Category: Technology

My initial thoughts after using the FLX1s Linux phone from FuriLabs for a couple of days. The conclusion so far is that this needs work before it can replace my iPhone, mostly from my side. It’s disappointing on a few dimensions, but so far I haven’t seen anything that can’t be fixed or worked around.

A shaggy dog story about how carefully Air France’s emails are contrived to perfectly resemble a scam.

The question was raised, are generation ships ethical? The first answer is, that’s a silly question. So is the second answer. But the third answer may surprise you.

“Artificial Intelligence” is now an inescapable part of music videos. I flirt with the idea that this is a terrible change that will destroy an art form that I love.

I wonder why all the fuss about large-language-models and mars rockets, when we could be splurging billions recreating an Iain M. Banks novel.

Musing on the failure of LLMs to handle mathematics problems.

I yell at the “Y2K was a hoax” myth. This might be ancient history, but I was there, and I saw what I saw.