marmarta
@marmarta.bsky.social
she/her * Qubes OS developer (of the "making the UI usable for humans, hopefully" persuasion) * huge nerd
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Analytical AI is doing amazing things in science and medicine. Generative LLMs are theft. Do not conflate the two.
This is a prime example of:
-misleading headline
-missing context (gives rate of false negatives but tools with high false negatives are used in medicine all the time, so that rate might not be significant)
-use of "AI": conflating generative AI with the analytical AI that's widely used in medicine
-misleading headline
-missing context (gives rate of false negatives but tools with high false negatives are used in medicine all the time, so that rate might not be significant)
-use of "AI": conflating generative AI with the analytical AI that's widely used in medicine
About two-thirds of patients who were flagged by the AI stethoscope as potentially having heart failure did not actually have it.
September 2, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Analytical AI is doing amazing things in science and medicine. Generative LLMs are theft. Do not conflate the two.
Also if someone is at #MuC2025 and wants to say hi, I'm around all the time, in a Qubes T-Shirt and vacillating between my terrible German and apologetic English!
September 1, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Also if someone is at #MuC2025 and wants to say hi, I'm around all the time, in a Qubes T-Shirt and vacillating between my terrible German and apologetic English!
(Hi bsky, long time no see) currently I'm at #MuC2025, and its such a fascinating adventure. Very different from the hacker world. But also, can we adopt "everyone gets a PET bottle and there is water with/out lemon/mint/cucumber available"
September 1, 2025 at 12:32 PM
(Hi bsky, long time no see) currently I'm at #MuC2025, and its such a fascinating adventure. Very different from the hacker world. But also, can we adopt "everyone gets a PET bottle and there is water with/out lemon/mint/cucumber available"
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I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.
January 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I'm uncomfortable with the inevitable "his work was always crap" because it seems to say "you can tell who the predators are by how well they write" and ... no no you absolutely cannot, that's the whole point.
Hey bluesky folks, what backup apps or services do you really like UX-wise? I'm looking for inspiration with regards to improving QubesOS's backup system, and my own backup experiences throughout different systems have been pretty miserable - but is there something you do like?
January 14, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Hey bluesky folks, what backup apps or services do you really like UX-wise? I'm looking for inspiration with regards to improving QubesOS's backup system, and my own backup experiences throughout different systems have been pretty miserable - but is there something you do like?
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i think a truly anarchist society is a very bad thing
but a society without anarchists is also a very bad thing
and out of the two only the second one is a realistic possibility
but a society without anarchists is also a very bad thing
and out of the two only the second one is a realistic possibility
January 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
i think a truly anarchist society is a very bad thing
but a society without anarchists is also a very bad thing
and out of the two only the second one is a realistic possibility
but a society without anarchists is also a very bad thing
and out of the two only the second one is a realistic possibility
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Der CCC unterstützt die drei Hacker, die beim #37C3 detailliert darlegten, wie Newag die Züge ab Werk so manipulierte, dass sie nur noch in firmeneigenen Werkstätten repariert werden können https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2024/das-ist-vollig-entgleist
December 27, 2024 at 6:29 PM
Der CCC unterstützt die drei Hacker, die beim #37C3 detailliert darlegten, wie Newag die Züge ab Werk so manipulierte, dass sie nur noch in firmeneigenen Werkstätten repariert werden können https://www.ccc.de/de/updates/2024/das-ist-vollig-entgleist
Tomorrow at 4pm in Saal YELL at #38c3 I'll be giving a talk about hackers, UX and why those two things can go great together: events.ccc.de/congress/202...
If you want to hear some arguments why hackers should care about UX, please come by! (or listen online, also works)
If you want to hear some arguments why hackers should care about UX, please come by! (or listen online, also works)
38c3: UX for Hackers: Why It Matters and What Can You Do
Over the last couple of years, I have been working on making Qubes OS - a secure operating system - more usable for both hackers and the less technically brilliant users. It has been a very interestin...
events.ccc.de
December 28, 2024 at 10:02 AM
Tomorrow at 4pm in Saal YELL at #38c3 I'll be giving a talk about hackers, UX and why those two things can go great together: events.ccc.de/congress/202...
If you want to hear some arguments why hackers should care about UX, please come by! (or listen online, also works)
If you want to hear some arguments why hackers should care about UX, please come by! (or listen online, also works)
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Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
December 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
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Poor character written by an author who has experienced poverty: My problem is that I'm $300 short on the rent and now my car is making a noise
Poor character written by a rich author: My problem is that I feel so inferior beside these beautiful, sophisticated rich people
Poor character written by a rich author: My problem is that I feel so inferior beside these beautiful, sophisticated rich people
December 22, 2024 at 3:39 PM
Poor character written by an author who has experienced poverty: My problem is that I'm $300 short on the rent and now my car is making a noise
Poor character written by a rich author: My problem is that I feel so inferior beside these beautiful, sophisticated rich people
Poor character written by a rich author: My problem is that I feel so inferior beside these beautiful, sophisticated rich people
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When starting with doing UXy stuff with Very Smart Hackers, I thought my biggest struggle would be convincing them to do new, creative stuff.
Actually it's far harder to convince them to not do wild, creative stuff nobody else does but it's easier to code than established #ux patterns.
