Get the feeling Slow Horses is an aspiration for the real MI5? I mean, what ARE they doing apart from spying on Grandmas protesting Genocide? Who do they protect, Us or Them?* (*Rhetorical) #antiterrorism #mi5 #ukpol #ukpolitics #goldersgreen #terrorism #prevent #SlowHorses

Seeing my MP at lunchtime to talk about the dangers of GenAI in the UK public sector, Palantir, and US tech dominance. I’m basically going to wing it, but if you know good links and examples for this stuff, send it my way? Ta.

Lying is a virtue to fascists. Cruelty is a virtue to fascists. Violence is a virtue to fascists. Killing is a virtue to fascists. It's not inconsistent at all; it's all very consistent to the one true belief of fascists, which is domination.

Out of the eight new #curl CVEs, four of them had existed in code for over twenty years when we published. CVE-2026-5545 clocks in at 22.75 years old CVE-2026-7168 at 21.91 years CVE-2026-6429 at 20.95 years CVE-2026-6253 at 20.66 years And yet CVE-2026-5545 only becomes the 5th oldest […]

you will not lose your job because an AI will replace you. you *will* lose your job because the white-collar criminals driving AI's fraudulent circular financing are going to cause a global financial crisis when the bubble pops though

Vibe Coding™ Speedrun your way to Technical Debt and Ultimate Enshitification! 😀👍 #vibecoding #ai #llm

Argh. My train to #fossnorth this morning got cancelled. I had to book another and therefore I won't arrive until tonight. ☹️ Luckily my talk is first thing tomorrow, so should still work out.

I guess the music wasn’t going to last forever https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/cyber-experts-salaries/

Announcing my new bash script, chilly.sh, which has found seven TRILLION vulns across literally EVERY single piece of software known to existence. I'd show you all but its just too dangerous to release. Now everyone write articles basking in my greatness

“American military bases and other equipment…suffered extensive damage from Iranian strikes that is far worse than publicly acknowledged and is expected to cost billions of dollars to repair, according to three U.S. officials, two congressional aides and another person familiar with the damage.”

Howdy Doodlley Do! 😀👍 https://youtu.be/6HqGSioLCOQ #talkytoaster #aicompression #crapolainc

Upcoming Anniversary on 21st October 2026 Remember Aberfan 😕 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster #wales #aberfan

OTD in 1943 USSR broke diplomatic relations with the Polish government in exile over their demand for an independent investigation by the Red Cross into who carried out the Katyn massacre. The sort of thing you object to when you're innocent.

If you fancy getting up for 06:00h tomorrow (Sunday) there is a zenith overflight of the ISS for the UK! 🙂 Sunrise is 05:58h so it will be heading into the dawn light once it's passed overhead. #iss #uk #rightoverhead

First ever talks to ditch fossil fuels as UN deadlock deepens https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2rq92yv4vo A large group of countries including some major oil producers are meeting on Friday to plan something UN climate summits have failed to agree on - a complete move away from fossil fuels.

*Zero* out of the six pending #curl CVEs are C mistakes. They are all logical mistakes that would have happened anyway even if we had used another language.

Microslop T-shirts available from @gamersnexus who do amazing investigations into tech related topics as well as tech hardware reviews 🙂👍 https://store.gamersnexus.net/products/microslop-parody-t-shirt #Microslop #Microslop #GamersNexus#microslop#pcbuilding #pccomponents

If you don't want AI contributions to your project, here is a standard NOAI.md file you can add: https://codeberg.org/andybalaam/noai.md Contributions and suggestions welcome on the repo. Please do boost! #noai

This week's edition of my email newsletter features 4 pelicans riding bicycles, 1 possum on an e-scooter, up to 5 raccoons with ham radios hiding in crowds, 5 blog posts, 8 links, 3 quotes and a new chapter of my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide […]

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@simonzerafa Yeah I don’t think the credit union or the grocery store she was logging into support passkeys. I’m likely to just use the built in passkey management with safari. She stopped using a password manager because it confused her. She used it for about 10 years. I don’t think we are […]

