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I catalogued over 500 hours of Youtube footage for a website that lets you stare out the window of a train, and also control the weather somehow train.samismith.com

And den hi go take dem to di bowling alley

Mmm.. don’t think I’m on board with this take. Yes some of the proposed changes for v2 were dropped, but others were added in; there is no “weakening” of existing stuff happening. Also it’s still the strongest regulatory regime for telecoms *anywhere* by far!

One of the sad things about AI is that badly drawn photoshop was so much funnier

!! … ah

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

This is nice but I feel they’ve missed a trick by not including a cord in her back that you can pull to make her say “Twisted flax please, Victoria”

There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.

Q. Who aligns the aligners? A. alignmentalignment.ai Today I’m humbled to announce an epoch-defining event: the launch of the 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗜 𝗔𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗖𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀.

It belongs in a museum!

Unexpected savannah in seating area #caturday

Happy Yorkshire Day to those who celebrate. I will be marking the day with usual traditions - watching a super cut of Sean Bean saying bastard and going up onto Ilkley Moor without a hat.

I mean it’s a bold choice

Cat thermometer says “it’s too warm to be a longhair today” #caturday

This is unhinged but in an endearing way. TOTP-like port knocking! www.ainfosec.com/tnok-next-ge...

I talked to 15 teachers/professors about how AI and ChatGPT is ruining their lives: www.404media.co/teachers-are...

this is so so embarrassing I can't believe they showed this in public as if it's a good example of what generative AI can do www.404media.co/star-wars-sh...

What I like about role-playing games is that they allow you to act out power fantasies that you could never achieve in real life.

Oof. Reportedly, if you got a certificate from SSL.com by putting "example[@]gmail.com" at _validation-contactemail.example.com, they would add gmail.com (!!!) to your verified domains. A good reminder to use the CAA record, and to sign up for CT monitoring (e.g. Cert Spotter). https://bugzilla.mo

Multiple Oracle cloud customers have reached out to me to say Oracle have now confirmed a breach of their services. They are only doing so verbally, they will not write anything down, so they’re setting up meetings with large customers who query.

Cannot unsee

Back in my day if you wanted to watch a video of the Oregon State Highway Division use dynamite to blow up a whale you had to think long and head about if you were gonna tie up the Internet for a few hours

Zyxel says it has no plans to patch two *actively exploited* flaws in its routers affecting thousands of customers. Instead, Zyxel is advising customers to replace affected devices and buy new routers. However, the buggy routers are *still* available for purchase. techcrunch.com/2025/02/05/r...

This old post from accounting firm RSM deserves more attention. Many internet businesses give awards to "white hat hackers" who find bugs/exploits in their code. But, in the UK, these awards are likely taxable. HMRC should publish guidance.

So @daveeddy.com was just telling me about systemd sockets and how changing the port in sshd_config doesn’t actually work….. I uhhh…

ONCE MORE WITH FEELING

Sometimes grateful that Google's AI can't be turned off

It's that time of year where I post this one

This is great. As someone who really struggled with maths through a set of uninspiring teachers who couldn’t/wouldn’t explain *why* any of the things they drew on boards were important, this even got me engaged.

lol, and indeed lmao.

I’m old enough to remember when they promised they wouldn’t bring back EU roaming fees, too www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We're pleased to publish our annual report into the State of Vulnerability Disclosure in Consumer IoT, on behalf of the IoT Security Foundation. The creation of the report was kindly supported by @hacker0x01.bsky.social . More details in our blog here: copperhorse.co.uk/vulnerabilit...

I did it! I wrote up my Posting Middle Classes Theory, and tried to explain why I think Threads failed where Bluesky succeeded: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/down-in-th... (free to read)

Half Life 2 being 20 years old today has made me feel like I just drank from the wrong grail.

Yesssss