Michael Kohne

@mhkohne
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A new screw-up every day.
LocationLower Gwynedd, PA, USA

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When you are working on learning your free leathercraft CAD program and you realize scaling went terribly wrong somewhere.

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When you are working on learning your free leathercraft CAD program and you realize scaling went terribly wrong somewhere.

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alright here we go https://codeberg.org/keepasschi

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edit: join us @ #keepasschi on libera.chat!

MY DREAM OF DRIVING ANTHROPIC INTO BANKRUPTCY MAY NOT YET BE DEAD!

"If the Works List ultimately exceeds 500,000 works, then Anthropic will pay an additional $3,000 per work...above 500,000 works."

The Fairness Hearing is currently scheduled for May 14… 🤞 🤞 🤞

https://writerbeware.blog/2026/04/10/anthropic-copyright-settlement-april-update/

Anthropic Copyright Settlement: April Update - Writer Beware

The deadline to file a claim in the $1.5 billion Bartz v. Anthropic copyright settlement passed at midnight on March 30, 2026. Now that all claims have been filed, I’m taking a look at where things stand and what’s yet to come. If you need a refresh, my backgrounder on the settlement and the classRead More

Writer Beware
If you hate Pope Leo because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.
The Speed of Writing Code Is Probably Not the Problem https://pxlnv.com/linklog/writing-code-speed-ai/
The Speed of Writing Code Is Probably Not the Problem – Pixel Envy

Andrew Murphy: The speed of writing code was never your problem. If you thought it was, the gap between that belief and reality is where all your actual problems live. The competitive advantage doesn’t go to the team that writes code fastest. It goes to the team that figured out what to build, built it, […]

New, by me at TechCrunch: The developer of the widely popular Wireguard VPN says he is also unable to ship software updates to Windows users after Microsoft locked his account, marking the second high-profile app developer (VeraCrypt) in the past few weeks to face this issue.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/08/wireguard-vpn-developer-cant-ship-software-updates-after-microsoft-locks-account/

WireGuard VPN developer can't ship software updates after Microsoft locks account | TechCrunch

The popular open source VPN maker is the second high-profile developer to say Microsoft locked his account without notifying him and are blocking their ability to send software updates to users.

TechCrunch
VERY urgent that you guys backup and archive AngelFire sites, we probably have like 2 weeks.

It’s been a weird couple days; I keep running into this talking point that “journalists won’t use Mastodon unless we incentivize engagement farming”.

Meanwhile I’m having a *great* experience here, because I use it to— I dunno— actually talk to people and form relationships?

I reject the premise that mastodon isn’t useful for reporters. I think it’s more accurate that modern news orgs use social media in purely extractive ways.

You might get more reporters that way, but you won’t like them.