British government have any understanding of Northern Ireland politics Challenge - difficulty: Impossible

The current state of the UK is that TERFs are sufficiently transphobic that they'll forbid trans men (who they assert are "biological women") from using women's toilets, kind of putting a lie to the gender essentialism part of this

I have been learning more about PDFs than I really wanted to for maybe the absolutely most funny reason possible - letting agency forgery: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73317.html

Oh come on

NGL the back cover text of the German translation of the Hackers novelisation goes hard

Setting up a new wireless network called GBus that's VPNed into China and watching Google employees walk past and have their corp access blocked

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

Google just kindly reminded me of this absolutely cursed image

Well my tumble dryer has decided that the whole "tumble" aspect of things is overrated so now I need to unstack it but the good news is this is an excellent opportunity to stick an esp in between the rx and tx lines on the control board and make it smarter than it wants to be

A service I offer is that if you are asked to print Charlie Kirk memorial fliers and don't want to, you can tell your customer that I will do it instead and then I'll tell them my printer is out of ink

What are you talking about?! The musical is on right now up on the roof. The stage is next to the pool, you can't miss it.

30th anniversary of Hackers and there's still no musical version

Honour Charlie Kirk's death in the way he would have honoured yours

Bizarre dream in which @jeriellsworth.bsky.social was the Linux IPX maintainer and I was trying to write a spec for remote attestation over IPX except half the docs said IPS and I thought "Must be a bit flip" but after checking this morning I regret to inform you my subconscious is bad at binary

Every time the discourse is "Political violence is inherently bad and does not achieve its goals" I wonder whether the Good Friday Agreement could have happened without violence and the answer is that I want to say "yes" but I legitimately do not know

Wake me up when someone's killed with a bullet engraved with a dril tweet

"Who could possibly have predicted that Peter Mandelson would have poor judgement" is the kind of position that should clearly mark someone out as being dangerously disconnected from all observable facts AND YET

In Europe and am somehow still surrounded by Americans trying to work out how to use a train

Almost three months after the Twitter eng lead said they'd publish evidence of their use of HSMs for message encryption keys in the "not too distant future", the feature is now GA without that having been done x.com/cambridgemik...

techcrunch.com/2025/09/05/x... shouldn't surprise anyone but quotes me so it's obviously good

The discovery that my girlfriend's mother in law is called Paula and was dating in the south bay around 1983-1985 led to some extreme concern that she might be the Paula that en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_O... was named after (but apparently no!)

Maximum Waymo recline on the front seat is pretty much old school 170 degree business class and I'm here for it

Quoting so I can use this later

Proposal: any product from a vendor who's going to DMCA you for doing fun things with their product needs a sticker on the box saying that

Tesco meal deal, except instead of your packet of crisps you can get a rapid disease test

The single biggest indicator of the US tariff structure making no fucking sense is that nobody is offering a service to tell you how much you'll be paying despite doing so being a licence to print money right now and how do you fuck up capitalism that badly

djb's having a normal one, I see: cr.yp.to/2025/2025082...

Can't decide whether it's going to be worse if KF wins against the UK and proceeds on the absolute worst victory lap, or loses and just fucks things up for everyone forever

Upside of it becoming basically impossible to get anything interesting shipped to the US for one reason or another is that maybe I'll actually finish some projects instead of starting new ones

Was exposed to The Big Bang (2011) last night, a film so bizarre that I've had to spend a chunk of today verifying that it actually exists and I didn't dream the whole thing

The one thing I will accept the use of generative models for is replacing Hugh Jackman in Swordfish with Hugh Jackman, but Wolverine. In every scene. I don't care if it looks awful. I believe this solves the question of whether "AI" can be art.

J K Rowling is literally less qualified than me to opine on the nature of biology as it applies to sex and the fact that she means otherwise means I wish ill of her because why else did I get a PhD in this

Occasionally I stumble over this old picture from my undergrad that feels exceptionally like I'm in a 70s album cover

Me: Someone should run a VPN with attestable infrastructure to let people verify it's not backdoored or logging (Monkey's paw curls, vp.net is set up with SGX attestation, is run by the former CEO of Mt Gox and that fuckhead fake crown prince of Korea who destroyed Freenode) Me: Fuck.

Fortunately, being a Tesla, something being in its way isn't going to stop it

It finally happened to me

Any time any discourse about prop 8 and the people who funded it comes up, remember: at the time, California had marriage equality. The people backing prop 8 didn't want to legally embody an existing social norm - they wanted to remove a right people already had.

Today's contribution to the "Build proper protected bike lanes" discourse (this is literally across the road from a police station)

People will be like "Idiocracy was a documentary" but actually it was a 2006 comedy film starring Luke Wilson

Turn all your taps on to save your emails

"Military grade encryption" by which people mean the password input for the key derivation function for the AES key is written on a post it that's stuck on the wall visible from someone's webcam

Trying to make sure I understand this properly: Laura Loomer, when being deposed in her lawsuit, repeatedly refuses to name her boyfriend because (understandably!) she's concerned about him being harassed, finally does in a chunk marked "Confidential", and then *her* lawyer publishes it?

Never forget today, when, on this day in 1988, Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day.

Hey, my partner and I saw you across the bar, and your vibes are just bad. Bringing the entire place down. You should go somewhere else, maybe see the great clown Pagliacci

RSA Conference webcast spam titled "They got past Signal's encryption" and it turns out that it's about it being possible to extract data from a compromised device (cc: @meredithmeredith.bsky.social)

I did a thing with an Amiga and a PiStorm and Doom that is probably not illegal but morally ought to be: mjg59.dreamwidth.org/73001.html

mobile keyboards need a "backspace until ?utm=" button

If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking

As someone with a PhD in genetics I am here to tell you why it is inappropriate to associate value judgements with "genes", a scientific term that is actually surprisingly poorly defined. In this essay

Not making any accusations here, just noting that if you wanted to poison search results for "(your name) rapist", starting a company with a known rapist would be a great way to achieve that