Hedy Hopper Lovelace
@teacherofcomputing.bsky.social
Teacher of Computing in England
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All things must pass... except perhaps Reddit.
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February 9, 2026 at 5:55 PM
All things must pass... except perhaps Reddit.
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Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone
www.eurogamer.net/discord-advi...
www.eurogamer.net/discord-advi...
February 14, 2026 at 6:44 PM
Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone
www.eurogamer.net/discord-advi...
www.eurogamer.net/discord-advi...
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I need people to grasp, PLEASE, that “writing the code” is only a very small part of the software development lifecycle
The job of caring about what the code does, which users it serves, who it is reliable for and who it benefits is pushed onto the human contributor expected to act as a skivvy and a servant to the AI slop lord.
February 14, 2026 at 6:08 PM
I need people to grasp, PLEASE, that “writing the code” is only a very small part of the software development lifecycle
I’ve tried to make 6-7 uncool for my Y9s by using it.
Didn’t work. Not a bit.
Backfired actually. They think I‘m cool now. 😑
Didn’t work. Not a bit.
Backfired actually. They think I‘m cool now. 😑
February 14, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I’ve tried to make 6-7 uncool for my Y9s by using it.
Didn’t work. Not a bit.
Backfired actually. They think I‘m cool now. 😑
Didn’t work. Not a bit.
Backfired actually. They think I‘m cool now. 😑
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Happy Women in Science Day! Drop some of your favorite Woman in Science accounts right here in the comments! 👇🏻
This is not meant to be a contest for who’s THE BEST but rather as a source of inspiration for who to follow. I’ll start with OG Real Scientists @upulie.bsky.social & @helenalb.bsky.social
This is not meant to be a contest for who’s THE BEST but rather as a source of inspiration for who to follow. I’ll start with OG Real Scientists @upulie.bsky.social & @helenalb.bsky.social
February 11, 2026 at 6:39 PM
Happy Women in Science Day! Drop some of your favorite Woman in Science accounts right here in the comments! 👇🏻
This is not meant to be a contest for who’s THE BEST but rather as a source of inspiration for who to follow. I’ll start with OG Real Scientists @upulie.bsky.social & @helenalb.bsky.social
This is not meant to be a contest for who’s THE BEST but rather as a source of inspiration for who to follow. I’ll start with OG Real Scientists @upulie.bsky.social & @helenalb.bsky.social
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New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
FBI Couldn’t Get into WaPo Reporter’s iPhone Because It Had Lockdown Mode Enabled
Lockdown Mode is a sometimes overlooked feature of Apple devices that broadly make them harder to hack. A court record indicates the feature might be effective at stopping third parties unlocking some...
www.404media.co
February 4, 2026 at 2:07 PM
New from 404 Media: the FBI has been unable to get into the iPhone of raided Washington Post journalist because the phone had Lockdown Mode enabled. Apple markets Lockdown Mode mostly to stop spyware like NSO. Here, a real world example of it stopping access too www.404media.co/fbi-couldnt-...
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The "Turing Test" is not an actually relevant test for ... anything really.
Turing came up with a massively important theoretical concept (the Turing Machine). Helped with the Enigma machine. All impressive. "The Turing Test"? Not so much.
Turing came up with a massively important theoretical concept (the Turing Machine). Helped with the Enigma machine. All impressive. "The Turing Test"? Not so much.
February 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
The "Turing Test" is not an actually relevant test for ... anything really.
Turing came up with a massively important theoretical concept (the Turing Machine). Helped with the Enigma machine. All impressive. "The Turing Test"? Not so much.
Turing came up with a massively important theoretical concept (the Turing Machine). Helped with the Enigma machine. All impressive. "The Turing Test"? Not so much.
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Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away
thezebra.org
January 19, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.
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This is when it all went wrong
January 17, 2026 at 6:03 AM
This is when it all went wrong
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[typing what I am doing and the exact time and location I will be doing it into Google calendar and then sending that invite to seven more people, all within the data of one company that controls 99% of the information I see including advertising]
This is so convenient I can’t believe this is free
This is so convenient I can’t believe this is free
January 14, 2026 at 7:14 PM
[typing what I am doing and the exact time and location I will be doing it into Google calendar and then sending that invite to seven more people, all within the data of one company that controls 99% of the information I see including advertising]
This is so convenient I can’t believe this is free
This is so convenient I can’t believe this is free
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The problem here is that "disk" is actually referring to the round, magnetic disk on the inside. That disk is actually "floppy" whether it is covered by the flexible 5 1/4 inch case or the hard 3 1/2 inch case.
November 24, 2025 at 4:46 AM
The problem here is that "disk" is actually referring to the round, magnetic disk on the inside. That disk is actually "floppy" whether it is covered by the flexible 5 1/4 inch case or the hard 3 1/2 inch case.
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there is a woman on TikTok who has been arguing for months now with randos that keep insisting that nobody called 3.5" disks "floppy disks" or "floppies" at the time. it's weird. no matter what kind of proof she provides or how many agree with her, people are coming out of the woodwork to disagree
November 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
there is a woman on TikTok who has been arguing for months now with randos that keep insisting that nobody called 3.5" disks "floppy disks" or "floppies" at the time. it's weird. no matter what kind of proof she provides or how many agree with her, people are coming out of the woodwork to disagree
ethical hacking
this teacher approves
this teacher approves
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference | TechCrunch
A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.
techcrunch.com
January 5, 2026 at 8:56 PM
ethical hacking
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this teacher approves
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The differences between Python and Perl pretty closely mirror their creators personalities. It's kinda funny. Guido is calm, good sense of humor, but serious when needed. Larry is Weird Al but with a QWERTY keyboard.
