Brandon

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It’s me, the fragile white tech bro they warned you about. Bar exam studier and hobby developer (web, PL, systems/rtos) with a CS degree. I have a little too much fun writing RSS integration.

Posts aren’t a substitute for legal advice. I’m not presently a lawyer, and I’m not your lawyer. Everything I say is my own opinion and does not reflect the opinions of my employer or anyone else.

I post about open source projects, legal issues, digital privacy, the right to repair, coffee, and watches.

Strictly anti-LLM and privacy-conscious. Queer-friendly and always will be.

Linux user; team neovim.

Unattended children will be taught what a monad is, and will be unable to explain it to anyone

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btw we need to bring back consumer electronics (admittedly, calling a stroboconn "consumer" is a bit of a stretch) that include schematics and BOM in the manual

2025-06-24

The NDCal ruling in Anthropic concluding that AI training is fair use is an interesting one. I hope to see scholars try to square it with Hachette v. Internet Archive when it comes to market effect analysis, and I’m interested for it to go up on appeal.

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@neil ahh, wrap contracts. I’m interested to hear your thoughts based on the results of this survey

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Freer arrows and why you need them in Haskell. ~ Grant VanDomelen, Gan Shen, Lindsey Kuper, Yao Li. arxiv.org/abs/2506.12212v1 #Haskell #FunctionalProgramming

2025-06-21

@neil welcome to Whose Instance Is It Anyway, the site where everything’s made up and the favorites don’t matter

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@amadeus I used to feel that way, but it improved a lot when I set my feed aggregator (Miniflux) to send everything to another platform which I get a trickle of notifications for and can click if I like a headline. I’m no longer reading everything that comes through and that’s okay :)

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kde connect is the coolest fucking thing ever the clipboard sync is AMAZING

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combination ai is going great / go to the cloud they said, itll be fine they said

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

2025-06-11

@keyboards I did a double take because this is my 65%

Virtually the same keyboard as above, bright colored modifiers and pale plain alphas, just against a food-themed deskmat. Some of the keycaps are off and strewn about to reveal the switches, Outemu Honey Peach v3.
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