@overcuriousity

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🎓 Currently completing IT forensics studies in Mittweida, Saxony, Germany

💻 Love computers and tech • strong sense of freedom and independence

🔍 Interests: network forensics, virtualization, self-hosting, digital independence

⚙️ Tools: C, Python, and occasionally other languages - only publish code I've fully reviewed and understood

🤖 AI skeptic (despite tech entry via generative AI in 2022) - prioritize fundamentals over black-box tools

🌐 Contribute to open source when solving problem

GitHubhttps://github.com/overcuriousity
overcuriousityMar 6
Show threadoccultFeb 20

Computing in the year 2029 as depicted in UNIX WORLD magazine, 1985.

#UNIX

overcuriousityFeb 24
Em Feb 24

YES! This is AMAZING! 🎉

Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!

IT WORKS! ✊🔒

https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/discord-just-canceled-its-planned-age-verification-rollout-for-now/

Edit: Just to be clear, I still encourage everyone to move to better platforms and delete your Discord accounts (even if there was no age verification at all). Discord isn't a privacy-respectful platform.

But this small victory means we should keep pushing for better privacy practices, everywhere.

This means they are listening. This means you have the power to make things better, for yourself and for others.

Celebrate that. And keep pushing back.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Discord #PrivacyWin

Discord just canceled its planned age verification rollout, for now - 9to5Mac

Discord’s controversial age verification saga has reached a new turning point. The original rollout plan has officially been canceled, with...

9to5Mac
overcuriousityFeb 24
Cats of YoreFeb 24
Tiny bicycle thieves in 1966. Photo from my collection.
overcuriousityFeb 23

I tested openclaw and was disappointed. Requires a ton of commercial api keys, ships a ton of bloated system prompt and didnt integrated well with matrix.
So not really possible to utilize it with modest hardware, independent from commercial AI providers.
So I built an alternative, curious if anybody can make use of it and improve it:

https://github.com/overcuriousity/wintermute

GitHub - overcuriousity/wintermute: Wintermute is a totally harmless, Matrix-based AI assistant designed to learn, adapt and get complex tasks done. Focus on efficiency and small-local llm.

Wintermute is a totally harmless, Matrix-based AI assistant designed to learn, adapt and get complex tasks done. Focus on efficiency and small-local llm. - overcuriousity/wintermute

GitHub
overcuriousityFeb 11
daniel:// stenberg://Feb 9

Contrast @stanislavfort's (from Aisle) comments on AI security research with the recent anthropic marketing

https://aisle.com/blog/what-ai-security-research-looks-like-when-it-works

What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works

What a year of finding zero-days in OpenSSL, curl, and the Linux kernel taught us about AI-driven security research done right.

AISLE
overcuriousityFeb 9
TutaFeb 9
Don't let AI replace you. Turn off Gemini AI 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/how-to-disable-gemini-on-android