Notices by Jonty Wareing (jonty@chaos.social)

Please stop rolling the adapter generator dice things have gone too far

I updated my total eclipse webcam viewer for today's eclipse!

Once totality begins you'll see a live-updating umbra, so you can race to the next webcam and see the eclipse happen over and over again.

https://jonty.github.io/2026_eclipse_webcams/

I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public".

So I've been backing up all government code. For six years.

Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised.

https://github.com/uk-gov-mirror/deleted-repo-report

Google Earth added a weird "edit with AI" mode, so I fixed the biggest error in London.

Life goal: Get a plaque this good

Absolutely flabbergasted at Last.fm finally being independent again after a decade of neglect by CBS. Incredibly exciting.

https://support.last.fm/t/last-fm-is-now-independent/118591

Sat opposite a man on the train with a cake carrier containing a half eaten birthday cake.

Pulled into a station, another man got on with an identical cake carrier containing a half eaten birthday cake and sat next to him.

The first guy then got off... BUT I DIDN'T SEE IF THEY SWAPPED CAKES.

Anyway this is how I may have witnessed a spy cake handoff.

It's mine, I tell you. My own. My precious.

Do I have the keys? No. Can we pick the lock? Also no.

I contacted a company who stocks spares for UK payphones, asking them to send me a set of keys to try.

They replied with "That will not be possible" and the following photo.

Spotted by a friend in Hawaii

This is a reversible USB-A to reversible micro-usb cable.

Where is your god now.

Today a bunch of my open-source projects got slammed by incorrect AI-written vulnerability reports demanding $299 for disclosure

"For these NFTs, we will continue to host this metadata in perpetuity"

"Please know that all NFTs minted on any MakersPlace contract will be safe and live on"

Mate, you didn't even manage to last five years. "Perpetuity" is quite a lot longer than your next VC round runway.

Five years ago I pointed out nearly all NFT's were going to break when the startup who minted them goes bust, causing people to get *extremely* mad at me until everyone concluded that I was correct.

Thought I'd check in on the two examples I used and well

Long shot, does anyone have an unwanted rabbit hutch in London?

Poor thing was found abandoned on Wanstead Flats today and we are considering giving it an emergency home

Time between walking through my relatives door and fixing a tech issue that has been "driving them mad": 8 minutes.

The TV was in demo mode. It has been in demo mode for several months.

"Now I can see the answers on the quiz shows!"

It has been scrolling a list of features across the bottom of the screen, between settings being constantly changed to show off various features.

And they were watching television like this. I would have been driven to violence.

"AI is a force multiplier!!!"

Yes but some engineers should not be having their force multiplied. It's like giving a tank to a gerbil.

Idiots: "The arts have no purpose"

Me: