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Denzil Ferreira

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Director, Security & Engineering at HMD Secure I'm a scientist, developer, tinkerer. Toots on life reflections, news reactions, and experimental notes […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ techhub.social/@denzilferreira, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

#sunfire #sunset #photography #finland #kuusamo

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

I've been thinking, could be cool to have a fedi app that if someone you follow tags a #photography it would make that as an option for wallpaper for your phone...

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

#aurora #dance #suomi #finland #photography

Auroras. It's like waves on the ocean, but it's on the sky.

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2026

#aurora #season #night #sauna #finland #photography

Watching auroras at the horizon, dark, lantern at hand, peer by a lake

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Portal, running right on my phone, a Snapdragon Gen 2. I'm not used to screen controls, and I'll for sure be plugging in a BT controller but this is nuts! Performance around 30-40fps 🫪 #steam #arm64 #snapdragon #valve

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

#swans #nissinjärvi #finland #suomi #photography

Swans in a lake in Nissinjärvi, Finland

Lake Nissinjärvi, Finland. Swans at the distance.

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Went for a swim, 3°C and sauna was ready 😉 #finland #sauna #photography

Lamp at peer, waves on the water

Fire sauna ready to warm up

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

#finland #kuusamo

Stars, sun is almost gone. Feels cozy and peaceful

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

It's easier to copy something, than making something from scratch. All these reverse engineered functionality matched applications/games using LLMs is in a way giving back to people what the LLM providers took without paying for it. I'm curious of the impact this will have for future software […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

The irony in all this is the warning signs are all ignored, people are still without a job and the token count and subscriptions keep rising. Good luck keeping a product operational more than a quarter. Because you will be adding one more feature, one more, just one more, and at the end you have […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

This is nothing new. I used to create high level context from sensor data for human behavior modelling, to answer research questions at scale, like depression, social anxiety, medication side effects monitoring. Sad that this is also used at scale for ad revenue and marketing, from smartphones […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

It's all about the ads. Ad blockers made advertising companies have to adapt or die. So now they come for what is with you the most: your phone. Your phones sensors are a context machine, and the more you use it, the more they can tell about you. Last time you used the screen, first time you […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Yep...

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

www.theregister.com/security/2026/0… Yes, yes..

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

$ sudo eu_cra --now password: panic-mode-time-is-ticking! Ah, honeypot drive for #vulnerability reporting and action within 24h. With unhinged and unrestricted AI models, this is gonna be painful in EU if companies did not prepare for #CRA. Fines, bounties, all in a measure to protect against […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Gitte is a nice little app for managing Git-based projects. Very nice work here. If you haven't yet, subscribe to This Week On Gnome RSS feed! thisweek.gnome.org #gitte codeberg.org/ckruse/Gitte

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Finland just signed up to end cheap electricity prices. Spot prices to skyrocket. All that let's go EV talk because it's cheap to charge? Right. Petrol to go up, electricity to go up. Fossil fuel burning to go up. Climate? What's that? We had no summer this year up here. So we will freeze here […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Shrooms and Berries #photography #finland

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

And no, I don't want this built into the fridge itself. #bad_idea

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

This right here is passive, useful information when we need it. #trml Terminal eink, added two magnets in the official case and it's attached to our fridge. The plugins make it easy to add what we need: family calendar on the left, weather on the right. Soon […] [Original post on techhub.social]

Trml eink display on a fridge

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

@tpaau17db very cool, looks great 👍

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

@tpaau17db oh tell me more, is it a music player? Is it hosted somewhere? Is it mobile friendly?

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

I've been coming here, just to enjoy some quiet, sauna, do some fishing and absorb nature. Maybe some siideri tai ollut 😉 #peaceful #finland #lake

Peaceful lake

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Interesting development. Banking apps, to be allowed on Play Store, they must use Play Integrity. As the majority of Android phone users are Play Certified devices, even if old, this means that engineering of said banking apps are pushed to use Play Store and leave everyone else excluded. This […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Netflix, no. Disney+, no. HBO, no. Replaced binge show watching with trips to the local library. Huge collection of DVD, Blu-ray movies. Found a few books to read. I had enough.

