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

Show threadDrew 🐘Mar 3
@gabrielesvelto In related news, it is a fantastic time to be preparing a business plan for a company that needs a datacenter and/or GPU compute because they will be cheap in 2-10 years.
Show threadDrew 🐘Mar 3
@gabrielesvelto If it was one company I wouldn't care if their debt/equity ratio was 10 so long as their basic debt ratio was ~even. The problem is that all of these companies are taking on this debt with the assurance that the datacenters they are building are valuable assets that can be sold during a crunch. However the most likely crunch will be sector wide and there aren't enough other datacenter landlords to buy them up. So we have to assume the real debt ratios are higher than reported.
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.