Craig Dolan

Developer, Tech fan, Gamer. My views represent my own and not that of employers or industry groups. Mastodon - glasgow social/@Rellix

[haroon meer @haroonmeer]

I’ve mentioned this before: this is one of the oncoming trains for corp-security. We’ve long failed at least-privilege, but weren’t often punished for it.

Helen in HR (or Bob in accounts) didn’t know what to do with the extra perms they didn’t know they had.

Their agents will.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

The internet used to be full of websites; there were millions of them and you could browse for hours and come away smarter rather than dumber. Now there are four sites and they've made half the population illiterate. We've destroyed a wonderful thing, and it has destroyed us.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Erin Brockovich has launched a website and has begun tracking all data centers in America and logging resident complaints

In just 1 week it’s already logged 1,690 resident complaints

For this who don’t remember

Erin Brockovich was the paralegal responsible for winning out a case against PG&E, Hinckley in California, because their wastewater runoff was seeping into rural areas and creating a lot of health issues for, for the surrounding neighborhoods

That case brought in a $333 million settlement that went to the families affected by the situation because a lot of them either had staggering medical bills due to their tap water was no longer safe

So why is this important, well residents all over America are reporting their tap water and river water is being heavily polluted by data centers

Her map of data centers is new, she just launched it

The website features an interactive US map showing operational, under-construction, and proposed AI data centers, overlaid with community-reported complaints

Residents can submit reports with details, photos, and locations. Within days of launch, it received a surge of submissions over 1,600 in the first week, and reports of 1,800+ from 47 states shortly after

Common Resident Complaints Being Logged

- Water usage
- Raising utility bills for residents
- Noise pollution: Constant 24/7 humming from fans, generators, and cooling systems disrupting sleep, daily life, and wildlife.
- E-waste from frequent hardware upgrades, pollution including PFAS concerns

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

Faced with the inevitable bottleneck, bicycles will always outperform cars. No matter if electric, autonomous or shared; they cannot deny the laws of physics.

Instead of driverless cars, our cities desperately need more carless drivers!

( 🎞️ of #giroditalia via @adamtranter)

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

First-sale doctrine is one of the oldest property rights in the common law. You buy a book, it is yours. Lend it, resell it, will it to your kids, burn it in the yard, keep it for fifty years. The seller loses all say the moment money changes hands.

Federal law flipped that on its head for anything digital. Every ebook you buy ships wrapped in a lock, and DMCA Section 1201 makes breaking that lock a crime, even on books you paid for.

The state did not simply fail to protect your property. The state wrote the statute that criminalizes defending it.

Let people own what they buy.

[Josh Weinstein @Joshstrangehill]

I'm proud of how we came up with Hank Scorpio because he's actually the result of a few conceptual ideas that worked together perfectlly (when being voiced by @AlbertBrooks, of course):

- What if Homer had a boss who actually gave him respect?
-What if this boss was one of those "modern" Silicon Valley jeans-wearing bosses? (remember, this is 1996)
-What if this type of boss was actually a Bond villain but his villainy is only ever in the background?

[JetBrains @jetbrains]

Imposter syndrome is more common in tech than we often think.

It’s the feeling that your success isn’t deserved.
That you’ve fooled others into thinking you’re more capable than you are.
And that eventually you’ll be “found out”.

For many developers, this doesn’t just stay as a passing thought. And it influences the way they’re working.

Over time, this can lead to anxiety, exhaustion and burn out.

And our data reflects this!

According to JetBrains’ Developer Ecosystem 2025 report, only 47% of devs rarely or never doubt their abilities. But 53% of software engineers experience imposter syndrome.

And the image is not evenly distributed:

Women and non-binary professionals report higher levels than men (67% compared to 52%)
Junior devs report frequent self-doubt at nearly double the rate of senior developers (33% vs 17%)

This #MentalHealthMonth it is worth remembering these feelings are common. You are not alone.

[Cllr Lee Scordis @LScordis]

Hi Russell, considering I am the only Labour Councillor on the authority and I was not at the induction (as I have been here 9 years), this is a complete lie and a breach of standards @reformexposed

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Farage says his £5 million gift was a “reward” for Brexit.

The rest of us were rewarded with higher bills and years of chaos.

This grifter must not become prime minister.

[Cycling For Mind @CyclingForMind]

When drivers say that cyclists should keep to the edge of the road, it's because they want to do this 👇.

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

7,000 false positives per square millimeter. The culprit was the lab gloves.

University of Michigan researchers just upended a core assumption in microplastics science. Latex and nitrile gloves, worn by the scientists doing the measuring, shed stearate particles that look chemically identical to polyethylene. Standard infrared and Raman instruments can't tell them apart. The gloves were counting as plastic.

