jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 14/08/2026I hope all the people pouring over Jason Arday’s resignation letter with AI detectors feel good about themselves this evening. The guy got caught in a web of lies, paid the price with national humiliation, but people just had to keep kicking. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Is it just me or was the national phone alert for wildfires that just went out rather unnecessary? I'd hate to think of how many women there are out there trying to escape from abusive relationships who just had their secret burner phone go off like a fog horn. 001
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 26/06/2026If Apple keeps cancelling their middle and upper tier processors, we’re going to stop buying them (they’re rumoured to be cancelling M6 Pro/Max) over a base model. If you want to cancel, cancel the whole generation. Don’t screw your biggest spending customers with your old crap. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 27/05/2026Can we all just agree that Blair had his moment in the Sun and needs to keep his beak out of politics now. Any person who suggests the UK should get closer to Trump is totally morally bankrupt. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 22/05/2026I’m ashamed of how this country now treats trans people. That we have an equality and human rights commission who now actively promotes discrimination against a vulnerable group in society. Future generations will judge those who cheered it on. 140
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 21/05/2026I see Andy Burnham continues his race to the bottom - we’re now on performative immigration nastiness. Most short-lived political saviour in history. At this point I’m wondering if Angela Rayner or even Wes Streeting might be a better choice… 021
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Oh well, Andy Burnham failed the very first test to rule out actually changing something significant. Guess he’s been all things to all people up until now. 010
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Err, yeah they do. This isn’t a presidential system. He’s only elected as MP, not Prime Minister. People can’t get rid of him as an MP but they sure as hell can as a Prime Minister if he doesn’t have the confidence of his cabinet colleagues and/or the Parliamentary Party. 020
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 13/05/2026I’m sorry, but the idea that anyone thinks Wes Streeting of all people is going to be our saviour is just mind boggling to me. 010
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 28/04/2026I had no idea how bad Windows had gotten. It’s almost unusable now - just installed 11 on a clean VM four times, it’s just a nightmare. Forcing me to use online accounts, insisting on USB keys I don’t have and never created, failing to recognise my password, errors on even inputting my PIN. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 06/04/2026What kind of moronic court judgement would cap compensation without linking the cap to inflation? 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 25/03/2026For anyone who’s been put off by the cost of Apple Remote Desktop and the lukewarm reviews: I wish I’d ponied up for it years ago. Together with Tailscale it is so much nicer to support family using it than messing about with zoom sharing. 010
Reposted by @jimmoores.bsky.socialKate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 24/03/2026On this BREAKFAST CLUB detention day anniversary, I want you to know I am still mad about this makeover after decades :) John Hughes, what did you have against cool goth girls?! 3797639593
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 24/03/2026Oh, you’re saying it isn’t processed locally like the CTRL key is. I mean, that sort of kind of makes sense historically but I wish they’d just get rid of it now somehow. 100
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 24/03/2026But the bit i don’t get is why not just make it the CTRL key? Why add another, different key for CTRL? They could easily have had the Apple key act as CTRL in a terminal or emulator but instead someone chose to have both. 100
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I’d love to charge Apple for the 1.2 billion times I’ve hit CMD-C and then CTRL-C because I don’t know which one is mapped. Why couldn’t they just use the same key as everyone else? 100
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Only Apple could make an over-priced high end monitor worse. £3k for a 27inch display is a complete joke. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 08/01/2026So we need to plan ourselves out- buy into the French system for next gen. Have air-based tactical delivery option - which we’re currently inexplicably buying F35As for. This isn’t going away and a system dependent on the US is a chocolate teapot. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Didn’t realise that Peter Mandelson had become such a bonkers, toxic, apologist for the exercise of raw military power. Glad he no longer represents the UK. 010
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 26/12/2025Why do Apple make the iMac such terrible value? In fact the iMac plus the inflated cost of the Studio Display make putting together any kind of all-Apple desktop a non-starter. You have to buy at least some non-Apple gear to get any kind of value. I’m willing to pay an Apple tax, but £1000? 000
Reposted by @jimmoores.bsky.socialDurrell @durrell.bsky.social · 20/12/2025Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year 206189864808
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 30/11/2025@eufysecurity.bsky.social I’m not sure if you guys realise how off-putting having ads thrust into your security camera app is. I’m basically considering throwing out all the products I’ve bought from you and never buy from Eufy or Anker ever again. I didn’t pay to provide you with an ad platform. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 17/11/2025Taking the jewellery from vulnerable refugees rings some pretty disturbing historical bells. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 14/11/2025So let be get this straight. The chancellor has been indicating there will likely be income tax rises at the budget because it’s best for the national interest, but now she’s not going to do it to save Starmer from a challenge? These people are gutless and incompetent. No vision. No courage. 010
