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Steve Hurcombe
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Senior Principal Software Engineer, full stack developer, C#, Typescript, Vuejs, SQL. Electronics hobbyist.
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stejormur.bsky.social
Called it guard.io/labs/scamlex...
All we did was fake a simple email from a fresh new ProtonMail address (so it’s clearly not from a bank) posing as a message from a Wells Fargo investment manager. Inside was a link to a genuine phishing page, active in the wild for several days, and still unflagged by Google Safe Browsing. When Comet received the email, it confidently marked it as a to-do item from the bank and clicked the link without any verification. There was no URL check, no pre-navigation warning -just a direct pass to the attacker’s page. Once the fake Wells Fargo login loaded, Comet treated it as legitimate. It prompted the user to enter credentials, even helping fill in the form.
August 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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sundersays.bsky.social
63% of people think net migration rose in the last 12 months
8% of people think it fell

Yet it fell by 400,000 in 2024 vs 2023
[It is falling further in 2025]

Public service broadcasters are doing a core part of their job on this topic badly if that 8% is not closer to 30% at least
August 23, 2025 at 7:12 AM
stevehurcombe.bsky.social
#postoffice systems are down across the UK according to our local Post Office.
July 17, 2025 at 3:11 PM
stevehurcombe.bsky.social
I'm good thanks
Opinions headlines reads: Britain is one step closer to compassionate, kind death for all
June 21, 2025 at 9:31 AM
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etsc.eu
Study on London 20 mph limits shows:
- collisions ⬇️ 35%
- casualties ⬇️ 36%
- fatal/serious injuries ⬇️ 34%
- child casualties ⬇️ 46%
- child deaths ⬇️ 75%
- walkers, cyclists, motorcyclists killed/seriously injured ⬇️ 28%

etsc.eu/20mph-limits...
20mph limits in London linked to sharp fall in road injuries and deaths, new report finds
A new study published by Transport for London (TfL) has shown that the introduction of 20mph speed limits and zones on local authority-managed roads in London between 1989 and 2013 led to significant…
etsc.eu
June 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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leorzmigrod.bsky.social
First time on Bluesky 👋☁️

🟠 Delighted to share that my book The Ideological Brain will be out in March (and in >10 languages later this year)! 🔵

📘 It’s about what makes some brains susceptible to rigid worldviews, how ideologies infiltrate our minds and bodies, and what it means to break free 📙
Cover of The Ideological Brain by Leor Zmigrod
January 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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ducktapeprogrammer.bsky.social
“A program is a shared mental construct that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you lose the program. The code is merely a written representation of the program, and it's lossy, so you can't reconstruct a program from its code.”

gist.github.com/onlurking/fc...
May 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
stevehurcombe.bsky.social
somebody needs to come up with an antistatic watch strap (one with the metal stud on it)
May 29, 2025 at 8:54 PM
stevehurcombe.bsky.social
Roger Daltry putting on an excellent show. 81!
#cheltjazzfest #jazz #Cheltenham
May 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
stevehurcombe.bsky.social
Shocking story.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centre
Graphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking...
www.theguardian.com
April 5, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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garius.bsky.social
Had to pop into town, so quick stop for lunch at one of my favourite sneaky restaurant picks: Sofra Turkish on South Molton Street.

I absolutely encourage you to read the "about us" page on their website.

It actually escalates from here.

www.sofra.co.uk/huseyin-ozer/
I was born in a village. My parents separated. I lived with my grandfather. When I was supposed to go to primary school at the age of seven, my father disowned me. My older brother tried to poison me. My grandfather grew old and I became an unwanted child. I learned how to write by writing on walls and rocks with charcoal. I herded goats. My mother got angry about this. She sent me to Ankara to earn money for a gun so I could shoot my father. I was a homeless child. I twice wrote to our president Demirel to educate me but didn’t get a positive reply. I slept in a public toilet in Sıhhiye, fuelled up lighters in Ulus square
March 31, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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georgetakei.bsky.social
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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jjaron.bsky.social
A fantastic story from @stokel.bsky.social, who used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT logs of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary. With the precedent now set, will journalists be following his lead to see how other politicians are using AI? www.newscientist.com/article/2472...
Revealed: How the UK tech secretary uses ChatGPT for policy advice
New Scientist has used freedom of information laws to obtain the ChatGPT records of Peter Kyle, the UK's technology secretary, in what is believed to be a world-first use of such legislation
www.newscientist.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
hate this hate this hate this I hate it I hate it
March 13, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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simonwillison.net
Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...
If someone tells you that coding with LLMs is easy they are (probably unintentionally) misleading you. They may well have stumbled on to patterns that work, but those patterns do not come naturally to everyone. I’ve been getting great results out of LLMs for code for over two years now. Here’s my attempt at transferring some of that experience and intution to you. Set reasonable expectations Account for training cut-off dates Context is king Ask them for options Tell them exactly what to do You have to test what it writes! Remember it’s a conversation Use tools that can run the code for you Vibe-coding is a great way to learn A detailed example Be ready for the human to take over The biggest advantage is speed of development LLMs amplify existing expertise Bonus: answering questions about codebases
March 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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ourworldindata.org
Weather forecasts have become much more accurate. A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago.
Line chart showing improvements in the accuracy of weather forecasts over time. These have improved in the North and Southern Hemisphere.
February 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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dxtr.se
Great breakdown of how the "WoeMeter" from the latest Severance episode was built: make3.co/work/woemeter

@adafruit.com ESP32-S3 Feather spotted!
March 3, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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iandunt.bsky.social
Jesus Christ. When was the last time you heard anyone say something like this?
mijrahman.bsky.social Mujtaba Rahman @mijrahman.bsky.social · Mar 3
🇪🇺🇬🇧 Through my first set of meetings in Brussels. The praise for Starmer is overwhelming: “What he has managed to do is not just good for him. It's good for all of us. Absolutely top notch. This is the UK at its best. The UK we have always admired.
March 3, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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dlknowles.bsky.social
Wow

www.kpbs.org/news/border-...
German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.
www.kpbs.org
March 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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cullenhendrix.bsky.social
If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall.

tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change.
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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thestudyofwar.bsky.social
Reports that a NATO member state is struggling to combat likely Russian reconnaissance drones demonstrate the need for NATO states to further develop their defensive capabilities as Russia continues to use its experience on the battlefield in Ukraine to innovate new tech. isw.pub/UkrWar020925
February 10, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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jeffgeerling.com
OpenAI's nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi 5 ;)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1sN...
OpenAI's nightmare: Deepseek R1 on a Raspberry Pi
YouTube video by Jeff Geerling
www.youtube.com
January 28, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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bylinetimes.bsky.social
🔴Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

bylinetimes.com/2025/01/24/w...
Twenty More Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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peterstefanovic.bsky.social
1 in 5 people referred to food banks are from working households
@trusselluk.bsky.social
trusselluk.bsky.social Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · Jan 28
Did you know?! 1 in 5 people referred to food banks are from working households.

The rising costs of bills and food means that people don't have enough money to survive - and are being left with no option but to turn to a food bank.
January 28, 2025 at 9:05 AM
stevehurcombe.bsky.social
New project. An Ekco AC-74 radio, circa 1933. Even the V&A have one!
collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O121385...
Ecko AC-74 radio, front Ecko AC-74 radio, dial close up
January 22, 2025 at 4:40 PM