Great podcast, great guest, great book. All-around banger.

@emma.best Pardon my ignorance, but have you ever done something like this before?

Check the link to the direct download. There are more files in that directory.

This surely won’t be used against queer communities. Surely!

I got to do a really fun demo yesterday where I did a small-scale recreation of Apple’s “Illusion of Thinking” study using GPT-OSS. I’ll be out of town for next week’s paper on the Spectre vulnerability (might do a demo remotely), but we’ll be hands-on with NixOS the week after! 🤖

I can’t stop chuckling as I read more about this company. Everybody on their executive team is some level of Q-Anon crank and/or has a background in surveillance.

Respectfully, it seems a bit unfair to tell people that ICEBlock could help to invest in new hardware that’s both subject to local availability, and is going to have support dropped this autumn with iOS 26. I understand that Android support can be fragmented, but this being dropped is a guarantee.

Why not release on F-Droid or push the APK to GitHub to load with Obtainium? Android is more accessible to lower-income communities, and its marketshare vastly outstrips that of iOS’s in international markets. There are plenty of reasons for the communities at risk here to opt for an Android device.

I get extended time through my university's disability office that offsets the slowness quite a bit, and I've considered pursuing this too. It's just difficult as a disabled person to not feel like you're constantly asking for the world with these things.

This is exactly my feeling. I've got joint hypermobility that forces me to grip pencils in the most ridiculous way, so writing by hand is very slow and tiring. My writing process is also super non-linear. Awful that AI has infringed on my ability to use the tools that let me best express myself.

Update: Just figured out how to do this, actually. New weekend project!

I just upgraded to a Kona EV with BlueLink support and would love those features, but Hyundai's privacy policy is just far too egregious. The car is great, but I miss my old one's option to swap out whatever's in the DIN slot with something that allowed me to physically disconnect the radios.

This isn't theoretical. It's trivial to get into most online accounts and commercially available devices if you have the resources of a state. You don't have to be notable to be worth the effort, because the effort is next to nothing. Dr. Wang is a threat to this digitally-enforced repression. Good.

I cannot emphasise enough that though the best time to take your digital security seriously was years ago, the second best time is *right now*. Anything and everything in your digital footprint has the potential to be evidence of a crime if the government is motivated enough. Cover. Your. Tracks.