FFS www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...

I decided to hack my IoT devices, starting with my very expensive android-running projector. It took *seconds* to get root. whitelabel.org/security/202... (yay my first CVEs)

On TheyWorkForYou, in 2009 we managed to get back to the 1918 general election from the official Historic Hansard Commons data (which as mentioned, had some gaps) before running out of time/resources. So it’s great to see full coverage of Parliament on the official site. Might even last longer ;)

shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05... brb, just forking github.com/orgs/nhsengl...

This makes me so angry. Honestly think it should be illegal. Losing millions, and every so often asking the public to fund your large salaries for the next while, with no financials even provided. And others: www.reddit.com/r/crowdcube/...

The UKBiobank data leak is not unfortunate, its negligent. The doctor-knows-best approach to stewarding highly sensitive data led to this and many other leaks and the response of leadership is again disingenuous. I admire the research participants for their loyalty, but they have been let down.

@dracos.co.uk am I right in thinking that traintimes.org.uk did split tickets first?

red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-... people keep being astonished at them doing the kind of exploits you can only pull off if you never get tired - when their most unique skill is they don’t ever get tired.

holy shit the speaking clock still works in the UK -123

theory - 97% of the reason asking claude is better than googling has nothing to do with the chatbot interface but is simply because it filters out all the ads and surveillance crapware and gives you the natural search answer that the web used to in 2003

So yeah, me and Claude dusted off a very old (2004) idea of mine and made it anew. Enjoy the whitelabel.org/wikilinker/a... - a browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) plugin that backfills wikipedia into the whole web. No APIs, no tracking, just a built-in Bloom filter of the 1m most popular articles.

I am loving spending a lot of time with Claude Code, but it's not without problems. I've gone from 15 unstarted hack projects that have been lingering in my todo list for years to 15 unfinished hack projects, in a month. 😬🤦

love this kind of UX studies interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Inte...

The number of peers on a leave of absence jumped 48% after new rules requiring them to declare income from foreign states were introduced, @tortoisemedia.bsky.social analysis has shown. More Peer Review work by myself and @seitarowhite.bsky.social 👇 www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/11/21/d...

Reposting my popular post from elsewhere. It's still relevant 6 years later. I made a handy flowchart called "Should I say resources?" Please use as needed.

The Post Office Inquiry has finished its hearings; closing statements take place in December. You can read all the transcripts on my site at postofficeinquiry.dracos.co.uk which has just been updated with the latest evidence links, including the final tranche of statements I have manually linked up.

I know I have posted something like this before, but it still boggles my mind what has happened to Google Maps

We all laughed at Apple Maps for having errors, but Google Maps now straight up lies to you… for pennies. I’ve switched.

You bear full responsibility for what unfolds in the coming days.

"When you drive a massive SUV you’re saying 3 things: I don’t care about the environment. I don’t care that I’m more likely to kill pedestrians in my car. I don’t care that there isn’t room for my car & others to co-habit smoothly on London’s streets."

@anildash.com Imagine writing a book about Prince and getting his name wrong on page 1.

who is at #dwebcamp ?

Just for the record, the NY Post is never a credible source when a story is about a Black woman allegedly not working hard. And Spotify exec Simmons, who directly profits from and supports Rogan, is not a credible source about podcast grifters.

“there's no universe where anything HTTP+DNS gets us future-protective publishing, let alone coordination+linking.” — Dietrich @burrito.space, as part of a thread on @ipfs.tech and content addressing for personal archiving of Reddit content https://mastodon.social/@dietrich/110536877880506555

Be the change you want to see in the world.

I do love seeing instances of people fixing shit consumer UX with that simplest of hacks- judicious sharpie.

VS019 LHR-SFO. haha remember when people on twitter would announce flights for their friends, without fear of some guy they pissed off six months ago abusing that data to launch SAMs against them? good times.

Thread. People do not understand how the bad actors who want to use a platform for organizing and doing horrible things know your ToS and content policy better than you do. They will rules lawyer edge cases for DAYS.

I wrote a blog post about Prolly Trees, a close cousin to the Merkle Search Trees at the core of ATProto!

not my fucking King. I can say that here unlike in my totally normal healthy democracy, right? https://www.republic.org.uk/ https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/02/anti-monarchists-receive-intimidatory-home-office-letter-on-new-protest-laws-coronation

coffee is delicious and a great pick-me-up before that early train. highly recommended. Ps. what is a hellthread?

it’s a hot sunny day and yet I am eating a hearty soup.

normalize being nice and friendly. and giving other people the benefit of the doubt. and listening to what they have to say

rice cakes are oddly delicious, aren’t they?

anyone else here old and British enough to keep being reminded of BSkyB?

@emily.bsky.team @why.bsky.team is there a user we can send bugs to? alternatively a feedback form where we can attach screencaps/vids would be helpful to submitters and you. seeing UX nits that are hard to describe in text

how it’s going:

how it started:

I think if we want this to be like the good old days we need to post like the good old days. so heads up, everyone, I’m eating my breakfast.

my profile page on ipad mini is accurately reflecting the blankness of my mind