Matt Hardy 3.11 for Workgroups

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2026-08-27 15:17:19 UTC

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I’ll take your word for it that tool quality will increase over time. As for it being good enough now to describe it as a good use case, I’ll have to disagree. Have you tested any of your own writing to see if the slander engine accuses you of being a clanker? If not then many have found it enlightening to do so. Students today are getting told by teachers that their essay has been failed by a bot that prognosticated an 80% chance their essay used AI. Even if accurate that means one in five such punishments are undeserved. And this disproportionally affects foreign and neurodivergent people with more formal language styles. Not to mention disfavouring people who refused to get AI to rewrite their essays to pass the AI checks. How ironic is that? Sadly this particular BS detection industry is itself BS which is only a problem when people in power ignore that glaringly obvious and easily verified fact in favour of absconding their own responsibility for detecting misconduct. One final question, if your submit an essay and your teacher asks AI to check it over for them, how do you know that your work isn’t being used as training fodder. Is that independently audited? Anyway I think you may have touched a nerve, apologies for ranting at a slight tangent.

2026-08-27 06:52:18 UTC

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except ‘available tools’ largely means more AI and is about as reliable as a seaside fortune teller.

2026-08-20 16:39:14 UTC

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yeah, future historians will see the information revolution as a step change. Marking the end of what I suspect they might call, "The age of privacy" We really didn't know how badly we were screwing up the world we were handing over to our kids. I hope they remember us at least as well meaning.

2026-08-20 16:30:43 UTC

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no camera needed. There was one class at a nearby school that was cursed with a 50% fatality rate. Various idiocies, playing chicken with traffic, train surfing, one poor chap, ran out of lighter gas to inhale and though he'd wrap his lips round a CO2 fire extinguisher.

2026-07-23 08:59:19 UTC

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I’d have to accept more responsibility for my dog escaping my control and biting someone (which touch wood will never happen) than an AI exec takes when their tamagotchi on steroids breaks containment and attacks a competitor. And if my pet was declared dangerous it’d be put to sleep.

2026-07-10 14:46:42 UTC

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fair enough. I'll stop bugging you. Have a marvellous day.

2026-07-10 14:35:31 UTC

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I'm confused. Are you suggesting that the First Amendment offers protections against surveillance capitalism? Is there an example of something that can be tracked under EU law but not US law?

2026-07-10 14:14:55 UTC

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"Crowing" no, just comparing to the US. Though I guess damned with faint praise is still praise.

2026-07-10 08:42:41 UTC

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this is the EU Lauren, the only people to ever take Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Apple to task on privacy. The home of the GDPR and the right to be forgotten. Where do you think the data goes? Absolutely nowhere by law. Same as the camera that helps you reverse park. Of course the rising levels of surveillance built into modern cars is a valid concern. And industries often play dirty with legislation so while the driver alertness camera that we’ll soon get used to, might not call back to head office, the one next to it in the same cluster for say Face ID unlock might still be allowed to contirbite to the telemetry stream. In which case I’d still trust EU regulators over the US to put drivers before car companies.

2026-05-07 13:18:25 UTC

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paging Bill Hicks. No seriously, have you thought about sponsoring, or exhibiting at Maker Faires, Raspberry Jams that sort of thing.

2026-03-27 14:29:04 UTC

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TIL someone registered KinkedIn.com in 2005 and still hasn't done anything with it.

2026-01-16 17:59:10 UTC

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wish I had your energy https://techhub.social/@technicaladept/115865563453936183
#note1v8c…8224

2026-01-09 14:16:32 UTC

Parking fine from Euro Car Parks sent to collations agency. I wouldn't have enjoyed paying the initial £50, but it would have been better than the £155 I just shelled out because I never received the initial letters. Letters that I only have their word that they sent. Either they screwed up (twice) or the Royal Mail did (twice) But there's nothing I can do about the disappearing post that won't cost me more than £105's worth of time and aggravation.

2025-11-03 12:47:30 UTC

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it would astonish me if that hadn't been the case for decades.

2025-10-06 17:27:20 UTC

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Introducing.... Clipanomics
https://files.techhub.social/media_attachments/files/115/328/387/222/212/803/original/6eccb5a6b7f23326.png

2025-06-20 14:59:15 UTC

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There is a quote in the article "These aren't just old breaches being recycled. This is fresh, weaponizable intelligence at scale." But that's from one of the researchers promoting their work not an independent voice.