Techmoan's latest toy
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 8 May 2026, 22:37,
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Regional TV Geekery
I made this!
Someone on Bluesky noticed that there were lots of recordings of ITV all from the same time but from different parts of the country. Seems lots of people were recording Octopussy that day.
So I thought it might be interesting to see what they looked like all played together, and amazingly they synced up perfectly
(, Fri 8 May 2026, 20:13, Reply)
I like this.
The thames tv sound is burned into my subconscious.
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Octo I ruin everything., Sat 9 May 2026, 5:42,
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I'm not sure why it's surprising that they were in sync
Wouldn't they all just switch to the same feed?
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sat 9 May 2026, 7:10,
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You can see the cue mark on the top right on a couple on the first frame, the black and white moving mark. that was used to mark transition from the network feed so local companies could do their adverts/promos.
they knew how much time each break was, so when the mark vanished, play your 2m tape, then back to network feed.
(, Sat 9 May 2026, 14:03, Reply)
I thought that was for when TV ratings relied on a little magic box that covered the corner of the screen.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 11 May 2026, 20:48,
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Eurovision Scrollytelling
I made this!
I've done a data analysis of Eurovision lyrics until 2025, and Claude Coded over 8 weekends to create this scrollytelling article. Enjoy!
(, Fri 8 May 2026, 12:34, Reply)
Claude coded = vibe coded with Claude?
Just trying to keep up with AI slop lingo
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simbosan is too tired, Fri 8 May 2026, 13:23,
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Not quite. And if you look my previous work, I've done data analysis for about 20 years.
The toolkit of today includes LLMs, but using Claude Code and vibe-coding is not the same thing. This was the result of about 8 weeks of back and forth coding, testing, quality checking, etc.
Wait for the blog post for the how to and the jupyter notebook, but the slagging off I'm not finding fair without checking your assumptions first.
(, Sun 10 May 2026, 13:44, Reply)
Also, this is from about 8 years ago: brexit.puntofisso.net/
Same tech (including the same Scrollama library), same animation style etc. The fact professional developers use LLMs today to help their coding is not what "vibe coding" is.
If you think this is "AI Slop" I'm sorry but I don't agree with your definition o "AI Slop" (cfr en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop).
If you are technical, I'd recommend Simon Willison's blog where such topics are extensively discussed in rather intellectual terms.
(, Sun 10 May 2026, 14:04, Reply)
Read my comments to other messages. "Fuck off" is an odd and rather unwarranted comment. Happy to answer questions, though.
(, Sun 10 May 2026, 13:45, Reply)
It's not a very odd or unwarranted comment around these parts.
The oddest thing about it is that I neglected to also call you a cunt.
Think of b3ta as the Mos Eisley cantina, and think of AI as your droids. You need to leave them outside, they're not welcome here.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 10 May 2026, 16:51,
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Is the content and data analysis AI?
I suspect saying it is Claude Coded has caused an AI;DR reaction to this, which may be undeserved.
(Though informing Richard Dawkins' girlfriend about accessible colour schemes may be required - we are old and some of that is a bit unreadable)
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monkeon schmonkeon, Fri 8 May 2026, 15:31,
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Thank you for saying that. I've been at this for a long time so I'm not surprised. I'll blog about the experience. But I think there's a fundamental misunderstanding about equating vibe-coding (Lovable etc) with using LLM tools to help one code.
(, Sun 10 May 2026, 13:47, Reply)
Fair re colour scheme, though. I tried to use mutually exclusive colours but it's hard to do a fully accessible story of this kind. I've been also thinking about using symbols rather than colours but that would kill the performance even more strongly (1795 SVG dots aren't easy to move around, especially as the grouping is based on force field).
(, Sun 10 May 2026, 14:01, Reply)
To address your question, the workflow that I used the LLM for included:
1. creating a web tool to manually inspect and correct the lyrics (originally coming from a JSON file); the LLM helped here with creating the web page, saving back to the file, etc
2. creating and evolving a number of jupyter notebooks to do specific bits of data analysis; the LLM here helped with the coding of automating the workflow, but each bit of analysis was co-created (and checked); if anything, the LLM helped brainstorm (e.g. "for this amount of data, would LDA work better than BERTopic analysis and why")
3. iterating quickly on the D3 basic animation I had from a previous project; things like "try this type of transition" are very effective
All in all, I'd say again that "Is the content and data analysis AI?" is not a question that can be answered in a yes/no way. Not for this project, nor for any professional developer work today. The data analysis was created by a "conversation" that evolved over about 2-3 months and that required interruptions, code-checks, code rewrites (either by me directly or by instructing Claude to do changes).
