Drew 🐘

@dvogel
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Longtime software engineer, hardware tinkerer, and general technology enthusiast. Low skill photographer. Proponent of open and transparent systems. Helplessly pedantic (sorry).

Currently modernizing Medicare and HealthCare.gov at Ad Hoc. Previously at CrowdCompass, Sunlight Foundation, and the University of Wisconsin.

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Drew 🐘6d ago
Democracy Matters 6d ago
I just noticed that BOTH Apple and Google have capitulated to the fever dreams of a dictator who shits himself and rapes children.
Drew 🐘Mar 17
Dan GillmorMar 17

Google has become everything it once pretended to disdain -- an arrogant, sleazy, control-freak monopolist.

Its latest anti-user, anti-competition move will shut down the alternative app marketplaces that Google used to show off as "we're not like Apple" evidence. https://thenewstack.io/f-droid-says-googles-android-developer-verification-plan-is-an-existential-threat-to-alternative-app-stores/

F-Droid says Google's Android developer verification plan is an 'existential' threat to alternative app stores

F-Droid fights Google's Android developer verification plan that could kill alternative app stores used by millions. Here's what developers need to know.

The New Stack
Drew 🐘Mar 16
A big differentiator between negative vs positive attitudes toward LLM-automated coding is whether you are cleaning up other people's LLM messes or creating LLM messes for others to clean up.
Drew 🐘Mar 3
It's FOSSMar 3

Very true 🤣

#winslop #windows #copilot

Drew 🐘Mar 3
Show threadSarah Jamie LewisMar 2

I am so glad I got the opportunity to grow up in an age where there were no restrictions on what I could do with computers I could access.

Personally I consider any attempt to remove that access from anyone as abhorrent. It is a core part of who I am.

Drew 🐘Mar 2
David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)Mar 2
It is completely unfair to refer to Microsoft as Microslop, because that implies a small quantity of slop.
Drew 🐘Mar 1
LOL @ the latest #HardFork podcast where Kevin explains regulatory capture exactly backward.
Drew 🐘Feb 28
Show threadPaco HopeFeb 28

@pluralistic
No company has announced “thanks to AI, we have the same number of employees, but we have launched zillions of new services and are growing our product lines because of all the time our people get to spend innovating.”

I don’t know why that is.

Drew 🐘Feb 21
“Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.
Drew 🐘Feb 21
BrianKrebsFeb 20

If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/