Kieran Nee

Pet hate:
- Retail websites who's filters don't actually work

Genuinely one of the many things that have gotten worse on the internet over time and that LLMs are really good at replacing 🤦‍♂️

Keeps working for them, so I guess yes? For a definition of "good" anyway.

Don't get me wrong, protecting children is important, but that's not what this act truly enables. It enables governmental control and censorship, it reduces the World in WWW to "world but if you look at something we disagree with, we'll know and it will be used against you".

It's years behind tech

Image of Bluesky saying "the laws in your location require you to verify you're an adult to access certain features".

Oh, look

Dreading the impact of the UK's online safety act and how likely it is to enable:
- Long-term censorship,
- Detailed tracking of what people have viewed,
- A raft of identity scams caused by inadequate data protection or legit appearing ID requests

All in all, fuck the UK MPs that voted for it

Looting at Thames Water

Net assets in 1990, £1,329m;
2024, £1,301m;
2025, £359m negative - liabilities exceed assets

NO shareholder investment since privatisation?

Dividends £10.4bn.

Can't rebuild water services without ending privatisation.

Water Commission didn't spot looting,

I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

The 'Millionaire Exodus' the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"

The ‘Millionaire Exodus’ the UK Media Told You About Never Actually Happened

The equivalent of 30 stories a day were published about an exodus of wealthy people that a new study finds was "non existent"

bylinetimes.com/2025/06/10/t...

A screenshot of an Epic Games blog post that reads: Fortnite comes to Nintendo Switch 2 on June 5. In some places, that’s TODAY. In other places, it’s just one more sleep! Let’s get right into what you want to know: 60 FPS! Higher resolution (2176x1224 docked, 1600x900 undocked) Greater view distances (See more things in the distance!) Higher-quality textures, higher-quality shadows, and higher-quality water rendering (nice water) Clothing physics enabled The Replay system is here — relive your best Battle Royale matches from another perspective! Capture video clips using the Capture button GameChat* supported — stream your Fortnite gameplay with up to three other friends For the hardcore tech folks: full “desktop” renderer, high-detail geometry, distance field ambient occlusion in docked mode, shadow casting point lights, high-quality effects Mouse controls supported with Joy-Con 2 (Starting June 7)

Epic confirms the upgrades coming to Fortnite on Switch 2, including 60fps performance, support for GameChat, and mouse controls (!)

Plus, you get a free emote for logging in before March 31st next year: www.fortnite.com/news/fortnit...

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but.

It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies

But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

Nice idea! Been a while since I needed though

The new General Physics systems are well worth a look, they really bring a whole new way for players to interact with UEFN games.

Tl;dr: Labour are unpopular with the people who might vote for them, and have failed to attract any of the people who would never vote for them. Not so very complex really.

Smart! Just leads to pointless stress. Hope the rub is delicious.

Middle age check:
- How's your lawn going? Reseeding growing well?

I once again find myself wondering what this country would look like today if the Green Party had been given even half the media attention that Farage’s various vanity projects got over the last ten years.

Just wrote a small essay of recommendations and tips for my team that are visiting London next week. Nice reminder for me that after 7ish years and living in multiple areas I do really love London and know it reasonably well.

Got one of those….now determined be never gets near it, thanks! 😂

Says so much about the usefulness of the feature that after 6 months of having this laptop I've only just found out it's a touchscreen. Still can't think of a genuine use for that, it's a standard form factor not a fancy bendy one that can double as a tablet.

This is TODAY!

Join us at 5pm (UK time) for a very lovely chat with lovely #IndieDev founders who've...

👀seen some things👀

discord.gg/nKR8W4tq?eve...

It's been a week since I posted The Vulnerability Nightmare Thread and I feel more myself than I have done in TWO YEARS

It's crazy what folding yourself up into little pretzel shapes to conform to others' expectations does to you.

jesus christ

Office-based today, so I'm getting some great focused work in.

Only downside, I keep desk dancing at my standing desk and then getting super conscious that plenty of other people are unfortunately (for them) able to see that 😅

Thanks.

Agreed, been getting good results with Perplexity and ChatGPT generally though still a decent amount of hallucinations. At this point I'll take those over Ads enshittification though.

Not tried Bing in a while, will give it a look, thanks!

Been experimenting with "not Google" search engines lately, just had a really good trial with Kagi Search (would recommend if willing to pay $30pm or can expense), are there any other options folk would recommend? Loved the clean "no ads" results.

DuckDuckGo I assume? Planning on trying that next.

summarize: One, after trial, the Court found that Apple's 30 percent commission "allowed it to reap supracompetitive operating margins" and was not tied to the value of its intellectual property, and thus, was anticompetitive. Apple's response: charge a 27 percent commission (again tied to nothing) on off-app purchases, where it had previously charged nothing, and extend the commission for a period of seven days after the consumer linked-out of the app. Apple's goal: maintain its anticompetitive revenue stream. Two, the Court had prohibited Apple from denying developers the ability to communicate with, and direct consumers to, other purchasing mechanisms. Apple's response: impose new barriers and new requirements to increase friction and increase breakage rates with full page "scare" screens, static URLs, and generic statements. Apple's goal: to dissuade customer usage of alternative purchase opportunities and maintain its anticompetitive revenue stream. In the end, Apple sought to maintain a revenue stream worth billions in direct defiance of this Court's Injunction. In stark contrast to Apple's initial in-court testimony, contemporaneous business documents reveal that Apple knew exactly what it was doing and at every turn chose the most anticompetitive option. To hide the truth, Vice-President of Finance, Alex Roman, outright lied under oath. Internally, Phillip Schiller had advocated that Apple comply with the Injunction, but Tim Cook ignored Schiller and instead allowed Chief Financial Officer Luca Maestri and his finance team to convince him otherwise. Cook chose poorly. The real evidence, detailed herein, more than meets the clear and convincing standard to find a violation. The Court refers the matter to the United States Attorney for the Northern District of California to investigate whether criminal contempt proceedings are appropriate. This is an injunction, not a negotiation. There are no do-overs once a party willfully disregards a court order. Time is o…

GodDAMN this ruling against Apple in the Epic lawsuit is brutal. This is a judge who is outright furious at a company and it is not going well for them.

s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Went away for the weekend & barely touched email, have 115 unread emails in my personal account.....wtf?

Time for some unsubscriptions!

A fringe group of bigoted weirdos have dragged British media, government, and law into their hateful obsession with trans people. Grim, depressing, and dangerous. Everyone with power in the UK who's played along should be ashamed of themselves.

"I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist." PEDRO PASCAL