7 years of testimony. Near-unanimous legislature. TechNet rewrote it before Hochul signed. NY's Digital Fair Repair Act: — post-July 2023 devices only — assemblies instead of parts — business/gov devices exempt — no security codes required This is about manufacture control and enshitifcation […]

New #noai whitepaper in the works; 🛡️ "You cannot have our users' data." SourceHut is blocking aggressive AI/LLM scrapers with a new system named Anubis. Drew DeVault states SourceHut is funded by user subs, not data sales, and will never sell out its users or the commons to AI companies. ✅ […]

Spent the week automating things that usually require clicking. From OBS stream overlays that render via data files to MP4s that build themselves all in #cicd None of it required specialized tools or AI skills/MCP agents. Just Hugo, Playwright, ffmpeg, and […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

TeamPCP breached GitHub's internal systems via a malicious VS Code extension on a developer's machine, then cloned ~3,800 internal repos. Customer repos unaffected. Corporate estate: yes. The attack path: IDE extension → developer device → internal network → mass repo clone. This is why your […]

Microsoft and Uber are telling employees to stop using Claude and similar tools because the token bills are too high. The infrastructure sovereignty argument just got a budget line. Privacy people have been saying "own your compute" for years. Now the CFO is saying it too, for different reasons […]

House Committee passed amendment 32-25 to close the data broker loophole — preventing law enforcement from buying location data and browser history without a warrant. Same reform passed the House in 2024 but died in Senate. It's back as an appropriations rider. This is the Fourth Amendment Is […]

NY Assembly Bill A2228 would require criminal background checks to buy a 3D printer "capable of creating firearms." The bill text is broad. "Capable of" is not defined. Most consumer FDM printers can print gun components. So can a milling machine. So can a lathe. This is infrastructure for […]

New blog post: Rules, Types, and Glue: A Multi-Paradigm Architecture for Game Simulation 🎮🧱 A deep dive into combining classical AI and strict type systems for high-performance simulation engines. I evaluate: 🧠 Prolog for symbolic reasoning (Rules) 🧱 Coalton for static type-safety (Types) 🔄 […]