January 1, 2026 at 9:22 PM
The differences between Python and Perl pretty closely mirror their creators personalities. It's kinda funny. Guido is calm, good sense of humor, but serious when needed. Larry is Weird Al but with a QWERTY keyboard.
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At the National Videogame Museum, students can explore over 100 playable games, from retro arcades to modern consoles, learn how games are made, and dive into STEAM workshops in a way that’s fun, creative, and relevant.
www.ukschooltrips.co.uk/the-national...
@nvmuk.bsky.social
#STEM
www.ukschooltrips.co.uk/the-national...
@nvmuk.bsky.social
#STEM
The National Videogame Museum Sheffield | UK School Trips
The National Videogame Museum is the UK’s only museum dedicated solely to videogames with a mission to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret videogames for
www.ukschooltrips.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 6:08 PM
At the National Videogame Museum, students can explore over 100 playable games, from retro arcades to modern consoles, learn how games are made, and dive into STEAM workshops in a way that’s fun, creative, and relevant.
www.ukschooltrips.co.uk/the-national...
@nvmuk.bsky.social
#STEM
www.ukschooltrips.co.uk/the-national...
@nvmuk.bsky.social
#STEM
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Here's a fun Perl program:
while (<>) { print; }
Good luck guessing what it does unless you've worked with Perl. It's a great example of how you could do things kinda funky in the language and people actually did exploit some of this at times.
This program is a reimplementation of the UNIX 'cat'.
while (<>) { print; }
Good luck guessing what it does unless you've worked with Perl. It's a great example of how you could do things kinda funky in the language and people actually did exploit some of this at times.
This program is a reimplementation of the UNIX 'cat'.
The differences between Python and Perl pretty closely mirror their creators personalities. It's kinda funny. Guido is calm, good sense of humor, but serious when needed. Larry is Weird Al but with a QWERTY keyboard.
January 3, 2026 at 7:15 PM
Here's a fun Perl program:
while (<>) { print; }
Good luck guessing what it does unless you've worked with Perl. It's a great example of how you could do things kinda funky in the language and people actually did exploit some of this at times.
This program is a reimplementation of the UNIX 'cat'.
while (<>) { print; }
Good luck guessing what it does unless you've worked with Perl. It's a great example of how you could do things kinda funky in the language and people actually did exploit some of this at times.
This program is a reimplementation of the UNIX 'cat'.
Apple for scale.
October 29, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Apple for scale.
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When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
June 19, 2025 at 11:28 AM
When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.
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I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
October 27, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I cannot tell you how many tech journalists at prominent media organizations do not understand this
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Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer: She Wrote the Algorithm Before Computers Existed to Run It
voxmeditantis.com/2025/10/27/s...
#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Combinatorics #Hypergeometric #ComputerAlgebra
voxmeditantis.com/2025/10/27/s...
#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Combinatorics #Hypergeometric #ComputerAlgebra
Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer: She Wrote the Algorithm Before Computers Existed to Run It
Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer shares how a quiet nun in mid-century Pennsylvania conceived the algorithm behind today’s computer algebra, decades before computers arrived – her method’s erasur…
voxmeditantis.com
October 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Sister Mary Celine Fasenmyer: She Wrote the Algorithm Before Computers Existed to Run It
voxmeditantis.com/2025/10/27/s...
#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Combinatorics #Hypergeometric #ComputerAlgebra
voxmeditantis.com/2025/10/27/s...
#WomenInSTEM #STEM #Combinatorics #Hypergeometric #ComputerAlgebra
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“There are few things more dehumanizing than being told by a machine that you’re not real because of your face"
For the last month, I've been speaking to people living with facial differences and disfigurements about how face verification tech is failing them. Spoiler: things aren't going well
For the last month, I've been speaking to people living with facial differences and disfigurements about how face verification tech is failing them. Spoiler: things aren't going well
When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.
www.wired.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:23 AM
“There are few things more dehumanizing than being told by a machine that you’re not real because of your face"
For the last month, I've been speaking to people living with facial differences and disfigurements about how face verification tech is failing them. Spoiler: things aren't going well
For the last month, I've been speaking to people living with facial differences and disfigurements about how face verification tech is failing them. Spoiler: things aren't going well
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From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
By Christian Kriticos
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
#digital_dark_age
By Christian Kriticos
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
#digital_dark_age
October 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the historical treasures locked away on old floppy disks.
By Christian Kriticos
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
#digital_dark_age
By Christian Kriticos
www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...
#digital_dark_age
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Some early computers, e.g. ENIAC and at least one IBM model, didn't store numbers as binary, they used a method similar to an abacus, with ten binary flags to represent the digits in each "column" (e.g. units, tens, hundreds, etc.) of the number being represented.
soranews24.com/2025/10/05/a...
soranews24.com/2025/10/05/a...
Abacus making a comeback with Japanese kids in an increasingly digital age
Who needs hacking? We got clacking!
soranews24.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Some early computers, e.g. ENIAC and at least one IBM model, didn't store numbers as binary, they used a method similar to an abacus, with ten binary flags to represent the digits in each "column" (e.g. units, tens, hundreds, etc.) of the number being represented.
soranews24.com/2025/10/05/a...
soranews24.com/2025/10/05/a...
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(solemnly) You've had mail.
September 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
(solemnly) You've had mail.