Sometimes, I receive questions which leave both me, and the person asking, bamboozled.

> Your website loads so quickly! What CDN do you use?

There is no CDN. It is just really small and simple, mostly text.

> Sure, but is that Cloudflare, or...?

None. It is a tiny website, just a few kilobytes per page, on a tiny server, at my home, connected to the Internet via my ISP, Andrews & Arnold.

> But are you / they in the cloud?

No. The webserver is in Newbury, in my garage.

> Neil, please can you pass my questions to your technical person? I don't think you understand, your website cannot be in your home. It must be in the cloud or have a CDN.

*Neil puts on glasses and false nose and moustache*

#wayback, a small project gluing together wayland components to turn Xwayland into a full X environment, is now published: https://github.com/kaniini/wayback

there's definitely a gazillion bugs, which will need work across the entire stack to solve.

however, unlike Xlibre, this is a sustainable path that is intended to reduce the number of X components in distributions.

Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos

https://www.theverge.com/meta/694685/meta-ai-camera-roll

Always read the terms and conditions, folks.

Facebook is asking to use Meta AI on photos in your camera roll you haven’t yet shared

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/facebook-is-asking-to-use-meta-ai-on-photos-in-your-camera-roll-you-havent-yet-shared/

#Bluetooth was a mistake: Millions of Bluetooth headphones can potentially be turned in eavesdropping devices. Best-seller #Sony and #Bose #headphones are affected by at least some of the disclosed flaws among many others. The true dimension of these flaws is yet unknown as the the vulnerable component is very widely in use under different names.

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Zero-day-Bluetooth-gap-turns-millions-of-headphones-into-listening-stations-10460704.html

Disclosure of the vulnerabilities: https://insinuator.net/2025/06/airoha-bluetooth-security-vulnerabilities/

No updates or official statements available yet. ☠️

#Security #Privacy #Audio #Airoha #ZeroDay

No matter how much Google ask to install "Gemini CLI: your open-source AI agent" for your terminal on macOS, Linux, Unix or other oses, do not install it. Here is a snippet from their policy:

Google collects your prompts, related code, generated output, code edits, related feature usage information, and your feedback to provide, improve, and develop Google products and services and ML technologies.

All your data on disk will be the part of AI training which is privacy nightmare

Just been told we're recruiting for a new Senior Architect permanent role at the BBC working across TVs & other devices for iPlayer and Sounds content.

* Hybrid: 1-2 days/week in London/Salford/Newcastle office
* 35 hour working week
* Salary: £75-85k
* Up to 10% pension contribution + loads more benefits
* 26 days annual leave + bank holidays
* Very inclusive & flexible work environment

More info:
https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Senior-Architect/24386-en_GB

#BBC #FediHired #Recruitment

🚀 @nlnet will fund @Mastodon
features for institutional instances. This will help make the #Fediverse a home for many organizations ✨

"This proposal aims to enhance its suitability for institutional use deploying their own server by introducing features such as customizable branding & landing pages, stronger security options like enforced 2FA + WebAuthn, the ability to embed timelines on external websites, and email-based post subscriptions for broader public reach."

https://nlnet.nl/project/Mastodon-for-institutions/

Today we’re quietly (and finally!) opening up Railfinder to the public! This is our beta version and - hopefully - the first step towards that one booking site for trains across Europe that we all dream of.

Lots of work has gone into this and equally lots still to do before reach that vision, but if you’d like to try what we’ve built you can now just go to https://www.railfinder.eu and have a go!

Any and all feedback more than welcome 🙏