Rob Potter

Technology leader; connected cars, IoT, cybersecurity, cloud & identity geek at Beam Connectivity; chicken keeper, music lover. Opinions my own.

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@AlexMartin Fixed it: "reforms to the country’s privacy regime could boost the legal industry revenues by as much as £10 billion"

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@QuinnyPig What a cliffhanger. Complete the sentence...

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@levelsio now do winamp skins...

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@Carnage4Life But this Snap license does also get the HW on lease. A fairer comparison would be to price up lease of a Vision Pro and Apple developer license.

Not that I disagree with your sentiment: The whole thing is nuts.

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@ericlaw Real.
The clickthrough rate on these emails is super low, surely.

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@hydrosquall @swyx @huyendoesstuff @askalphaxiv I love this convention - it feels super-natural to use.

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Crowdstrike.
Never has a company name been more appropriately named.

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I, for one, support government regulation of Excel @benedictevans

The number of times I've received a spreadsheet with broken macros or haphazard conditional formatting...

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@RealBobMortimer Air fryer. So hot right now.

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@johncrickett @wrd83 I think this is more of an indicator of the lack of traction that rust has for embedded rather than the success of python per se.
Perhaps not a suprise - tools and techniques evolve slowly in the embedded world

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An Amazon retail story, in three parts:

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Don't hold back, tell us how you really feel... 🤡

[mRr3b00t @UK_Daniel_Card]

tweeps please read this....

WOW

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@ericlaw @AlecMuffett *Founders of Clubhouse enter the chat*
No.

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@ProfWoodward I don't speak Mountain View, but "Unknown" is "FVEY" in English?

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A brilliant postmortem explaining the highly publicised cyber attack at the end of 2023.

Transparency => Lessons

As ever kids: patch your Terminal Services server and enable MFA.

[British Library @britishlibrary]

Today we’ve published a paper about the cyber-attack that took place last October.

Its goal is to share our understanding of what happened and to help others learn from our experience.

You can read the paper on our website, and hear from our CEO, Sir Roly Keating, in this accompanying blog post: https://t.co/2LvGqb2ucc

[Andrew Reed @andrew__reed]

Finally made a triple venn diagram I can be proud of

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Humans tend to fail the Turing Test: “Almost half of our participants (42%) decided that their conversational partner (that was in every case a human being) was a computer program.”

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@oxygenthiefYEAH @ChatPileBand @WorstBlobby Bohemian Rhapsody by @Hot_Chip

I'd probably buy that tbh

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LinkedIn x @AccidentalP

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@ProfTomCrick Coincidence that the same is happening in the US, albeit via a different vector? Fidelity National was attacked last week crippling the real estate market...
https://t.co/QXmLSLBnGX

[Matt Johansen @mattjay]

🚨 Huge and ongoing - Fidelity National Financial, a major player in real estate services, experienced a significant cyberattack last week.

Now, home buyers don't know where their money is?!

Let's dig in: