Engineer. Technologist. Father. Reader. Live music fan. Motorcyclist and off-roader. Design and build large-scale IT systems. Neurodiverse. Vision at @cybertzar

Definitely Earth.
Joined May 2008
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Leaving it better than you found it. So proud of all our team. Still today.
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November 4, 1737: The Teatro San Carlo in Naples was opened. It’s the world's oldest active opera house! Stunning.
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Replying to @shrisha4real
Omarchy doesn't need money. We make it for the love of computers.
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Yep. Went after him for trying to wreck Java. Sun Microsystems collected $2.4b settlement for it.
This unhealthiest of looking dude has been spewing more bullshit than the whole American cattle herd combined! We’ve been very vocal about this. I believe he should be held accountable for his actions! He cost a lot of people a lot of money most likely
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Halloween 🎃 Family Picture #CarryOnScreaming #HappyHalloween
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Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green performing "Oh Well"
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Today I’m thinking of my dear friend and brother in music, Peter Green!!! 🎶🎸🥁 Happy heavenly birthday ❤️ ❤️ We all miss you down here, but your magic will never fade!!❤️ All my love, Mick xx
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Bill, leave us alone.
According to Bill Gates, digital ID and digital currency are both necessary tools for granting people access to voting, financial services, healthcare, and education. "We won't be able to do that with traditional systems." "Once you have the digital money system, then there's all sorts of services and applications that can be built on top of that, whether it's helping with health, or education, or agriculture."
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I imagine this is gonna be Rich at my funeral when they mention the Villa. FML lol
Makes you proud to be British.
In the Russian dance Berezka, the women move with very small steps, creating the illusion that they are floating.
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Always disappointing when we need to send one of these.
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Image conjured by @wayne_horkan in his recent (and brilliant) dissection of why no-one other than the British State System itself was lying in the UK's latest 'China Crisis'. Article linked in replies.
What alternative dimension did I wake up in where @DavidDavisMP is the arbiter of technical sense?
Once you build a backdoor, you can’t choose who walks through it. Weakening encryption endangers everyone. The Home Office must drop demands for Apple to undermine their security. Such demands are from the playbook of authoritarianism, not democracy.  telegraph.co.uk/business/202…
My first Substack article: a polemic analysis of the UK–China spy crisis.
A systems-level look at Britain’s China crisis, the spy farce, and the architecture of denial keeping the whole thing humming. My first Substack article; thanks to Ian Dunmore for pushing me to publish. horkan.substack.com/p/system…
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The system isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as intended. That’s the problem. horkan.substack.com/p/system…
Politics turns dysfunction into theatre. @KemiBadenoch attacks, @Keir_Starmer absorbs, @michaelgove moralises, @JohnJCrace satirises, @VictorGaoChina warns. Each subsystem is performing exactly as designed.
Britain’s institutions aren’t malfunctioning; they’re colliding. Prosperity against protection. Departments against each other. Procedure against personality. Public calm against state secrecy.
@ciaranmartinoxf says the core systems were never breached. Also true. Different layer, same machine. That’s bureaucratic truth: context-bound, technically correct, mutually contradictory. #CiaranMartin
@Dominic2306 said recently that the system “is working as intended”. He may be right; not as a conspiracy, but by design. Each actor is doing their job perfectly within its incentives, and collectively producing chaos.