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On encryption backdoors: Emergent Harms in the Security Group at the University of Cambridge have put out of a researcher paper around how over half of all cybercrime court cases in the UK are prosecuting UK police officers for abusing systems access […] [Original post on cyberplace.social]

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your outie uses git checkout -b rather than git switch -c

submitted 9 days ago • 46 comments

Since the timeline is full of #FOSDEM thanks at the moment I'll add mine to the list — thanks for making me feel welcome and not asking me questions that were too difficult!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

whilst we're plugging our #fosdem talks, I'm doing mine about how I use geo stuff to make ambulance responses quicker and better in London: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4914-how-to-save-a-life/ saturday at 14:05!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Oh so by the way I'm speaking at #FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4914-how-to-save-a-life/

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Oh so by the way I'm speaking at #FOSDEM https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4914-how-to-save-a-life/

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

If you work with a database and are asked to alter the table structure to comply in advance for citizenship or gender categorizations it's really important to NOT do it. "The governor is concerned about all this stuff they want us to update our record keeping so we store both gender AND […]

submitted 38 days ago • 14 comments

PSA: if you don't mind, enable bridging of your Bluesky account to Mastodon/Fediverse by following @ap.brid.gy (unless you're cross-posting) - there are a lot of people who prefer Fedi but want to follow some folks who are only here 🦣

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Did you know, if you're in the UK, you can text the emergency services? But, you must register first. Text the word "register" to 999 and then follow the instructions. www.relayuk.bt.com/how-to-use-r...

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I'm sure there's a massive untapped market for "Dumb" tech. Bonus points for repairable, dumb tech. No AI assistants, no Internet connection, no DRM or login needed. Just a toaster that makes toast, a TV that plays only what you put in it, with repair kits, spare parts available, easy to […]

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out of office ON

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"New Year's Eve," "New Year's Day," and "New Year" are all capitalized. "Eve" and "Day" are often omitted, so if you have plans tonight, you could write that you're going to "a New Year's party" (because "Eve" is implied).

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-1 days since I wrote code with timezone bugs

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oh hey! I'm in this! https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/geospatial/ #fosdem #fosdem2025

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oh hey that thing we said was a bad idea is a bad idea

submitted 77 days ago • 26 comments

one fun thing about teaching adults is that if I say something that is true but doesn’t seem plausible people will just not believe me (this is fine, I don't automatically believe implausible statements people make either) anyway I'm spending a lot of time today reading the readline source […]

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Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg changed his Slack name to "Gone💀" and posted that he didn't want to work on WordPress anymore after a court injunction in the WP-Engine case https://www.404media.co/wordpress-wp-engine-preliminary-injunction/

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Eleanor Zigbee / Turns on the lights in a room where nobody wants them / Misrouted scene / Based on a message / Sent by the press of a button six hours before / Who was it fooooor? #HomeAssistant

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Back when I was poking around with filesystem fuzzing stuff years back, I noticed something odd: An EXT filesystem can tell the Linux OS how it should behave "if" the filesystem is corrupt, including triggering a kernel panic. In a world where USB thumb drives exist, this seems... not ideal […]

submitted 80 days ago • 6 comments

Friends, today is the day before Thanksgiving here in the US. Friday is also a holiday for many people here so that we have the day off to go buy stuff that looks like it is on sale but really isn't. What does that mean to you? It means that it is time. Time to push that code to production […]

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

🆕 blog! “Self Hosting is an Unhelpful Term” Mathew Duggan has a brilliant post called "Self-Hosting Isn't a Solution; It's A Patch". In it, he (correctly and convincingly) argues that compelling people to run their own computer services is a complex and distracting crutch for the current […]

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I have no interest in boxing but I hear Netflix messed up their coverage by being a streaming service. If only someone had written a blog post about how streaming is the wrong way to watch sports https://skye.fyi/2024/08/olympics

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connecting your smart TV to Ethernet because you like things being Ethernet but disabling the port on your switch because your television does not need internet access

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my favorite type of software has a bunch of environmental/cli overrides for dangerous options that force you to write out verbatim shit like "I_KNOW_WHAT_IM_DOING=1" "--i-know-this-is-a-bad-idea=true --accept-responsibility=true"

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who will I be seeing at #FOSDEM? #FOSDEM25

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