Ameel Khan

@ameel
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I'm a geek, techie, drummer, amateur photographer, and typography nerd. My pronouns are he/him. I live on Woiworung land in Naarm (Melbourne, Australia).

I'm not quite an internet old-timer, but I have been on social media since the mid-1990s (dial-up and Usenet!).

I work in the analytics, web, and social media space.

I talk about a lot of random things and try to post photos that I've taken reasonably regularly.

Websitehttps://insanityworks.org/about-ameel
Flickrhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/cmdr_khan/
Ameel Khan43m ago
josh 3h ago
you can tell a technology is going to be bad for ordinary people and good for corporate profits by the trillions of dollars of capital being poured into it
Ameel Khan44m ago
Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️3h ago

Setting up age verification for my BBS

It's simple: if you know what a BBS is and manage to connect to it, you're clearly over 18.

Ameel Khan17h ago
Show threadGlobal MuseumMar 16

What has changed is the garnish. After the hummus is spread flat on a wide plate, the 1250 CE manuscript says to drizzle it with sweet olive oil, scatter chopped parsley and pistachios across the top, dust it with Ceylon cinnamon, and finish with crushed rose buds.

The manuscript also notes that the dish will look quite nice if you arrange whole chickpeas on top. A medieval Syrian historian giving you plating advice.

Ameel Khan17h ago
Emma Irwin20h ago
Raising teenagers is always interesting. Why, for example, wouldn't a pot lid be a better and more environmental option than plastic wrap for a watermelon?
#innovation #WatermelonPictures
Ameel Khan17h ago
Nanoraptor19h ago

If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer:

“Do not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I have seen the fall of nations and am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”

Ameel Khan23h ago
laen 🌿1d ago

i ... don't understand things here. this little friend doesn't either. if you feel the same, we both send you much comfort.

and tea. always tea.
🫖

#MastoArt #art

Ameel Khan23h ago
Lisa Lorenzin KR4LFE (she/her)1d ago

This is *brutal*...

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."

https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

ETA:
This is by @stevendotjs, who absolutely nails a bunch of things I've been feeling for a while now, but had no idea how to articulate...

Programming Still Sucks. — Writing

Sorry Peter. — I'm at a birthday party, and while most people here also work in tech, there's always a Guy with a Real Job. You know, a physical job, building some or other thing people need. And this Guy always asks some variant of the same question: aren't you worried AI is taking your job? I glance around and see a few faces turning around toward us, rolling their eyes ever so slightly before returning to their previous conversation. Yes, this question again.

Ameel Khan23h ago
Jerome (He/Him)1d ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@llorenzin/116528610271499411

All of the anxiety I've felt around AI written in hauntingly beautiful prose.

"AI didn't take our jobs. Greed did. Same greed that moved factories to Bangladesh and keeps slaves in cobalt mines in the Congo, wearing a new mask."

Ameel Khan23h ago
Alice Averlong🏳️‍⚧️1d ago

Important rules for the "age verification" era of the internet that we're living in:

1. Do not do age verification.

2. If you have to do age verification, cheat. Do not under any circumstances give them your real ID.

Ameel Khan23h ago
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸1d ago
Baba "The Yaga" O'Riley