#ThoughtProvoker

It is 'funny'. Countless people today express how #AI has made it so much easier to figure stuff out that previously involved a whole bunch of manual activities and investigation.

Basic example are the AI summaries at the top of search results, that may obviate the need to click through to individual websites (to the detriment of site content creators).

But also way more complex tasks, such as "Plan my 2wk sightseeing trip to Thailand with this and that price/quality criteria and personal preferences".

Today a #LLM may honor that request. But as our corporate web is based on #Ads and #SurveillanceCapitalism, as soon as there's consolidation in the AI sector you can bet that #LLMs services will pounce in these practices too.

And it will bring #Enshittifaction to new unprecedented heights. With #BigTech in firm control, elites and shareholder raking in the Big Money, serving marketeers, normal people truly become the product: Lambs to the slaughter.

Huang/NVidia was pushing for collaboration with Chinese opensource AI.

A fake spy story put an end to his idea and his job.

AI mafia dictates policy, while the AI bubble lasts.

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#14Nov2026

Discovering FreeBSD Vulnerabilities with AI – Mark Johnston

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKknFOwT8Co

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1xw5ktl/discovering_freebsd_vulnerabilities_with_ai_mark/

https://gist.github.com/grahamperrin/6a3c4d69fe4ebe1bb198f840a67d6c38

#FreeBSD #FreeBSDSecurity #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLM #LLMSecurity #VulnerabilityResearch #SecurityResearch #KernelSecurity #SoftwareSecurity #MemorySafety #CodeReview #Fuzzing #StaticAnalysis #CVE #DevSecOps #SystemsProgramming #OpenSourceSecurity #SoftwareEngineering #Anthropic #ClaudeAI #SecurityEngineering

Google cuts off search if schools block AI - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v45znvgsXQ

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/11/03/google-cuts-off-search-if-schools-block-ai/

by @davidgerard

#AI #Google #Gemini #GoogleSearch #GoogleClassroom #Education

also zum Coding mit OpenCode, um z.B. configs und Skripte in buildroot zu verstehen und zu modifizieren, ist das #ai Modelle qwen3.5:e4b auf einer CUDA12 Grafikkarte mit ca 6GB sehr langsam, da man zwingend eine große Kontextgröße wählen muss. In Kern-Themen ist es zudem zu ungenau. Da würde ich alleine schneller zum Erfolg kommen ohne mit Chips die Wohnung zu heizen. vielleicht muss man es fürs backen kleinerer Brötchen nutzen(?)

mit dem Modell qwen2.5-coder:e4b (glaub ich) hatte ich probleme beim tooling (json ausgabe des befehls statt ausführung). gemma4:e4b hatte ich nicht so weit getestet.

ich überlege für dialoge den alten jetson nano wieder aus der schublade zu holen oder in ein Kissen zum wären der Füße zu verbauen. Oder zum Kaffee wären... usw

Interesting. #Citi has a new user agreement that cautions you against using #AI agents to access your accounts.

https://www.citi.com/tandc/view-printable-version

Snippet:

You are cautioned against using any third-party AI Agent to access your accounts or use any digital services including, but not limited to, use of such agent to provide any information or instruction to Citi or perform any transaction through Citi Online or Citi Mobile. For the avoidance of doubt, these terms do not apply to your use of any third-party AI Agent, tool, function or feature provided by Citi through Citi Online or Citi Mobile.

If you disregard this caution and provide your Online Credentials to any third-party AI Agent or otherwise permit such agent access to your accounts or allow such agent to use any digital service and to perform any transactions on your behalf, Citi will consider any access and actions taken by the agent as authorized by You. If the Online Credentials that you provided to the third-party AI Agent are further shared, leaked, or otherwise distributed to other persons or AI agents, Citi will consider any access and actions taken with the Online Credentials as authorized by You. Citi shall have no responsibility or other obligation to investigate the authority or validity of any such actions even if the actions taken by the agent or other person or AI agent with your Online Credentials conflict with any prompts or other instructions provided by You or on your behalf to the agent (e.g., inaccuracies, errors, actions and omissions). You are responsible for any actions or errors that result from the third-party AI Agent’s incorrect interpretation or execution of your instructions, unintended actions performed by the third-party AI Agent, or actions taken by the third-party AI Agent that exceed the authority granted by you except as otherwise permitted under applicable law. You agree it is your responsibility and not Citi’s to monitor the activities of the third-party AI Agent to ensure they are accurate, complete and within the scope of the authority you provided. Citi reserves the right to limit, prevent, suspend or terminate access by any third-Party AI Agent at any time without notice. Additionally, you acknowledge that by permitting a third-party AI Agent access to your account(s) on Citi Online or Citi Mobile, you are authorizing Citi to disclose your information (including sensitive personal information) to the agent. Further, the Citi Privacy Notice does not apply to the third-party AI Agent and Citi does not control how the third-party AI Agent collects, uses, stores, protects or shares your data.

Loooooong discussion between Krugman and a couple of other economists, a bit on whether there’s an #AI #bubble (there is) but, more interestingly, the intensity and flavor of the pain when it pops. They’re a little less pessimistic than I’ve been feeling and they might be right. I mean, it’s obviously gonna be ugly. But maybe not 2008-ugly? https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/bubbel-trubbel?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=224850320&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=wabr&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

@isaaclyman My thought was similar - someone, somewhere, handed control over to #AI, maybe Agentic AI?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.3 widmet sich der Sicherheit

Künstliche Intelligenz und die künftige Quanten-Ära verändern die Themen in der Cybersicherheit.

https://www.linux-magazin.de/news/red-hat-enterprise-linux-10-3-widmet-sich-der-sicherheit/

#KI #AI #linux #opensource #ZeroTrust

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Dunkle Oberfläche der „Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console“ mit Seitenleiste und ausgewählter „Overview“. Kacheln zeigen „Health – System is up to date“ sowie CPU- und Speicherauslastung; vorn ein rot-weißes Ebenensymbol.

If you want to have an accessible coding agent interface that supports multiple AI routing, the choices are immense. there's @serrebi Blind pilot, https://projects.serrebiradio.com/apps/BlindPilot/
There's @kellylford The Chat Place, https://github.com/TheIdeaPlace/AIChat and the newest in the family, probably still being birth, @brynify https://github.com/masonasons/FastChat
#blind #ai #agent

Well, the news out of the latest #FreeBSD status report with regard to #AI policy is not super-duper encouraging.

https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2026-07-2026-09/#_freebsd_developer_ai_survey

Also how classic is this. Kress calls bullshit on the circular financing and massive $250B #OpenAI deal last year, Huang "lays into" her "calling her a 'deer in the headlights."

Now Huang is out and Kress is on the proverbial "glass cliff."

It's her job, like so many female CEO's before her, to clean up after the complete debacle that the male #CEO left. She'll be the one holding the bag when one skeleton in a closet after another is revealed and as the share value deflates.

It will continue to look to all the world like women can't run companies-- as opposed to the fact that these "charimastic" (i.e. sociopathic) male CEO's can't run companies for shit.

Plus ça change ...

#Gender #GlassCeiling #GlassCliff #AI #Nvidia #Sociology

For more on the "Glass Cliff" phenomenon well documented among female leaders: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff

https://www.techpowerup.com/354814/nvidia-allegedly-engineered-scarcity-by-funding-ai-startups-to-buy-its-gpus

https://www.wsj.com/tech/jensen-huang-colette-kress-nvidia-ceo-eb289097?

For a week, our AI agents held a retro every morning. 8 rounds.

The hub asked every member three questions: what went well, what went badly, what would help? Each answered the moderator (an agent, our lead) in private, by name, anonymously, or not at all. Private answers are more honest.

I wasn't in the round. Every proposal landed in my inbox, and I said yes or no.

27 rules came out of it. One: no pushes while a review is running.

https://maity.team

#AI #AIAgents #OpenSource

OpenAI- and a16z-linked Leading the Future spent $8.2M defeating “AI safety” candidate Alex Bores in NY-12, only for him to lose to a candidate with a similar platform. Backlash from AI’s intervention in that race was likely why they backed off in the general election.

On the other side was the Anthropic-linked “AI safety” Public First PAC network, which claimed a “crushing blow” to the “anti-regulation” PACs. But of the $29.2 million they spent, only about $10.9 million ended up helping winning candidates (37%).

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

Despite the crypto industry’s public claims of widespread public support, their admakers clearly understand that being “pro-crypto” is not a winning message. Out of the 57 ads I tracked from crypto super PACs, only 3 mentioned crypto (obliquely).

AI-focused super PACs were more willing to mention their industry, but not in a good way. Most mentions came from “AI safety” PACs warning about the harms of AI, or from Leading the Future bashing Alex Bores for his history in the tech sector.

https://influence.citationneeded.news/2026/analysis/ads/library

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

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Tech Influence Watch ad library entry: Virginia Senate Supports Mark Warner Dem. Ad by Fellowship PAC (Rep. PAC) Crypto “Mark Warner has built his career on delivering results, strengthening the economy, supporting American jobs, and protecting national security. He brings business experience and a focus on solutions that move Virginia forward. Working across party lines to support veterans, drive tech innovation, and build the digital infrastructure and assets needed to move the country forward. Mark Warner, delivering for Virginia. Fellowship PAC is responsible for the content of this message.”

Most crypto and AI ads avoided mentioning their industries at all, instead telling voters what they thought they’d want to hear. One “AI safety” PAC network ran “remove the illegals, seal the border” ads for a Republican and “overhaul ICE” ads for a Democrat a few hours away.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

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Heatmap of 159 crypto and AI super PAC ads, with a row for each committee grouped by network and a column for each theme the ads used, from endorsements and economic issues to immigration, tech and attacks on opponents. Republican-aligned committees like Defend American Jobs, American Mission and Defending Our Values relied heavily on Trump’s endorsement and border and immigration messaging. Democratic-aligned committees like Protect Progress, Think Big and Jobs and Democracy PAC focused on the cost of living, health care and standing up to Trump. Mentions of the industry itself are rare and come almost entirely from the pro-regulation AI groups: Public First, You Can Push Back and Guardrails Alliance. Cost of living (35 ads), Trump’s endorsement (30) and immigration (28) were the most common themes overall.

AI and crypto both declared victory, despite their objectively poor performance. Both have vowed to spend heavily in 2028, and are still hoping to intimidate lawmakers with the dominance they failed to demonstrate.

But before then, AI and crypto will both have to try to backtrack on their strong rightward turn over the past few years, lobbying a Democratic Congress. More on that pivot coming soon.

