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From Pain to Purpose: solving problems with technology
Why I'm a #technologist
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#ThirdSpaces #FediCollective #PurposeStatement #ProblemSolver #OpenWeb #DWeb #CommunityBuilding #CoffeeWithCrissy

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Working to sustainably strengthen the open source ecosystem, @sovtechfund has several hybrid positions available now on #OSJH. Learn more and apply today! https://opensourcejobhub.com/company/950/ #BugResilience #ProgramManager #OpenSource #STF #Technologist #digital #infrastructure #FOSS #DigitalCommons

I couldn't skip a 2024 #technology and #society prediction panel!
You guessed it: it is about #GenAI 🤣

Is the Future Generative, #Utopic, #Dystopic, and #Robotic?
Join us for 'Not Your Usual Next Year #Predictions #Panel.

A Reflection on Generative #AI in 2024 | A Conversation Hosted By Marco Ciappelli on the Redefining Society Podcast

Guests:

Diana Kelley
#CISO | Board Member | Volunteer | Executive Advisor

Dr. Rebecca Wynn, The Soulful CXO
#CISO | #Cybersecurity Strategist | #DataPrivacy & #riskmanagement Advisor | Board Member | Soulful CXO Show Host | Author | Keynote Speaker

Nigel Cannings
#CTO, Intelligent Voice | RDSBL Industrial Fellow @ University of East London | JSaRC Industry Secondee UK Home Office | NLP and Speech AI Expert | Innovator | #MentalHealth Advocate | Passionate #Entrepreneur | Speaker

Kevin Macnish, PhD, CIPP/E
Managing ethics and sustainability risk in the private and public sectors

Justin "Hutch" Hutchens
Award-Winning Speaker | Author | #Podcaster | Teacher | #Technologist | #Security Researcher | #DataScientist | #fullstackdeveloper

Len Noe
CyberArk Technical Evangelist/ White Hat #Hacker / #BioHacker

Sean Martin
Analyst, Writer, Journalist, Podcaster, Professor, Photographer | Co-Founder of ITSPmagazine Podcast Network: At the Intersection of #Technology, #CyberSecurity & #Society

Episode Introduction

Welcome to a peek into the yet-unfolded chapter of our digital future!

Join us on this Redefining Society episode - a compelling 'GEN AI 2024 Prediction Panel’. If you do not know what to expect from this panel, you are not alone; we didn’t either. This episode is like a canvas where we invite technology enthusiasts, visionaries, and experts to paint their predictions for what Generative AI, simply known as GEN AI, will look like in 2024 and beyond. The goal: unearthing thought-provoking views, sparking meaningful conversations around AI, and above all, bridging the gap between imagination and the potential reality.

I can, with certainty, affirm that we nailed it! Whatever that means.

Listen to this panel to get an insightful, riveting, and unique perspective on how AI is shifting gears and changing the landscape of the AI journey, with a little sprinkle of prophecy.

(Yeah, this was written mostly by #chatgpt 🤖 )

Share, subscribe, be merry!

📻 Audio
https://redefining-society-podcast.simplecast.com/episodes/is-the-future-generative-utopic-dystopic-and-robotic-join-us-for-not-your-usual-next-year-predictions-panel-a-reflection-on-generative-ai-in-2024-a-redefining-society-conversation-hosted-by-marco-ciappelli

📺 Video
https://youtu.be/3k8tb0uGrK8?feature=shared

New paint on an old instance; time for an #introduction.

Hi there! I'm a #verbose #millennial #technologist from #texas.

I'm #political, value internal consistency in #ideology, been involved in #activism most of my life, and have been criticized as an #idealist and #optimist.

Beyond what's in the profile, my jams are:
- #games (#VideoGame, #BoardGame or #TTRPG)
- #teaching, #learning, #neurology, #language
- #web0, #FOSS, #cybersecurity
- #music, #modular

Well, here goes: #introduction

It started with Apple IIs and Oregon Trail in the late 80s, and in middle school they had a lab full of them and we drew stuff with LOGO and saved our work on the old 5 inch floppies. Was addicted to Hover when it came out. Finally we had a family computer and got dialup, and I was home alone when I experienced my first malware infection, and not wanting to get in trouble, I learned really fast what the command line and the registry were, and I had it all cleaned up with no trace by the time anyone else got home. I'd spend hours tinkering with this or that, or fixing things that went wrong.

Discovered AI/chatbots and built a couple using the Personality Forge, and for a while they were the most advanced chatbots on the site. I'd work on their programming with a Palm IIIe and a folding keyboard, while away from my desk, and then I'd 'hotsync' my notes and upload changes via dialup, those were the days! "Get off the computer I need to make a phone call" lol

My interests were anything tech. It went from being an interest to being a professional endeavor when I started doing flash dev and website work for a travel directory site in PV, Mexico, while I was living there, and when I returned to the states I worked for a small ISP doing #WIMAX installs using Motorola Canopy gear, along with whatever malware removal, hardware fixes, repairs, reinstalls, whatever, all manner of PC stuff.

Moved to TX, worked for another ISP down there doing the same thing, involved using slightly older tech gear, and this was around the time malware infections were starting to really plague even smaller businesses, and I started to focus on #infosec and #security, and then they bought a webhosting company and I switched back to website work, updating sites that had been built using... html tables and sketchy code that was often missing tags. Wrote repair articles for #Technibble for a while, then started out on my own, specializing in anything tech, from #networking #troubleshooting #ComputerRepair #programming small stuff using batch scripts, #AutoIT, (am I supposed to tag this stuff? I'm new to this here) and started up my own #webhosting company where I could pick and choose what platforms to use, free reign to give customers the best bang for their buck, and #WordPress was simple enough to get them into, make something that fit the need, and then hand the reins over to them for most of the content changes in the future unless something went terribly wrong.

Worked in retail electronics and got some experience with mobile tech, helped customers with analog phones transfer their stuff to new phones, activation, etc, meanwhile discovering Android, which led to #root discovery and fascination with #CustomRom stuff, which led to #AppDev for a customer using Android and iOS, but I only dabble in that sector.

Returned to WA and helped with a non-tech family business, but the lack of a #CRM that did what I wanted led me to build custom functionality onto an existing CRM using the ol' #php, and then built a custom #IoT system using #micropython for a customer, #ESP32 (love these things) etc, and then the pandemic happened and I went straight into #python and wanted to use #django but the workflow wasn't to my liking, so I took a step back and followed a friend's advice to get more into #javascript which I'm absolutely loving, with a focus on #NodeJS.

My main line of work at the moment is something I'd probably have to add a disclaimer for, so instead I'll just say that it's really fun and keeps me active, and involves tech to a degree, possibly primarily because I prefer to leverage tech solutions wherever possible to save time, money, and 'decision fatigue' to spend that instead on refreshing old skills and learning new ones.

I type really fast, which unfortunately leads to me writing entire novels inside emails (heh) and I also forget a lot of the stuff I've done because I switch focus depending on what solutions are needed, so for a TL;DR:

I'm a nerd who loves anything even lightly tech or security related, sort of a jack of all trades #technologist: If someone has a problem or a tech need, I either find an affordable/free solution or build it. If I need to learn it to build it, no worries, just adds a little time to the project.

I love this #Mastodon thing and look forward to all the awesome stuff I've been seeing here, wishing I had more to share in return. Thank you @jerry!