Giles

Giles

@maugt.bsky.social

Slightly crazy cyclist. maugt was my username at university and makes a somewhat globally unique handle.

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A week of Apple Intelligence on my iPhone and I deleted it. It used so much space my phone was no longer useful and it’s worse than either Chatgpt or Claude.

I agree. It’s really not that hard. I built a stronger sandbox for a hackathon project in 2 days.

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social

The Anthropic, Meta, and Google "breaking containment" incidents all resulted from setup errors (or a stunt) by the same company: Irregular. Irregular created a sandbox that wasn't really a sandbox because it had a live internet connection, and gave instructions that were then carried out online.

Exactly. AI isn’t the problem; it’s amateur sandboxes, financial incentives and collective delusion

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More things we don’t need generative ai to do because we can already do it l?

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net

This is pretty neat: ChatGPT Work and GPT-6 Astra (I used "Max") can take an address and produce a 5K/10K circular running route starting from that address, using OSM data simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/...

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My professional opinion, as a cybersecurity consultant who advises politically-sensitive clients on operational security, is that Signal is & remains the safest messenger for most people and most organizations, including ad-hoc groups of neighbors opposing fascist tyranny in their neighborhoods.

Great idea

The Rest of Us Party@restofusparty.bsky.social

This is our chance to fight back. Everyone that has had enough should email HR@opm.gov Tell them what you did last week! Flood the server and shut it down. Looking for eggs Watching your freedoms get taken away Drinking Saying that is now how the constitution works More drinking #Emails2DOGE

I rewatched mulholland drive after not having seen it since it came out. 🤯 but I didn’t remember it much at all 🤯. Now I think I have to watch it again.

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