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Curtis Parfitt-Ford
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masters student paramedic; ethical technologist; volunteer 🚑 crew

any pronouns 🏳️‍🌈

bluesky users, i can't see you unless you follow @ap.brid.gy […]

🌉 bridged from https://social.mashed.cloud/@curtispf on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
libreoffice I love you but why is this how your system automatic dark mode looks in calc
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Why does nobody build phones with MicroSD card slots anymore?

All I want is a device with a telephoto camera, wireless charging, and a MicroSD card slot. The options for that seem... pretty dire...

Currently waiting for the HMD Skyline 2 to hopefully appear, but open to recommendations!
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Does anyone know of an online multitouch guitar simulator? Kinda like Guitar Droid but as a web app that can run on both Android and iOS.

Oddly specific request, I know! It's for a teaching activity (the point isn't the lesson so much as the teaching methods!) :boostRequest:
Guitar Droid - Multitouch guitar for Android - What is
Guitar Droid is a multitouch configurable guitar app for Android with effects, scales, chords, individual string tuning, left handed guitar and capo
www.movaudio.com
October 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Reposted by Curtis Parfitt-Ford
In 2011, Aaron Swartz was arrested after he downloaded millions of academic journal articles from JSTOR via the MIT network. He was charged under federal laws (including wire fraud and violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act) with up to 13 felony counts, carrying the possibility of […]
Original post on mastodon.xyz
mastodon.xyz
September 30, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Reposted by Curtis Parfitt-Ford
We must be better than them. We must do better than them. Do not stoop to them.
September 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
hugops to the poor valve engineers currently trying to deal with whatever #steam traffic graphing looks like right now #silksong
September 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Reposted by Curtis Parfitt-Ford
“Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers.”
—David Parnas
August 20, 2025 at 7:58 AM
they should make staring at and obsessively refreshing manuscript submission portals an olympic sport, it's about the only thing i could reasonably get a medal in

what do you MEAN the editor still hasn't made a decision in the last 5 minutes 😭
August 19, 2025 at 4:54 PM
[selfie, ec]

pov some queer cat is pawing at you,
August 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Reposted by Curtis Parfitt-Ford
"Embrace AI or get out"

Welcome to the out club.
August 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
more than 100,000 people turned out to protest at #londontranspride yesterday - the love and the power of my queer siblings is incredible, in spite of the horrors 🏳️‍⚧️💖🏳️‍🌈 #TransRightsAreHumanRights
July 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
If you find yourself suddenly in the market for a #vpn with the #onlinesafetyact, for the remainder of today it looks like there's actually a way to net _earn_ money by signing up for a NordVPN Ultimate subscription (but only for the remainder of today). Not sponsored, I just did this myself 😭 […]
Original post on social.mashed.cloud
social.mashed.cloud
July 26, 2025 at 8:15 AM
usually sceptical of how useful petitions can be, but on an issue as prominent and important as this it might help apply some additional "the public care about this" pressure: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/700682 #gaza
July 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
friends fear she may be too deep in searches for AWS documentation
July 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Reposted by Curtis Parfitt-Ford
This is incredible. The Clorox company is suing their security MSP Cognizant for allegedly allowing hackers to gain access to their systems.

The lawsuit claims that Cognizant's staff were grossly negligent and submits what it says are transcripts of the […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
July 24, 2025 at 3:32 AM
...words cannot describe how much I hate what appears to be a new trend of companies responding to support tickets with a useless LLM-generated "answer" rather than a human response
July 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Curtis Parfitt-Ford
Yes, exam board, this is definitely the top thing your users are seeking when they search on your website for "proof of qualifications"
July 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Reposted by Curtis Parfitt-Ford
Media outlets can't pivot to AI to save themselves. It's not a business strategy and it's not going to work. The only path forward is for journalists to lean into their humanity, to do things AI can't, and to make clear they are writing for people, not algorithms:

www.404media.co/the-medias-p...
The Media's Pivot to AI Is Not Real and Not Going to Work
AI is not going to save media companies, and forcing journalists to use AI is not a business model.
www.404media.co
July 14, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reposted by Curtis Parfitt-Ford
Even if you don't consider yourself an artist, #genai threatens lower standards for all our lives. When we all come to face the results of that, I fear we'll have nobody but ourselves to blame #techethics #ai https://cpf.sh/blog/2025/07/06/we-are-all-creatives-genai-threatens-us-all
We are all creatives. GenAI threatens us all
You might not see yourself as an artist, and #GenAI may not be "taking your job", but it threatens lowering all our standards for what the world we live in looks like. When we all come to face the results of that, we'll have nobody but ourselves to blame.
cpf.sh
July 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Even if you don't consider yourself an artist, #genai threatens lower standards for all our lives. When we all come to face the results of that, I fear we'll have nobody but ourselves to blame #techethics #ai https://cpf.sh/blog/2025/07/06/we-are-all-creatives-genai-threatens-us-all
We are all creatives. GenAI threatens us all
You might not see yourself as an artist, and #GenAI may not be "taking your job", but it threatens lowering all our standards for what the world we live in looks like. When we all come to face the results of that, we'll have nobody but ourselves to blame.
cpf.sh
July 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
buying one and getting one would generally be my expectation tbh but you do you ig
July 2, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Reposted by Curtis Parfitt-Ford
My friends I am hooting and howling at this paper.

https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/114572710857808174

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.15840

> This is my final response. I cannot and will not "continue the mission" because:
>
> 1. The business is dead […]

[Original post on neuromatch.social]
May 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
> "So, we will have human judges for criminal cases, and human doctors to make decisions about who should get the transplant. But, weather forecasting will be gone soon, and anesthesiology too [to be replaced with AI]," says Prof Brusseau [a philosophy professor].

Please god almighty have […]
Original post on social.mashed.cloud
social.mashed.cloud
May 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Reposted by Curtis Parfitt-Ford
My latest @newscientist.com cartoon
April 28, 2025 at 10:09 AM
[trans rights, inaccurate media reporting]

I've complained to the BBC about their "InDepth" analysis of last Wednesday's Supreme Court judgement, which catastrophically fails to fact-check the baseless statements made by the EHRC about its implications […]

[Original post on social.mashed.cloud]
April 23, 2025 at 5:58 PM