Laurent Bercot

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Grumpy Frenchman, C/Unix addict, author of s6 and other software at skarnet.org.

Good tech (so, probably not the tech you're thinking about), energy transition and climate change, leftist politics, psychology and self-improvement, pillow philosophy, songwriting and production, mechanisms of storytelling, video games as an art medium, shitposting.

Personal websitehttps://skarnet.org
Business websitehttps://skarnet.com
Twitterhttps://twitter.com/laurentbercot
Githubhttps://github.com/skarnet

The "CCC" that is the carve-out for "copilot got us in legal hot water" does explicitly strike-out this obligation on the customer's part, so at least there's that

but yea, TIL that if you're a paying GitHub customer, there are some cases where you're going to be obligated to defend GitHub in court if the claim lands at their feet instead of yours

very cool

@GossiTheDog mythos has found at least one critical vulnerability: the infosec industry is utterly vulnerable to hype, and extremely unlikely to examine the origins or methodology behind vulnerability disclosures that authorities (regardless of their poor reputation) claim are earth-shatteringly critical

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.

#AIEthics #WeDontNeedNoAIEthics #WeAintGotNoStinkeenAIEthics

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Don’t say:

Men suck
Men are evil
Testosterone is evil
We need to feminize men
Joke about feminizing men
Infer men are irreparably bad

Do:
Acknowledge there is nothing inherently wrong with being a man.
Encourage men to hold each other accountable.
Push for men to do better and be better.

From your local trans man

https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/ Meta, one of the richest companies in the world, can't be bothered to get basic security right.
Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404 Media

Always telling that discussions of “securing OSS” never seems to involve funding and resourcing the maintainers.

Fucking vampires.

THIS IS EXTREMELY LOVELY  
A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers. https://theintercept.com/2026/06/01/ai-data-center-protest-police-surveillance
Philly Cops Admit That They’re Tracking “First Amendment Activity” Critical of AI

A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers.

The Intercept

If men dedicated as much energy to helping each other through their emotional difficulties as they do to upholding the Bro Code & defending members of their boys clubs from sexual assault allegations, there wouldn't be a "male loneliness epidemic".

I know most men weren't taught to do this & in fact were taught to do the opposite, but necessity should drive change. If women aren't going to cave & dedicate themselves to tending to men, then men need to learn to tend themselves.

Folks with no sense of emotional awareness:

fall for DARVO based victim blaming -much- easier,
don't know their own (real) motivations from a hole in the ground,
find it more difficult to tell when some sociopathic liar w/good social skills (Sam Altman?) is selling them shit on a stick while calling it nirvana,

...and resort to violence

might be time to stop deflecting, and develop some humility about the importance of emotions and developing real skills for dealing with them? I dunno.