«It made sense 50 years ago to market to entire generations as if they were one persona. It was a way for companies to understand consumers when there was little else to go on. But does this approach still work today?» […]

RUSSIAN ECONOMIC FREEFALL! "We have told you ten times that the economic collapse is inevitable" - Russia's chief communist Zyuganov. "The entire first quarter already hit rock bottom. If you do not urgently take measures, then by the autumn we will face what […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Open source maintainers need an answer to AI clean rooms https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/open-source-maintainers-need-an-answer

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«We spent decades dreaming of a future where technology would make us more than human—where CRISPR and 500-year lifespans would turn us into the gods we always wanted to be. We thought we were the main characters in the story. But we were looking at the wrong map. The real battle for the future […]

Holly smokes 🤪 «Vibe-coded ext4 for OpenBSD A number of projects have been struggling with the question of which submissions created by large language models (LLMs), if any, should be accepted into their code base. This discussion has been further muddied by efforts to use LLM-driven […]

Някъде в Америка:

"...the overwhelming source of modern economic output is not the labor any individual performs today. It is the accumulated knowledge and technology inherited from every generation before us. This inheritance argument applies with full force to AI." […]

We make our choices, and then our choices make us. https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/01/ethics-of-small-actions/

Hiring Linux engineers. Real infrastructure, networking, debugging. Not just YAML and dashboards. https://server260.com/Job-Ad-SA-2026/ #linux #sysadmin #devops

GPU availability is dropping fast. Availability for B200, H100, and A100 GPUs has hit new multi-year lows. Good luck finding a B200 (less than 5% available). Oil is getting the headlines (rightly so), but for many markets, the real long-term story is soaring compute demand.

Exo-atmospheric interceptions of Iranian ballistic missiles recorded over Iraq #aurefreepress

Measuring ASI: AI’s First Exam https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/measuring-asi-ais-first-exam

A light that can see radio waves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moBCOEiqiPs

Хм, аз почти не познавам хора, които изобщо да знаят какво е СФО. Как така 17000 ученици записани в тази форма? «В последните 3 г. в самостоятелна форма на обучение са били около 16 000 ученици годишно. През 2023/24 г. те са били 16 420, през 2024/25 г. - 16 187, а през тази учебна година - 16 […]

You [Europe] need to prepare yourselves before war comes to you. And in this, we Ukrainians are your best partners, because we already live in the future of war - Oleksandr Falshtynskyi, Chief of Medical Service of the 7th Rapid Response Corps of the Ukrainian […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Напомни ми за the "Cheap Flights" song (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAg0lUYHHFc) :D https://www.icdsoft.com/blog/five-hidden-fees-you-will-find-elsewhere-but-not-here/

"...his intention to play around with the storage systems of Bell Labs computers to produce a superior disk scheduling algorithm led unexpectedly to the first version of the Unix operating system..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E2cCqAS9AM

«The result is a trilogy of papers that uncover what we believe is a fundamental truth about how these models work: Bayesian inference isn’t something transformers do in special cases. It’s the native language of attention. It’s what these models are. The brute-force training process naturally […]

There are continuing efforts at the EU to embrace hashtag opensource in order to reduce reliance on technology from "non-EU" countries... in other words, the USA. https://lwn.net/Articles/1053107/

Днес, при поредното разчистване на паднали дървета, както обикновено, се сдобих с мускулна треска на челюстите и сега ми е трудно да дъвча :) Което си е обичайно. Това, което е странно, е, че няколко човека се впуснаха да ни помагат. Преди често са ни се радвали и/или поздравявали, но чак пък […]

We often describe capitalism with the cliché of a big fish eating smaller fish. One predator, one victim. But that’s not really how many modern markets work. In biology, success creates resistance. If a predator grows too large, it starves. If it wipes out too much […] [Original post on c.im]

"My experience is that real adoption of many new technologies on real problems is a complex blend of: deep domain context on the problem, hands-on experience with the technology itself, and old-fashioned IT and operational realities. I’m deeply skeptical of any internal technology adoption […]

A 15-second string reversal test filtered half of all coding applicants. https://josezarazua.com/im-a-former-cto-here-is-the-15-sec-coding-test-i-used-to-instantly-filter-out-50-of-unqualified-applicants/

Property prices and rents in many countries are once again close to their 2007 levels. This time, however, the risk appears not to be financial or banking-related, but social and political?

How I wrote JustHTML using coding agents https://friendlybit.com/python/writing-justhtml-with-coding-agents/

"Being poor isn't just being broke—it's when your entire support system is also poor, so there's no safety net anywhere."

You know 5.0-star web hostings exist? Maybe not the flashiest or loudest — they just really work. For a very long time. https://hostadvice.com/hosting-company/icdsoft-reviews/

While Putin’s propaganda talks about "hostile" and "aggressive" Europe, the children of Russian officials and military officers seem perfectly comfortable enjoying that very same Europe. Apparently, Europe is only "dangerous" when shown on Russian TV - but […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

Not a cognitive dissonance. Claude 4.5 Opus' Soul Document https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/2/claude-soul-document/

"It takes effort to build simple systems. It takes even more effort to keep them simple. That’s because you constantly have to fight entropy. Going from simple to more complex is much easier than the reverse." https://corrode.dev/blog/simple/

Знаете ли кой има безусловен базов доход? Децата. И пенсионерите. При децата е предплатен — семейството и обществото покриват всичко, без условия. При пенсионерите е заслужен — но пак е без условия. Не винаги е било така. UBI просто запълва празнината между тези две групи. Може би още не […]

"When I was at Google, I remember that the X building had a room called ‘the arm farm’, where dozens of robot arms spent all day picking up objects of various sizes and shapes just to get training data. Entire PhDs have been spent on just robot gripping." […]

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it? https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/ It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely […]

Never forget, car dependency is the opposite of freedom. What’s more “free” than cars, you ask? Choices.

Since this question shows up so often that it qualifies as an FAQ, here's my definite answer to "What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles?" https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/13/training-for-pelicans-riding-bicycles/

That's some kind of superpower. https://theahura.substack.com/p/founders-guide-how-to-get-smart-people

2016: 16 ядра по 2.4 GHz, а boot-ва 4 минути. How lame is that? Приготвих вечеря и подквасих кисело мляко, докато го чакам 😕 2025: CPU(s): 224 On-line CPU(s) list: 0-223 И все така си boot-ва 4 минути.

Defining fun, toys and games ♥️ https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/

Meta is in the scam business. According to an internal assessment, 10% of its mind-blowing revenue is generated by scam. As a consequence, Meta actually promotes such content, charging it a higher rate, until a high-profile authority draws attention to it […]

Ha! MIT neuroscientists discovered your brain flushes waste fluid every 50 seconds during sleep deprivation, which causes those microsecond attention lapses everyone experiences when exhausted.

Смисълът не е нещо, което стои стабилно и готово — той се разпада и се създава наново през живота.

Единствената обява, която се появява при филтър "Fully Remote" + "25+ дни отпуск" + "Само обяви със заплати": https://dev.bg/company/jobads/icdsoft-senior-system-administrator-linux-devops/

AI compressed the timeline of a solvable-but-nontrivial problem, turning a one-to-two-week research task into a quick back-and-forth session. "Given a week or two to try out ideas and search the literature, I’m pretty sure that Freek and I could’ve solved this problem ourselves. Instead, though […]