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johnlyle.com

British parent with interests in technology, security, and 90s computer games. Previously a software engineer at a large social network (not this one). He/him.

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Bloody hell, Sinners is a great film.

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

Farage echoes JFK Jrs sick, twisted rhetoric re autism/SEND👇🏼🤬 There’s no depths the toxic, little turd won’t plunge, chasing attention, power and to please his right wing financial backers❗️ He claims learning difficulties are hugely over diagnosed in the UK Well I diagnose him a parasitic pr*ck 🤷🏼‍♂️

submitted 52 days ago • 30 comments

Being disabled does not make someone “a victim”, Nigel Farage. Having state support to go to school does not make someone “a victim” either. These kind of remarks are in many ways why I wrote Who Wants Normal? Disabled young people deserve more than this vile narrative.

submitted 53 days ago • 17 comments

It takes a true arsehole to decide that the REAL problem is children with special educational needs. If you know how expensive and hard it is to get a diagnosis for a child, you will also know how WILDLY fucked up this is.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Stand up for trans rights 🏳️‍⚧️ Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the rollback of trans rights in the UK. goodlawproject.org/s/851fc4

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

“The Trump administration intends to terminate US financial support for Gavi, an organization that saved millions of lives over the past 25yrs by helping purchase vaccines for children in developing countries, as well as to significantly scale back support for efforts to combat malaria”.

submitted 80 days ago • 1 comment

This is the worst kind of management - “make it cheaper!” Without giving direction on the required trade-offs. It’s sure to result in a less efficient, disconnected set of cuts that have a worse outcome than a clear mandate to reduce X or Y service consistently everywhere.

submitted 85 days ago • 0 comments

Keir, please just put up our taxes a bit. I don’t want to save money by making people with disabilities poorer.

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

A challenge for any social network is that humans make mistakes. At 99% precision - unrealistically good - if one account has 100 posts reported, there’s a good chance either a post or the account gets removed. Mass reporting can be frustratingly successful.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

Do LLMs hallucinate so much because they lack training data where people said “I don’t know” when attempting to answer a question?

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

AI could have a very positive impact on teaching. AI to tailor assigned work to student interests, to be endlessly patient answering questions and to effectively be an always-on 1:1 tutor. But it shouldn’t reduce the number of teachers it should increase the impact of teaching.

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

Everyone wants to cut “administrative overhead”. But you have to do that by cutting the need for administration otherwise you are just shifting the admin work to other people. Oh, and those other people are specialist, expensive, hard to hire, and are now unhappy and inefficient. Great job.

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

I am not an economist. But it seems like the fundamental problem (why the UK is broke) is wealth inequality, but government only has tools to tax income. How can that possibly be fixed when wealth is easily hidden and any tax on wealth would be inherently unpopular with political donors?

submitted 127 days ago • 0 comments

I'm really curious about the best ways to reduce wealth inequality without a lot of evasion. Property taxes seem one option, but do any others exist? Higher sales taxes on the most wealthy, somehow? More inheritance tax?

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not sure how any of this works, but if the US President can bring back TikTok can Sir Kier Starmer bring back the Matt Hancock app? Also maybe Ceefax? www.bbc.com/news/technol...

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

AI is a double-edged sword for education. If unchecked, AI tools could damage critical thinking skills and enable cheating. But the potential of personalised 1:1 AI teachers is really exciting and could radically transform educational outcomes. Overall, this is an area I'm very optimistic about.

submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment

AI for making small business more efficient seems like a really good opportunity to boost the economy. If every sole trader could have an AI assistant to do scheduling, accounting, invoicing, etc it would surely be a good thing. AI for fixing potholes? Less convinced. www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

I still can’t get used to Bluesky popping open links in my system browser of preference rather than a web view. It’s excellent, but also amazing how accustom I’d become to finding the “open in chrome” icon in other apps.

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

Diverse teams are the best teams. They perform better, make better products, and it’s more fun to be part of them. They are the peak of human collaboration. Equity and inclusion are necessary to ensure everyone on a team is treated with respect and empowered to do their best work.

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

I really like the "Expanding Atmospheric Sponge" analogy.

submitted 156 days ago • 0 comments

As a positive spin, Bluesky must be doing pretty well - spammers seem to think it’s worth monetising our attention here.

submitted 160 days ago • 0 comments

This is one of the best things I've read about engineering culture this year. Thank you @mcfunley.com egoless.engineering

submitted 194 days ago • 0 comments

We are pretty obviously in an AI bubble right now. Companies are being insulated from failure due to optimistic VC funding. Given bubbles in tech are common, does anyone have a prediction for how this one bursts? Loans get called in? A big player or much-hyped product falls? An IPO goes badly?

submitted 206 days ago • 0 comments

As a user I agree intuitively - I want all the links! It will make spam a bigger (though not insurmountable) problem, as it'll make each spam attack more lucrative for driving traffic to external sites. But hopefully the content moderation efforts here will be up to the job.

submitted 209 days ago • 0 comments