Tom Morris

@tommorris
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Eternally damned techno-priest heretic, curly brace balancer, and pesky citation requester.
websitehttps://tommorris.org/

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

This whole thread is wild. If this is the future of software development, life as a hermit with copies of SICP, K&R and a solar powered ThinkPad that boots directly into Emacs seems like an excellent life choice.

I've been waiting for years for the ability to organise Discord "servers" into groups. I searched for it online. I found threads with people wishing it existed.

Only after getting to about result seven did I find out you can do this by dragging and dropping one server icon onto another, kinda like app icons on iOS.

Good to know that Discord—a platform that's widely use in lieu of meaningful documentation—also lacks meaningful documentation.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/116328911487544874

The whole point of legal aid—for both criminal/family matters AND civil matters like personal injury, consumer issues and employment rights—is to try and imperfectly level the very tilted playing field between the most and least powerful in society.

Very much need some courageous politicians to push the Overton window towards bringing it back.

“we’re disrupting X” means we found a cheaper way to do X that externalises all the costs onto someone who can’t afford a lawyer

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

“Major tech company might lie to us” seems like a risk to get the checklist person to scribble down given the long history of every tech company lying about every goddamn thing.

I personally would be slightly more worried about the security of anything produced by vibecoding enthusiasts than I would be about whether you can get the person who maintains a random Python library that you transitively depend on at four steps remove to sign a disclaimer in triplicate and fax it back to you.

But I’m just a guy who programs the damn computers rather than comes up with security governance policy.

I wonder how many companies put all of the risks of the closed source coding agent collecting loads of data about corporate laptops on their risk register or accounted for it in their compliance processes.

I’m guessing they had the chatbot handle the details.

https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/01/claude_code_source_leak_privacy_nightmare/

Claude Code source leak reveals how much info Anthropic can hoover up about you and your system

: If you loved the data retention of Microsoft Recall, you'll be thrilled with Claude Code

The Register

Nothing but solidarity for Oracle workers, and nothing but contempt for the terrible company they work for.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm296jzzl9yo

Tech giant Oracle makes 'significant' job cuts

It is thought that thousands of people may have lost their jobs at Oracle, one of the world's largest tech companies.

BBC News