backslash undoubtedly the worst character of all time. absolute diva of a symbol aaalways needs some kind of special treatment. super toxic vibes

In the event that all social media is down, you can communicate with me here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

William Gibson: In my book I invented cyberpunk dystopia as a cautionary tale Tech Companies:

I respect the Pope's posting in the same way I respect Iran's posting: high quality content produced by people who fundamentally want to fuck up a lot of people I love even if they happen to currently be criticising other people I hate

A movie couple that pretty much did have a podcast despite podcasts not yet existing.

Cite the deep magic to me. Our academic integrity standards require all references to existing work to be cited. Please do not force me to report you for plagiarism, it is not fun for anyone.

My "My email reply to Maxwell cannot be categorized as anything more than casual correspondence" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Thinking about that time 70 years ago a (then) world superpower ended up in an awkward geopolitical situation involving a middle eastern waterway and their nominal allies not backing them up and it basically being the end of them being considered a major power, anyway, I'm sure everything's fine

Suck it, Andrew Jackson.

I dunno about www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b... - evidence is that people perjure themselves in High Court to say they *are* Satoshi, not to say they aren't

Ok, but being able to ride down a sunny Market Street in an old PCC car is actually pretty great

I'll be speaking at the Linux Security Summit in Minneapolis next month, which is very exciting because I have never been to Minneapolis. It'll be about making hibernation work with lockdown mode, which I promise is a more interesting problem than you might think.

Apparently this became a product

An entire industry of people imposing security controls on MCP just as everyone decides MCP is an absolute waste of time I swear

(Looks at the world) Ah yes this is the perfect time for me to start Disco Elysium

I am, once again, reaching for mTLS as a solution to my problem

I have written a blog post about how my blog (and most of the rest of my online presence) is all stuck in a small box that lives under a TV: codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...

Sometimes I think "What have I achieved in life" and then I remember I legitimately own ☭.net

Going to stand for FIA president on a platform of nothing other than requiring LEDs on steering wheels having a high enough PWM frequency that they don't have ludicrous flickering on TV

It's been another day where I've remembered that I'm probably the first person to cite @dril.bsky.social in the English High Court

It's been years, but finally got around to hanging this

Just had the utterly terrifying thought that someone might have let Brian Josephson talk to an LLM

Blog post covering what I'm discussing in my #bsidessf talk on git commit signing with SSH certificates: codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...

At #bsidessf and giving an opinionated talk on git signatures in theatre 9 at 3:50

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Who do I know who's going to be in town for bsides or RSA?

Warm for long enough that the north facing end of the house has finally also got warm this isn't what March is meant to be like why is it almost midnight and 25C in my bedroom

"Don't endorse the guy with the Nazi tattoo" feels like it should not be a high bar and yet

i actually think it's lowkey problematic to joke about stabbing caesar bc for some low income senators becoming tyrant is literally the only route out of poverty

www.theregister.com/2026/03/12/i... RIP to the man behind the funniest bit of all time: the invention of the null pointer

Legally obliged to update my Tinder profile with a link to me admitting that I asked a robot what DEI is and crying myself to sleep

Get BARTmogged, gasmaxxers!!

You know what we're missing now? App websites with screenshots of the app but it's not really about the app, it's about your choice of Linux desktop theme and window manager and wallpaper, we're all judging you on that, do you have transparent windows? Your code is better

I briefly appear in this video about why rm -rf / is even possible and why efivarfs (which is my fault) turned this from merely destroying operating systems to bricking motherboards: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iwv...

Hmm i think today I will use plain RSA as a signature scheme

"Claude went beyond its programming ergo it's conscious" fine Dwarf Fortress is conscious

Someone said something about ingesting libc and this is what popped into my head

I will be speaking at BSides SF in a couple of weeks! It will be about git, certificates, SSH, and, obviously, TPMs. bsidessf2026.sched.com/event/2E1g3/...

Simultaneously providing every other nation an incentive to develop nuclear weapons and an incentive to ensure nobody is aware that you are doing so until they are functional does not feel like an overall enhancement of stability

I have, for an absolutely bewildering array of reasons, been sleeping like shit for some time now, and every time that happens I (a) assert that I will nap later and it will all be ok and (b) fail to nap and then decide it will be ok anyway and it is ok! Do not accept defeat.

Can someone explain to me how www.gnu.org/philosophy/w... is incompatible with the idea that training LLMs on copyrighted free software is fine as long as the output isn't copyrightable?

You're absolutely right—that was not a command post, that was an elementary school. Those were not military leaders—they were schoolchildren. I said the opposite, and that's on me.

I feel like we shouldn't normalise a senator breaking the arm of someone who was clearly not presenting any form of danger to anyone?

A niche free software thing is whether or not it is acceptable to interact with proprietary blobs on an otherwise entirely free software system or whether you need to assert that they're immutable hardware, and I Have Opinions: www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/blog/...

A thing nobody tells you about the USA is that there's no spec for how insulating a duvet is here, it's all just "Summer", "Winter", "All seasons" and this country spans a continent, winter in California is not winter in Maine, please give me something quantifiable I am begging you

Everything about the Noem private jets thing just gives me incredible Enemy at the Gates vibes: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mK4r...

The right are furious that a white, English tradesperson got elected.