Sign in

Matt Langley

@mattlangleyuk.bsky.social
193 followers 201 following 740 posts

Dev. C#/React day job, BASIC and Z80 on hotrod computers from the 1980s for fun. Enjoys the garden, wildlife, art, science, and wit (if you think I'm trolling you, the chances are I think I'm being humourously good natured). No DMs here, I'm afraid.

PostsRepliesMedia
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
I actually use it in my slider controls to specify conversion from 0-255 slider scale to whatever the slider is meant to display, and vice versa on input.
010
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
And supported variables, and most functions I believe. Probably not fn but I might test it.
230
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Given the interconnected world we live in, and Trump's refusal to accept defeat, and his repeated assertions that he will wipe out the Iranian people if he can't win, there's a very real possibility that they may directly have triggered the nuclear apocalypse. Now that's a legacy.
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
They're really not. They're political, and hierarchical, often being awarded to supervisors rather than the scientists, especially where the innovator is a woman. Obama's Peace prize was never explained, giving rise to an expectation from Trump which directly lead to him starting the Iran war.
110
Reposted by Matt Langley
Henrique Olifiers @olifiers.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I'll be at Crash Live! next week with an exclusive ZX Spectrum Next area and a bunch of people who are way smarter than me bringing on the future of the Next. Come, share a pint and check out what the community has been up to! www.tickettailor.com/events/fusio...
tickettailor.com
Buy tickets – CRASH! Live 2026 – Village Hotel
CRASH! Live 2026 – Village Hotel, Fri 16 Oct 2026 - Sat 17 Oct 2026 - Introduction
2203
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Not a problem; ask her about herself and her interesting, and I'm sure it'll work out.* Good luck. * I know nothing.
030
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Although not my primary source, here's an article on it: Iran Begins Production of First Ever Long-Range Missiles: Targets Across Europe Within Reach share.google/MThjnkOD3lTd...
share.google
Iran Begins Production of First Ever Long-Range Missiles: Targets Across Europe Within Reach
Iran has begun producing ballistic missiles with ranges beyond the approximately 2,000 kilometre limit it has publicly maintained for decades, according to Mohammad Akramiya, a spokesperson for the I…
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RAF Fairford update: the US has pulled it's bombers out in an emergency evacuation, which is frankly a relief, as providing bases so they can bomb made us a party to the aggression. Perhaps more importantly though, it's because Iran can now hit airbases in the UK with hypersonic missiles.
110
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Reassuring, TBH.
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That sounds a little sexist TBH.
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Table comparison of differences between actual intelligence and "artificial intelligence".
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Does calling artificial intelligence super intelligence mislead people into thinking it's actually intelligent rather than an iterative feedback weighted averaging engine?
Does calling artificial intelligence super intelligence mislead people into thinking it's actually intelligent rather than an iterative feedback weighted averaging engine?

Yes, using the term "superintelligence" heavily misleads the public by anthropomorphising what is essentially a highly advanced statistical correlation and prediction engine.
100
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Clearly he does, as he retreated to a space he knows the dog can't follow. My reading, right or wrong, is the interaction is canine pack dominance between socially bonded animals as both could have hurt the other if they wanted to, and didn't. I wouldn't allow it though.
000
Reposted by Matt Langley
Mike Dailly ™ @mdf200.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
FromFB: Remind you of anyone?
043
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Careful, if Trump sees this he's gonna see an easy win, and he needs one.
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Can I have one?
010
Reposted by Matt Langley
john.in.chicago @john-in-chicago.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Kitty's first mirror #Caturday
442811266
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Google squirms to avoid associating the question, "Is he dead yet?" to any specific public figure, even though it clearly knows who, because most people look for hope everyday.
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Still did a better job than the human it replaced.
021
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Which has got to make you question both Andy Burnham and Donald Trump. Releasing them on bail, well within the terrorism questioning time for civilians, and clearly not considering them foreign agents out of uniform who could be held until the end of the conflict, really underlines their duplicity.
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hmm, so Fairford: Police find 3 "Fuel 2You" vans with fuel tanks with some petrol in them, and a gang of 5 Londoners in their 20s in Balaclavas, who are then released on bail. No explosives. Smells like a fuel heist at a time of unprecedented fuel shortages, from the party who imposed the shortage.
100
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I think the reason Asia has been able to recover, is that they're not allied to the US.
010
Reposted by Matt Langley
Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
'Which taxes do you want to raise instead?' should be the default question to anyone who calls for reductions in immigration.
14433153
Reposted by Matt Langley
PhunkyPunk Ⓐ @phunkypunk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Well done for making that human car crash finally pay one of his bills gal. www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
yahoo.com
Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll finally has her damages
American journalist and writer E. Jean Carroll, the only person to successfully sue Donald Trump for sexual assault, told AFP she is finally free to spend the damages awarded to her from the US presid...
021
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've always been aware that the big impact of the US blocking the straight of Hormuz, was on Europe. This chart shows the impact very clearly and I think, the real reason behind the war. Iran had agreed to all of the US nuclear demands so we know it wasn't that. It was always an attack on Europe.
Stock chart showing how the big losers from the US attacks on Iran are Europe.
151
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Shrooms.
An attractive layered bunch of streaky brown toadstools growing in lawn.
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@discord.com fun & games & gambling & debt & death
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
That's ambitious, even for British Seagulls.
010
Reposted by Matt Langley
Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This mans' imagination is next level
893122786
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Almost missed Crash Live! Booked in now though.
000
Reposted by Matt Langley
L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 21/09/2026
Mazogs. It combined clever bold graphics, a procedurally generated maze and different skill levels.
2141
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Great choice! The most amazing game on the ZX81, and at the time, in the world (at least my world). Love all Don's innovative stuff although I still think Maziacs is not as good as his original ZX81 game. I'd struggle to say why though, possibly the scale was a little more cosy and terrifying.
110
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I've pretty much been told to use AI for a project. 🤦🏻 I know how this will end. I'm pretty sure I know how everything ends at this point...
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Congratulations. Sometimes they keep going..
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Nah, they're gonna suck up all the resources for data centres and leave us to starve. By they I mean the people who own and fund the AI - mostly using our pension savings.
001
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Maybe not, but surely they're responsible for the slave trade and the Ku Klux Klan?
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Works better if there's already one in the club...
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I had to have a lay down for an hour to process it.
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Took me a while to digest that. I liked a post and made a whitty joke, and promptly got a poisonous response and blocked. Clearly they didn't find it funny, but to react so antagonistically was really unnecessary. I'll make fewer good natured quips but really I don't think it was a me issue.
100
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Wow!
100
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Because it's the emperor's new clothes. Those that invested are going to lose their shirts. There is no AI, just algorithms and the outcomes will always be those that the human written algorithms dictate. The absence of thinking through those outcomes before running them doesn't change anything.
010
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
RT if you’ve never had a tab of ChatGPT open, period.
012
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Looks lovely.
110
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Worked btw. I now have a brown patch instead of a pool. 😭 The grass where I sent the water is much greener though.
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Elon's just Peter Thiel's Darf Vader.
140
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Which one?
010
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Also, it's a really great production, which I think is the key message, at a time when people were often underestimated.
000
Matt Langley @mattlangleyuk.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Anyway, I'm gonna play it loud right now. 😁
010