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Government doing it's best Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes impression by yet again announcing a controversial policy where people can sign a petition that already exists

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...
Petition: Make all court and tribunal transcripts available free of charge
Make all court and tribunal transcripts available for free. Currently, fees can reach thousands, creating a "paywall" for justice. All legal records should be public property to help ensure transparen...
petition.parliament.uk
February 10, 2026 at 9:04 PM
Reposted by Andrew White
OpenClaw (which was Moltbot, which was ClawdBot, all in the course of a week) is the new `sudo curl | bash`
January 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
"Are you compliant with the NCSC guidelines on post-quantum cryptography?"

NCSC: "By 2028 create an initial migration plan and complete migration by 2035"

Why am I even being asked this question? 🫠
January 29, 2026 at 11:59 AM
If I were Anthropic I'd add a clause to the T&Cs about terminating Claude Code accounts for bringing them into disrepute when you publish slop like this CloudFlare blog 🫠
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable.
January 28, 2026 at 7:16 AM
This is obviously a play on the Trump post but what I don't get is why they think the 'Nihilist Penguin' meme appeals to the London electorate? Or for that matter even know what it is.
It used to be said that the left was far too 'online', but it seems that this is increasingly (more) so for the right nowadays.
January 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM
OpenAI should ask Unity how their plans for per-install licensing fees went down with developers
OpenAI has absolutely zero ideas. They have no business. This is not a real business line and it’s so utterly vague and specious, I’m shocked at the credulousness to just print it without saying “there is no logical way this works of course” or talking about how the CFO of OpenAI is saying nonsense
January 20, 2026 at 5:33 AM
Reposted by Andrew White
hey folks, i’m a rails / ruby dev with a bit over 10 years of experience professionally and i was just hit with my second layoff. looking for a new role would love to chat! #rails #ruby.
January 16, 2026 at 4:04 PM
TIL that AWS despite being asked back in November 2021, they still haven't signed the binary for session-manager-plugin meaning that after 1st September installing from brew won't work 😭

github.com/aws/session-...
sign and notarize macOS builds · Issue #21 · aws/session-manager-plugin
When installing on macOS via brew: brew install session-manager-plugin On run the plugin errors with: "session-manager-plugin" cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. The workaro...
github.com
January 16, 2026 at 11:27 AM
Ugh, someone appears to be cloning the Rails issues - just got a burst of emails for an issue from 2011 😭

(ignored the repo now but getting spammed as a default seems bad)

github.com/Sandgarden-D...
January 15, 2026 at 4:05 PM
This is reminding me of when Sainsbury's supermarket chain in the UK ran an advertising campaign called "Feed a family for £50 per week" and the example meals plan they'd worked out would eventually starve the family to death.
Brooke Rollins: "We've run over 1,000 simulations. It can cost around $3 a meal for a piece of chicken, a piece of broccoli, corn tortilla, and one other thing. So there is a way to do this that actually will save the average American consumer money."
January 15, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Those of you merging Claude Code PRs without looking - are you going to accept responsibility when something goes wrong? Or are you going to pass the buck like the Chief Constable here?
WM Police chief Craig Guildford has apologised for identifying a fictitious West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv match in a police report. He’s written to the home affairs committee and blames Microsoft CoPilot for the error
January 14, 2026 at 10:30 AM
The @iwf.org.uk posting on X today about the dangers of AI generated abuse content and getting 80 views there whilst not posting here shows the idiocy of the government's policy - no one is listening to you there
Cabinet Office Minister Baroness Anderson tells the Lords the Government will keep on using X.

"I still believe that X is an appropriate platform to use because I believe in freedom of speech..."

"It is incredibly important that there is a counter narrative on those platforms," she says.
January 5, 2026 at 5:22 PM
It's been a bit of a challenge trying to model this system, which is ostensibly digital but in reality a bunch of PDFs/Word docs. We've tried to put in structure and the feedback was "it's all a bit clicky". Turns out the officers just want to copy/paste text from previous decision documents.
We're working on a system for local council planning officers and trying to adopt delegated types as we expand it to cover things like enforcement and building control and like Jeff said it's better to start from the beginning than migrate 😅
December 20, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Interesting that Fizzy doesn't seem to follow this pattern though there's some references to it in the commit history. Wonder why that was? Perhaps the intention make the source available made them adopt a more traditional Rails pattern?

dev.37signals.com/the-rails-de...
The Rails Delegated Type Pattern
Principal Programmer Jeffrey Hardy unpacks the Rails delegated type pattern that powers Basecamp and HEY.
dev.37signals.com
December 20, 2025 at 9:38 AM
15 hour working week? More likely to be people postponing retirement after their savings cratered when the AI bubble burst - having to work low paid care jobs as AI has replaced them at their office jobs.

www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
What will your life look like in 2035?
When AIs become consistently more capable than humans, life could change in strange ways. Here we look at how the era of artificial general intelligence might feel
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Pretty sure I have a small glass fragment in my foot but the sharp pain once or twice day is more bearable than the thought of trying to navigate A&E at the hospital - I mean, it'll come out eventually right?
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Saw a post that the new self-hosted runner charge on GitHub Actions is going to cost them around $1000 per year for just one product team 😬

(That does seem a lot but I think it includes smoke tests that run every 15minutes)
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
That's Charlie Nunn, CEO of Lloyds Bank who took home £5.6m last year who appears to be hopelessly out of his depth.
Not sure I’ve ever read so many buzzwords in a report of one speech.

www.ft.com/content/4a00... Lloyds Bank pushes for AI and blockchain to transform UK homebuying
December 15, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I assume the person who wrote this wasn't including hospital porters and cleaners in "skilled frontline workers" yet they're every bit as vital to a functioning NHS as nurses and doctors.
This is so disgusting.
December 7, 2025 at 10:26 AM
I've always tended to avoid using the vcr gem, preferring to use webmock directly as it's easy to abuse it to record everything. However it comes into its own when recording embedding generation for pgvector based searches - no-one wants to mock vectors with 1024 dimensions 😅
December 5, 2025 at 6:27 PM
This is just another in a long line of AI slop vulnerability reports on open source projects but it really does start to feel like we're being exploited to provide free training data 🫠

github.com/basecamp/fiz...
[Security] Fix CRITICAL vulnerability: V-001 by orbisai0security · Pull Request #1951 · basecamp/fizzy
Security Fix This PR addresses a CRITICAL severity vulnerability detected by our security scanner. Security Impact Assessment Aspect Rating Rationale Impact High In this board management rep...
github.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
A quick check of archive.org shows the obr.uk website has been running on WordPress and using the Download Monitor plugin since 2017 - this has probably been well-known to some people for years.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...
OBR chair quits after inquiry into early release of Reeves’s budget
Richard Hughes departs after investigation into how official forecaster accidentally published budget 40 minutes early
www.theguardian.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Reading about the safe_sleep.sh bug on GHA and went to look at the runner code and basically it's in a code freeze.

I guess a some point we're going to have to redo all our CI setups again 😭

github.com/actions/runner
GitHub - actions/runner: The Runner for GitHub Actions :rocket:
The Runner for GitHub Actions :rocket:. Contribute to actions/runner development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Except they don't say how it was published early 🙄

A quick glance at the OBR website shows they use WordPress and a plugin 'Download Monitor'. They obviously scheduled the publication for the correct time in WP but didn't realise the actual file was unprotected

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
How Rachel Reeves’s budget was leaked 40 minutes early
By the time the chancellor reached the dispatch box, the OBR had accidentally published its verdict in full online
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:23 AM