remember when coders used to be like "i rendered this entire fully raytraced 3d scene using just 4kb and i could have probably gotten it down to two and a half if the event was 3 days instead of 2", now all they know is ask claude, be on they phone, make chip hot and lie
Our first-ever keynote: Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social. Original L0pht vulnerability researcher, Veracode co-founder, and one of the first people to warn the world about insecure software. Boston hacker history, back on a Boston stage at MinuteCon. April 30 – May 1, 2027 minutecon.org
🚨July Speaker Update🚨 We've got a couple of brilliant talks lined up for July thanks to Harvey Baxter and @tomnomnom.com Meeting on the 8th July at the usual place and time - all details in the link: dc151.org/posts/july-2...
July 2026 Meetup - Harvey Baxter & Tom Hudson
July is upon us, and it’s time to announce this months speakers. We’re really excited to have both Harvey and Tom. Both of these speakers will be familiar faces as they’ve both spoken at DC151 quite a...
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Sometimes I say "I will die on this hill" about something I care about, but I'm increasingly thinking: you know, I don't have to die on the hill; I could just visit it often for picnics and such.
Instead of sending an email generated by an LLM, just send the prompt instead. It's shorter for the recipient to read, they can more clearly see your true intent, it's cheaper, better for the environment, and if they really want to: the recipient can feed it into an LLM to get the long version.
Just been reminded of what might be the wildest personalised plate I've ever seen.
Big Trouble In Little China With Big Naturals
Jeb-Shaped Dollthing@namelesswrench.bsky.social · 7mo agoImprove a movie title by adding "With Big Naturals"
There is a new autistic barbie out, but no one is talking about her mother, undiagnosed computer engineer barbie about to get the surprise of her life when she starts to argue with the evaluator that these are all normal childhood behaviours that she had when she was the same age.
This just in: calculator has apologized for saying BOOBS
Roberto Faria@betofaria.bsky.social · 7mo ago“Upside down calculator says ‘BOOBS’”
amazing talk. they decap and also reverse the custom roland jp8000 dsp chip, make a faithful emulation plugin, and along the way reveal the famous supersaw as simply 8 detuned, aliased (!) 2x oversamped naive saws. youtu.be/XM_q5T7wTpQ?...
another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
for example if it's a picture of their arse it means they're flirtatious
The Economist@economist.com · 9mo agoA new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Hey Amazon can you just use a decimal point like normal people so I don't have a fucking heart attack next time
Robots are my oldest special interest so there are so many to choose from. Here's one that terrified me
Kayin@kayin.moe · 8mo agoQuote with a robot that's not Star Wars or Transformers. Hard Mode: No Gundam, Battletech or Macross. ;)
Fair's fair, if I knew I'd be putting my name on this I wouldn't have been able to sleep either
Culture Crave 🍿@culturecrave.co · 8mo agoMcDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did' Comments have been turned off on YouTube
Accenture claim that tech debt costs $2.4T in the US alone. Which they should know, because they caused most of it.
A lot of folks know me for one or two posts, and might not know I've created nine (9!) visual explanations of computer science topics, aimed at practitioners. If you're looking for things to read this Thanksgiving, I think you'll love them. Computer science is a lot of fun, when explained well. ❤️
14 year old son just did an insult at me that made me laugh out loud: “old man, show us your landline”
Minority representation on TV causes outrage From the new Private Eye, in shops now.
One lesson from yesterday's AWS outage is that we found a flaw in the advice to "have a Signal groups with core staff as a backup channel during outages". (So change that to also have their phone numbers so you can use WhatsApp or Telegram or SMS if needed.)