Seven glove types tested. All contaminated. The cheapest fix: switch to cleanroom gloves, which dropped false positives to around 100 per mm² vs. 7,000.

The "credit card per week" headline (5 grams, WWF/Newcastle 2019) has separate problems. A 2022 re-analysis found severe methodological errors in the original estimate. Actual measured intake is likely 100x lower.

None of this means microplastics are harmless. Last month's data on brain accumulation still stands. But the numbers driving the panic may have been measuring the scientists, not the environment.

Science catching its own errors is exactly how it's supposed to work.

[Marina Purkiss @MarinaPurkiss]

Angela Rayner was dragged through every front page for weeks...

HMRC's verdict: NOT deliberate. NOT even careless.

Farage pockets £5 million and chooses not to declare it

So where's the wall-to-wall coverage?

Tell me this isn't a rigged game.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Ordering a Pizza for Delivery

1995
– You call
– You order in 2 minutes
– It arrives in 30 minutes

2005
– You go to the website
– You customize it
– It arrives in 45 minutes

2026
– You download the app
– You create an account with email verification
– You add your address with a PIN on the map
– The map can't find your street – You add it manually
– You select a pizza
– The ingredient you want has an extra charge
– You add a card
– Payment error
– You pay with another method – "Your order will arrive in 85 to 140 minutes"

[Josef Prusa @josefprusa]

BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork, with the same networking binary black box in question today. Why are they willing to burn the goodwill over it?
There's something most have sensed but never seen it all in one place, the five-law framework China built between 2017 and 2023 ⤵️

So maybe their hand is forced as their "network" is too valuable already? Each law on its own, interesting, okay... Read them together, and add any Chinese company with big reach to the mix you get the complete picture.

1) National Intelligence Law (2017)
All organizations and citizens must "support, assist, and cooperate" with intelligence work. The same law makes it illegal to disclose that cooperation happened. Cooperation is mandatory, and silence about it is mandatory too.

2) Cryptography Law (2020)
Commercial encryption must be state-approved and state-reviewed. When authorities request it, companies must provide decryption keys or plaintext. The state on both sides of that equation is the same one.

3) Data Security Law (2021)
Article 2 gives the state extraterritorial reach over data that touches Chinese national security or public interests. So EU/US data hosting does nothing to make it safe, because jurisdiction follows the company, not the server location.

4) Counter-Espionage Law revision (2023)
The general definition of espionage was expanded to cover "documents, data, materials, or items related to national security and interests." Industrial data is one of the intended targets since the revision.

5) Network Product Security Vulnerability regulation (2021)
Any company or researcher that discovers a software vulnerability must report it to MIIT within 48 hours. From there it flows to CNNVD (China National Vulnerability Database of Information Security), operated by the 13th Bureau of the Ministry of State Security. Microsoft's threat intelligence team documented Chinese state-hacker zero-day usage rising after this took effect. Shows the willingness to use the “tools” China built.

Together they describe a system with no neutral exits. Cooperation is required, encryption is real but the spare keys live at the ministry, jurisdiction follows the company across borders, industrial data is in scope, and discovered vulnerabilities flow to an intelligence agency 😬

3D printing became strategic for China in 2020 and joined the “Made in China 2025” plan soon after. Why does 3D printing matter so much? 1/x

[Dr Iain Overton @iainoverton]

Brilliant summary from @TheEconomist

[nazir afzal @nazirafzal]

Reform Latest
2 councillors died before election
Several now suspended for various bits of bigotry
At least 1 doesn’t exist
Others want to stand down cos they didn’t know it’s unpaid
1 thought he would be in Parliament

They don’t need a Whip, they need a Missing Persons Officer

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

Farage: "I've been the most physically attacked politician of modern times."

Nigel's physical attacks:

- An egg in Nottingham (2014)
- A milkshake in Newcastle (2019)
- A milkshake in Clacton (2024)
- Wet cement and a coffee cup in Barnsley (2024)
- firework through letterbox of his empty house (2025)

Other British politicians' physical attacks in same era:

- Jo Cox, Labour MP: shot and stabbed to death, 2016
- Sir David Amess, Conservative MP: stabbed to death at his constituency surgery, 2021
- Stephen Timms, Labour MP: stabbed at his constituency surgery, 2010
- Andrew Pennington, MP's aide: killed defending Lib Dem MP Nigel Jones from a sword attack, 2000
- Mike Freer, Conservative MP: stood down in 2024 after his office was set on fire and he received credible threats to his life

Nigel needed £5 million from a Thai crypto billionaire to protect him from milkshakes, eggs and wet cement.

[Shane @McClellandShane]

“There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”

[Out of Context Human Race @NoContextHumans]

My life has been a lie

[Craig Dolan @Rellix]

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