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Programmer, amateur (bad) photographer, avid reader, GNU/Linux user, and I like cooking.

Profile photo: a nearly empty street at sunrise.
Banner: a hole in an ancient wall with a view of the sea.


Français: programmeur, photographe mauvais, j’adore lire, j’utilise le GNU/Linux, et j’aime cuisiner.

Pronounshe/him
Languagesen/fr/some urdu
Matrix@zia.m:matrix.org
Websitehttps://kaamkiya.dev
You know what? Life’s too short to waste on a book I’ve lost interest in. On to the next one! #books

When I started in security, one of the prevailing attitudes was "The weakest link in the chain will always be the human."

I would like to thank every LLM provider and startup for changing this paradigm by introducing a much weaker link in the chain.

Hey, you, reader:

Ever been browsing someone's blog, website, repo -- even their social web profile -- and thought to yourself "Wow, that's really neat. I love what they did here!"

Consider telling them! Someone on here made a post a while back encouraging people to do just that, and I've tried to make a conscious habit of contacting the authors of neat little indie and smolweb sites.

Email, guestbook, comment; whatever it might be, consider reaching out somehow to share your appreciation. You might be surprised at how much it makes their day.

You might also be surprised to discover how much making their day makes yours, too.

#IndieWeb #SmallWeb #Community #Blog #Blogging

Sometimes life gives you too much character-buliding

If you use AI-generated code, you currently cannot claim copyright on it in the US. If you fail to disclose/disclaim exactly which parts were not written by a human, you forfeit your copyright claim on *the entire codebase*.

This means copyright notices and even licenses folks are putting on their vibe-coded GitHub repos are unenforceable. The AI-generated code, and possibly the whole project, becomes public domain.

Source: https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/LSB/PDF/LSB10922/LSB10922.8.pdf

Not to brag, but if anthropic had paid me $20,000 and given me a month I'd also have been able to write them a very shitty C compiler.
my website isn’t ‘down’ i’m committing small web decentralisation praxis by normalising not being able to access my website when my power is out

Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip

(with thanks to @JuliaRez for the original pic)

We are excited to share that we are beginning work on a new onboarding experiment for #Mastodon: Default Server Recommendations.

Our intent for this experiment is to recommend the closest server geographically that is in the correct language during the sign-up flow. We will be running this experiment on our iOS and Android apps only to start.

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