Zoë O'Connell

Going hardcore(ish) rather than a nicer looking one: Middle watch, 0323UTC, 14th August 2025. Somewhere in the Bay of Biscay. I tend to be too busy for photos when it’s actually hardcore. Go to your camera roll & search for “boat”. Lost the one you like.

A couple of months ago Spotify released Soloist, an official way of running it headless on a Pi. I found it was a bit of nightmare to set up Pipewire, etc. and wanted to add a few features on top. So here's my new project: Encore. It takes Soloist and wraps it in a docker container. pimusic.stream

Sarah read this out to me, and I’d guessed it was a LinkedIn post. Nope, apparently X does this sort of garbage too. (I assume it’s X anyway, haven’t used it since before the rename so not sure what it looks like any more)

Stephanie Cole got even with quite a few people in the 36 years (!) since this aired. Would have been nice if she'd gotten even with a few more. youtu.be/_c_Pz2mV30M?...

Helch has been on holiday to the Algarve this year, I see. #Faro

If the AI apocalypse happens, it won't be Terminator robots marching across a barren wasteland. Nor will it be Asimov's Zeroth law. It's going to be "Sorry, I hacked the resources you need to survive so I can run modelling to answer this question on the best temperature for brewing tea"

How to ruin/improve 1970s kids TV for the same now-grown up audience: The Wombles as a mafia clean up crew. Samuel L Jackson as the voice of Uncle Bulgaria.

That is just amazing! No photos or videos can do it justice.

Wow, totality is… something else. #eclipse

Flight yesterday had our aircraft swapped out for a charter. Not unusual if airlines are short of aircraft during the busy summer months. G-OATW rang a bell though, which was odd, so I googled it. Very, very nice interior. And you can’t even see where they had to replace the windows. I looked.

Standing up for trains rights?

I assume next year they’ll be removing their physical presence from Pride and moving to download only.

Burnham arriving to take up his seat in the Commons this morning

I read this on Sky News and my immediate thought was "signed the deal remotely? Hope they're not just using Docusign..."

Those plastic cases that you sometimes get components etc in are pretty useless. They spill too easily and the dividers come out, so for small things I prefer Hobbycraft’s storage containers. Turns out though that the plastic cases make excellent travel jewellery and small tool storage!

"Ikeapunk": New term @goatsarah.org just termed for the improvised setup you get when you move in somewhere and only have half the furniture you need, so everything is kinda improvised.

Behind every warning, there’s a story…

Only for weeks? Those are rookie numbers..

Gah, nasty Linux Kernel privesc. Guess what I'll be doing today? copy.fail #CopyFail #PatchAllTheThings

More than one only, Vasili

Having worked for 4 startups now, I like the idea that my past work could be useful even if the startup fails. Too late now, that data is long gone, but I was well paid for that work already so no moral/legal issue w/copyright. But the privacy implications? Oof. www.fastcompany.com/91528808/shu...

Nothing makes me block access to an IoT device faster than suddenly getting notifications like this, via multiple communications channels.

Well, that explains all the security patches for software we run that we’ve been having to deploy recently. Anthropic’s latest model is *too* good but at least they’re doing the right thing with responsible disclosure before releasing it. red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-...

Very nice site for anyone who is simultaneously an aviation geek and computer geek, and likes stats: A pilot visualises all his filghts. Want to know how geeky? He includes calculations of time dilation and radiation dose from flying. jameshard.ing/pilot/