Actually it's far harder to convince them to not do wild, creative stuff nobody else does but it's easier to code than established #ux patterns.
December 2, 2024 at 11:13 PM
When starting with doing UXy stuff with Very Smart Hackers, I thought my biggest struggle would be convincing them to do new, creative stuff.
Actually it's far harder to convince them to not do wild, creative stuff nobody else does but it's easier to code than established #ux patterns.
Actually it's far harder to convince them to not do wild, creative stuff nobody else does but it's easier to code than established #ux patterns.
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I feel this passage in my Eastern European soul
See Anna Wierzbicka's Cross-Cultural Pragmatics, p. 116.
It is a major cultural difference and source of misunderstandings between Anglo English speakers and Eastern Europeans!
It is a major cultural difference and source of misunderstandings between Anglo English speakers and Eastern Europeans!
November 25, 2024 at 2:10 PM
I feel this passage in my Eastern European soul
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"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.
“Disrupt” is a very Silicon Valley word. Every time I see it crop up in a business-case, my bullshit-detection hackles go up.
November 25, 2024 at 1:07 PM
"Disrupt" is code for "Destroy reliable established services so that money previously widely distributed now funnels into a single source." Just like "AI" is code for "Mine the work humans did in the past so we don't have to pay them for their work in the future." That's why VCs like both words.
Went and done a talk at #fosdem about how bad UX can be bad security - it's not technical at all, more about how humans work and how we can think about secure stuff better in light of that.
FOSDEM 2024 - Bad UX is Bad Security: Adventures in Qubes OS UX Design
fosdem.org
February 5, 2024 at 11:52 AM
Went and done a talk at #fosdem about how bad UX can be bad security - it's not technical at all, more about how humans work and how we can think about secure stuff better in light of that.
The best talk on #37c3 so far, for amusement value and for sheer tech amazingness. The hack was MAGNIFICENT.
Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains
We've all been there: the trains you're servicing for a customer suddenly brick themselves and the manufacturer claims that's because you...
media.ccc.de
December 29, 2023 at 12:41 AM
The best talk on #37c3 so far, for amusement value and for sheer tech amazingness. The hack was MAGNIFICENT.
Finally again at Congress, and finally again in Hamburg! If someone wants to chat, I'm often at the Qubes assembly in the Onion Cluster #37c3
December 28, 2023 at 9:19 PM
Finally again at Congress, and finally again in Hamburg! If someone wants to chat, I'm often at the Qubes assembly in the Onion Cluster #37c3
Being multilingual is like: how the hell do I say "a conference accepted my talk" in my native language? I can say that in English, I can do it in German, but trying to tell my mom why I'm happy ended up in a blarglewarlgewordsbehard
December 18, 2023 at 2:11 PM
Being multilingual is like: how the hell do I say "a conference accepted my talk" in my native language? I can say that in English, I can do it in German, but trying to tell my mom why I'm happy ended up in a blarglewarlgewordsbehard
For the first time in what, 10 years? Chaos Communication Congress tickets didn't sell out in seconds. Wow. The post-inter-whatever-pandemic world is different. (also I can't wait, I missed it so much)
December 2, 2023 at 7:05 PM
For the first time in what, 10 years? Chaos Communication Congress tickets didn't sell out in seconds. Wow. The post-inter-whatever-pandemic world is different. (also I can't wait, I missed it so much)
The tech world: where you have to constantly convince people that ethics actually do in fact matter
November 27, 2023 at 9:06 PM
The tech world: where you have to constantly convince people that ethics actually do in fact matter
Wrote something on how security and usability are sometimes considered to be contradictions, and that's really not true. (also, yay Prototype Fund, it's such a great thing)
Security vs Usability: A Fake Dilemma - Prototype Fund
Security and Usability is often labeled as a contradiction. Marta, whose working on Qubes OS Device Management, shows why this isn't the case and one depends on the other.
prototypefund.de
November 9, 2023 at 10:15 AM
Wrote something on how security and usability are sometimes considered to be contradictions, and that's really not true. (also, yay Prototype Fund, it's such a great thing)
...is there anything Musk does understand except the grift? Because seriously, you don't have to be a sysadmin to understand that Wikipedia does indeed need a lot of work.
October 23, 2023 at 9:31 AM
...is there anything Musk does understand except the grift? Because seriously, you don't have to be a sysadmin to understand that Wikipedia does indeed need a lot of work.
this is 100% true and also why so much of fancy literature is middle aged literature professors having affairs
"My work is superior because I make people see the abyss of sorrow that is human experience"--bitch they *already know that* which it's why it's so easy to evoke that even your story of a middle aged literature professor having an affair can do it.
October 23, 2023 at 8:55 AM
this is 100% true and also why so much of fancy literature is middle aged literature professors having affairs
The most frustrating people to talk with are those who start with an absolute claim, and then, when challenged, immediately turn around to say "yes you're right!" and then state the exact opposite of their initial claim. And I'm just... I actually don't agree with either. Things are complex. Please.
October 22, 2023 at 7:18 PM
The most frustrating people to talk with are those who start with an absolute claim, and then, when challenged, immediately turn around to say "yes you're right!" and then state the exact opposite of their initial claim. And I'm just... I actually don't agree with either. Things are complex. Please.