Post #3540485
2026-07-02 17:30 UTC
RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116850588672790759
This is interesting (though I dislike that it seems to be burning tokens/resources to determine).
It says my "Gumnos" nym has a "strength" of 294 and is in the top 20%. I'm not really sure what that's supposed to mean. Top 20% of what?
More amusingly, it seems to have identified me as an active Stack Overflow user (I have maybe a dozen posts and haven't logged in for *years*), that I'm associated with "gaming communities" (um, not really), and (mis)identifies that I contribute to the Fish shell and am a longtime member of the Perlmonks community, knowledgeable in Perl.
By name, it (mis)identifies me as blind (I do lurk in blind/VI #a11y communities, but am not blind myself), as the creator of the vimtree plugin (I'm certainly not, since I don't use vim plugins),
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@EdTheDev@infosec.exchange 2026-07-02 19:02
@gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe I couldn't resist. It got the general gist right. I am an open source software developer, I write many tutorials, I'm particularly good at Python. And it got many of the details very wrong. It thinks my handle belongs to someone else, it thinks I have contributed to projects I have not contributed to (maybe the other Ed did), it emphasized that I'm "known for" trivial contributions that for sure no one is aware of (and could get lost in the hallucinated contributions). Pretty interesting, overall!