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• People Are Dating AI Now: Let’s Talk About Why, The Good, The Bad, And Where It Gets Risky — Ever wondered why people date AI now? As a clinical psychotherapist I explain why loneliness, accessibility and fast res
• Can Other Viewers See You on Webcam Sites? What’s Actually Visible — Wondering if other viewers can see you on webcam sites? Learn what’s actually visible, what stays private, and how your
• Are Webcam Sites Anonymous? What Cam Sites Can Really See — Think webcam sites are anonymous? Not quite. Learn what cam sites can actually see — including your IP address, username
• Are Webcam Sites Really Safe? What You Need to Know About Privacy & Tracking — Webcam sites can be safe when using trusted platforms, but risks still exist. This guide explains how privacy, tracking,
• My date with an octopus — A blind date with an octopus? I fed that prompt to ChatGPT and it answered with a theatrical apology to "Octavia" and ev
• In defence of digital ID — Think of a single number replacing passport, NHS, tax and driving licence numbers. I defend digital ID UK as a privacy e
• Taking a swipe at dating apps
• Our devices work for Big Tech, not for us — Ever wondered why a $100 UgMonk Analog to-do list sparks so much rage? In this post I argue our devices work for Big Tec
• Ping! The WhatsApps that should have been an email — Enough with the pings. I make the case for email vs WhatsApp and why to use email instead of WhatsApp for important mess
• Whose job is safe from AI? — Think gardeners are safe from AI? I unpack why jobs change shape when machines take over tasks, from laser scarecrows an
• When will the AI Bubble burst? — The generative AI industry looks a lot like a bubble. I run through Bank of England and IMF warnings, BBC, FT and RTÉ li
• Conscious AI as a Feature, Not a Bug — What if consciousness could make robots safer and easier to live with? Using the TV show Humans as my lens, I argue cons
• Light and Weather in Microsoft Flight Simulator — Ever wondered why Microsoft Flight Simulator looks so real? In this post I show how light and weather in Microsoft Fligh
• The Joys of Virtual Travel — Missing travel? In this post I revisit travel through Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, using MSFS VR and my HP Reverb G2
• Mind the Power Lines! — Low and slow over Wales, dodging radio towers and power lines in Microsoft Flight Simulator VR. I flew the quirky Edgley
• Guns, Guns, Guns! (Not Really) — Ever flown a jet trainer over the Amalfi Coast in VR? Here I recount a Microsoft Flight Simulator multiplayer flight wit
• Earth Simulator (with Airplanes) — Ever circled a lighthouse in a silver PT-17 Stearman at sunset? I do, in Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020, and I write ab
• AI and Our Labor Addiction — Surprising truth: a New York Times take treated AI-generated art as a harmless tool for ad agencies. In this post I call
• extm3u.pl — Tired of handcrafting playlists? I made extm3u.pl to generate extended .m3u playlists from a folder and print to stdout
• sanity.pl — Sick of escaping long filenames in FTP? I made sanity.pl to rename files to a sane name, replacing spaces with underscor
• navilink.pl — Need an easy way to move waypoints and tracks from a Locosys GPS? I walk through installing and using navilink.pl, the P
• Fortunes — Love seeing a new quote when you open a terminal? I've packaged a set of fortune cookies for the unix fortune program th
• pam_require — Want to lock down SSH to a specific group or user? In this post I introduce pam_require, a tiny PAM account module for L
• VideoDB — Need a simple way to manage your personal video collection? In this post I walk through VideoDB, a lightweight personal
• File Icons — Need consistent file icons for your app? I put together a community file icon collection and packaged it as fileicons.zi
• Giraffe — Tired of cluttered calendars at conferences? This post covers Giraffe, my personal conference schedule tool for Android.
• Crocofile — Tired of sending large client files over email? I walk you through Crocofile, a simple PHP script to upload and download
• DokuWiki — Want a simple wiki without a database? Here I explain why DokuWiki fits small companies, how plain text pages keep data
• What we are losing
• Media diet — Here’s a thorny one: journalism needs paying, yet we grew up on free media. I pick over a long MetaFilter thread on pira
• Schneier at SRI — At SRI Bruce Schneier presented integrous systems design, arguing AI must provide availability, confidentiality and veri
• careful what you ask for — Imagine lying in bed, too sick to move, and saying "help" to Siri. My HomePod hub misheard it, a neighbor named Ken call
• ‘jumping the shark’ - not so bad — Remember when sharing links felt like treasure hunting? In this post I argue that "jumping the shark" can be a good thin
• minimal black and white is my new jam — Minimal black and white is my new jam. After I revamped my desktop I kept revising it until a quiet dark mode desktop se
• on the ups and downs of change — Surprising moment of clarity led me to retire the dailywebthing after two decades. I set up the dailywebthing archives a
• an old thought and the new web — Remember pop-under ads from the early web? In this post I go back to September 2001, recall Yahoo and GeoCities, and exp
• No, AI does not have human-level intelligence — Does AI already have human-level intelligence? In this post I argue the Nature claim is overstated. I show their definit
• Racing through a minefield: the AI deployment problem — What should you do if you're on the cusp of building transformative AI? Here I outline the AI deployment problem as raci
• AI Safety Seems Hard to Measure — What if passing a safety test still leaves us at risk? In this post I walk through four concrete reasons why measuring A
• What does Bing Chat tell us about AI risk? — Is Bing Chat a warning sign about AI risk? I walk through Microsofts new Bing beta, the threats, the professed love, and
• AI Art Is Art — What if a urinal and an algorithm both count as art? In this guest post I defend and celebrate AI-generated art like Jas
• The Real Problem with AI Art — What happens when algorithms learn from an art world dominated by white men? I argue the real problem with AI art is bia
• Debatable AI Persons: No Rights, Full Rights, Animal-Like Rights, Credence-Weighted Rights, or Patchy Rights? — Facing an AI that might be conscious, what should we do about AI personhood and rights? I advise avoiding creation of de
• AI Mimics and AI Children — Surprising fact: the aliens we expect might already be here as AI. In "AI Mimics and AI Children" I argue why we balk at
• Does Global Workspace Theory Solve the Question of AI Consciousness? — Can Global Workspace Theory settle the puzzle of AI consciousness? I argue no. In three sections from Chapter Eight of m
• Artificial Intelligence as Strange Intelligence: Against Linear Models of Intelligence — What if intelligence is not a ladder? In a new draft paper with Eric Schwitzgebel I argue against linear models of intel
• Keyboard news — Could one more keyboard be justified? My mechanical keyboards habit now includes a Keychron K10 with purple gradient bla
• How to Memorize Programming Languages — Tired of forgetting syntax across languages? This 5-minute read on how to memorize programming languages uses Art of Mem
• You Have to Type It Out — Typing out every example is how I actually learn. While prepping a new chapter of The Rust Programming Language I walked
• Friendly Little Wrapper Types — Ever wondered whether wrapping simple IDs in opaque types is overkill? My take walks through TypeScript and Rust example