Many professional developers use LLM tools as they make our work faster and more effective. I constrain myself to using LLMs only with libraries/languages that i know and understand well, and that I can fact-check and quality-check.
If by "content" you mean the text, it's not "AI generated". I had Claude create placeholders in the Scrollama "cards", which I then wrote by hand. I'd never use a LLM to write text (I've been sending a newsletter about data for 12 years and it's all written by me) because it would lose my "voice".
I hope that makes sense, but if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer. I'm drafting a blog post about the experience of coding using Claude for this, and any point I should develop would be much welcome.
(, Sun 10 May 2026, 14:14, Reply)
Fair enough, but I'd question the faster and more effective for professional development bit. Most vibe coded sites I've ever looked at seem to be by people wanting to call themselves full stack devs without enough understanding of the frontend developer, UX designer, technical SEO etc jobs to spot the glaring mistakes (and vice versa, hence all the hackable sites built by people without any server-side or security experience). When I experimented with it, it was churning out code that's been deprecated since 2008, and you had to instruct it not to, for example. I know boosters would do a mea culpa about prompting it wrong, but if it's default output is broken, that's bad software.
My experience with it has been that beyond some code review and writing individual functions, I really do not trust it's output without full review (which soon eats into the claim that it is faster). Also, having to write an essay to generate something professionals could write quicker in code doesn't actually seem very time saving, especially when you know that there will likely be 10% or so that needs fixing after it has been generated because your prompt left some assumptions open and it chose a mad solution. Most people already had their own libraries for the repetitive work, and there were plenty of generators and libraries like Google Charts that churned out consistent code for displaying data.
I see why it works for prototypes and personal projects (which I yours falls under) - until it becomes prohibitively expensive, at least - but all the examples I've seen of fully vibe coded sites seem buggy and destined for major future problems.
I am aware the above is a general moan about vibe coding than related to your actual site, and a bit of a wall of text, but it sometimes feels like I must be missing something, yet the more I look at Claude Code, the worse it gets. All the people doing videos on it seem like slick influencer salesmen rather than the awkward nerds doing a deep dive that I'm used to.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 10 May 2026, 15:34,
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I agree with you re vibe coding websites (like Lovable?). But that's not a tool I'd ever use, especially for a data analysis. Using Claude Code in a development environment is not quite the same thing, though, especially in terms of structuring a project (for example, my project init starts always with the library and version I want to use, e.g. D3 v2.7).
The speed comes from the writing coding within guidelines/guardrails. But it's then down to the developer to check those (e.g. unit testing etc). I don't think it's, overall, a 100x in speed, but it's well close to a 10x. For comparison, the Brexit vote explorer I linked above took me about 4 days to code, while this analysis has taken me over 2 months – the complexity was not the actual code.
Overall I agree with the sentiment on "vibe coding", though. It's just that I'd distinguish the "hey create a website that does this" (which I abhor) from the LLM-aided coder (which I fall under).
(, Sun 10 May 2026, 15:59, Reply)
Full stack dev here, hello (many, many years experience)
Big difference between "vibe coding" and "AI assisted development". Scaffolding shit (that can be done with my eyes closed) but took a good chunk of time to do now takes minutes. Good devs are constantly keeping it in check, and there's a fair amount of ballsups once things get a little complex. It pretty quickly fails to follow patterns I've found and just starts doing its own thing (and the annoying loops it finds itself in). I've not trusted it with anything too sexy, but it definitely speeds up the donkey work. Fuck the 50 million "Hey I coded a tailwind component library" bros though. There's going to be a wealth of oversaturated, useless, cookie-cutter shit over the next few years.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Mon 11 May 2026, 20:21,
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Are people actually getting financially rewarded
for doing more high-end code and less donkey work, do you know? Or are they just expected to do more burn-out work for the same money?
Are clients charged the same, or have you now got to get more work in to make the same?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfionMmCGoU
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 12 May 2026, 14:59,
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Maybe @Fadgebadger can reply in more informed ways than I can, but this probably depends on what sort of contract you have.
In corporates, "how much" you work is fixed*. If you're a freelancer, there's obviously two ways this can go (are you paid by project vs by the hour/day etc).
