I often wondered why La Daughter's Useless Dog has no tail, and now I realise that it's because my father took a paracetamol when my mum was pregnant. Thanks for solving the mystery, RFK.

I'm synergizin' in a London pub (£7 a pint!) with Kush, Mozilla’s chief Regulator-Botherer. This is the second time in a year that I have had beers with mortal enemies.

On a train to Laaahhndaahn for a posh 1-day conference on regulation of digital markets, so wearing my best "business casual" as the invite requests.

Back from holiday, bed at 3.30 am, prepping to go to London later for a day-long meeting (and synergising with some nice people). My scheduling is crap.

I see that Reform UK have added other "players" to their football team, so you can buy other shirts to go with your "Farage" number 10 shirt. https://reformfc.uk

Thoughts and prayers to Little Tommy Ten Names who, taking a break after organising a fascist demo, flew to Colombia for a holiday and was denied entry. So he went on to Panama, where he was denied entry. You'd think he would be firmly behind sovereign nations denying entry to habitual dangerous […]

I've just finished reading "Tender is the Flesh" by Agustina Bazterrica, an Argentinian novel about modern society after all animals are culled, so turns to breeding humans as animals for the same industrialised meat production, distribution and marketing as now. Really well-written (I read an […]

Well, the verdict is in on iOS 26 from Turkish developers.

I had a break from my break to attend a OFE & DPGA Roundtable on the review of the DMA, and whether to push for social media interoperability- so I could post on mastodon and people onTwitler could see it and reply (calling me a "libtard soyboy", probably). But it's 34°, I'm by the pool, so it's […]

@mia Especially for you (after you gently chided me in Amsterdam), Vivaldi 7.6 (released today) will remember devtools font sizing and scroll position.

US justice department removes study finding far-right extremists commit ‘far more’ violence https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/17/justice-department-study-far-right-extremist-violence (the report is at https://web.archive.org/web/20250911165140/https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/306123.pdf)

Sigh. An attractive server has just forced a cocktail of champagne and sour cherry juice on me.

On my holidays. See you in a week (except for pics of beer, beach and börek).

Tory MP Dunning Kruger defects to Reform party https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce802dmgnyro

California has passed the California Opt Me Out Act (AB 566) that will require browsers to include functionality configurable by a consumer that enables the browser to send an opt-out preference signal to businesses with which the consumer interacts through the browser, allowing consumers to […]

Hosting a WebSite on a Disposable Vape https://bogdanthegeek.github.io/blog/projects/vapeserver/

Russia and Israel seem to be having a competition to fuck around in other nations' airspace. A plague on both their leaders.

Useless Dog has finally gone home now La Daughter is back from her tattoo guest spots. The dog's fave Teddy bear is exhausted.

First central heating switch-on of the autumn. Boo.

Malaysia Competition Commission's Draft final report: Mobile operating and payment system, Aug 2025 PDF] [https://www.mycc.gov.my/sites/default/files/%5BBook%201%5D%20Draft%20final%20report%20(Mobile%20operating%20%26%20payment%20system).pdf

Today I shall be tutting at Windows 11, and rolling my eyes while snorting incredulously as I read FruitCo's response to the CMA's proposed decision about their mobile ecosystem, written by the celebrated law partnership of Messrs Wriggle, Squirm and Weasel Esq.

"Former Meta user experience researcher Cayce Savage said the company shut down internal research showing Meta knew children were using its VR products and being exposed to sexually explicit material." […]

I have just taken delivery of a reconditioned ThinkPad running something called “Windows 11” (GBP 89!) and now my home office is a place of sadness. Question: how the hell do I set it up without some Windows account? eg, like a caveman computer, with a password?

Vivaldi's response to the CMA's proposed decision after its investigation into Apple's mobile platform is at https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/proposed-decision-sms-investigation-into-apples-mobile-platform, along with those from Mozilla, Which?, FruitCo itself, EPIC, Spotify and some […]

I'm on a train to Oxford to listen to Sir Uncle Timbo (@timbl) talk about his new book. I hope he signs my copy (only fair as I signed his copy of Introducing HTML5).

