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Rupert Goodwins

@rupertg.bsky.social

Tech hack. Hacks tech. Was Prince Philip. Wrote firmware for Clive and Alan, wrote words for decades, now Register columnist and creative tech at Civic Digits. Quite blind. Music, history, radio, science. Only robots have to be binary: YMMV.

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Rupert Goodwins@rupertg.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tried to find how to add TouchID to my Mac Mini sans the useless -- to me -- Magic Keyboard or Apple Watch. Apple: Fuck off, crip. You don't deserve biometric sec. Worse, caught myself muttering "I'm not going to burn any more tokens on this". AI Threat is more insidious than thought.

Rupert Goodwins@rupertg.bsky.social · 3w ago

Jammed in eye, bowmen sly, and ponies toddling For tonight I'm gonna slay old Harold Godwin Norman hordes flash their swords, make Saxons cry-oh Son of a gun, we'll have big fun on the Bayeux

Rupert Goodwins@rupertg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Two PR emails within five minutes, both startung EMBARGOED, which guarantees they are about companies I've never heard of doing things nobody cares about. One AI vertical rebranding snd snother with s product variation so tĥuddingly obvious it could be an Archers plot line? Oh boy. Right again.

Rupert Goodwins@rupertg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you have a third-party DNS server set up in your router, could you check on a DNS leak test site to see if your ISP is intercepting your DNS port 53 traffic and routing it to their servers anyway? I have Quad9, but Zen DNS seems to snaffle traffic unless I enable DNS-over-TLS.

Rupert Goodwins@rupertg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Today's urgent task: design earbuds with a transparent mode that filters out the phrase 'picky bits' and replaces it with the preferable sound of a whining Labrador with explosive diarrhea.

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SpacePolicyOnline@spacepolicyonline.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Report from Spain's La Razon newspaper about the fires near Madrid threatening NASA's Deep Space Network facility near Robledo de Chavlea, which has been evacuated. No damage to the DSN as of when that was written, however. www.larazon.es/actualidad/f...

El fuego arrincona la estación de la NASA de Robledo de Chavela

El avance de las llamas ha obligado a evacuar el municipio madrileño mientras los equipos de emergencia trabajan para proteger unas instalaciones clave para las comunicaciones con las misiones espacia...

larazon.es

Rupert Goodwins@rupertg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Not unrelated, how had I missed The Riches? Their producer slips in a solo on this one, no prizes for guessing who and the prog link...https://open.spotify.com/track/3cPtZw0oqMEkKlGSF0SLkc?si=gUcy5LWCSTqCI0tNtSYQ1Q&utm_source=copy-link

Rupert Goodwins@rupertg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Last night's Prog Rock Prom was a lot more fun than I expected. Carl Palmer and Peter Hmamill shaking hands after the closing great gates of Kiev elp style was particularly good -two old men and a drum solo.

Rupert Goodwins@rupertg.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Gbosrd on my Samsung tablet just shrank for no good reason -- again -- to unusable size. Had learned how to fix this from last time, but Settings has been reworked by a skilled sadist. Had to nuke and reinstall. Worst UX this year. Why, Google?

Rupert Goodwins@rupertg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Huge fan of public transport, abhor violence and try to practice compassion. However, having got home half an hour late after to missing my stop due to two rugtats' 100dB competitive whine-out of I wANT BOOBIE for 15 BLOODY MINUTES behind me on the bus, I'm in Club Ba'al's Learjet.