I won’t be sideloading anything onto my device that I can’t build myself from opensource and understand what it’s doing.

The risk is too damn high otherwise.

She’s very very safe here in Seattle, I can tell you that.

Voyager is the new app name for wefwef, hosted as the url I posted. Same app, not sure if the old url redirects or what.

https://vger.app

I’m convinced that it’s been trained on top of the essays of middle and high school students that have gone their whole lives without proper education on vocabulary, grammar, and the like. So when asked to evaluate something written properly, it’s flagged as AI.

Garbage in, garbage out. Same as is ever was.

Most contracts are through contract companies, who then employs (ala W2) the workers.

I could see all tech workers that work for these companies forming a union—that could make a real, honest change in the tech workforce overall.

There was an art to folding the paper in half again lengthways to read it without bothering the person next to you on the subway or bus—yet another skill I’ll never need again.

Given that my Mastodon feed is around 15% pooptoots (where I like it), it seems that you’re following the wrong people.

I already learned my lesson when I signed up to the big Mastodon instance hosted on the other side of the world—found the second largest US-based server I could find, signed up there, rock solid so far.