Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 20/09/2026how do I get bluesky to stop showing me stupid pictures of horrible dogs? I hate dogs. dogs hate me. i have no interest in your ugly non-cute stupid vicious dogs. the more dog content i unfollow the more its damn dogs dogs dogs dogs. pls send cat pics instead 300
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiShannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Never forget that most of the rage and fear we are swimming in was deliberately manufactured to control us 1531421011
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiMollie Goodfellow @hansmollman.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Group of teenagers lurking outside a Curry’s trying to bully you into buying them an iPad so they can go on Pinterest 101353248
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiEthan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Two things are true: (1) Anthropic (or parts of it) are absolutely and sincerely worried about the misuse of Mythos-class models & have put in excessive safeguards around Fable until they are confident it will not be misused (2) They have not succeeded in explaining/convincing people of this 61438
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiDafydd Vaughan @daivaughan.uk · 14/05/2026There's lots of important messaging in this new guidance from GDS / DSIT on AI, open code and vulnerability risk. In particular: "Private repositories can create a false sense of security" and "Openness can surface issues earlier" www.gov.uk/guidance/ai-...gov.ukAI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sectorGuidance for safely publishing source code in the open, and reducing the risk of AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery. 33321
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 12/05/2026FFS www.owenboswarva.com/blog/post-ad...owenboswarva.comOwen Boswarva's blogThis is Owen Boswarva's blog. 000
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 08/05/2026I decided to hack my IoT devices, starting with my very expensive android-running projector. It took *seconds* to get root. whitelabel.org/security/202... (yay my first CVEs)whitelabel.orgOptoma CinemaX Projectors: Critical Vulnerabilities Including Remote Root AccessOptoma CinemaX Projectors: Critical Vulnerabilities Including Remote Root Access May 02, 2026 CVE IDs: CVE-2026-30495, CVE-2026-30496 Vendor: Optoma /... 020
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiMatthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 01/05/2026On TheyWorkForYou, in 2009 we managed to get back to the 1918 general election from the official Historic Hansard Commons data (which as mentioned, had some gaps) before running out of time/resources. So it’s great to see full coverage of Parliament on the official site. Might even last longer ;) 132
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 01/05/2026shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05... brb, just forking github.com/orgs/nhsengl...shkspr.mobiNHS Goes To War Against Open SourceThe NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to doze... 010
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiMatthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 25/04/2026This makes me so angry. Honestly think it should be illegal. Losing millions, and every so often asking the public to fund your large salaries for the next while, with no financials even provided. And others: www.reddit.com/r/crowdcube/... 6146
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiJo Roach @joroach.bsky.social · 25/04/2026The UKBiobank data leak is not unfortunate, its negligent. The doctor-knows-best approach to stewarding highly sensitive data led to this and many other leaks and the response of leadership is again disingenuous. I admire the research participants for their loyalty, but they have been let down. 021
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 15/04/2026@dracos.co.uk am I right in thinking that traintimes.org.uk did split tickets first? 110
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 11/04/2026red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-... people keep being astonished at them doing the kind of exploits you can only pull off if you never get tired - when their most unique skill is they don’t ever get tired.red.anthropic.comClaude Mythos Preview \ red.anthropic.com 041
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 11/04/2026holy shit the speaking clock still works in the UK -123 110
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 06/04/2026theory - 97% of the reason asking claude is better than googling has nothing to do with the chatbot interface but is simply because it filters out all the ads and surveillance crapware and gives you the natural search answer that the web used to in 2003 141
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 10/03/2026So yeah, me and Claude dusted off a very old (2004) idea of mine and made it anew. Enjoy the whitelabel.org/wikilinker/a... - a browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari) plugin that backfills wikipedia into the whole web. No APIs, no tracking, just a built-in Bloom filter of the 1m most popular articles.whitelabel.orgWikilinkerWikilinker Auto-links the most popular 1,000,000 people, places, organizations, and other matchable names to their Wikipedia pages on any webpage, using a... 130
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 05/03/2026I am loving spending a lot of time with Claude Code, but it's not without problems. I've gone from 15 unstarted hack projects that have been lingering in my todo list for years to 15 unfinished hack projects, in a month. 😬🤦 020
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiSedat Kapanoğlu @ssg.dev · 28/11/2024love this kind of UX studies interactionmagic.com/UX-LEGO-Inte...interactionmagic.comThe UX of LEGO Interface PanelsLEGO interface panels are beautiful, iconic, and great for learning interface design basics. I bought 52 of them from BrickLink to explore the design, layout and organisation of complex interfaces. 1538
