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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Jul 27, 2026

Replying to @muddle@infosec.exchange

@muddle@infosec.exchange @golgaloth@writing.exchange And I'd like to see *any* of those take on the Egyptian gods! ;)

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Jul 25, 2026

Replying to @jaredwhite@indieweb.social

@jaredwhite@indieweb.social @mrmasterkeyboard@mastodon.social I am NOT in the stack. Because the day MS bought the SlopHub I could see the writing on the wall and left for pastures greener.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Jul 16, 2026

DDT was useful, too.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Jul 07, 2026

Replying to @gvwilson@mastodon.social

@gvwilson@mastodon.social I keep thinking about Gödel's Theorem in relation to Large Lying Machines....

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Jun 10, 2026

The sooner software makers have to bear full legal liability for their badly designed, faulty products — just like every other class of product manufacturer has to — the better.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 31, 2026

Replying to @perlman@indieweb.social

@perlman@indieweb.social Stop fleeing. Put down roots.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 11, 2026

Replying to @rickf@indieweb.social

@rickf@indieweb.social @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange Better yet when they want a "wet signature" on a PDF form, to be returned by email... I despair!

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 07, 2026

Replying to @discobeez@mas.to

@discobeez@mas.to Electricity has only just come back on (very thick clouds, so our solar system shut down yesterday morning), so still catching up myself. We had over 266mm rain so far; roads are flooded and impassable for smaller cars (like mine), lots of trees down and the chainsaws are a-singin'. We've experienced worse, but most people around here haven't and are all wide-eyed. Lesson for people with cars run by computer: *don't* drive through the flooded dips in the road!

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 05, 2026

Replying to @jonmsterling@mathstodon.xyz

@jonmsterling Ask yourself, "Whose interests are served by that narrative? Who is pushing that story?"

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 04, 2026

Replying to @mhoye@cosocial.ca

@mhoye "Well, you know how these things are..."

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 03, 2026

So that's the last of the Winter crops sown (Broad Beans, mainly to build up the seed-stock for the next season).

I've missed gardening these last few years.

#winterIsComing

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 03, 2026

Replying to @mikro2nd@indieweb.social

Just for reference, 222mm would be more than ¼ of our normal/average rainfall. In. One. Day.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 03, 2026

Weather forecast for 222mm of rain next Wednesday. Time to build an ark.

Actually, we'll be fine (house on high ground) but we might easily get rained in for a few days if the road floods, as it occasionally has done in the past. Many of our neighbours who've moved here only in the last 5 or 8 years have *no* idea what they might be in for.

Personally I have my doubts about the forecast; model artefacts happen when you have floating point numbers driving an inherently chaotic system model.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 03, 2026

Your irregular reminder that BMW is an intelligence test. If you bought one, you failed.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 03, 2026

Can we just stick to stating time using UTC±x zones, please. I neither know nor care nor can be arsed to find out what your FubarDT timezone thing is.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 02, 2026

Replying to @boud@framapiaf.org

@boud@framapiaf.org Thanks for the links. TBH I didn't research much on the topic or anything, and I was thinking of the UNO but probably my comment applies better to the UNSC. And, while other parts of the UN *do* voice concern, it's just not terribly effective, is it? IMHO (and just from primary thinking, and being largely ignorant of the intricacies and nuances) the UNSC is long overdue some reform.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · May 02, 2026

It's become clear to me that the United Nations, despite continuing to do many good and useful things, has become unfit for its primary purpose: preventing war.

Difficult question: How to restructure the UN to achieve that aim?

Most difficult question: How to get the many Nation States to agree to such (hypothetical) restructuring, particularly the warmongering permanent members of the Security Council?

#systemDesign

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Apr 27, 2026

Replying to @fakemetrotrains@mastodon.au

@fakemetrotrains@mastodon.au Expect a visit from Animal Welfare...

