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Hey @rodgab , looking forward to next week in London - big shout out to @JesseGarwoodGuitar" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@JesseGarwoodG… , if looking for a last minute support, his Tamacun last night was epic.

@film_girl @simonw Perhaps .git isn't cool anymore; isolated work trees etc. If CLI then should default to docker detection and no .git visible. Separate VCS control from code changes, different permission sets / allow lists. Isolation only gets harder with agents, but this would be a start.

Agreed on all counts! And yes, as I was planning how I’d do this, Apple Containers came to mind! I think Windows has a similar thing for WSL but I’d have to check. But yes, the docker barrier is large — but if they could help automate it for people that set it up, that would at least help. But yeah, this is also an area I’d love to see the OS makers get better at alongside the major agents.

Important reminder from Reddit here of the risk you're taking when you run Claude Code with --dangerously-skip-permissions "I found the problem and it's really bad [...] rm -rf tests/ patches/ plan/ ~/ - See that ~/ at the end? That's your entire home directory."

@Cooper_Parry Could someone contact me, please, re an urgent audit issue. Thanks.

@simonw @ileppane Every model is a new API version, entirely unspecified (other than binary interface). Progress!

@ileppane But most users don't really understand what a model is, let alone how to pick the right one for their purposes Not helped by the fact that 4o and o4 are entirely different, I've seen so many people confused by that

One of the surprises for me from the GPT-5 launch yesterday is how OpenAI removed access to older models (like GPT-4o) for most ChatGPT users at the same time as they rolled out the new model. I wrote about how that's been playing out here: simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/8/sur…

@simonw This. For customers, should be explicit.

Made some notes on how Cursor works under the hood based on their security documentation - it turns out an organization's list of subprocessors offers a loose form of "view source" for their infrastructure! simonwillison.net/2025/May/11/cu…

Man with slick hair, "I find it quite disgusting how we're talking about human beings who are genuinely.. And it's not illegal to claim asylum in a foreign country" "Saying they're illegal immigrants.. They're asylum seekers and refugees" #BBCQT "Illegal immigrants tend to be people who come here legally and overstay a visa, or an application. That's the majority of illegal immigrants" "We know other countries take on a lot more refugees than we ever do" "Calling these people: the invaders" "Or dehumanising them so we can point a finger at them saying: you're the reason we have a housing shortage.. But we've only built 250,000 council houses since Thatcher came into power.. Before that we built 5 million" "Why do people claim that immigrants are the problem when it's recent governments that are the problem"

@ThreshedThought Would be interesting to hear thoughts on this: x.com/peterfrankopan…

So journalists - whilst reporting on this story - do ask UK ministers whether the UK is happy with its current levels of naval power, and whether they regret that we are not able to carry out one of our most important maritime missions in the Greenland-UK gap. Ask them what they plan to do about it.

It has to be monitored and patrolled, and in the event of war controlled, so that America and Europe have open sea lines of communication to get troops and equipment to Europe (green arrows).

@British_Airways @firefoxx66 Some reasoning here, would help. And as mentioned, define contact please .

@firefoxx66 We appreciate your message, however, we can not assist or discuss this with you, Emma. If the passengers who's bags are delayed require assistance, then they'll need to contact us themselves. Cody

Europe has done a lot for flight issues, can it now do the same for airlines losing bags? Family from the US visiting me, 24 hrs & haven't even managed to speak to a person @British_Airways who can help, or find out where bags are / if they will get them anytime soon!

@TTM_Tweets Sold out in the presale?!

@KattyKay_ TRIP US showing as only episodes paid on Spotify..? Seems to be playing though. Maybe just icons?

@nkdfry No more drones?

Two years ago I decided to make a return to game dev after 15 years away. I was excited and relieved that the passion still burned bright, maybe even brighter. It's been an interesting all-consuming two years but I'm still not sure I made the right decision.

@ThreshedThought @JohnHealey_MP @threadreaderapp

@JohnHealey_MP That’s enough for today, but I will be exploring these issues in the next thread, and through my work in Parliament.

Trump and the UK Strategic Defence Review A 🪡 (Will there be 🖍️s?)

@iamdevloper Mocha?

Just realized that I've spent more time optimizing my coffee making than my code. Is there a framework for this?

@ThreshedThought On bluesky/masto maybe? Content dying here.

Over the next few weeks, I will unpack each of the areas in this thread (with 🖍️!) to illustrate just how pervasive Russian activity is. I will also try and link to things that I think the UK government should be doing.

There is a lot going on in the news at the moment, but there is a story that is consistently being underreported: Russia. A 🧵 (potentially with 🖍️)

@thetrainline Finally found a working phone number, got a refund (well, scheduled at least) after a somewhat tortuous experience, rebooked with another firm.

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. @thetrainline hi, how can I reach support? Many broken links and disconnected phone numbers. Booking page was misleading, need to change tickets.

@IamStan @justincormack Is PAYG a viable alternative for b2c? Buy credits up front?

@IamStan And summaries to email. Not just because Gmail etc will remind you, but rules get run too. Eg if the summary has a name or email address in it, a search will find it too.

Looks great - think adding a reminder with it to add to a diary is a great way to not forget about notes too.

@der_rehan @erlendekern Was thinking about a validation step, either smoke test (custom resource?), or a delay of 1hr say (ideally no error metric increase), to prevent crowdstrike style mass deploy.

@kenhorn @erlendekern But this is what the current AWS CDK Pipelines do anyway. The only way to make it rollback the whole stage would be to create a CustomResource to each stack that prevents it from completing, listening to a CloudWatch event to rollback on if any stack fails. Feature request? 😅

✨INTRODUCING ✨> CDK Express Pipeline An AWS CDK Pipelines alternative that is less opinionated and build-system agnostic github.com/rehanvdm/cdk-e…