David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

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I am Director of System Architecture at SCI Semiconductor and a Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. I remain actively involved in the #CHERI project, where I led the early language / compiler strand of the research, and am the maintainer of the #CHERIoT Platform.

I was on the FreeBSD Core Team for two terms, have been an LLVM developer since 2008, am the author of the GNUstep Objective-C runtime (libobjc2 and associated clang support), and am responsible for libcxxrt and the BSD-licensed device tree compiler.

Opinions expressed by me are not necessarily opinions. In all probability they are random ramblings and should be ignored. Failure to ignore may result in severe boredom and / or confusion. Shake well before opening. Keep refrigerated.

Warning: May contain greater than the recommended daily allowance of sarcasm.

No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

Starmer: I lost control over the benefits rebellion because I was focused on foreign policy.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/29/keir-starmer-lost-grip-labour-welfare-revolt-focus-foreign-affairs

So, not because he's an incompetent, authoritarian arse who ignored clear warning signs because he arrogantly assumed the rest of his party would do whatever he said, regardless of conscience?? Because I'm thinking it's more that, really...

Starmer says he lost grip on Labour welfare revolt due to focus on foreign affairs

Prime minister says he would ‘have liked to get to a better position with colleagues sooner than we did’

The Guardian
‘Make Britain Cool Again’ should be the new slogan for our Green Party.

Dear Sir/Madam/bespoke-gendered person,

I would like to cancel my subscription to Hot Weather, effective immediately.

I find your product does not agree with me.

Yours sincerely,

Hot & Harried of Harwell

Picard management tip: There's no need to solve hard problems alone. Admit when you need help.
Had to make this. #dogsofmastodon #meme #cheese
Not really surprising that after 60 years of the right calling all policies that benefit most voters ‘socialism’, people seem to want more socialism.

Pretty good description on offices.

#work #religion

Google's emissions are up over 50%, Amazon builds huge data centers powered by 75% natural gas.

Remember all those posts telling us that "AIs climate impact isn't that bad" supported by some really funky math/perspective and/or numbers Sam Altman invented?

Here's the actual impact.

"AI" is a fossil fuel technology.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/technology/amazon-ai-data-centers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.SU8.2JRa.e3Ju6r_pL1Im

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/google-emissions-ai-electricity-demand-derail-efforts-green

At Amazon’s Biggest Data Center, Everything Is Supersized for A.I.

On 1,200 acres of cornfield in Indiana, Amazon is building one of the largest computers ever for work with Anthropic, an artificial intelligence start-up.

The New York Times
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@jhhl I was inspired and created a gophermap including a PHP front end to Ollama chat :)