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Creepy crawlies — Konstantin Ryabitsev

You've probably heard me complain about the "AI crawlers" before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their im...

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Civic Hygiene

Imagine, just for a moment, that the Government wanted to keep a record of everyone's sexuality. They need to know this detailed demographic data because it will be highly useful in civic planning. It will help them work out what provision needs to be made...

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AI Revives a Dead Sleep Company

*TL;DR:* I used Claude to revive a sleep monitoring device from a company that went under 10 years ago that also received over $40M in investments.

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Debian and the sirens

Thirty years ago I became a Debian developer. Twelve years ago I left the project. I left because it seemed that the Debian ship had become too slow to turn, too barnacled with a series of individually OK decisions that each added a little bit of friction...

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On 'scaling up' and being the right size

I regularly encounter questions along the lines of “how do we scale things up?, in particular around projects related to free knowledge, FLOSS or citizen science. It has basically started from the first citizen science effort and accompanied me through most...