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7 years of testimony. Near-unanimous legislature. TechNet rewrote it before Hochul signed.
NY's Digital Fair Repair Act:
— post-July 2023 devices only
— assemblies instead of parts
— business/gov devices exempt
— no security codes required
This is about manufacture control and enshitifcation of #3dpriniting not about guns. @[email protected] Do better, this kills tech and manufaction here in #nys
New #noai whitepaper in the works;
🛡️ "You cannot have our users' data." SourceHut is blocking aggressive AI/LLM scrapers with a new system named Anubis.
Drew DeVault states SourceHut is funded by user subs, not data sales, and will never sell out its users or the commons to AI companies.
✅ Allowed: Search indexers, Internet Archive, open research
❌ Blocked: AI training bots & SEO scrapers
"We take our role as stewards seriously."
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2025-04-15-you-cannot-have-our-users-data/
Spent the week automating things that usually require clicking. From
OBS stream overlays that render via data files to MP4s that build themselves all in #cicd
None of it required specialized tools or AI skills/MCP agents.
Just Hugo, Playwright, ffmpeg, and Piper.
The boring stack works.
#selfhosted #infrastructure #foss #devlog
Microsoft and Uber are telling employees to stop using Claude and
similar tools because the token bills are too high.
The infrastructure sovereignty argument just got a budget line.
Privacy people have been saying "own your compute" for years.
Now the CFO is saying it too, for different reasons.
The conclusion is the same: don't build on what you can't control.
Longer piece coming this week. Ollama lab notes in the queue.
https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tech-giants-rethink-ai-adoption-rising-costs-1798618
House Committee passed amendment 32-25 to close the data broker loophole — preventing law enforcement from
buying location data and browser history without a warrant.
Same reform passed the House in 2024 but died
in Senate. It's back as an appropriations rider.
This is the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act by another path.
The mechanism matters: attaching it to appropriations is harder to
block than standalone legislation.
Worth watching. Not won yet.
NY Assembly Bill A2228 would require criminal background checks
to buy a 3D printer "capable of creating firearms."
The bill text is broad. "Capable of" is not defined.
Most consumer FDM printers can print gun components.
So can a milling machine. So can a lathe.
This is infrastructure for printer registration.
The firearm framing is the foot in the door.
Still in committee. Worth watching.
https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/bills/2025/A2228
#privacy #FourthAmendment #NewYork #surveillance #legislature
Requires a criminal history background check for the purchase of a three-dimensional printer capable of creating firearms; prohibits sale to a person who would be disqualified on the basis of criminal history from being granted a license to possess a firearm.
New blog post: Rules, Types, and Glue: A Multi-Paradigm Architecture for Game Simulation 🎮🧱
A deep dive into combining classical AI and strict type systems for high-performance simulation engines. I evaluate:
🧠 Prolog for symbolic reasoning (Rules)
🧱 Coalton for static type-safety (Types)
🔄 Common Lisp as the high-speed runtime (Glue)
Includes SBCL vs. ECL performance benchmarks.
Read it here: https://dwightaspencer.com/posts/03-rules-types-and-glue/
#CommonLisp #Prolog #StandardML #FunctionalProgramming #GameDev #Simulation
A technical evaluation of Prolog, ML-style types (Coalton DSL), and Common Lisp as a layered architecture for game simulation engines. Benchmarks across SBCL and ECL, portability findings, and architectural conclusions about where each paradigm earns its place.
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Still hunting for the Garbage Files inside the Gibson, give this a spin. Zero Cool knew the score—and yeah, I heard there’s a pool on the roof. 🏴☠️
Hack the Planet. 🔗 https://hackers-1995.vercel.app
I'm excited to announce that I've been working with @rt4 and be launching the Albany chapter meetings at the Albany SJC.
Further details to come.
