I used some of my Claude Cloud credits to put in place a truly secure pipeline for Elixir Collector. Starting at v3.0.0 all releases are signed using a private key that I manage and the entire pipeline is signed all the way to ingestion. It also got safety improvements in the auto-update process.
Peter Rukavina posted a graph of his Amazon spending and I couldn’t resist taking a look at my data. You can easily request this from Amazon in the “Privacy Center”. A quick pivot table later and I had this graph. I’m omitting the actual scale on purpose — the shape does enough …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Amazon SpendingGovernment censorship the “easy way or the hard way”. ABC, a television network owned by Disney, suspended Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night chat show indefinitely after the Federal Communications Commission’s chairman implied ABC’s broadcast licence was at risk. On Monday Mr Kimmel …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Easy Way or the Hard WayI’ve supported the Electronic Frontier Foundation for over twenty years. I am excited to have this 35th anniversary coin, number 0061, as a keepsake. If only they did POAPs. 🤩
“Working to ensure that technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people.”
Important ruling for AI model training, copyright, and fair use. This aligns with how I would think about it.
A federal judge in America ruled it was “fair use” for Anthropic, an AI lab, to train its chatbot on books without authors’ permission. Its storage of over 7m pirated books, however, was not. Last year three authors sued Anthropic for allegedly copying and storing pirated material without compensation; the judge said Anthropic will face a separate trial to determine the damages it owes. — Economist, World in Brief, June 25, 2025
While doing blog gardening today I saw a post I wrote 21 years ago about privacy issues. This is a topic I’ve been consistent on for a very long time it seems.
These days we mostly interact with maps in a singular, digital manner. However, if you want to have a guaranteed way to get a conversation going in a group put a map in front of everyone and shortly the stories will start coming. “I remember when we were here and this thing …
Keep reading · 3 minutes: Telling Stories with MapsLittle Snitch is a great app to protect your privacy. It is also incredible to use your computer for average stuff and see that you are connecting with systems all around the world. I’m even running 1Blocker in my browser which stops some things before they even get to the network layer!
Hey LinkedIn,
Do you remember in 2013 when you started routing emails through your proxy server without asking users about it?
I do.
Because of that you will never have an app on my device. You are only allowed in the web browser where it is safe.
I find this growing trend of sending a one-time code via email to login very annoying. Especially when companies make it the default. I’m good with 1Password.