BRB, writing an extension for Vivaldi that listens to the accelerometer so that when you shake your screen, a random untrue fact will be overlaid over the site you're on, from one of the first sites I loved on the Web: Dave's Web Of Lies (from 1995!) https://davesweboflies.com/dwol.htm

Photo of novelty check suggests Epstein ‘sold’ Trump a woman for $22,500 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/09/trump-epstein-photo-check-woman "President and convicted sex offender appear in birthday scrapbook photo with check signed by ‘DJ Trump’". Probably nothing sinister - just […]

"I’ve been seeking ways to de-Google my life … For the past several months, I’ve been using Vivaldi's built-in email client; it makes Gmail feel very stuck. It’s redefined how I imagine email services … The interface adapts to me rather than demanding compliance with certain defaults … What […]

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

🕑 **EU Citizens have 4 days: the clock is ticking!** European countries are finalizing their positions on Chat Control **this Friday.** If your country supports Chat Control, it is vital you contact your representatives and voice your opposition to […] [Original post on mastodon.neat.computer]

Meta to stop its AI chatbots from talking to teens about suicide https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2kzl79jv15o Yay? "It comes two weeks after a US senator launched an investigation into the tech giant after notes in a leaked internal document suggested its AI products could have "sensual" […]

We go live to Apple explaining to a Regulator that it has many browsers in its iOS App Store, so cannot possibly be thwarting competition.

I snored so loudly i woke myself up.

GETTIN ARE COUNTRY BACK

"28 Years Later" was pretty disappointing.

EU slaps Google with €2.95B fine despite Trump trade threat https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-slaps-google-with-2-95b-fine-for-adtech-abuse/

I really love the way that, even in EU, long pressing a word in a webpage viewed in Vivaldi (or any non-Apple browser) shows a context menu with a "Search web" option. Choosing it goes to Google, regardless of your browser's default engine, with "client=safari" query string. Kerching!

Nadine Dorries joining Reform gives them the intellectual gravitas they need to widen their appeal beyond Greggs-looters and racists. With Farage's trustworthiness, Lee Anderthal's rhetorical mastery, and Sarah Porcine's compassion, they are a force to be reckoned with.

UK government trial of M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/m365_copilot_uk_government AI tech shows promise writing emails or summarizing meetings. Don't bother with anything more complex

Off to synergize for a few hours with @sil. Every time I see a train approaching on a curved track, the damned riff from "train round the bend" by the velvet underground fills my brain for hours afterwards.

Someone buy Mr Jamie Raskin of Maryland 6 pints of Guinness and a lamb vindaloo from me, for tearing a strip off Fuhrage as he talks bollocks and preens for Techbros in the USA […]

This is the racist woman who insulted and assaulted Filipina nurse Apple Moorhouse in Halifax. Ignore Farage's smarmy grin and Tommy Robinson's designer hooligan chic; this is the face of Reform UK and its fellow-travelers.

La Daughter is doing a tattooing guest spot in Lahhhndaaaaahn so I am once again looking after a Useless Dog.

'It was Apple's choice to introduce less safe, less privacy-preserving native apps into iOS. It was also Apple's choice to deny competing browsers engines the freedom of voluntary feature adoption, ensuring that important underlying capabilities could only ever be accessed through Apple's […]

It would be nice if Labour were to listen to McDonnell's advice. But as today we've heard that Rayner underpaid stamp duty and Starmer is apparently considering a National ID system, I'm not optimistic. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/03/labour-starmer-government-john-mcdonnell

Initial personal thoughts on the Google anti-trust remedies: I'm glad Chrom(ium) isn't divested - because I can't see a good steward in Perplexity or Meta, or some VCs. Everything else is a bit ... meh. And by the time this is appealed and litigated, King Barron Trump will be on the throne, AI […]

OnlyFans owner paid $701m in dividends as platform readies for potential sale https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/aug/22/onlyfans-owner-dividends-revenue-potential-sale "Streaming platform known for subscription-based adult content reports $1.4bn revenue and rising usage". Not being an […]

""Ribera will not order Google to sell part of its adtech business … They said the EU may not have to issue a break-up order at all as a U.S. judge has set a September trial date on potential remedies for Google's dominance in ad tools used by online publishers." Lots of Washington lobbying […]

It's really weird how all the well-regulated militia fans who want BIG GUNS in case the U.S. government tries to undermine the constitution, detain people without trial ,or put the army on the streets seem to be doing nothing about the U.S. government doing exactly those things.

Reform councillor Robert Bloom resigned 117 days after his electikon, after repeatedly shouting the word ‘n*****’ at his black neighbour, saying he would set the far-right English Defence League on her and told her there’d be ‘black body bags’. Its triggered a by-election, which will cost the […]