@GerardThornley@hachyderm.io

Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Jul 24, 2026

Replying to @cR0w@infosec.exchange

@cR0w@infosec.exchange Oh, no! What will we do when AI is sold to "terrorists cults and fanatical religious fringe groups"‽

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Jul 09, 2026

Replying to @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

@NanoRaptor@bitbang.social @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space The house I'm living in had a serious mouse or rat infestation some time before I moved in. I find old droppings all over - in the loft, under floors, inside the walls. (It makes me very careful where I put my hands when I'm working on the place.) I have a little UV light that runs on button cells but it only reveals stuff at very close range. I really should get myself a good bright flashlight and check out the whole crime scene in technicolour.

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Jul 09, 2026

Replying to @netopwibby@social.coop

@netopwibby@social.coop @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I discovered a few years ago that under the right light, green eggs really are a thing. It's probably best to avoid the ones that do this though.

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Jul 09, 2026

Replying to @pH_0x05@infosec.exchange

@pH_0x05@infosec.exchange @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social I was once told how hotel cleaning staff "efficiently" clean a room, including any non-disposable cups or glasses that may be provided. Let's just say if you want to drink from a glass, it's probably best to bring your own. At least tea or coffee made with boiling water should kill most things. I should say, I _hope_ that the method described doesn't apply to _every_ hotel. But if it does - please don't tell me !! And never ever take a UV light into a hotel room!

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @mattblaze@federate.social

@mattblaze I guess that's much the same as NM. I was north of Albuquerque a few years ago and witnessed (to me) quite an impressive storm pass over the city. I got a few reasonable handheld shots, though I don't have them to hand to share. The next morning we saw how much damage had been done - the ground, softened by heavy rain, had given up many of the city's trees in the face of unusually strong winds.

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Apr 20, 2026

"You've been doing wrong!"

And then the video demonstrates a really dumb way of doing that's only barely better than the most ignorant way possible. 🤦‍♂️

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Apr 20, 2026

Replying to @nickzoic@aus.social

@nickzoic@aus.social @tubetime@mastodon.social exactly the thought I had, too. 😮

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @SuperSelena64@vmst.io

@SuperSelena64@vmst.io @nina_kali_nina@tech.lgbt I've a feeling this will feel familiar to you. 🙂

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Apr 14, 2026

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Yeah... I haven't read it in detail, but the bits I saw left me with the impression that more than one of the adults involved were rather put to shame by the actions of primary-age girls who never should have had to find that level of courage in the first place.
The scale of the harm is appalling.

mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Neil Brown (@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk) - mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Apr 13, 2026

Replying to @rygorous@mastodon.gamedev.place

@rygorous yeah, it's ridiculous suggesting it's parmiggiano reggiano. It's obviously a really well aged cheddar.

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Apr 11, 2026

@campuscodi@mastodon.social Joke's on them. I'm still using 56kbps dialup.
Now, hasn't that paper finished downloading yet?

mastodon.social

Catalin Cimpanu (@campuscodi@mastodon.social) - Mastodon

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Apr 11, 2026

@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk Personally, I like the BBC serialisations of the George Smiley books. And fans of the Bond age will probably also appreciate the Blau Diamant scenes from the third episode of Smiley's People.

mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

Neil Brown (@neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk) - mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Apr 03, 2026

@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social recommend checking it over with luminol.

cyberplace.social

Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social) - Cyberplace

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Mar 24, 2026

Replying to @cm@chaos.social

@cm @briankrebs oh no, not a government-control-of-the-internet gap?!!

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Mar 23, 2026

Replying to @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems

@whitequark@social.treehouse.systems not a paper *deliberately* about genetic algorithms, then?

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Mar 17, 2026

Replying to @mayintoronto@beige.party

@mayintoronto@beige.party @RuthMalan@mastodon.social Yeah, a place I worked at had feature requests that sat on the backlog for years. The backlog tool was an internally developed system and I spent one hackathon seeing what lessons I could learn from all our historic data. Especially interesting was a graph I made: I drew one line for each major feature request. The x axis was calendar dates, the y axis was our ETA for that feature as calculated on each date - that is, how long it would take to complete, including the time to complete all the higher priority features before it. The interesting result this graph demonstrated was that once the ETA for a feature was more than about 2 years in the future, it usually became longer rather than shorter as time went on. There was a kind of event horizon visible in the graph, beyond which planning was meaningless. The honest and courageous thing to do would have been to remove everything beyond 2 years in the future from the road map. I leave it as an exercise for the reader to guess whether that was what we actually did... (Incidentally, I believe the 2 year threshold was specific to that product and sector, and may be at the longer end of the curve. I would anticipate that this planning horizon would change according to things like the regulatory system, the type of customers, the rate of change in the market, and so on.)

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Mar 17, 2026

Replying to @funkula@goblin.camp

@funkula

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Mar 09, 2026

Replying to @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io

@ohir@social.vivaldi.net @stinerman@mastodon.social @malwaretech@infosec.exchange That said, I also don't want to live under mass surveillance (by govs _or_ corps) and think LEAs shouldn't be able to break anonymity frivolously. But for most people living in democratic systems, I think over-reach (which will always be a danger) needs to be addressed legally and politically, rather than technologically. There are obviously variations between countries and over time in how much freedom there is to pursue such remedies. Because of that, some people do have a greater need to protect their identity. I think it's okay for that not to be easy. I'd also suggest that most people complaining about proton are probably not members of this category.

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Gerard @GerardThornley@hachyderm.io · Mar 09, 2026

Replying to @ohir@social.vivaldi.net

@ohir@social.vivaldi.net @stinerman@mastodon.social @malwaretech@infosec.exchange Indeed, I don't think most people would want to live in a world with *unbreakable* anonymity - there are some people who really do need to be tracked down and prosecuted. For instance, I wouldn't want child pornographers to be free to continue their activity with impunity.

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