With the UK's steps into the age gated internet and digital ID back again like the renegade master, the techgrumps have plenty to be grumpy about in this month's podcast. Grumps this time include the voices of Ian Forrester, David Eastman, Ryan Alexander and Wendy Grossman. Techgrumps 3.32 UK Digital ID Christie’s has quietly shuttered its digital art department …

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We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing AI attempting to rewrite history, Agentic AI browsers fooled and Rabbit R1 is back? To quote Buckminster Fuller "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." You are seeing aspects of this with good counter-points parts [

I was in the queue for the excellent Taiga ride at Linnanmäki while at the Mydata conference. While in the long queue, as there was no single rider queue (but I did get called a head a couple of time as single rider). I heard a podcast called the deep dive on the subject of the male crisis. Something I have been interested in for ages and fits within some work I'd like to do more of under…

You may have noticed cubicgarden.com has gone through a bit of change since I left BBC R&D. After setting up a Cubicgarden ltd, I quickly made some changes. One of them, is a quick page before you see this blog. However I have finally got my Yunohost setup working thanks in a small part to Gemini, which filtered my queries down to something more understandable (It was a combination of a Yunohost bug which was fixed in the latest update, SD cards wear and reinstalling and DNS problems)

Its September and the Mozilla Festival is right around the corner. Now is a very good time to book a hotel and get your ticket for the first global festival since London in 2019. If you haven't heard the tickets or badges have gone through a bit of a change too, thanks in part from the space wranglers speaking up and the Mozilla Foundation hearing our heartfelt concerns.

Filtering on a motorcycle is a must. I can't even imagine not filtering to the front of the queue at traffic lights. The video above pretty much confirms all the things most motorcyclist know. Passing on the side where cyclists usually are is certainly a death trap but I do see some motorcyclists in the UK do it. Although I do find it annoying when most…

We live in incredible times with such possibilities that is clear. Although its easily dismissed seeing how we are being watched, wishing people will stop sharing pictures with ChatGPT and people in the UK told to delete emails In order to save water? To quote Buckminster Fuller "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

I have the pleasure to be presenting at MyData 2025. Its been 6 years since I spoke about the living room of the future in Helsinki for BBC R&D. This time, I'm giving a workshop on Digital legacy, focusing on the notion of a machine readable letter of wishes (as described out-loud here). The workshop will explore…

Don't worry I am not going to start posting about baking sourdough... This is mainly some people were asking and offering tips and even starters. Thanks but honestly I think I'm doing alright so far... I said a few posts ago, one of the things I have been up to is trying to bake sourdough bread. Baking isn't my thing as I'm more of a person who doesn't follow recipes and measure things.

I flew to Amsterdam and travelled around the Netherlands via trains recently. As usual I started a new mix slowly building on it with new tunes as I went around the Netherlands. There are quite a few new tunes added but the final mix was done on a KLM flight back to Manchester. During that flight, a flight assistant asked me about the…

I noticed this trend around hobbies, in which I mean things you do and enjoy for the sake of enjoyment. For example I enjoy Diaboloing and have done since a early age. It's very common for me to bring my Diabolo on work trips and holidays. I am actually writing this on the train to the European juggling convention…

The news Google's Gemini AI was hijacked via a hidden prompt in a calendar invite. Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home. For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real-world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.

A long time ago I described pipelines and where they could go. I was made aware of Google's OPAL project and reminded of how strong pipelines can be for managing complexity. The pipes are described by prompts but interestingly you can reuse and share pipes and the whole flow. Which leads me to wonder if there might be a little market place for the pipes?

Recently I found myself in rural southern France and of course, my Pacemaker device and headphones came with me. It was weird being surrounded by nothing but grapevines. Certainly wine country. I took a nice shot with a very rare dark sky. With a bit of tweaking, you got the cover for a storm in a french grapevine. The tunes are certainly not safe for work, and I just doubled down on the nsfw tunes with a uplift in bpm too.