(*) obviously there's that philosophical question about "should we all work less thanks to automation", but that's beyond this discussion
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But is there any evidence
that a dev's pay has actually increased since LLMs arrived and their "productivity improved". No one positive about AI ever seems to talk the economics.
My assumption is that either clients benefit at the cost of the business, as they are told by boosters that coding is now a piece of piss and don't understand that something they can generate which looks 70% there is very different to being 70% there, and so they believe the robot will do most of the work (then it becomes a race to the bottom as code is expected to be cheap and devs/sales teams burn out as they now have a far harder job to do), or the company benefits and keeps their prices the same (at the risk of cheaper rivals undercutting them).
High-end dev work *should* be paid more, as that's harder and burns you out faster (arguably a lot of the work AI is doing is the work you can still do when your brain is done for the day). If people are doing more of the hard stuff but aren't paid more-per-hour then they're being screwed over.
Freelancers have to do both sales and dev work, so doubly exhausting.
I don't see how AI can possibly do anything but destroy what was a good ecosystem. We used to share knowledge with each other, now just give it to the billionaire-owned robots which destroyed those communities by stealing from them.
People who think they won't be replaced if it eventually does what the AI companies promise aren't considering why their bosses are so keen on them documenting all their thought processes in little .md documents, which the company own.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 13 May 2026, 10:35,
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I can speak for my company, but that is obviously not every one
We're a smallish dev house, we're big on wellbeing. I give my devs an amount of work in a sprint, if it's done, it's done it doesn't matter what it took to get to that point. If we use a tool to make us more productive then my two cents is that improvement is given back to the team in lower project pressure and better work-life balance. Our projects are generally costed based on complexity and skill, not necessarily timescales (though they are a factor, albeit a smaller one). We've also increased pay again this year for our devs. AI dev has a cost in itself of course, but the ROI is good enough to keep it around. We've not changed our general project costs we charge to clients, but we've mostly kept them as low as possible for years now. I have no inclination to replace my good developers with AI, but I'm certainly not going to pass up a tool that makes them happier and more productive.
Edit: probably noting that I totally see your (and most others) point about AI, and just because I see it this way, doesn't mean your points are not valid or true.
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Wed 13 May 2026, 11:50,
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Thanks.
To be honest, I don't think my use is that different to yours at the moment. I'm just probably more focussed on the negatives, and can't see any positive way it could play out long-term for the majority of developers unless things freeze at this point or go tits up for the AI companies (which isn't an impossibility).
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 13 May 2026, 12:18,
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It's my fricken' candles
so I'm posting something short and sweet.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 8 May 2026, 9:31,
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Happy Candles Sir
And good luck with the cat shenanigans.
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Fri 8 May 2026, 10:28,
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Well thank you very much!
the dynamic at the moment is very much an overexcited, clingy and affectionate young boy trying desperately to make friends with an aloof, too-cool-for-school teenage girl who just wants to go out all the time and hve absolutely nothing to do with this annoying, funny-smelling kid who eats her food and craps in her toilet. It's on the verge of becoming funny, but still quite tense.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 8 May 2026, 10:36,
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Sounds thrilling
They will eventually come to an understanding, just might take a while
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Fri 8 May 2026, 10:54,
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They said that about Korea...
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 8 May 2026, 14:56,
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Third Friday after Eucarishmas
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 8 May 2026, 13:19,
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HAPPY CANDLES
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Fri 8 May 2026, 21:52,
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Hantavirus Tracker - with a suitably alarmist preview image, lovely!
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Hanta sounds like a Japanese Corporation from a popular anime.
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Octo I ruin everything., Thu 7 May 2026, 14:09,
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You'd have to get a vaccine from AkiraZenaka
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Fri 8 May 2026, 10:11,
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Chaos ensues
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Thu 7 May 2026, 21:10,
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Add to your home screen for instant access.
No thanks - if it's not available as real-time wallpaper I'm not interested!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Fri 8 May 2026, 6:27,
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It must also have a max volume siren sound for every new infection.
Otherwise, what's the point?
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Fri 8 May 2026, 10:57,
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As the ice melts the bugs come alive.
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Sat 9 May 2026, 0:54,
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<throws money at screen>
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Sat 9 May 2026, 6:52,
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I know this one. You have to infect Greenland first.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 9 May 2026, 10:31,
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Edgy
Some researcher found Microsoft Edge password manager loads every one of your saved passwords into memory at startup
In plaintext.
