Neil
@neil.bsky.social
Senior Engineer at Synadia working on NATS | Yggdrasil Network developer | All-round network enthusiast | 🏳️🌈
North East, United Kingdom
North East, United Kingdom
As pained as I am to side with Farage, this is an extremely dangerous precedent. The UK Government would rather brand anyone who opposes the Online Safety Act as a predator than actually admit that the legislation is deeply and fundamentally flawed.
Extraordinary moment on Sky News as Peter Kyle hits out at criticism of the Online Safety Act:
“If people like Jimmy Savile were alive today he’d be perpetrating his crimes online, and Nigel Farage is saying that he’s on their side"
Told that Zia Yusuf will be responding shortly on the programme
“If people like Jimmy Savile were alive today he’d be perpetrating his crimes online, and Nigel Farage is saying that he’s on their side"
Told that Zia Yusuf will be responding shortly on the programme
July 29, 2025 at 11:50 AM
As pained as I am to side with Farage, this is an extremely dangerous precedent. The UK Government would rather brand anyone who opposes the Online Safety Act as a predator than actually admit that the legislation is deeply and fundamentally flawed.
Don't DM me on Bluesky. I will not go through the age verification so I won't see it. Meanwhile, if you're a Brit, sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... and complain loudly to your local MP and/or anyone else who will listen.
July 25, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Don't DM me on Bluesky. I will not go through the age verification so I won't see it. Meanwhile, if you're a Brit, sign petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72... and complain loudly to your local MP and/or anyone else who will listen.
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This--that Signal would rather exit a market than undermine the core security and privacy technology that protects the people who use Signal--always still holds. We don't change our principles based on jurisdiction, legislative attack, or time of day...
I'm guessing this still holds
We will never undermine our privacy promises and the encryption they rely on. Our position remains the same: we will do whatever we can to continue ensuring people in the UK can use Signal, but if the choice came down to being forced to build a backdoor, or leaving, we would leave.
July 11, 2025 at 8:42 AM
This--that Signal would rather exit a market than undermine the core security and privacy technology that protects the people who use Signal--always still holds. We don't change our principles based on jurisdiction, legislative attack, or time of day...
Surreal seeing what Twitter/X has become. It's now nothing more than people making absurd claims followed by endless replies like "@grok is this true", "@grok explain", "@grok what's this post about". Basically an unchecked human-scale experiment of whether AI will fight disinformation or worsen it.
June 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Surreal seeing what Twitter/X has become. It's now nothing more than people making absurd claims followed by endless replies like "@grok is this true", "@grok explain", "@grok what's this post about". Basically an unchecked human-scale experiment of whether AI will fight disinformation or worsen it.
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As of this month we're closer to 2050 than we are 2000.
Have a great day!
Have a great day!
June 10, 2025 at 5:07 PM
As of this month we're closer to 2050 than we are 2000.
Have a great day!
Have a great day!
If anything highlights the sheer toxicity of the Hacker News crowd, it's a new Apple operating system announcement. Every year, commenters shit from a great height on each and every change under this delusional but predictable belief that talking something down enough makes them look smart.
June 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
If anything highlights the sheer toxicity of the Hacker News crowd, it's a new Apple operating system announcement. Every year, commenters shit from a great height on each and every change under this delusional but predictable belief that talking something down enough makes them look smart.
Also the addition of Wi-Fi Aware to iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 was without fanfare but is extremely welcome either way, finally making it possible to build peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connections between iPhones/iPads and devices from different manufacturers. An enabler of true edge computing anywhere you are.
June 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Also the addition of Wi-Fi Aware to iOS 26 and iPadOS 26 was without fanfare but is extremely welcome either way, finally making it possible to build peer-to-peer Wi-Fi connections between iPhones/iPads and devices from different manufacturers. An enabler of true edge computing anywhere you are.
It’s extremely rare for me to install a beta operating system, but in the case of iPadOS 26, I had to try it out. The windowing and multitasking changes are a huge step up and, except for usual early beta bugs, it works pretty well. This is much closer to what the iPad should have been all along.
June 9, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It’s extremely rare for me to install a beta operating system, but in the case of iPadOS 26, I had to try it out. The windowing and multitasking changes are a huge step up and, except for usual early beta bugs, it works pretty well. This is much closer to what the iPad should have been all along.
