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technige.bsky.social
Programmer with a small grey beard. I do #Python, #Java, #Rust, #JavaScript, #C, #PHP, or whatever else. Often found hanging around sockets, protocols, databases, and cups of tea. Currently at #Elastic, formerly at #Neo4j.
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Can we stop pretending Apple’s refusing to ‘add backdoors’ as though backdoors that let the good guys in and keep the bad guys out was something real?

No doubt posted by a CEO who has already fired his entire dev team in order to replace them with #AI. www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPTCod...

Well that's an unfortunate name. #AI #StableDiffusion

A move like this is foolish and naïve from our government. Not least because if we want to be seen as any kind of player in global tech, we can't be seen to be this technologically illiterate. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is possibly the best description of Donald #Trump I have ever seen. www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/...

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This. It is technically not possible to create backdoors in a meaningful way. Encryption is an absolute necessity for secure online activity, and not negotiable regardless of the reason. As Scotty pointed out, we cannae change the laws of physics.

Fuck HP. www.theregister.com/2025/02/20/h...

it only takes three commands to install Gentoo #Linux

Foreign Leader Favourability Ratings amongst British Voters: 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Zelenskyy Favourable: 64% Unfavourable: 16% NET: +48% 🇺🇸 Donald Trump Favourable: 22% Unfavourable: 73% NET: -51% 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin Favourable: 4% Unfavourable: 89% NET: -85% Via @YouGov, 16-17 Feb.

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

Grim.

I’m George Takei and I approve of this message.

This is Bond villain level fantasy nonsense.

Final reminder for brilliant producers to get your applications in for this News Agents job. Can barely think of a more important time to be working in news. Come do it with us. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/po...

Stop. Hippo time.

Straight from Hitler's playbook. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

As the US sits around the table with Lavrov (sanctioned by the Biden) the Russian attacks on civilians in Kyiv haven’t stopped. The Trump administration didn’t even get a cessation in drone attacks in exchange for the PR coup of talks and bringing the regime in from the cold.

Think solar farms are bad for nature? Think again. Those designed for nature in East Anglia are teeming with birdlife - including threatened species. A new study reveals why. ⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk

Regardless of the decent individual Americans we all know, this is now absolutely the case when it comes to international relations.

"So as of now, as a #Linux developer or maintainer you must deal with #Rust if you want to or not." lore.kernel.org/rust-for-lin...

The technology brothers have invented “Goons as a Service”

Unicorn company upset that their billion-dollar business model might be illegal. futurism.com/the-byte/ope...

I am getting increasingly frustrated for services I pay for: which simply removed the way to contact support with a non-trivial problem. They added an AI bot. Which bot is sh*t and cannot fix my issue. All these companies patting themselves on the back while I plan to leave

Newsletter: Generative AI is a marketing con perpetuated by Sam Altman and Dario Amodei through a mixture of lies and half-truths carried by a tech media that fails to ask the right questions. Outside of ChatGPT, generative AI companies barely get any traffic at all. www.wheresyoured.at/longcon/

I'm currently writing some code to mess around with AI, and because I'm on a low-spec machine, thought I'd use tinyllama. It has just informed me that sharks belong to the order "Squattyfish". Can't stop giggling.

"Meta has spent over $100 billion on VR" and it basically looks like this TNG episode

Government departments are being told to found 11 percent spending cuts, according to Bloomberg This feels like it should be a much bigger story... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Those checks and balances not really helping.

Just arrived in Paris for crucial talks. Europe’s security is at a turning point. Yes, it is about Ukraine—but it is also about us. We need an urgency mindset. We need a surge in defense. And we need both of them now.

Elon Musk posted these two tweets the same day, just hours apart. Don’t sugarcoat it — he’s not just a far-right authoritarian, he’s an outright fascist. Musk isn’t even trying to hide his true intentions at this point. STOP MAKING EXCUSES FOR HIM.

Phone now sends me transcriptions of voicemails. Very confused by this one until I listened to it. Turns out ‘sexy literally’ is in fact ‘Specsavers Bletchley’

Just in case you needed any more reasons not to fly to the US.

Genuine peace talks are carried out by an independent third party, with all involved parties represented.

X blocks links to Signal, encrypted service used by whistle blowers www.disruptionist.com/p/elon-musks...

For info.

One of the most interesting new research in the LLM space: introducing Large Language Diffusion Models. arxiv.org/pdf/2502.09992