Rupert Goodwins
@rupertg.bsky.social
Tech hack. Hacks tech. Was Prince Philip. Wrote firmware for Clive and Alan, wrote words for decades, now Register columnist and creative tech at Civic Digits. Quite blind. Music, history, radio, science. Only robots have to be binary: YMMV.
This is, as they say, une banger absolute. If your booty don't twitch to this neat, DNR. Chppn.
open.spotify.com/track/2L1FLX...
open.spotify.com/track/2L1FLX...
Asymptote
open.spotify.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is, as they say, une banger absolute. If your booty don't twitch to this neat, DNR. Chppn.
open.spotify.com/track/2L1FLX...
open.spotify.com/track/2L1FLX...
All that AI and visual precessing cleverness embedded in the untold petaflops of its mighty machinery, and the Google Photos web app cannot read a QR code in an image.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
All that AI and visual precessing cleverness embedded in the untold petaflops of its mighty machinery, and the Google Photos web app cannot read a QR code in an image.
I have stumbled on a completely weird link between ROTOR, the early Cold War British radar network, and the maximally bonkers Trumpian medbed conspiracy theory. It may involve crayfish. Research continues.
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I have stumbled on a completely weird link between ROTOR, the early Cold War British radar network, and the maximally bonkers Trumpian medbed conspiracy theory. It may involve crayfish. Research continues.
What I love about Apple iOS is attention to detail..
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
What I love about Apple iOS is attention to detail..
Old agency adage:
"If the client pouts and sighs
Make their advert twice the size
If that's still unsatisfactory
Show a picture of their factory
only in the direst case
Print a picture of their face"
And in Rupert's Inbox PR Surpise today... trials and tribbleations.
"If the client pouts and sighs
Make their advert twice the size
If that's still unsatisfactory
Show a picture of their factory
only in the direst case
Print a picture of their face"
And in Rupert's Inbox PR Surpise today... trials and tribbleations.
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Old agency adage:
"If the client pouts and sighs
Make their advert twice the size
If that's still unsatisfactory
Show a picture of their factory
only in the direst case
Print a picture of their face"
And in Rupert's Inbox PR Surpise today... trials and tribbleations.
"If the client pouts and sighs
Make their advert twice the size
If that's still unsatisfactory
Show a picture of their factory
only in the direst case
Print a picture of their face"
And in Rupert's Inbox PR Surpise today... trials and tribbleations.
My T1154{R1155 RAF Bomber Command radios have arrived from Kent via a specialist courier. Far too heavy for one man to lift, and that's just the radios. The power supply is similar. All came with enormous amounts of documentation which is fantastic. Now to get it on the air.
October 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
My T1154{R1155 RAF Bomber Command radios have arrived from Kent via a specialist courier. Far too heavy for one man to lift, and that's just the radios. The power supply is similar. All came with enormous amounts of documentation which is fantastic. Now to get it on the air.
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan has a new album, Public Works And Utilities. Not the variety of BoC, but the vibe, the uneasy nostalgia of avivd childhood flashback in the middle act of a trip. Lovely. spotify.link/8bvvWp06yXb
Public Works and Utilities
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October 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan has a new album, Public Works And Utilities. Not the variety of BoC, but the vibe, the uneasy nostalgia of avivd childhood flashback in the middle act of a trip. Lovely. spotify.link/8bvvWp06yXb
Bluesky search is broken, so good luck searching for why.
October 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Bluesky search is broken, so good luck searching for why.
Going through the ONT data sheet in the hope of finding a way to get it to disgorge stats. Np luck so far, but amused to see it has a Dying Gasp Alarm.
September 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Going through the ONT data sheet in the hope of finding a way to get it to disgorge stats. Np luck so far, but amused to see it has a Dying Gasp Alarm.
It took Openreach months to get a fibre five metres from the cabinet to the house, but I have slipped the surly bonds of Vjrgin to touch the face of Zen. Nice to plug my existing router straight into the ONT - just add PPPoE creds and VPN/WiFi etc just carry on. As it should be.
September 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It took Openreach months to get a fibre five metres from the cabinet to the house, but I have slipped the surly bonds of Vjrgin to touch the face of Zen. Nice to plug my existing router straight into the ONT - just add PPPoE creds and VPN/WiFi etc just carry on. As it should be.
Integrity. Must be powered by irony thrusters.
September 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Integrity. Must be powered by irony thrusters.
AI fun. Palb had a lyric fragnebt stuck in his head -"I don't want your secret police, I don't want your spies" and tried to look it up on line. Google AI said it was from "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" by Morrissey. He tried different varaints of the lyric, and each time the AI came back...
September 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
AI fun. Palb had a lyric fragnebt stuck in his head -"I don't want your secret police, I don't want your spies" and tried to look it up on line. Google AI said it was from "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" by Morrissey. He tried different varaints of the lyric, and each time the AI came back...
I may have just bought an unfeasible wireless set...
August 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I may have just bought an unfeasible wireless set...
@marcrileydj.bsky.social Robert Fripp tells tq\es of the tour bus. Thank God my tablet is gin prooi. Think you could slip it out on t'wireless? Me neither. open.spotify.com/track/0CzS4s...
UNdiscipline
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August 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@marcrileydj.bsky.social Robert Fripp tells tq\es of the tour bus. Thank God my tablet is gin prooi. Think you could slip it out on t'wireless? Me neither. open.spotify.com/track/0CzS4s...
