There will always be companies willing to provide cheap or free services to people willing to give up their dignity.

Microsoft Azure portal is so difficult to use, I don't know how anything ever got configured before AI was able to walk people through the steps.

The same company that takes your passport photo to sign up for ChatGPT also operates a gov platform that files Suspicious Activity Reports with the fed, runs facial recognition on political databases, & tags reports with intelligence codenames. Same codebase.

vmfunc.re

the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same compa...

hey kids, who wants some moldy cereal?

What one feature do you need in @Maple that would let you use ChatGPT or Claude less?

We're having a busy month with Maple. Highest signups in a month and the two highest single days of signups. The privacy tech is spreading

Got @Maple working as a provider in clawdbot. Full end-to-end encrypted inference for your personal data processing. Putting together a PR.

Episode 1 - mostly redundant

what's something you won't talk about with chatgpt?

Morning walk with Maple for final testing of two-way voice chat on iOS. Today's topic is 2026 planning and reflection. Do any of you do voice chat with AI on your walks or while driving? What do you talk about? I find it helpful to talk through big questions.

hey @calle and @jack have either of you explored the possibility of bitchat as a PWA on Android and iOS? I'm about to go down that rabbit hole for a hackathon idea.

Never forget the ChatGPT guy is also the Worldcoin guy. The marriage of these two technologies is the base of most dystopians novels.

Maple has helped me do quite a bit of Christmas shopping. The live web search combined with chat really came through for me.