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Existing in online groups is increasingly difficult when half the people think all LLM generated code is bad, and half the people think that expressing that opinion is bad. I don’t see how this can be reconciled.

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Is the White Horse still any good these days?

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“It’s awful, they are trapped in a torture chamber” Just pay the model a buck an hour and then it’s fine I guess.

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“My computer program is a real person and has feelings” - well, no, but also do you ever think about the people you paid a dollar an hour to to give CSAM a score out of ten?

Humanists UK @humanists.uk · 30/09/2026

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Humanists UK mourns Dame Esther Rantzen (1940–2026) Esther was a great champion of human dignity. She approached her final years with the same fearless determination that defined her career of advocacy, using her own experience to shine a light on the suffering caused by our outdated laws.

Esther Rantzen smiling wearing a blue-and-red feathered fascinator and red coat, with headline text noting her years (1940–2026).

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 29/09/2026

I'm declining to publish the next PR for my open-source project because it's just too good and I don't think you're ready for it. It's not because it's simply not finished. Trust me.

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FerrousSystems @ferroussystems.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Universal Signalling and the Ferrocene team are developing the first railway certification package for Rust under EN 50716, establishing a pathway for Rust in safety-critical railway applications. Read more: bit.ly/4z193o6 #UniversalSignalling #Ferrocene #RustLang #RailTech

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 27/09/2026

The Observer’s editorial today is about how Andy Burnham should “channel the white heat of AI to make the government more responsive, make the economy more attractive to investors, and – as promised – improve people’s lives” What would improve my life is not having to read this bollocks.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 25/09/2026

You’re posting Omarchy links??!

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 25/09/2026

It wasn’t a very good burger

Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 25/09/2026

Just chilling at Torp Sandefjord airport in Norway, with my £32 burger and £8 Pepsi Max.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 24/09/2026

NDC TechTown was great. The location is incredible and the catering was brilliant. Lots of great conversations. I hope we can come again.

Water rushing over a weir in Kongsberg, back by Nordic fir trees and a gorgeous sky.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 24/09/2026

Yeah, there’s definitely a Bosch tax. I had a front drive before, but this Bosch system is much easier to control. Does yours have torque sensing pedals or just a cadence sensor?

Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 24/09/2026

Blimey. My Cube Fold Hybrid was £2700. I love it though.

Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 23/09/2026

We won (joint winners) the C++ quiz at NDC Techtown. We warmed up by doing some Rust questions so our team name was https:// this . team . is . fkn . gay

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That would be a *really* big PAC file.

Swing by the table and say hi! We have stickers.

I also have special Ferris stickers - he’s wearing a hard hat, because he understands the importance of safety.

Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 19/09/2026

I’ll be at NDC TechTown this week, on the @ferroussystems.bsky.social booth. If you’re curious about Rust and want to know what the leading players are up to in the space, or if you’re ready for training, or tooling with long term support, drop by and say hello over the next two days.

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Well, crap. If you’re going to Kongsberg tomorrow there’s a rail replacement bus service from Drammen.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 19/09/2026

Today was another Big Train Day. Started in Berlin Female ICE to Hamburg (look it up) ComfortJet to Copenhagen. Local train to Malmo, where I’m having Korean for tea and stopping the night. Tomorrow Gothenburg, then Oslo, then Kongsberg.

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Rust Language @rust-lang.org · 17/09/2026

⚠️ We believe that there is an ongoing campaign targeting owners of popular crates and rust-lang team members that is attempting to compromise devices and accounts in order to use them to publish malware. See our blog post for details: blog.rust-lang.org/2026/09/17/t...

blog.rust-lang.org

Be alert: targeted attacks on prominent Rustaceans | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

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And Sonair have received certification for their 3D ultrasonic imaging device, which does all the heavy lifting in bare-metal Rust on a 64 bit quad-core Arm SoC. Plus so much more going on I can’t tell you about.

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In case you missed it, the new Volvo SmartCell EV battery is filled with dozens of MCUs running bare-metal Rust. Texas Instruments are writing the Root of Trust for the upcoming TDA5 in Rust.

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Can’t wait to come back next year and see how much further Rust adoption has moved along! Because believe me, it’s moving at quite the pace. I have a few more days in Berlin, then I’m off to Norway by train for NDC Techtown

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Oxidize Conference @oxidizeconf.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

That’s a wrap on Oxidize for this year. I was running the Ferrous table, dipping in and out of the talks, and having a ton of great conversations. Shout out to Sabine, who was hard at work MC’ing both days, and to my colleagues Charlotte, Tobias and Jessie who put so much work in to make it happen.

