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Grumpy Northerner ex-🇬🇧, now in 🇳🇱 where there are fewer Brexiters, TERFs and other fascists [citation needed]. Spends most waking hours swearing at computers. Thank Cthulhu for beer! Got a Rust 🦀 or other gig which is not crypto/AI/other-scam-of-the-week? Ping me.

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If "AI-enabled" makes killing people legal, I'm launching my new startup making AI-powered guillotines. The AI shall be used to find people worth at least a billion dollars.

https://www.wired.com/story/openai-backs-bill-exempt-ai-firms-model-harm-lawsuits/

OpenAI Backs Bill That Would Limit Liability for AI-Enabled Mass Deaths or Financial Disasters

The ChatGPT-maker testified in favor of an Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable—even in cases where their products cause “critical harm.”

WIRED

Let's see how Labour are getting on in the polls with their lurch to the right to woo Reform voters. Plus a zoom-in on the range 17–18% to see just how well they're doing.

Time to get a lettuce out for Keir, I suspect.

(Data from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election.)

RE: https://aus.social/@dgar/116372935527447101

10/10 no notes all the notes.

Good morning and a very happy Thatcher Day to you all! It's been 13 years today and she's still dead. 🎉
Well, I've finally seen it on the job sites: a company wants 7+ years experience in LLMs, Claude Code, etc.

I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired.

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commercial #Scala, #Python, #C/#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even #PHP (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

Drop me a private mention or mail [email protected] if you have or know of something.

Treating the murder of the United Healthcare CEO the same way society treats violence against trans people:

- He was shot just walking into work? I mean what did he expect with his risky lifestyle choices.

- You know CEOs have a really high rate of suicide. If he just had a normal job he would probably still be alive today.

- Extra security? I just don't think we should pander to the whims of a group that's less than 1% of the population.

- I don't hate CEOs I just hate how the right keeps pushing their agenda down my throat.

- OMG stop talking about CEOs, what am I going to tell my children?

- The shooter probably just panicked when he found out he was really a CEO in disguise. It's his fault he was murdered really.