Eerke Boiten
@eerkeboiten
Prof Cyber Security and Head of School Computer Science and Informatics at De Montfort University. Own views. He/him. Formal methods (last ever books on Z or refinement). Cyber security. Privacy. Data politics. Not all hypes. DM:eerke.boiten@dmu.ac.uk.
Anyone doing Lecturer interviews and wondering about the sudden prevalence of "Think, Pair, Share"?
That's a fair amount of paranoid anthropomorphisation being thrown at us by what used to be a web search. This is what I got:
Would it help if the media published more confident pictures of Starmer?
Meta are a laugh. Unknown friend request, reported as a scam, instant update: not against community values.
Here's the hyperlocal perspective then, from 20 km away. Funny. For fuller understanding of Nuneaton, note that it used to autocomplete to "... Station car park" on Google Maps.
The reason so many people challenge this quote is because they probably stopped paying attention to Orwell after his 1984 master piece, he said this 40 years later.
From this and the comments, indeed no Fripp appearance on stage, but isn't this lovely to see after the positive mutual messages between KA and RF on Facebook ahead of the tour. Meanwhile sadness in Dublin where the final show has been cancelled.
All those of you in the audience at D.A.M Trio in Bristol tonight: envying the tension of whether Robert Fripp will merely watch Kevin Armstrong play his Bowie guitar parts or whether he'll actually turn up on stage ...
As I can't find this on the internet anywhere, let me put up a picture of the logo of the Mathematics of Program Construction conference, "Let the symbols do the work" (Dijkstra). This physical version commissioned by Jose Nuno Oliveira for the 2000 edition at Ponte de Lima.
Small glimmers of light - Heaven 17 @marcheenware.bsky.social are halfway down a UK tour, now apologetically reporting that the merch stand is out of "We don't need this fascist groove thing" T-shirts again.
Changed office but no name on door yet, rather than a business card I stuck this old newspaper cutting up for now.
Rightly pointing out that "we deleted all copies of the data" is an unverifiable unreliable statement. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I resemble this cartoon. There was a nice profile piece on my university's website for years called "From cyber to cider" (now removed for too much self-doxxing). Over 100 liters of cider in my cellar right now ...
The single best way to improve my Samsung Android experience would be to get rid of this screen (last time I cleaned up open apps, 5 instances of it), to get it detached from what I used to naively think of as the "Power" button, or to get Gemini completely removed (already disabled on purpose).
AI revolutionises power sector (1/n) The complexity of modern power stations and the increased demand for electricity from data centres have meant that the limits of human oversight on optimal control of such essential infrastructure have now been reached [1]. A collective effort of Silicon Valley
And to make with picture up for the omission above: also Stirling. The networks team at Twente (Vissers, Brinksma, ...) worked closely with Ken Turner and others there on OSI model. Picture from Stirling Castle looking towards Wallace memorial, university is almost underneath that.
WTF Android/Samsung, you've hijacked the On/Off button of my phone to lead to this dialogue instead?! Where's the "Not now, not ever" button? Why does the "Not now" button still not allow me to switch phone off?
Here again, on at about 11:15 - talking about M&S announcing no full recovery from cyber attack until July.