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

There is more to it than meets the eye. A brand model also needs the spare parts suppliers to still have a production line active so that spare parts can be manufactured. So effectively, this means have plenty surplus of items. Which may never be sold, replaced. And if it's a battery, they need […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/08/2026

Slowly but surely, #Microslop dominance in corporate is evaporating. Year of Linux has been almost a meme for years, to completely see YouTubers and governments drop Microslop license slugs. Now fund the #opensource projects. A percentage of the money you would pay to Microslop will be more than […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

Right... OpenAI will soon share your conversations and profiled data with ads. Cool beans 🫘 After testing Qwen3.8 27B locally, I can assure you, you do not need ChatGPT.

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

@suihkulokki I was wrong. This is all controlled from the headphone itself for the special button press. Sideloading Bose Connect, I was able to change the headphone button press to toggle the different modes of ANC (high, low, off). Press and holding the play/stop does trigger the digital […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

@suihkulokki from what I've seen from AOSP, this is not there. Likely part of Google Services and Digital Assistant support...

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

@suihkulokki hum... The key codes do work (vol up/down, play/stop, double to next, triple to go back). The command, whether it's a AT/keycode/BLE GATT is hardwired to Google Assistant/Alexa so maybe this is a response that the headphone expects to receive from the phone. Which makes me wonder […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/08/2026

I've been using #Bose #QC35II since 2012/13 maybe. During this time, I've gone through 2 ear muffin replacements - the fake leather covers peel off due to ear moisture, frost, wind and hot sun. However, they are easily replaced and this time around, I picked one with cloth material instead. Not […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Rudolf is being naughty 😆 #Traffic #RoadRage #reindeer #Finland

A reindeer in the middle of the road

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Robert Kingett @weirdwriter.caneandable.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

#storm #thunder #finland #photography

Dark clouds, looks scary and thunder brewing

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

RE: fosstodon.org/@openhomefoundation/1… @gael some wins 😉

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/07/2026

Yes, keep employing "AI" for customer service. And fire the people you have to support. Surely someone is there? Everything will be alright 👌#posti #enshittification

Enshittification on OmaPosti. AI that can't help, customer service broken

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Love this place. #photography #finland

A calm lake, looks peaceful and the sky is clear

A mushroom in the middle of the forest

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

@stefano when companies realize that AI is nothing more than a party trick, that they lost talent for something that is a predicting machine and that can't fix a problem by making judgement calls to the company best interest - yes because dropping a full database in production to rewrite the […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

@bruces if they are so worried about the open models, they should start with opening theirs so that we can check their safety. Ah right. It's ok for them to keep them closed.

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/07/2026

Hot take: I used to think more screens, the more productive. Then because of travel, I started using just my laptop screen (14"), and due to the window tiling, workspace switching using gestures, I can get more done without distractions from multiple visible windows across the displays. Yeah […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

#Bazzite is great, especially if you have kids and want to make sure they don't sneak to play games. Having #SteamOS front and center, #parental #controls actually work and through Steam mobile app. System updates are seamless, and things just work. Since I set it up on the HP EliteDesk 705 SFF […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

Uninstalled Duolingo from kids devices. Why? Because it keeps notifying them, nudging them to play games. It's no longer to learn languages!

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/07/2026

#worthy #avenger Wood Pecker #wood #winterIsComing

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

@beemdvp nothing wrong with asking people to review and test before wasting others time. FlatHub wants to make sure what they published works. People would be very angry with borked apps.

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

@nielsTFranck not everything needs to be an app. And services surely cannot force people to use a smartphone. There are plenty of individuals who use a feature/old school devices. EU needs to put in the work to make it so that EU can function without Google or Apple. The best we can do is inform […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/07/2026

It's almost a year since I joined HMD, and later to HMD Secure. During this time, because we are working with #deGoogled devices, I came to see very sketchy moves by Google in limiting significantly what you experience with a deGoogled device. #Murena e/OS is a great example of what you can […]

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Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2026

Whoever thought this is safe in deepfakes age? All those TikTok training data and a virtual camera, MY LaWd! #distopian #auth #nope x.com/Google/status/208028400651220…

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

#finland #photo Lake at Dusk

Calm lake, sunset colors. Looks peaceful

Denzil Ferreira @denzilferreira.techhub.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/07/2026

#ad #topics I know Google business is at its core ads. If it's free, you are the source of revenue. The answer is #NoAdsPlease

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