Soatok Dreamseeker

Eventually, the following technologies will get better:

1. Internet access
2. Virtual reality
3. Robotics

Logically, it's only a matter of time before remotely-controlled micro furry robots (with full VR immersion) at cons are a thing.

Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI

It's becoming increasingly apparent that one of the reasons why tech companies are so enthusiastic about shoving AI into every product and service is that they fundamentally do not understand why people dislike AI. I will elaborate. I was recently made aware of the Jetbrains developer ecosystem survey, which included a lot of questions about AI. After I answered some of them negatively (and possibly…

http://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/

Why was 90's era chatroom romance incompatible with polyamory?

Because the expression for love was <3

Let's find the Fediverse's favorite number, by binary search!

(I'll keep every poll up for 1 hour.)

21% >= 524288
79% <= 524287

168 Stimmabgaben, geschlossen

A little after midnight on Christmas, I received an unsolicited "roast" for one of my open source libraries.

The roast was AI-generated.

Naturally, I decided to look into who's behind this spam campaign and expose them.

https://soatok.blog/2024/12/26/roasted-christmas-spam-from-muhu-ai/

#opensource #ai #spam #muhuai #tech #technology #enshitification

Towards Federated Key Transparency

In late 2022, I blogged about the work needed to develop a specification for end-to-end encryption for the fediverse. I sketched out some of the key management components on GitHub, and then the public work abruptly stalled. A few of you have wondered what's the deal with that. This post covers why this effort stalled, what I'm proposing we do next.

http://soatok.blog/2024/06/06/towards-federated-key-transparency/

Philosophers be like: "The hardest problem in consciousness is, what's it like to be a bat?"

Have you met therians?