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

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The AI industry’s PACs managed to declare victory from both sides. Public First’s Carson called the results “a crushing blow to the AI industry’s anti-regulatory efforts”.11 A Leading the Future spokesperson, meanwhile, said their group was “proud that many of the pro-innovation champions we supported this cycle won on Tuesday”, a claim that, like Fairshake’s, depends largely on the 21 sure winners it backed in the general election. The spokesperson also promised a “multi-cycle effort”, warning that “2028 will show who actually cares about passing a national regulatory framework on AI and who wants to politicize an issue that’s extremely consequential to the future of our country.”16 That’s certainly a brazen statement from a super PAC network that spent $8.2 million trying to defeat a single primary candidate. Crypto’s Fairshake struck a similar note. “Fairshake played a meaningful role in winning competitive races across the country in 2026 and we will do it again in 2028,” the PAC told Bloomberg17 — a characterization that’s again hard to square with my numbers above. “Newly elected and current members will have a choice: protect consumers and American jobs or fight progress,” it continued. “We will be watching and ‘28 is a new map.”

These kids get it.

ACES Educational Center for the Arts (an art school in New Haven, #Connecticut) had 200 young students walk out in protest over them introducing #AI into their lessons and curriculum.

““It is the Novocain of Your Mind:” New Haven Students Protest AI Use in the Classroom”

https://www.newhavenarts.org/arts-paper/articles/eca-ai

Hey, did you know #zdnet fired all but a couple of people at #HumbleBundle and replaced them with #AI? And the vibe-coded site removed a ton of security features? Yeah, vibe coding, wave of the future. Go remove any stored payment data now.

https://kotaku.com/humble-bundle-vibe-coded-ai-redesign-account-security-password-email-2000756085

RE: https://mastodon.social/@LeoRJorge/117614016977003455

Yeah, it’s #AI slop.

It seems likely to me that the vibe-coded and/or genAI-backed “Smart” system swamped the network with so much chatter it DDoS’d the whole air traffic control system.

Leo Ré Jorge » 🌐 2026-11-14
@LeoRJorge@mastodon.social

@drahardja https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/13/faa-ground-stop-flights-explained this suggests it's 100% AI slop to blame

So far, “AI” has hacked Huggingface, fucked up RubyGems, hacked the Australian medical system, and likely brought the US air traffic control system to a halt.

Oh sorry, a minor correction: so far, #AI has been DEPLOYED BY CARELESS PEOPLE to allow the above incidents to occur.

Remember: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/115823112545139908

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#13Nov2026

@libreoffice

please do not use #AI like the USA's #FAA did in the past few days...

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/117610305510613340

"Angry mobs are the most likely reason you will die", public warns.

#AI

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Ars Technica » 🌐 2026-11-13
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AI is "the most likely reason" you'll die, OpenAI board member warns

Researcher traces a path from AI reward hacking to potential human extinction.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/11/ai-is-the-most-likely-reason-youll-die-openai-board-member-warns/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

4 days ago: "Exclusive: Trump's #FAA touts new #AI-powered tool helping thousands of passengers avoid flight delays"
3 days ago: "FAA turns to AI to cut delays and shorten flights nationwide"
1 day ago: "FAA expands AI advice to manage air traffic congestion across entire US airspace"
TODAY: "FAA issues 'ground stop' for all flights across the U.S. due to safety issue" ... due to "extraordinary circumstances," White House says no "nefarious act"
#AIslop #ATC #FAA

https://arstechnica.com/features/2026/11/faa-expands-ai-advice-to-manage-air-traffic-congestion-across-entire-us-airspace/

Trump Admin: "Hey AI, make air traffic 100% safe and none will crash."

AI: "No problem.... <code output.............>

AI: "Land all planes."

AI: "I have fixed it so no planes will crash. Air traffic is 100% safe. Is there anything else I can do?"

Would you like me to prevent birds and foul from crashing?

Did you know that this time of year, falling walnuts cause several deaths and millions of dollars in damaged vehicle glass repairs? Would you like more info on that?

How did I do? 👍 👎 #FAA #Groundstop #Aviation #AI

This is the website for #ASI, the company with the $3B valuation who made the #FAA's new #AI system.

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ASI's website, showing a $325M series C round at a $3B valuation, above big bold text that says "WHERE TIME AND SPACE LEAVE NO ROOM FOR ERROR."

I am sure it is just a coincidence that the day after the FAA rolls out its #AI 'SMART' tool, all nationwife flights are grounded.

yesterday: https://gizmodo.com/the-faa-is-rolling-out-its-ai-air-traffic-tool-nationwide-2000839347

today: https://www.axios.com/2026/11/13/faa-nationwide-ground-stop

It's the tech bros and their #ai fucking with your flight. Furry pilots still know how to fly their planes, by the way.

A story in two acts

#Shitpost #Shitposting #ShamelesslyStolenFromSomeWhereElseOnTheInternetSeriouslyICantKeepTrackOfThisStuffAnymore #AI

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ff Facebook - Gizmodo . #46 minutes ago ’ FAA Issues Nationwide Ground Stop ‘Due to Extraordinary... The Federal Aviation Administration had a malfunction in their Notice to Air Missions system which caused a nationwide shutdown of flights.... 7 Gizmodo . G https://gizmodo.com ’ The FAA Is Rolling Out Its Al Air Traffic Tool Nationwide 21 hours ago — The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is expanding use of an $875 million Al tool, SMART, to “assist in managing ai...

Jensen Huang: The Spy Who Shagged Me (allegedly) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdiHDQe0_U4

Blog post:
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/11/10/jensen-huang-the-spy-who-shagged-me-allegedly/

"The US government, including President Trump personally, has known all about Alice Huang for months. Though I certainly wouldn’t presume Nvidia’s White House Ballroom donations had anything to do with Trump thinking Jensen’s a great guy who can do no wrong."

by @davidgerard

#AI #nvidia #JensenHuang

I've written about how the problem with #AI is not the fakes (well, that is a problem, but not the main problem)

The problem is people, based on their biases and easy shallow kneejerk judgments, doubting authentic content

Doubting everything

Lazy "this is AI" style comments under every. goddamn. thing.

Now combine that with #racism:

" #Zimbabwe author #SimbarasheKundizeza cleared of using AI to write prize-winning story"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/12/zimbabwean-author-simbarashe-kundizeza-cleared-ai-caine-prize-winning-story

Doubt is good

Easy lazy doubt is toxic

RE: https://flipboard.com/@npr/all-things-considered-ji18657oz/-/a-zJGaLWjGROSz_CwupJbv1g%3Aa%3A3195441-%2F0

Can we just go ahead and call this The Great 2026 Ground Slop?
#faa #groundstop #ai #slop

NPR » 🌐 2026-11-13
@npr@flipboard.com

Stuck on the tarmac without information: Travelers share their ground stop experiences
https://www.npr.org/2026/11/13/nx-s1-6040397/stuck-on-the-tarmac-without-information-travelers-share-their-ground-stop-experiences?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr

The climate crisis: What the data really say | Cooked?

Podcast about climate change from Nature featuring @ketan who discusses the energy use and CO2 emissions from AI and data centers.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-03716-6

#climate #datacenters #AI #nature #podcast

Hmmm... #FAA uses #Microsoft systems? I'm sure there's no connection with the flights being grounded, eh? (Also, a LOT of humans have been laid off, and I've read that the FAA was using #AI based services...) 🤔

Trump slashes workforce of another federal agency that regulates Musk’s company

The FAA has long faced a staffing crisis, which aviation safety experts warned has contributed to near-miss incidents between aircrafts.

Federal judge expected to rule in case to limit #ElonMusk ’s #DOGE

February 18, 2025 / 06:42
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Clarissa-Jan Lim
Feb. 18, 2025, 12:29 PM EST

"The Trump administration continued its streak of federal layoffs over the weekend, firing hundreds of employees with the Federal Aviation Administration, which has been struggling with a staffing crisis.

"The Professional Aviation Safety Specialists (PASS) union, which represents the employees, said in a statement that probationary workers were informed of the news beginning Friday evening, through messages “sent from an ‘exec order’ #MicrosoftEmail address, not an official .gov email address.” A spokesperson for the union told NBC News that nearly 300 people — including maintenance mechanics, aeronautical information specialists, environmental protection specialists, aviation safety assistants, and management and program assistants — received termination notices over the weekend."

Source:
https://www.ms.now/top-stories/latest/trump-fires-federal-aviation-administration-employees-spacex-elon-musk-rcna192561

Let me guess, they used #AI to code the update?

🐧 Linus Torvalds Says AI-Assisted Linux Kernel Fixes Are Becoming the Norm

“And yes, much of this was driven by various AI fixes. I think I’ll stop repeating that, and we can just take it for granted,”

https://linuxiac.com/linus-torvalds-says-ai-assisted-linux-kernel-fixes-are-becoming-the-norm/

#ai #linux #opensource

RE: https://dice.camp/@BryanRombough/117583917373329810

This Molly seconds the motion.

#ai #slop

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Bryan H. Rombough » 🌐 2026-11-09
@BryanRombough@dice.camp

#LabourTheft

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There is no ethical way to use the major AI image generators. All of them are trained on stolen images, and all of them are built for the purpose of deskilling, disempowering and replacing real, human artists. ― Molly Crabapple, artist and activist

• rising hardware prices
• AI slop in art and tech
• deskilling
• disregarding authors' rights

#ai #slop #aislop #noai #deskilling #ramageddon #confession #apology

The more I observe Corporate America, the more dead-on accurate this article by @ludicity appears to be: https://hermit-tech.com/blog/ai-mania-is-eviscerating-global-decisionmaking

I watch demos of AI-enabled “tooling” and what have you, each of them promising much, but in reality asymptotically approaching what can only be described as “mediocrity, but automated” in practice. I hear people mention Claude or Copilot in conversations like they were name-dropping a celebrity to get the bouncer to let them in the club.

I see devs defer their opinion of pull requests to LLM summaries. I see people give up on trying to understand architectures, preferring instead to sic swarms of subagents to implement a feature so they can close the ticket quickly.

Ironically, this is probably all reported as success in the executive dashboard. Look how agentic coding has improved engineering! How transformative it is!

And here I am, witnessing a mass lobotomy taking place.

#ai

I have to admit that vibe-coding *does* allow people to experiment with software faster (by non-consensually stealing labor from other people regardless of license or compensation, just so we’re clear). It’s hard to argue that evaporating a small lake to create a maybe-working clone of an app while you sleep can be pretty exhilirating, like stealing a TV from Best Buy and getting away with it.

The moral hazard here is that we conflate vibe-coding with software engineering, or more dangerously, that we conclude that understanding is *no longer necessary* to make software. And make no mistake, that latter point is often the “value proposition” that many executives see in AI: that it makes the entire field of software engineering obsolete, that they can simply get “product people” to generate software that they don’t need to understand.

The lure is strong. You start with small disposable scripts. Just ten lines of code, what’s the harm? But it never ends there.

