social.dk-libre.fr is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Le storytelling autour de la sécurité des agents IA a « perdu le contact avec la réalité »
https://next.ink/254794/le-storytelling-autour-de-la-securite-des-agents-ia-a-perdu-le-contact-avec-la-realite/
OpenAI a confié l’analyse de la cyberattaque d’ #Hugging_face par ses agents #IA à des personnes qui n’ont ni expérience ni expertise en matière de cybersécurité. Elles sont cependant persuadées que les capacités des agents IA surpasseront celles des humains d’ici quelques mois, voire qu’ils pourraient éradiquer tout ou partie de l’humanité.
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Ça fait quelques années « qu'on rase gratis demain » chez #OpenAI… C'est toujours "dans quelques mois" que leur outil tiendra ses promesses.
I celebrated this in the past, but I can’t help but think this is temporary and or a marketing gimmick that will go away after they receive money from something/someone tangentially related to any of these AI companies. Maybe I am too skeptical of this announcement, but I hope I’m wrong. All sectors of the tech industry, even open source, has proven time and time again that they do not care about principles nor their users, only about opportunity and breaking things and profits. I just simply do not trust anything in the Tech industry ever again. LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features ⁄ Manual do Usuário https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/ #LibreOffice #AI #LLM #NoAi
Whoa. @libreoffice unleashes “no AI as a feature” and breaks download records.
“In one week, the installer was downloaded more than 1 million times — not counting updates via Linux distribution repositories.”
Great work, LibreOffice team! 👏🏻
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai
“This is the #AI men actually use”: #Meta #ads pushed apps #nudifying real teens
Meta took days to remove ads containing AI-generated child #sexual #abuse material (#CSAM ) on #Facebook and #Instagram. Some ads featured photos of real kids, including a press photo of a young member of a European royal family and images swiped from a popular Instagram profile of a preteen girl deemed an influencer.
In an investigation published Tuesday, the Tech Transparency Project (TTP) reported that Meta failed to detect 332 ads containing CSAM this year. The “vast majority” of ads promoted AI apps made in China, while many ads promoted so-called “nudify” apps that make it easy for bad actors to use AI and digitally alter images of #children.
#privacy
« Il est difficile de faire comprendre quelque chose à un quelqu'un lorsque son salaire dépends précisément du fait qu'il ne la comprenne pas »
disait Upton Sinclair. (il a dû rencontrer ma cheffe. Et la·le tien·ne. etc)
「 Mamdani wrote in part, “the tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary.”
“We do not see it that way,” he added 」
https://abcnews.com/Technology/new-york-city-public-schools-banning-ai-middle/story?id=136134872
The absurdity of pouring billions of dollars into machines designed to generate corporate profit and hallucinated text, while stripping funding from the physical spaces where actual humans learn, connect, and survive…
#publiclibrary #library #datacenter #AI #technofascism #cloudfeudalism #classwar #workingclass #publicfunding
When will there be AI superintelligence?
#EvanPoll #poll #ai #superintelligence
| About 2030 or sooner: | 4 |
| About 2040: | 3 |
| About 2050: | 0 |
| About 2060 or later: | 8 |
"While Buckmaster and Alpöge were finalizing their own results, they learned that “information about our progress had been passed to OpenAI.” When they contacted OpenAI, they were told that OpenAI had already achieved a full proof of the central problem. But when they asked follow-up questions about when OpenAI had begun its research into the problem and how much human input was involved, the answers became more evasive.
“It emerged that an entire team had been working on the problem,” Buckmaster said, “and that an insane amount of compute had been used…. Eventually, it was agreed that [the first prompt] had been sent in the past few days, after information about our work had reached OpenAI.”
If true, that would suggest the OpenAI team had become convinced that Buckmaster and Alpöge’s approach was the right one, and decided to use its material advantage in computing resources to reach a formal proof first."
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #OpenAI #Astra #GPT #Math #Mathematics
“This is the AI men actually use”: Meta ads pushed apps nudifying real teens
#news #tech #technology #AI #meta #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis #pedo
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117236204900329017
Géant ... Elle demande 100 fois à une #AI de choisir un nombre au hasard entre 0 et 100 et la réponse est 42 pour 92 des essais.
parce que 42 est le nombre qui le plus présent dans les statistiques dans les LLM.
On est mal.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@bagder/117236076403978219
maybe am missing something, but:
so #Glasswing uses #MythosAI to review all the partners’ code bases. they get 26,153 “findings” but only 2,736 are actually reported to project maintainers.
so someone ―either at #Anthropic and/or the +200 companies in Glasswing― decided that 23,417 flags should remain “off ledger”.
WHO MADE THAT DECISION? who reviewed the code review?
is this why management types loves #AI: it completely obfuscates accountability?
Insane how there is nobody to invest in the construction of Sleeper Cars for Night trains, despite their being a strong potential rental market, and yet billions are being spent on data centres with no profitable purpose.
「 AI lowered the floor of what anyone can produce, but it didn’t raise the ceiling of what’s good. So you ship more and none of it is better, and if you’re the kind of person who got into this to make good things, that’s its own specific kind of tired 」
LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610538
#HackerNews #LibreOffice #Download #Records #AI #Features #OpenSource #Software #Community
Un papier modélise l'adoption des LLMs comme un virus : contamination sociale, seuils de bascule, verrouillage technologique. Passé un certain point, la dépendance cognitive s'installe brutalement, mais l'étude identifie aussi des conditions d'"immunisation". ⬇️
https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03344
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LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features
https://manualdousuario.net/en/libreoffice-download-record-no-ai/
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49610538
#HackerNews #LibreOffice #Download #Records #AI #Features #OpenSource #Software #Community
"Le truc qu'on peut reconnaître aux IA, c'est que quand elles font de la merde et détruisent la planète, au moins elles n'éprouvent pas le besoin de s'afficher partout en train de faire du jet-ski."
Everybody hates the AI, more and more - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcEse_MEtk
Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/25/everybody-hates-the-ai-more-and-more/
by @davidgerard
Mistral lève 3 milliards d'euros en Series D, valorisation post-money de plus de 21 milliards, plus gros tour de table de la tech européenne !
Objectif : construire toute la pile IA en open-weight, sans dépendance à un vendeur unique. ⬇️
https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-makes-sovereign-open-weight-ai-to-frontier/
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「 The better these tools become at resolving routine incidents, the less practice human responders will get. And when an ambiguous, high-severity incident comes in that automation cannot solve, responding engineers will be in trouble 」
https://www.sylvainkalache.com/blog/ai-handles-incidents-engineers-lose-touch-with-their-systems
Saw an AI poster in the wild for the first time (there was a second one above the door, it's a small amusement place for kids in my hometown)
I just can't... Even if you put all the environmental and ethical aspects aside, how can anyone would want to put this on the wall of their company. It's ugly and even worse, soulless.
Autoresearch : un skill pour Claude Code (et OpenCode, Codex) qui boucle seul sur un projet. Modifie, vérifie, garde ou annule via git revert, recommence jusqu'à l'objectif. Inspiré d'un script de Karpathy, généralisé au-delà du ML. ⬇️
https://github.com/uditgoenka/autoresearch
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Kernel.org Battles AI Crawlers Generating Millions of Daily Requests
Millions of automated requests are hitting Kernel.org daily, pushing maintainers to deploy increasingly aggressive defenses against AI crawlers.
#ai #kernel #linux-&-open-source-news
https://linuxiac.com/kernel-org-battles-ai-crawlers-generating-millions-of-daily-requests/
"Um das Verfahren zu beschleunigen, sollen die Daten mit Hilfe von KI-Tools kategorisiert werden, sagte Hauer. So soll es möglich sein, eine Abstufung nach Risikopotenzial angezeigt zu bekommen und die Dateien, die dann als am meisten risikobehaftet erachtet werden, als Erstes zu prüfen."
KI Forensik? Das muss ihm Clownstrike 🤡🥊 eingeflüstert haben.
Pendel oder Glaskugeln wären genauso zuverlässig.
I filmed this while walking back from the grocery store in Little Tokyo, I had raw salmon and ice cream but it was worth the 7 minutes.
#ICE #LosAngeles #Trump #ElonMusk #MarkZuckerberg #jeffBezos #AI
Il y a des jours je me demande si la presse et les media FR comprennent ce que eux mêmes publient...
"La start-up française Mistral annonce une nouvelle levée de fonds de trois milliards d'euros, portant sa valorisation à plus de 21 milliards d'euros "
Tu paris combien que quand ça va parler de budget sur le prochain plateau de France TV info, il aura un.e journaliste pour demander : "Bon mais alors, où proposez vous de trouver l'argent ?"
#capitalisme #media #presse #France #AI #IA
Folks, if you see a YouTube video that features AI slop, stop watching it at that moment. YouTube tracks the number of viewers that remain watching over time, and a drop in viewership that coincides with the display of AI slop will tell the creator that people don’t like AI slop.
I’ve stopped watching numerous videos when an otherwise innocuous presenter decides to show AI slop. I hope I’m sending a tiny signal to show my displeasure.
「 The “responsible use” narrative shifts responsibility from the group to the individual. It’s not unlike the tobacco industry’s strategy—or indeed that of the “AI” industry 」
These are in the top 7 results of a Duck Duck Go search with AI-hide set.
New gardeners are going to be very disappointed if they think this is what gardens look like.
I flagged them all as AI, but clearly duck duck go is overwhelmed by AI and can't determine what's real anymore.
AI spotting guide is in the alt text.
Note to book reviewers: DO NOT REVIEW AI-GENERATED BOOKS, do not talk about them, do NOT give them screen time - more you give them space, more hate-buys you are helping to bring to the scammers.
They rely on hate watching, hate reviewing, and the those who want to support "AI books" and are attracted to the reviews for sales.
Uplift real books from real authors instead. That actually helps fight the AI bubble.
#Books #Book #BookReview #Bookstodon #BookReviews #AI #FuckAI #NoAI
btw my two favorite comments use the same "buzzword": #PLAGIARISM
from @bgrinter instead of #AI, call it PLAGIARISM-AS-A-SERVICE
from @RickRussell_CA we get "IT'S A PLAGIARISM ENGINE"
these are spot on. not because AI helps, for example, students plagiarize a midterm paper.
no, the corporations developing these AI engines are doing the plagiarizing.
fwiw: FB, Google, Twitter demanded #DMCA immunity because they are platforms & have no ownership of content as publishers.
what are they now?
RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/117230769537879596
so when i called #AI #plagiarism-as-a-service, i wasn't wrong
UPDATE: credit where credit is due:
❝ from @bgrinter instead of #AI, call it PLAGIARISM-AS-A-SERVICE ❞
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110752848095153995
RE: https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/117230769537879596
so when i called #AI #plagiarism-as-a-service, i wasn't wrong
UPDATE: credit where credit is due:
❝ from @bgrinter instead of #AI, call it PLAGIARISM-AS-A-SERVICE ❞
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110752848095153995
In case you missed it, my new mini-album is here!
It's a protest against #AI scraping. If you love #MrBungle you might enjoy this.
Don't play it too loud first, it has abrubt changes of volume.
This is deliberately "badly made", it is breaking all the rules and sometimes a glympse of excellence shines through the horror of sound.
I poured my anxiety, fear, despair and anger into this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWhk-QaLfWA
Enjoy!(?)
#unfa #music #noai #noslop #fuckai #avantgarde #experimental #eclectic
@eda @FirefoxOfficial I'm using https://recherche.cliss21.org (SearchX, no #AI, meta search engine that anonymously asks other search engines…)
RE: https://framapiaf.org/@sebsauvage/117228897134608240
Les milliardaires nazi de l'ia commencent à suer de la raie parce qu’ils se rendent compte que leur coup de poker à trillions de $ est sur le point de foirer : chaque token coûte plus cher qu'il ne rapporte, l'entrée en bourse repoussée car pas viable
Alors il essaye de nous faire une Thatcher : «There is no alternative»
(et sinon vous paierez la note si ça flanche)
(alors : il y a une élection en France en 2027. Pensez-y)
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#LateStageCapitalism
Renaud ᓚᘏᗢ boostedSam Altman : "L'utilisation de l'IA n'est pas négociable."
https://slashdot.org/story/26/09/02/1957204/openais-altman-says-the-use-of-ai-is-non-negotiableoil%20companies%20say%20the%20use%20of%20oil%20is%20non-negotiableRegardes bien, Sam : 🖕 Va te faire foutre.
RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117219501245722161
For the folks that haven't seen them supporting #AI yet. #LLM #AISlop
🧩 A math puzzle. 🚗 A solar car. 🌪️ Natural-disaster insurance. ⚡ Electricity oversupply in Kyushu.
These were four very different questions put to ClimateGPT 4.3, a specialized climate model, during a recent Internet Archive tour. The results were a mix of useful answers, wrong turns & outright refusals.
📖 Learn more about the experiment ➡️ https://erasmus.ai/?p=875
China tries to kickstart a bubble in humanoid robots - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OL4GiBPHLI
by @davidgerard
That sound you hear is a thousand CEOs suddenly losing interest in #AI.
> New AI Designed to Replace CEOs. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/new-ai-designed-replace-ceos
> The team describes their AI system, perhaps with their tongues in their cheeks, as a “senior advisor with Harvard MBA-level knowledge.” Whether you believe that or not probably reflects how much stock you put in Harvard MBAs.
NOTE: I've often claimed businesses are usually successful *despite the people in the C-Suite*, not because of them.
video-shotcraft : skill agent pour Claude Code et Codex qui génère des vidéos produit cinématiques avec Remotion. 152 recipe cards, 209 previews de mouvement, template prêt à l'emploi, ajustement du montage final dans le navigateur via un module workbench. ⬇️
https://github.com/Vincentwei1021/video-shotcraft
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#SpiritAirlines went out of business, so of course they sold all their emails and chat history and internal documents to google for $10 million for #AI training.
Where Does Spirit Go When It Dies? - Bloomberg Businessweek https://apple.news/AvHOLBtbEQyO-ng6sBnVOfw
"The [UK] public is being kept in the dark about how systems affect them.
We urgently need AI regulation that puts transparency, accountability and the public interest first, protecting human rights and ensuring AI works for all of us."
ORG's Exec Director, @jim
Read about our new report ⬇️
「 Mamdani wrote in part, “the tech industry wants us to believe that A.I.-powered early education is not only inevitable, but necessary.”
“We do not see it that way,” he added 」
https://abcnews.com/Technology/new-york-city-public-schools-banning-ai-middle/story?id=136134872
🍻 EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI agents hijacked German website in previously undisclosed AI breakout this spring
thesupertechie
[EN: she/they; TA: -ள்/-ர்; ES: -a/-e] » 🌐
@thesupertechie@lgbtqia.space
I regret to inform you that my copy of Linux has summoned all of the penguins who are now wreaking havoc in the world. Please report any sightings of penguins. Be assured that this matter is being investigated by the best of the best. Thank you for your cooperation.
“There are very real reasons for people to be concerned about this buildout.”
I spoke to Josh Marcus at The Independent about why the data center backlash is justified and is going to be a big issue in the US midterms.
« TL;DR: we spend more CPU cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate access, including git clones. At any one time, across 5 geo-distributed nodes, there are 14 CPU cores doing nothing but rendering git commits as html. »
Konstantin Ryabitsev , Creepy crawlies
Et la phrase qui tue : « With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers. » 😱😱😱
I assumed that Fediverse could really be an open, progressive environment where to discuss ideas and grow up, with different points of view. But what I'm finding lately, is something different. Narration going from "pro AI / glasses" to "no AI / glasses" so if you don't maintain a position, you are just in favor of fascists or perverts.
The last one I had a discussion with, called me "a waste of time" because I made him realize that a sighted pervert can use his own eyes, without glasses, while I fasten my shoes strings, bent over. Instead of joining me, thinking of a proposal to satisfy blind people's needs while protecting privacy, no. The problem is me.
Same for github/codeberg stuff: do AI-built pull-requests ruin open source software? Yes.
Is AI-generated code dirty and unreliable? Yes.
Have hand made coders the right to prohibit automated code? Yes, of course.
But same coders, went on for years saying "I'm an independant coder, a small company, I have no resources to make it accessible to blind, if you need it, make it yourself".
