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Software Engineer, mainly of infra/sre/devops things.
Passionate about Privacy and Security.
Believer in and proponent of Open Source, Open Knowledge and openness in general.

D&D fan, curious about other RPGs, Dungeon Keeper by default.

Co-parent of two cats and a dog.

#NoBot

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Many in tech are predisposed to believe but they should be predisposed to disbelieve

I still think that the ethical and political issues with LLMs are insurmountable. Even if we did get past that, the prompt UI is a fatal flaw, even with productive uses for LLMs as a system

But I wouldn't complain if, at some point in the distant future, we end up using improved ethically made descendents of LLMs to clean up after the code slop-acopalypse

Giving people access to my sleep data

Rest API

I could never be a diplomat because I would always enter a room saying "I can't believe I have to explain this to a group of unserious yet dangerous clowns but here we are again".
Today in Stories Of The Resistance, the kid told me about his class where the substitute teacher was left a fifty minute AI-generated video going through the planned lesson, and when they started playing it, a kid got out of his seat and walked up and said, "No," turned it off and they had a tutorial hour where everyone just did their homework.

🚨 UK: The govt wants to ban VPNs, social media & AI chatbots in various contexts. Your silence is a yes.

Make your voice heard before May 26. Fill out the survey and let them know your views: https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/growing-up-in-the-online-world-a-national-consultation

Ditto:

'Why are you still on Bluesky too?'

'But did you *delete* your Twitter account?'

’You said you switched to Proton mail too, oh that’s bad, once someone at Proton said something’

It’s nice to see new neighbours move into the Fediverse. It feels unwelcoming to see people immediately interview them about the purity of their intentions. Or telling them You’re Doing It Wrong. They've just arrived on a journey away from Big Tech. Maybe they'd prefer to be offered a seat and a cup of tea.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MozillaAI/116279201448628866

All we wanted was a browser. All you had to do was build a browser. You had one job.

I am begging web devs to stop making websites that have content that only appears as you scroll through it

OK this is a stupid question, but why have Linux projects (apparently) fallen over themselves to comply with an age-recording statute in a single US state (albeit a large one), when those projects have been failing for decades to respect national and even international law regarding disability?

#accessibility #disability #linux #FreeSoftware #fascism #AgeVerification #infantilism

Sums up my experience growing up