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What a great start to Oxidize 2026 🦀 One full day of workshops — safety-critical Rust, embedded systems, Rust and C/C++. Now, our first conference day has come to an end. Thanks to the speakers, the sponsors, and everyone who showed up. We're looking forward to tomorrow! #Rustlang #SafetyCritical

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 14/09/2026

A 40-year-old kernel bug got discovered while on stage at DEF CON and the writeup is glorious

yuvalino.com

How can you not be romantic about UNIX domain sockets?

A 40-year-old kernel bug discovered on the DEFCON 34 main stage.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 13/09/2026

When it’s broken you might fix one problem, but not all the problems, and see no change and you don’t know you actually made it better. At least now it works I can do something to break it, then fix it again.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 13/09/2026

New blog post: thejpster.org.uk/blog/blog-20... My cores are now cache coherent and I don’t know why.

thejpster.org.uk

JP's Website

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 12/09/2026

There are so many Rust events! Nice problem to have.

Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 12/09/2026

Ok, time to actually do some packing. On Monday I’m taking the train to Berlin. I’m doing the booth at the Oxidize conference. Saturday I’m taking a train from Berlin to Oslo. Probably Sunday too. Maybe Monday as well? Then I’m doing the booth at NDC Techtown. Then flying home.

Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 10/09/2026

If you type text into a box on a website and click a button to send the text to the website owner, the website owner gets the text you typed into the text box. And if the website owner is super keen for you to type text into that text box on their website, there’s probably a reason for that.

Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 10/09/2026

How muc wood kould a woodcuk cuk if a woodcuk kould cuk wood?

Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 10/09/2026

Hey Apple. Instead of making a folding phone, can you fix the text editing cursor being totally shit and regularly going outside the viewable area and generally not at all where I want it to go? kthxbye

EuroRust @eurorust.eu · 09/09/2026

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For his upcoming EuroRust talk, @thejpster.org.uk has a few words to share! 🦀 He'll be bootstrapping a brand new embedded Rust ecosystem for medium-size 32-bit Arm processors, a space that's been largely unexplored until now. See you in Barcelona, Jonathan! 📺✨ #EuroRust26 #RustLang

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 08/09/2026

Oh my word the new Veronica and Kate podcast is /extremely/ my jam. Five minutes in and we’re on Debian vs Gentoo, and Kate’s side project streaming 90’s Weather Channel style graphics with smooth jazz in the background on YouTube.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 07/09/2026

Our Citroen keyfobs eat batteries. The car is 30 months old and each keyfob has had two replacement batteries (plus the one it came with). Possibly more. Luckily they are only CR2032s.

Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 07/09/2026

I won one of those in a Weetabix competition.

Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

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If my job ended up being supervising LLM agents, then I’d try to get another job. That sounds miserable tbh. I’ll be the resident debugger or something. I’ll charge twice the rate of anyone else.

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 05/09/2026

Watched The Odyssey in IMAX today, for the second time. Still brilliant.

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Simen E. Sørensen @simenzhor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Some hopefully interesting reflections on how the team at my day job made the world’s first functional safety certified product based on Rust. This was a massive undertaking, and I think some of you might appreciate it 🦀 #rust #rustlang #safety #functionalsafety www.sonair.com/journal/how-...

sonair.com

Sonair | Journal | How we developed the world's first safety-certified product written in Rust – and why we went bare metal

We just certified it. ADAR One is the first safety-certified embedded system built in Rust. I want to share how we got here, for other Rust developers who are looking at safety-critical work and wonde...

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 04/09/2026

It seems it was off by default in Codium (the de-Microsoft'ed version of VS Code)

Guy Shrubsole @guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

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‘Honest Bob’ Jenrick says he wants to “abolish” Natural England, and at the very least stop funding it, in the first 100 days of a putative Reform government. Reform may appear to be on the rocks currently but their plans are terrifying, mad & must be stopped. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Jenrick: “Even if you can’t abolish, I don’t know, Natural England within the first 100 days, you can stop funding it, you can turn the tap off and the tap will be turned off a lot of these quangos, and that will drive savings.”

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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San Francisco Chronicle @sfchronicle.com · 02/09/2026

Hikers using ChatGPT to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost. In one instance this week, a group of climbers had to be rescued: “It was terrible — terrible — not even close to accurate.”

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Climbers rescued from Mount Shasta after relying on ChatGPT for trip planning

Hikers using ChatGPT to navigate Mount Shasta have gotten lost. In one instance this week, a group of climbers had to be rescued: “It was terrible — terrible — not even close to accurate.”

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 02/09/2026

I use GitHub every day for my job - and I still don’t like it. Hurrah for old fashioned websites with download links! Can I use GetRight to make it go faster?

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Jonathan Pallant @thejpster.org.uk · 02/09/2026

Just another day being ruined by Github Actions being absolute clown shoes. Again.