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jon ellis
@jon_ellis@chaos.social
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Software Engineer (Sun Microsystems alumn), photographer, dark green cynic.
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@bruces@mastodon.social
@bruces that doesn't sound very russian... surely they should hang on until society collapses and the people are living off stolen potatoes?
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@RickiTarr__dup_16900@beige.party
@RickiTarr@beige.party somerset maugham's 'of human bondage' forever changed that name for me. hopefully the transitionee had other role models in mind.
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@jwz@mastodon.social
@jwz@mastodon.social best to stick to the old ways - red peppers and milk. bowie knew what he was doing!
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@jwz@mastodon.social
@jwz@mastodon.social how mysterious that they neglected to include an "other" option only in the AI question... fucking weasels!
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu just leave... what is this some sort of abusive relationship?
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@ReggieHere@mastodon.social
@ReggieHere@mastodon.social @Colman@mastodon.ie @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @riggbeck@mastodon.social i took a different approach and left that sceptic isle as soon as i was able. not that i dont respect those with the will to fight the good fight.
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@ReggieHere__dup_8894@mastodon.social
@ReggieHere@mastodon.social @Colman@mastodon.ie @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us @riggbeck@mastodon.social we were so close...
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@jon_ellis@chaos.social
the "narrower" version of this is Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust.
even then the byline spells out the limits of trust, and hones in on the people involved:
"To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses? Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software."
trust. there is a really good talk by @bcantrill@mastodon.social on the subject. it's probably a lot broader than you might imagine.
having shared "Using LLM at Oxide" (https://rfd.shared.oxide.computer/rfd/0576) where i'm working, and the response has indicated that sharing this talk first would have been productive.