RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115848969233248224 Like every year one of the plans for this year is to write more into my blog.

Musste gerade Schweizer Papierkram machen und lernte, dass ich in einem "Konkubinat" lebe. Das klingt fancy und kinkier als es dann am Ende ist ;)

"Maduro’s arrest is connected to a new kind of politics I’ve spent the last year struggling to describe. A profoundly embarrassing collision of violent nationalism, illiterate social chatter, and memetic fascism that’s been spreading across the globe since the pandemic." (Original title: The […]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115848630887537402 I mean hey, if Claude allows you to kill a bunch of Nazi pages, at least something good came from it. In my understanding using LLMs for coding does violate at least those two points of the hacker […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

Watched a talk from #39c3 (the one about right wing dating sites). Was a good talk but it felt weird how casually 'and then I had an AI whip up some shit' was accepted there. I think that wouldn't have been the same a few years ago. Window has shifted.

Oh. @grumpygamer is thinking about moving over to Linux. I always felt him to be more tech-focused than others but I find it interesting how it comes up more and more even in gaming spaces.

"In 2025 I have spend some time to untangle my digital life from billionaire/fascist run platforms. So at the beginning of 2026 maybe it makes sense to talk a bit about what I did, why I went certain ways and what works and what doesn’t." (Original title: Exiting the Billionaire Castle) […]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115838050969984568 Since there was some interest: Here's what I did last year to Exit the billionaire castles: https://tante.cc/2026/01/05/exiting-the-billionaire-castle/

RE: https://mas.to/@carnage4life/115832534415373032 keeping up to date with "AI" skills is extremely easy actually, the most sophisticated setup i've seen is just a bunch of markdown files begging the necrotic grooves left in the statistical skin of language to pretend like they are different […]

In einem immer rechter werdenden Deutschland ein zentrales Register von trans und nicht-binären Personen anlegen? Das will unsere Regierung. 😱 Wenn dir das auch unheimlich vorkommt: Es fehlen noch 4000 Stimmen für die Bundestagspetition dagegen […]

"However, if you scoff at the idea that one should have any ethical boundaries at all, and think that there’s no reason to care about the overall utilitarian impact of this technology, that it’s worth using no matter what else it does as long as it makes you 5% better at your job, that’s […]

I'm still open to being wrong, and there are still plenty of people who still exhibit critical judgement in other areas despite my disagreements with them on LLM use. Kratom has a much more straightforward biochemical mechanism which we know is bad for specific and impossible-to-avoid reasons […]

As with kratom addicts, there is even a period of time when they're correct, so it's hard to challenge. The *first* time a person with executive function challenges uses kratom, maybe even the first few months, it really *does* improve their mood, their executive function, etc. But then the […]

I have been hesitating to say this but the pattern is now so consistent I just have to share the observation: LLM users don't just behave like addicts, not even like gambling addicts. They specifically behave like kratom addicts. "Sure, it can be dangerous. Sure, it has risks. But I'm not like […]

On the viral tweet about claude generating in an hour what a team at google had apparently built in a year, the OP provided more context which.. of course it was a misrepresentation of what had actually happened

I spent the last year migrating off of US billionaire controlled platforms and services. But there's very few clean ways and I am not 100% happy with all solutions. Might still make sense to make a short post on what I went for and why

Small nit-pick but especially if your argument is about the unreliability of US tech in light of the US' (and its tech sector's) turn towards fascism publishing on motherfucking Substack, a service actively platforming and supporting literal Nazis, defeats the point.

Two things can be, and in fact are, both true: • AI is unethical whether it works or not. • AI doesn't work.

Biggest insult today: Motherfucking Github rate limited me browsing issues of a software product while being logged out. Git-we steal all your open source code to train our slop machine that management will use to make your life at work worse-hub.

Can't get sanctioned by other governments when you can just order Microsoft to sewer their access to MS 365 thereby removing their access to email, document storage etc.

I wonder if any company has ever ruined their core product and reputation as much as Google did with search.

Maybe in 2026 we can start to agree that "a complex algorithm selects content" is an editorial stance and platforms should be responsible to a certain degree.