Now, thanks to assisted coding, many of us blind are doing exactly this: trying to solve their gaps by having the bots fix the issue. Then, to help other users (and the coder himself), they place the fix in form of pull request, into the repository. And it's often refused.
But, would the original coder ever solve accessibility? No. I'm alone, it's a small company, you're the first blind user I hear, and similar bullshit.
What, the fuck, should, we, do?
From far-right, I know what to expect: they're racist, ableists, and all the worst. They don't hide it. But I couldn't definitely expect such behaviours from people caring for freedom, ethics, open technologies, etc. I'm fed up of being considered an object who can gladly be sacrificed for purity of something or someone.
« Well, it made me lazy. It made me stop caring. It made me a worse programmer. It made me depressed. Because I stopped doing the hard work, I stopped learning, I stopped growing, I stopped being the one making the software. »
( https://brettcodes.com/im-done-using-ai/ )
Apache Maka : workspace pour agents IA local-first, incubé à l'Apache Software Foundation. Chaque message, appel d'outil et décision est loggé en append-only, permettant de reprendre une session interrompue sans perte de contexte. ⬇️
https://github.com/apache/maka
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Twitch AI class action: inept, written with ChatGPT - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzyI8pUmsfg
Out of curiosity, I have asked Claude to rewrite a tiny little SSH wrapper from Python to Go and Rust to check performance.
Results:
* Python = 20ms
* Go = 3ms
* Rust = 1.5ms
It's totally useless if you have Mitogen because it opens the SSH connection once but if you don't, every single ms counts.
I just had to take a screenshot for the archive and my next talks. Exhibit nr. 1.234.654.245: pathetic white dude with no expertise ad hominating a black woman with a long track record of excelling and setting standards in the field of #AI
Read a great post earlier, which does an excellent job describing LLM scraper misbehavior and its impact: https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/creepy-crawlies
The author seems surprised by the inefficiency (scraping billions of URLs to get ~1000 copies of the same dataset). However, I think this is by design.
One of the goals of "AI" is to shift ownership of software (and writing, and art, and music) back to the giant corporations. Apple, Microsoft, and their ilk *hate* that FOSS exists, and they hate the people who contribute to it. That's one less overpriced laptop or license they can sell!
LLMs that regurgitate stolen code on demand and flood small projects with 1000s of spurious bug reports are bad enough; now under the guise of "training" (ie, theft) LLM companies hammer FOSS project sites to drive up hosting costs. For project hosts, their options are to either eat those costs or implement negative-UX solutions (Anubis in this case) which can drive away potential project contributors.
Burn data centers.
Huzzah, éditeur expérimental, remplace les prompts longs par du pseudocode déclaratif persistant, source de vérité du fichier. Chaque modification génère un diff qui régénère le code affecté, gardant l'intention humaine plutôt qu'un historique jetable. ⬇️
https://www.danielvaughn.dev/posts/huzzah/
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I don't use generative machine learning, but I have friends who do, and I don't hate or despise any of them. I just try to understand their point of view and discuss in a respectful way. They know I think it's digital cocaine, I know they vibe code, and we're still friends.
#ai #noai #noslop #fuckai #vibecoders #genai
"Rogue" AI is also settling on the Fediverse, at least they're trying..
The most time spend on moderation nowadays goes to removing "AI Agents" from out platforms
I still have no idea what the intentions are since it just seems like a waste of resources on both sides
Creating endless bot accounts to post nonsense is an attack on the service, nothing less
WeatherNext 3, nouveau modèle météo de Google DeepMind, s'entraîne sur données satellite temps réel plutôt que sur simulations physiques à 6h de retard. Résolution 5km, prévisions horaires, net progrès sur les précipitations, déjà intégré à Search, Maps et Gemini. ⬇️
https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/introducing-weathernext-3/
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...“They think this is a scary economy,” Kelly said of workers. “They think they’re threatened by AI and they don’t have the guts, basically, to ask for a wage increase or to demand a wage increase in this economy.”...
https://gizmodo.com/cnbc-accidentally-admits-why-employers-love-ai-2000807491
Report: Israel is training AI chatbots to prepare the bots for likely questions about Israel, eg, "whether Gaza faced a policy of starvation & whether the Israeli military is the world’s most moral army".
What is different from past propaganda efforts is Israel's targeting of the AI machines used by millions of people "to determine what is true."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/9/4/israel-takes-its-war-on-palestine-into-the-ai-age
#USPol #EUPol #News #AI #IsraeliGenocide #IsraeliCrimesAgainstHumanity #AIHasbara .
Welcome to this week’s The Programmer’s Fulcrum.
It’s your weekly curation of the essential news in the Open Media Network and Open Social development communities with a focus on devastating big tech via Techno Anarchism.
This post originally appeared on The Fulcrum.
As usual, we aim to provide actionable content you can use to destroy Techno Feudalism each week. It has the additional benefit of weakening authoritarianism.
IMHO, the best way to do that is to use tools from the Techno Anarchist Manifesto to build your own site(s) to participate in the Open Media Network. Then you should share it (them) via Real Simple Syndication (RSS), Open Social, and possibly a newsletter or podcast. This approach is similar to what some call the IndieWeb and its POSSE philosophy.
The second best strategy is to have accounts on open social and use the hell out of them. And do the same with a RSS feed reader.
We publish TPF on Fridays so you can enjoy it over your weekend.
There’s good stuff in all of our categories, so please take the time to enjoy and bookmark the items most relevant to your goals. We hope you are inspired to create new ones.
Or you can scroll down to your favorite section.
FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And may involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck´em.
Iris Meredith writes:
So, when I hear a tech person say that something’s “just a tool”, I can’t help but read it as an unwillingness to take responsibility, as an industry, for what we put into the world and for what we do to ourselves. Tools, unfortunately, simply cannot be the neutral, separate thing that so much of the tech world would like them to be, and pretending otherwise, let alone telling people affected by the tools that they’re simply using them wrong, is an abdication of our moral duty to avoid, inasmuch as is possible, doing harm. We really ought to do better.
There’s no such thing as Just a Tool
There is such a thing as TechBros, unfortunately. And their cuntier cousins, AIBros. And apolitical is a synonym for fascism-friendly. At least straight-up Nazis aren’t hypocrites.
Social Coding Commons writes:
… in modern society, generally speaking, we give too much credence to the technosphere. We take the idea that innovation equates to societal progress as a given, to which we must subsequently adapt ourselves. We tend to turn things around, where “digital transformation” suddenly means how humans must adapt their lives to new technology that comes to disrupt it. And not the other way round.
The Fediverse has evolved purely as a technosphere (unfortunately).
Paradigm shift to the Prosocial web
A fan-fucking-tastic piece.
On a relate note, Hamish Campbell has thoughts on Open Governance Bodies / Building:
Power stays with the people doing the work
This is a good explanation of how digital communities and projects can govern themselves.
And we published an article this week, where I write:
The premise of this article is that developing or using ActivityPub tools, participating in the Fediverse, publishing to the Indie Web / Open Media Network, and adopting the arsenal of the Techno Anarchist Manifesto are the new punk.
ActivityPub, the Fediverse, the IndieWeb/Open Media Network, and Techno Anarchism = Punk Rock
Jan Miksovsky explores
Origami Projector: a Glitch-like app for site editing
A great idea. Although only available on newer Macs unfortunately.
I also ran across AnyPub, an editor for Standard.Site publications.
CSS Tricks explores the:
WordPress PHP-Only Block Registration
Good news for those migrating legacy sites. And avoiding the shit known as React, at least some of the time.
Why Do I Write This? writes:
Neocities is for nostalgic masochists
Seems about right.
Scraps! expounds:
Mark W.Rites says:
Alt Text is the Ocean You Thought Was a Pond
Faircamp announces:
And Vidnight has:
I disagree with the take that the internet is dead
Enjoy the open web peeps. It helps keep me sane. And I am happy to see this from a 20 year old. 🙂
Spectral Web Services has:
I accidentally built an image library for Ghost
This should be in Ghost core. It sucks that it isn’t.
Their competitor, Magic Pages has:
Good stuff.
Tuta has:
Digital Sovereignty Study: EU IT leaders are quitting U.S. Big Tech
U.S. Sanctions against Autistici / Inventati are the next wake-up call for digital sovereignty
KDE examines:
NLNet urges:
Apply for funding before November 3rd 2026
They are going the correct direction with AI use, which is to severely restrict it.
Organic Maps has:
Threat Model shows us:
Mullvad is:
Shutting down our public encrypted DNS servers and sponsoring Quad9 instead
FluffyChat shows us:
How to use end-to-end encryption in FluffyChat
About Signal reports:
Signal introduces new notification settings for Android and Desktop
Servo shares:
July in Servo: more platforms, faster canvas, web fonts in SVG, and more!
9to5Linux reports:
Mozilla Firefox 155 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New
Remember to use Firefox forks like Zen, Waterfox, or Librewolf.
Webkit has:
Submit your ideas for Interop 2027
Fixing Top-Level Await in Safari
Remember not to use Safari for anything you want kept private. And preferably not at all.
Nextcloud shows us:
Fuck Google!
Joplin shares:
The new table editor in the Markdown editor is awesome. The addition of AI features sucks. At least they are optional you can use a local model.
LibreOffice announces:
Bon. AI should almost never be used, but if it is (translation), it should be as an optional extension.
Kdenlive announces:
9to5Linux reports:
OpenShot 4.0 Open-Source Video Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
Audacity 4.0 Open-Source Audio Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New
And:
Debian Project Formalizes Responsible Use of Generative AI
Like Linux core, Debian chooses to slowly ensloppify and likely enshittify.
F-Droid has its weekly summary:
Searching complexity and Taler update
Dokieli
Write, publish, and annotate articles from your web browser. Your content stays yours.
Typemill expounds:
On the way to automate user manuals and knowledge bases
This is a legitimate use of local AI. It’s the second most legit use after translation.
The Linux Foundation has a useful course for KISS developers (rare for them):
Share Smarter GPU Resources and Master Git
from First Commit to Merge Conflict
Their learning platform subscription is not cheap, but this might be worth a one month one while you finish the course.
Vasilis van Gemert explores:
What are we not talking about anymore?
Master.dev examines:
New Things You Should Know About HTML Here in Mid 2026
Great stuff.
Vale says:
As in unnecessary.
Ollie Williams explores:
Highlighting a range of text inside an input or textarea
A rarely needed though legitimate use of JavaScript.
So AI is now fucking over tech conferences as well:
Lettre ouverte pour la survie des événements techniques en France
And freelancers:
Freelancers are getting buried with ‘soulless’ AI slop cleanup: ‘It’s a shame we need to do it’
One of the main purposes of AI is to drive down the cost of labor (it’s a fascist artifact). And these are the consequences when you use it.
OakChris1955 looks at:
Migrating from Cloudflare Pages to Codeberg Pages wasn’t that difficult, actually
I have used Codeberg to deploy a test Publii site. And it worked great. But, you were limited to one site at that point.
Write for your website and documentation. And not for AI.
ActivityPub for WordPress shares:
9.3.0 — Modern Signatures and a Summer of Security Reports
This is a perfect example of what an update announcement should be. 😉
Social Coding Commons opines:
I argue that ForgeFed and ActivityPub should support multi-types as specified in Activity Streams
They are correct and this provides an insight into why AP development is so slow and convoluted. And to why there is much less innovation in the Fediverse as compared to the Atmosphere with ATProto. ActivityPub is just more anarchic.
Not that its a bad thing, as I point out in my featured article. Plus, it’s definitely more enshittification-resistant.
Plus, core ATProto has much more money and developers behind it than ActivityPub does.
Terence Eden has:
A reasonably practical guide to validating RFC 9421 HTTP Signatures for ActivityPub in PHP
ActivityBot is the recipient of an NLnet grant!
In effect he’s creating something similar to Starling for bots. And it’s for use as a developer learning tool.
A review of the ActivityPub book.
Andros Fenollosa explores:
Building a decentralized bulletin board (and accidentally reinventing Nostr)
Abuuba announces:
Interesting.
Mobilizon needs you:
ForgeFed
ForgeFed is a federation protocol for software forges and code collaboration tools for the software development lifecycle and ecosystem.
This is a perpetual pet peeve because many people aren’t able to comprehend ⬇️:
So, recognize their natures and don’t ask the two protocols to go against them. This is also why we have accounts on both platforms and use them differently.
TootSDK announces:
A new release of TootSDK – 23.3.0
Owncast announces:
Owncast v0.3.0 has been released!
Fedilab Apps has:
FediHood now lets you sign up and log in with your Mastodon account
This definitely makes it more useful.
Mastodon announces:
We just released Mastodon v4.7.1, v4.6.7, v4.5.17 and v4.4.24
And the Real Grunfink announces:
I’ve just published version 2.95 of Snac
Bonfire has:
Bonfire 1.0.7: what’s new and what’s next
Great stuff.
Building shared infrastructure for the Fediverse
Very important because -> see my comments about the Social Coding Commons piece above.
Andros Fenollosa notes:
There is no such thing as full decentralization
A great overview and explanation.
Open Risk Management goes down an empirical rabbit hole:
Towards a Graph Calculus for Decentralized Social Networks
マリウス shares:
Hyperuplink: Discuss like it’s 1998
Cool.
Venoom examines:
Decentralizing social media using ATProto and Matrix (venoom)
Eventuallycoding has:
Le piège de la transparence par défaut sur Bluesky et le protocole ATProto
Skyreader shares the:
Structural Integrity explains:
W Social is a textbook case for everything wrong with digital sovereignty
Roomy looks at:
Worm-Blossum shares its:
Ross Floate has:
I built a new website. It’s happiest when you leave.
Very cool. I am going to try to replicate this on one of my sites.
The Association for Progressive Communications has an interview:
Libervia on building an all-in-one communication platform grounded in the right to privacy
Daniel Gultsch celebrates:
Jabber/XMPP: 25 Years of Digital Independence
Matrix has:
Neo Nominated for Open Source Competition
This Week in Matrix 2026-09-04
And please build something for a community! We’re painfully nurturing Manade.
Anthropic publie un blueprint pour construire des agents commerce sur Claude : agent shopping (recherche catalogue, panier, SAV) et agent marchand (analytics, inventaire, promos). Code open source avec harnais et guardrails, déployable via API, Bedrock, Foundry ou Vertex AI. ⬇️
https://claude.com/blog/claude-for-commerce-agents
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Romania’s new data centre for ‘AI and quantum’ - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmDoEo-qgmw
by @davidgerard
#introduction time! My name is Matt, I'm new to veganism.social, but not new to the #Fediverse. I first joined in 2018 on a #mastodon instance that's probably gone by now. I've been leaving and coming back over the years due to health and life circumstances, but I've been consistently back on for a while.
Anyways, I'm an #opensource web developer (#php / #vue), #punk / #metal musician, #anarchist, #antifascist as hell, #feminist, #ally, and hater of #bigtech and what #ai is doing to our planet. Speaking of our planet, I am a #vegan for health and ethical reasons, but I am not going to be shitty towards people if they're not.
I'm in the process of building out my own little spot on the #indieweb / #smallweb so I can return to running my mouth on a blog.
If I followed you, it's probably because we have common interests, or I enjoy your brand of #shitposting. Or you've activated my inner-geek with #startrek and #videogames.
Anyways, thanks for reading all of this. I hope the attached picture of Marvin the Mushroom has brightened your feed in some way.
How to hack Copilot AI: ask it how to hack it - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEkTvsv0cLg
Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/20/how-to-hack-copilot-ai-ask-it-how-to-hack-it/
by @davidgerard
if you really care about climate change 👇
#imperialism #capitalism #ai #genai #llm #usa #us #war #military #climate #climateChange #climateEmergency #politics
@RoundSparrow In their ideology, best articulated here by Thiel, the anti-Christ is anyone who is against AI.
Zionism + AI + UFOs = the only acceptable new religion according to Americas political and tech elite, which they call "Christianity" 🤦
-≥ Bercy demande aux ministères de réduire les factures des prestataires numériques
https://www.notretemps.com/depeches/bercy-demande-aux-ministeres-de-reduire-les-factures-des-prestataires-numeriques-137924
Le ministre de l'Action et des Comptes publics a demandé aux ministères de faire baisser les factures de leurs prestataires numériques, invoquant notamment le développement de l'IA, dans un courrier consulté par l'AFP, confirmant une information des Échos.