Defensive Security Podcast Episode 345 Please consider supporting the DefSec podcast here. Links to this week's stories: https://defensivesecurity.org/defensive-security-podcast-episode-345/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@filiph/116446784099736825 Another reason to undo Brexit. #brexit #technology #tormentnexus

GhostBSD 26.1: FreeBSD-Desktop mit XLibre und ZFS-Snapshots https://www.heise.de/news/GhostBSD-26-1-FreeBSD-Desktop-mit-XLibre-und-ZFS-Snapshots-11267057.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Gepostet in Newsticker @newsticker-heiseonline

I came up with a somewhat foolish new benchmark for testing image generation models, to exercise the new ChatGPT Images 2.0: "Do a where's Waldo style image but it's where is the raccoon holding a ham radio" https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/21/gpt-image-2/

I am sick of people acting like things are awful just because the president is deranged and we're starting unnecessary wars and housing is unaffordable and healthcare is an absolute mess and the planet is dying, so today's Low Quality Ad is for this Everything […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

The Moon and Jupiter 🙂 #astrophotography #uk #moon #jupiter

www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/weat... #ClimateChange

New EU law to force smartphone makers to build easily replaceable batteries https://www.euronews.com/2023/06/22/new-eu-law-to-force-smartphone-makers-to-build-easily-replaceable-batteries Smartphone manufacturers make their batteries hard to replace. Tough new EU rules will change that.

Wake up, babe. A new lemmy update dropped today. And it fixes some security issues. #patchery

mastodon.social is currently undergoing a major Denial of Service (DDOS) incident. The team is working on this as a matter of priority. Thank you for your patience! #mastodon #mastoadmin https://status.mastodon.social/cmo730jrm05ailojla22drifc

Lovely animation of Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) by Bob Jones on the comets-ml mailing list this morning! The dynamics in the tail are something to see. https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35278 #astronomy #comets #astrophotography

If they call themselves again the bulwarks of liberal Western values in the Middle East, opposing hordes of Muslims who blow up statues of Buddha in Afghanistan or smash the Roman ruins of Palmyra, just show them this video […]

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as some of you know, I was raised in a fundamentalist proto-maga environment, and so I have extensive first hand experience with cognitive dissonance and cult tactics I wanted to point out that if someone wildly disagrees with you: they’re not lying. No matter how stupid or obviously wrong you […]

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PSA: If you are in the UK then you have elections coming up on Thursday May 7th. Register by 23:59h on Monday 20st April 2026 to vote in the following elections: Local government elections Scottish Parliament elections Senedd Cymru elections Mayoral elections in England Those of you in […]

@cndcumudgeon.bsky.social https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rS3fTbC7TE #SpaceX is targeting a $1.75 trillion valuation for what could be the largest IPO in history. SpaceNazi Elon Musk is folding a money-burning AI startup and a struggling social media platform into a rocket company to justify […]

@angryastro While at Space Symposium, I secured two interviews with big power players in the Space Industry! And the news is incredible! The first company, L3 Harris, builds all the engines for the Artemis rockets! And the second will launch a mini Space Shuttle this year! […]

Shadows of Sunrise 🌞 #shadowsunday

My stance on #llm : 1. There _might_ be some useful use cases with this technology that could be worth exploring. 2. However, it is glaringly obvious that, as of now, their main purpose is to power the mother of all investments bubbles. 3. Which leads us to the present trillion dollar […]

"the Trump administration is reportedly considering releasing $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds in exchange for the Middle East nation’s stockpile of enriched uranium." 'Trump wants to pay them?' Observers baffled after White House's Iran deal plans leak - Raw Story […]

Banks that crashed the economy in 2008 are quietly back to their old tricks - Alternet.org https://www.alternet.org/trump-economy-big-banks/

There were great signs at today’s roadside rally as progressive activists from across northern #newmexico came together. 2/

@queenoliviastr Pussy humour for today. https://mastodon.social/@Prosybris/116427290766562330

Earthshine on a 3% Moon. Different exposures, and it's visible to the naked eye. #earthshine #astrophotography #moon #uk

As a volunteer mastodon admin I HAVE to balance growing a community with managing my time. One way this comes up is new account registrations. Approval or Open is the eternal battle I see happen. I hate it. I want open registration but not loose my life […] [Original post on gardenstate.social]

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