but it’s much better to ask a structural engineer.

NEWS! Stolen Louvre jewellery found safe and sound inside the British museum newsthump.com/2025/10/20/s...

New Bambu lab 3d printer, first print with generic PLA. I did nothing other than the minimum setup, it even worked out what settings for the PLA itself. This is the pre-sliced benchy supplied by BambuLab. It took 20mins. I am, needless to say, impressed.

I had to have a poo without the Internet, like the Amish or something.

I don’t care how you spin it, pulling out of a human rights convention to join Russia and Belarus as the only representatives on your continent not in it, does look like you don’t give two shits about other humans.

If I had double caps lock on my flaming keyboard, I would be using it here: CAN WE PLEASE AGREE SOME SORT OF STANDARDS FOR HOW WE ACTUALLY DO PKI ACROSS EVERY OS/PLATFORM/LANGUAGE. I feel like I’m about to have a nervous breakdown explaining for windows, Linux, java, podman & cloud on intel and Z.

There’s a chicken sat on some robot trousers walking down the wall at the Media Museum…

Oh my god. Have I Got News For You just referred to this completely false claim as a fact!!

Manchester is an odd place. They’ve got two football teams and one of them is called United. While the other plays in a stadium who’s name means United (Etihad)

The Register writes an article about IBM “killing mainframe coding kit for PCs” (zPDT) unless you want to run it at an ISV. You’re more than half way down the article before mention of an almost identical product for (ZD&T) that continues to be available. Is there a serious IT news site I can use?

I can’t believe I’ve not thought of this. A new home automation project added to the list.

In researching a talk about PKI/Encryption I have discovered that: 1. Fight Club (1999) is closer to Blondie’s Call Me (1980) than the present day. 2. I am not exactly bang up to date with my cultural references.

This is one of the few photographs of me VJing. Some time in the late 90s. That’s a blue cropped club Alien T, black PVC trousers, many CRTs, a VineGen pro and dense lustrous head of hair.

I’d tell you a joke about trickle down economics, but you wouldn’t get it. Thankyouverymuch, I’ll be here all week…

I’m sad to hear of the passing of Tsutomu ‘Tom’ Matano, the designer of the Mazda MX-5. I shall drive my Eunos Roadster sideways around the local ring road tonight in his memory.

The Register just wrote an article about AI+ML at Lloyds Banking Group. In which they mistook Halifax Bank of Scotland (HBOS) for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS/NatWest Banking Group) and illustrated the article with the Lloyd's of London HQ. Maybe some AI fact checking wouldn't go amiss?

I don’t know how many times I have to say this but, once again: Software doesn’t decay or go off. A 30year old COBOL or PL/I program running on a modern mainframe is as reliable as it always has been. Possibly moreso as it has had any of the bugs worked out.

When you buy a new 3d printer and it comes with a clockwork outboard motor for a Benchy. 10/10, no notes.

You simply aren’t going to be able to reach LEO with Brazilian Marching Powder. You need to be using something like Brazilian Escape Velocity Powder. I would have thought the engineers at Spacex would have known this, I mean, it’s not Brain Surgery. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

I’m doing some work with a Japanese college working on Fujitsu’s “YPS COBOL”, which translates what is effectively Japanese COBOL into Standard COBOL (a designed as English programming language) I have learned today that the Japanese word for “Grammar” (文法 / bunpou) translates to “Sentence Law”.

Inspired by @glitchwolfe.studio I've dug out a few of my old video show animations from the "Virtual Visuals" days in the late 90s/early2000s. Here's the first. It's an SGS Thompson #Transputer wafer reflecting bubbles from the surface of my aquarium, with the moonlight on.

I heard a new name for a new class of programming error “VWing” it works fine in test, but when you run it outside of test there are problems.

if you've been experiencing any of these weird SSD issues after a Windows 11 security update, I'd recommend updating your motherboard BIOS. YouTuber JayzTwoCents was using a beta BIOS and upgrading fixed the problem 👍 www.theverge.com/report/77420...

While watching the Lost In Adaptation episode on A Clockwork Orange, I remembered I saw it in the cinema when it was released following the death of Stanley Kubrick. I remember almost nothing about the story or the movie except the scenes everyone knows. Considering its notoriety, this seems odd.

This is your periodic reminder - Enigma was cracked by the Polish, not British. Also that Enigma and Lorenz were different things. The Turing-Welchman bombe assisted in deciphering Enigma. The Colossus (Tommy Flowers et al) deciphered Lorenz.

What do @lucyportercomic.bsky.social on R4's The News Quiz and @newsagents.bsky.social podcast have in common? Both off to Clacton because it's the only place you won't see Nigel Farage.

What is going on with adverts on YouTube? There’s been a recent rash of obvious AI generated videos of famous people (such as Martin Lewis), scammy claims on investments with impossible returns, “natural” remedies which seem to be being sold as unlicensed medicines. This should not be happening.

NEWS! 'Yer da paints roundabouts' and other essential playground insults every child must know ahead of the new academic year

If you’re a popular you tube science channel doing a ~1hr documentary about Monsanto & Glyphosate but only mention in the last 5mins that the cancer risk is on a par with red meat and frying too hot, but less than sunlight: You are not a science channel, you are a political channel.

I’m watching a documentary about gaps on the London Underground. Apparently, Baker Street has quite a large gap on one platform, which is very tight at the other end. I use Baker Street quite often and have never noticed. I’ll check it out the next time I Change At Baker Street.

The DeLorian Paradox: “A rare product, difficult to get hold of, but one for which spare parts are readily available.” DeLorian made a full product run of dmc-12 spares available at day 1, then promptly went out of business. These spares were acquired by a company which sells them to this day.

I’m m pretty sure the guitarist in this picture is David St Hubbins who - to my best knowledge - hasn’t been associated thus far with Jane’s Addiction. I would totally go to a gig where he replaced any member of Jane’s Adiction.

As I take the… ahem… “Express” train in to Boston South Station. I am always struck that trains drive on the left in the UK (also Japan, IIRC) and the right in Europe, US etc. Anyway… Have some KLF… youtu.be/pC_zffOenk8

So who remembers when RCA had a vinyl video disk? No? This would be the correct answer, unless you’re @techconnectify.bsky.social My job for 25years has been data storage based and I am super into obsolete formats. Until today I had never seen one, so behold Barbarella! In glorious mono NTSC.

#IAmTheDJ - Day 21 #MusicChallenge Utah Saints – "Something Good '08" Chose the '08 version because the video's just so good! 😆 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

I’m seeing this sort of thing a lot at the moment. It’s like supercharged Nirvana Fallacy.

So you know the guy who got psychosis from Chat GPT? No, turns out you don’t. This is some very poor science reporting. www.psypost.org/his-psychosi...

Starting to get a bit fed up with “I’ve worked n IT for 20years and I know that AI doesn’t make sentences like humans do” therefore it’s not worth shit comments. 1: You mean LLMs 2: How do you know? Any brain science type people I’ve spoken to can’t really say 3: why does this actually matter

peace was never an option

after sharing our book about making outdoor pigs pay, lots of people are sending us this meme: