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I’ve read my fair share of passionate rejections of AI-assisted coding from my fellow software engineers. And I get it! LLMs deserve a ton of criticism for many reasons! But, at times, I feel like we live in completely different worlds.
Windows Vista was released in 2007. Today, nearly twenty years later, people keep believing it was a “bad” operating system. I have always disagreed with this. Yes, Windows Vista had many flaws and issues, but it was still a well-designed and dependable operating system, and represented a much needed rethink of what a desktop operating system should do.
I already posted my thoughts on AI and why I don’t think it’s going away any time soon. Unfortunately, it seems some people who don’t like LLMs are using AI-induced outages and deletions as an opportunity to reaffirm their biases, and, in doing so, may be missing part of the picture.
There’s talk of space datacenters lately again, which is an immensely stupid idea . It is stupid because it is a physics and thermodynamics problem, not an engineering challenge. In this post, I will prove why space datacenters will never happen. Not now, not in ten years, not in a hundred years . While we have gotten far in space exploration technology, further than anyone decades ago…
Disclaimer: This post isn’t really about vibe-coding or AI-assisted coding; it’s about the domain name system, WHOIS, and how modern TLD operators have recreated the same domain-squatting problem we spent decades trying to get rid of. While vibe-coding a small tool to hunt for interesting domain names, I stumbled into something I didn’t expect, and, honestly, something a bit…
Most open source advocates, and many security professionals, often say things like “open source software is secure because you can just read the code”. This argument assumes that the ability to read source code directly translates into the ability to understand, verify, and trust it, because you can see the files this software opens or the network sockets it listens on. You can see the…
I think I am starting to understand the deal with AI “art”. Or at a minimum, I am beginning to understand why AI “art” feels so “AI”, so devoid of soul, lifeless.
You cannot prove the absence of data; you can only prove the presence of data. You also cannot prove if a particular piece of data was copied, or whether a specific digital object is an original or a copy.
I am ideologically firmly opposed to age verification systems, especially those that claim to protect children by violating the privacy of adults. I refuse to support such mechanisms because this is a disproportionate response that creates more harm than it prevents.
Nobody cares about your beautiful, elegant, handcrafted code. Software engineers are engineers first and foremost, and producing code was never the main goal for software engineers. Engineers solve problems with code, such as increasing revenue or decreasing spending. Engineers exist to apply scientific innovations to businesses, in order to increase profit. There’s really nothing else to…
I’ve been developing Vanguard over the past few months. Initially it was little more than a hack, which was developed quickly and without much consideration regarding the cleanliness of the code. I needed a way to have public Telegram links without the risk of raids, or getting botted.
Good intentions are usually assumed. Generally, everyone understands that most people act on good intentions, and out of good faith. Many social behaviours are “unwritten contracts” rather than established in law because it’s understood that most people will abide by these contracts. But when good intentions aren’t sufficient, mechanisms are necessary.
To highly technical audiences, it is unsurprising that Telegram is not cryptographically secure and that Signal is much better. Numerous security experts have pointed out that Telegram’s reputation as a secure messenger is primarily a result of its marketing rather than its technical architecture.
“Do not sell my personal information”, “Reject all cookies”, “Do not show me personalised ads”, “Do not use my Maps activity for improvements”, “Do not store my voice recordings”, “Permanently delete my account”
Most of the modern West is built around the idea of meritocracy. Because of how influential Christianism has been in Europe, and later America, this can be traced back to Abrahamic traditions. Many societies nowadays revolve around “hardened individuals”, “self-made men”, and individual financial success. Admittedly, this behaviour motivates people to give their best, as…
Mr. Trump, you ran your 2025 election campaign on claims that you would be able to end the war in Ukraine before you were elected [ archived version ]. Then you pushed it back to “within 24 hours”.
Dear JD Vance, your recent speech at the Munich Security Conference on 14th February 2025 concerns me, and you made several points I would like to address individually. Your speech is full of lies, and has a profoundly unethical undertone. Frankly, I am already deeply disappointed with how Elon Musk has been behaving in the past few years, and this is my first impression of you. Not a positive…
Most furries who are vaguely involved in tech have heard of the “Fediverse” or, at minimum, Mastodon, the most popular Fediverse software stack implementation. There is a lot to be said about Fediverse, and it is a fantastic initiative from a technological point of view. With Fediverse software, you can build communities around a topic of interest and optionally interact with other…
Plenty has been written about European prisons focused on restorative justice and reintegration. Still, there’s insufficient discourse on the implications and interactions between these two very different approaches to justice and order, which is the topic of this post.
The Internet is a dangerous place. Especially if you are LGBTQ, furry, have unconventional sexual tendencies (CNC, BDSM, FinDom, etc) or are a member of a religious or racial minority group. The Internet was not designed with safety or security in mind. In its ARPANET beginnings, many systems didn’t even have passwords because only privileged users were supposed to access them. As such,…
And it won’t be pretty. We have collectively learned nothing from Hitler’s rise to power. And it is just happening all over again, through the same institutions that we thought were set up to resist the next fascist takeover.
At the time of writing, Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram was arrested by French authorities [ archived version ]. As usual, a flurry of theories and panic ensued. I want to give my opinion on what’s going to happen next. At this time, I don’t believe Telegram is in any significant danger. Of course, things could change, but there’s absolutely no reason to panic right now.
I’ve observed an interesting phenomenon that I believe is the base for any economy, capitalist, communist, socialist, or else, and it might very well be an intrinsic part of who we are, collectively, as a species. The division of labour has existed since ancient times, way before Homo Sapiens were roaming Earth. The division of labour exists, to a certain extent in animal communities too.…
Some time ago, Microsoft announced a surprising shift in stance [ archived version ] with their newfound affection for Linux. This marked a notable departure from the era of Steve Ballmer, whose approach was considerably more hostile [ archived version ] towards competing operating systems, including Android and Linux, and the GPL license.
The entire world is in a housing crisis at the moment. And at times, it might seem like this has been going on for almost two decades, ever since the financial crisis of 2008.
Freedom and free speech have always been topics of deep interest to me. Historically, I’ve been a firm advocate for free speech, aligning myself with Pirate Party principles. Later on, during my political explorations, I briefly ventured into libertarianism and “free speech absolutism” which led me to consider many other possible arguments, such as the right to free information…
One of the most important features of decentralised social networks based on open standards is that they are much easier to own and control, while also being highly intercompatible between software versions, clients, and maintainers.
After many years of hesitation, I have decided to start my own blog. In this blog, I will explore and elaborate on my thoughts. How my political and philosophical views have changed over time, and how I believe we can build a better world.