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Apr 21, 2026

Replying to @penny@eldritch.cafe

@penny Still have my Java ring. If anyone wants it, hmu.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Apr 17, 2026

RE: @AncientEgyptianDate@archaeo.social

Happy New Year!

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @graydon@canada.masto.host

@graydon @danielmunoz @cstross @mitch @lasagne @pluralistic Diesel is already in short supply for South Africa's Winter grain sowing. Buckle up.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @dansup@mastodon.social

@dansup Would be helpful if you'd include a one-liner about what the project does/aims to do.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Apr 08, 2026

Replying to @liamvhogan@aus.social

@liamvhogan Could be worse: could be Slack.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Mar 31, 2026

Replying to @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Don't be misled by the corp-speak nonsense; this was just a trial balloon to calibrate where, how, and how often they can deliver ads through #SlopHub. Ads *WILL* return, just maybe not in PRs. The only correct response is to move the hell off SlopHub.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Mar 26, 2026

Replying to @harrysintonen@infosec.exchange

@harrysintonen It's a mystery to me how any open-source project can still be using #SlopHub

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Mar 20, 2026

Replying to @Gustodon@mas.to

@Gustodon@mas.to You can get the Attenuator Plugin for the nexus for the low, low price of just €20/month[*] [*] Price valid for the introductory period of 3 months only, thereafter €200/month for a minimum period of 10 years (prepaid) unless you cancel before the end of the introductory period.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Mar 20, 2026

Replying to @alice@lgbtqia.space

@alice "Fold your punch cards"! 😃

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Feb 28, 2026

Replying to @benlockwood__dup_16027@ecoevo.social

@benlockwood@ecoevo.social And Nigeria.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Feb 17, 2026

Replying to @randahl__dup_2135@mastodon.social

@randahl@mastodon.social "Mum, why do we live underground?" "Well son, when the Earth became uninhabitable because a bunch of rich guys polluted it into runaway heat, we wanted to escape to Mars, but we couldn't get there because a bunch of rich guys put so much shit in orbit that the debris from collisions destroy any rocket that gets launched. Nobody wondered why just one rogue nation got to decide to allow them to do that."

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Feb 12, 2026

Replying to @Natasha_Jay__dup_31065@tech.lgbt

@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt None of those are bicycles. Some are bicycle saddles, but none are bicycles. #capchaSucks

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Feb 05, 2026

Replying to @causticmsngo@mastodon.social

@causticmsngo @helge @chris My intended implication is that LLMs are actually NOT any good for programming at all. To think that they are is a category error that arises only because the mathematical notations we use for specifying algorithms (i.e. "programming languages") superficially resemble human languages, and that's the only reason a Large LANGUAGE Model can even begin to approach "using" them.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Feb 05, 2026

Replying to @chris@m.objc.io

@chris I've been asking for a while: If LLMs are so good at programming, why do they need to use libraries/frameworks at all?

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Jan 28, 2026

Replying to @freequaybuoy@mastodon.social

@freequaybuoy@mastodon.social @pluralistic@mamot.fr That'd be "kakistification" in Oxford, then?

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Jan 17, 2026

Replying to @jzb@hachyderm.io

@jzb Also, if they were to be any good for workers to use, they'd have to... you know... *actually work*.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Jan 07, 2026

Replying to @tante@tldr.nettime.org

@tante@tldr.nettime.org It is hard to make a person understand a thing when their salary is dependent on not understanding it.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Dec 19, 2025

Replying to @doragasu@mastodon.sdf.org

@doragasu@mastodon.sdf.org @codinghorror@infosec.exchange imho GenAI for coding stems from a category error: Just because we call them "Programming Languages" does not make them languages (in the sense of sentient beings communicating.) They're specialised mathematical notations for expressing algorithms. So pointing a "language" tool — a Large Language Model — at them is bound to result in... mess, imprecision, probabilistic lies, etc. Wrong tech for the domain.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Dec 19, 2025

Replying to @doragasu@mastodon.sdf.org

@doragasu@mastodon.sdf.org What, specifically, are those uses?

