I dig hacking, ethnography, music, and Digital Humanities. I like to build things with code and words.
PhD in Digital Humanities via King's College London. Formerly Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic at Cambridge (MPhil). A little Oxford. Some other places.
Current interests: history of computer science, decentralized tech, virtual ethnography, privacy.
Doing my best to forget Krypton and keep going... 🚧
| Location | 5 Tall Cedar Rd. Goose Island, Oregon |
| GitHub | https://github.com/jdmartin |
| Pronouns | he/him |
Call for Speakers is Open BSides Edmonton
Call closes 31 May 2026
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Conference - Thursday Sept 24 and Friday Sept 25 2026 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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When we fight, we win
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/30/github_copilot_ads_pull_requests
ChatGPT Won't Let You Type Until Cloudflare Reads Your React State. I Decrypted the Program That Does It https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/
There's a comment by one of OpenAI's employees over on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47567575
Of course, the irony of "this is being done to be able to keep our endpoints from being abused" isn't being lost over there either https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47568172
I continue to say: I am not against AI, but I *am* against the AI industry (and deeply critical of the effectiveness of current tech and its risks vs how it is sold), and a large portion of it is the intentional power grab dynamics and hypocrisy.
Hard to think of a better example of hypocrisy that apparently one of the mitigations is that they require clients to execute proof of work! Anubis, anyone?
Every ChatGPT message triggers a Cloudflare Turnstile program that runs silently in your browser. I decrypted 377 of these programs from network traffic and found something that goes beyond standard browser fingerprinting. The program checks 55 properties spanning three layers: your browser (GPU, screen, fonts), the Cloudflare network (your city,
No, you're crying. 🇨🇦 ❤️
Where would we have been without pay phones?
"In late April of 1968...They borrowed an acoustic coupler—a forerunner of the computer modem—and connected it to a nearby pay phone. With this hardware in place, the youngsters dialed in to an off-site minicomputer."
Going to go out on a limb and say it's not just researchers, but sure...
"A Melbourne urologist, Helen O’Connell, says the clitoris has been ignored by researchers for far too long."
FUN FACT: the "nano" prefix ultimately descends from Ancient Greek "nanos", which means "dwarf".
Consequently, translating "nanotechnology" as "dwarven machinery" is arguably defensible.
Whoa⁉️ TIL there’s a special desk made for people who work from home and have cats. Uh-huh. Of course it’s Japanese… #cats #CatsOfMastodon #desks #DeskSetup
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