It's since been replicated by another tech website. I think you need admin right to run the ReadProcessMemory memory, or be just be logged into windows if it's user intitiated
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 7 May 2026, 9:32,
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I mean having it decoded in memory isn't ideal, but if you're in a position where a malicious person or application has free run to read your system memory then frankly you've got much bigger problems.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 7 May 2026, 12:29,
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That kind of unwarranted rationale will never generate you ad revenue!
(, Thu 7 May 2026, 13:11, Reply)
that's like finding out the cleaner who comes each day takes your cash and passports out of the safe and leaves them on the coffee table
and saying "well it's only a problem is someone comes into the house"
In fact, it's probably worse than that example, as edge shares it's password manager between devices if you log in to edge, so this could happen on some hotel computer in bratislava. All your passwords, in plaintext, as soon as you login to the browser
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 7 May 2026, 16:07,
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If you log into edge in some random computer in Bratislava, you deserve everything that's coming to you.
To borrow your analogy it's like being upset that the cleaner who comes each day takes your cash and passports out of the safe and leaves them on the coffee table, but completely ignoring the guys in balaclavas just letting themselves in and ransacking the rest of your stuff.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 7 May 2026, 17:30,
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I just use the same password for everything. Totally negates the need for a password manager in the first place.
(, Thu 7 May 2026, 18:19, Reply)
It's... a solution.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Thu 7 May 2026, 18:20,
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That’s not how software security works
Secure by design is the standard. Decrypt at the point of use, not at startup.
Sure you may have bigger problems, but why add to them?
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Fri 8 May 2026, 0:08,
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this doesn't sound like victim-blaming
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Fri 8 May 2026, 2:33,
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The concept of victim-blaming is a load of old wank.
It absolves certain victims from failing to take the necessary precautions required to reasonably reduce their likelihood of suffering the crime in the first place.
If your car gets nicked because you left it running while you popped into a Bradford corner shop, then you absolutely need to shoulder some of the blame.
If your PC gets compromised to the point that somebody has opened a back door and assumed Administrator rights, it's probably because you clicked on something you shouldn't have. Again, insufficient precaution.
(, Sat 9 May 2026, 21:04, Reply)
this does sound like victim-blaming
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 10 May 2026, 1:01,
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Because the victim shares part of the blame in many cases.
Unless you're one of those idealistic fuckwits who dreams of a world with absolutely no crime at all and we can leave our doors unlocked while we go on holiday without the fear of being burgled, in which case there wouldn't be any victims of crime in the first place.
(, Sun 10 May 2026, 4:54, Reply)
hmm, so one should take basic precautions, except if you're designing a shitty password manager?
then it's ok because if something happens someone else is to blame
I think I understand, but it's not the most coherent position
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 10 May 2026, 10:34,
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Did you miss the bit about needing to already have access to the victim's computer before being able to read from the memory?
Just take the loss and move on.
(, Sun 10 May 2026, 13:02, Reply)
Sorry Huw, here we are talking about responsibility, and you don't even see it at as bad design.
I forget that I'm talking to someone whose opinions far exceed his knowlege
"From a defensive perspective, storing passwords in clear-text memory violates the principles of least privilege, zero trust, and secure application design," Morey Haber, chief security advisor at security provider BeyondTrust, told ZDNET. "It is simply just a bad idea. If a password can be read in memory by a human or malicious process, it is no longer a protected secret. It is already compromised in principle through clear-text storage in an already insecure medium.Hopefully, Microsoft will see this as a security flaw and adopt the same method used in Chrome and other browsers to decrypt passwords only when needed. Until then, I'd advise against using Edge as your password manager."
Haber says that process memory is viewed by modern operating systems as a protected, albeit shared, resource. “Debuggers, crash dumps, memory scrapers, malware, privileged insiders, endpoint agents, and even legitimate administration tools can all interact with memory under the right conditions,” he explains. “If a password exists in clear text within memory, the credential is no longer protected by encryption or hashing. It is simply waiting to be used by something and potentially anything.”
According to Haber, malicious actors understand very well the risk of a stored plaintext password — and sometimes, they understand it better than organizations themselves.
“Some of the most effective post exploitation techniques in cybersecurity rely entirely on memory extraction from credential dumping tools through process crash dumps,” he states. "Once extracted, that password can enable privilege escalation, lateral movement, persistence, and unauthorized remote access across the environment."
