A story about spam, artificial intelligence, two email addresses, several Amy’s, a Teresa, an imaginary horse and the remarkable persistence of international electronic component sales. Like most people who have owned an email address for more than approximately twelve minutes, I receive unsolicited commercial email. A lot of it even! This month alone, September 2026,…
Category: AI
1984 is calling, it wants its policy back.
This week I wrote about “mass surveillance in the name of protection”. This is the Saturday/Sunday follow-up. (c) (r) ™ :-). (cross out whichever day doesn’t apply — or both, if you’re reading this on Monday!) What I’m writing here may sound absurd — but it really isn’t. Take a second and consider how your…
Mass Surveillance in the Name of Protection
The cost of confusing data volume with intelligence Once again, the EU is trying to push a bill that would allow scanning private communications for illegal content — all in the name of fighting terrorism and, of course, the golden ticket: child abuse. Don’t get me wrong, child abuse is absolutely horrific. But this bill…
How this idiot got from a relational DB ‘LLM’ concept to the real deal
‘How I used an LLM to learn about an LLM’ First things first: I’ve been using LLMs for about a year now — and I absolutely love them. I use ChatGPT every single day, and in that time I’ve applied it to almost everything: from learning and configuring Proxmox, to making the final switch from…