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiCat Neilan @catneilan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024The number of peers on a leave of absence jumped 48% after new rules requiring them to declare income from foreign states were introduced, @tortoisemedia.bsky.social analysis has shown. More Peer Review work by myself and @seitarowhite.bsky.social 👇 www.tortoisemedia.com/2024/11/21/d...tortoisemedia.comDisapeering act: some peers hide foreign earnings by going on leave - TortoiseOthers say this is a loophole that needs closing 38245
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiEmily Webber @ewebber.bsky.social · 20/11/2024Reposting my popular post from elsewhere. It's still relevant 6 years later. I made a handy flowchart called "Should I say resources?" Please use as needed. 1424195
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiMatthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 16/11/2024The Post Office Inquiry has finished its hearings; closing statements take place in December. You can read all the transcripts on my site at postofficeinquiry.dracos.co.uk which has just been updated with the latest evidence links, including the final tranche of statements I have manually linked up. 02517
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiMatthew Somerville @dracos.co.uk · 15/10/2024I know I have posted something like this before, but it still boggles my mind what has happened to Google Maps 171
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 25/09/2024We all laughed at Apple Maps for having errors, but Google Maps now straight up lies to you… for pennies. I’ve switched. 43565238
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiThe Onion @theonion.com · 26/04/2024You bear full responsibility for what unfolds in the coming days.theonion.comGive Us $1 Or ‘The Onion’ Disappears ForeverToday, billions of readers like yourself navigated to The Onion seeking dispatches from America’s Finest News Source. Like so many have done through the decades, you doubtless entered the hyperlink in... 32863165
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiThe War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 24/12/2023"When you drive a massive SUV you’re saying 3 things: I don’t care about the environment. I don’t care that I’m more likely to kill pedestrians in my car. I don’t care that there isn’t room for my car & others to co-habit smoothly on London’s streets."standard.co.ukA vulgar climate catastrophe — we should ban SUVs in London or tax them to the maxWhat upsets me most about life in London today? The endless proliferation of “luxury flats” marketed abroad while ordinary Londoners can’t afford to rent a basic home? Yes, that upsets me. The f... 1536588
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 24/12/2023@anildash.com Imagine writing a book about Prince and getting his name wrong on page 1. 2303
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiAnil Dash @anildash.com · 20/06/2023Just for the record, the NY Post is never a credible source when a story is about a Black woman allegedly not working hard. And Spotify exec Simmons, who directly profits from and supports Rogan, is not a credible source about podcast grifters. 2586
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiBoris @bmann.ca · 13/06/2023“there's no universe where anything HTTP+DNS gets us future-protective publishing, let alone coordination+linking.” — Dietrich @burrito.space, as part of a thread on @ipfs.tech and content addressing for personal archiving of Reddit content mastodon.social/@dietrich/110536877…mastodon.socialdietrich (@dietrich@mastodon.social)@masukomi@connectified.com @webrecorder@digipres.club yep, we can save all kinds of peripheral stuff like "threads i participated in" or whatever, but can't predict the things we want to look up next... 065
Reposted by Stefan MagdalinskiKurt Opsahl @kurtopsahl.bsky.social · 11/06/2023Be the change you want to see in the world. 1113
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 29/05/2023I do love seeing instances of people fixing shit consumer UX with that simplest of hacks- judicious sharpie. 170
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 19/05/2023VS019 LHR-SFO. haha remember when people on twitter would announce flights for their friends, without fear of some guy they pissed off six months ago abusing that data to launch SAMs against them? good times. 100
Reposted by Stefan Magdalinskirahaeli @rahaeli.bsky.social · 17/05/2023Thread. People do not understand how the bad actors who want to use a platform for organizing and doing horrible things know your ToS and content policy better than you do. They will rules lawyer edge cases for DAYS. 618587
Reposted by Stefan Magdalinski⏧ @syntacrobat.xyz · 05/05/2023I wrote a blog post about Prolly Trees, a close cousin to the Merkle Search Trees at the core of ATProto!joelgustafson.comMerklizing the key/value store for fun and profit | Joel Gustafson 52512
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 03/05/2023not my fucking King. I can say that here unlike in my totally normal healthy democracy, right? www.republic.org.uk www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/m… 110
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 02/05/2023coffee is delicious and a great pick-me-up before that early train. highly recommended. Ps. what is a hellthread? 110
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 29/04/2023it’s a hot sunny day and yet I am eating a hearty soup. 020
Reposted by Stefan Magdalinski⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 28/04/2023normalize being nice and friendly. and giving other people the benefit of the doubt. and listening to what they have to say 1137472
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 26/04/2023anyone else here old and British enough to keep being reminded of BSkyB? 040
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 26/04/2023@emily.bsky.team @why.bsky.team is there a user we can send bugs to? alternatively a feedback form where we can attach screencaps/vids would be helpful to submitters and you. seeing UX nits that are hard to describe in text 000
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 23/04/2023I think if we want this to be like the good old days we need to post like the good old days. so heads up, everyone, I’m eating my breakfast. 570
Stefan Magdalinski @whitelabel.org · 21/04/2023my profile page on ipad mini is accurately reflecting the blankness of my mind 010