Or
"The fact that cleartext passwords exist in memory is one thing - the core issue is that other processes can read this memory without restriction," Craig Lurey, CTO and co-founder of Keeper Security, told ISMG. "Windows does not prevent a non-elevated program from reading the memory of another program running under the same user context. The consequence is that sensitive data kept in memory by applications can be targeted by local malware."
The risk is particularly acute in enterprise environments using shared infrastructure such as Citrix servers, virtual desktop infrastructure and remote desktop systems, where multiple users may operate on the same machine. An attacker with administrative access on a terminal server can read the memory of every user process running on the machine, including sessions that are disconnected. But Chrome handles passwords very differently. It only decrypts a password at the moment it is actually needed, such as during autofill. Chrome also uses a feature called Application-Bound Encryption, which ties the decryption keys to an authenticated Chrome process, making it significantly harder for attackers to pull passwords out of memory.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 10 May 2026, 14:23,
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Sure, but you're not taking into account the exploitation method here. Decrypt at the point of use is no help in a system that's completely compromised as is being discussed. The attacker alreay has admin level access to the memory and therefore the entire system. They already have the decryption keys.
It's just performative security at that point - it's not adding any barriers.
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Fri 8 May 2026, 11:23,
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so, that's the only security vulnerability, ay? someone getting complete admin priveleges?
All those non privileged exploits, rambleed, format string attacks, spectre, meltdown, stack overflows etc don't exist, so a password manager that loads all your passwords in plaintext on launch is fine, not something that even if the system was compromised you would expect it to keep them relatively secure and not serve it up on a platter?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 10 May 2026, 1:21,
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"This is the one thing we didn't want to happen"
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Fri 8 May 2026, 7:50,
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Turner Classic Mortuary will ensure his face is colorised for the open casket
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RIP IN PEACE
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iFJu5Df0ss
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 7 May 2026, 17:25,
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Puffin Colony – LIVE from National Trust Farne Islands 2026
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Wed 6 May 2026, 17:33,
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I think all i can see are gannets and pigeons
has the National Trust stooped to the level of a shoddy Santa Claus Land?
correction, not gannets but guillemots
(, Wed 6 May 2026, 20:02, Reply)
Penguins and puffins now
Lots of penguins. It looks like a long way down to the sea too!
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 7 May 2026, 6:37,
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Er, no penguins on the Farnes...
or anywhere in the Northen hemisphere in the wild.
They'll be guillemots.
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Happosai _,,,,_(O ; o)_,,,, Thu 7 May 2026, 8:38,
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Well...
Only if you exclude the Galapagos penguins. Which seems unfair.
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Cactus 1 doesn't care what you think on, Thu 7 May 2026, 11:10,
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Doh!
Thanks for that...
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Thu 7 May 2026, 12:49,
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I think your penguins are guillemots but at least there are now some puffins on the go.
Odd seeing the puffins next to pigeons, I'd always thought they'd have been bigger.
(, Thu 7 May 2026, 8:42, Reply)
Went to see puffins on the Isle of May a few years ago.
It was past the peak time, but there were still a few about.
Also ran into TV's Natasha Raskin-Sharp, and pointed her cameraman/partner/whatever in the right direction to one that had just landed. I haven't seen her do a programme about puffins on the telly, so maybe she was just on a jolly with licence fee payers' money.
(, Thu 7 May 2026, 9:45, Reply)
Natasha lives in a hole on the isle, she has a flock of pufflings that bring her sand eels to subsist on while she rests between television appearances
(, Fri 8 May 2026, 7:02, Reply)
Nice Things in Local Newspapers
I made this!
Look, I’ve been running Angry People in Local Newspapers since 2009, and it delivers gold every single day. But now I’m old and have had the cynicism thrashed out of me, so I’m giving back some positivity on the hellsite that is Facebook. In a world gone to shit, everyone needs a daily dose of Nice Things.
RONSEAL: Nice stories about nice people doing nice things, sometimes with baby animals.
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Wed 6 May 2026, 13:36,
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Justice for the Rohingya people! Burn facebook to the ground.
And bum it to the ground too.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 6 May 2026, 13:44,
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Bumming is too good for them.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 6 May 2026, 17:36,
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True, bumming is pretty good.
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VicJameson : fucking internet virgins since, Thu 7 May 2026, 14:44,
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It's my main source for Russian Sable vids
What wonderful beasties, part dog, part ferret, super smart, all cute.