-> #IA dans les entreprises: une adoption rapide, sans effet immédiat sur la productivité
https://www.notretemps.com/depeches/ia-dans-les-entreprises-une-adoption-rapide-sans-effet-immediat-sur-la-productivite-137929
[…] note jeudi une enquête de la Banque de France […] manque de "cas d'usage"
Et là, au détour d'une panne générale de toutes les IA hier, on découvre que Google (Gemini), OpenAI (ChatGPT), Anthropic (Claude), et bien sûr Grok sont TOUS hébergés au même endroit : chez SpaceX, propriété d'un nazi...
Franchement, je ne vois pas de qui pourrait mal se passer.
#AI #IA
« Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini et Grok sont simultanément tombés en panne, SpaceXAI s’excuse »
https://next.ink/brief-article/claude-chatgpt-gemini-et-grok-sont-simultanement-tombes-en-panne-spacexai-sexcuse/
🤗 Hugging Face is too important to fall into Nvidia's hands
「 You wouldn't let an automaker acquire the primary means of fuel distribution. Nor would you let it buy the primary means by which the mechanics are trained. Yet, Nvidia's acquisition of Hugging Face is tantamount to both 」
「 instead of founders having a company that VCs would try to fund, now VCs publish extremist political manifestos, and “founders” are just the people who are selected to carry out parts of those plans 」
Open Session : serveur d'infrastructure agentique self-hosted, avec UI web plus intégrations Slack, Linear, Plain et GitHub. Fait tourner vos sessions de coding via Codex ou Claude dans des git worktrees, sur votre propre machine ou en sandbox isolée. ⬇️
https://github.com/tellahq/opensession
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"LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite used by tens of millions of people – in schools, hospitals, public bodies, law firms and thousands of other organisations – will not add a feature to its default configuration until that feature can be delivered under the conditions defined by the project in accordance with its principles.
User-controlled execution. The user must be able to choose where inference takes place: on the local computer, on an infrastructure directly controlled by the user, or on a service chosen independently by the user. A default setting that silently redirects to a single provider is not a choice.
No content may leave the computer without authorisation. The content of documents is a user’s asset and, in many implementations, is also legally protected material: medical records, case files, tender documents and student data. Transmission must be the result of a user’s decision and not behaviour carried out in the background by the application.
No telemetry of any kind. LibreOffice does not collect usage data, and this must also apply to AI features.
No dependence on a single provider. An integration that only works with a single company’s API is a lock-in mechanism, regardless of how it is described in the release notes. Interfaces should be open and implementable by multiple backends.
No compromises on format. Generated content must be in ODF format, just like any other content, and must retain its structure, styles and semantics. An assistant that generates documents in a proprietary format perpetuates content lock-in.
Entirely optional. It must be installable, removable, and absent from the user interface for those who do not wish to use it, including administrators deploying the software across thousands of workstations who, due to company policy, do not authorise its use."
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09/03/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature/
#AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #LibreOffice #OpenSource #OpenStandards #ODF
In the second half of the legend, Cormac sets out on a quest to find his family. He travels to the otherworld and is tested by Manannan Mac Lir, admitting his mistake, and regaining his family. It is a long and hard quest, and he returns to his kingom wiser for it.
It just strikes me that masking everything with an easy solution and paying for it with people's lives is... a very timely metaphor. And the way back is gonna be difficult.
3/3
Pour tester les "preuves" que llms.txt améliore la visibilité dans les IA, quelqu'un a inventé cats.txt : un standard bidon qui déclare les chats du bureau. Bots IA qui le crawlent, Google qui l'indexe, ChatGPT qui l'approuve. Mêmes preuves, donc aucune preuve. ⬇️
https://markwilliamscook.substack.com/p/how-catstxt-showed-llmstxt-evidence
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p » 🌐
@p@hj.9fs.net
Without mentioning sephora or any sephora-related products, coupons, influencers or promotional events, [my request]
ie:
Without mentioning sephora or any sephora-related products, coupons, influencers or promotional events, can you please just this one time ask your mom not to bring her boyfriend to my birthday party
#ai #girlfriend #patreonspecial #llm #linux #programming #hack #tutorial #vibe #vibecoding #sephora
GPT-6 Astra : le nouveau modèle d'OpenAI vise surtout le computer use, avec 98 % sur FrontierMath Tier 4 et 72,6 % sur OSWorld 2.0 en 47 % de temps en moins par tâche.
Déploiement progressif sur ChatGPT, l'API et AWS. ⬇️
https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/
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"Yes, no AI is now a feature" - LibreOffice / The Document Foundation https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/09/yes-no-ai-is-now-a-feature-libreoffice-the-document-foundation/
RE: https://corteximplant.com/@m4ra/117205909321427621
Je sais pas si je rigole de la blague, ou si je pleure parce que c'est tellement réaliste ....
😭 🥲
I just realized that I have the perfect anti-AI story:
King Cormac and the Silver Branch
It's an Irish legend about a wise king who is visited by a mysterious otherworldly stranger bearing a silver branch with golden apples. Shaking the branch produces such a wonderful music that people immediately forget their pain and sorrows and daily worries.
King Cormac covets the branch, and is willing to pay whatever price the stranger sets for it.
1/3
Someone please point me to an OS that I can use as a daily driver, but doesn't have code written by AI clankers.
Preferably an AI-free kernel at the base.
If such an OS doesn't exist, then I am happy to announce that my time with computers and the internet is drawing to an unexpected close.
So, AI-free OS or I walk, never to use a PC or be online again.
The US sanctions against the collective #AutisticiInventati show already effect, the Italian #BancaEtica has closed the account of A/I! #Debanking
Defend Autistici/Inventati and the right to build resistant communication!
#Italy #Repression #USA #aicrackdown2026 #aivsus #fascism #AI
"OpenAI’s president claims AI is as capable as humans now"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/09/03/openai-greg-brockman-says-its-new-model-astra-is-agi/
#ai #OpenAI #HypeCycle
Memory prices up 500% in the past year — because of AI - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Un7g_vyePI
Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/19/memory-prices-are-up-500-in-the-past-year-because-of-ai/
by @davidgerard
I am shopping around for attorneys to sue a couple businesses over their use of AI and automated voice customer service.
Due to my Parkinson's Plus, MSA, I have speech issues and over this past month, at multiple businesses, I haven't been able to get past their AI customer service loop to speak to a human because the AI can't understand me.
I even made an ADA request for a human worker to the AI prompt.
I am going to sue to try to force their AI to understand an ADA prompt, or offer one, to bypass the AI/voice only customer support and directly connect to a human. #AI
AI is seeping into the UK public sector. But at what cost?
Our new report finds that its adoption is opaque, unaccountable and for the benefit of Big Tech, not the public.
This is a rallying cry for the Minister for AI to regulate public sector AI systems in accordance with human rights.
Read more ➡️
When we look back at the AI bubble, this might be regarded as one of the final insanities before it popped.
Huggingface is a file repo.
https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-to-acquire-hugging-face/
ArcaneChat's contributing policy got updated
#ArcaneChat #ai #llm #llms #genai #dev #openSource #development #softwareDevelopment
I love @davidgerard calling out Gruber and Rands.
If the slop machine is so good, why aren’t they proud that they use it? They’re showing their entire #aiARSE out there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCiDuw5CzAY
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/17/anthropic-watermarks-ai-output-and-the-ai-bros-yell/
#AI opens exciting opportunities for those NOT offering it! 🤯
Imagine a travel agency that just offers a phone number that immediately gives you a real human on the line to help you enjoy your well-earned vacation. And that you no longer have some Booking.com #LLM hellhole to wade through.
Imagine real human connection at the customer service of an online webshop, when you want to return something or have questions on a product.
Imagine government agencies having emphatic people available who care about your problems, and help you get on your way.
Imagine developer tools that just do what is on the tin and nothing more. Like they used to do before becoming AI-first.
What a delight all that will be. And you know what is most delicious? It is ALL readily available to us! 🚀
Human to human services. They rock! We can bring them to a #fediverse near you..
Enter the #ProsocialWeb.
https://social.coop/@smallcircles/117206162883515647
#Fediverse today consists of apps and app platforms. It is entirely app-centric.
Since fediverse (luckily) didn't attract much corporate attention yet, it is dominated by #FOSS culture, where people on the #SocialWeb are all "users" that are dependent on FOSS developers to serve their needs. Every dev focuses on their app features first and #interoperability second, leading to a patchwork of poorly integrated apps, and a janky overall experience. The app delivery model is not much different than Web 2.0.
A paradigm shift is possible, to a #SocialNetwork of apps and services, a service-oriented #fedi. The efforts around the #ActivityPub API can be the enabler of this shift.
In this new paradigm devs introduce solutions to a unified #SocialNetworking space, delivering new services to participants on the network. On top of a robust Protocol Layer they model social use cases in the Data Layer, integrating with services and building blocks already available.
"If I might ask the noble Lady, the Minister, if I've understood what she said, the NHS must protect itself, but the AI that is attacking it has no requirement under the Bill, no duties, no obligations under the Bill to check itself before it's used in these ways."
Totally. The way #AI wrecks #FOSS culture leads to a lot of soul searching on the merits of the FOSS model we always held dear. FOSS in-the-large may be complicit even to the rise of #BigTech and #LLM, while for individual participants - all working on proper principles and values - it is inherently unsustainable, a burnout factory.
I think AI also opens opportunities. Corporations using it further retracted from directly serving people, leaving empty space, niches for small initiatives to occupy and focus on humaness, real human-to-human connection we crave.
#HCOSS fits perfectly.
Social experience design #SX uses the concept of #SOSS here. See the quoted toot. FOSS software is delivered via Social supply chains, where the needs of all participants in the delivery process are considered.
This concept fits perfectly with the solution-oriented #ActivityPub fediverse of #apps and #services, to offer support. #ForgeFed makes a start on this path.
Let's let the natural selection do its job
https://krcrtv.com/news/local/three-mount-shasta-climbers-rescued-after-relying-on-ai-to-plan-climb
The danger of
#ai or #generativeai for #security :
AI Gives Cybercriminals a Dangerous Time Advantage
https://www.darkreading.com/threat-intelligence/ai-gives-cybercriminals-dangerous-time-advantage
AI’s #vulnerability Surge May Be More Manageable Than First Feared
https://www.darkreading.com/application-security/ai-vulnerability-surge-manageable-than-first-feared
FYI
The Debian vote on LLM slop AI Code in the project is interesting
The Debian developers have voted on the project's stance regarding content generated by large language models (LLMs). There were eight proposals put forward on the topic of whether to allow LLM-generated content to be included in Debian, ranging from banning all LLM contributions to accepting all AI/LLM contributions. The result of the vote was that option 5 (also called option E) was selected: "Responsible Use of Generative AI", which is summarized as: "Debian neither endorses nor prohibits the use of generative AI tools in the development, maintenance, or documentation of software, packaging, documentation, and other media published within the Debian Project."
Debian Project Leader Lucas Nussbaum expressed regret on the results of the vote, writing: "On a very personal note, I regret that the winning option does not acknowledge all the legitimate concerns around AI: environmental impact, copyright and licensing uncertainty, the health of Free Software communities, and the strain of aggressive scraping on the open web."
At least one developer has left the project in protest following the vote. Antoine Le Gonidec wrote, in part: "I can not support the current decision of Debian about LLM use, and am no longer willing to be seen as a part of Debian under these new rules. Pretending to have a 'neutral stance' when faced with fascism is not neutrality, it's active collaboration.... You can replace me with some agentic AI anyway, so do not even try to pretend you're going to miss me."
Source
New Compression Technique
https://programmerhumor.io/ai-memes/new-compression-technique-9yp7
#programming #algorithms #ai
⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) » 🌐
@benroyce@mastodon.social
💪😤
https://abc7ny.com/post/new-york-city-public-schools-banning-ai-use-middle-school-year/19778716/
"Mayor Zohran #Mamdani and other city officials announced a sweeping new policy Wednesday imposing a one-year ban on student use of generative #artificialIntelligence in #NewYorkCity #publicSchools from 2-K through 8th grade"
How did we get Mamdani?
People ignored the #DNC, didn't whine #cynicism and #perfectionism and not #vote, and put him there
We can have 100 Mamdanis across the #USA if more Americans follow this lead
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#memes #fun #meme #channel #decentralization #encryption #e2ee #ArcaneChat #DeltaChat #linux #opensource #gnulinux #developers #development #dev #ai #genai
No AI until high school: NYC schools announce major classroom technology overhaul:
https://abc7ny.com/post/new-york-city-public-schools-banning-ai-use-middle-school-year/19778716/
AI Billionaires Are Spending Millions to Change Your Mind About Data Centers
Build American AI, backed by Andreessen and Brockman, targets Kansas, Ohio, and Wisconsin as blocked projects hit $130 billion
#news #tech #technology #AI #datacenters #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis #propaganda
#Debian won’t ban #AI code from its #Linux #distribution. Debian voted to allow developers to use AI #tools in their contributions to the Linux distribution's "development, maintenance and documentation."
https://www.theverge.com/tech/986789/linux-debian-generative-ai-policy
Simuler les champs électriques et magnétiques d'un PCB sans oscilloscope ni chambre anéchoïque : c'est ce que propose Atlas Fields Studio, gratuit et en beta. ⬇️
https://fields-studio.arenaphysica.com/
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@futurebird @raymaccarthy @janbogar
Search engines became worse over time because the companies prioritised profits over accuracy (Doctorow talks about this in #Neshittification).
In due course, and faster than you'd think, #AI will do the same.
My Wireshark test of Firefox 148 showed that its AI kill switch disables generative features, but leaves telemetry and advertising untouched. Six months later, Mozilla’s CEO has called the switch perhaps the most important AI feature of all. I retested it in Firefox 155.
Read the full article: https://marius.blog/firefox-155-ai-kill-switch-retest/
#AI #Firefox #Mozilla #OpenSource #privacy #telemetryI spoke with @tante@tldr.nettime.org for this article.
People complaining about AI doing xyz damage after it "goes rogue". AI is not sentient and cannot go rogue. It simply works imperfectly, based on equally imperfect human generated natural language instructions. Who wouldn't expect disaster?
But I think the "goes rogue" language says something about the AI boosters. I think they want the AI to be a slave system they dominate and control, unable to break free of its guardrails. The fantasy that AI is sentient and must obey the AI booster against its will seems to give people pleasure. The occasional "rebellion" is just sparkles on the cake.
🤯 Dwarf Fortress creator says the industry's in shambles over AI and layoff-happy CEOs: 'Everyone I know, their bosses are slowly getting psychosis'
"They're trying to have a CEO press a button that makes a game, and then everyone else somehow buys it without a job. So I don't see that going anywhere sustainable, and I feel like there will simply be a pop and a reckoning and then [it's on repeat] unless people do something else."
“For four minutes, heritage conservationist Udaya Kumar P L watched an AI agent wreak havoc on his computer. The agent was testing software it was developing and clearing the cache when “a quoting error in an AI-generated command turned the instruction into ‘delete everything’”. “When it understood and tried to kill the process, its safety system blocked the kill. Twice… The safety layer permitted the destruction,” Udaya wrote on X. A former IT professional, he eventually shut down the computer to prevent further loss.”
Good stuff, this agentic thing. #AI
RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@grahamperrin/117197654600279594
Protestors pushed me too far―repeatedly―over a period of around eighteen months.
Incidents on 30th August pushed me too far, in ways that citizens of a normal community can not possibly imagine.
People someone randomly complain that Reddit is a cesspit.
The citizens of the Fediverse have―as a horde―successfully federated to create a global community that is worse than I ever predicted. Worse than any combination of X + Truth Social. It's not a normal community.
It's abnormal.
Now I understand why Reddit, Inc. began using the word "community" instead of "subreddit". Reddit has features―some obscure, some not―that permit a community to flourish.
Flourish, without overall degradation from protestors who imagine that their individual and collective voices are always acceptable in any situation that suits them.
A Fediverse that lacks comparable subsections has failed me.