The refurb Pixel 8 Pro I got to replace my moistened Pixel 6 has a bunch of spec updates that don;t matter to me, nor did I expect them too. But - the screen is now bright enough I can read the bus app at bus stops in way more daylights. Huge for me. Who knows what matters.
July 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The refurb Pixel 8 Pro I got to replace my moistened Pixel 6 has a bunch of spec updates that don;t matter to me, nor did I expect them too. But - the screen is now bright enough I can read the bus app at bus stops in way more daylights. Huge for me. Who knows what matters.
Went to read this, was mesmerised by 'pantheon of aggression', a juxtaposition of concepts that shouldn't work but somehow does, precipitating a snow globe shower of ideas each time you shake it. All aspect of human violence its own god? What does mythos draw? Language and mind are crazy fun.
Can you tell I'm working a weekend shift? Anyway, I wrote about Trump's lawsuit against the WSJ and where it fits in with his pantheon of aggression against media companies: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump sues the Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday album story
Trump called the newspaper a “useless rag” and boasted about the previous times he's sued journalists and media outlets.
www.motherjones.com
July 20, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Went to read this, was mesmerised by 'pantheon of aggression', a juxtaposition of concepts that shouldn't work but somehow does, precipitating a snow globe shower of ideas each time you shake it. All aspect of human violence its own god? What does mythos draw? Language and mind are crazy fun.
Summertime, and the freelance is flowing
Staffers are on hols, and the well's running dry
Oh, your budget is rich, and your readers are looking
Commission me, baby, don't you cry.
Staffers are on hols, and the well's running dry
Oh, your budget is rich, and your readers are looking
Commission me, baby, don't you cry.
July 19, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Summertime, and the freelance is flowing
Staffers are on hols, and the well's running dry
Oh, your budget is rich, and your readers are looking
Commission me, baby, don't you cry.
Staffers are on hols, and the well's running dry
Oh, your budget is rich, and your readers are looking
Commission me, baby, don't you cry.
"The new supercomputer has the power of 100,000 home computers and will allow the training of a British version of ChatGPT. Yhe minister said that the data it could process in a swcond would take everyone else in the world 80 years to achieve."
HOW CAN I WORK IN THE MIDFT OF THIS MINCE?
HOW CAN I WORK IN THE MIDFT OF THIS MINCE?
July 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
"The new supercomputer has the power of 100,000 home computers and will allow the training of a British version of ChatGPT. Yhe minister said that the data it could process in a swcond would take everyone else in the world 80 years to achieve."
HOW CAN I WORK IN THE MIDFT OF THIS MINCE?
HOW CAN I WORK IN THE MIDFT OF THIS MINCE?
Now me Samsung Tab A9 tablet has gone mad. The finger pattern recognition system has stopped working, so I can't get in. The sort of petty annoyance fixed by a restart via the long press on the power button.
Which as of late has added the need to verify via the pattern.
Which as of late has added the need to verify via the pattern.
July 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Now me Samsung Tab A9 tablet has gone mad. The finger pattern recognition system has stopped working, so I can't get in. The sort of petty annoyance fixed by a restart via the long press on the power button.
Which as of late has added the need to verify via the pattern.
Which as of late has added the need to verify via the pattern.
A piece of long-lost tech pub trivia: in the 1990s, PC Magazine UK used a portfolio of images to test printers. So big sister, PC Mag US, with their own. One of theirs was a striking black and white portrait of a familiar face. Production asked their American cousins if they knew who it was...
July 15, 2025 at 10:35 PM
A piece of long-lost tech pub trivia: in the 1990s, PC Magazine UK used a portfolio of images to test printers. So big sister, PC Mag US, with their own. One of theirs was a striking black and white portrait of a familiar face. Production asked their American cousins if they knew who it was...
400 miles from home. Return journey imminent. All the travel things on phone. Which phone? This phone. This afternoon. This ungood.
July 15, 2025 at 3:59 PM
400 miles from home. Return journey imminent. All the travel things on phone. Which phone? This phone. This afternoon. This ungood.
We are now working for the Internet, not the Internet for us.
An alert to all creatives using #WeTransfer. Basically, stop immediately! As of August, they will begin scraping everything you send for AI purposes (see the new paragraph in their Terms and Conditions below).
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
If, like me, you’re a voice artist, they’ll clone your voice. Avoid at all costs.
July 15, 2025 at 11:08 AM
We are now working for the Internet, not the Internet for us.
In short: Bluesky will use Epic Games' age verification system to comply with UK regs. This collects an INSANE amount oour data, which Epic will use how it wishes.
This is what 'think of the children' actually means.
I cannot and will not consent to this felonious garbage.
This is what 'think of the children' actually means.
I cannot and will not consent to this felonious garbage.
So, yeah, this is fun. The information Epic Games' age verification system will collect on anyone who uses their service to meet the UK Government's new age verification edict, for instance to continue to use Bluesky from the UK.
* www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age...
* www.thegist.ie/the-gist-age...
July 13, 2025 at 3:41 PM
In short: Bluesky will use Epic Games' age verification system to comply with UK regs. This collects an INSANE amount oour data, which Epic will use how it wishes.
This is what 'think of the children' actually means.
I cannot and will not consent to this felonious garbage.
This is what 'think of the children' actually means.
I cannot and will not consent to this felonious garbage.
