F/OSS hacker, mostly working on #OpenVPN
- speaks only for himself.
ex-Twitter account (now inaccessible): https://twitter.com/DavidSommerseth
"Don't aim to be someone. DO something."
#nobridge - because I believe in the real #fediverse, and I don't want my own views/data to be abused by yet another "closed-service which can do whatever it wants for profit".
**If you want to follow me**, you now **MUST** have some content on your profile where we have some common ground on interests. I will no longer accept random profiles wanting to follow with no toots or no other follows or followers in the same interest sphere.
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Lots of posts about AI. It‘s important that people exchange their views.
My own:
- the AI business plan is to dominate humanity, no exaggeration.
- LLMs can be a serious technology, code reviews have become good.
- AI is costly. The human brain is more efficient with superior capabilities.
- Idiots with LLMs suck and remain idiots. Probably forever.
- Bad code is bad code, who/whatever made it. Banning LLM code policies miss the point. Deny code you don‘t like, subjectively. Remain in charge.
A very nice explainer why "if you're so worried about quantum computers, why haven't they factored 21 yet?" isn't a very convincing argument. Look at the labels of the graph, and how extremely close the various lines are for factoring 21 and 2048 bit numbers. Polynomial scaling remains polynomial, unfortunately, and by the time you can factor 21 you're almost ready to break RSA.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@taylorlorenz/116320672389032240
Had a very nice call today with @taylorlorenz for her upcoming mini series about the #Fediverse! 
LinkedIn Is Illegally Searching Your Computer
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #LinkedIn #social #media #SocialMedia #data #security #safety #InfoSec #internet #web
Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history. Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm. The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it. Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world.
USA, March 2026.
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