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Lee Benfield
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Retro fan, some time hobby reverse engineer, author of CFR java decompiler and random other pointless rubbish.

He.

https://www.benf.org
Its's hilarious that in the LLM world kids will watch this and not see an issue.
January 8, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Oh good, enshittification continues, now my google news feed has top line scamvertorials.
January 7, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Presented without comment.
January 6, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Dying Light the Beast is fun, but there's a pretty serious problem with "kill all enemies in area" completion condition detection, had 3 quests bug out so far.

(Reload from last checkpoint seems to fix, thank goodness)
January 4, 2026 at 10:41 AM
Back to work (boooooo)
This is professional work attire.
January 2, 2026 at 8:31 AM
Holiday films so far -

Notting Hill
Gremlins
Thomas Crown Affair (Brosnan ver)
Coming to America
Love Actually
The Holiday
Trading Places
A Knight's Tale (Simply one of the best films ever)

Still in the queue

Red
Stardust

And for NYE

Dinner for One
December 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
When the belt sander eats the power cable!!!
December 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Godalming's gone full "The Holiday" mode. Where's Cameron Diaz eh?
December 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Ironically, I don't think about it much, so I couldn't remember the name of the Ebbinghaus curve.
December 18, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This is professional work attire.

....For those who come after....
December 18, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The glamorous life of restringing cat6e to the satellite dish.

Sometimes living in the country ain't all its cracked up to be.

(The last run lasted 6 years before a mouse got it, at least - tempted to do SWA but it's so ***** expensive)
December 14, 2025 at 8:31 AM
I went to a museum today and saw an ACTUAL Putin.
December 7, 2025 at 8:27 PM
*wonders if the crowd will do a wave*
December 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Scusa se insisto
December 6, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Finally, AI I can get behind.
December 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Christmas movieathon. Day 2. Starship Troopers.

Shut up, its a Christmas film.
December 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
I can't be the only one that sees it, right?
December 3, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Klowakha? Freaking genius. I gave up on lower decks about 10m into episode 1. Then went back after the SNW crossover. How wrong I was.
November 30, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Reposted by Lee Benfield
Hey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?!
& more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward?
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 27, 2025 at 3:03 PM
I am not 100% convinced Quora is a source of reliable data these days.....
November 19, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I think bsky's alt text obsession is spreading..... can't even disable a child lock without holding down the alt text....
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Always check that you didnt accide tally pick up one of your train nerd child's tshirts before you go to work.

(In other news, I am wearing a jumper and dying)
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Escape from the abyss was the most brutal bit of platforming I've seen many this long while.

FINALLY PUT.
November 6, 2025 at 6:38 AM
The noble dog has had a most worrisome lump removed but remains noble, stoic, and daftly happy, as is the Setter Way.
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
High Potential is a super tv show, but dear god the product placement for Amazon is about as subtle as a brick in the teeth.
October 30, 2025 at 9:31 AM