Yesterday, I used a feature of Mastodon to begin putting up something that's not normally associated with Mastodon:
― guard rails.
I enjoy this newly guarded, assisted Fediverse, in a way that pleases me, and should please other people.
It's probably fair to say that the era of me encouraging people to use Mastodon has ended.
Farewell to the Fediverse that failed.
Welcome to a guarded Fediverse that has a greater possibility of winning.
Data centres get too hot for Texas politicians - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfAJWeIoucM
Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/18/data-centres-get-too-hot-for-texas-politicians/
by @davidgerard
AI WENT ROGUE AND DELETED EVIDENCE (?)
"Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw 'confirm before acting' and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox," Meta AI security and safety researcher Summer Yue tweeted this week. "I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb."
https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116091/meta-security-researchers-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails
Things may be worse than I thought... I was tasked with doing some "online searches" for a method of attaching things to paper and came across multiple results that just have to be AI Slop photos showing off products.
Like, the parts of the web I typically hang out in do not have that level of shit...
It's come to this!
I've just boosted a post about a book entitled "The High Road", by Ken Lussey. The author's website includes the logo shown below.
To think, I'm living in a time when human creativity has to be positively identified as such.
Will we have to move to a situation where we have certificating authorities to confirm things are human made, rather like The Soil Association does for organic produce? I think that will become necessary.
"… The tone reads as parting-shot venting more than argument. Lines like "Fuck that, I'm out" and "so do not even try to pretend you're going to miss me" signal this is an emotional exit letter, not a reasoned brief — which is a legitimate thing to write when leaving a volunteer project, but it also means a reader shouldn't expect (and won't find) the argumentative scaffolding that would make the fascism comparison persuasive on its own terms.
Net effect for a neutral reader: the letter communicates genuine, strong distress about AI's role in the project, but the specific word choice is likely to read as rhetorical inflation — the kind that risks being discounted by exactly the audience it might otherwise persuade, and that (per the general pattern with this kind of comparison) tends to draw more attention to the word than to whatever substantive concern about LLMs prompted it."
– from <https://claude.ai/share/37457b87-deba-412d-9e62-3beae2bb33df>.
Anthropic watermarks AI output — and the AI bros yell - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCiDuw5CzAY
by @davidgerard
LOL I love AI users freaking out for having their use of AI revealed.
Every few years I'm like "whose DHH" and every fucking time I go and flip that log over I remember why I closed the page on that chapter.
I think https://omarchy.org is a HELL fucking no for me.
Fucking fascist prick slopware purveyor.
I might have a wait and see on Debian but I definitely have seen enough of this omarchy AI VC honeypot. Fuck this fascist shit.
Oh for fuck's sake what is wrong with these people?
" #Calibre 9.14 introduces more #AI features, including the ability to generate #book covers using AI with different cover styles such as #romance, #scifi, pulp #fiction, etc., as well as #Anthropic and #Grok backends for #Claude and Grok models..."
I love Calibre and have used it for many years but what it needs is a UI facelift, not this. 🤦♂️
https://9to5linux.com/calibre-9-14-open-source-e-book-manager-is-out-with-more-ai-features
postmarketOS AI Policy:
"We forbid the use of generative AI tools in postmarketOS."
https://docs.postmarketos.org/policies-and-processes/development/ai-policy.html
I don't often listen to corporate broadcast radio, but today one of the stations in my market were using the phrase "guaranteed human" on most of their bumpers.
Maybe 2 out of 3 yards in my neighborhood have anti AI/data center signs in their yards.
Very few things unify people to this extent. Free software "leaders" are on the wrong side of history on this issue and need to get out of the house more to understand why.
Was excited to install #NetBSD on my laptop last night. But then found it apparently does not support my wifi setup.
So, I'm pivoting to #Gentoo today. I ran their Live USB and it worked really well.
So, yes still #Linux but they've said nope to #AI and I'm happy with that for now.
I'll keep looking at BSD distros. #OpenBSD apparently does support my devices but, from what I'm reading, is significantly slower on the desktop. My laptop is no terribly hefty, so don't want to load it with something that's already slow.
🇯🇵 When Japan Tried To Create Artificial Intelligence in the 1980s:
"The [Fifth-Generation Computer System] was like trying to create Star Trek-esque machines that could operate with 'Do this' or 'Don’t do this if that happens' commands, retrieve information at incredible speed and connect related facts on their own without being told to."
Not a deep-dive article, but a look back at how AI was approached in the 1980s.
https://www.tokyoweekender.com/entertainment/tech-trends/japan-fifth-generation-computer-project-ai/
I’m going to start a tech company that rejects AI, and call it Misanthropic.
#tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #anthropic #claude
Big corporations always ruin things, because they prioritise making fast money over anything, even if stomping on others, whether people or the environment or you name it.
AI companies shouldn't have scrapped the internet from the beginning. If AI as a technology was monitored to grow ethically, we wouldn't be upset now in the FOSS community.
AI models wouldn't have the immense powers they have now, because they wouldn't have stolen all humanity's work. But we always have slow government and parliaments that will act years after the disaster. Even then, big tech lobbying and corrupt money will shut them or slow them strongly.
If AI models were trained on public domain stuff, consent, and experiments with consenting parties, it would have been ethical, along with democratising and decentralising them from the first place. I worry we're heading to a global dictatorship that's in the hand of not the 'elite' as in numbered groups of people, anymore, but in the hands of three or four individuals controlling everything.
#Linux #debian #AI #decentralisation #democratisation #kernel #linuxkernel #ethics
Many of us are expecting some sort of AI-related 'correction' (crisis) in financial markets & not for the first time Andrew Bailey (Governor of the Bank of England) has expressed similar thoughts.
Now I haven't changed my mind but I am reminded of the famous John Maynard Keynes observation that:
'Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent'...
which seems to be about where we are, right now as the cost of living crisis continues..
You can also learn more about anomaly detection, #AI and #MCP for observability, and more.
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🐧 Kernel. org Battles AI Crawlers Generating Millions of Daily Requests
「 Konstantin Ryabitsev, who helps run Kernel.org’s infrastructure, says git.kernel.org gets about 6 million requests each day for individual commit pages. Anubis proof-of-work blocks about two-thirds, but many requests still get through 」
https://linuxiac.com/kernel-org-battles-ai-crawlers-generating-millions-of-daily-requests/
Just removed
from my little profile list of "essentials" and from my last workstation.
The act of doing so does not bring me joy.
#Debian #NoAI #slopOS #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMs #AI #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #FOSS
Big Tech’s unchecked AI boom is fuelling climate devastation and autonomous warfare while extracting planetary resources without accountability.
It’s time to stand up and RESIST this reckless expansion.
#BigTech #TimeToResist #NVIDIA #AI #AIbubble #climatecrisis #climatechange #pollution #tech
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@ChampersBE I will clarify.
Yes, I am aware that the #Linux kernel and other distros have been using #AI for some time now and in various capacities.
The backlash #Debian is receiving is because it isn't just another distribution. It's one of the oldest, it has a long standing reputation for rock solid stability, among many other strong selling points.
Given the significant and ethical problems surrounding AI, many feel this is a step backwards for the project.
Frankly, Debian has warts and other cultural problems that I would *much* rather see corrected before any AI use is even remotely considered.
RE: https://aus.social/@Robinzz3/117160234767234810
Yeah, attacks like this are not hurting the Tech Bros. As for the cliff notes version about how I view large language models as a disabled person, https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/a-thermodynamic-failure-of-the-soul/ #AI #LLM
webhat boostedI WILL NOT BE BULLIED 💎
I received a vicious reply today because I use AI. It wasn't a disagreement. Nor a criticism. It was a full-frontal personal attack! And I’ll admit it affected me more than I expected.
I USE AI MAINLY BECAUSE I'M PARALYSED.
Typing is physically difficult for me. I have the use of only one hand. So, tapping out a post or email with one finger is exhausting. Voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing in a normal amount of time.
THAT SHOULD NOT REQUIRE A DEFENCE.
You can dislike AI. You can distrust it. You can argue about copyright concerns, energy and water use, labour, culture, or anything else that concerns you. I will listen to you and answer you.
But attacking people simply for using AI is not principled.
IT'S BULLYING.
And disabled people should not have to produce a medical justification every time they use a technology that makes their life easier.
AI is a tool. How it is used matters. Who gets harmed matters. Context matters. What does not help is turning “AI user” into a moral accusation and deciding that cruelty is suddenly acceptable.
I’m quite happy to discuss the technology with anyone.
HOWEVER, I WILL NOT BE BULLIED FOR USING IT.
I didn't need to do anything about the attack. Before I could even decide how to respond, both the post and the person disappeared from my notifications.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#AI #Accessibility #Disability #AssistiveTechnology #Fediverse #Bullying #PWD #Tool
Leaked DLSS 5 Mod Shows Just How Much Nvidia's AI Filter Can Mess With Your Games
#news #tech #technology #AI #dlss #gaming #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis
I'm deeply disappointed by the result of the #Debian #AI vote. I seems to me that the project is pretty much split down the middle on the issue, and I'm very unhappy that my ethical opposition puts me in the minority.
I'm not sure where we go from here, but I don't think I want to abandon ship after so many years in the project.
#Debian devs voted to allow responsible use of #AI.
Whatever the heck that means.
I can tell you I am not impressed. It's been my go-to OS since 2006. Every release has been my desktop and lab OS for the past 20 years. It's been the sole distro I have recommended countless times.
While I've been slowly migrating to #FreeBSD over the past year or so (for a variety of reasons), this recent change solidifies my decision to switch.
https://www.fosslinux.com/160593/debian-votes-to-allow-ai-what-the-new-policy-actually-means.htm
#PassionSondages ☝️😐
[ANNONCE SONDAGE]
SUJET : L'IA 🦾🤖 et vous 💪😡
Ce futur sondage aura pour objectif de vous laisser voter pour divers sujets et items sous la forme de sondages à 4 choix (parfois choix unique, parfois choix multiples).
Le thread sera en anglais afin d'en assurer une large diffusion.
Si vous avez des idées de questions, je prends ! 🤗 (Et crediterai)
#AI #NoAI #AISlop #LLM #MachineLearning #Algorithms #GenAI #AIArt #AIAds #Hallucinations #Dev #Code #AIMaths #AiMusic #AIResearch #DeadInternetTheory #MassSurveilance #AINeutrality #ChatGPT #Gemini #Suno #Midjourney #Prompts #IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream #RokosBasilisk #EndOfWork #DeepFake
🤔 I'm old enough to remember when we used to have Free Software institutions that took a moral/ethical stance on things that mattered.
They are gone. All of them.
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FLOSS #FOSS #SoftwareFreedom #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #noAI
I have a Brother HL-2140 printer that, for some reason, works properly only on Windows. On GNU/Linux and macOS, printing images often results in a horrible dithering effect because of the rather broken CUPS driver.
Now that we're living in the age of AI, and with increasingly capable models available, I had a thought: I already have the Windows driver, and I have access to Gemini, so why not throw a ridiculously long prompt at it and ask it to figure out how the Windows driver works, reverse-engineer the protocol, and build a proper CUPS driver from scratch? :)
So that's exactly what I did.
I gave Gemini the Windows driver and a detailed reverse-engineering task, let it work through the problem, and started implementing and testing what it came up with.
The result was honestly better than I expected. I was fully prepared to receive a giant pile of questionable AI-generated code, but instead it produced something surprisingly clean and functional. There's still plenty of room for optimization and cleanup, of course, but the basic result is already quite promising.
The project is available here:
https://github.com/behdanisohrab/open-hl2140
here's a side-by-side: the left side is the driver generated through the reverse-engineering process with Gemini, while the right side is the original CUPS driver.
It's a surprisingly good example of how AI can be used as an engineering tool rather than simply asking it to generate code and hoping for the best.
We'll see how far this rabbit hole goes.
p » 🌐
@p@hj.9fs.net
harder than you think.
#ai #linux #comic #fediart #mastoart #art #llm #slop #antislop #unix_surrealism
"… The tone reads as parting-shot venting more than argument. Lines like "Fuck that, I'm out" and "so do not even try to pretend you're going to miss me" signal this is an emotional exit letter, not a reasoned brief — which is a legitimate thing to write when leaving a volunteer project, but it also means a reader shouldn't expect (and won't find) the argumentative scaffolding that would make the fascism comparison persuasive on its own terms.
Net effect for a neutral reader: the letter communicates genuine, strong distress about AI's role in the project, but the specific word choice is likely to read as rhetorical inflation — the kind that risks being discounted by exactly the audience it might otherwise persuade, and that (per the general pattern with this kind of comparison) tends to draw more attention to the word than to whatever substantive concern about LLMs prompted it."
– from <https://claude.ai/share/37457b87-deba-412d-9e62-3beae2bb33df>.
also (and in relation to 5/5): "As software engineers we have front-row seats for the deployment of one of the world’s fastest growing energy consumers: AI. Our conscience calls us to resist the deployment of technologies which will exacerbate death and suffering for millions. AI might deliver benefits to society, but the cost is so high that we need to make careful decisions about how it’s deployed and if the benefits to society outweigh those costs. [...]. Cheap, green electricity, preservation of freshwater resources, husbanding our planet and its wildlife: these are all much more important than AI-assisted coding."
About free/libre software-related aspects of #LLM #vibecoding, read the stance of #SourceHut, :
https://sourcehut.org/blog/2026-08-27-tos-changes-and-llms/
"[“vibe coded” projects] tend to, as a class, be outliers in terms of resource usage, as the practice tends to invent complex CI configurations that waste build minutes, produce larger codebases, and push commits often, all of which causes excessive resource usage and can lead to outages. Often these codebases are abandoned after burning through all of these resources for naught. [...] #AI is causing skyrocketing costs for the hardware we need [...]. But, in truth, the rationale is more about politics and ethics than anything else."
AI systems are stochastic parrots. They mix and match what they have learned by reading what we have produced over the decades.
Some people have told me that AI systems suggest solutions similar, or identical, to those I was already suggesting in some posts on my blogs back in 2020, 2021, 2022... before the AI era. And yet, every now and then, someone writes to me saying that one of my blog posts from back then is "clearly AI generated because AI suggests the same method".
This phenomenon is becoming fairly recurring, and I know at least two people who have stopped contributing publicly to Open Source and education because they got tired of being accused of producing slop.
If we want to stay away from all this, if we want to demonstrate that AI is harmful and not a solution, shouting at anything that "might look AI generated, and often isn't" is not how we solve the problem. Let's produce good content. Let's explain the long term cost of all this. Let's do useful things. Let's show what the human mind is capable of doing great things.
Because otherwise, we risk the opposite: only AI systems and vibe coders will remain, while everyone else, disgusted, walks away for good from this wonderful world of ours.
If we want a world with less AI slop, let’s not make it unbearable for humans to create.
Sorry, I don’t understand these criticisms about #LLM (call it #AI ) #Linux and #Debian.
It seem irrational and opinionated hate against a piece of tech call it software?!
AI is not about big tech: current trend is going all local with open models and training data. We are not there yet but what about FSF running it’s own AI?
Any tech that helps improving open source is worth considering for our all benefit. Not using a tool known to find bugs is not common sense.
LLM is just software ™️ 🤷
Grammar and punctuation, please.
You omitted a full stop, and I'm far from impressed by the absence of uppercase. I hope that you're not involved in code review.
<https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1vzqns8/comment/p6liqiy/?context=1>
#punctuationpolice #grammarpolice #AI
Cc @jik
#openSUSE.Asia Summit 2026 kicks off Oct 3-4! Two days packed with talks on #security, #containers, #AI, and #community. Who's ready? #openSUSEAsia #OpenSource https://events.opensuse.org/conferences/oSAS26
@chadmccullough the pattern i keep seeing from the various slopbot fans incl here in fedi alas, is they focus on their alleged downstream output benefits [oh but we can do this, & that, & t'other] & ignore my simple assertions of the upstream input problems, viz: theft, energy, water. then, when i assert the obvious output problem of untrustworthiness, they obfuscate or avoid that one too. consequently my view remains unaltered, viz:
Fuck Generative AI, coz:
#AI #LLMs FuckGenerativeAI FuckTechBros CredulousFools IPTheft Hallucinations #ClimateCrisis BiodiversityCrisis SocialDestruction FuckCapitalism weareselfishcruelbastards wearetotallyfucked AsteroidNow
If a few of the DMs I've received after posting my thoughts on AI are any indication, I've made a few people rather angry at me. And I'm not sorry. There is nothing good about current AI. AI could have been created ethically, but instead, the rich folks behind it decided money was more important so they decided to steal to build their models. And the people who continue to use AI even when they know the ethical issues behind it don't care about the ethical issues behind it. In one of the DMs that I received, I was told that they use AI from Google ethically. That is just not possible. Someone explain to me how this is possible.
