I found a case where Safari, the macOS web browser, will sometime append a username to a password field. It's very odd. This is with Apple Password, on an old-ish web site using two step login: fill in the username, press next, fill in the password. Using autofill, the site would respond with "incorrect password", but...

Rather than doing monthly links, I'm experimenting with posting them as I find them.The Addiction EconomyA project from Society InsideSummary: everything is terrible, just like you thought. I saw this project covered in an issue of The New World: The biggest cause of preventable death the world has ever known– bigger...

This is a hard, perhaps impossible, problem to fix as it stands. Limbic are having a go a it.Reading: The Limbic Layer: Transforming Large Language Models (LLMs) into Clinical Mental Health Experts, PsyArXive Pre-print, 26 August 2025.Limbic have a Class IIa medical device for psychological assessment, and are also...

The British Society for Research on Ageing (BSRA) has started running public lectures under the banner of "Understanding Ageing: Meet the Scientists". The first was from Janet Lord, Professor of Immune Cell Biology at the University of Birmingham. The main takeaway from the lecture was: your immune system doesn't work...

On Sunday we were walking near Bodiam Castle in Sussex and we found a sign directed us towards "box of rain": A few steps later there was indeed a box in a clearing: Written around the sides were the lyrics to Grateful Dead's Box of Rain. We pulled up the song on a phone, stood and listened, before wandering off. None...

On Thursday I tuned into the Royal Society's live YouTube broadcast celebrating 75 years since the publication of what we now call the Turing Test.Out of those five hours, I'd highlight Professor Sarah Dillon on a panel discussion (58 minutes in). She pointed out that Computing Machinery and Intelligence is "really...

It has a write-up in The Argus (May 2025): Artist Tom Norris said: “I’ve ‘borrowed’ this idea from a similar mural in Camden that’s no longer there […] Tom Norris is: sit here"There's another one in Cannon Place:

Solarpunk; immigration; "there will be no downsides to brexit"; LLM subliminal learning; cancer "grow or go"; biotech snapshot; Animal communications; LLM from scratchUtopia, with solar panelsThe New World"...solarpunks envisage a photon-powered society emerging, in which not only our energy production but also the...

I did not know that one person could plant that many trees. This fact from a Forestry England notice at Abbot’s Wood in Sussex.I assumed this was with mechanical help, but no, it looks like you get a bag of saplings, make a hole, and poke them in: video shows what planting is like, but also flashes up the huge nursery...

On Wednesday night there were eight short talks on data-ish things at BDF lightning talks event. The ones that caught my eye:Naked Energy build rooftop water heating systems which look very cool. The data problem is detecting leaks from pressure readings.Anjani Sharma spoke about her history in automating jobs, and...

Our neighbour lived in her house for 90 years. She wrote up her memories of the street for a community group, but the group has gone along with the content. Except, there's a shortened version in the Wayback machine. I've decided to make a copy to preserve this further, and to give me a place to share the original...

The volunteers at Standard Ebooks produce cleaned-up, formatted, public domain texts as ebooks (with cover art, too, although the art only loads on my Kindle if I send the book and cover via USB).Their new releases RSS feed is a joy to subscribe to. Every few days, you get a title, art, and description of a book from...

The default shell on macOS became zsh a while back, but I'm still learning the basics. I didn't know that zmv exists:autoload -U zmv zmv -nv 'ah Study (<->) 1.0 sec.wav' '$1.wav'This would dry-run (-n) a rename of files that match the pattern on the left. E.g., a file like "ah Study 0083 1.0 sec.wav" becomes...

Last night at a friend's house we had a look at an old atlas we found many years ago. It's The Times Atlas, first edition from 1895, which I knew includes a few very cool unexplored regions. What I didn't spot until last night was the inclusion of Wales on the map of South Africa. I think this must be an early example...

 For the two people on the planet who need to know this, the trick is:enable decimal latitude & longitude display in the w3w native app (settings > display, screen grab below — I’ve not found a way to do this in the web app);enter the “what three words” into their app, and now the copy icon will copy the location name...