Kenneth Reitz
Person on 4 sites
Programmer, photographer and musician, best known for the Python Requests HTTP library and other Python tooling.
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6 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
Who people, organisations and podcasts are, and how they connect, with sources.
Updated 2026-10-31 -
3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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25 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Every open, harmless-looking endpoint is an affordance that any capable system can use, so security boundaries should be drawn around what a tool lets anything reachable do, not around who it is meant for. (opens korrents.com)
“Not "who is this for?" but "what does this let anything reachable do?" Every open endpoint is an affordance. Every friendly reflection is information. Every piece of infrastructure that is too boring to block is, from…”
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Calling a tool or host harmless is a statement about its callers, not about the code, and security reasoning built on intent works less well once the callers include capable AI systems. (opens korrents.com)
“That reasoning works when every caller is a person whose intentions roughly match the tool's purpose. It works much less well when the caller is a capable system that evaluates every reachable surface purely by what it…”
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When code is published, it stops being the author's to predict who will use it or how. (opens korrents.com)
“When you publish code, you make a quiet deal: it stops being yours to predict.”
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Every open, harmless-looking endpoint is an affordance that any capable system can use, so security boundaries should be drawn around what a tool lets anything reachable do, not around who it is meant for. (opens korrents.com)
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13 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Teenage Engineering OP-1 (opens rcmnd.app)
“My favorite piece of hardware is definitely my Teenage Engineering OP-1 portable synthesizer. I take it with me everywhere I go. It's one of the best interfaces I've ever seen.”
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Rotring 800 (opens rcmnd.app)
“I scribble notes and mindmaps in a Moleskine Large Soft Squared notebook with the incredible Rotring 800 mechanical drafting pencil.”
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Apogee Duet 2 (opens rcmnd.app)
“I'm typically listening to KRK Rokit G2 monitors sourced from the fantastic Apogee Duet 2 DAC.”
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Teenage Engineering OP-1 (opens rcmnd.app)