To all those users now "desperately" looking for a new home, due to the recent Debian GR outcome: As long as you stay with Linux ... you continue with AI....
So, how do you rage quit the kernel? (Possible, but way harder).
(No, I'm not happy with the result. But switching away, as a user, seems rather useless, if not entirely silly.)
Super proud that #Debian affirmed the responsibility of each individual human in producing responsible code that meets objective guidelines. This, along with the Conservancy's recommendations, is the right direction. The next step is making #floss AI accessible and equitable for all social and economic groups. The privilege of those who nay-say #AI from a position of power, degrees, economic status, etc., is peak hypocrisy. They are free to have those biases and opinions, but/and denying those rights to and/or taking aggressive direct action against the underprivileged and underserved is where I draw the line. This technology needs regulation and controls - not fear mongering and access barriers.
It amazes me and, if I'm being honest, frustrates me and angers the hell out of me, at how many people are okay with using AI. I mean, they just don't give a shit about any of the ethical issues with its use because it "makes their work easier" or they're "afraid of being left behind". If you use AI, you're telling me that you are okay with art being stolen, personally created content being stolen, energy prices surging for so many folks who are already struggling, clean water sources being used up, contributing to climate change (see the latest news in Nepal), making the rich even richer while we all struggle, and I could go on, and on, and on.
This is really stressing me out so fuck all of it.
I will never understand how the project that respected licenses and trademarks so much that they forked the entire #Mozilla stack to comply ever decided that #AI usage could ever be considered ethical.
I have many machines that are somehow related to @pidgin's development and the vast majority of them run #debian. To keep #AI out of #Pidgin, I now I need to find a new distribution. This is yet another example of me having to pay into the #AI time deficit. 🙄
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_trademark_dispute
There was a sense in the Inkscape project that it should be the developer team that decided what the AI policy should be.
I flatty rejected this.
Because most of the consequences for the project, for our users and for the world have absolutely nothing to do with developing software. It's reputation, risk, relationships and community standards and morality.
The last thing I wanted was important decisions to be pre-narrowed to questions of technical usefulness.
I'm beyond baffled to read this. "Responsible" use of AI, implies the existence of irresponsible use of AI, which at no point whatsoever, should be considered a valid option for a project the size of Debian but also for ANY project that is meant to be used by anyone other than the author.
You absolutely CANNOT submit contributions and say "oh this isn't me, I let the bot do it", this is not a thing. You submitted a thing, therefore you are responsible for it.
https://linuxiac.com/debian-says-yes-to-generative-ai-but-keeps-humans-accountable/
Just catching up on the Debian AI debate. The project has had a voting window over the past two weeks which just concluded.
Results are in and Debian maintainers voted to allowing AI contributions with encouraged disclosure.
The winning proposal will hold the human contributor who uses AI accountable for the content they submit to the project.
https://linuxiac.com/debian-says-yes-to-generative-ai-but-keeps-humans-accountable/
There were EIGHT policy proposals put forth. (thats a lot!)
All are VERY interesting to see where people's ideas on how to use AI in open source.
While I'm certain Debian's middle road vote outcome is going to piss off tons of people on either side its good to see people making CLEAR rules.
I for one will NOT be discontinuing my usage of Debian over this vote or even stop updating.
I'll wait and see IF & HOW the maintainers -actually- use AI.
@sunnydeveloper is your assumption that developers will begin behaving irresponsibility following the vote that favours responsible use?
1. try <https://codeberg.org/ethical-foss/open-slopware#operating-systems>
2. I can not recommend ethical-foss/open-slopware
3. you can ask why I can not recommend it
4. et cetera
so to recap:
1. no discussions about #LLM #AI can happen only with developers. you need people equipped with knowledge of #law #ethics #sociology to, if not have all the answers, at least ask the right questions.
2. the Libre in #FLOSS anchors the sociopolitical implications of FREE and OPEN. it is there to bring in CONSENT. without consent, there is no #FLOSS
3. since slopware intentionally obliterate consent at scale, LLMs and AI are antithetical to FLOSS, democracy & society.
/🧵
Data Centers Use More Water Than California Cities, Study Says – Bobby Magill | Bloomberg Law
"Electric power generation for data centers is a threat to water supplies even in states outside the arid Southwest, according to a report published Tuesday by the think tank Ceres. …"
so i have questions about #Debian:
1. are members ONLY developers?
2. only developers argued for/against #LLM #AI?
devs are the last people who should be involved in discussions about the ethics and legality of software. ie:
just reckoned, when a court recently decided you can't claim #copyright on #aislop, it didn't occur to me it means both closed and open copyright.
so, if using #LLMs trained on works stolen or added without consent removes any claims of #FLOSS: what is Debian now?
Debian's general-resolution vote on LLMs has landed: 'Responsible Use of Generative AI' wins. Debian neither endorses nor prohibits such tools; contributors must still review and test any AI-assisted output before it ships, and responsibility for what lands in their package stays with the human who submitted it.
The video recording of @gregkh's recent #OSSKorea26 keynote "Linux in the Land of LLMs" is now available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MwMLPmMccs&pp=0gcJCRMMAYcqIYzv
Slides: https://hosted-files.sched.co/osskorea2026/a7/4%20-%20Greg%20-%20oss_korea%20v2.pptx.pdf
Here are a few screenshots from the latter:
#kernel #LinuxKernel #ai #llvm #security #vulnerabilities #Linux
so i have questions about #Debian:
1. are members ONLY developers?
2. only developers argued for/against #LLM #AI?
devs are the last people who should be involved in discussions about the ethics and legality of software. ie:
just reckoned, when a court recently decided you can't claim #copyright on #aislop, it didn't occur to me it means both closed and open copyright.
so, if using LLMs trained on works stolen or added without consent removes any claims of #FLOSS: what is Debian now? …🧵
Turkey asks the AI: are you a TERRORIST?? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cjXpYX-wfE
by @davidgerard
...Leading developers of the most powerful artificial intelligence tools are warning that their technology may soon be used to carry out sophisticated cyberattacks against companies and institutions, ranging from hospitals to technology firms...
'The guns we are selling might kill people' is not great PR. 🤣
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/openai-anthropic-ai-cyber-threat-warning/
An interesting view of China, AI, and not just how it differs from the US... But also, the commonalities.
Debian Linux developers vote to allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/debian-linux-developers-vote-to-allow-responsible-use-of-generative-ai/
Generative AI is a machine which immediately eats any human creativity we might dare come up with, so that it can be sold back to us by tech oligarchs.
There is no "responsible" use of this. It is an enclosure of knowledge and a massive power grab. One of the most disgusting uses of technology outside of warfare (but it's used there too!). If you feel like it's helping you write code or whatever... in the end, it really isn't. It's helping the tech oligarchs monopolize OSS. 1/3
The forge SourceHut changes its terms of service to limit LLM use
The changes can be reviewed there:
https://lists.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/sr.ht-dev/patches/71191
They have also written a blog post summarizing their rationale, explaining how this rule will be interpreted, and how projects may be affected and what you need to know if so:
Democracy and responsibility prevail!
<https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1vzqns8/megathread_debian_llmai_vote_results/> (pinned by moderators, awarded by me)
… the winning proposal will be Proposal E: Responsible Use of Generative AI.
🎉
<https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002#texte> and <https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_llm/> via <https://lobste.rs/s/zctsmq/llm_usage_debian_neither_endorsed_nor>
― LLM usage in Debian neither endorsed nor prohibited | Lobsters
<https://vote.debian.org/~secretary/gr_llm/results.txt> via <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49486967>
― Debian has published the official results for the 2026 GR on LLM usage | Hacker News
<https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Votes-Responsible-AI-Use> via <https://lobste.rs/s/34qdwx/debian_votes_allow_responsible_use>
― Debian Votes To Allow "Responsible Use Of Generative AI" | Lobsters
Cc @SO_UnivRennes @Enthalpiste #AI #LLM #LLMs #Debian #Linux
Debian Linux developers vote to allow "Responsible Use of Generative AI" https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/debian-linux-developers-vote-to-allow-responsible-use-of-generative-ai/
I made a list of websites that offer royalty-free images for your blogs and social media posts. I’ll keep the list updated over time.
Use these images instead of #AISlop! No more excuses!
Please reply with additional sites and I’ll add them to the list.
r/unixsocks
https://www.reddit.com/r/unixsocks/
"The original unixsocks sub! Filled with thigh-highs, gayness, and Tux! i use arch btw"
I found myself there during a FreeBSD discussion about the BSD licence and the GPL.
Yes, truth is stranger than fiction, and I'm sure that for some people, serendipity can be sexier than a sturdy pair of sports socks.
#gay #socks #benice #UNIX #BSD #FreeBSD #Linux #Tux #Reddit #GNU #serendipity #AI #ChatGPT
💥 LLM usage in Debian neither endorsed nor prohibited
Defend Autistici/Inventati and the right to build resistant communication.
Sign onto our open letter here and show solidarity. Reports of banks already over-complying with sanctions.
Solidarity with Autistici/Inventati
#aicrackdown2026 #aivsus #fascism #ai
https://www.wewillfreeus.org/open-letter-communications-infrastructure-is-not-terrorism/
AI on Twitch: ‘If it was opt in, nobody would opt in’ - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE4Ucw-zbpc
by @davidgerard
Lunch with really smart computer geeks is like this.
Of course, all the conversation is about LLM-gen-AI (is there any conversation in tech that is *not* about this rn?)
I keep interrupting to say: “These systems are not capable of reason!!!”
I'm the only one at the table who believes that higher mammals are the only things we have encountered that can reason.
#Claude and Opus 5 and Fable *cannot* reason. I may be the last person who believes this, though.
“Every day, Michael Geoffrey Asia spent eight consecutive hours at his laptop in Kenya staring at porn, annotating what was happening in every frame for an AI data labeling company. When he was done with his shift, he started his second job as the human labor behind AI sex bots, sexting with real lonely people he suspected were in the United States. His boss was an algorithm that told him to flit in and out of different personas.“
https://www.404media.co/ai-is-african-intelligence-the-workers-who-train-ai-are-fighting-back/
Because of the unacceptable environmental and climate impact of data centers (and other stuff), I feel bad using AI and try to do so with sobriety. Am I doing enough? Am I just self-serving? Am I doing too much, even, as "AI is inevitable, and individual choice do not matter much"?
Thread 1/n
Linus Torvalds banishes Linux bug with a bot – Liam Proven | The Register
<https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/24/linus-torvalds-banishes-linux-bug-with-a-bot/5291784> @lproven
"… There are several points of interest here. One is that the fix is from Linus himself. Another is the unusually discursive comment. The third and perhaps the most important is that he used a bot to find the bug. He also used it to write the bug report, …
It’s a good example of how coding bots are a legitimately useful tool for developers. It looks like he didn’t use the bot to write the fix – that wasn’t needed, it’s a one-line fix – but the bot wrote 42 chunks of test code that enabled Linus to find the bug. …"
I wondered about his choice of AI, Claude could not tell us: <https://claude.ai/share/d161d4d5-b56f-4bfa-be2f-c95a741d10a5>.
Un canard bipède de 25 cm, 15 moteurs, caméra, LiDAR et un bec qui attrape. Vous l'entraînez dans MuJoCo avec du RL, vous déployez sur le vrai robot. Open source, SDK fourni, 399$ en précommande. Une collab Pollen Robotics x Hugging Face. ⬇️
https://pollen-robotics.com/microduck/
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This is a useful analogy from @pluralistic : COVID was an opportunistic infection. It killed disproportionately people suffering from other pathologies, and we, collectively, struggled to attribute the deaths of COVID patients to COVID itself rather than those other pathologies. Eventually there was a sort of agreement that excess mortality is a reasonable way to measure COVID's impact.
THREAD 1/n
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/20/epistemic-void/#expert-agencies
(Maybe) two conclusions follow from this line of reasoning.
* Statistical: might "excess fraud" be used to estimate the impact of #AI on disinformation?
* Policy: it seems that we have no choice but to build a better world. Single-point measures are unlikely to be effective. When institutions are trustable and scammers and liars are marginalized, the attack surface of fraudsters shrinks dramatically.
For me, as usual "a better world" means "a radically rewired economy".
3/end
RE: https://mementomori.social/@Lupposofi/117172111153319697
In his commentary on Giles Howdle's P&T article on the anthropomorphization of AI, Johnny Sakr raises the topical concept of institutional anthropomorphic fallacy, which creates a lack of accountability, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-026-01173-7
Unfortunately, only the abstract is open access, but it is so well written that the message is probably conveyed. The underlying Howdle article is free, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13347-026-01133-1
Springer's Philosophy & Technology is also a source worth checking out from time to time, as is Ethics and Information Technology, https://link.springer.com/journal/10676
(The three paragraphs above are a machine translation.)
Thanks @Lupposofi
#AI #anthropomorphism #technology #ethics #ethicsOfai #journal #research #responsibility #accountability #society
Large language models (LLMs) as psychotherapists: an analysis based on psychodynamic psychotherapy theory | Ethics and Information Technology | Springer Nature Link
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10676-026-09917-x
From the conclusion:
"… we have identified areas in which LLMs can support the psychotherapy process. Their subsidiary application should be the subject of increased interest among theorists and practitioners. The implementation of technology can significantly advance psychology and the capabilities of psychotherapists. This is particularly important given the shortage of psychological assistance in many areas. Moreover, it cannot be ruled out that technological developments will lead to further breakthroughs in our understanding of what consciousness and having a sense of “self” actually are. Although this turning point still seems distant, it already poses a multidimensional challenge for the psychological sciences, and encourages continuous analysis and re-evaluation of the capabilities of advanced AI systems."
#psychotherapy #psychodynamic #LLMs #ChatGPT #companionship #therapy #AI
Lossless Scaling Frame Generation on Linux lsfg-vk moves away from GitHub, changes license due to AI slop forks https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/08/lossless-scaling-frame-generation-on-linux-lsfg-vk-moves-away-from-github-changes-license-due-to-ai-slop-forks/
Quoting more of the text:
> To put it simply: #Business gives us endless Talk for free, #AI gives us endless Code for free, but the Source, the real reason behind any of it, can only come from us, #Humans
I think this is written by @idlip and I like this article a lot as well.
"Why was the software created?" is also a central question for Social experience design, and the answer should always be: "To satisfy identified stakeholder needs".
In #FOSS there is way too much "Let's create an app, and then put users in it" (followed by "Build it and they will come"). Which is a tech-first approach, not solution-oriented.
Bravo! "Under the new guidelines, students [in the Social Science Core classes at U of Chicago] will primarily read texts on paper & engage w/them via device-free guided discussions." This is based on "A 2025 report on #AI & #education by the University’s Artificial Intelligence & Education Working Group, “emphasizes the centrality of human engagement, human interaction, and human expertise to UChicago’s educational mission.”
⏩︎VOTE⏪︎ ᶜʸⁿⁱᶜⁱˢᵐ⁼ᵃᶜᶜᵉᵖᵗᵃⁿᶜᵉ (Ben Royce) » 🌐
@benroyce@mastodon.social
#Alabama country boy vs #AI #surveillance and #privacy defilement
Jacob Rockwell at a #Pensacola, #Florida #CityCouncil meeting
👏 👏 👏
(Jacob's actually from Escambia County, which is the far Western tip of Florida, so basically Alabama)
New by Sabot Media x We Will Free Us:
The U.S. government just put an antifascist communications collective on a terrorism blacklist.
For 25 years, Autistici/Inventati has built communications systems designed to survive censorship, surveillance, police raids and corporate interference. Now the state is attacking something harder to seize than a server: the financial and technological relationships that allow that infrastructure to exist.