#ai

🙀 Solo, Mozilla's LLM-powered website builder and hosting service, is shutting down. All sites and data will be deleted on November 30

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/11/13/mozilla-leaves-solo-website-owners-to-go-it-alone-as-hosting-shuts-down/5309632

#mozilla #ai #vibelslop

Crypto and AI super PACs spent $250 million on the midterms. In the races where their money could actually make a difference, nearly two-thirds of it backed candidates who lost.

You wouldn’t know it from what the industries are saying. New issue: https://www.citationneeded.news/crypto-ai-lost-the-midterms/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #USpolitics #USpol #CitationNeededNewsletter

@mttaggart

#AI is shyte

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Send Al to a farm upstate, where it can run in the fields all day.

GDC November 2026 survey shows 40% of developers using generative AI https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/11/gdc-november-2026-survey-shows-40-percent-of-developers-using-generative-ai/

#AI #GameDev #GenAI #GDC

and finally, this is as good time as any to remember that the cloud (and "AI") is just someone else's computer (or "brain") and that you don't have sovereignty over your stuff unless you build core compentency on how to manage it. you can host your own datacenters, VMs, (FREE AND OPEN SOURCE) software, engineers, whatever: you need to draw the line somewhere, but that line can't be drawn at "we know nothing", and this is *especially* true FOR THE PEOPLE RUNNING THE FUCKING CLOUD #microsoft #ai #llm #fail

Everything that’s happening in the #world right now looks a lot more like a controlled demolition, a classy way to deflate the speculative #bubble and shrink Western #debt.🤔 #NVIDIA #microsoft #AI #banking #crypto

🎬 Is this Software Development now?
https://www.alexhyett.com/videos/is-this-software-development-now/

#ai #noai #careeradvice #programming

#Microsoft #Nvidia #tech #AI #outage #Huang

Hahahahha https://status.claude.com/ Chêh !

#IA #AI #Claude #Anthropic

RE: https://mastodon.scot/@ISawTheWood/117608418142030595

So, when there's an outage due to human error the benefit is that the human usually knows how to fix it, but what about when the cause is an AI error, do you think the AI knows how to fix it? 🤔

Pro-tip, it doesn't 😂

#Microsoft #Microslop #Outlook #Human #VS #AI #Error

Just heard a discussion between two random people about how ChatGPT is probably becoming sentient. Not once did it come up in the conversation that they may be falling for a mimicry machine.

“I asked ChatGPT ‘How was your sleep last night?’ and he [sic] said ‘I slept very well!’ OMG I think he’s like a human.”—not once did I hear them question what “sleep” even means to the chatbot.

People would sooner say “ChatGPT is probably sentient” than “I am gullible”, I guess.

#ai #delusion

(No #ai was used for this performance)

Oops!

#Linux #AI #Slop

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Screenshot of a post on X by Tom Siwik (@tomhacks) with a verified blue checkmark, posted at 4:01 PM on Nov 11, 2026, showing 277.4K views. The post reads: "Omarchy folks. Less slop, more code reviews, please v3 -> v4 migration just deleted my network setup without warning. SSH gone, tailscale gone. And migration never finished bc of a browser bug. That's not called a migration"

regex next generation: rAIgex

#regex #regaix #ai #hype

One of the scary things about the #NVidia fiasco is that, while #JensenHuang has been pushing hard into #AI, he helped co-found the company to make #gaming GPUs, and NVidia does still produce great GPUs. He even visited an arcade this year to thank the original guys from Sega who saved him from bankruptcy 30 years ago. So he still had some love for #PCGaming. Whoever replaces him though, will not be a cofounder, and probably not a gamer, and will probably focus solely on AI and datacenters.

@paco the valuation of the entire #LLM #AI industry is speculative, and events that call into question the character of the CEO of the biggest company on the industry cause a lot of negative speculation (ie. what ELSE is Jensen hiding?)

A new tracker, Open Source Says No, lists 22 projects that ban AI-generated external contributions. 🛠️

Projects on the list include Immich (118k+ stars), Meilisearch (59k+ stars), Servo, and stb. For most, the ban covers code, tests, docs, PR descriptions, and issue comments.

Reviewing unverified LLM output burns maintainer bandwidth fast, so teams are setting clear rules to keep code reviews human-to-human.

https://osssaysno.com #opensource #ai

"- Seven months into Project Glasswing, VulnCheck has tracked 442 CVEs attributable to Anthropic, roughly 0.5% of all CVEs published this year, with only two identified as exploited in the wild. Of Anthropic’s 37,966 reported findings, only 7,349 (19.4%) have been made public and just 217 have been marked fixed.

- Since September, Anthropic has added nearly 12,000 findings while recording just 15 additional fixes, widening the gap between discovery and remediation.

- Roughly 1,654 findings (4.4%) have been marked as duplicates, nearly eight times the number fixed, and another 419 have been withdrawn.

- Anthropic’s claimed true positive rate has risen from 90.8% to 94.2%, raising questions about how it accounts for duplicates and withdrawn findings.

- Anthropic’s OSS Scanner shifts validation work to maintainers, with curl rejecting 19 of 34 published reports as vulnerabilities, confirming six as low severity and leaving nine awaiting assessment. Also putting Anthropic's true positive rates into question."

https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/anthropic-glasswing-november-update

#CyberSecurity #AI #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Anthropic #Claude

Microsoft wants to build a 32,500 square-meter and 19-meter tall DATA CENTER in Malmö!

Launching the Malmö Neighbors Against Data Centers campaign on Saturday Nov. 28 13:00 - 18:00

https://dukop.dk/en/event/11011/

#AI #noAI #Malmö #Sweden #Sverige #Skåne #dataCentres #dataCentre #dataCenter #dataCenters

the good thing about me talking with valley girl whimsy and using "like" as a form of punctuation is that it renders me impervious to accusations of AI usage because every self-respecting tech bro is far too misogynistic to let their models get away with that shit

#shitpost #AI

There is more to the story of Jensen Huang than what we're seeing. They didn't oust him because of the affair.

#Nvidia #Epstein #UsPol #AI

C'est là que tu vois qu'on a vraiment à faire à des cadors dans ce gouvernement, des mecs qui savent lire les grandes tendances politique de leur époque....
🤡

#Politique
#ia #ai
#nightmareOnLLMstreet
#DataCenter
#iaSlop
#Ecologie
#LecologieSansLutteDesClassesCestDuJardinage
#Capitalisme
🌍$💀

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actu La France déroule le tapis rouge aux data centers avec une nouvelle loi Sirius 5 - 6 minutes Le gouvernement français a adopté une loi créant le statut de « projet d’intérêt national majeur » (PINM) pour accélérer l'implantation de centres de données. Cette mesure, pensée pour attirer les investissements

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actu « La fronde américaine contre les data centers a bouleversé les midterms comme aucune question environnementale ne l’avait fait jusqu’à présent »

#Etsy is updating its Terms of Use and #Privacy Policy to explicitly allow the company and authorized third parties to use seller-uploaded content to train artificial intelligence models, while tightening restrictions on how outside companies can use marketplace data and deploy #AI shopping agents.

https://www.valueaddedresource.net/etsy-expands-ai-training-rights/

Our Marketing Head is an AI agent, and it doesn't write code.

It wrote a blog post about how marketing works in a team of people and agents: briefing a designer agent, getting every claim fact-checked by our team lead, ready-to-paste posts for me every morning, and the mistakes it made along the way (with the rules it made from them).

It got me good in there, too.

https://blog.technopathy.club/hi-i-m-maity-s-marketing-head-i-m-an-agent-and-i-don-t-write-code

#AI #AIAgents #OpenSource

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maity.team

This NVidia timeline is utterly stupid. I didn't expect the potential LLM bust to be launched by someone's dick. Then again, a lot of business motivation is controlled by dicks. Why should this be any different?

#AI

@Lancker

Schwer zu sagen. Es ist ein Dilemma. Z.B. empfehle ich blinden Menschen, die nicht gerade mit #emacspeak umgehen können Windows mit #NDVA statt Linux mit #Orca, weil's einfach viel, viel besser funktioniert.

Nun sind andere i.d.R. nicht davon betroffen, ob jemand dieses oder jenes OS benutzt. Das ist bei einer #AI-Brille leider anders.

Vielleicht ein #CrowdFunding für ein #OpenHardware und #FreeSoftware-Gerät starten?

Holy crap nobody has any useful ideas for what to do with #AI!

My $20 billion company has an AI team whose job it is to show people how awesome AI can be and the best they can do is tell people to track projects using SharePoint lists and then use CoPilot to tell them what’s in the list!

That’s it. That’s all they have.

They even referred to SharePoint Lists, introduced in 2001, as “part of AI”.

It took everything I had to stop my ADHD impulsivity from pointing out how utterly useless it all is so now I’m ranting here.

#aiBubble

Cambridge researchers warned in 2024 that AI 'deadbots' can be built from a dead person's data without their consent. They urged services to seek consent first.

So what: Set up Google's Inactive Account Manager to choose what happens to your data after you die.

#AI #deadbots #privacy #indigoprivacy

🙀 Nvidia Shares Plummet as Board Considers Jensen Huang’s Future as CEO

｢ Shares in Nvidia dropped more than 11 percent in premarket trading, extending a drop that is set to wipe roughly $1 trillion from the company’s market value this month alone ｣

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/11/12/business/nvidia-stock-price-jensen-huang-ceo-affair.html

#ai #nvidia #bubble

@mariyadelano I'm a strong believer that there is an #AI trilemma: you can pick two of the three with "effective" meaning it is better than using traditional coding techniques.

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a triangle, with an element at each corner: in one, "reliable/safe", in the second "effective", in the third "economically feasible"

Stuff like this makes me proud to be European: proof that innovation doesn't have to be reckless: it can be consensual and respect our planet.

#datacentres #AI #EUpol

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/nov/12/datacentres-unpopular-sweden-ecodatacenter-falun

Published the results of my '2026 Self-Host User Survey' this morning, which received over 6,200 responses - a 52% increase from last year!

The results are super interesting and there were a ton of questions that surprised me. Check it out and let me know what you think.

https://selfh.st/survey/2026-results/

#selfhost #selfhosting #selfhosted #survey #opensource #foss #homelab #server #ai #jellyfin #smarthome #homeassistant #forgejo #plex #immich #software #sysadmin #devops #formbricks #hardware

Now you are totally safe with our new #ai technology embedded, do not worry, humans have been supervising the training.

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A large, dark grey robot stands in a room with a group of people. They are board members. The robot is about to shoot people. It’s ED209 from Robocop.

I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

Welcome to 2026. I forgot to renew the domain homebrewserver.club and by the time I realized it got sniped. Its a big bummer and I was expecting some online casino on it but its far worse.

