Sarah Mount

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I'm surprised that this discussion of php2shell did not acknowledge early on that most sites that were unavailable would have been taken down preemptively, prior to patching, and in some cases to allow time for updating to PHP 8. hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2026-1...

@plashingvole.bsky.social Hello! I can't DM you on this cursed thing because they insist on intrusive account verification, but is there another way to get in touch with you?

Accurate wisdom OH in Starbucks: "Unfortunately it's just a very bad time to be a person"

"Thinking some more with medium effort" is what I'd like Slack to say when I'm typing

By convention, MPs do not address the House wearing a hat. So if Count Binface wins an election, must he remove his lid? Or cause a constitutional crisis? Does Erskin May cover this?

Really enjoyed Disclosure Day in spite of some poor opsec and a very ham-fisted handling of theological questions

Easily the best FAQ I have read: "But LLMs aren’t fully reliable ... Claude is especially fond of speaking French." aider.chat/docs/faq.htm...

Over in the Other Place the Pope is receiving advice on his SEO

2026 and the only way I know to extract an image from a Google doc is to save it as HTML

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Surprised to discover that the Telegraph believes Ed Miliband to have the power of Cnut the Great. England never changes, I guess.

There's a knee-jerk assumption around that Wikipedia and ArXiv banning AI slop puts those orgs in the #NeverAI camp, but encouraging human authorship now will prevent future model collapse, so I see these moves far more in the #AIForever camp

There is a queue in #birmingham city centre that goes for MILES and the nice man in this brunch place tells me it's people waiting to purchase a watch?!

In the 2007 film The Brave One a vigilante has The Dixie Chicks on an iPod, which must have felt very current back then

The use of the word "after" to subtly imply a casual link really annoys me."He resigned after...". Well yes, but I had lunch after the fall of the Roman Empire, but somehow the two things are not related.

I think this is the first ever election where not only have we been canvassed but people came round to check that everyone had voted

"A forgery implies that there is a genuine medal. As the genuine philology medal does not exist, his medal cannot be a forgery" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"You have the manners of a goat and you smell like a dung heap" #Highlander

"You have the manners of a goat and you smell like a dung heap" #Highlander

I was not prepared for how much of middle age would be spent re-watching things I slept through

I think the chap next to me in this Starbucks is breaking up with someone. Or he possibly should be, based solely on his side of the row.

The thing that struck me about the latest "AI deleted my prod" story wasn't the deleting in prod, or the use of "guardrails" that, once again, turn out to be a bit of prompting but this: "the volume ID was shared across environments."

No amount of predictive text could generate, or indeed prepare you, for this story

Discovered a take away near a former home called "Pricy Kitchen" which seems a bit too honest

Rare sighting of a sub that outclasses the headline by a country mile

I have an email address which is structured first name.lastname@domain.invalid so it seems particularly impressive to get SPAM which starts "Hello Scott". Data cleaning remains challenging, I guess

Re-watching The Devil's Advocate again and "We're hiring you out at $400 a day" feels a bit different in this economy. But yes, "Free will, it's a bitch"

"Oh no! I love their nuggets" - great quote from One Battle After Another

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

There premise of the film Mercy is "what if AI courts" but ISTM that allowing a defendant to investigate their own case is at least as prejudicial if not moreso

Train delayed due to "waiting for a part of the train to be attached" because it's always nice to try out a new announcement

Start of the new Capture season feels like an advert for Celebrity Hunted

Venturing out of Coventry for a couple of days and the guy in the corner shop near the station asked where I came from and replied BELL GREEN IN THE HOUSE. I had no idea that Coventry was this popular.

Nice to see someone using @overleaf.com on the train

Person next to me on the train is reading Jean Genet

Should it be possible to copyright AI authored works? Some interesting responses to that question in this slightly confused article: www.bcs.org/articles-opi...

"You're changing lives. But with water". Once again the Apprentice does not disappoint for hyperbole.

Can't tell if the chap on this train knows he's singing out loud or he just has very good noise cancelling on his earphones

Birmingham has, apparently, always been amazing. And noisy.

Do #Birmingham people not know that Sabai Sabai has a lunch menu? I don't know how such a good place can be so empty

Vibe coding appears to be surprisingly hard work for something that claims to simplify my life

Giving Club Mate another go and it's definitely better without corn syrup

Saw a Kevlin Henney which, in this case, was a Windows bootloader terminal. The screen was massive and embedded in a mirror in a metal lift, so I couldn't take a photo of it that didn't look like one of those "people selling mirrors" feeds

Great to be at #WPLDN tonight meeting old @dxw.com friends and making new ones

Overhearing some kid getting bollocked, via mobile phone, for using their phone when they were told not to. "If you don't, football is off the table". Definitely some lessons here for middle managers but not necessarily positive ones "do you get it?"

"I admire it in a way, but I do want to use the printer without being called a murderer." www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10...

This is the single most Stanley Kubrick headline I have ever seen

Rather than a quiet coach where train passengers have to be quiet I would really love a carriage with no announcements

"Because I yearn to live a valiant life, Cadet Master" sounds like a great answer to "and why did you apply for this role?" #StarfleetAcademy