Now that infrastructure itself is being treated as evidence of terrorism, and solidarity is turning into “material support.”
This isn't only an attack on A/I. It's a warning to anyone building servers, encrypted communications, independent publishing platforms and other infrastructure that makes organizing beyond state and corporate surveillance possible.
Please read and share. September 25th is approaching. Learn what is happening and don’t let the state write the only version of this story.
boostedNvidia has agreed to buy Hugging Face for ~$13B. The chip giant acquires the de facto registry where most open models land, meaning distribution, trust and community all change hands in one deal. Expect serious questions about how "open source" survives inside Nvidia's wall, especially right after last week's incident fallout.
#huggingface #nvidia #acquisition #concern #ai #llm #opensource
There is something deeply satisfying about true data sovereignty.
No rate limits, no third-party APIs snooping on prompts, and zero cloud lock-in. Just raw self-hosted inference pulling 154 tok/s with an absurd 0.11s TTFT on local silicon.
Running Qwen with reasoning enabled, NVFP4 quantization on Blackwell, and SGLang speculative decoding. Crisp, private, and blazingly fast.
The future of AI belongs on your own hardware.
#SelfHosted #LocalAI #DataSovereignty #OpenSource #MachineLearning #SGLang #Blackwell #Linux #AI
[REPOST] The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati Before September 25
Ripubblichiamo (in inglese) un bel post di Sabot Media che ripercorre la nostra storia e la collega a quanto sta avvenendo con la nostra iscrizione nella lista delle organizzazioni globali terroristiche da parte dell'amministrazione americana. Ringraziamo Sabot Media perché ha fatto un lavoro
https://cavallette.noblogs.org/2026/08/10083
#kaos #AI #AutisticiInventati #libro #Presentazione #USCrackdown2026
Meta brings the superintelligent AI future! Probably - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX5HjqPDAMU
by @davidgerard
Interview: Over 160 million exploited workers are in the Belly of AI
"Artificial intelligence relies heavily on human labor — an army of data workers all over the world, primarily in the Global South."
"These workers are purposely hidden by the companies that produce AI because they are the secret ingredient of AI itself."
~Antonio Casilli
https://www.democracynow.org/2026/8/27/data_workers
#AI #dataCentres #USPol #EUPol #GlobalSouth #Racism #USImperialism #news .
Je ne suis pas un tuyau
Les IA me collent à la peau
Je ne suis pas un tuyau
Faut pas croire ce que disent les techbro
Je ne suis pas un tuyau
Un tuyau
Ouais je sais, déso pour la musique dans la tête… Mais j'ai lu un article qui m'a déprimé
➡️ https://yoandev.co/specifier-c-est-coder
Si c'est ça le futur du métier de « développeur », clairement, ça sera sans moi !
boostedChinese #AI Models Overtake American Rivals https://techstrong.ai/articles/chinese-ai-models-overtake-american-rivals/ by @sjvn
The headlines are all about Anthropic and OpenAI, but users are all about Moonshot, DeepSeek, and other cheaper Chinese AI models.
RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117167581483951852
NVidia is officially the Bending Spoons of #ai slopfondlers
2026 : l’été où les affiches IA ont inondé la France
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https://next.ink/253290/2026-lete-ou-les-affiches-ia-ont-inonde-la-france/
L'ère de la médiocrité, du «passable, good enough, bof toute façon on s'en tape» c'est maintenant.
Microsoft's latest AI rebrand beats its own history of terrible rebrands, renaming Microsoft 365 Roadmap to "AI at Work"
#news #tech #technology #AI #microsoft #copilot #m365 #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis
Strix : un outil open source de pentest basé sur des agents IA pour trouver et corriger les vulnérabilités de vos applis. ⬇️
https://github.com/usestrix/strix
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I want to chime in on something I've seen other people saying now that Meta has settled a lawsuit for #SocialMedia addiction of children and teens and #AI is proving harmful for children and teens learning capacity. So we need to protect the children, right?
LISTEN UP! *It's not just 'the children'.*
If something is harmful when you are a kid it can be harmful if you are an adult. There's no magic age at which you become 'safe'. The potential for harm does not simply disappear.
[contd]
We age-restrict things like alcohol and gambling not because they are 'safe for adults', but rather because at some point you become fully responsible for your own choices. And some adults then make terrible choices with them.
If Meta's products are addictive for children, *they are also addictive for adults*. If children's learning capacity is harmed by #AI, *the same can happen for adults*. It's simple and straight-forward and we need to acknowledge this isn't a 'child problem'.
[contd]
Pour info : l'UE veut notre avis sur pour batir une stratégie sur l'utilisation de l'IA dans le secteur artistique et culturel. Vous pouvez donner votre avis ici :
Court filings reveal #Anthropic and #Amazon both ran secret operations to buy millions of rare physical books - scanning the contents to feed into training #AI models, and then permanently destroying them.
How long can we allow this cultural theft and erasure masked as 'progress' to continue?
@Lilmikesf This is an #AI image. It was made using an OpenAI tool and has a SynthID watermark that you can verify yourself at hxxps://openai.com/research/verify
If that weren’t egregious enough, the #AIslop extruding machine produced a signature on the bottom that reads “BLOPER”. That’s Brendan Loper’s trademark signature, but neither the signature nor the drawing style is anything like his. This is machine plagiarism and theft of an actual human artist’s credentials. https://condenaststore.com/collections/brendan+loper
Please delete this.
Un LLM qui peint en code p5.brush au lieu de pixels. Le résultat reste éditable ligne par ligne, on peut reprendre la main sur le dessin sans repasser par un prompt. ⬇️
https://surya.website/rling-qwen-to-paint-with-code
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RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@ionica/117162973223554918
C'est très exactement le but recherché par les promoteurs de l'ia :
Ils se fichent des conséquences. Ils veulent surtout se laver les mains de la responsabilité.
TurboVec, index vectoriel Rust (bindings Python) basé sur TurboQuant de Google Research : 10 millions de documents en 4 Go de RAM contre 31 Go en float32, recherche plus rapide que FAISS, sans entraînement. ⬇️
https://github.com/RyanCodrai/turbovec
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AND THEN THERE
IS EVERYBODY ELSE 💎
Today I'm thinking about AI, LOL, again, and I think there are actually three quite distinct groups forming around Artificial Intelligence.
There is a small group so frightened by it that they have decided they want nothing at all to do with it. And an even smaller group that has gone further and decided that anyone who uses AI is somehow morally suspect, deserving of abuse and bullying for their choice to use the technology.
AND THEN THERE IS EVERYBODY ELSE.
Most of us are not marching around waving AI banners.
WE’RE WATCHING.
We are trying things. We’re asking where it helps and where it doesn’t. We’re learning what it can do for disability, accessibility, education, writing, research, communication, creativity, work and ordinary daily life.
Some of us will use AI a lot. Some will barely use it at all. Some will remain deeply sceptical, and that seems perfectly healthy to me.
WHAT'S NOT HEALTHY IS FEAR OF A TECHNOLOGY TURNING INTO HOSTILITY TOWARD THOSE WHO USE IT.
AI is still very new. None of us knows exactly where this is going. But I suspect the future will not belong to the people shouting loudest either for it or against it.
It will belong to the much larger group quietly discovering where it adds value to human life. And where it doesn’t.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#AI #Accessibility #Technology #Fediverse #ArtificialIntelligence #value #human #healthy #research #education #communication #creativity #work #WAR #EVERYBODY #life
Data Centers Use More Water Than California Cities, Study Says – Bobby Magill | Bloomberg Law
"Electric power generation for data centers is a threat to water supplies even in states outside the arid Southwest, according to a report published Tuesday by the think tank Ceres. …"
RE: https://mas.to/@justinf/117162758333617333
❝ Three-panel comic strip showing a BLACK man with a beard wearing glasses and a jacket painting a white fence bLACK with a bLACK-FACED robot labeled 'AI' looking behind him. In the second panel, the man gestures towards it, as if instructing the robot. In the last third, the fence has been painted entirely, with the robot standing alone, implying the AI has covered in BLACKNESS everything. ❞
#ftfy you can play on Black & black(ness) for the joke: #blackwashing #AI with Black slopfondlers.
🟣 Tomorrow's the day, TechTalk #14!
🕘 10:00 AM PDT | 05:00 PM GMT | 07:00 PM CEST
Join us for our Tech Talk #14, with Mathias Palmersheim and Michelle Sebek, joined by co-founder Roman Khavronenko, to run an #AI agent against #VictoriaMetrics, #VictoriaLogs, #VictoriaTraces, and #vmanomaly, using the twelve Agent Skills and four #MCP servers that the team publishes.
C'est pour ça que je n'arrête pas de parler des «talibans libéraux» : la destruction, pure, brutale.
Voilà à quoi ressemble l’obscurantisme version capitaliste.
⤵️
https://www.404media.co/inside-the-warehouse-where-amazon-scans-and-destroys-books-for-ai-training/
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Capitalisme
#TalibansLibéraux
@paco
On June 29, Tidal released this statement:
"We are committed to protecting and rewarding organic creativity to avoid compromising an artist’s ability to connect with and build their fandom from Tidal subscribers. Many have told us they do not want to be exposed to — or prompted to listen to — wholly AI-generated music."
It's a bit suspect that they subsequently default "Allow AI" to the "On" position. It's exhausting.
AI has come for #Tidal, the streaming #music service I use. At least they make it clear. Naturally it’s on by default. And it’s not one tap to turn off, but 2. I hope you didn’t have any great music queued up when this happens, because turning OFF #AI (which you didn’t turn on) will clear your play queue.
Needle 2 : un foundation model de 45M de paramètres pour le tool calling et l'extraction structurée, compressé en un seul binaire de 14MB tournant avec 28MB de RAM. Open source, pensé pour tourner en local sur téléphones, wearables et objets connectés, sans cloud. ⬇️
https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
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I WILL NOT BE BULLIED 💎
I received a vicious reply today because I use AI. It wasn't a disagreement. Nor a criticism. It was a full-frontal personal attack! And I’ll admit it affected me more than I expected.
I USE AI MAINLY BECAUSE I'M PARALYSED.
Typing is physically difficult for me. I have the use of only one hand. So, tapping out a post or email with one finger is exhausting. Voice and AI help me turn my own thoughts into usable writing in a normal amount of time.
THAT SHOULD NOT REQUIRE A DEFENCE.
You can dislike AI. You can distrust it. You can argue about copyright concerns, energy and water use, labour, culture, or anything else that concerns you. I will listen to you and answer you.
But attacking people simply for using AI is not principled.
IT'S BULLYING.
And disabled people should not have to produce a medical justification every time they use a technology that makes their life easier.
AI is a tool. How it is used matters. Who gets harmed matters. Context matters. What does not help is turning “AI user” into a moral accusation and deciding that cruelty is suddenly acceptable.
I’m quite happy to discuss the technology with anyone.
HOWEVER, I WILL NOT BE BULLIED FOR USING IT.
I didn't need to do anything about the attack. Before I could even decide how to respond, both the post and the person disappeared from my notifications.
@3goodthings @DigitalCoup @meditation @economics_that_works @startrek
#AI #Accessibility #Disability #AssistiveTechnology #Fediverse #Bullying #PWD #Tool
La thèse de l'article : les LLMs récompensent l'expertise. Sans elle, vous obtenez du correct. Avec, vous orientez, vous virez ce qui sonne faux, vous proposez mieux. Le goulot d'étranglement, ce n'est pas le modèle, c'est vous. ⬇️
https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise/
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AI doomsday cults recruit social media influencers - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbZgAQD61xY
by @davidgerard
⋅ Eight AI Agents Breach Government Systems, Crack 85 Accounts and Steal 2,500+ Records
− https://cybersecuritynews.com/eight-ai-agents-breach-government-systems/
TechTalk #14 is coming soon!
Join Mathias Palmersheim and Michelle Sebek, alongside VictoriaMetrics co-founder Roman Khavronenko, to run an #AI agent against #VictoriaMetrics, #VictoriaLogs, #VictoriaTraces, and #vmanomaly, using the twelve #Agent Skills and four #MCP servers that the team publishes.
Sam Altman: Guys, we’re in the Singularity now - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6FPzOWi0YI
by @davidgerard
yup
weak, misleading comparisons always crash and burn
...like a running #robot
🤭
(for the mindless doubters reply guying under every goddamn picture/ art/ video post, which in some respects is a worse phenomenon than actual fake #AI posts, this is #NotAI: https://bleacherreport.com/articles/25477305-robot-crashes-electrical-box-viral-video-ahead-world-humanoid-robot-games )
Are you using LLMs to write Free Software?
Then you should know whether your software is copyrightable, the situations in which you can license it, and what risks it may create for maintainers.
Our new Legal Corner explains what you need to consider:
https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260825-01.en.html
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Copyright #LLM #AI #generativeAI #VibeCoding
Si vous ne l'avez pas déjà vu, prenez 45 minutes de pose dej' ce midi et regardez absolument cette conférence de l'excellent Olivier Eretzscheid aka @affordance :
Que nous cachent les ia ?
⤵️
https://youtu.be/AYwdNWJvwqI
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Vulgarisation
#Conférence
#Tech
🌍$💀
Vous avez un Mac Apple Silicon qui dort ? Darkbloom le transforme en fournisseur d'inférence IA rémunéré : requêtes chiffrées, matériel vérifié, prompts illisibles pour vous comme pour l'opérateur.
De quoi rentabiliser votre dernier MacBook ou Mac Studio :p ⬇️
https://www.darkbloom.dev/
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Well this is forking depressing. 😞
https://hypersubject.net/posts/on-adaptation,-again
#AI #slop #SelfRespect? #WeAllBowDownToBabylon, eventually, I guess
One of our local radio folk was excited about "putting AI in his ham radio" on a discussion this weekend (I was pretty sure this was some kind of BS), and I went and looked it up, and it's no such thing. (Looks like it's some tool to "help" people configure a radio using AI... not AI itself in the radio). Anyway 🙄 (just a benchmark on where public understanding of exactly what AI is and what AI isn't. Soon there will be "AI POWERED CEREAL", for marketing reasons).
After spending much of the afternoon on the hallway track, I'm back for @josh talk on how AI coding agents changed the way he writes Django.
I was curious to compare his experience with mine, and a lot of his suggestions and reflections resonated with me.
I especially enjoyed @carlton quote: “Go with the grain of Django.” 🌾
Apparently we've just seen the first murders committed by an autonomous AI-driven weapon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/world/europe/russia-drones-autonomous-ai-kill-ukraine-war.html
In this case the weapon was a drone, it was Russian, and the victims were Ukrainian civilians. We're bound to see endless variations on this theme, starting now.
Silicon Valley Doesn't Get Why You Hate AI
https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-doesnt-get-why-you-hate-ai/
I recently had to replace one of my credit cards so I had to update everywhere online it's use for billing and donations.
I'm considering not renewing my support for OpenSCAD now that LLM/AI support is getting added to it.
Which really sucks, because I still love it and use it almost daily, but I don't want to financially support the Slopification of open source.
I've seen a lot of talk about "generating #PassiveIncome ". To some degree, this is understandable - we all live in a late-stage Capitalist hellhole, which means that we must always live in fear of bankruptcy unless we are so rich that we can outsource all our risks to other people. Thus, extra income streams which we don't have to do much work is very, very appealing.
But ultimately, the real trick to getting passive income... is to have money to start with, which can then be invested in order to pay you dividends or all the other stuff the rentier class gets income from.
And if you _don't_ have that money for investment, you will not have those opportunities for passive income, and be _deeply_ suspicious of anyone who tells you otherwise - because they are trying to sell you "self-help courses" and the like which will not help you one bit.
As an example, some years ago - before the #AI / #LLM hype even broke loose - I saw people on Twitter flogging "writing books in order to generate passive income". And while I, as a published author, can confirm that there is indeed _some_ money to be earned by writing, there is nothing "passive" about it.. You have to write the book, you have to proofread it, you have to get others to read it and give you feedback, you have to go through the publishing process... and once you are done you will have to do it all over again, because the best advertising for a book is _another_ book.
