I frequently advocate for self-hosted, user-owned-and-operated AI at the edge. It’s not the technology that’s the key problem - it’s the people and platforms handling your data. It’s never too early to educate people on breaking free from the platform paradigm.

The Greater Fool Theory suggests you don’t need to run faster than the bear to not get eaten. You just have to run faster than the other guy. Doesn’t this make our economy bear food eventually? Sure seems that way.

Almost all of the dev resources I manage are MacOS, but occasionally we get a Windows box. First thing I usually do is run O&O Shut Up 10++, which automatically applies all the best practice registry tweaks and makes the experience less miserable.

www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10

Snow Crash has been my first foray into Stephenson (and cyberpunk fiction in general) many, many years ago. No looking back. This was an inflection point, and had a lasting impact on me personally. Brilliant stuff.

Hmmm…

Stewing up discord and division seems like a pretty good assumption. Divide and conquer?

Being an open source dev in today’s world is a Sisyphean effort especially in the face of giant tech companies taking advantage of their contributions to push them out of their own market.

This is why I’m a big fan of small, low-power, private AI models at the edge. Eventually that platform power bill is gonna come due.

Let’s not forget that Time featured Hitler in 1938. time.com/5573720/hitl...

It is surprisingly difficult to get a dumb tv these days. And even more difficult to get an affordable dumb tv. Outdoor monitors, business displays, and hotel entertainment equipment are a few promising directions to look, but there’s always a price.

At least now we know that dangerous drivers will be very easy to spot on the road.

Never has development of new anti-surveillance techniques been more relevant: cybernews.com/privacy/anti...

Here’s the paper they’re referring to: arxiv.org/abs/2409.15152

Another use case for AI to judge humans and help make hiring and firing decisions automatically. Yay?

Let’s be realistic here: if you can see it, you can scrape it. No API needed - just a few simulated browser sessions. The API does make it that much more convenient, though. 🫤

So long as there’s a perverse incentive to profit, enforcement will be an afterthought to some key players - the US isn’t immune to this either, unfortunately.

I left months ago because it was frankly exhausting to be surrounded by so much hypermasculine snowflake angst. The fact that Elon’s in charge, amplifying his favorite type of angst didn’t help. I gained zero value from my experience there.