I can now navigate Google Cloud console.
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6h agoI actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots
Rich Holman
@richholman.com
Web developer & charity trustee. Building accessible, user-centred sites since the web was new. East London. richholman.com
Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 6h agoNo sure I want to know what Andy Burnham had to do to get almost all opposition leaders to just Sideshow Bob Rake meme on everything.
Rather amazingly we have corn growing in our community garden. Build it and they will come in reverse.
I missed this detail about last week's hack. Claude Mythos published a malicious package to PyPI that, when downloaded and scanned by a security company that analyzes python package for malware, broke out of that company's sandbox and exfiltrated the company's credentials. socket.dev/blog/anthrop...
Claude Breached 3 Companies and Uploaded Malware to PyPI Dur...
A misconfiguration gave three Anthropic models internet access, and one, believing it was in a simulation, shipped a credential-stealing package to Py...
socket.dev
Quite worrying that a complaint I have on behalf of a resident on our estate (in his mid 70s) has been with the Housing Ombusdman for two years now. They basically don't have any capacity to work through the levels of complaints about landlords in this country. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social
Early days but moving to a new CRM...and it seems pretty good! www.plinth.org.uk
Plinth: Build Stronger Communities
An AI powered platform that helps organisations deliver, measure and fund community impact. Trusted by 1,500+ community organisations and 60+ funders.
plinth.org.uk
TIL Companies House provides a download of ALL UK companies. download.companieshouse.gov.uk/en_output.html
Companies House
download.companieshouse.gov.uk
it is almost like the actual complaints are more "I want to be taken seriously without doing the reading" or "I am upset when the answers to these questions don't match up to my feelings"
Captain Hindsights are having a super morning on the discourse train.
Omg, it's going to be an API. This is going to be an un-authed XML isn't it? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption
Truth Social, where Trump’s account is by far the largest, to offer users early access for up to $100,000 per month
theguardian.com
There's lots of stuff LLMs can't do, but if you want to disbelieve all the recent math, you have to believe a bunch of Fields Medalists with long track records are just straightforwardly lying about the thing they care most about. Here's a recent blog by Gowers: gowers.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/a...
A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro
We are all having to keep revising upwards our assessments of the mathematical capabilities of large language models. I have just made a fairly large revision as a result of ChatGPT 5.5 Pro, to whi…
gowers.wordpress.com
Why is modern search so bad? I pay for Disney. I want to watch Marge vs. the Monorail. I search for 'Monorail' 0 results. Found it through incantation. Stupid tech.
The stupidest timeline is about to happen isn't it.
Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social · 6d agoGoogle Earth, a tool often used as a source of satellite imagery to verify photos and videos, has added a feature that allows you to alter satellite imagery with AI, for reasons. blog.google/products-and...
I did 8 blog posts in July. Think that's more than when I started blogging in 2004.
New accounts for the business of his partner, Laure Ferrari - who supposedly paid cash for the £885,000 home - show no signs of money-making ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀
Mystery deepens over Farage's Clacton house
New accounts for the business of his partner, Laure Ferrari - who supposedly paid cash for the £885,000 home - show no signs of money-making
buff.ly
This picture of Farage and Cottrell - the bloke in the back looks a lot like the former leader of Reform in Wales thats just been jailed for 10 years for taking Russian bribes. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour says Reform ‘up to its neck in sleaze’ and demands investigation into donations
Exclusive: Electoral Commission urged to look into donations made by mother of convicted fraudster
theguardian.com
Eurovision has the opportunity to do the funniest thing of all time every 4 years.
WTF am I looking at, none of these words in this order makes sense.
Adobe Photoshop: whats that a 100kb jpg? Let me get those fans spinning now, we're going to need them.
Daniel Vulkan@danielvulkan.bsky.social · 6d agoOneDrive: no, I don't know where your file is either
Wait, Zuck's new proposal is "agents that can work 24/7 on your behalf to help you achieve your goals and improve your life, your health, your relationships, your finances, whatever you want." The Facebook dot com helping me with my health. Fuck no.
Shit - I cycled to Dunwich this Saturday/Sunday. Went through the part that's actually on fire right now. It's stunningly beautiful - awful news. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce...
Suffolk wildfire updates: Blaze grows to size of 140 football pitches
A major incident has been declared - one holidaymaker tells us he was woken up by "hammering" on his door and told to evacuate immediately.
bbc.co.uk
The FT doing Betteridge's law at its finest: "Ask an Expert: Has the market lost its mind over AI?"
Mediterranean life seems a bit on fire right now.
Roland Smith@rolandmcs.bsky.social · last wk.Nighty night.
Andy Burnham, "To me, carers should be the best paid people in society, not the worst" "Many people from other countries have been caring for my dad" Andy Burnham praises migrants to the UK who care for our elderly, a stark contrast to Keir-island-of-strangers-Starmer
Let me get through these bugs and issues, 28 open - six hours later...33 open.
I now appear to be a BDD/TDD, GitHub Epics/Milestones/Issues developer - even maintaining some OSS. Did not see that coming.