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.
Happy Equinox! open.spotify.com/track/7b8Oh5...
Equinoxe, Pt. 4
Jean-Michel Jarre · Équinoxe · Song · 1978
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September 23, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Happy Equinox! open.spotify.com/track/7b8Oh5...
Also -- good luck Edinburgh itomorrow in the 12th European Tram Driver Championship in Warsaw! www.tramem.eu
TRAM EM
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September 18, 2026 at 3:53 PM
Also -- good luck Edinburgh itomorrow in the 12th European Tram Driver Championship in Warsaw! www.tramem.eu
Gotta love discovery -- email between Microsoft and OpenAI appears in court, reveals LLMs as toxic kleptofest destruying all they touch. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
www.404media.co
September 18, 2026 at 3:38 PM
Gotta love discovery -- email between Microsoft and OpenAI appears in court, reveals LLMs as toxic kleptofest destruying all they touch. www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
Morpho-functional innovations in Shibantan fossils fuel Ediacaran frond debates. Coffee and paleo-Youtube, show me a better way to start the day.
September 17, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Morpho-functional innovations in Shibantan fossils fuel Ediacaran frond debates. Coffee and paleo-Youtube, show me a better way to start the day.
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.
Worse, caught myself muttering "I'm not going to burn any more tokens on this". AI Threat is more insidious than thought.
September 14, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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.
Worse, caught myself muttering "I'm not going to burn any more tokens on this". AI Threat is more insidious than thought.
Ecstasies
Kian Ravaei, Benjamin Smolen · SPACES · Song · 2026
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September 12, 2026 at 6:39 PM
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
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
September 2, 2026 at 7:49 PM
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
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
What actually happened with the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident reads like an Iain M Banks novel, and not one of the lighter ones.. Just the opening chapter...
youtu.be/u15N3l4RT80?...
youtu.be/u15N3l4RT80?...
The OpenAI/Hugging Face attack, clearly explained
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
youtu.be
August 31, 2026 at 11:01 PM
What actually happened with the OpenAI/Hugging Face incident reads like an Iain M Banks novel, and not one of the lighter ones.. Just the opening chapter...
youtu.be/u15N3l4RT80?...
youtu.be/u15N3l4RT80?...
If you've done nothing wrong, please send me £13 billion and we'll say no more about it.
August 26, 2026 at 6:06 PM
If you've done nothing wrong, please send me £13 billion and we'll say no more about it.
Flock values their privacy. Oh well.
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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August 21, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Very good talk about creating reliable software -- yes, even in C, you crazy kids -- from SQLite inventor youtu.be/V_qzqY1bb7I?...
Reliability Lessons From SQLite - Richard Hipp | SSW 2026
YouTube video by Software Should Work
youtu.be
August 18, 2026 at 9:47 PM
Very good talk about creating reliable software -- yes, even in C, you crazy kids -- from SQLite inventor youtu.be/V_qzqY1bb7I?...
Yet to read the book. Already joining the fan club.
It’s official: the Nerd Reich podcast is getting banned from YouTube….the week of my book launch!
Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism.
They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work.
Buy the book:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Incredible timing, since I’ll be all over the media next week talking about tech fascism.
They can delete my account. They can’t stop my work.
Buy the book:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
August 15, 2026 at 8:56 PM
Yet to read the book. Already joining the fan club.
For some reason, the Spotify a\go is feeding me stoner pop, and I am not displeased.
open.spotify.com/track/0C2jnJ...
open.spotify.com/track/0C2jnJ...
Slip Away
Lael Neale · Slip Away · Song · 2026
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August 15, 2026 at 1:09 PM
For some reason, the Spotify a\go is feeding me stoner pop, and I am not displeased.
open.spotify.com/track/0C2jnJ...
open.spotify.com/track/0C2jnJ...
Found an intense postpunk new wave funk and experimental band from New York, full of energy and invention and clearly a good thing. Also clearly, with no idea what theirname sounds like to British ears. can;t stop laughing. Could not wear the T-shirt.
Sorry, Gorilla Toss.
youtu.be/bqICL_EwlOo?...
Sorry, Gorilla Toss.
youtu.be/bqICL_EwlOo?...
Guerilla Toss - Betty Dreams Of Green Men (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by DFA Records
youtu.be
August 6, 2026 at 11:03 PM
Found an intense postpunk new wave funk and experimental band from New York, full of energy and invention and clearly a good thing. Also clearly, with no idea what theirname sounds like to British ears. can;t stop laughing. Could not wear the T-shirt.
Sorry, Gorilla Toss.
youtu.be/bqICL_EwlOo?...
Sorry, Gorilla Toss.
youtu.be/bqICL_EwlOo?...
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.
August 5, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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.
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.
August 5, 2026 at 11:52 AM
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.
Jodrell Bank petition to keep funding the Lovell Telescope open. its annual budget is around a third of the House of Commons catering budget...
www.change.org/p/save-jodre...
www.change.org/p/save-jodre...
Sign the Petition
SAVE JODRELL BANK – Protect a national treasure of science, heritage and inspiration
www.change.org
July 29, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Jodrell Bank petition to keep funding the Lovell Telescope open. its annual budget is around a third of the House of Commons catering budget...
www.change.org/p/save-jodre...
www.change.org/p/save-jodre...
You do not turn off Jodrell Bank. Aux armes!
July 27, 2026 at 4:41 PM
You do not turn off Jodrell Bank. Aux armes!
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.
July 27, 2026 at 11:14 AM
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.
Reposted by Rupert Goodwins
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...
www.larazon.es
July 24, 2026 at 7:32 PM
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...
This may have been the most shimmering misguided steaming travesty of a Prom ever perpetrated.
July 21, 2026 at 10:36 PM
This may have been the most shimmering misguided steaming travesty of a Prom ever perpetrated.
You do NOT vibrato Dowland, you tenor Visigoth.
July 21, 2026 at 9:45 PM
You do NOT vibrato Dowland, you tenor Visigoth.
One day. you're watching an early '80s documentary about radio telecoommunications in Norwegian, and a little gem of radiophonic music pops up that you can track to source, and you feel that the day has been won.
youtu.be/wvczRu-bIJM?...
youtu.be/zXWW4ZCu_To?...
youtu.be/wvczRu-bIJM?...
youtu.be/zXWW4ZCu_To?...
Radio and Telecommunications in Norway in the 80's. Sea, Aereo, Oil rigs and shore communications.
YouTube video by SPARKS what's going on? (An Italian R/O channel)
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July 21, 2026 at 3:52 PM
One day. you're watching an early '80s documentary about radio telecoommunications in Norwegian, and a little gem of radiophonic music pops up that you can track to source, and you feel that the day has been won.
youtu.be/wvczRu-bIJM?...
youtu.be/zXWW4ZCu_To?...
youtu.be/wvczRu-bIJM?...
youtu.be/zXWW4ZCu_To?...
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
July 19, 2026 at 12:30 PM
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