@yoasif

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Immigrant native New Yorker. Product person. Into open data and open source. Ex-moderator of the Firefox sub-reddit.

Into #retrocomputing #firefox #haikuos #ux #design #openstreetmap #opensource #opendata #writing #retrogaming #linux #debian #btrfs #music

Bloghttps://www.quippd.com
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My Blog on Mastodonhttps://mastodon.social/@quippdblog
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To exist online in 10 years, you're going to have to give a random company a face scan and photo ID and they're going to give that and everything you post to the government to spy on you for being queer, left-wing, "a criminal," or whatever. None of your data or communications will be private. The government and corporations will go through all of it.

If you don't want that to happen, you should raise a stink about "age verification" right now because that's what they're actually building.

If @mozilla really wants to build #firefox features based on an LLM, I've got one for them. One of the best existing features is user stylesheets. These let me make persistent visual changes to some websites. One challenge is websites that have horribly written CSS. It is often an amalgamation of a bunch of very different libraries. You know what helps when you have a heap of trash text? An LLM. (1/2)
Eugenics on the #nyc #subway

PSA: If you block the `claude` user on GitHub, you'll get a warning every time you view a repo with that user in its commit history.

Now, the moment you look at a repo, you can immediately adjust your expectations.

You may do so here: https://github.com/settings/blocked_users

A Valentine’s message from your ZX Spectrum.  

Absolutely thrilled to be enjoying my Amiga 1200 tower for music creation, finally! I'm loving this ā¤ļø šŸ˜

#amiga #retrocomputing #retro

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has supported immigration enforcement against people with criminal records and defended an agreement her state has with ICE. ā€œI’m all for getting the bad guys,ā€ she told Boston’s CBS affiliate.

https://boltsmag.org/massachusetts-prisons-contract-with-ice/

Inside ICE’s Only Contract with a Blue State - Bolts

As part of a 287(g) contract between state officials and ICE, Massachusetts continues to release prisoners into deportation—even as state lawmakers look to ban other forms of ICE collaboration.

Bolts

And during this time some US citizen critisize the fact EU don't help Ukraine ...

#ukraine #eu #europe #us #usa #uspol #eupol #uspolitic #eupolitic #hypocrit #russian #russianpropaganda #propaganda

One of the students in our lab just spent an hour trying to figure out why a new member's LDAP account wasn't working in our GitLab. Turns out that in a recent update, usernames starting with "ai_" stopped working because... they are "reserved for GitLab AI entities"