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Ste Jormur @stejormur.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...

All we did was fake a simple email from a fresh new ProtonMail address (so it’s clearly not from a bank) posing as a message from a Wells Fargo investment manager. Inside was a link to a genuine phishing page, active in the wild for several days, and still unflagged by Google Safe Browsing.

When Comet received the email, it confidently marked it as a to-do item from the bank and clicked the link without any verification. There was no URL check, no pre-navigation warning -just a direct pass to the attacker’s page. Once the fake Wells Fargo login loaded, Comet treated it as legitimate. It prompted the user to enter credentials, even helping fill in the form.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months 8% of people think it fell Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023 [It is falling further in 2025] Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

You know that whining noise that EV's make when they go slowly? It's to emulate the noise the luddites make.

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

#postoffice systems are down across the UK according to our local Post Office.

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ETSC - European Transport Safety Council @etsc.eu · 03/06/2025

Study on London 20 mph limits shows: - collisions ⬇️ 35% - casualties ⬇️ 36% - fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34% - child casualties ⬇️ 46% - child deaths ⬇️ 75% - walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28% etsc.eu/20mph-limits...

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20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds

A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

It certainly was. It was quite eye opening.

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Leor Zmigrod @leorzmigrod.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

First time on Bluesky 👋☁️ 🟠 Delighted to share that my book The Ideological Brain will be out in March (and in >10 languages later this year)! 🔵 📘 It’s about what makes some brains susceptible to rigid worldviews, how ideologies infiltrate our minds and bodies, and what it means to break free 📙

Cover of The Ideological Brain by Leor Zmigrod

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Seth Stadick @ducktapeprogrammer.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

“A program is a shared mental construct that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct a program from its code.” gist.github.com/onlurking/fc...

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Get on the mailing list for your local auction house (real auctions!). Careful, it's addictive.

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

somebody needs to come up with an antistatic watch strap (one with the metal stud on it)

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

I think that's missing the point. AI friends is a problem for sure, but think of influence "they" would have if you control the opinions (and political leaning) of those virtual friends. The way social media influences society is toxic enough already, this automates and weaponises it.

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

"everything in moderation, including moderation"

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

there's this from the other place x.com/Siliconinsid...

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

I think it's a common problem in the UK that we have no idea what goes on in our economy. For example Airbus delivered 766 planes in 2024, imagine the logistics behind that (it's not all in the UK of course). There are many other examples too I'm sure.

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Nice workmanship, but better not be spilling any coffee on that table...

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

Had to pop into town, so quick stop for lunch at one of my favourite sneaky restaurant picks: Sofra Turkish on South Molton Street. I absolutely encourage you to read the "about us" page on their website. It actually escalates from here. www.sofra.co.uk/huseyin-ozer/

I was born in a village. My parents separated. I lived with my grandfather. When I was supposed to go to primary school at the age of seven, my father disowned me. My older brother tried to poison me. My grandfather grew old and I became an unwanted child. I learned how to write by writing on walls and rocks with charcoal.

I herded goats. My mother got angry about this. She sent me to Ankara to earn money for a gun so I could shoot my father. I was a homeless child. I twice wrote to our president Demirel to educate me but didn’t get a positive reply. I slept in a public toilet in Sıhhiye, fuelled up lighters in Ulus square

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.

X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD
...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."

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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

A fantastic story from @stokel.bsky.social, who used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT logs of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary. With the precedent now set, will journalists be following his lead to see how other politicians are using AI? www.newscientist.com/article/2472...

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Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice

New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 13/03/2025

hate this hate this hate this I hate it I hate it

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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 11/03/2025

Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...

If someone tells you that coding with LLMs is easy they are (probably unintentionally) misleading you. They may well have stumbled on to patterns that work, but those patterns do not come naturally to everyone.

I’ve been getting great results out of LLMs for code for over two years now. Here’s my attempt at transferring some of that experience and intution to you.

Set reasonable expectations
Account for training cut-off dates
Context is king
Ask them for options
Tell them exactly what to do
You have to test what it writes!
Remember it’s a conversation
Use tools that can run the code for you
Vibe-coding is a great way to learn
A detailed example
Be ready for the human to take over
The biggest advantage is speed of development
LLMs amplify existing expertise
Bonus: answering questions about codebases

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 26/02/2025

Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.

Line chart showing improvements in the accuracy of weather forecasts over time. These have improved in the North and Southern Hemisphere.

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

I know what you mean. I tried to adopt a "really, oh all right then if you insist" approach. I wouldn't recommend saying it out load though.

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Dexter Gramfors @dxtr.se · 03/03/2025

Great breakdown of how the "WoeMeter" from the latest Severance episode was built: make3.co/work/woemeter @adafruit.com ESP32-S3 Feather spotted!

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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Jesus Christ. When was the last time you heard anyone say something like this?

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

We stayed in the medina for a few days and it was great. However the motorbikes *in* the souk were a menace. They were fast, noisy and the place stank of petrol fumes. It was a continuous assault. Everything else was great - even the haggling was pleasant. I don't don't think we'll be back.

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

It also shows leadership and a clear direction, something we've been lacking lately.

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

There are other considerations too. UKR situation gives the EU another reason to exist (as a union) which bolsters it. It gives the UK, FR and GE carte blanche to borrow and invest in defence (economic boost) and there's the peace dividend rebuilding UKR.

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Did you see this? bsky.app/profile/timo...

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Cullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.

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Institute for the Study of War @thestudyofwar.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Reports that a NATO member state is struggling to combat likely Russian reconnaissance drones demonstrate the need for NATO states to further develop their defensive capabilities as Russia continues to use its experience on the battlefield in Ukraine to innovate new tech. isw.pub/UkrWar020925

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Thanks to you I'm using "Good to know" wayyy to often!

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If someone has to invoke the P-word then it almost certainly isn't in your best interests.

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Jeff Geerling @jeffgeerling.com · 28/01/2025

OpenAI's nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi 5 ;) www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1sN...

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OpenAI's nightmare: Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi

YouTube video by Jeff Geerling

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

🔴Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...

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Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

1 in 5 people referred to food banks are from working households @trusselluk.bsky.social

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I don't think the service is required as much as it was. That much is clear to everyone. The thing is, you also have a brand and an audience. Could you pivot to something else useful? It's taken hard work to get where you are, it would be a shame to lose all of it.

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

First job is to fix the face of the tuning knob. Photos are before and after. The metal you see in the before is the brass base, it looks like the finish had been polished away a long time ago. Once cleaned some medallion liquid silver paste restores the mirrored finish.

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Steve Hurcombe @stevehurcombe.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

A quick clean and it appears to be in very good condition.

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