Month: May 2023

Kind of sad, but XKCD nails it again… 😂

I have to admit that I find it difficult to process the idea of people who “take full responsibility” for things going wrong with no consequences at all attached. Is that really taking responsibility? It used to be you’d lose your job, maybe resign, or face some other kind of pain if you were responsible… Continue reading Taking “full” responsibility?

This is a really insightful article which I think articulates some important ideas about the real value of technology very nicely, especially when we consider the potential impact of things like ChatGPT. Strangely, it got me thinking about the value of “good old fashioned” approaches which we’ve often shelved a little too quickly in the… Continue reading Sometimes the old ways…

This article makes a great point. When legislators clearly don’t seem to have any understanding of the technology they want to regulate, they sound stupid and are hard to take seriously. Australia is not immune – I’ve read and heard some doofus comments by key government people on cybersecurity recently that make me cringe because… Continue reading Tick Tock… Boom