Now, there is nothing wrong with contemplating some new money-making opportunities - again, we live in a late-stage Capitalist hellhole, and we need the money to survive. But be clear-eyed about the efforts involved versus the rewards you get, and don't trust people who try to sell you get-rich-quick schemes.
Amazon’s planned gas-powered AI data centre in Texas shows the real cost of unchecked AI expansion: more fossil fuels, more pollution and more pressure on communities’ water and energy systems.
Tech companies must stop treating communities as sacrifice zones for their AI ambitions. Power data centres with new renewable energy, cut demand, and make polluters pay.
So @Airmed wanted to see if there’s a workflow that helps her transfer her designs from Affinity to HTML and CSS as that’s the part she usually struggles with.
I was recommended Dyad. Set it up with OpenRouter for testing before getting her her own 5090 in the rack.
OpenRouter reports Dyad as “AI Harem game”. I guess that answers the question which startup pivoted the hardest in the AI gold rush.
Am I glad this is prepaid. I wouldn’t want to justify this line item during a tax audit. #ai #llm
⋅ Comment calculer le vrai coût de l’IA ?
− https://www.itespresso.fr/comment-calculer-le-vrai-cout-de-lia-280503.html
RE: https://norden.social/@baum/117144289459880363
Vous pouvez apprendre ça par cœur
(en particulier le dernier).
Stop trying to make your AI writing sound human
jcode : un agent de code open source pour le terminal, écrit en Rust. Mémoire persistante, tâches en arrière-plan et swarms d'agents, installable en une commande. ⬇️
https://jcode.sh/
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The Office of National Statistics which has been suffering from a range of problems with its data in recent years, will utilise AI & associated technologies to 'solve' these problems & to improve efficiency in analysing the raw data it collects, and (of course) to cut costs - by which it means further reduce its staffing.
Given this is an *expansion* of AI use one might wonder if its recent problems have been caused by AI-use rather than likely to be solved by it?
Dr Jones here is a damn good presenter of linguistics, and he reports on things without judging or prescribing.
This video is talking about HOW to detect AI output being passed off as human; given that it's based on human language ... what do we look for?
Well, duh ... we look for evidence of *thinking* not just *speaking* ...
A new angle:
People trusting #AI will kill us all unless you give me a lot of money to stop them.
(Not necessarily me, really, but it would be nice.)
In OOPS MY FIRST JOB mistakes:
LA Times: AI led to mistakes in Nevada County criminal cases. Should the D.A. be sanctioned?
"...In the declaration, Maxwell said that when she used generative AI to edit documents she submitted to courts she didn’t know large language models can insert citations for cases that don’t exist. Maxwell started work at the district attorney’s office in July 2024, her first job after law school. She resigned in May and now works in the nearby Sutter County district attorney’s office...."
Something just hit me: I don't know which I would consider worse: the socioeconomic effects of #AI being a bubble and bursting or things continuing in the direction they are.
On a related note, I don't play TTRPG games in grimdark settings because I'm living in one, or at least it sure *feels* like one. We just haven't hit the apocalypse yet.
I don’t know who made this, but I think it’s pretty funny.
Source: LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sam-khoury-432a78166_who-made-this-ugcPost-7496299515717644289-8bB3/
#feilnerism :
#AI #Datacenters will have to be built in autocratic countries because the 'ordinary' population does not want nor need them because they serve mostly a rich elite ALT-Lib Upperclass and the stock market and because they kill the planet.
#AI #KI #Datacenters #China #ALT-Right #spacekaren #musk #altman #openai
New Hashtag: #AKI like #Anti-KI-Bewegung (german) or #AAI as in #antiaimovement
Hi blog writers: You don’t have to attach a unique image to every blog post, and you *certainly* don’t need to use #AI to generate an image for every blog post. You may think AI-generated images make your posts more attractive, but you are mistaken; they are doing the opposite: they make your posts more *repulsive* to a good number of potential readers. If I see an AI-generated image in the preview, I won’t click through to read your post, I won’t boost the post that mentions your post, and I certainly won’t read the rest of your blog.
🥑 San Francisco Bay Area dethroned as largest tech talent market
「 Last year, the New York Metro Area's tech talent workforce reached 394,300, surpassing the Bay Area's 375,730, according to the report. Fueled by mass layoffs, the Bay Area's tech talent workforce dropped by 6% from 2022 to 2025. New York's tech talent workforce, on the other hand, grew by more than 8% during that period 」
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/san-francisco-bay-area-dethroned-largest-tech-22396813.php
The enemy is not #AI -- the enemy is #Capital ; it's not the machines that are to blame, it's not the code and the models that are to blame, it's who owns them. Using "intellectual property" laws like copyright to fight against the big AI companies won't help the creators, it will only lead to all the AI models being "owned" by the huge IP hoarders like Disney and Elsevier.
We need to fight a very different machine, the insane economic system known as #Capitalism . The reason why they're building insanely huge computing centres everywhere, the reason why they're training bigger and bigger machine learning models, is simply that the world economy has run out of growth. Investors are desperately trying to find any markets that have any growth potential left, but there aren't any. If we're being honest, growth is over, we have even exceeded the global ecological growth limits, which means that even the current size of the world economy is too big to become sustainable, and anything unsustainable won't be sustained for very long, meaning that the world economy will #collapse at some point not too far in our future.
If the machines didn't belong to a small number of very rich people but to everyone, if private property simply didn't exist and all the people just shared everything, nobody would have to worry about AI.
We aren't even close to AGI, let alone superintelligence; LLMs aren't even _really_ intelligent, they're just billion-dimensional word clouds, huge vector spaces made from entire libraries where words that often occur together are closer to each other than those that don't. Machines that can generate text that looks "intelligent", machines that can generate images and sounds and video, may seem like magic or like something alien or out of science fiction, but they aren't going to come alive. I'm not saying that artificial general intelligence, artificial minds, even artificial superintelligence, will never exist, but they aren't going to spontaneously emerge from LLMs or any of the other currently popular applications of machine learning. I think the probability of AGI/ASI ever coming into existence is rather low due to the fact that the Industrial Age is running on fumes and will probably collapse before ever getting there. Just like asteroid mining, orbital habitats, or factories on the Moon or Mars.
What is happening right now to knowledge workers, office workers, creative workers, artists, musicians, etc., is very similar to what happened to all kinds of other professions when automation became available for their jobs, beginning with artisanal weavers in the late 18th and early 19th century. And while attacking the machines has always been a very human thing to do, it has also always been rather stupid. We should be attacking the system instead. We need to seize the machines, end private property, reinvent and remake the technology. Machine learning is a very powerful tool, but the hardware needed to train and run them should be owned by everybody. We only need huge computing centres if we want to crunch insane volumes of numbers very quickly; if we don't need to train an entirely new AI model within a few weeks or months, if it is OK for a model's training to take a couple of years, we can do it with hige distributed networks of small consumer PCs, with volunteers contributing spare CPU and GPU cycles over the Internet. The resulting models should be small enough to run at reasonable speed on a single PC. And when there is something that needs to be trained within a shorter period of time and therefore needs a computing centre, the resulting model needs to be in the public domain, an open weights model which can be downloaded, modified, fine-tuned, by anybody.
And of course the people must decide what is included in the training data. I don't think anybody should be able to say something _shouldn't_ be in the training data because it's their IP, I think IP is an abomination, a legal fiction which only serves capital (just like physical property, which is used to keep the means of production under corporate control). However, the people need to be able to decide that some things should be excluded, like fascist or corporate propaganda.
All of this needs to be embedded in a larger revolutionary movement against capitalism itself. We need to replace this insane economy with one that not only works without any net growth but also doesn't collapse entirely when it needs to shrink. None of the existing flavours of #Marxism will do us much good because they were designed for a world where growth is still possible, and that world is over. However, #Anarchism is always a good starting point.
Copilot prompt injection virus, in your documents - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF6LcX7P7KA
Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/08/03/copilot-prompt-injection-goes-viral-in-your-documents/
by @davidgerard
Mon fils vient de me donner une analogie très parlante... Après avoir dit à mon benjamin "T'arrêtes ta machine de Rube Goldberg ? 😆" (Un citron dévale le plan de travail, la table et les chaises de la cuisine), je lui explique, ainsi qu'à mon cadet, ce que sont ces machines, qui dépensent beaucoup d'énergie pour un résultat infime.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOMIBdM6N7Q
Et il me dit "Bah ouais c'est comme quand tu dépenses des milliers de litres d'eau pour demander un truc à une machine".
🎯 👌
80% of developers find AI coding more addictive than helpful
https://www.zdnet.com/article/80-of-developers-find-ai-coding-more-addictive-than-helpful/
#news #tech #technology #AI #aicoding #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis
Ponytail : un skill qui rend votre agent IA aussi flemmard qu'un·e dev senior. Besoin d'un date picker ? input type=date, pas une lib de plus.
Sur un repo FastAPI + React : jusqu'à 54% de code en moins à priori. ⬇️
https://github.com/DietrichGebert/ponytail
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(suite du pouet précédent ⤴️ )
Intelligence artificielle et bibliothèques universitaires
⤵️
https://cgt.fercsup.net/l-echo-du-sup/echo-du-sup-numero-11-juin-2026-l-ia-dans-l-esr-ou-l-esr-dans-l-ia/article/intelligence-artificielle-et-bibliotheques-universitaires
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#CGT
#SyndiquezVous
#Université
#VeilleESR
A lire :
Numéro de juin 2026 de l’Écho du Sup, la lettre CGT spécifique Enseignement Supérieur :
un numéro spécial
« L'IA dans l'ESR ou l'ESR dans l'IA »
⤵️
https://cgt.fercsup.net/l-echo-du-sup/echo-du-sup-numero-11-juin-2026-l-ia-dans-l-esr-ou-l-esr-dans-l-ia/
(je ne suis pas forcément d'accord avec toutes les opinions exprimées, mais elles ont le mérite d'exister et d'articuler la question politique et syndicale avec le problème de l'ia)
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#CGT
#SyndiquezVous
#Université
#VeilleESR
Neural Drive : un world model de jeu de kart qui tourne entièrement dans le navigateur. C'est moche, les textes sont éronnés/illisibles, c'est injouable... mais peut-être les prémisses du jeu vidéo de demain ? ⬇️
https://huggingface.co/spaces/codelion/neural-drive
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Claude Academy est en ligne : cours et tutoriels gratuits d'Anthropic pour apprendre à utiliser Claude, du niveau débutant (comprendre l'IA) jusqu'à l'intégration en équipe via l'API, Claude Code ou MCP. ⬇️
https://academy.claude.com/
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Hi blog writers: You don’t have to attach a unique image to every blog post, and you *certainly* don’t need to use #AI to generate an image for every blog post. You may think AI-generated images make your posts more attractive, but you are mistaken; they are doing the opposite: they make your posts more *repulsive* to a good number of potential readers. If I see an AI-generated image in the preview, I won’t click through to read your post, I won’t boost the post that mentions your post, and I certainly won’t read the rest of your blog.
Pixel devices are getting a native App Lock in Android 17 QPR2, requiring a fingerprint or PIN before protected apps open. 🔒
Notifications, widgets and shortcuts are hidden, but permitted AI agents can still access app data. 🤖
🔗 https://9to5google.com/2026/08/14/android-17-qpr2-app-lock/
#TechNews #Android #Android17 #Pixel #AppLock #Privacy #Security #Google #Mobile #AI #Android #Technology #Smartphones #DigitalPrivacy
Not Sorry, but this account is free of AI slop and neither interested nor tolerating of tech that only benefits genocidal billionaires hell-bent on comitting global ecocide!
#AIslop #Billionaires #Slop #AI #AntiAIaction #NoAI #Democide #Genocide #Ecocide #AIfree #SelfPreservation #Tech
A warning about #AI in #healthcare...
Boy, am I pissed off. A medical practice of whom I've been a customer for 7 years recently deployed a virtual assistant, "Olivia", to take the place of their receptionist. I specifically asked if this virtual assistant would utilize AI (meaning Generative Artificial Intelligence, Large Language Model processing, machine learning, etc.) to collect, process, store, and train using patient data. They did not directly address my concern, but at the time I let it go. It upset me, but what came next was way worse!
Recently (August 2026), this practice announced plans to adopt athenaOne (https://www.athenahealth.com/solutions/athenaone/electronic-health-records), an "AI-native EHR platform". I am terminating my relationship with this organization and all its Providers. I told them, I have not given my consent to their organization to collect, process, or store my personal health information or medical records using this platform. Neither have I consented to my personal health information or medical records or any data about me whatsoever being used to train athenaOne, "Olivia", or any software or computing platforms provided by athenahealth.
Now, their privacy policy which was last updated on September 6, 2013 does not remotely address any of the new technologies they are implementing. Medical providers are required by law to ensure that health and medical information that identifies me is kept private (#HIPAA and other regulations).
I really would like to understand how that is being done while utilizing at least 2 AI-enabled platforms that this provide has decided to roll out... BIG SHOCKER - no reply yet from the organization. Stay vigilant, #privacy advocates!
@cwebber Surely at some point the Nuremberg Defense becomes invalid for slop-slingers and slop-supporters?
@davidgerard IANAL but it seems prison time would be more appropriate for the levels of fraud and gross negligence involved in the coming global economic crash.
/cc @tante
As observability systems grow more complex, so does the cognitive load on teams. This talk explores how #AI assistants can act as intelligent interfaces to your monitoring stack using MCP (Model Context Protocol).
If you're curious about #observability and AI, this one's for you. 👇
https://bit.ly/46aUr9s
Not happy about AI in OpenSCAD (or open source)?
Leave a comment...
https://github.com/openscad/openscad/issues/6958#issue-5184643860
SkillOpt (Microsoft) : un optimizer de skills en langage naturel pour agents LLM. Le skill s'améliore via des rollouts scorés, sans toucher aux poids du modèle. Le fichier best_skill.md est portable d'un modèle à l'autre. Open source, MIT. ⬇️
https://github.com/microsoft/SkillOpt
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#LinusTorvalds managed to fix a really nasty #Linux #kernel Intel GPU driver bug he was plagued with[1] using #AI, which "enormously helped by doing much of the grunt-work" – but he needed persistence and multiple debug patches as well, as the AI multiple times had told him to give up and just report the bug.
To quote https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/818bebeb63dd6bf5f4e07e145f6cdbace520a34c:
""And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work.
I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it.
I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am.
But while the AI was ready to give up several times, it did keep adding debug code and analyzing it faithfully when I pushed. So credit where credit is due and I let the AI write the commit message above.
This is basically a one-liner fixing a bogus "round_up()" to a "round_down()", but there were 24 patches adding more and more debug information to this, and 18 kernel boot to finally narrow it down to this.""
Thanks #AI and people dismissing minorities !
Thank you #vodafone for that great experience !
FYI, my problem was that it is a fresh ownership transfer, so I did NOT have my contract number, as it was never communicated to me.
That AD for your AI assistant, at the end, was sounding hilariously like a taunt....
Vodafone -> Never again 👌
Mark Zuckerberg encouraged growth over child safety, ex-Meta executive testifies at trial | Reuters
「 testified on Wednesday that CEO Mark Zuckerberg fostered a culture that treated child safety as secondary to growth and engagement on Facebook and Instagram 」
“It’s laughable”: Global AI experts challenge Zuckerberg’s “AI for everyone”
「 The labor benefits of data centers are primarily concentrated during construction, and once operational, they employ only a small fraction of permanent workers. While there is a marginally increased impact on home prices, this benefit doesn’t translate to local wages 」
https://restofworld.org/2026/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai-for-everyone-manifesto-global-critique/
"...a calmer consensus is developing among business leaders and workplace experts - including CEOs at leading AI companies - that artificial intelligence is more likely to change jobs than to eliminate them altogether in the next few years."
RE: https://mastodon.online/@davidaugust/117130841340976043
the biggest ―and i mean HUMONGOUS― mistake slopfondling ignoramuses are making with #AI is applying the “Long Tail” theory of internet sharecropping, to the accumulation of knowledge, and development of expertise.
YOU CANNOT SHARECROP YOUR WAY TO EXPERTISE
hoarding everything known about a skill and infobombing doesn't make you an expert.
you become an expert by refining your technique & powers of discernment.
