Mastodawn

Technical infrastructure is going through a Balkanization into sovereign zones. The new DR scenario is "we've been arbitrarily cut off legally/physically from our software vendors/systems/data".

The impact will be wild.

Phil B at Green Pike Ltd Mar 24

Keep Android Open Mar 18

How do you feel about the impending lockdown of Android?

Good, it is necessary for our safety and security

0.9%

OK, I trust Google to prioritize user interests

0.5%

Bad, it is an attempt to take complete control

57.3%

Terrible, this is the end of software freedom

41.3%

Poll ended at Mar 25 at 7:45pm.

Phil B at Green Pike Ltd Mar 16

@pndc Mar 16

I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired.

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commercial #Scala, #Python, #C/#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even #PHP (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

Drop me a private mention or mail [email protected] if you have or know of something.

Phil B at Green Pike Ltd Mar 13

(If as described in this report) it is not a good look for company governance:
https://taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/03/13/companies-house-security-vulnerability-directors-addresses/

"Companies House flaw exposed five million directors and enabled company hijacking"

Companies House flaw exposed five million directors and enabled company hijacking

A major flaw in the Companies House website enabled free access to the “dashboard” of any of the five million registered companies. See it used in this video.

Tax Policy Associates

Phil B at Green Pike Ltd Mar 10

AkaSci 🛰️Mar 10

RIP Sir Charles Antony Richard Hoare (11 January 1934 – 5 March 2026), also known as C. A. R. Hoare, pioneering computer scientist.

His seminal contributions include -
Quicksort
Quickselect
Hoare logic
Null reference
Communicating sequential processes
Structured programming
ALGOL

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html
https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/hoare_4622167.cfm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare
1/n

Phil B at Green Pike Ltd Feb 24

May Likes Toronto Feb 24

I'm watching LinkedIn throttle this post. (I don't care, but I like seeing the numbers.)
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7432068646677516289/

I used to post a ton on there. Super thoughtful posts on product and organizational culture. What people need to do good work.

Then they started throttling posts. Anything with links, anything anti-AI or anti-LinkedIn posts usually gets murdered by the algorithm.

And now it's just people vs the algorithms trying to play the game. AI vs AI trying to get ahead.

I didn't want to see my content next to the slop, so I stopped making the content. Stopped having insightful conversations with the people who wanted to talk about our mutual interests.

The platform is exhausting.

I hate coming here on LinkedIn. I feel like I'm watching some of the most capable people I know lose their minds, letting language models take over their words and erase everything that once made… | May Wong

I hate coming here on LinkedIn. I feel like I'm watching some of the most capable people I know lose their minds, letting language models take over their words and erase everything that once made them interesting and worth reading.

Phil B at Green Pike Ltd Feb 18

Zack Whittaker Feb 18

Uhh, whoops. https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/18/microsoft-says-office-bug-exposed-customers-confidential-emails-to-copilot-ai/

Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers' confidential emails to Copilot AI | TechCrunch

Microsoft said the bug meant that its Copilot AI chatbot was reading and summarizing paying customers' confidential emails, bypassing data-protection policies.

TechCrunch

Phil B at Green Pike Ltd Feb 10

Neil Brown Aug 17, 2023

“Neil, I don’t understand why you self-host so much. You’re so old fashioned, you should be using the cloud it is so much better”

Also

“Neil, the service I was using for $x has shut down without notice and $y has changed it terms of service and wants to scan my content to train its AI and $z is changing its subscription model to charge me loads more - what would you do?”

Phil B at Green Pike Ltd Feb 7

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Esteban Küber

Feb 7

One thing I keep seeing is the same lessons being learned across different disciplines: pilots and doctors learning about the importance of checklists, road and industrial machine engineers learning about safe by default design, industrial and software UX designers learning about how to best make machines and humans talk to each other. We need more cross pollination. Across industries. Across borders. Across people. That's how we build a better future. And for that we need to listen.

Phil B at Green Pike Ltd Dec 11

Ollie Whitehouse Dec 11

At ncsc we have been running cyber deception experiments across 121 organisations from across the UK..

.. the team have just shared our insights ..

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/cyber-deception-trials-what-weve-learned-so-far

Cyber deception trials: what we’ve learned so far

An update on the NCSC's trials to test the real-world efficacy of cyber deception solutions.