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New comment by tweetle_beetle in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

tweetle_beetle — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:49:30 +0000

LinkedIn didn't even disavow people pretending to work for LinkedIn until someone had too much fun with it - https://chrisduffycomedy.com/blog/2016/11/2/6-months-as-the-...

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "Job: Head of Stonehenge"

tweetle_beetle — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:50:36 +0000

A salary of £180k put you in the 98th percentile of UK salaries in 2024 (99th percentile was only a little higher at £207k) [1]. With a household income approximately doubling that, i'd suggest your friend is in an even smaller minority.

The average house price in London in July 2025 was £565k [pp33 - 2].

There is not being able to afford something and then there is not being able to afford exactly what you want.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/personal-incomes-s... [2] https://data.london.gov.uk/download/24rpx/37w/Housing%20in%2...

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

tweetle_beetle — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:24:10 +0000

A very large and powerful government puts an awful lot of effort into making sure people don't reference a particular time their military vehicle made contact with a person standing still decades ago.

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

tweetle_beetle — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:15:07 +0000

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

tweetle_beetle — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:06:02 +0000

> My client was a utility company

> Adding a lot of pressure, this was a regulated monopoly

> Some requirements I derived: > ... > We had to meet WCAG accessibility (the team settled on AA rather than AAA)

The author doesn't doxx their employer by giving any dates, but if we take the story at face value and assume it took place in last few years, it is pretty shocking.

How does it take a single hero to be fighting for AA compliance as an afterthought for a project with this scope in the 2020s?

I've worked on much more niche projects that treated this with the respect it deserves as a quasi-legal requirement.

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

tweetle_beetle — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:07:00 +0000

Corfu has been a mainstream holiday destination for Europeans for half a century. I don't think it's really in the same category as Albania.

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "Dutch gov't will only allow European company to operate DigiD platform"

tweetle_beetle — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:16:39 +0000

I suspect that most government departments see data centers as a liability and are very happy to outsource to the big providers, apart perhaps from the ones hosting stuff they don't really want you to know about.

It's always better to be able to blame a supplier for something going wrong if you're a senior leader or politician. For some reason, if it does happen no one has to resign.

There is loads of UK Critical National Infrastructure on AWS, probably Azure too. And the Home Office put up £10 million tender to shut down an old data centre not that long ago without a confirmed replacement - https://www.find-tender.service.gov.uk/Notice/018193-2024

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "Ferrari Luce"

tweetle_beetle — Tue, 26 May 2026 14:12:44 +0000

The page proclaims "A Ferrari is forever" underneath showcasing an app for chasing climate control. Durability/preservation and companion apps don't go hand in hand.

It could be like the specialist supercar garages keeping a specific model of 90s Compaq laptop which run DOS with custom cards as they're the only way to interface with McLarens F1s. In 2050: "We keep an iPhone 13 with the app loaded which has never been allowed to connect to the internet so we can move the seats back".

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

tweetle_beetle — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:42:11 +0000

Isn't Venice as problematic/artificial as suburbia in its own way? If you're saying car-free then I assume you mean the centre, where the real population is tiny (compared to San Francisco at <50k), aging, declining amd dwarfed by tourists. My understanding is that it's increasingly meeting needs of tens of millions of ultra short term visitors rather than real communities. It feels like there must be a wide range of happy medium places in between.

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "Dogme 25 – Vow of Chastity"

tweetle_beetle — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:52:28 +0000

That said, I'm not sure if new certifications are still being accepted. So there may have been uncertified Dogme95-compliant films made since that was never been in the official list.

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "Dogma 25 – Vow of Chastity (2025)"

tweetle_beetle — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:43:23 +0000

35 in total as of last year, with the most recent released in 2004

https://web.archive.org/web/20250215082603/http://www.dogme9...

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "Tesla Solar Roof is on life support as it pivot to panels"

tweetle_beetle — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:21:40 +0000

To extend your metaphor further, it would be like also giving them performance bonuses and building them a new home office which they then rent out on AirBnB on the strength of those predictions.

> Tesla acquired SolarCity for $2.6 billion partly on the strength of this vision [of producing thousands

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "When everyone has AI and the company still learns nothing"

tweetle_beetle — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:40:26 +0000

I once met someone who refused to engage with leadership using his team's story points as a direct measure of productivity. To make it harder to extract the data and compare against other teams, they moved to using names of animals to represent types of task associated with differing amounts of uncertainty.

I've also seen a supplier who was asked to provide some kind of tracking, where literally nothing existed. Their delivery team produced reports with story points per person, per task, per sprint. Every sprint, every person hit their target month after month after month. They were asked to stop.

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "American Dads Became the Parents Their Fathers Never Were"

tweetle_beetle — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:21:54 +0000

If your limit for being slightly out of your comfort zone is a year, why did you have a child? You don't have to be a parent to know that you are going to be challenged when a baby arrives.

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "New mechanical panoramic film camera from Jeff Bridges"

tweetle_beetle — Fri, 01 May 2026 12:58:24 +0000

Amusing that's he's praised the original for it's lack of precision and predictability, which makes it more "human" and "honest", then spends loads of money refining it. Must be craving precision crafted dishonesty in his photography these days.

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "Sidephone: A minimalist Android phone with swappable USB keypads"

tweetle_beetle — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 13:59:28 +0000

Looks like it is

https://docs.sidephone.com/en/articles/13656688-replace-the-...

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "Notion leaks email addresses of all editors of any public page"

tweetle_beetle — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:52:19 +0000

Confluence and Notion are not equivalent products. Docmost looks to be similar to Confluence - a full fat wiki, but the whole point of Notion was its database-like features.

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "The Economics of Software Teams: Why Most Engineering Orgs Are Flying Blind"

tweetle_beetle — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:29:26 +0000

As with most things, isn't the truth somewhere in the middle? True cost/value is very hard to calculate, but we could all benefit by trying a bit harder to get closer to it.

It's all too common to frame the tension as binary: bean counters vs pampered artistes. I've seen it many times and it doesn't lead anywhere useful.

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

tweetle_beetle — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 08:47:03 +0000

Apparently they are yet to be successful - https://www.chp.ca.gov/news-alerts/Success-Stories/

New comment by tweetle_beetle in "I'm reluctant to verify my identity or age for any online services"

tweetle_beetle — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:24:00 +0000

Is it that much different? In the past if you downloaded the wrong file, you could get ads opening constantly, a new toolbar taking over your browser, data scraped and sent off to a mystery server, or have some process maximise your compute.

This accounted for most of the risks on the wild west internet, but the worst case scenario of permanently losing data or having to reinstall Windows was actually rarer than it was made out to be imho.

These days the common risks are the same, except they're no longer risks - all of those have been built into the fabric of everyday internet usage and criminals have been replaced by businesses. It's like the cliche about Vegas being better when it was run by the mob.