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Cake day: February 13th, 2025

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  • It seems like the forbidden fruit of knowledge is giving us problems instead of only solving them.

    It does often feel that way. I take comfort that understanding we have problems is the first step to improving things.

    But also - the 1990s were way better than any era before, or since. (Edit: Since tone is hard to convey in text: This is a joke. Treating LGBTQ+ folks with any decency has come a long way since the 90s. I wouldn’t go back.)




  • I have faith that a fan fiction about a post-transition Harriet Potter will make it big, someday, maybe even be more popular than the original.

    I’ll do whatever I can to support it, just to annoy folks who deserve to be annoyed, for being brittle and hurtful about such things.



  • Yes. Email has always been one of the more vulnerable parts of the computer ecosystem, because any stranger can use it to send a (malicious) file into your computer or server for processing.

    Simpler email is safer. Every new feature has bugs. Some bugs are vulnerabilities.

    Gmail adding learning models is creating a new risk for you.

    How large that risk is, has yet to be discovered.

    My armchair opinion is that the new risk is minimal, compared to the rest of the risks of using email. But time will tell.

    I’m the meantime, if I still used Gmail, I would turn the LLM features off and let someone else discover how risky it is.

    I also agree that it’s time for rational people to leave Gmail, if they can. But my reasons are privacy reasons, rather than security reasons.