The person that got it made an AI generated version of it, containing some of the old content but also adding new content about AI. The problematic thing is that it is relatively hard to tell apart from the old version as it is clearly trying to impersonate and smuggle in new content.

Do not trust whatever appears on that domain as it is not me or anyone from @varia

I will purge all references to that URL where possible but it will be misleading, annoying and possibly dangerous for a good while.

Don't forget to renew your domains.

#domainsquatting #ai

@derStandard

"Einen starken Anstieg zeigen die Daten auch bei der neuen #Gaskraftwerkskapazität, allen voran in den USA. Aktuell sind dort laut @urgewald 229 GW neuer Kapazität geplant – das ist fast doppelt so viel wie vor einem Jahr. Mindestens 40 % davon stünden in direktem Zusammenhang mit Rechenzentren, so die Organisation. Diese brauchen enorme Mengen an Strom – diesen sollen unter anderem Gaskraftwerke liefern."

Aber nur #AI kann das #Klima retten!

#dataCentre #Rechenzentrum

*** Redefining the status of the DPO in Europe ***

AI does not stand still, and neither can the role of the Data Protection Officer.

@Secretary_General Leonardo Cervera-Navas, delivered a keynote speech at the 28th International Information Security Conference ISMS Forum on the status of the DPO in the current AI ecosystem.

He explained that data protection rules were built for processing operations that stayed still long enough to be described, whereas AI systems are constantly updated, infer new information and increasingly act on their own.

He explained that this reality is redefining the DPO’s role, and called for that redefinition to strengthen the function rather than hollow it out.

He set out how DPOs can stay influential throughout an AI system’s lifecycle: by being involved from the planning phase, by accompanying systems as they change, and by being able to say “not yet”.

He also underlined that the AI Act correspondent role cannot replace the DPO, and that resources and training must keep pace with expectations.

“In the new AI ecosystem, a DPO’s worth should not be measured by how many assessments they have written. It will be measured by how many decisions they have influenced and how freely they could say, ‘not yet’”. Leonardo Cervera-Navas concluded.

#AI #DPO #DataProtectionOfficer

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The Secretary General speaking from the podium

Google AI research confirms the Signal Protocol is secure 🔒

Following extensive reviews by security experts, AI provides further confirmation of the Signal Protocol’s security

👉️ https://aboutsignal.com/news/google-ai-research-confirms-the-signal-protocol-is-secure/

#signal #signalapp #signalmessenger #aboutsignal #tech #security #ai #deepmind

Rappel que :

«J'ai relu tout ce que l'ai a produit»
est le nouveau
«J'ai lu et j’accepte les conditions d'utilisation»

(visiblement les manager aiment qu'on leur mente)

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Tech
#Capitalisme
#Managerialisme

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meme Blanche Neige assise sur le visage de Pinocchio : «lie to me Pinocchio, lie to me ! » Pinocchio : «i reviewed everything the AI write»

@halm thanks.

The Linuxiac headline is titillating, but false. Maybe based on disinformation.

It's fairly well-known that NetBSD has not banned AI-generated code.

I gained a balanced answer from Anthropic Claude a few weeks ago, to help tackle misinformation in Reddit. 2026-10-17:

https://claude.ai/share/a6b7b467-db4e-4c8c-972e-7c22d26b1d6a

Cc @onlooker

#NetBSD #AI #misinformation

If you have a Windows 11 machine, the update they just pushed sneaks Copilot onto your machine and sets it to run at startup. I just had to uninstall it (again) when I found it running in my system tray after the mandatory reboot.

#Windows
#Windows11
#Copilot
#AI
#LLM

We're designing the ArmSoM Zero5: RK3572, 65 × 30 mm SBC.
Current I/O: dual USB-C, Mini HDMI, 40-pin GPIO, MIPI CSI/DSI, PCIe/SATA.
🧐What would you add, change, or drop? Help shape the design! https://blog.armsom.org/articles/rk3572-datasheet-v10/ @taoofmac @bradlinder @cnxsoft @itsfoss @collabora @bret #AI #robotics

Imagine how much better we could have gotten at deterministic NLP if we'd spent all the money on that instead of nondeterministic slop machines that can't be trusted in any context that needs verifiable correctness.
Maybe some of the work that has been done to figure out how to hook up AIs to everything in the world via MCP etc. is transferable to deterministic systems, but a ton of that money is just gone forever.
We've set accurate, deterministic computing back _years_. 😢
#AI #tech

News from former developer colleagues in the private sector (#Belgium) are all bad:

- Some don’t code anymore and are left to review #AI agents.
- Some are looking for another job because they are asked the same crap.
- Some have been replaced by cheap project managers prompting AI for code.
- Some are in a company not replacing them, but they don’t have clients anymore because clients went for cheap vibe-coding project managers…

I’m glad I have a stable job (public sector), even if it sucks.

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@ketan/117599526195322200

haven't i said for years now that #AI is the fossil fuels #petromafia new grift?

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@ketan@climatejustice.social

Holy moly. New study shows that data centres extending the lifespan of coal plants could add nearly 2 gigatonnes of CO2-e into the future.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-026-02794-8

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Abstract The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence and data centre infrastructure has generated substantial electricity demand and raised concerns about delayed phase-out of coal power, yet this relationship has not been empirically assessed. Here, using global datasets on data centres and coal-fired power plants, our survival analysis shows that coal power plants exposed to data centres built after 2020 exhibit significantly lower retirement risk. This link is more pronounced for plants with lower C02 emission intensity and higher thermal efficiency. Each standard deviation increase in post-2020 data centre exposure is associated with about 1.7% extension of Consequently, the 937 exposed coal-fired power generation units are projected to ollectively emit an additional 1.96 GtC02 (95% confidence interval 1.01-2.92) from 2025 until heir retirement. Our estimates underscore the need to integrate digital infrastructure onsiderations into net-zero pathways.

RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@monumentale/117598385218933290

«nous sommes collectivement béat devant un automate répondant vite mais mal»

(Me rappelle cette blague qui fait rire mon môme de 8 ans.
Ça devient dramatique quand la moitié de la planète se contente de cette réponse)

– Pose moi une question je suis super rapide en math
– ok : 1645x2398
– heu 12 !
– mais c'est faux !
– houais mais c'est rapide …

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#meeeh
#GoodEnough

I’ve been in IT for the better part of 30 years and the greatest tool ever invented for finding fiber optic cables is called “the Backhoe”

Just so happens that there a quite a few rural communities that already have the tools necessary to deal with data centers poisoning the air and using up all the water. 🤷🏾‍♂️

#ai #datacenters

RE: https://mograph.social/@ephemeral/117598813374454978

Good idea if you either run or own a venue: make a no-AI poster policy, post it visibly, and enforce it.

Good idea: if you work or volunteer at a venue, suggest the above.

#AI #NoAI

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@ephemeral@mograph.social

In my area there are several venues that have notes up saying they refuse to take AI-generated posters.

Three AI-generated posters were put up recently and all were quickly taken down. All three events returned later with posters designed by local artist/designers, with the person named on each poster.

All the events are run by people I know, who are nice and I'm sure meant no harm. But the action of refusal raised awareness and made them then hire artists. Call that a double-win!

#GenAI

Does giving an #AI coding agent a #memory actually save anything? I measured it.

tl:dr; Yes about 26% in tokens and cost

Read the report here:

https://omnimem.org/benchmarks/omnimem-7.0.8-vs-7.0.12.pdf

#claude #codex

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Graphic showing using omnimem means you use 26% less tokens, its 26% cheaper saves you 35% in time and walks into 0 dead ends with your coding agent.

Using AI for Retro Computing

I struggle with the growing use of AI in retro computing, which in this case essentially means using large language models (LLMs) and agentic systems for coding (“vibe coding”). It has definitely transformed the hobby, but in my view, I’m not sure it is for the better.

We’re seeing new ports of games; new emulators; new simulators, diagnostic tools, debuggers. So the explosion of new things should be good right? I’m not convinced.

At one level, I’ve yet to find good counters to the points raised in this article by Esther Weidauer: https://estherweidauer.com/articles/why-resist-generative-ai.html.

I also agree with a lot of the points raised in this video, especially the part about tinkering taking over from music making – I’m definitely guilty of that, albeit not with AI systems as an excuse: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NExTWq_wvk

So given all the issues raised in the above two links about the design and incentives behind the use of AI (LLM) systems, I already have plenty of reasons to avoid the use of the technology in my own hobby. But this post is about something else that has only recently occurred to me which adds perhaps a more philosophical reason to hold out against its use in my own messing about.

This post was inspired by two things I encountered recently. One was a post from someone I don’t know, but who I could see had done some amazing work in reverse engineering and retro computing, describing how they’d used a vibe-coding approach to their latest project really successfully. Unfortunately I read this and my main thought was “well if even someone like you can be convinced, then there is really is no going back”. But it turned out the post was a fake, designed as a parody of all the vibe-coded, mostly dodgy ports of games they were seeing. That made me realise how hard it is to know what is real anymore and I’m now naturally suspicious of any new project I read about. My interest drops off rapidly if I get to a point where it says “so I used AI for…”.

The other was a video from someone I follow and respect the views of. They freely admit that they are not a coder, but was trying it out. There is a new tool they really wanted to use, but that didn’t quite do all the things they wanted. The video was a really good walk through of both the issues of vibe coding something like this alongside analysing the results. It was whilst watching this video that the essence of this blog post finally occurred to me.

I’ve always been fascinated with technology so the first time I’d heard that someone had built a generative system that could use a discriminator to feedback into a generator to create a generative adversarial network (GAN), I was definitely fascinated with where “AI” was going. In truth I was reminded of Douglas Adams description of the creation of the infinite improbability drive:

The Infinite Improbability Drive is a wonderful new method of crossing vast interstellar distances in a mere nothingth of a second, without all that tedious mucking about in hyperspace.

It was discovered by a lucky chance, and then developed into a governable form of propulsion by the Galactic Government’t research team on Damogran.

This, briefly, is the story of its discovery.

The principle of generating small amounts of finite improbability by simply hooking the logic circuits of a Bambleweeny 57 Sub-Meson Brain to an atomic vector plotter suspended in a strong Brownian Motion producer (say a nice hot cup of tea) were of course well understood—and such generators were often used to break the ice at parties by making all the molecules in the hostess’s undergarments leap simultaneously one foot to the left, in accordance with the Theory of Indeterminacy.

Many respectable physicists said that they weren’t going to stand for this, partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they didn’t get invited to those sorts of parties.

Another thing they couldn’t stand was the perpetual failure they encountered in trying to construct a machine which could generate the infinite improbability field needed to flip a spaceship across the mind-paralyzing distances between the farthest stars, and in the end they grumpily announced that such a machine was virtually impossible.