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June 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
In a roundabout way, Apple unknowingly created a bastion of sanity in the computing world with iOS and iPadOS. They are both platforms where Electron/Tauri etc didn’t catch on, where the developer tooling and ecosystem encourages developers to build using non-web languages and native UI frameworks.
May 30, 2025 at 5:52 PM
In a roundabout way, Apple unknowingly created a bastion of sanity in the computing world with iOS and iPadOS. They are both platforms where Electron/Tauri etc didn’t catch on, where the developer tooling and ecosystem encourages developers to build using non-web languages and native UI frameworks.
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Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾
Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨
Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆
Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨
Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆
Go Cryptography Security Audit
Go's cryptography libraries underwent an audit by Trail of Bits. Read more about the scope and results.
go.dev
May 19, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Three Trail of Bits engineers audited core Go cryptography for a month and found only one low-sev security issue... in unsupported Go+BoringCrypto! 🍾
Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨
Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆
Years of efforts on testing, limiting complexity, safe APIs, and readability have paid off! ✨
Yes I am taking a victory lap. No I am not sorry. 🏆
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February 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Hell is the “For You” tab on Twitter/X
February 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Hell is the “For You” tab on Twitter/X
One of the best feelings is rediscovering old songs & albums that I used to love and finding they have been remastered into Dolby Atmos. *chef's kiss*
January 3, 2025 at 9:51 AM
One of the best feelings is rediscovering old songs & albums that I used to love and finding they have been remastered into Dolby Atmos. *chef's kiss*
A very happy and prosperous 2025 to you all!
January 1, 2025 at 6:32 PM
A very happy and prosperous 2025 to you all!
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12 Million users already! We just passed 11 yesterday 👀
October 18, 2024 at 5:38 PM
12 Million users already! We just passed 11 yesterday 👀
There’s a very good reason why a lot of social companies don’t publicise who their T&S people are: if they do, they end up with massive targets painted on them. They end up getting challenged and abused and it is relentless. I have such massive respect to anyone taking on this scale of problem.
July 16, 2023 at 12:25 PM
There’s a very good reason why a lot of social companies don’t publicise who their T&S people are: if they do, they end up with massive targets painted on them. They end up getting challenged and abused and it is relentless. I have such massive respect to anyone taking on this scale of problem.
In case you're thinking about trying out Threads, it turns out that if you change your mind, you can't just delete your Threads account. You have to delete your entire Instagram with it.
It is a literal trap.
It is a literal trap.
July 6, 2023 at 8:59 AM
In case you're thinking about trying out Threads, it turns out that if you change your mind, you can't just delete your Threads account. You have to delete your entire Instagram with it.
It is a literal trap.
It is a literal trap.
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i find it hilarious that this is the offending image that caused Vietnam to ban the Barbie movie over the “Nine Dash Line”
July 4, 2023 at 6:18 PM
i find it hilarious that this is the offending image that caused Vietnam to ban the Barbie movie over the “Nine Dash Line”
I can't decide if the downfall of Twitter and Reddit will serve to actually elevate new platforms like Bluesky or Lemmy in a meaningful way, or whether people will simply scatter and social media as a concept will just start to collapse as a result
July 4, 2023 at 9:02 AM
I can't decide if the downfall of Twitter and Reddit will serve to actually elevate new platforms like Bluesky or Lemmy in a meaningful way, or whether people will simply scatter and social media as a concept will just start to collapse as a result
For all of the flaws it has, it's also nice to use IRC more again. Small networks with small-internet vibes!
July 3, 2023 at 6:00 PM
For all of the flaws it has, it's also nice to use IRC more again. Small networks with small-internet vibes!
Over the weekend, I made my first contributions to a Rust project — a super-promising IRC client called Halloy!
GitHub - squidowl/halloy: IRC application written in Rust
IRC application written in Rust. Contribute to squidowl/halloy development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
July 3, 2023 at 5:55 PM
Over the weekend, I made my first contributions to a Rust project — a super-promising IRC client called Halloy!
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New Twitter marketing slogan.
July 2, 2023 at 1:48 AM
New Twitter marketing slogan.