# someone else (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 17 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover someone else. Page: Feed: --- ## [Can a dead cat make a full recovery? What you missed this week on my substack!](https://squirrelsquadron.substack.com/p/can-a-dead-cat-make-a-full-recovery) _2026-08-21 · Douglas Squirrel · Squirrel Squadron Substack_ Have you heard of a ‘dead cat bounce’? ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117132589549093121) _2026-08-21 · Matthew Garrett_ I would kill copyright even if it killed copyleft in the process: Yes No ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117132575936569776) _2026-08-21 · Matthew Garrett_ Also watching him engage with fans who clearly weren't born when it was released was incredible the man may not be a hacker but he has the hacker spirit of wanting to share knowledge ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117132562603228255) _2026-08-21 · Matthew Garrett_ Just over a week until the DNA Lounge does Hackers again and while it was such an absolute joy accidentally ending up standing at the back and so watching Iain Softley appreciate several hundred nerds love his work at @ emf last month, doing so in a more rollerblade friendly environment than, well, a field is a wonderfully different experience ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117132366135248047) _2026-08-21 · Matthew Garrett_ I really love solutions that involve driving specs in ways that weren't initially envisaged, and I have so many half-formed thoughts about how to do terrible things with this approach ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117132359369186360) _2026-08-21 · Matthew Garrett_ Obviously you need some trust binding - in the SSH key case that's implicit because the pubkey is a functional element and useless without the private key so you can't fake that, but with some indirection you can have a trusted service effectively embed metadata into an OAuth token that gets signed by an IdP and this seems generally easier than implementing your own arbitrary PKI ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117132346245834167) _2026-08-21 · Matthew Garrett_ Reading up on opkssh, which basically ties SSH into OAuth by using the hash of an SSH pubkey as a nonce that then gets baked into an OAuth token, which you can then embed into a self-signed SSH certificate and the remote end can extract that, verify the token signature, verify the token identity, and verify that the nonce in the token matches the hash of the pubkey, and… wait you can extend this… ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117131962825446847) _2026-08-21 · Matthew Garrett_ Only previous time I've had to switch aircraft was when the ground crew accidentally unplugged a 777 from ground power before the APU was running, and apparently cold booting a 777-200 involves a large stack of floppies and is not a rapid task, anyway, was fun getting to see what the emergency floor level lighting actually looks like in the dark ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117131286961207686) _2026-08-21 · Matthew Garrett_ We did not end up flying on that plane ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117131269735244660) _2026-08-21 · Matthew Garrett_ "Well, folks, this is your captain. I've been flying 30 years and I've never heard the noise this plane just made, so we're going back to the gate" Chat, is this good ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xxiADgjkHIs3) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [What To Do Instead of Looking Busy](https://squirrelsquadron.substack.com/p/what-to-do-instead-of-looking-busy) _2026-08-20 · Douglas Squirrel · Squirrel Squadron Substack_ A CEO replied to one of my newsletters on the dangers of over-utilisation in slasher films, saying that I hadn’t given the reader any guidance on what to do instead of measuring activity. ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117125681954854921) _2026-08-20 · Matthew Garrett_ This feels like a "Every sign tells a story" sign ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117125511641983828) _2026-08-20 · Matthew Garrett_ I think Roy is now trying to argue that my trivial script that turned human-generated textual annotations of a line into a de-duplicated list of which paragraphs in an order that line breached (ie, a slightly fancy find and replace) is equivalent to having an LLM write the application? ## [Are You The Prime Minister of New Zealand?](https://squirrelsquadron.substack.com/p/are-you-the-prime-minister-of-new) _2026-08-19 · Douglas Squirrel · Squirrel Squadron Substack_ In the category of bureaucracy gone mad, when I worked at a payment card company, we had to perform Know Your Customer checks to see if any users were Russian oligarchs or convicted felons or otherwise slippery folk. ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117120142090693716) _2026-08-19 · Matthew Garrett_ A \*lot\* of dolphins ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117120132358243871) _2026-08-19 · Matthew Garrett_ Been out on the ocean and saw an absolute shitload of dolphins, in a pretty good mood now ## [Ramana Maharshi: His Greatest Teaching](https://abyvohra.substack.com/p/ramana-maharshi-his-greatest-teaching) _2026-08-18 · Aby Vohra · The Courage To Awaken_ How to silence the voice in your head and realize yourself. ## [The Bones Didn’t Change](https://authenticglow.substack.com/p/the-bones-didnt-change) _2026-08-18 · IB Girl · The Reading Room_ A Bronze Age goldworker, a Viking warrior, two “lovers,” and what happens when new science audits old certainty ## [We Forgot To Check](https://squirrelsquadron.substack.com/p/we-forgot-to-check) _2026-08-18 · Douglas Squirrel · Squirrel Squadron Substack_ Much of the Internet was down last year - 20th Oct 2025. ## [SISU Ashby: The Next Chapter Begins](https://sisuashby.substack.com/p/sisu-ashby-the-next-chapter-begins) _2026-08-17 · Heather Perry · Heather's Substack_ Calling All Accountantants!! ## [Stay updated on your professional world (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/TsULb0L2wC37) _2026-08-17 · **Sponsored**_ Keep in touch with people you know, build your career. ## [Word of the Week: Dead Cat Bounce](https://squirrelsquadron.substack.com/p/word-of-the-week-dead-cat-bounce) _2026-08-17 · Douglas Squirrel · Squirrel Squadron Substack_ In finance, a dead cat bounce is a tiny recovery in a stock that’s plunging toward oblivion: ## [They Called Her a Man](https://authenticglow.substack.com/p/they-called-her-a-man) _2026-08-16 · IB Girl · The Reading Room_ For two centuries, archaeologists looked at a Bronze Age goldworker and saw a man. DNA had other ideas. ## [Custom app for tracking medication trials and complicated medicine protocols (Protocol Pilot)](https://diyps.org/2026/08/16/custom-app-for-tracking-medication-trials-and-complicated-medicine-protocols-protocol-pilot/) _2026-08-16 · Dana Lewis · DIYPS.org_ It’s awesome and terrible at the same time in this day and age to be handed a medicine with a complicated protocol and given no ideal way to visualize or track the schedule and the feedback from the medicine. This can lead to “non-adherence” and “non-compliance” in clinical-speak, or “I don’t know if it’s working” \[…\] ## [Stock Ticker](https://starikov.co/stockticker/) _2026-08-16 · Illya Starikov · STAR🌻KOV_ Add a ticker once, find it there forever. ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117103942424862557) _2026-08-16 · Matthew Garrett_ Seriously Killer Net is incredible and not available to stream anywhere I had to buy an actual DVD but I am unaware of any other piece of media that attempts to dramatise the installation of an ISA sound card ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117103889085670263) _2026-08-16 · Matthew Garrett_ For those who have never had the opportunity to appreciate this almost 30 year old genius: ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117103833212566262) _2026-08-16 · Matthew Garrett_ Vivid dream last night where @ jwz 's blog was actually a webcomic and the most recent entry was extremely critical of me personally and I learned about this because Scruffy from Killer Net showed up and provided his role-defining line: "He's flamed yer, called yer a wanker in all the newsgroups". Anyway. I am well adjusted. ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117103775306201677) _2026-08-16 · Matthew Garrett_ I'd been wondering why the compose key was broken on my laptop and finally realised it was because the only thing I was trying to type with it was compose-C-C-C-P to get ☭ and that was replaced in 2022 because compose-C-C made much more sense as ℂ: https:// gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/li b/libx11/-/merge\_requests/112 ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117097999927880990) _2026-08-15 · Matthew Garrett_ In the San Francisco Fairmont so, as is obviously appropriate, watching The Rock ## [Typing Test](https://starikov.co/typing-test/) _2026-08-15 · Illya Starikov · STAR🌻KOV_ ## [Point a Domain, Start a Pit (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/w8i8s7izXVob) _2026-08-15 · **Sponsored**_ Point any domain to a blacked-out, poison-green coming-soon page with an email waitlist. ## [Finding an AI Tsar and walking in someone else's moccasins - what you missed this week](https://squirrelsquadron.substack.com/p/finding-an-ai-tsar-and-walking-in) _2026-08-14 · Douglas Squirrel · Squirrel Squadron Substack_ Plenty to get your brain in gear this week amongst my Chestnuts - daily short snackable thoughts and ideas that will get you commenting and discussing! ## [Watering someone else’s garden](https://www.jemjabella.co.uk/2026/watering-someone-elses-garden/) _2026-08-13 · Jem · Jem's field notes_ I ve spent the past couple of weeks watering someone else s garden. (This isn t some ~deep~ metaphor, I ve literally been watering someone else s garden.) My daughter agreed to water her boyfriend s parent s garden while they ve been away on holiday, and as they live two villages over and she doesn t drive, it inevitably fell on to me... read full entry ## [AI Tsar](https://squirrelsquadron.substack.com/p/ai-tsar) _2026-08-13 · Douglas Squirrel · Squirrel Squadron Substack_ An excellent question that a client agreed to have me answer here: ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117086855797895136) _2026-08-13 · Matthew Garrett_ I should be explicit that I do not know whether this will ever be something that will be achieved, especially the copyright laundering portion. But I think it's worth thinking about and forming some amount of strategy around. ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117086744043149924) _2026-08-13 · Matthew Garrett_ ...and if you could run a local LLM that could achieve these things, would that be good or bad? ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117086741605511009) _2026-08-13 · Matthew Garrett_ My talk at FOSSY was basically: if we had a magic box that you could put a binary into and it could explain it to you, and it could make whatever modifications to that binary you wanted, and it could launder that binary into an equivalent binary that wasn't a derivative work under copyright law so you could share it with others - would that magic box satisfy the free software definition without… ## [Don't Make Me Think](https://squirrelsquadron.substack.com/p/dont-make-me-think) _2026-08-12 · Douglas Squirrel · Squirrel Squadron Substack_ My car’s GPS has settings like “avoid motorways”, “fastest route”, and “avoid tolls”. ## [Re: Re: An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop](https://www.jemjabella.co.uk/2026/re-re-an-infuriating-goodbye-to-photoshop/) _2026-08-12 · Jem · Jem's field notes_ I spotted Online Goddess blog post, Re: An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop, which itself is a reply to Gavin Anderegg s An infuriating goodbye to Photoshop on Bubbles and had to add my tuppence worth. Like Gavin and OG, I ve been using Photoshop a long time. I switched to Photoshop 5 after Corel bought Paint Shop... read full entry ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117081440789813591) _2026-08-12 · Matthew Garrett_ The problem with the OAuth Device Authorization Grant is that you can initiate a request and send the URL to someone else and if they complete the login you get their token. With additional user friction you can mitigate this with a flow that reverses things (generate a unique login link, send that to the machine that completes the login, provide a code, require that that code be entered on the… ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117081415775770739) _2026-08-12 · Matthew Garrett_ Supposedly the reason there isn't a codified spec for UEFI audio is that there were concerns it would be seen as actually trying to offer a gaming environment that would remove the need for Windows anyway that is all that stands between us and being able to boot directly into an MP3 player ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117081283752776568) _2026-08-12 · Matthew Garrett_ If your vulnerability description is AI written I'm going to assume that you don't actually understand the issue and I am going to accord you no credit ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117080897397258680) _2026-08-12 · Matthew Garrett_ My desk's a lot neater now than with the previous USB dongle dock thing I was using, though, so that's a win ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117080868233237974) _2026-08-12 · Matthew Garrett_ It is one (1) of them. Out of all I can find in the house. The vast majority of which are, obviously, the ones which come with Pixel devices, which definitely don't do Thunderbolt. ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117080863624430181) _2026-08-12 · Matthew Garrett_ Scored a nice Lenovo Thunderbolt dock + PSU at Community Thrift for under $20 and then immediately took the psychic pain of needing to figure out which of my USB-C cables do Thunderbolt ## [The Manuscript in the Vault](https://authenticglow.substack.com/p/the-manuscript-in-the-vault) _2026-08-12 · IB Girl · The Reading Room_ A forgotten writer, a famous author, and a manuscript that vanished into the record. ## [Less Wish, More Wash](https://squirrelsquadron.substack.com/p/less-wish-more-wash) _2026-08-11 · Douglas Squirrel · Squirrel Squadron Substack_ “Washy” means feeble, thin like watery soup. ## [Bubbles, and the old web](https://www.jemjabella.co.uk/2026/bubbles-and-the-old-web/) _2026-08-11 · Jem · Jem's field notes_ I spotted Bubbles in my basic referrers this morning, and my heart lit up. A little directory, surfacing blog posts from actual bloggers, what in the old web is going on?! This isn t the first time I ve spotted a resurgence in indie / old web stuff lately. Personal sites are making a comeback, bloggers are... read full entry ## [Bubbles, and the old web](https://www.jemjabella.co.uk/2026/bubbles-and-the-old-web/) _2026-08-11 · Jem · Jem's field notes_ I spotted Bubbles in my basic referrers this morning, and my heart lit up. A little directory, surfacing blog posts from actual bloggers, what in the old web is going on?! This isn t the first time I ve spotted a resurgence in indie / old web stuff lately. Personal sites are making a comeback, bloggers are... read full entry ## [(untitled)](https://nondeterministic.computer/@mjg59/117073937169032992) _2026-08-11 · Matthew Garrett_ Realising that I'm actually just building a general purpose OAuth proxy that happens to also encrypt the tokens, and that simplifies a lot of my thought process ## [Someone else's Moccasins](https://squirrelsquadron.substack.com/p/someone-elses-moccasins) _2026-08-10 · Douglas Squirrel · Squirrel Squadron Substack_ I had an astonishing exchange with the person repairing my computer this week.