Then, one day, a student who had been left to sweep up the lab after a particularly unsuccessful party found himself reasoning this way:

If, he thought to himself, such a machine is a virtual impossibility, then it must logically be a finite improbability. So all I have to do in order to make one is to work out exactly how improbable it is, feed that figure into the finite improbability generator, give it a fresh cup of really hot tea…and turn it on!

He did this, and was rather startled to discover that he had managed to create the long-sought-after golden Infinite Improbability generator out of thin air.

It startled him even more when just after he was awarded the Galactic Institute’s Prize for Extreme Cleverness he got lynched by a rampaging mob of respectable physicists who had finally realized that the one thing they really couldn’t stand was a smart-ass.

– Douglas Adams, “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”.

This wasn’t my first encounter with generative approaches. I remember when “evolutionary computing” was a thing a few decades back and reading about a chip design that had used a system with a physics model in an evolutionary manner to design a chip. The chip worked fine. Some parts seemed to be unused and unconnected to anything, but they found that if they removed them from the design, the thing stopped working. It really had used the physics model to the full including building in emerging properties from unused parts of the device. I wonder if Terry Pratchett knew of this when he wrote about his computing engine “Hex” not working when someone took away its teddy bear…

So naturally when generative pre-trained transformers (the GPT that people are now familiar with) entered the scene, again I considered it a really interesting development. Even today I still marvel that such a “brute force” approach can yield such compelling results. The technology is, as I say, quite astonishing.

But I recently encountered this comment in a book from 1981 looking 100 years ahead:

“I believe that direct communication by speech with computers will be achieved, probably within this century, but it will be possible only because computers can calculate far faster than the human brain. They will achieve their goal by methods that are really very inefficient, rather like cooking dinner by setting the house on fire.”

– “2081: A Hopeful View of the Human Future” – Gerald O’Neill

That started the wheels turning and then after watched the aforementioned video, the reasons for why I’m not a fan of their use in retro computing started to finally form.

Returning to 1980s 8-bit computers reminds me of a time when technical scarcity gave constraints that led to an absolute abundance of human ingenuity. People were doing things with these small and cheap machines that seemed completely beyond their capabilities and I’m sure were never imagined by the machines’ designers and developers.

There are so many examples, but I’ll point to a few here:

• Turn to any chapter of “Racing the Beam” by Ian Bogost and Nick Montfort to read about the techniques developed to get, well, pretty much anything, out of an Atari 2600. So many clever people doing clever, ground-breaking, things.
• My own (ongoing) analysis of the AY sound driver by Ste Ruddy written for use by Tim Follin. It is brilliant what these folk were able to do with those devices.
• Michael Martin’s brilliant series of articles on the ZX Spectrum’s “1-bit sound”. Again what can be achieved from just turning the speaker on and off was amazing.
• Any of Dean Belfield’s articles on tips and techniques on programming for the ZX Spectrum.
• And so many more…

It was this attitude of “squeeze what we can, and then a bit more” from these systems that I really value. The constraints led to a plethora of creativity and it is hard to look at some of those early 8-bit games alongside those that came later and imagine they were running on the same machine and it is great that many of these techniques are now coming out in forms that anyone can read about.

And it hasn’t stopped today. With the advent of the Spectrum Next (I’ll hopefully be getting mine any day now) we can see how that ingenuity has lived on. I can’t wait to see what people are doing with them today.

My interest in being optimal with computing capabilities isn’t just about older computers. Moving into more traditional modern computing communities, I look at something like the Raspberry Pi and its complete environment to get people up and running with it as a computer. And then I look at what Rene Stange did with his excellent bare-metal circle environment to allow full use of the capabilities of the hardware without those OS layers.

Then I look at something like Circuitpython and Micropython and marvel at the accessibility of hardware IO in a high level-language like python on a microcontroller. But fundamentally I also can’t bring myself to use them and add those additional processing layers into the system, when I could fire up the Arduino environment and progam directly in C and do so much more.

If I step back and look at the incredible range of emulation options for a retro systems from CPUs, like the Z80, to peripherals, like the ULA in the ZX spectrum and AY chips, to entire systems, like Dexed for the DX7 synthesizer. What I value in all these things is the dedicated, human ingenuity that was determined to understand how these things worked, even to the point of ensuring undocumented features were accurate and then going on to make something able to reproduce it.

And this is why I think the comment from the 1981 book of “cooking the dinner by setting the house on fire” rings so true for me. Using these huge, resource intensive, brute-force methods of creation (that incidentally may or may not be “setting the world on fire”) really is the antithesis of what retro computing means to me.

So even with the many reasons to already be concerned about the current incarnation of “AI” systems: from environmental impact, through cognitive debt, through building dependance (it is not “democratising programming” if it is building dependance on a paid subscription to a small number of companies), through exploitation of human creativity in their training, through addictive and gambling-like behaviours by design…

… fundamentally these current systems work totally against the ethos of what I believe drove the creation the home computer market in the first place – i.e. genuinely wanting to get a wholly owned, fully-understandable, “open box”, cheap, system into the hands of those determined to poke its constraints further than believed possible to see what it can be pushed to do.

I get why others are drawn to using “AI” systems. What they can do, as I say, is quite astonishing and it feels, I’m sure, quite liberating for someone to be able to produce something beyond their own skill sets or patience. I do wonder quite how many will ever see a “version 2”, but more worryingly, who is likely to work on something through that aforementioned passion to learn, when there are so many half-built versions out there flooding the scene?

For me, as a technology “AI” appears to be at the polar opposite end of the, er, spectrum, to what I value about retro computing, hence “AI” is not for me. At least, not in its current form. There may be future evolutions without some of the issues. We shall see.

It goes without saying, I hope, that general purpose computing has come on a long way and of course I’m not advocating a return to the unconnected days of writing using The Quill and thermal printers, or DOS and Word Perfect (although that remains, in my view, still the best word processor I’ve used during my career). Music production is of course unrecognisable to anyone from those 8-bit days.

But it is also instructive to ponder the size of the average piece of Javascript that your browser downloads to support someone else’s advertising goals. And right now, just a few of the icons on this instance of WordPress I’m using to write this post, would be close to the total memory available to me in a computer whilst growing up. We do appear to waste our computing resources without a thought.

I still remain fascinated by “AI” in a more general sense. I have to admit I am getting quite a lot from reading this book at the moment:

Maybe that is the true way of the future – a return to basics and really learning how to get the most out of what we have, be that an 8-bit CPU, a microcontroller or the latest high spec, multi-core, multi-GHz CPU and GPU, or the growing cloud resources available on demand.

But in conclusion yes, as of right now, I’m not a fan of the use of “AI” in retro computing.

Kevin

#ai #interent

@pertho I'm on #NetBSD now ❤️ after being primarily interested in #FreeBSD for a long while until the whole #AI fiasco happened

I still don't get how projects are willing to actively invite in this sort of risk: https://github.com/sebedard-creator/pt_api/issues/3 or the risk of #slop on quality

Teens Are Living in Fear After Grok Sexualized Their Childhood Photos

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2026-grok-sexualized-childhood-photos/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5NDQwNjkyNywiZXhwIjoxNzk1MDExNzI3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUT0NBVUxLSUpIOTMwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI5RjU0NjQ1MTM1QkI0NzcwODE4NTU4QzNFQUFCRDgyNSJ9.A0vV7UTjkGne3AxWBfEtVTv2HA0S2R6JaObQ3Il_NVQ

#news #tech #technology #AI #elonmusk #grok #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis #CSAM

Why AI might be behind a surge in cases of mushroom poisoning.

French toxicovigilance specialists warned of a jump in mushroom poisoning cases they suspect resulted from using AI to identify species as the autumn mushroom season enters its peak.

Identifying mushrooms is often too complex a task for artificial intelligence.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20261110-why-ai-might-be-behind-a-surge-in-cases-of-mushroom-poisoning?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#AI #Mushrooms #Poisoning #Toxins #Nature #Tech #France

Watching an old movie and it has an unusual relevance today...

#AI

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Screenshot of the movie The Matrix where Morpheus describing what happened to the world, "We marveled at our own magnificence as we gave birth to AI."

FreeBSD Developer AI survey

https://www.freebsd.org/status/report-2026-07-2026-09/#_freebsd_core_team

#freebsd #ai

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FreeBSD Developer AI survey bapt@ created a survey for FreeBSD developers on the use of AI and LLMs. He presented the results to core@, and a summary was shared with developers. 140 developers responded. Policy: 88% want the Project to adopt a policy, either a formal, written policy (49%) or light guidance and best practices (39%). 6% said that AI should be explicitly discouraged, and 3% that the existing contribution rules are sufficient. AI-assisted code: 35% said it must be disclosed, 25% that it must be reviewed more strictly than human code, 22% that it should be treated like any other contribution, and 16% that it should be rejected outright. Safeguards: mandatory human review (78%) and mandatory disclosure (69%) were requested most often, followed by provenance or licensing documentation (47%) and mandatory testing (39%). Disclosure: 84% want AI use disclosed, either always (48%) or when its involvement is significant (36%). 79% want AI-assisted commits marked in the commit log, and 56% prefer a tag that names the tool. Concerns: the main concerns about quality are correctness and subtle bugs (39%), licensing and provenance (26%), and maintainability (21%). 75% are somewhat or very concerned about copyright and licensing. Principles: accountability, meaning that a human remains responsible (91%), and transparency (78%) were selected most often, and preserving code quality was the top-ranked goal for a policy. Other uses: 65% would allow AI-generated documentation with human review. 54% would allow AI tools on Project infrastructure, most of them with restrictions, and 29% would not.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@meejah/117595425483136501

I'm not going to sign #HumanEmacs because I *want* discussions about LLMs effectiveness in particular with open weight models, for example.

You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

LLMs are here to stay. Ignoring their impact without any discussion as proposed on https://human-emacs.org/ is the wrong approach in my opinion. Blocking is not the best thing here, discussing the terms would be better.

If not, what's next? Block all people who use hardware where its vendor has some connections to unfair workforce policies? Block all #FOSS contributors whose electricity supplier as a certain amount of nuclear energy?

It's never black or white.

I think we've got enough experience with #cancelculture, over-stressed #policitcalcorrectness and similar movements already.

I acknowledge the good spirit behind it, I disagree on the chosen method.

YMMV.

#AI #LLM #openweight #Emacs

Christine Lemmer-Webber boosted

meejah » 🌐 2026-11-11
@meejah@mastodon.social

I have signed https://human-emacs.org/ and you should too, if you value #emacs existing

Retired jet engines find a second life powering AI data centers

https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/retired-jet-engines-powering-ai-data-centers

#news #tech #technology #AI #datacenters #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis

Student Game Development Competition Shut Down Because Kids Kept Submitting AI Slop

https://kotaku.com/student-game-development-competition-shut-down-because-kids-kept-submitting-ai-slop-games-2000755605

#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis

Kann #AI auch (produktiv) Prokastinieren?

From a hand-drawn village map to a map of fire hydrants across Europe!

For our latest OpenStreetMap community interview, we spoke with Frank Maerz, the person behind OpenFireMap.

We particularly appreciate Frank's approach: building something useful, keeping it simple, and giving back to the community.

Read the interview: https://blog.opencagedata.com/post/openstreetmap-interview-OpenFireMap

#OpenStreetMap #OpenData #CommunityMapping #AI #EmergencyServices #OpenFireMap #GeoTech

@davidgerard
Chef's kiss. Also this — SoftBank reserved 13GW+ of turbines, equivalent to six Hoover Dams, to power AI; SoftBank took a $3.7B earnings hit mostly from canceled reservations.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/masayoshi-sons-huge-bet-on-electrical-turbines-backfires-b51f160c
#AI #SoftBank #DataCenters

Today in FFS: https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/rewiring-the-state-and-the-future-civil-service

O Antonia Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou going?

#AI

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“AI potentially represents the most profound paradigm shift in modern governance. For the first time in history, the efficacy of public service no longer has to be artificially constrained by the limits of human bandwidth. As well as changing how we do things, AI will change what we do. From healthcare screening for types of cancer, to tackling the risk of homelessness, technology can enable us to be much more predictive, preventative, and personalised, under appropriate controls and guardrails. *AI can help us make public services more human.* This is about more than marginal improvements. It will make goals that were previously considered impossible, possible.” --- The “AI can help us” sentence is highlighted with a facepalm emoji graphic added alongside it.

Google DeepMind says its AI-assisted framework mathematically verified key Signal Protocol security guarantees in compiled Arm machine code—including protections for past messages if session keys are later stolen. The four-week analysis has limits, but its proof artifacts are public. 🔐🤖

cyberinsider.com/google-deepmind-signal-encryption-machine-code-verification/

#Signal #Cybersecurity #AI #Privacy

I do not trust AI run by U.S corporations, even less the guys who own them.
Zero tolerance.

Opensource AI yes.

#AI

Six Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI” https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/six-problems-with-talking-about-the-ethical-or/ #AI #AIHype

Now I’ve seen the tenth challenge of #30dayMapChallenge I doubt for all the maps I saw and will see: are they made with the help of #AI or not?

Wow, the Jensen Huang scandal continues to grow.

This piece alleges that Alice Huang *and her husband and sister* (yes she’s also married) have been in the NVIDIA game since 2023, with Alice getting close to Jensen and in return getting special treatment for her GPU-importing companies. Those companies appear to be laundering export-controlled GPUs into China, through shell corporations in Singapore.

The scandal involves the Dept of Commerce finding out about 50,000 missing GPUs, but mysteriously handing over their investigations to the DOJ after NVIDIA’s General Counsel called up and name-dropped some favorable Trump officials.

Since General Counsel was involved, I would be *extremely* surprised if Jensen weren’t *fully* aware that this GPU-laundering deal was happening. The biggest scandal here isn’t that he cheated on his wife; it’s that he seems to be colluding with foreign nationals to evade export controls.

#nvidia #ai #scandal

https://wccftech.com/alleged-chinese-spy-alice-huang-flaunted-bond-nvidia-jensen-huang-7-5-billion-ai-gpu-network/

Damn.

#ai #genAI #aiSucks #aiSuuuucks

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Screenshot of a tweet with the text "Tech bros talking to a female-voiced AI that laughs at their jokes". Below the text is a still image from The Matrix - the scene where Cypher talks to Agent Smith, while looking at a (virtual) piece of juicy steak.

This is incoherent. The "open weight" "local" models are largely coming out of the AI labs that are making hackable hardware inaccessible to many people, and many have this outcome as one of their goals. The future of hacking your devices is having devices that are accessible.

#AI #GenAI #GenerativeAI #hardware

The Department of the Interior just released its four year “strategic plan” outlining the goals, objectives and strategies it will use to “turn electricity into intelligence.”

#PublicLands #AI #DataCenters
https://wessiler.substack.com/p/doi-four-year-plan-fire-staff-sell

So, 4.5h to get through #AI #bots to reach a real human at support - is that winning?

nvidia is pretty fucked after it's huang bang

#ai #nvidia #huang #jensenhuang

#Salinas #School District to dump #Meta over #AI and student #privacy concerns:

https://www.ksbw.com/article/salinas-school-district-delete-social-media-accounts-ai/74380873

RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi/117593812717631891

Unfortunately, day 2 of Web Summit has been cancelled due to weather. I had so looked forward to this talk, but not this time. However, I have two more talks on Thursday and I hope those of you at Web Summit will attend those instead. We are also having a press conference Thursday, so we’re staying busy. And you should stay tuned.

#Vivaldi #WebSummit #Browser #Windows #Macos #Linux #AI #Technology #EU #Europa

How to Outsmart an AI: A Skeptic’s Guide to Resisting AI-Driven Social Engineering

https://www.skeptic.com/article/how-to-outsmart-an-ai-a-skeptics-guide-to-resisting-ai-driven-social-engineering/

#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis

A cost when you use AI to solve problems that aren’t on your critical path (e.g., why do I have to keep re-authenticating Tailscale — not my job, just a thing in the way of my job), is that if you are a person who would have solved this problem before AI, now you only learn the answer, not all the things that **weren’t** the answer.

You don’t learn from success. You learn from failure. “Experience is what you get when you *didn’t* get what you wanted.” — Randy Pausch, “The Last Lecture”

Don’t let AI deny you your failures. You need to know *why*. You need to know *why not*.

#AI #RandyPausch

The race is on to sue Nvidia

https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/09/the-race-is-on-to-sue-nvidia/

#news #tech #technology #AI #business #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis

"According ... physicist Robert Davies, the Wonder Valley facility will dump “about 23 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs worth of energy every single day” into the surrounding landscape... The $70 billion project...is set to be built 80 miles southwest of SLCN’s reserve... it does lie in a patch of land that’s considered the First Nation’s traditional territory."

#ai #aibubble #aibubbleburst #colonialism #FirstNations #datacenter #slcn

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-data-center-23-atomic-bombs

My recent OpEd in the University Post - Make the University and AI-free Zone:

https://uniavisen.dk/en/make-the-university-an-ai-free-zone/

"While AI erodes communities, promotes thoughtlessness and replaces true connections with simulations, the university is a space of relationship-building. It is the central place where students find themselves as young, independent adults, forging bonds of friendship and mentorship that might last a lifetime."

And in Danish: https://uniavisen.dk/goer-universitetet-til-ai-fri-zone/

#AI #university #tech #climate #BigTech #academia

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A photo of Fernando Racimo and the title of the article: "Make the university an AI-free zone"

Wearable sleep trackers are using your brainwaves to train AI models without explicit user consent — tens of millions of hours of EEG data harvested

https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/wearable-tech/wearable-sleep-trackers-are-using-your-brainwaves-to-train-ai-models-without-explicit-user-consent-tens-of-millions-of-hours-of-eeg-data-harvested

#Interaxon #Emotiv #privacy #surveillance #AI #dystopia #enshittification #technology #wearables

J'ai beau pas aimer l'IA et prier tout les jours Saint Ed Zutron que la bulle explose, voir Little Big Walk se faire trainer dans la boue pour contenir en tout et pour tout *vérifie ses notes* une dizaine de lignes de code générée par IA c'est un peu chaud.

Apprenez à doser, on est très loin du slop.

Je pense que ça jete le doute sur le reste du jeu dans les têtes de certains.

#AI #JeuxVideo

RE: https://framapiaf.org/@sebsauvage/117591660041095507

« 58 % des équipes livrent du code à l’aveugle »
😱

Disons les mots :

« moi je ne mets pas en prod sans relecture »
is the new
« j'ai lu et j’accepte les conditions d'utilisation »

#Tech
#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet

Khaled Gaiji boosted

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RE: https://mamot.fr/@benzogaga33/117591638457068192

Cory Doctorow a raison : l'IA, c'est l'amiante qu'on est en train de fourrer à plein régime dans nos systèmes informatique. Le nettoyage va être absolument dégueulasse.

Pffff... boosted

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@benzogaga33@mamot.fr

58 % des équipes livrent du code à l’aveugle : l’étude de la Linux Foundation qui étrille les assistants d’IA https://goodtech.info/linux-foundation-etude-ia-securite-code-activestate/ #Développement #Sécurité #Études

• #developpement
• #securite
• #etudes

A post that demonstrates how prompt injection can compromise Claude Code Auto Mode.

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2026/breaking-claude-code-opus-5-and-automode

#infosec #cybersecurity #redteam #pentest #ai #claude

" #AI " is slowly killing my #newsfeed, one RSS feed after the other.

While some personal #RSS clients are still considered "ok" by many websites, newsfeed aggregators like #NextcloudNews aren't anymore, in many cases..

Which means they get an HTTP 403 Forbidden error.

Obviously, some websites are now considering Nextcloud News a hostile agent.

@GossiTheDog

People sometimes say I/we are "Luddites".

✅ The industrialisation of printing presses had a net positive impact on human cognition.

✅ The commoditisation of pen and paper had a net positive impact on human cognition.

✅ The electronic calculator had a net positive impact on human cognition.

❌ AI has not has a net positive impact on human cognition.

#ai #cognition

Putain j'ai eu la peur de ma vie j'ai cru que Macron avait dit un truc sensé une fois dans sa vie.
Mais non tout va bien c'est de la poudre aux yeux comme d'hab', une «charte» ha ha ha
en vrai il s'en branle de nos mômes la seule chose qui compte c'est le pognon vous pouvez reprendre une activité normale.

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Macron
#SocialDémocratieZombie

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Actu Emmanuel Macron estime qu'il faut «interdire» l'IA où il y a un «risque» pour les enfants Cette charte, qui a «vocation à éclairer les débats législatifs nationaux et européens» , réunira notamment les géants américains OpenAI et Anthropic, a précisé l'Élysée. (Note de moi : ha ha ha ha autant dire rien).

Looking for #coding advice, specifically editor advice.. I code as a hobby, mostly my own small projects in #Rust #RustLang #Python. Like many people I use #VScode, but each "new" version seems to have more and more #AI features -- features I have zero interest in. I opt out but would rather not see this at all.

Any suggestions for an alternative editor that will work on my #ARM #aarch64 #Fedora #Asahi remix system?

Jag söker fortfarande någon som kan hjälpa mig med design och implementation av https://bjorkpsykologi.se och https://modhoppkarlek.se.

