Tom Morris

Watched that Louis Theroux manosphere documentary where that dude was like "what did women ever do to build the modern world?"

Well, for a start: the broad concept of computer programming, the first compiler, radio frequency hopping, numerous programming languages, the pertussis vaccine, chemotherapy, gas-powered central heating, and the use of the electric guitar for rock'n'roll.

God knows how to weigh those achievements up against hosting podcasts and wearing ill-fitting suits.

Time to check in on how news written by a lie generating robot is going.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/buzzfeed-disastrous-earnings-ai

“It’s inevitable!!!”

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx28v08jpe7o

Oh look, a change that’ll actually increase online safety way more than censoring the internet ever will.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cge84xqjg5lo

I am absolutely fully done with "yeah, but you don't read the machine code that comes out of your compiler" as a justification for the current silliness.

I haven't ever used a compiler that had --vibe-spiciness=high or whatever as a compiler option, so maybe go ask the chatbot you use instead of thinking to come up with a better analogy.

Me: "why is this person sharing absolutely garbage tech advice that makes no sense at all?"

*clicks through to profile*

Profile pic is a dude in a suit, and the posts are all like this:

"Why people are missing out by not using Claude for [some task]" then you jump back a week and it's "Why people are missing out by not using Gemini for [the exact same task]" and the posts are exactly the same except for the name of the AI model.

I really miss the web having information not slop.

"At a Morgan Stanley conference this month, Brian Robins, finance chief for San Francisco-based software maker GitLab, said GitLab is aligned with the goals of DOGE, because the company’s software tools aim to help people do more with less."

So, yeah, Forgejo and Codeberg. They're pretty good.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/09/doge-companies-warnings-sec-filings/

JSON inside environment variable inside YAML? DevOps was a mistake.

I will vote for whichever London mayor promises to ensure that pub toilets are in the same tube zone as the rest of the pub.

Atlassian are one of the few companies where embracing AI can't possibly make their product any more shit than it already is.

Generative AI creates endless mediocre falsehoods. That's most of the content of the average JIRA board, so it is a perfect match.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/atlassian-lay-off-about-1600-people-pivot-ai-2026-03-11/

If you want to make public services easier to use, maybe just do that?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62d1ql5w0vo

Perhaps we could institute a VIP lane for AI. Maybe Michelle Mone could find some slightly charred GPUs down the back of the sofa or something.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/03/10/uk-ai-action-plan-vaporware-crypto-bros-and-no-ai/

I'm trying to use scientific Python code today.

So far, I have managed to get it to work by downgrading Python to 3.9.6, letting uv pull in loads of old transitive dependencies, and just YOLO suppressing a bunch of "holy shit, the OpenSSL version you are depending on is genuinely terrifying" warnings.

All of modern science may in fact be held together on the back of one person in the lab not updating the OS on their laptop for fear of breaking absolutely everything.

RE: @vmstan@vmst.io

Having a CEO rather suggests not really decentralised.

If the AI nonsense wasn't enough to make people run away, Mozilla are committed to making the UI even less usable until there are absolutely no users left.

https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-is-working-on-a-big-firefox-redesign-here-is-what-it-looks-like/

British influencer who is very angry there are too many Muslims in Chingford moves to Dubai and gets to experience Middle Eastern geopolitics unmediated by the calming voice of Sir Trevor McDonald.

So glad the years of hardening of enterprise security are going to be undone by executives reading some bullshit on LinkedIn. Very cool. Pushing the boulder back up the hill for the 157th time is a guarantee of job satisfaction.

https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

The UK government want to make it so the Secretary of State can require age verification... for any website.

Plus some Henry VIII powers to amend or repeal primary legislation.

The Internet definitely needs a Lord Chamberlain.

https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/59-01/0383/amend/children_rm_ccla_0303.pdf

#Wikipedia and all the Wikimedia wikis are read-only.

In lieu of a full incident report, my professional opinion based on the publicly available information is "don't panic".

https://www.wikimediastatus.net/incidents/z7qjmqtrh8yq

RE: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

When laundering moral responsibility is the job, the exact brand of pseudorandom number generator doesn’t really matter.

News from a popular developer of a legacy x86 Steam compatibility layer that really doesn’t like the term “Microslop”.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/3068331/windows-12-rumors-features-pricing-everything-we-know-so-far.html

Removing physical buttons from hardware was one of the worst product design decisions in history and everyone involved should be publicly shamed.

This is another in the growing category of forks of good apps to repair the consequences of AI-induced brain damage.

https://gram.liten.app/

Ensuring that private messages are private isn’t “controversial”. Not end-to-end encrypting messages means they’re not private. Simple as that.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cly2m5e5ke4o

You need to submit proof of ID to look at a BlueSky DM, but consenting to trade all your data for a Clubcard is something an under 18 can totally do.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckg8r4nnx0yo

RE: @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social

The UK government’s official internet policy:

1. if you run a web forum or fedi instance, you need to do a bunch of paperwork to comply with the #OnlineSafetyAct to protect the kids.

2. if you are rich and run a neo-nazi website with officially posted virtual CSAM, politicians won’t leave despite that being a million times worse than anything you’d read on a forum about fixed gear cycling or a mastodon server run by some queer furries running arch for their polycule.

Incredibly coherent.