Craig Heath
@heathcr.bsky.social
Retired information security consultant. Archives volunteer at Bletchley Park.
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"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy."
Defend the BBC before it’s gone – an open letter
The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"The BBC isn’t perfect – but it’s ours. If we don’t defend it now, we may lose a cornerstone of British democracy."
"... I usually submit an article and invoice on the same email. That way, there is no opportunity to use excuses like they didn’t get my invoice ..." Sound advice!
New Note from a Hired Pen: I listened to The Wedding Scammer from The Ringer. I wasn't surprised the conman started by stiffing freelancers, nor that he used the same excuse I've heard a dozen times before jenamiller.com/notes-from-a...
Notes from a Hired Pen: Listen to the words of a man who scams freelancers - Jen A. Miller
Readers! Last week, I took a few days off to frolic in the woods of western Pennsylvania. On my drive back, I started listening to The Wedding Scammer, a 2023 podcast from the Ringer. The title is a...
jenamiller.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:47 PM
"... I usually submit an article and invoice on the same email. That way, there is no opportunity to use excuses like they didn’t get my invoice ..." Sound advice!
Leamington Spa W.H. Smith's. (It's a cassette, not a record, but I'm interpreting the request as first "album" :-))
November 3, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Leamington Spa W.H. Smith's. (It's a cassette, not a record, but I'm interpreting the request as first "album" :-))
Link works; recommended reading.
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My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
October 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Link works; recommended reading.
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Annoyed by commuters playing their shitty music at full volume?
You can buy USB-C headphones for £2. Grab a sack of them and hand them out to sodcasters everywhere.
shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10...
You can buy USB-C headphones for £2. Grab a sack of them and hand them out to sodcasters everywhere.
shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10...
Review: The Cheapest USB-C Headphones I Could Find
Ever since phone manufacturers killed off the headphone jack, there has been an epidemic of people blasting sounds from their shitty speakers in public. Music, TikTok, phone calls - it seems some peop...
shkspr.mobi
October 27, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Annoyed by commuters playing their shitty music at full volume?
You can buy USB-C headphones for £2. Grab a sack of them and hand them out to sodcasters everywhere.
shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10...
You can buy USB-C headphones for £2. Grab a sack of them and hand them out to sodcasters everywhere.
shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/10...
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Virtual Schlüsselgerät 41 (SG-41). Another week and yet another mess of levers in the CT scans that do something .. but what? One of those cases where I'm just going to have to model & animate them in @blender.org & @threejs.org to find out. @tnmoc.bsky.social @cryptomuseum.bsky.social
October 25, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Virtual Schlüsselgerät 41 (SG-41). Another week and yet another mess of levers in the CT scans that do something .. but what? One of those cases where I'm just going to have to model & animate them in @blender.org & @threejs.org to find out. @tnmoc.bsky.social @cryptomuseum.bsky.social
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I have a lot of questions about the Vertu Agent Q "AI phone" which is launching this week at Harrods...
October 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I have a lot of questions about the Vertu Agent Q "AI phone" which is launching this week at Harrods...
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After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet
The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter
christinapagel.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 1:10 PM
After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...
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OK BlueSky network, can we do the six degrees of Kevin Bacon thing? Does anyone know Ian Livingstone or someone in similar tech/tabletop gaming/boardgame area? I've got a tech demo that I'd love to take further, or at least show to people who might 'get it'.
Reposts appreciated.
Reposts appreciated.
October 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
OK BlueSky network, can we do the six degrees of Kevin Bacon thing? Does anyone know Ian Livingstone or someone in similar tech/tabletop gaming/boardgame area? I've got a tech demo that I'd love to take further, or at least show to people who might 'get it'.
Reposts appreciated.
Reposts appreciated.
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“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
Don’t believe the hype: AGI is far from inevitable | Radboud University
Will AI soon surpass the human brain? If you ask employees at OpenAI, Google DeepMind and other large tech companies, it is inevitable. However, researchers at Radboud University and other institutes ...
www.ru.nl
December 6, 2024 at 9:17 PM
“Few people realize that cognitive science is crucial for evaluating claims about AI capabilities. We often overestimate what computers are capable of, while vastly underestimating what human cognition is capable of.” www.ru.nl/en/research/...
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Battle of Britain Day today. And a welcome reminder from the RAF Benevolent Fund of what an astonishing team effort it was which led to such an essential victory.
September 15, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Battle of Britain Day today. And a welcome reminder from the RAF Benevolent Fund of what an astonishing team effort it was which led to such an essential victory.
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The internet forgets. You don’t have to.
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📥 Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to capture and preserve the sites you care about.
🕰️ Try it here ➡️ web.archive.org/save
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August 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The internet forgets. You don’t have to.
📥 Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to capture and preserve the sites you care about.
🕰️ Try it here ➡️ web.archive.org/save
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine @Archive.org
📥 Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to capture and preserve the sites you care about.
🕰️ Try it here ➡️ web.archive.org/save
#Wayback1T #WaybackMachine @Archive.org
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Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
August 23, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Just for perspective, a few weeks ago roughly 100,000 turned up for the London Trans+ Pride march. By contrast fewer than 3,000 ACROSS THE WHOLE COUNTRY, have turned up to anti-asylum "protests". Yet we are meant to take the latter as "the voice of the people" and the former as "the minority".
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"Well, of course, in a perfect world we'd sterilise the instruments first..."
"In a perfect world the electrician would be qualified..."
"In a perfect world we'd wait until the chicken's cooked all the way through..."
#LinkedInPragmatists
"In a perfect world the electrician would be qualified..."