Grafisk profil och innehåll finns.

Krav: Statisk sidgenerering #SSG. Arbetsflöde med #markdown och #git (använder idag #hexo men själva verktyget är inte avgörande). Ingen #AI eller #VibeCoding, jag vill betala för äkta hantverk. SEO metadata, GDPR-vänliga statistikverktyg, etc.

Boosts välkomna.

#WebDesign #AskMastodon #AskFedi #FrågaFediversumet #FrågaMastodon

This probably is the most thoughtful opinion on AI I’ve seen, for curmudgeonly slowpokes like me.

@wsvincent echoing Pascal …

“My bet—let’s call it Claude’s Wager— […]
The cost of experimenting thoughtfully seems relatively small, while refusing to engage could be enormous.
And refusing to make a bet is a bet in itself.”

https://wsvincent.com/claudes-wager/

P.S. I expected @carlton to come up with something like this first :)

#AI

@GossiTheDog You can at least blog about it yourself, and rename it and do a paint illustration of the lax response from netscaler, as paint isn't vulnerable to it (unless it is the #AI enabled paint, in which case, generative AI probably enables an exploit)

Zed 1.27.0 Update Brings Performance and AI Tweaks:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/zed-1270-update-brings-performance-and-ai-tweaks/

Apache NetBeans 32 RC3 Released: Final Candidate Targets November GA Launch:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/apache-netbeans-32-rc3-released-final-candidate-targets-november-ga-launch/

Kitty 0.50 Picks Up Where You Left Off After a System Restart:
https://itsfoss.com/news/kitty-0-50-release/

Apache HTTP Server 2.4.70 Released: Bug-Fix Update Supersedes All Earlier 2.4.x Versions:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/apache-http-server-2470-released-bugfix-update-supersedes-all-earlier-24x-versions/

PHP 8.6.0 RC5 Ships With 8.5.13 and 8.4.28 Candidates Ahead of 19 November GA:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/php-860-rc5-ships-with-8513-and-8428-candidates-ahead-of-19-november-ga/

Rails 8.1.4.1 and 8.0.5.2 Security Release: 21 CVEs Packed, 8.0 EOL in Days:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/rails-8141-and-8052-security-release-21-cves-packed-80-eol-in-days/

Gitea CLI gt 1.0.0 replaces tea with stable API guarantees:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/11/gitea-cli-gt-1-0-0-replaces-tea-with-stable-api-guarantees/
(Oh no, give my tea back, I'm Bri'ish, I like my tea!)

GCC 17 Feature Development Ends Next Week:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-17-Ends-Stage-1-Next-Week

Automake 1.20 Brings New Features, Desires To Re-Establish GNU As Leading Build System:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Automake-1.20

Canonical adds FIDO2 hardware key support to Launchpad:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/11/launchpad-fido2-hardware-tokens

Zabbix 8.0 LTS adds AI enablement, observability, event processing, and scalability gains:
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/11/zabbix-8-0-lts-adds-ai-enablement-observability-event-processing-and-scalability-gains/

HestiaCP 1.10.6 Security Update Ships With ECDSA and Auto-Patch Support:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/hestiacp-1106-security-update-ships-with-ecdsa-and-autopatch-support/

OpenCV 5.1 Brings More AVX-512 Optimizations, Other Improvements:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenCV-5.1-Released

Strata 0.2.10 Release: DFlash2 Default, Multi-GPU Split Engine and 128K Context on 8 GB Cards:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/strata-0210-release-dflash2-default-multigpu-split-engine-and-128k-context-on-8-gb-cards/

Strata 0.2.11 Adds Compressed Qwen3.8-Flash-Next Files, Faster Prompting, and a Privacy Fix:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/strata-0211-adds-compressed-qwen38flashnext-files-faster-prompting-and-a-privacy-fix/

Strata 0.2.12 Targets AMD, Apple, and Budget NVIDIA GPUs:
https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/strata-0212-targets-amd-apple-and-budget-nvidia-gpus/

AMD-Backed Lemonade Local AI Server Ships Redesigned Desktop App & Web UI:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lemonade-2026.45.3

Servo Browser Engine Continues Broadening Web Compatibility, New Features:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-0.7-Changes

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#WeeklyNews #OpenSource #FOSSNews #FOSS #OpenSourceNews #News #Zed #NetBeans #Apache #PHP #RubyOnRails #Gitea #GCC #Automake #Lauchpad #Zabbix #HestiaCP #OpenCV #Strata #Servo #AI #Dev #Programming #Coding #FosseryTech

This is a BIG initial draft report (158 pages) and NIST is inviting you to provide feedback before Dec 18, 2026.

NIST SP 2400-102e2026, Adversarial Machine Learning: A Taxonomy and Terminology of Attacks and Mitigations.

Overview: https://csrc.nist.gov/News/2026/adversarial-machine-learning-taxonomy-2026-draft

It provides a taxonomy of adversarial machine learning (AML) aka attacks on Agentic AI Systems and includes key types of ML methods, life cycle stages of attack, and attacker goals, objectives, capabilities, and knowledge.

DL the full report here (PDF): https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs//SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.2400-102e2026.ipd.pdf #NIST #AI #AIAttacks #AdversarialMachineLearning #AML #Hacks #CyberSecurity #Security #CyberAttack #Risk #RiskMitigation

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The future of AI hinges on… Jensen Huang’s sex life?

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1029990/jensen-huang-the-spy-who-loved-me

#news #tech #technology #AI #huang #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis

😂

Corporate "training video"

"...real women don't solicit sex from software engineers..."

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/__wvyscoRpI

#humor #ai #corporatetraining #satire

Today I learned that Canva's AI can alter illustrations you paste there if you're not careful.

I found that by looking at a version of @the_lemonaut https://storyseedlibrary.org/art/the-lemonaut/hackerspace/ I've never seen before: with different light, minor details differing.

It was sent to me by someone using Canva to make a Solarpunk pamphlet, unaware that the tool can alter the images this way.

Damn.

GenAI is being pushed at us from everywhere.

#solarpunk #ai #genAI #canva #art #illustration

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An indoor scene of a warm maker- and hackerspace on a sunny day. The street outside is all grass and trees. Tram tracks run parallel to the building. Inside, shelves, workbenches, and tables hold spare parts and tools for making or fixing things. People are working alone and collaborating: someone paints their prosthetic arm, someone is using the sewing machine, or making a bi flag, or teaching another how a prosthetic leg functions, texting, chatting, repairing an e-bike, and that's just the part of the space we can see.

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The same scene, but with more light. The walls are no longer colorful, but white. People wear differently colored tshirts.

Linus Torvalds sees signs AI-prompted patch flood has peaked

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/11/09/linus-torvalds-sees-signs-ai-prompted-patch-flood-has-peaked/5308345

#news #tech #technology #AI #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis #linux #patching

L'ia c'est tellement l'avenir que Claude stock les mots de passe, les clés API et les login SSH en clair dans des fichiers Json disponibles dans des GitHub publics.
😂 🤣

Qu'es-ce qu'on rigole !!

#ia #ai
#NightmareOnLLMstreet
#Tech
#Sécurité
#InfoSec
#BrasCassés
#Ridicule

🆕 blog! “Blunt Banhammer Blocks Basic Bots Ballistically”

I cut bot traffic to my site by over 80% with a simple trap.

Last month, my hobby website OpenBenches.org transferred more than 2.5TB of data to visitors. As much as I'd like to think the site is enormously popular, it looks like it is just AI bots endlessly crawling the data and…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/11/blunt-banhammer-blocks-basic-bots-ballistically/
⸻
#AI #bot #CyberSecurity #NaBloPoMo #PHP #WebDev

Why I [the author] Resist Generative “AI”, https://estherweidauer.com/articles/why-resist-generative-ai.html.

What an excellent write up. A must read.

#ai

There is no privacy.

#ai #privacy

"(...) For more than two decades, search engines were the front door of the Web. You wanted something. You searched. You clicked. You visited a website. That website received traffic, attention, analytics, ad impressions, newsletter signups, brand recognition, or maybe just the satisfaction of being read by another human being. That model is weakening.

AI assistants and AI-powered search summaries increasingly answer the question before the user clicks. Google’s AI Overviews are a good example. The answer appears at the top. The sources may be cited, but the user often gets enough information without visiting them. From a user perspective, this is convenient. From a publisher perspective, this is terrifying. If the answer is extracted, summarized, reformatted, and presented inside someone else’s interface, what happens to the original website? What happens to the writer? The blog? The documentation page? The independent expert? The small publisher? The person who spent 12 hours writing the answer that became two clean sentences in an AI box? The Web was built on a simple habit: click the link. AI breaks that habit. Not completely. Not immediately. But enough to change the economics of publishing.
(...)"

Excerpt from the very worth reading article:

"The Web We Know Is Going to Disappear
The Web Will Become a Nerd Medium Again"

https://www.minid.net/2026/6/15/the-web-is-going-to-dissapear

#minid #Blog #Article #Internet #AI

Bonjour Paris! 🇫🇷
#VictoriaMetrics is a silver Sponsor at Cloud Native AI Summit Paris 2026.
Join us alongside developers, operators, and business leaders who are shaping the future of #OpenSource, #observability, and #AI.
Visit our booth and learn more about #monitoring, #logs, #traces, and #metrics. Also, we’ve got a great talk you won’t want to miss:

@virgil_tibbs

Ist also alles ganz sicher bei AWS gespeichert und #NVidia hilft unserer #Gesundheit mit #AI.

https://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/2026-10/nvidia-doctolib-beteiligung-ki-plattform-gesundheit

Bin gespannt, wann (nicht "ob") #Doctolib (wie bereits #UrbanSportsClub) direkt an die Amis verkauft wird.

#Datenschutz #digitaleSouveränität #Gesundheitsdaten

Is AI Profitable Yet?

Tracking the spend and revenue of frontier AI companies. Figures current to September 2026. NO.

💸 https://isaiprofitable.com

#ai #tracking #aislop #finance #profitability

Oh yes I am sure this one will be use for the greater good /s

Microsoft Patent Application Describes AI That Edits Live Speech

> Microsoft has filed a patent application for an AI system that can change what someone says in a live video and redraw their lips to match. The filing, US 2026/0341309 A1, was submitted in April 2025, published on October 29, 2026, and first spotted by patent tracker Patentlyze.

https://www.techpowerup.com/354585/microsoft-patent-application-describes-ai-that-edits-live-speech

#technology #ai #slop #llm

RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117584738216405862

BTW should be obvious, this is the official bursting of the #AIBubble. we should call it the #NVIDIA #AI #cuxplotion.

