Rupert Goodwins
@rupertg.bsky.social
Tech hack. Hacks tech. Was Prince Philip. Wrote firmware for Clive and Alan, wrote words for decades, now Register columnist and creative tech at Civic Digits. Quite blind. Music, history, radio, science. Only robots have to be binary: YMMV.
I am the Otter of Leith, sir.
I swim in its crystalline stream.
It's only the neds wot piss in it
That give my fur its peculiar gleam.
I swim in its crystalline stream.
It's only the neds wot piss in it
That give my fur its peculiar gleam.
December 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I am the Otter of Leith, sir.
I swim in its crystalline stream.
It's only the neds wot piss in it
That give my fur its peculiar gleam.
I swim in its crystalline stream.
It's only the neds wot piss in it
That give my fur its peculiar gleam.
Amen
December 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Amen
It I have to enter one more &!65#@27)%33jng six digit verification code today, I shall officially resign my humanity and register as an Enigma machine. See if I DYVWR MPDEK FSYER BSE.KX don't
December 6, 2025 at 4:40 PM
It I have to enter one more &!65#@27)%33jng six digit verification code today, I shall officially resign my humanity and register as an Enigma machine. See if I DYVWR MPDEK FSYER BSE.KX don't
One of the major downsides to AI is that any idiot can share scenes from a dream whether you like it or not. This one is wrong in almost every detail.
December 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
One of the major downsides to AI is that any idiot can share scenes from a dream whether you like it or not. This one is wrong in almost every detail.
Warm Leathette/Warm Leveret
November 28, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Warm Leathette/Warm Leveret
Meanwhile, here in the science fictional future of today, my house is being attacked by Chinese robots using infra-red lasers. I fighti back with a laser of my own, screwed to the wall, next to the sofa, in the Edinburgh burial ground wherein I live.
It's Friday.
It's Friday.
November 28, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Meanwhile, here in the science fictional future of today, my house is being attacked by Chinese robots using infra-red lasers. I fighti back with a laser of my own, screwed to the wall, next to the sofa, in the Edinburgh burial ground wherein I live.
It's Friday.
It's Friday.
J G Ballard on the South Bsnk Show , twenty years ago. I first found his work in the SF section of the local library when /i was ten or so, and and got hooked on the atmospherics of the first three novels. Later, called by the vast temporal resonances of the far night sky... youtu.be/8LosxrbL3sU?...
J G Ballard Documentary
YouTube video by matley virgo
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November 28, 2025 at 11:21 AM
J G Ballard on the South Bsnk Show , twenty years ago. I first found his work in the SF section of the local library when /i was ten or so, and and got hooked on the atmospherics of the first three novels. Later, called by the vast temporal resonances of the far night sky... youtu.be/8LosxrbL3sU?...
New favourite military aviation phrase - it hit like shit from a tall moose. 8/10.
November 25, 2025 at 7:35 PM
New favourite military aviation phrase - it hit like shit from a tall moose. 8/10.
I know now Boards of Canada isn't doing Boards of Canada, somebody has to do Boards of Canada, but THIS much Boards of Canada? open.spotify.com/track/2lYthf...
Notes From A Decaying Orbit
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November 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I know now Boards of Canada isn't doing Boards of Canada, somebody has to do Boards of Canada, but THIS much Boards of Canada? open.spotify.com/track/2lYthf...
This is, as they say, une banger absolute. If your booty don't twitch to this neat, DNR. Chppn.
open.spotify.com/track/2L1FLX...
open.spotify.com/track/2L1FLX...
Asymptote
open.spotify.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:14 PM
This is, as they say, une banger absolute. If your booty don't twitch to this neat, DNR. Chppn.
open.spotify.com/track/2L1FLX...
open.spotify.com/track/2L1FLX...
All that AI and visual precessing cleverness embedded in the untold petaflops of its mighty machinery, and the Google Photos web app cannot read a QR code in an image.
November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
All that AI and visual precessing cleverness embedded in the untold petaflops of its mighty machinery, and the Google Photos web app cannot read a QR code in an image.
I have stumbled on a completely weird link between ROTOR, the early Cold War British radar network, and the maximally bonkers Trumpian medbed conspiracy theory. It may involve crayfish. Research continues.
November 9, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I have stumbled on a completely weird link between ROTOR, the early Cold War British radar network, and the maximally bonkers Trumpian medbed conspiracy theory. It may involve crayfish. Research continues.
What I love about Apple iOS is attention to detail..
October 26, 2025 at 9:23 PM
What I love about Apple iOS is attention to detail..
Old agency adage:
"If the client pouts and sighs
Make their advert twice the size
If that's still unsatisfactory
Show a picture of their factory
only in the direst case
Print a picture of their face"
And in Rupert's Inbox PR Surpise today... trials and tribbleations.
"If the client pouts and sighs
Make their advert twice the size
If that's still unsatisfactory
Show a picture of their factory
only in the direst case
Print a picture of their face"
And in Rupert's Inbox PR Surpise today... trials and tribbleations.
October 23, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Old agency adage:
"If the client pouts and sighs
Make their advert twice the size
If that's still unsatisfactory
Show a picture of their factory
only in the direst case
Print a picture of their face"
And in Rupert's Inbox PR Surpise today... trials and tribbleations.
"If the client pouts and sighs
Make their advert twice the size
If that's still unsatisfactory
Show a picture of their factory
only in the direst case
Print a picture of their face"
And in Rupert's Inbox PR Surpise today... trials and tribbleations.
My T1154{R1155 RAF Bomber Command radios have arrived from Kent via a specialist courier. Far too heavy for one man to lift, and that's just the radios. The power supply is similar. All came with enormous amounts of documentation which is fantastic. Now to get it on the air.
October 19, 2025 at 11:41 AM
My T1154{R1155 RAF Bomber Command radios have arrived from Kent via a specialist courier. Far too heavy for one man to lift, and that's just the radios. The power supply is similar. All came with enormous amounts of documentation which is fantastic. Now to get it on the air.
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan has a new album, Public Works And Utilities. Not the variety of BoC, but the vibe, the uneasy nostalgia of avivd childhood flashback in the middle act of a trip. Lovely. spotify.link/8bvvWp06yXb
Public Works and Utilities
spotify.link
October 18, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Warrington-Runcorn New Town Development Plan has a new album, Public Works And Utilities. Not the variety of BoC, but the vibe, the uneasy nostalgia of avivd childhood flashback in the middle act of a trip. Lovely. spotify.link/8bvvWp06yXb
Bluesky search is broken, so good luck searching for why.
October 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Bluesky search is broken, so good luck searching for why.
Going through the ONT data sheet in the hope of finding a way to get it to disgorge stats. Np luck so far, but amused to see it has a Dying Gasp Alarm.
September 28, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Going through the ONT data sheet in the hope of finding a way to get it to disgorge stats. Np luck so far, but amused to see it has a Dying Gasp Alarm.
It took Openreach months to get a fibre five metres from the cabinet to the house, but I have slipped the surly bonds of Vjrgin to touch the face of Zen. Nice to plug my existing router straight into the ONT - just add PPPoE creds and VPN/WiFi etc just carry on. As it should be.
September 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
It took Openreach months to get a fibre five metres from the cabinet to the house, but I have slipped the surly bonds of Vjrgin to touch the face of Zen. Nice to plug my existing router straight into the ONT - just add PPPoE creds and VPN/WiFi etc just carry on. As it should be.
Integrity. Must be powered by irony thrusters.
September 24, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Integrity. Must be powered by irony thrusters.
AI fun. Palb had a lyric fragnebt stuck in his head -"I don't want your secret police, I don't want your spies" and tried to look it up on line. Google AI said it was from "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" by Morrissey. He tried different varaints of the lyric, and each time the AI came back...
September 20, 2025 at 12:53 PM
AI fun. Palb had a lyric fragnebt stuck in his head -"I don't want your secret police, I don't want your spies" and tried to look it up on line. Google AI said it was from "The Things That Dreams Are Made Of" by Morrissey. He tried different varaints of the lyric, and each time the AI came back...
I may have just bought an unfeasible wireless set...
August 31, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I may have just bought an unfeasible wireless set...
@marcrileydj.bsky.social Robert Fripp tells tq\es of the tour bus. Thank God my tablet is gin prooi. Think you could slip it out on t'wireless? Me neither. open.spotify.com/track/0CzS4s...
UNdiscipline
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August 30, 2025 at 6:00 PM
@marcrileydj.bsky.social Robert Fripp tells tq\es of the tour bus. Thank God my tablet is gin prooi. Think you could slip it out on t'wireless? Me neither. open.spotify.com/track/0CzS4s...
The refurb Pixel 8 Pro I got to replace my moistened Pixel 6 has a bunch of spec updates that don;t matter to me, nor did I expect them too. But - the screen is now bright enough I can read the bus app at bus stops in way more daylights. Huge for me. Who knows what matters.
July 24, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The refurb Pixel 8 Pro I got to replace my moistened Pixel 6 has a bunch of spec updates that don;t matter to me, nor did I expect them too. But - the screen is now bright enough I can read the bus app at bus stops in way more daylights. Huge for me. Who knows what matters.