Right on!
I think there should be a Grim Reaper protestor on the top of every hospital in the US until we break up the healthcare monopolies and get Medicare for All.
I am begging people, please just make *websites*. Not Instagram feeds, not X posts, not Squarespace slop, not e-mail newsletters, *websites*.
You know, those things that I can view without needing an account, a specialized app, shittons of spyware, etc.
(Yes, this is too salty, sorry.)
Is it ok if I'm slightly in love with Jesse Welles for this brand of US folk with a dash of modern tech commentary?
Article starts out, literally kicks off the opening sentence with, “We’ve all used AI to help us write code” and brudda, let me stop you right the hell there. No, we all have not. Some of us are still resolutely hewing code out of text editors and actual human thinking, and it’s still usually better than whatever your steroidal autocomplete extruded for you.
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.
Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.
Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places: https://tuta.com/blog/google-gemini-ai-email
This post received a lot of comments and reactions, which is great!
It also proved that my little Raspberry Pi Zero W, powered by NetBSD, could handle the load.
Now - to help me test how much load it can tolerate - please boost and react to this post! 🚀
Regular reminder that the volunteers at the food bank are not judging you. We just want everyone to have enough to eat. We're doing our best to help.
If you are in a shaky spot and you can either get food or pay for another need, you are welcome at the food bank.
Even if you only need us once.
Even if you need us every week for 50 years.
Even if you have a good job and the month just got longer than the paycheck this time.
Even if you aren't completely out of food but you still need help rounding out your week.
Even if you usually volunteer at the food bank.
We just want to make sure you're not hungry.
I had an idea for a blog post I wanted to put together after my wife sent me a facebook vid of some journalist talking about fakecaptcha/clickfix.
Here's the premise: Don't you find it interesting that, so many websites these days claim that captcha tech is around to keep you safe, when in fact that any company that runs a captcha is doing so to build better bots and/or directly assist in building a surveillance state?
Steve:
frequent overthinker, compulsive fixer, digester-then-explainer, "why?" question relishing father, minor-irritant partner, excessive disassembler, original-form hacker, high-efficiency googler, borderline-competent car-fixer, expert-level car-breaker, faster-by-qwerty communicator, indiscriminate photo-taker, Leatherman owner.