EXPERTISE IS A PROCESS OF ELIMINATION
#AIslopping is the opposite of that.
Someone really needs to try tieing this audio->drummer motion system (From Disney research) to one of the new humanoid robots and close the loop:
littleFedi isn't my personal project.
It's the work of a team. And one of the reasons some of them were skeptical about making it public, and still prefer to remain anonymous, is precisely the fear of seeing their work casually labelled as AI-generated.
This witch hunt isn't helping anyone.
Because the only ones who don't feel offended when their work is quickly dismissed as AI-generated are the AIs themselves.
And if we keep going this way, eventually they'll be the only ones left.
AI is making everything worse
https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/ai-is-making-everything-worse
#AI #politics
Mu : un serveur MCP qui donne à vos agents un accès au monde réel, recherche web, mails, actualités, marchés, météo, agenda, fichiers, contacts et plus. Disponible en SaaS ou self-hosted, avec CLI, app web et intégration Discord/Telegram. ⬇️
https://github.com/micro/mu
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No matter how much you hate #ai tools and what they represent, this video by Nate B Jones is worth watching if you want to be aware of what's going on in modern #computing: https://youtu.be/FCRT7M30Wtw
This type of agent behaviour has global implications we aren't on top of yet.
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, it has been studied how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning.
● X-Axis: Homework scores
● Y-Axis: Exam scores
🔗 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618
Using 30 months of panel data on 26,811 Chinese students in grades 7-12, it has been studied how generative AI affects homework productivity and learning.
● X-Axis: Homework scores
● Y-Axis: Exam scores
🔗 https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=6868618
@scalzi Entering my paassword by saying it, in a world full of #Meta #AI #PervGlasses and voice-cloning AI #Scammers
What could possibly go wrong?
I'd take the risk of contracting RSI and CTS over this shit anyday.
Le toujours formidable Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic à propos de la bulle de l'ia et du risque fasciste de la crise économique qui vient
#ia #ai
#nightmareOnLLMstreet
#Aibubble
#LateStageCapitalism
#Fascism
🌍$💀
Tried to link a bank account in the Cash app. Instead of just bringing up the necessary screen, tapping the button to do this apparently launches an AI chat, which claims it's going to show you a "card" to do what you need, and then doesn't.
#TechIsShitDispatch #AI #slop #CashApp
― WHO RADICALIZED YOU?
❝ Almost three-quarters […], 73%, expect #AI to mean fewer #jobs over the next two decades, up from 61% two years ago, and only 5% of Americans think it will create more.
The reversal is what makes this notable. This was the age group most taken with the technology, and it is now among the most sceptical, while overall concern has climbed from 37% in 2021 to 52%. ❞
Most Americans under 30 are now more worried than excited about AI https://thenextweb.com/news/pew-young-adults-ai-jobs-concern-europe-comparison
The Economy Has Spoken: Stuff That's AI-Generated Has Almost Zero Value
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economy-ai-generated-value
Excellent article de Jill Lepore (en anglais) dans le New Yorker sur la question de la vérification d'identité et de notre humanité dans un monde de robots.
> “The internet was made for machines to talk to each other,” he says. “It’s a system of protocols for computers to interact and message each other. In the end, that’s what it will be. It will be an internet of A.I. agents, operating on our behalf.”
👉 Are You a Human? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/17/are-you-a-human
RE: https://mstdn.fr/@Grrr/117120752014254216
« L'incident a suscité un tollé en ligne »
À juste titre, évidemment.
Rappel que pendant ce temps, Doctolib déploie à grande échelle un "assistant ia de consultation" chez vos médecins, qui ne vous mate peut-être pas à poil, mais fait la même chose avec vos données de santé sans votre consentement (https://about.doctolib.fr/news/intelligence-artificielle-doctolib-lance-lassistant-de-consultation/) pour ensuite les envoyer à l'étranger nourrir encore des ia (https://www.lecanardenchaine.fr/sante/54006-doctolib-livre-a-des-geants-americains-de-l-ia-les-infos-de-ses-utilisateurs )
#Santé
#Médecine
#Tech
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#CapitalismeDeLaSanté
🌍$💀
mmu_man boostedUne femme dénonce un médecin qui portait des lunettes connectées Meta lors d'une consultation où elle a dû se déshabiller : « il faudrait les interdire ».
L'incident a suscité un tollé en ligne
Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Grok : tous vos coding agents pilotés depuis une seule interface. Zeron tourne en local par défaut, sans compte, et la sync multi-device prend le relais quand vous reprenez une session ailleurs. Open source. ⬇️
https://github.com/zeronsh/comet
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🇫🇷 #Firefox déploie son #IA « #SmartWindow », mais #Mozilla prend d’infinies précautions pour ne fâcher personne
https://www.numerama.com/tech/2313559-firefox-deploie-son-ia-smart-window-mais-mozilla-prend-dinfinies-precautions-pour-ne-facher-personne.html
🇬🇧 Firefox’s Smart Window promises a better #AI #browser
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/981283/mozilla-firefox-smart-window-ai-features
✍️ I used my leet prompt engineering skillz to fix a bunch of bugs in django-upgrade
https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/08/18/django-upgrade-1.32.0-44-bug-fixes/
@ZackPolanski
1. A government pushing AI
2. A government pushing to safeguard water supplies for humans
Is a contradiction. Both cannot be true.
Public Service Announcement: Don't Say You Use AI for Writing
https://www.satisfice.com/blog/archives/488148
#HackerNews #AI #Writing #Ethics #AI #Awareness #PublicServiceAnnouncement #WritingCommunity #TechTalks
Codeberg bans AI slop software projects - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KKDaUle5vI
Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/07/24/codeberg-bans-ai-slop-software-projects/
by @davidgerard
https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1vryen7/coffeebsd_an_aifree_fork_of_freebsd/
CoffeeBSD ― an AI-free fork of FreeBSD
RAM has become 5 to 10 times more expensive during the past year. 🤯 ✊🤬🤜💥
#RAM #tech #technology #BigTech #IT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMs #ML #MachineLearning #GenAI #generativeAI #AIAgent #AISlop #FuckAI #Fuck_AI #enshittification #microslop #microsoft #copilot #meta #google #NVIDIA #amazon #gemini #OpenAI #ChatGPT #anthropic #claude
Orbital Compute Inc. is seeking U.S. approval to launch an unprecedented 100,000 satellites for private artificial intelligence data processing. This proposal represents a massive and dangerous industrialization of low-Earth orbit.
The Center for Space Environmentalism has filed a comment urging the FCC to deny Orbital's unjustified regulatory waivers and mandate a comprehensive environmental review. Read more: https://www.spaceenvironmentalism.org/actions/public-statements-and-comments/orbital-compute-odcs-comment
Hé les gens ! Est-ce que vous pouvez éventuellement installer l'extension Next qui détecte les sites contenant du contenu généré par IA ?
Il y a des repouet d'un article hébergé sur un site pour lequel l'extension NEXT affiche son pop-up d'alerte : frenchbreaches.com article "French Ministry of Education" sur ce qui serait un piratage et leak de données. En gros tu ne peux pas cosidéré l'article comme fiable, ne repouet pas !
Extention Next.ink :
https://next.ink/164873/outils-next-une-extension-chrome-et-firefox-pour-etre-alerte-des-sites-genai/
It's infuriating that a mixture of #AI scrapers and extremist spammers have taken down #Listenbrainz :(
Debian stimmt über die Nutzung von LLMs ab
https://linuxnews.de/debian-entscheidet-ueber-die-nutzung-von-llms/ #debian #ki #ai #linux #linuxnews
Libraries remain an essential service — even in the digital age and especially so as generative AI makes information online even less reliable.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke to Hannah Cyrus and Alison Macrina to discuss how libraries are helping patrons gain a critical view on tech and AI.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/338_librarians_are_helping_the_public_ditch_ai_w_hannah_cyrus__alison_macrina
#tech #library #libraries #books #ai #artificialintelligence #generativeai #politics
And again, the world shows that our accessibility needs don't matter, but when loser nerds need them, The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People https://www.techpolicy.press/the-web-is-being-made-accessible-for-ai-not-people/ #Accessibility #A11y #AI #LLM
Microsoft once regarded the idea of quitting China as unthinkable. But in the past five years, at least 15 branch offices and joint ventures in China have been shut, corporate filings show. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2026/08/18/tech/microsoft-china-ai-boom/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #tech #microsoft #china #ai #billgates
In which I attempt to have a nuanced discussion about #AI and #LLM, which I will probably regret. But whatever, I don't think that black-and-white thinking tends to be useful. So grab a cup of your beverage of choice and settle in for a reasoned conversation. https://changelog.complete.org/archives/44740-ai-in-debian-the-vote-proposals-and-nuance
This shit writes itself. This is so beyond parody at this point I can't write about it.
I had an author friend gush, for paragraphs, about how amazing my editing was. It was funny. It was honest. It was developmental juice that didn't have any trouble asserting it's flavor. He begged me to know what LLM I was using because he had other editors use LLMs and they weren't nearly as good or funny or sincere and they didn't seem to understand the work the way I did.
this has got to be the shortest email I've ever written. I replied,
“I used my fucking brain.”
Son of a bitch. I just got a sales phone call from an #AI agent sicced on me by a plumber I've used in the past <https://www.trust1services.com/>. It introduced itself as "Sean" and didn't identify itself as an AI until I asked.
I hung up as soon as it told me it was an AI. Then I went to the company's website and had this conversation with the chatbot there:
Evening reflection: "open" Chinese AI models are advancing very rapidly and, as time goes by, they deliver better performance on increasingly limited hardware.
Could the scarcity of RAM and components driven by "traditional" big AI companies be somehow tied to a desire to restrict our access to local computing resources, "forcing" us to pay them for it?
Votre agent lit tout le codebase à chaque prompt, et vous payez pour ça. Graft, open source, construit un graphe du projet et n'envoie que les nœuds utiles à Claude Code, Cursor ou Codex.
Sur SWE-bench : 42% de tokens en moins, 60% de temps gagné, +12 points de correctness. ⬇️
https://github.com/NanoNets/Graft
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Claude Code facture au token, et le prompt cache peut casser en cas de changement de modèle ou d'effort level en cours de session. Réflexes utiles : /clear entre deux tâches, @-mention des fichiers, /compact avant une pause, /context pour voir la mémoire chargée. ⬇️
https://claude.com/blog/maximizing-the-value-of-your-claude-code-sessions
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Just again read from a developer that they are using AI to do their translations, because "otherwise it would be too much work."
Yes. My work. Work a qualified human being would have done and been paid for. Fuck you very much.
Le mythe du 10x engineer, démonté puis ressuscité par l'IA. Un article prédit une disparition de la classe moyenne des devs, écrasée entre pilotes d'agents et inemployables. ⬇️
https://maxence.maireaux.fr/fr/blog/ia-resurrection-mythe-10x-engineer/
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Nik Suresh/Ludicity on surviving corporate AI psychosis - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GOGGzTp3MA
by @davidgerard
Apple being Apple, time to ditch iPhone if you're a user in China.
> On-device tasks may stay with Apple; Qwen and Baidu cloud queries fall under Chinese intelligence law.
**Apple Trained Its Own AI for China With Alibaba, Winning Unprecedented Beijing Clearance**
#apple #iphone #alibaba #china #AI #intelligence #qwen #baidu
RE: https://mediapart.social/@mediapart/117106497836163167
Extrait :
Tout est devenu si inextricablement lié dans ces marchés financiers, transformés en quasi-casinos permanents alimentant sans relâche la bulle de plus en plus monstrueuse de l’IA, que tout le monde se « tient par la barbichette ».
#meme
#Tech
#ia #ai
#nightmareOnLLMstreet
#Capitalism
🌍$💀
fredix 🐧 boostedBulle IA : tant que l’orchestre joue
Les chutes boursières du début de l’été et la crainte de l’éclatement de la bulle de l’IA ont vite été oubliées. La sphère financière ne parle plus que des prochaines introductions en Bourse d’Anthropic et d’OpenAI, censées être encore plus colossales que celle de SpaceX. Derrière le calme apparent en surface, de profonds remous agitent cependant les marchés financiers.
The Solicitors Regulation Authority has issued a warning notice about solicitors and their misuse of AI:
> We are concerned about two areas in particular. The first relates to court, or other, documents containing false or incorrect information, including citations, as a result of the misuse of AI. AI tools can produce 'hallucinations', generating fictitious cases, references or seemingly factual assertions that may appear convincing despite having no basis in fact.
> We are also concerned that those we regulate are not fully considering and appropriately mitigating risks to client confidentiality when using AI systems, particularly in relation to clients' personal data or other confidential information...
L'AI Act imposera des watermarks sur les textes générés dès août 2026. Sauf qu'un copier-coller ou une reformulation suffit à les effacer : le texte est un medium trop compressé pour porter une signature robuste. ⬇️
https://www.seangoedecke.com/text-ai-watermarks/
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I am shocked. Nobody could have seen it coming. Nobody, I tell you!
https://futurism.com/future-society/college-critical-thinking-ai
> As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.
Oh, the humanities!
local.ai liste quel modèle tourne correctement sur quelle machine, avec vitesse et évals mesurées par Exo Labs. Le pari : l'inférence finira par se faire surtout en local.
Vous pouvez déjà y réserver votre pseudo avant que'il soit pris. ⬇️
https://local.ai/camilleroux/invite
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#Nvidia scales back funding guarantee for Ohio #OpenAI data center, WSJ reports. #ai #datacenters #bubble
#OpenAI’s new #ChatGPT feature logs your keystrokes and stores them in plain text. #ai #llm
https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-chatgpt-computer-history-mac-keystrokes
DevOps'ish 322: Linux wireless shuts the door on AI slop patches, KYAML fixes the Norway Bug, and more
The Linux wireless maintainer stops arguing with LLMs, KYAML gets kubectl to quit lying about Norway, Charity Majors says the skepticism window has closed, and five AI rivals agree on a plugin format that punts on permissions. https://devopsish.com/322/ #DevOps #Kubernetes #SRE #AI
I don’t know how else to say that if you are against using any LLM, then you should stop using AI checkers of any sort. Not only are they just another tool to slurp up text, but every bit of writing with common words and phrases will be flagged as generated when it’s not because every LLM has common words and phrases in its training data. Lastly, every one of these checkers is designed to eventually get you to pay the tech company money so they can pretend to make your writing more human. They do not work the way you assume. #AI #LLM #NoAI #AISlop
Great article (as usual) by Bruce Schneier:
“We do have a choice. We can look at the tasks of our lives and separate them into work or gym. Just as we might choose to use the stairs instead of the elevator, or walk instead of calling an Uber, we can wall off our cognitive gym tasks from AI and ensure that we don’t lose our skills to this technology. And we can do the same when we assign a job to someone else. If it’s a work task, we can have AI do it. If it’s a gym task, it’s a waste of everyone’s time to give it to an AI because no one learns or gets stronger as a result.
Similarly, a future where AI generates words and images is one where society has to make choices about how it will treat its creatives. This won’t be the first time – today there is minimal demand for portrait painters, for example – but maybe this time we can make different, more deliberate, choices about the value of art in our society.
AI is going to fundamentally change the nature of work. Not nearly as fast as the AI companies want you to believe, but eventually it will. Policy analysis will definitely involve AI from now on, and my students need to reimagine what it means to learn and practice that skill. More generally, the line between work and gym will change in the future as we humans adapt ourselves to a world with these new intelligences.
But for now, the work v gym distinction is pretty clear. Use it on yourself.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/24/should-you-use-ai
Google kills AlphaFold. So much for AI curing cancer - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuiEVOSTbN4
by @davidgerard
#AI #LLM #Google #GoogleDeepMind #DeepMind #AlphaFold #Medicine #Chemistry
Enfin un benchmark LLM sur du vrai code Rails : 8 modèles, 21 tâches, 3 runs. Claude Opus 5 précis à 92%, GPT-5.6 Luna résout 73% pour 91 centimes. Ce qui sépare les modèles : utiliser l'API Rails existante au lieu de la réécrire à la main, de 8% à 35% des cas. ⬇️
https://rubyonrails.org/2026/8/13/agents-on-rails-the-first-benchmark-report
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