Brutkey

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

crypto, full of guys who make you go "i'm not a fan of the carceral system. BUT"

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Dear Mastodon commenters:

When someone describes a systemic problem with a technology in society, you dickheads have an awful habit of Kramering into the mentions proposing to solve the problem with some lump of open source with an interface bad enough it's a list of reasons to become a terrorist.

Apart from how nobody fucking asked, you are also being too obnoxiously self-centred to realise that INDIVIDUAL SOLUTIONS DON'T SOLVE SYSTEMIC PROBLEMS that are not a matter of people not being enlightened to the existence of a particular lump of FOSS that isn't going to work for that user in that situation anyway.

Your reasons for thinking this is in any way appropriate behaviour trace directly back to the libertarian origins of open source and the Californian ideology as outlined as far back as the 1990s. Many of you are absolutely not libertarians and you still pull this shit, and that's where you got it from.

This is a perennial fucking pattern. I realise that posts like this reach everyone except the fuckheads who really need to read them, but to sum it up:

NOBODY ASKED FOR YOUR SOFTWARE REC FOR THIS SYSTEMIC PROBLEM.

TRY SHUTTING THE FUCK UP AND NOT ACTING LIKE A FATUOUS BOZO.

Feel free to link back here when someone does this to one of your posts.

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

"crime" is a conservative jargon term meaning US, "black people" or UK, "poor people"

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

https://bsky.app/profile/beijingpalmer.bsky.social/post/3lw5ayoe5b22u

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Cybersecurity ‘red teams’ to UK government: AI is rubbish

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/11/cybersecurity-red-teams-to-uk-government-ai-is-rubbish/ - text
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250811-cybersecurity-red-teams-to-uk-government-ai-is-rubbish - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4kpW-pGuQ8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

our radioactive anthrax bomb is completely open source under the Apache LIcense! but only the bits for its use case as a hammer

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

If I lose my job due to AI, it will be because I used it so much it made me lazy and stupid to the point where another human has to replace me and I become unemployable. I shouldn't invest time in AI. I should invest more time studying new things that interest me.

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

figure 1: cooling out the mark https://bsky.app/profile/cnbc.com/post/3lw52sdhlpw2p

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

Hack a smart home with a calendar invite! And Google Gemini

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/08/10/hack-a-smart-home-with-a-calendar-invite-and-google-gemini/ - text
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250810-hack-a-smart-home-with-gemini-ai-and-a-calendar-invite - podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jybs-p6rzz8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video

David Gerard
@davidgerard@circumstances.run

gpt-5 is such a washout of a chatbot that it doesn't even break in funny ways just dumb and boring ones even sucks at sucking