Paul Johnston

'In other words, we basically prove the adage "YOU CAN'T BRING FACTS TO A FEELINGS FIGHT"' Love it

good post and roundup by @jkriggins.bsky.social - what's next for DORA and the tech industry in measuring engineering team performance? i see Atlassian DX and AWS as key centers of gravity. Will be closely watching what @lauratacho.com and @nathenharvey.bsky.social cook up at AWS.

ppl screaming in my replies that AI does nothing while I can only move my fingers to type this post because of how good I was at using AI tbh

I get this. I really do. There are LOADS more games out there now, and clearly a lot of games created with AI. Skills never made businesses. Money does.

The other thing I wish we could admit is that every side of this could in a given case be wrong. Doctors can be wrong. Science can be wrong. Patients can be wrong. AI can be wrong. Whether we get to the best outcome with the information at hand has to be emergent

The US is now a terrible terrible place

MAKE IT A POSTER AND SELL IT

I am testing out posting again on X. A lot of the people I would expect to leave have not. And if anyone tells me that I'm in some way supporting Elon Musk then I will respectfully ignore your opinion.

Right then, so what are you actually stockpiling? Years ago, owing to a run of generous visitors from various points east, I had about 20 litres of finest vodka on hand which I figured could see me through for a while...

The rule now is: Don't use open source unless someone is being paid to maintain it. If not, be prepared to fix every security hole.

How it left Russia

You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.

So who / what's buying the free lunch? via @aaron.bsky.team

We're shipping CoPE-B-S1, an open-weight decision model tuned for safety use cases. It's a significant step forward for our CoPE family of models in a few ways. A thread: blog.zentropi.ai/meet-cope-b-...

this Halloween we're dressing as the ghost of The Museum of English Rural Life's PHP-powered website

Huh. Everything is slow. Not least Claude (at least for me). Maybe everyone is trying to patch everything and nobody wants to do it without Claude.

Worth a read. Having been a local party chair, I know how difficult the role is. Lots of support still out there for @zackpolanski.bsky.social.

The idea that this is "slashing red tape" is funny. This is the main reason for us not getting an electric car up to now. Victorian terraces need this, and that's a LOT of UK housing stock.

I love how everyone thinks that you just need to ISO the crap out of everything and you'll be fine. Are you good at cybersecurity? *Hands over ISOxxxxx* Jeff over there is an idiot though.

If you want to see what happens when you don't check for credentials going into repos, and you don't rotate credentials and so on and so forth... This feels like "this company is so bad at security we took everything"

Holy fucking shit. They got everything. This is bad. Very very very bad.

One of the things I've learned in recent months, is how you simply cannot rely on a supplier to disclose that they have been attacked. Their business is not your business. Their stakeholders are not your stakeholders. Assume every supplier will only disclose when forced.

I do think it's kind of funny to be someone who's been thinking and posting about like, human productivity and problem solving and the workplace for so many years before AI because people just cannot believe you could independently be interested in it forgive the millennial GIF but

I'm up to 5 *BIG* cybersecurity stories this week. And by big I mean just one of them would have the potential to be on mainstream news in a major country. And none of them are directly because of any of the AI firms which is amazing.

4 is not the magic number

Repost to make your cybersecurity friends cry

The Govt claiming we must drill more fossil fuels so we can use the tax revenues to fund the green transition is about as logical as a doctor telling you to smoke 2 packs a day to raise the money for your lung transplant You don’t put out a fire by pouring on more fuel 🔥#Jackdaw

the fact that an intermediate CA in India that sells only into the Indian market, when compromised, can generate TLS certs for literally any website on the internet, that feels like a major trust boundary problem

Not Laura Kuenssberg promoting the idea that local councillors are helplessly watching BBC 1 on a Sunday morning for guidance rather than... actually just democratically elected local leaders very capable of making their own decisions.

I'm sick and tired of Green Party members telling me that "Zionism is Racism". It's so unbelievably toxic as a statement and the way that many justify it sounds very much like antisemitism. It's naivety in the extreme. But they've been emboldened by the motion passing.

Seriously wondering if I can just build a startup, sell it, and check out of tech. It wasn't much fun before and it's even less now.

It seems a lot of people have no idea what's going on in regard to open weights The oligarchs stand against open and free technology. They want your rent. There's a significant movement amongst whom "alignment" and "trad values" are synonymous. They've played the anti-AI crowd for absolute fools.

#UKCanals Boat for sale! Ideal livaboard and writers retreat. Ask me how I know ;) www.davidmawbyboats.co.uk/motorboat/g-...

Just found out one of my wife's relatives found the largest nugget of gold in the Black hills and is buried next to Calamity Jane. Did he have a fun name? Meet: Potato Creek Johnny en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_...

In other news, I may be looking for something new in the next month or so. Not totally sure yet. The VC might want me to build a template for future startups for them.

Back To The Future For Tax Purposes

I see we're at the point in the data centre build-out conversation where we're being threatened with a good time 😂 www.techspot.com/news/114234-...

I find this fascinating. Zack has showed that social media can gain a huge following and build a party. Similar to what Farage has shown in reality. That popularity allows you to build a movement. The question is whether it's the right movement, or whether he has lost the philosophical roots

Anyone else playing Dressmaker? My daughters got me playing it. It's genuinely brilliant