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simbosan is too tired, Fri 8 May 2026, 0:42,
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TLDR
Woman who doesn't want to become an engineer becomes a paper engineer.
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The Wizard of Speed and Time (1979)
2m55s short film
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 6 May 2026, 2:23,
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All his films were so good.
Shame he stopped making them.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Wed 6 May 2026, 9:43,
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Corridor Crew did a short breakdown of how this was filmed
- YMMV, but i found it revealing and interesting
youtu.be/uxirix9rITs?si=1o0lHqtXOGaNF5VT
Skip to @15:33
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 6 May 2026, 21:40,
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I can't always stand them but that was good, ta.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 6 May 2026, 23:43,
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Anyone fancy a bit of desecration?
I'd have to think caerphilly about buying it.
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FeralCatMan Long ads need comments sections, Wed 6 May 2026, 1:28,
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Ducks
Cute animation with a message
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the bonzo dog , down on Jollity Farm on, Tue 5 May 2026, 10:50,
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Bugger...
So much for the link checker!
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the bonzo dog , down on Jollity Farm on, Tue 5 May 2026, 21:33,
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Didn't we used to have a board where people could post images they'd made?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 5 May 2026, 8:45,
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Good job
I find it amusing that Links is suggesting that you post to the board. Just post it as a link, again, as this is impossible, or post to the board as it's neat.
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An Egg ,D, Wed 6 May 2026, 1:41,
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Yo. I have updated the image. It will take you to the source now if you'd like a copy
(, Wed 6 May 2026, 21:59, Reply)
Curiosity got its (broken) drill stuck in a rock. (Mars Guy)
Not exactly unbelievable but it must have been scary for the remote operators. Curiosity is an absolute marvel of engineering. Also look at those cool weird rocks!
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 4 May 2026, 19:55,
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Scary for the operators? What about the poor little robot?!
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FridgeBadger, Tue 5 May 2026, 9:02,
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Not the first time
Someone far from home got their drill stuck in a rock.
(, Tue 5 May 2026, 12:48, Reply)
Exciting updates:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cxb56lGR38
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 10 May 2026, 16:46,
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Keywords - "if Only Connect was presented by Mavis Beacon"
I made this!
I made a new daily word game. Find the five connected words of increasing length by typing into the boxes. Each time you type the correct letter, you move on to the next until you complete the word - but if you guess wrong you have to restart that word. Some days will be easier than others, but on the whole it is more tricky than it seems!
(, Mon 4 May 2026, 8:22, Reply)
Yep - like that
Coretextual looks beautiful as well - echoes of continental card games
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Mon 4 May 2026, 12:39,
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"76% of players found less words than you"
Tut tut. Less is for an amount of stuff, fewer is for a number of things
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Boot I want to know what you meant, Tue 5 May 2026, 7:04,
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Haha
Yeah the whole stats text needs a bit more work but I FIXED THIS FOR YOU
(, Tue 5 May 2026, 8:22, Reply)
This is ace.
All I suggest is adding a scoreboard based on time & number of penalties.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Mon 4 May 2026, 16:11,
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Ta
Yes I am planning on doing something like this if/when it gets some traction!
(, Mon 4 May 2026, 16:12, Reply)
Very good.
I only scored three, so I am a dingleberry.
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Octo I ruin everything., Mon 4 May 2026, 18:39,
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4 today, the percentage of players line wrote over the game over line
(, Tue 5 May 2026, 6:48, Reply)
An easy mode where you get
given the next letter for each fail may be something to consider if everyone finds it as tough.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Tue 5 May 2026, 10:31,
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This is good, added to our daily quizzes at Simbo Manor
The wife said "Would be good to know which letters you have tried that were wrong" per line obvs
Inevitably she's probably right
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simbosan is too tired, Tue 5 May 2026, 10:43,
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Cheers!
Yes a few people have said that, but my reasoning is (copied and pasted from a Bluesky post I made on this subject) that having to remember the letters you've tried is part of the challenge. When I was trying out ideas I initially had the guessed letters highlighted on the keyboard, but I found it more difficult/fun without (with the bonus that it made the UI feel less cluttered)
(, Tue 5 May 2026, 10:53, Reply)
Love this
Today's nearly beat me but i'm a numpty.
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Tue 5 May 2026, 21:51,
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Today's is very difficult it seems, things will be easier tomorrow :)
(, Wed 6 May 2026, 13:40, Reply)
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