Ancient Scholar, Level 80 Paladin, Finder of Lost Children.
I am between jobs and looking - remote only. 11+ years AWS admin and security, python programming and automation. I build things. If your AWS is out of control - costs spiraling, security woes, deployment issues - I can help. Give me 6 months and I will save you far more than I cost.
| Pronouns | He/him/his |
| Hat size | Enormous |
| Main | Paladin |
| Signal | Biggles.66 |
| Location | Southern California |
| Mood | usually grumpy |
Always remember
- Age verification is deanonymization
- Deanonymization is censorship
There is no nuance on this
"French authorities are already progressing with efforts to force certain social media sites — including X, Reddit, Bluesky and Mastodon — to introduce age verification" https://www.politico.eu/article/emmanuel-macron-social-media-ban-minors-france/
The best time to stop using Telegram was before you installed it. The second best time to stop using #Telegram and #SwitchToSignal instead is now.
"Because of the way Telegram’s encryption protocols work, even users who use its “end-to-end” encryption features are vulnerable to being tracked by anyone who can monitor its network traffic."
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigation/telegram-the-fsb-and-the-man-in-the-middle
When Christian Wolff opened the kitchen drawer in "The Accountant" and there was one knife, one fork, and one spoon, all neatly arranged - I felt seen.
Just sayin.
In retrospect, the flaw in the Turing Test was always using human discernment as the model to measure against.
LLMs easily pass the Turing Test, not because they’re sentient, but because we’re dumbasses who interpret the most dopamine-supplying response to ourselves as the most intelligently human.
Apple's Diet of Worms:
In 1521, a monk stood before an empire and said: I won’t recant.
That moment cracked a thousand-year institution.
He had a printing press.
The emperor had paperwork.
Apple's Diet of Worms: In 1521, a monk stood before an empire and said: I won’t recant. That moment cracked a thousand-year institution. He had a printing press. The emperor had paperwork. Now it’s 2025. And Apple is standing in its own Diet of Worms. The most daring company in tech now moves like a bureaucracy in designer robes. The keynote sermons still come. The brushed aluminum still gleams. But the conviction is gone. Siri is broken. The AI rollout is a shrug. Regulators are circling. Executives are contradicting each other under oath. Apple's leaders are too scared (or too resentful) to sit down and talk to John Gruber, one of the most respected bloggers in tech. And users are beginning to whisper what Luther once shouted: This isn’t working. It’s not the bugs that matter. It’s the posture. Apple used to provoke. Now it defends. It once thought different. Now it just optimizes. It doesn’t ask what’s possible. It protects what’s profitable. Charles V believed the Church could not err. Apple believes its operating procedures are infallible. Both mistook closed systems for durable ones. But orthodoxy is not resilience. And empire isn’t immunity. Apple’s fate isn’t sealed. But if it wants to remain what it was - it needs to remember what made it dangerous.
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