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Drew

@drewdevault.com

I write free and open source software for fun and for a living.

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Drew@drewdevault.com · 8mo ago

www.404media.co/proton-mail-... Can I have an "I told you so" for all of the times I've criticized #Proton for misleading consumers about privacy? Privacy is implemented with math, not trust.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

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Gwen Snyder is undead@gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8mo ago

For women, one of the very difficult things about the Epstein emails is having all our worst professional suspicions confirmed. You wonder in darker moments if men say this kind of awful stuff about us (individually, and as a class) to each other, and here it is all confirmed in writing.

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · 8mo ago

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

To: Jeffrey epstein[jeevacation©gmail.com] From: roger schank Sent: Mon 1/4/2010 12:15:13 PM Subject: there is a simpler explanation about women and intelligence intelligence comes about in part from real focus (goal-directed (this is why you have the absent minded professor caricature) it is a rare woman who is not first and foremost focussed on what thinking and feeling about her hard to be brilliant if you are worrying if you look fat or why hates you or why you dont own a kelly bag roger schank http://www.rogerschank.com/
David Bushell 🪿@dbushell.com · 8mo ago

If you block an account on GitHub, you get a helpful warning on every repository it's morged to 👍 (sorry, I can't find who to credit this idea I saw a few day ago)

GitHub warning: "A user you've blocked has previously contributed to this repository." listing the account "claude"
David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 8mo ago

I can’t believe you lefty Luddites hate tech so much that you embrace mRNA vaccines, heat pumps, electric bikes, hybrid work, renewable power (and awesome advancements in storage), space telescopes, and hot/cold running water but reject the planet destroying plagiarism enrich the worst people bots!

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 8mo ago

My doomer-worry about AI is not that the LLMs become omnipotent and take over the world but that the wealthy and powerful use it as a means to consolidate power and marginalize or lay off skilled workers and also everything about our technological and political and social life gets worse

Drew@drewdevault.com · 8mo ago

I heard some noise being made about people fleeing #Discord over the new age verification requirements. Personally, I doubt this is going to be what kills Discord, it's too entrenched in people's lives.