AI on Tom Meurs

Data Poisoning: Reclaiming Your Privacy Through Offence

Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:43:00 +0100

Here’s how privacy works today. You read the policy. You dismiss the cookie banner. You hunt through three settings menus for the opt-out toggle that someone buried on purpose. All of that to exercise a right that should’ve been the default. And while you’re still on the first paragraph of the terms of service, every click, scroll, hover and the exact timing of your keystrokes has already been harvested, packaged and sold. Somewhere along the way I stopped finding that strange, and that bothers me more than the harvesting does.

K8sGPT with a Local 70B Model on Apple Silicon

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100

TL;DR I pointed K8sGPT at a Llama 3.3 70B model running on a Mac Studio in my own office, so no cluster metadata leaves the network, and fed it three broken workloads. It found all three and wrote fixes I’d accept from a colleague, except for the resource numbers, which it made up. Assisted diagnosis works, at 25 seconds a query. Autonomous cluster management is still marketing, and the security section is why I wouldn’t let a model change anything on its own.

Why Privacy Matters More Than Ever

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 14:00:00 +0100

Your phone logged where you slept before you woke up. You check Gmail, search something on Google, message a friend on WhatsApp, pay for coffee with a card and walk past a dozen cameras before lunch. None of that feels like surveillance. It feels like a normal morning.

It felt the same five years ago, and I want to show you what changed in between. The comfortable version of privacy, “I have nothing to hide”, has quietly stopped being true, and I think most people haven’t noticed. Three things happened at once. On its own each one is manageable. Together they’re what worries me.