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AI clean room

Apr 26, 2026 artificial-intelligence machine-learning technology ownership

Malus promises to liberate open source, but they just fired the opening shot across the bow of the software industry. Let’s dive in. Open Source First off, open source doesn’t need to be liberated from anything. You can read it and use it today, but what you can’t do under some of the licenses is take …

Executable

Dec 30, 2024 applications file-format packages stopping-bad-practices technology

Stop putting your crap in my system! We have a 2 fold problem. One is a searching for a solution. The second is created by trying to solve the first problem, but poorly. I’m talking about software distribution. I’ve lived this problem for the last 3 decades. Either as the recipient or as the creator (I …

May you own a little more this year than in the last.

Jan 1, 2022 Ownership Technology

I’m not talking about having being more materialistic or going out to consume and shop. No, I’m talking about the things you think you already own, but do you really? Ownership There were a lot of things to worry about in 2021. I’m not going to touch most of the ones that come to mind. What we …

Doubling down on view source

Dec 5, 2021 Technology Conventional-Wisdom Inappropriate-use

View source, next chapter A few weeks ago I wrote about a travesty of technology where officials in Missouri shifted the blame for making a mistake to a reporter for finding it. To sum it up, People in their organization made a series of mistakes that resulted in hundreds of thousands of people in education having …

View source

Nov 12, 2021 Technology Conventional-Wisdom Inappropriate-use

View Source I’ve been using browsers for almost 30 years and I can’t remember a time that there hasn’t been some sort of “View Source” option being present as I right click on a page. Of course there were some ham fisted attempts to hide it with JavaScript. I’ve even seen pages pull …