"In a perfect world we'd wait until the chicken's cooked all the way through..."
#LinkedInPragmatists
August 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
"Well, of course, in a perfect world we'd sterilise the instruments first..."
"In a perfect world the electrician would be qualified..."
"In a perfect world we'd wait until the chicken's cooked all the way through..."
#LinkedInPragmatists
"In a perfect world the electrician would be qualified..."
"In a perfect world we'd wait until the chicken's cooked all the way through..."
#LinkedInPragmatists
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If you're out for a walk on this gorgeous Sunday, please look out for any memorial benches.
Snap a photo of the inscription and upload to openbenches.org
You'll need to make sure "location" is enabled on your camera.
THANKS GANG!
Snap a photo of the inscription and upload to openbenches.org
You'll need to make sure "location" is enabled on your camera.
THANKS GANG!
July 27, 2025 at 8:58 AM
If you're out for a walk on this gorgeous Sunday, please look out for any memorial benches.
Snap a photo of the inscription and upload to openbenches.org
You'll need to make sure "location" is enabled on your camera.
THANKS GANG!
Snap a photo of the inscription and upload to openbenches.org
You'll need to make sure "location" is enabled on your camera.
THANKS GANG!
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Scientific breakthrough!
One of my students sent me the latest quantum factorization record, and I have to admit: I’m shook. eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237
Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog
This paper presents implementations that match and, where possible, exceed current quantum factorisation records using a VIC-20 8-bit home computer from 1981, an abacus, and a dog. We hope that this ...
eprint.iacr.org
July 13, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Scientific breakthrough!
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A reminder to please vote for Duke Humfrey's in the 1000 libraries global 'Top Ten Most Beautiful Libraries' competition - and a big thank you to everybody who has voted for us so far.
1000libraries.typeform.com/to/TdFzuF5W?....
1000libraries.typeform.com/to/TdFzuF5W?....
July 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A reminder to please vote for Duke Humfrey's in the 1000 libraries global 'Top Ten Most Beautiful Libraries' competition - and a big thank you to everybody who has voted for us so far.
1000libraries.typeform.com/to/TdFzuF5W?....
1000libraries.typeform.com/to/TdFzuF5W?....
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PSA: Actual experts say you *shouldn't* change passwords unless you think they've been compromised. Also, SMS is better than no 2FA, but it's the weakest method of 2FA: use an app to generate codes. I use Authy; see also Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, etc. cc @theguardian.com
@katebevan.com Guardian’s turn now: “Experts said the research underlined the need to update passwords regularly and adopt tough security measures such as multifactor authentication – or combining a password with another form of verification such as a code texted from a phone.”
Experts, eh?
Experts, eh?
June 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
PSA: Actual experts say you *shouldn't* change passwords unless you think they've been compromised. Also, SMS is better than no 2FA, but it's the weakest method of 2FA: use an app to generate codes. I use Authy; see also Google Authenticator, Microsoft Authenticator, etc. cc @theguardian.com
I once sat next to Lesley Judd on the tube.
Right folks. Feeling rather down at the moment so bringing back an oldie
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
Please Quote this with your most minor celebrity interaction
June 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
I once sat next to Lesley Judd on the tube.
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RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac
RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac
His work set the direction of modern computer interfaces, and much more
Obit Bill Atkinson, widely acclaimed as perhaps the most brilliant computer programmer ever, has succumbed to pancreatic cancer at 74.…
dlvr.it
June 11, 2025 at 7:04 PM
RIP: Bill Atkinson, co-creator of Apple Lisa and Mac
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you know. I bloody agree with this. the BBC is FAR FROM PERFECT & does fuck up.
the reason I keep making programmes for it is: as an organisation it is still *basically trying* to give a truthful view of the world. which, as their billionaire owners tell us, much US media has basically given up on.
the reason I keep making programmes for it is: as an organisation it is still *basically trying* to give a truthful view of the world. which, as their billionaire owners tell us, much US media has basically given up on.
NEW: With the media landscape is changing around our ears, what's the point of the BBC?
Tim Davie's answer - it's the thing that will stop us falling into polarised crisis where there are no shared facts.
Expect more beeb on YouTube/TikTok.
Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
Tim Davie's answer - it's the thing that will stop us falling into polarised crisis where there are no shared facts.
Expect more beeb on YouTube/TikTok.
Story: www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...
BBC boss says disinformation ‘trust crisis’ putting social fabric of UK at risk
Tim Davie pitches BBC as unifying force as he announces plans to make more news content for YouTube and TikTok
www.theguardian.com
May 16, 2025 at 6:26 PM
you know. I bloody agree with this. the BBC is FAR FROM PERFECT & does fuck up.
the reason I keep making programmes for it is: as an organisation it is still *basically trying* to give a truthful view of the world. which, as their billionaire owners tell us, much US media has basically given up on.
the reason I keep making programmes for it is: as an organisation it is still *basically trying* to give a truthful view of the world. which, as their billionaire owners tell us, much US media has basically given up on.
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A huge, quiet success: violence has fallen 75% in a generation:
May 17, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A huge, quiet success: violence has fallen 75% in a generation:
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As Trump rejects the rule of law, the spirit & specifics of Magna Carta*, while also trying to subjugate Harvard, that self same university goes and discovers an actual Magna Carta?
Full marks, no notes
Full marks, no notes
May 15, 2025 at 8:34 AM
As Trump rejects the rule of law, the spirit & specifics of Magna Carta*, while also trying to subjugate Harvard, that self same university goes and discovers an actual Magna Carta?
Full marks, no notes
Full marks, no notes