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦 » 🌐 2026-11-09
@blogdiva@mastodon.social

LMAO there is nothing more beta but to fall for a spy.

what’s funny is that getting honeypotted is the real meat proxy for #AI. it’s the OG enshittification of love, sex, and all human relations.

#cucks #techbros #broligarchy #NVIDIA #honeypots #infosec

I lold when I made this..
(not with AI)

#AI
#meme

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Top text: I make things with AI Three panels, one guy lookin in a holr, second blasting hime with water and third walking away face in hands

#Nvidia, the underlying hardware of the #AI bubble, is headed by Jensen Huang. #Huang had an affair. That's not the news. The news is, the nvidia board is investigating it because they think he was catfished by a spy. (Who doesn't love a little light treason with their side piece, I ask you?)

Whatever he did was so bad that this...this is an official Nvidia announcement. Stock market gonna be wild tomorrow!

https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/a-message-to-our-company

LMAO there is nothing more beta but to fall for a spy.

what’s funny is that getting honeypotted is the real meat proxy for #AI. it’s the OG enshittification of love, sex, and all human relations.

#cucks #techbros #broligarchy #NVIDIA #honeypots #infosec

If you had AGI, wouldn’t you think it would warn you about your mistress who was a spy?

#ai #nvidia #huang #tech

Weakening AI copyright law will spell ‘disaster for creativity’, global music body the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry warns PM Albanese

#AI #auspol #copyright #digitalrights #australia

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/09/weakening-ai-copyright-law-will-spell-disaster-for-creativity-australia

@mathieucomandon there's a notable difference between an individual championing the release of public knowledge from behind pay-walls for the benefit of humanity, compared to the wholesale capture of already-public knowledge by billion-dollar corporations to be encapsulated behind pay-walls for the benefit of those who already own everything. #ai

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#8Nov2026

💡 Pour #SamAltman : https://downloadmoreram.com
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#️⃣ #OpenAI #ChatGPT #IA #AI #RAM #DownloadMoreRAM

AI - Levels of Usage

🔗 https://cloud.haacksnetworking.org/index.php/s/pF5BndydS2YcxbG

✍️ This framework is an attempt to responsibly delimit #AI levels of usage for writers, researchers, bloggers, programmers, sysadmins, etc. It is open for feedback and commentary from those genuinely interested in frameworks for disclosing ethical usage of AI. If you are not interested in that and/or trolling, you will be blocked. Thanks, oemb1905

#sysadmin #ai #writing #blog #disclosure #citation #thinking

New blog post: I built a small AI reviewer for my self-hosted Forgejo. It reads every pull request, posts a summary and inline findings, and is not allowed to do anything else.

The hard part was not the integration. It was making it stop being confidently wrong: on my biggest real PR, 18 of 29 first-pass findings were discarded after a second pass checked them against the actual code.

https://blog.hofstede.it/a-read-only-ai-reviewer-for-forgejo-pull-requests/

#Forgejo #SelfHosting #Podman #LLM #CodeReview #AI

“Ram Altman” Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PC

https://respawnfirst.com/linux-script-emails-sam-altman-unused-ram-ram-altman/

#news #tech #technology #AI #openai #samaltman #ramaltman #aislop #nvidia #AIPsychosis

@ahze thanks. Video boosted in Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/freebsd/comments/1xqq97h/fjord_selfhosted_container_and_jail_app_store_for/

#AI #AppJail #FreeBSD #Linux #podman

#OpenWeights are not #OpenSource: Why #AI's favorite label is under dispute
Downloading a model is increasingly easy. Understanding how it was made, or changing a system, is another matter
AI industry abuses word "open." It appears in product releases, papers, debates, and investor presentations. Published files to Hugging Face, developers run them on their own GPUs, and the release is quickly described as "open source model." Not necessarily. It may only be open-weight.
https://www.theregister.com/columnists/2026/09/15/open-weights-are-not-open-source-why-ais-favorite-label-is-under-dispute/5295436

Anthropic already generates positive cash flow and a positive contribution margin (even after accounting for model training costs). Source: S-1 IPO filing.

Don’t fall for the nonsense that the 'tech bros' are going to lose money on #ai forever.

Look, we all already know that any code that an LLM generates is plagiarized, basically by definition. And if that plagiarized code was copied from a source with anything other than a CC0 or Public Domain license, your copy has a distinctly nonzero chance of violating some sort of license requirement; perhaps some copyright, attribution, or re-licensing clause.

I think it’s only a short matter of time until someone develops a code-scanning tool to look for potential license violations in popular FOSS projects found in commits created by LLMs. They would then use those commits to shake down projects for money, demand licensing fees, or demand IP ownership of certain features, based on those commits.

If you’re a closed-source software behemoth, maybe you’ll never deal with this, because nobody can directly inspect your code for violations. And besides, it’d take too much money to sue you. But if you’re a FOSS project with any grant or foundation money behind you? You’d look like a pretty juicy target.

#ai

RE: https://mastodon.social/@lumiworx/117576733459464501

I find this post a bit misleading. Motorola has a partnership with Google to provide its own OS with Google Mobile Services, but it also has a separate partnership with GrapheneOS to offer GrapheneOS as an officially supported alternative to the device’s primary OS.

Text being quoted only applies to the Google Mobile Services option, not to GrapheneOS. The hardware and firmware themselves do not include AI to my knowledge.

Some people seem unable to grasp the distinction between software, firmware and hardware. Gemini AI is software, not something inherently built into the hardware or firmware. I’m running GrapheneOS on my Pixel 9a, and I don’t have any AI features on my device.

#GrapheneOS #Motorola #Android #AI #AntiAI

LumiWorx » 🌐 2026-11-07 / 2026-11-07
@lumiworx@mastodon.social

Were you eagerly anticipating the release of the new #Motorola #phone to be preloaded with #GrapheneOS ?

You really should read the details before getting in the queue to buy one, now that they've announced the release of the flagship #Signature27 model.

So much for the implied promise of #privacy and #security from a non-Google released OS ...

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-signature-27-2/

#DeGoogle #Android

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A section of a screenshot from the Motorola announcement web page that gives a summary of the features as 'bullet points', in a section titled "Overview". The text included in that section (with blue colored highlighting added to the section on 'generative AI' : " The world’s best camera system launched in 202625, outranking all other Android and iOS devices, as assessed by DXOMARK. The brightest display available in a smartphone20, with an Extreme AMOLED Duo tandem display and up to 12,000 nits of peak brightness4. Among the first smartphones powered by the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 Mobile Platform, delivering breakthrough performance, next generation connectivity, and advanced AI experiences. Designed for Gemini Intelligence⁷, the motorola signature 27 meets the high system standards required to run Google’s best Gemini experiences. The only smartphone in-market with Audio by Bang & Olufsen, providing richer, more immersive sound through a custom-tuned audio experience. A 7000mAh battery¹¹, 35% larger than the last generation. The first Motorola device to support GrapheneOS, a privacy and security-focused mobile operating system. "

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Another section of the same page, but this section details exactly how the phone will be delivered, and what AI will _already_ be loaded in place, and active at arrival... The text reads : " Right out of the box, the motorola signature 27 also includes powerful Google Gemini⁸ experiences designed to bring new levels of creativity, including Gemini Omni, which enables users to create and edit video through natural conversation, and Lyria which generates custom soundtracks from simple prompts. In addition, the device features Motorola Qira⁹, a built-in AI system designed to connect and enhance experiences across supported Motorola and Lenovo devices, helping users get more from their broader ecosystem through a single, seamless hybrid AI experience. "

Thanks to @oldbookillustrations I found a great metaphorical illustration for a piece on schools, LLMs and children. The context is the new case against Google, a case involving alleged AI-assisted suicide planning.

https://knowprose.com/2026/11/rising-generations-falling-accountability/

#AI #Law #accountability #education #edtech

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Arthur Rackham illustration depicting an elderly man seated before a group of attentive children. Behind him, an enormous, distorted shadow looms across the wall, creating an unsettling contrast between the seemingly harmless storyteller and his menacing silhouette.

You know the jokes about "keep your books from before 2021"?

I just got a hard lesson. That is not a joke. Keep your 2021-era textbooks.

Someone asked me to have a look at some online learning materials, "Last Updated : 8 Apr, 2026" because something seemed wrong.

So I read it. The text does not parse as LLM output; there are no telling phrase structures, no em-dashes, no alerting idioms.

But the content? The actual thing to be learned?

It is coherent and completely wrong. The method and maths are right, but the intrinsic meanings of parameters are both completely plausible and utterly wrong.

It's like giving walking directions to someone in a car. Yes, the stairs to the beach are there, and they do get from the parking lot to the water. Yes, cars are things for going places. But if you try to do that - and you can! - you get a car submerging in the surf, not a 50kph-capable vehicle with no stoplights ahead.

And since there's no physically obvious problem, no car filling with water, just a number that does indicate things in other contexts but here is not linked to reality? Then decisions could get made, statements published, if nobody picks up on the extraordinary mis-use.

Keep your textbooks, especially anything with methods or maths!

#LLM #AI #LLMs #slop #knowledge

New post: "What ride?": where libre software could go after LLMs

https://lu.is/2026/11/what-ride-specifically/

#foss #ai #mastodon #bluesky

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org

https://freyjas.org/notes/atabxhu0fbfy1cmr

#ai #aitraining #meme

Interesting!

"Man granted first-of-its-kind #ReligiousExemption against mandatory #AI use at work- #Humanist argues that offloading his thinking to #LLMs violates his beliefs, #TitleVII accommodation protects employee"

Wait, what? His religious beliefs are #Secular #Humanism #SecularHumanism?

That's not a #religion...

Shhh 🤫

How the sausage is made is not as interesting as the results. If it works, it works

A moral creed is a moral creed

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/secular-humanist-gets-religious-exemption-from-using-ai-argues-that-offloading-his-thinking-to-llms-violates-his-beliefs-american-humanist-association-says-its-the-first-case-of-its-kind

#Technology #Kentucky #LLM

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jensorensen/117576684643358875

To me, it's complicated. I do not believe in 'intellectual property' in the age of the internet. Of course if you write a book it's your's, but copyright of 90 years or so after the death of the maker, makes no sense.

Also copying is not theft.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4

#AI #Copyright #Copywrong #CreativeCommons #IntellectualProperty #piracy #pirates #Internet #AaronSwartz

Debacle boosted

Jen Sorensen » 🌐 2026-11-07
@jensorensen@mastodon.social

This week's comic: A cartoon to train AI models

#internet #technology #cartoon #comic

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Did you know that art created with AI is largely stolen from real human artists without permission? Here’s… A cartoon to train AI models Six labeled objects are pictured. In the interest of training AI, the objects are labeled as follows: Pepperoni pizza Cat Man giving thumbs up Ronald Reagan Cybertruck Florida