Mastodawn

Can we just get the greasy fingers of these scumbags out of our public services, please?

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/22/palantir-extends-reach-into-british-state-as-it-gets-access-to-sensitive-fca-data

Palantir extends reach into British state as it gets access to sensitive FCA data

Exclusive: Allowing US tech firm to analyse intelligence in name of tackling fraud raises fresh concerns over privacy

The Guardian

Matt Barlow 6h ago

Trying #picocad for the first time, pretty happy with how this turned out. I do need to work out how to texture wheels better though

#picocad2 #3dart #lowpoly

Matt Barlow Mar 11

Jon Anderson Mar 10

If George Floyd was the catalyzing event that finally radicalized me against police, AI is the event that has truly radicalized me against capitalism.

Before: "yeah it's bad and sucks and hurts us, but like...idk"
Me now: "jesus christ burn it to the ground, it is simply a parasite on even the ECONOMY let alone the people."

AI truly feels like a pinnacle of extraction of workers and environment. To turn the world into a theme park for the wealthy. It makes me think of a...post somewhere online that's like "If you want to live in a walkable city but all the people working at restaurants and coffee shops can't afford to live there, you're living in a theme park." It's what they want. Because service industry jobs WILL still exist, but everything that makes us human will be extracted and sold. I might feel differently if that money were, i don't know, given back to us. But it never would be, never could be.

And it is ever more painful because I nearly feel like I *must* use it or be fired in short time if it comes to light I haven't been. If I don't, I will be unable to pay rent and they will hire someone else (IF ANYBODY?) to extract more from. And it'll be me and many people (so many more qualified than me, at that) competing for the scraps of not-all-in-on AI companies of which there will be increasingly few. Where are my morals except given away to the dollar for survival. Or competing for trade schools or whatever husks remain.

Matt Barlow Mar 7

Cassandra is only carbon now Mar 7

"It writes boilerplate faster."

Is that all we aspire to now? Not abstraction or templating or better language design, just... output boilerplate faster.

It's depressing.

Matt Barlow Mar 4

I wonder if the MacBook Neo will be able to do virtualisation? iirc prior to the M1, Apple Silicon had no hardware virtualisation support—unsure if that's still the case for newer A-series chips. If it can...why can't I virtualise other OSes on my iPad? 🙃

Matt Barlow Mar 3

Bought a third drive for my Synology so I can keep ripping Blu-rays. Same make and model as the other two, but ended up having to open a return because this one makes a horrid high pitched buzz like a piezoelectric speaker when idling.

Found a 1-star review with a video on Amazon US with the exact same sound, which apparently Seagate consider “normal”. Good thing Amazon is quite lax about returns, no way could I deal with this.

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Matt Barlow Mar 2

I got some water pump pliers and fixed the it pretty easily in the end.

These things are gonna be a game changer, I don't often lose my temper but trying to unscrew stuck things in tight spaces is one of the fastest ways to make me shout obscenities at inanimate objects. Now I feel like I have infinite torque.

Matt Barlow Mar 2

Cassidy James

Feb 28

RE: https://cosocial.ca/@mhoye/116148772813747144

I think of this every time I see AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md. WHAT YOU ARE WRITING IS DOCUMENTATION. Why are you suddenly interested in writing clear documentation for the robots when this information would have been helpful for every human contributor who came across your project??

Matt Barlow Mar 1

I’m envious of people with a knack for DIY and other practical skills. Anything more involved than hanging a picture and there’s a serious chance I’m going to either fuck up the house or myself.

Currently trying to fix a radiator that won’t heat up. The problem is most likely that the valve pin is stuck closed, super easy to diagnose and fix, but I’ve failed at the first hurdle cause I can’t get the goddamned cap off the thing

Matt Barlow Feb 24

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Feb 24

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