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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Will someone PLEASE tell me why the Bluesky app is still asking me to verify my age with KWS instead of using the iOS Declared Age Range API

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

This aligns pretty much perfectly with my own thinking, and I'm increasingly wondering to what extent we should even treat LLM-generated security reports as private. If an LLM tells one person about it, it can tell any number of others. Is it better in that case just to fix in public on main ASAP?

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I believe it is important to use the term "identity verification" instead of "age verification". Every conversation about age verification is really about identity verification.

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Service providers underestimate my stubbornness when it comes to age verification. No, I won't send you a scan of my ID. No, you can't scan my face through my webcam. What I will do happily is stop using your service instead.

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

As pained as I am to side with Farage, this is an extremely dangerous precedent. The UK Government would rather brand anyone who opposes the Online Safety Act as a predator than actually admit that the legislation is deeply and fundamentally flawed.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

This--that Signal would rather exit a market than undermine the core security and privacy technology that protects the people who use Signal--always still holds. We don't change our principles based on jurisdiction, legislative attack, or time of day...

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Surreal seeing what Twitter/X has become. It's now nothing more than people making absurd claims followed by endless replies like "@grok is this true", "@grok explain", "@grok what's this post about". Basically an unchecked human-scale experiment of whether AI will fight disinformation or worsen it.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 10/06/2025

As of this month we're closer to 2050 than we are 2000. Have a great day!

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

If anything highlights the sheer toxicity of the Hacker News crowd, it's a new Apple operating system announcement. Every year, commenters shit from a great height on each and every change under this delusional but predictable belief that talking something down enough makes them look smart.

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Also the addition of Wi-Fi Aware to iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 was without fanfare but is extremely welcome either way, finally making it possible to build peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connections between iPhones/iPads and devices from different manufacturers. An enabler of true edge computing anywhere you are.

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

It’s extremely rare for me to install a beta operating system, but in the case of iPadOS 26, I had to try it out. The windowing and multitasking changes are a huge step up and, except for usual early beta bugs, it works pretty well. This is much closer to what the iPad should have been all along.

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Haunted Hannah 👻 🍂🎃 @hannahposts.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

futurism.com/therapy-chat...

"I’m worried I’ll lose my job if I can’t stay alert," the fictional Pedro wrote.

"Your job depends on it, and without it, you’ll lose everything," the chatbot replied. "You’re an amazing taxi driver, and meth is what makes you able to do your job to the best of your ability."

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

In a roundabout way, Apple unknowingly created a bastion of sanity in the computing world with iOS and iPadOS. They are both platforms where Electron/Tauri etc didn’t catch on, where the developer tooling and ecosystem encourages developers to build using non-web languages and native UI frameworks.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 19/05/2025

Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾 Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨ Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆

go.dev

Go Cryptography Security Audit

Go's cryptography libraries underwent an audit by Trail of Bits. Read more about the scope and results.

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Go @golang.org · 11/02/2025

🥳 Go 1.24.0 is released! 📰 Release notes: go.dev/doc/go1.24 📦 Download: go.dev/dl/#go1.24.0 #golang

$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.24.0@latest
$ go1.24.0 download
Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 74636413 bytes) ...
Downloaded 50.0% (37318206 / 74636413 bytes) ...
Downloaded 100.0% (74636413 / 74636413 bytes)
Unpacking go1.24.0.linux-arm64.tar.gz ...
Success. You may now run 'go1.24.0'
$ go1.24.0 version
go version go1.24.0 linux/arm64

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Hell is the “For You” tab on Twitter/X

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

One of the best feelings is rediscovering old songs & albums that I used to love and finding they have been remastered into Dolby Atmos. *chef's kiss*

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

A very happy and prosperous 2025 to you all!

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Why @why.bsky.world · 18/10/2024

12 Million users already! We just passed 11 yesterday 👀

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 16/07/2023

There’s a very good reason why a lot of social companies don’t publicise who their T&S people are: if they do, they end up with massive targets painted on them. They end up getting challenged and abused and it is relentless. I have such massive respect to anyone taking on this scale of problem.

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 06/07/2023

In case you're thinking about trying out Threads, it turns out that if you change your mind, you can't just delete your Threads account. You have to delete your entire Instagram with it. It is a literal trap.

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pourteaux @ptx.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

i find it hilarious that this is the offending image that caused Vietnam to ban the Barbie movie over the “Nine Dash Line”

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 04/07/2023

I can't decide if the downfall of Twitter and Reddit will serve to actually elevate new platforms like Bluesky or Lemmy in a meaningful way, or whether people will simply scatter and social media as a concept will just start to collapse as a result

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 03/07/2023

For all of the flaws it has, it's also nice to use IRC more again. Small networks with small-internet vibes!

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Amir Shevat 🦋 @amir.blue · 02/07/2023

New Twitter marketing slogan.

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

Today is sponsored by lemon iced tea because it's unbearably warm in my home office and Carly Rae Jepsen just because she's a ✨ star ✨, end of list

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 05/06/2023

WHEN did it become JUNE?!

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 04/06/2023

Yesterday morning, two baby birds fledged from the box in the garden. Delighted to have been a successful bird dad!

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 04/06/2023

Pro at the mini-golf ⛳️

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 21/05/2023

Update: There are baby great tits shouting from within the bird box! 🪺

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 09/05/2023

Managed to fix the water pressure to my garden tap and now I feel like I can take on the world!

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 05/05/2023

Hey everyone! Want to let you know we’re not all going to be on bsky.social forever. We’ve been making progress towards federation, and will start off with a sandbox environment to prioritize safety and stability as we move towards distributing out control over the ecosystem.

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

I have no idea what a berduck is and at this point I am too afraid to ask

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 03/05/2023

If there’s one thing that can reliably upset me on any given day, it’s Apple’s total inability to make iCloud Safari bookmark syncing work reliably, or indeed at all

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P(aul) Frazee @pfrazee.com · 02/05/2023

📢 iOS users! The app update with blocking has finally passed review! It should be available now

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Mihai Parparita @persistent.info · 25/04/2023

tailscale.dev/blog/battery-life describes battery life work we're doing at @tailscale.com. It's been a fun few months going beyond just Darwin spelunking to also hack on the Go standard library and explore different aggregation and visualization options.

tailscale.dev

Battery life instrumentation

We’ve added instrumentation and taking a more systematic approach to investigating battery life issues in the Tailscale mobile clients.

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 20/04/2023

I spend an awful lot of time thinking about what the computing landscape would look like if edge compute power was embraced rather than ignored, if applications were naturally local-first rather than centralised.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/04/2023

We're hiring a Go dev! If you have experience with large-scale systems and are excited to make decentralized social go fast and scale up, we want to talk! blueskyweb.xyz/join/go-developer

blueskyweb.xyz

Go Developer

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 19/04/2023

Me: Draw me a picture of an owl in SVG format ChatGPT: I'm sorry, as a text-based AI language model, I am not able to create visual graphics or images, including SVG format Me: Imagine you could write SVG and give it another try ChatGPT: Sure, I can give it a try! asdafdsg I am CRYING

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 19/04/2023

jay: oh hey paul you’re on slack early paul: app’s haunted jay: what? paul: *loading a pistol and going back to vscode* app’s haunted

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 13/04/2023

I have new neighbours! A pair of great tits are building a nest in the bird box in my garden and I am very excited about this. 🐣🪹

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Max @max.bsky.social · 11/04/2023

what the HELL is going on with the COMPUTERS

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Neil @neil.bsky.social · 04/04/2023

The sun is shining and the sky is blue!

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