Giovanni Asproni

Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act verification rules - BBC News The Wikimedia Foundation says the new rules could threaten user privacy and safety.

It’s wild that the UK has passed a law requiring Reddit and Wikipedia to age verify users. The law was framed as protecting children from online pornography but seems to have greatly expanded its scope as all such laws do.

This is the “I hope the Lakers win the Super Bowl” of rockstar quotes.

Graph of maternal mortality rate against year for the UK. Rate bounces until and down around 500 deaths per 100,000 births until about 1940, when it falls sharply. It’s been very low (~1–3 per 100,000) ever since.

This graph is astonishing. The people that bang on about “natural birth” and “women have been doing this forever without help” need to be forced to stare at this until their eyes water.

(comic) Meaningful Commit Message

Page 94: Day 4: Lime Bikes and Broken Legs Jim Waterson (London Centric) revealed the rash of broken legs across London caused by heavy Lime electric bikes falling on their own riders, and asks: who is in charge of keeping commuters safe? For...

Lime Bike Leg.
"[One rider] described it as a transfer of wealth from the NHS to a Californian tech company"
www.private-eye.co.uk/podcast/143
— @jim.londoncentric.media

Elon Musk Tweet: You can cut & paste your entire source code file into the query entry box on http://grok.com and @Grok 4 will fix it for you! This is what everyone @xAI does. Works better than Cursor.

Really, why bother indexing your codebase, using MCPs or multifile. Just make your whole program one big file! Don't forget to print it to send it with your application.

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My latest SE Radio interview is out: observability in the toolchain, with @bdemers.io. We discussed how information about build times, compiler warnings, test executions, etc., can help to reduce defects, increase productivity, and improve DX.
se-radio.net/2025/07/se-r...

ridiculous

Google search for “all you can eat buffet near me” Al Overview To find an all-you-can-eat buffet near you, you can use online search engines like Google or Yelp, specifying "all you can eat buffet near me". These searches will typically provide a list of nearby restaurants offering buffet-style dining, including their addresses, contact information, and customer reviews. You can also refine your

The singularity is awesome

“…and I would’ve gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you pesky kids!”

On real problems, one cannot define away the complexity of the world in the interest of devising an elegant solution.

- preface to Software Fundamentals, Parnas.

It's hot outside, which means:

- riots/disorder on the streets
- flying ant day
- "agile is dead" posts

This is your regular reminder that it is not un-Jewish or anti-Israeli to oppose to war in Gaza and call out its crimes against civilians. You are taking a position shared by [checks notes] the former Prime Minister of Israel.

This is brilliant

GitHub - dmcg/gilded-rose-tdd at 47-refactorings-at-kotlin-conf A TDD implementation of the Gilded Rose stock control system - GitHub - dmcg/gilded-rose-tdd at 47-refactorings-at-kotlin-conf

For anyone interested, I pushed the code from the "47 refactorings in 45 minutes" talk by Duncan McGregor and myself at #KotlinConf to this branch github.com/dmcg/gilded-... (including references and mini-plugins). And here is the live stream video www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJ9f...

There are so many things wrong with this letter, but one that sticks out to me is “Apple engineers will say this” as an indirect source.

Which Apple engineers? Because why would we think that a software engineer in Sunnyvale knows shit about iPhone production?

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request GitLab is a program code repository. It’s got an AI coding bot, because of course it does — it’s called Duo and it runs on Claude. Duo will make suggestions, analyse submitted pull requests and eve…

AI coding bot allows prompt injection with a pull request

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www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne5o... - video

🧵 1/9 It could have mattered.

Nine minutes and twenty-nine seconds deprived of oxygen should have chastened the world to become allies, and not just for a summer.

A man being murdered by those who should protect and serve should have been an indelible metaphor.

The scaling fallacy: the assumption that big is just the same as small, only bigger. (Weinberg)

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Consultation now open on EHRC guidance on Supreme Court ruling on trans people. It’s a long slog of “is this clear?” so set aside some time. Give your feedback, only open a few weeks. www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/EHRC-code-...

Librarian here. Got an email from a patron about our "poor selection" of books on AI, w/ list of new books that we HAD to get so ppl could stay informed about this important subject. Title, author, synopsis.

Of 11 titles on the list, 10 Did Not Exist. At all.

"Yeah, I got it from Ch*tGPT, why?"

A Labour Party

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

saving this one down in the pics folder

<< … most of us are working with an outdated playbook: plays that we have been programmed to run from an older paradigm of leadership - the Industrial Revolution >> - David Marquet, quoted by Marcin Floryan in a conf session

#Management
#Leadership
#WaysOfWorking
#Complexity
#ComplexityThinking

Happy birthday, David Attenborough! 99 ways he has inspired us, by Barack Obama, Billie Eilish, Morgan Freeman – and many more This week the presenter turns 99. To celebrate, we asked 99 nature lovers – including Margaret Atwood, Jane Fonda, Bono, Kate Winslet and Michael Palin – how he has helped us see the world with fresh ...

In a world rightfully struggling to understand what good examples of masculinity looks like, it's a joy to read these tributes to Attenborough on his 99th.

Kindness and inspiration is the stuff great men are made of, not all that other shit.

www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Bingo.

Not too long ago, we were asked when we're going to replace Wikipedia's human-curated knowledge with AI. The answer? We're not. The community of volunteers behind Wikipedia is the most important and unique element of Wikipedia’s success. For nearly 25 years, Wikipedia editors have researched, deliberated, discussed, built consensus, and collaboratively written the largest encyclopedia humankind has ever seen. Their care and commitment to reliable encyclopedic knowledge is something AI cannot replace. That is why our new AI strategy doubles down on the volunteers behind Wikipedia. We will use AI to build features that remove technical barriers to allow the humans at the core of Wikipedia to spend their valuable time on what they want to accomplish, and not on how to technically achieve it. Our investments will be focused on specific areas where generative AI excels, all in the service of creating unique opportunities that will boost Wikipedia’s volunteers:

Wikimedia has a new AI strategy!

A colleague and I spent months working on it. I am so happy that it is out. wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/04...