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 13/11/2025Couldn’t agree more with John Browne in the Grauniad about how the UK should get ban into the semiconductor game. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comUK firms can win a significant chunk of the AI chip market | John BrowneBritain’s legacy in chip design is world-class, and we could supply up to 5% of global demand if we get our act together 010
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 10/11/2025How about @vicderbyshire.bsky.social for BBC Director General? Be nice to have someone with some actual guts doing the job. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 06/11/2025When I last tried Debian, I was annoyed it took, like, three floppy disks to boot (I am that old). Now I try again, and it’s still shit. I need to install old versions and all the mirrors are broken and basic ISOs missing. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 27/10/2025Just realised I saw a third role where Jared Harris’ character committed suicide (Lane Pryce in Mad Men, Valery Legasov in Chernobyl and the Secretary of Defence in House of Dynamite). 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 21/10/2025Tell you what. OpenAI has a way to go convincing people to use their new Atlas web browser. Nowhere on the page for it does it say it’s a web browser. Nowhere. WTF? 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 29/09/2025So let me get this straight. If I pay for the content on Apple TV+, I can’t watch a show on my iPad and mirror it to the TV at the same time ‘because DRM’, the iPad screen goes blank. But if I had just pirated it, then I could. Right, got it. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Of course Starmer thinks what we really need is an ID system. Can we just get this over with now rather than wait until after the local elections? It’s such a waste of energy. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Anyone with a Disney+ subscription should join me in cancelling. Disney just fired the US later night host Jimmy Kimmel at the slightest pressure. This is a pathetic attack on free speech and it has to stop. The only thing these companies will understand is us refusing to be their customers. 020
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 16/09/2025No, and I think your voice sounds really nice. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Really not sure about the new iPhone 17 Pro design. The back and logo placement weird me out. And they’ve made the Apple logo too big in other places. Tiny details matter. I feel like they’re on the start of the shark-jumping ramp. 210
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Just caught up on this Angela Rayner story. Talk about a nothingburger. Somebody has it in for her, clearly. 020
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 30/08/2025I’ve been using Anthropic models via various tools and found them to be impressive. I went to sign up more directly but I’m spooked by their frankly casual privacy policy and TOS. They will give your personal data to whoever they want and your model inputs are fair game unless you opt out. 010
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 11/08/2025Why can’t windows have normal title bars any more? 010
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 10/08/2025@garyseconomics.bsky.social I broadly agree with the idea of wealth taxes but after looking at the numbers aren’t you overselling it a bit as a solution to inequality?Consensus seems to be a 2% wealth tax would raise £5bn - £20bn. Of course that’s welcome but it’s not game changing. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 08/08/2025At least I know now who’s been pinching all my Red Kryptonite… 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The only reason I can think of to explain why ‘The Pitt’, a spiritual successor to ER, isn’t available in the UK is because making decent drama is now banned. The industry can’t afford for this gem to slip out and make all the rest of the Disnetazon slop look as bad as it is. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 13/07/2025I had heard that iOS 26 Liquid Glass was a bit of a car crash, but seeing is believing. If beta 3 is an improvement, I’d hate to experience the initial ’vision’. My phone is now physically too hot to touch in some places, the scrolling stutters, and all some of my app icons are blurry. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 29/06/2025I’m watching North by Northwest and notice Cary Grant’s voice is weirdly familiar. Then it hits me, it’s from ‘Some like it Hot’ - the millionaire. But Grant isn’t in the film. Well apparently Tony Curtis had permission to do an imitation of Grant for the character! Great impression. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 29/06/2025Just watching LauraK on BBC and saw @vicderbyshire.bsky.social interview someone. I’ve never been able to understand why this woman isn’t running the whole show over at the BBC. She’s so brilliant and tough and prepared. 010
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I was just genuinely interested in where in London you were talking about. I live in a Lewisham now, not so many high end cars, I lived in Greenwich until recently, a lot more high end cars. 000
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 04/05/2025What I’d do is stop sitting on the fence with the US. That relationship is over for now. We need to pivot to Europe and positively sell it. At least rejoin the single market. And sell a positive vision for the future. Automation and AI to free rather than enslave people. 321
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Ok, but it would help to know where you’re talking about that has all these international wealthy people. Kensington and Chelsea, Camden, Barnet, Richmond upon Thames, I wouldn’t be surprised. Lambeth, Lewisham or Newham, I would be. 200
jimmoores.bsky.social @jimmoores.bsky.social · 03/05/2025I don’t know where you are living London, but the increase in high end cars has been a trend I’ve noticed for years. I wonder if some of that is attributable to middle class people who can’t ever afford to own a house and so feel they might as well splurge on leasing a nice car? 100
