Mark Goodwin

How did they not know? - Raw Signal Group We're still in the early days, this is still mostly anecdotes, but the anecdotes are multiplying fast. And they're haunting.

"Sorta like Napster, just post-DMCA."

IYKYK

www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...

new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

I scored 12/28 on jsdate.wtf and all I got was this lousy text to share on social media.

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screenshot of "Our core values" section of the Perplexity's Comet browser's home page

when your values are so important

that you put them up top

and you thought about them so deeply

that they all start with P

then it is no accident

that "privacy" is not one of them

welcome to the AI browser wars 🥳

comet.perplexity.ai#values

Soon, the machine will scream for you.

Bad news: I now can’t make @steelcon.info this week!
Good news: I have one steelcon ticket, free to a good home!

I love the letterbox. Presumably for interdimensional post.

Tech firms suggested placing trackers under offenders’ skin at meeting with justice secretary Exclusive: Shabana Mahmood told companies she wanted ‘deeper collaboration’ to tackle prisons crisis

Uhhh... No?

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The harmonies on Bleecker Street...

Similarly, there are so many "vulnerabilities that don't make sense in any realistic scenario" advisories that would not exist if folks bothered to document the intended threat model in the first place

The names of Australia’s seasons are Flood, Fire, Drought

"Excellence is situational" (the whole thread is good)

I read Edwin Black's book on IBM a while back. Makes me wonder about Himmler, Palantir

My book Ring The Hill

The rear jacket of my book Ring The Hill

A big pile of Ring The Hills in my living room

Fuck it. I'm going to give away 100 books. If you'd like one of these, signed, email yr address to hello@tom-cox.com. All I ask is that you give me the postage (£4 UK). If you can give me more, brilliant. If not, no probs.

Stephen Fry called this "hilarious.". I think it's my best non-fiction book.

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A draft of what became Same-Site cookies. Text is at https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-west-first-party-cookies-07

I found some old drafts when I was tidying my office.

Love this!

long stretch of worked roman stone on Hadrian's Wall.

If you ask someone today to name the builder of Hadrian's Wall, they would give you a funny look. But historical memory is odd, and right up to the 1800s we forgot who built it.

Until in 1840 John Hodgson, an obscure Northumbrian clergyman, published the LONGEST footnote in history... 1/22

When people don’t stop and ask if maybe what they’re doing is unethical:

I just scored 26,272 on a game of at://2048.
Think you can do better? Join in on the fun with @2048.blue.

SteelCon 2025 - 10th Birthday Edition A three day hacker con in Sheffield. We have a day of workshops, a day of talks and partying, and a day of recovery and lunch. Everyone welcome, old to young, defence to attack, newbie to veteran. Wor...

We still have a few tickets left, why not treat yourself on this beautiful Saturday afternoon and come visit us in Sheffield this July.

ti.to/steelcon/2025/

I'll hit that milestone sometime in 2029, I think

The interesting bit is that it seems an effective filter bypass. Email is valid, signed by PayPal... just not for the forward recipient

Just saw an interesting scam targeting PayPal users:

Scammers control 2 PayPal accounts, email forwarding for 1. Forwarding is configured to send emails on to victims. Payment sent with a note saying "Don't recognize this seller, Please contact PayPal at <scam number>".

SteelCon is superb and you should go:

It's hard to reason about the causes of failure in complex systems.

Treat speed and certainty accordingly.

Scone with jam, then cream on one side and cream, then jam on the other

Am I doing this right? #Devon #Cornwall #Diplomacy

I'm gutted that I can't make it this year. Have fun without me!

Please enjoy the happy playful seagull that once found a ball and had a ball 🪶

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