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Dec 15, 2025

Replying to @andrewdessler@mastodon.world

@andrewdessler@mastodon.world It's simple logic. If the seas are warmer (narrator: "The seas *are * warmer.") then water evaporates from the seas in greater-than-ever quantities. The water vapour rises into the atmosphere. Later this comes down as rain. More water vapour, more rain. More rain, more floods. Simple. I'll postulate that this is a Gaia mechanism for venting (some) energy to space, since the energy embodied in the water vapour *must* get removed from the water somewhere up in the atmosphere.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Nov 21, 2025

Replying to @Tutanota@mastodon.social

@Tutanota@mastodon.social Also: Why I don't bother to update G-apps on my phone...

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Nov 15, 2025

Replying to @daniel@federation.network

@daniel @paoloredaelli @der_mit_ph @thibaultamartin Two points:

"you can choose to switch it off" is not "opt-in". That's really "opt-out". And defaults really, really matter.
It's less the "AI" story and much more that they seem unable/unwilling to listen to their user base. It's the tone-deaf responses from a management cohort that get their money from AI-invested corporates.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Nov 15, 2025

Replying to @sb@metroholografix.ca

@sb @thibaut_plg @thibaultamartin It's hard to get someone to "get it" when their salary depends on it.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Oct 19, 2025

Replying to @paninid@mastodon.world

@paninid@mastodon.world @inthehands@hachyderm.io @anildash@me.dm I've always thought that pattern recognition and synthesis is the one thing that human beings are really, really good at! (Think "faces in clouds".) Indeed, I suspect that much of the confusion/misapplication around LLMs and their outputs lies precisely in our inbuilt compulsion to find patterns given the most tenuous evidence.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Oct 18, 2025

Replying to @inthehands@hachyderm.io

@inthehands@hachyderm.io @anildash@me.dm OK. I'll bite. What — if anything — is this tech actually good for? (eta: Not simply trawling, here. But I've yet to hear a coherent answer to "So what are the legitimate applications of LLMs?")

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Sep 17, 2025

Replying to @bagder@mastodon.social

@bagder And yet when, many years ago, I made disparaging comments to the effect that it might not be a great idea, I was told, "OK, boomer..." 😂

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Sep 10, 2025

Replying to @ethersync@fosstodon.org

@ethersync "Teamtype" seems like an association with MS Teams. 😒 I honestly never associated Ethersync with Ethereum until y'all mentioned cryptocurrencies... I'd always thought of it as associating with Ethernet (which fits better).

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Jul 11, 2025

Replying to @bagder@mastodon.social

@bagder@mastodon.social I take my hat off to you for your restraint and politeness in responding. I doubt I'd have managed that level of civility. If they do come back to you (doubtful!) make it a BIG number!

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Jul 10, 2025

Replying to @ErikUden@mastodon.de

@ErikUden@mastodon.de LLM: Large Lying Machine

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Mar 24, 2025

Replying to @JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social

@JMarkOckerbloom@mastodon.social @peterpur@hci.social Reading between the lines, here... this is the sort of crap that should/would normally be caught in copy-edit, BUT: copy editors are being rapidly put out of work by publishers' use of "AI", so I can only think that (perhaps!) this was *seen* and *ignored* by the copy editor. Assuming Springer could be arsed to hire one. Coming soon to a bookshelf near you: "Revenge of the Copy Editor" ;-)

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Mar 11, 2025

Replying to @shom@gts.shom.dev

@shom Thanks for a great review of the PineNote - I've been quietly salivating over the device for a while, now (despite the price making me break out into a sweat), so your experience-report is a great insight.

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mike morris @mikro2nd@indieweb.social · Sep 14, 2024

Replying to @davekarpf@mastodon.social

@davekarpf "Founder": To fill with water and sink.

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