Someone recently talked to me about allowing their feed reader to access my blog without being directed to the iocaine maze. Plase ping me again ;)

i don’t quite buy the argument that people who criticize ai are doing so from a position of privilege just because they may possess certain skills and even feel threatened by it. if you would like something done for you, and it turns out you rely on stolen/underpaid labor, environmental […]

RE: https://legal.social/@malteengeler/115801486209329597 Ich habe gerade gespendet. Normalerweise ignoriere ich ihn ja, aber ich hatte am 27.12. Geburtstag. Spenden an den Kältebus wären ein ideales Geschenk

I offer Cassandra's Complete Class Theorem¹. All "good use cases for AI" break down into one of four categories: I. Bad use case. II. Good use case, but not something AI can do. III Good use case, but it's already been done without AI. IV. Not AI in the LLMs and GANs sense, but in the machine […]

People love to hate on "Last Christmas" but Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmas Time" is so much worse. Worst fucking Christmas song.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/115756875745330765 This is an interesting question (my money would be on WordPress TBH, even though Firefox might be more important)

Worked with a hand-held circular saw today. It's been a good day. I am a sucker for power tools.

Wenn er nicht für den Laden hier verantwortlich wäre, wäre Friedrich Merz' Inkompetenz beim Regierungshandwerk fast lustig. Der lernt einfach gar nicht dazu.

It is amazing how many people I see claiming that AI has one good use. No one seems to agree on what that one good use is, and there's always a hell of a lot of goalpost shifting and special pleading involved. For some reason a lot of folks quite reasonably follow the arguments against AI, but […]

Hey @NDR: Das mit dem KI-generierten Zeugs ist für ein Medium, dass sich der Wahrheit verschrieben hat, natürlich schon ganz grundsätzlich problematisch. Aber, was geht denn da unter […] [Original post on tldr.nettime.org]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115746730662598273 FLOSS needs fewer corporations and more structures where the public (not only developers) can actually determine the path into the future. FLOSS only means more than "Amazon and Microsoft can use your code without paying you a wage" if it […]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115746700098797838 (I also think Palantir is even worse but I would have expected OpenAI to be a bit more "popular". Both employers are indefensible.)

Transform Mozilla from a company to a democratically run collective and see how long management will still be overpaid and hires rentier capitalists. https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115746707589261530

When looking at what the western AI companies are doing my current view is: - OpenAI is actively evil. There's no morals or anything. Just scamers trying anything to amass power and money - Anthropic is has sniffed so much of its own farts that most of what they are doing is just writing fan […]

Anyone here has any experience with a ToDo/Shopping list one can - self host - has an Android app - allows sharing lists between users ? (I have already googled, only interested in actual experience)

"This Week in Videogames spoke to a dozen professional concept artists in the wake of Vincke’s comments, all of whom currently or have previously worked in game development, ranging from indie studios to large AAA developers. All, without exception, said that ‌generative AI image tools had only […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115737483111161917 I'll elaborate. I believe we're in an AI bubble. AI companies are pushing the overton window on AI discourse. They want the most extreme anti-AI sentiment to be "Sure, it's an overhyped technology right now but there will be reasonable […]

"We don't want to be Luddites --" brother, Luddites were opposed to bosses concentrating wealth by using technology to make inferior product with warehouses fulls of starving exploited child labor. You don't have to wear the team jersey but respect the game.

The sustainable, sovereign, and open Torment Nexus.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782 I like that Firefox is (through @jaffathecake) communicating. But the point is not really if you can disable the features TBH. I think the problem is how Firefox/Mozilla is perceived: Putting a whole lot of resources into AI […]

"What Mozilla leadership has continually demonstrated for the last several years is that they not only fail to understand the values of those who believe in and use the product, but they also have no intention of figuring out a non-parasitic financial basis for the organization to operate." […]

"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it." […]

"... and the darkness takes over" (Original title: Abyssal) https://thesecretknots.com/comic/abyssal/

Ich weiß, das ist naiver Hippie-Shit, aber ich würde mir wirklich wünschen, dass wir eine Debatte führen darüber, wie wir als reiche Gesellschaft dafür sorgen können, dass es allen gut geht. Und nicht darüber, wie man am besten Schwächere bestraft.

Ahoi München. Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2026 sprechen wir abends bei der Münchener Volkshochschule im Rahmen des Programmschwerpunktes Zukünfte über den "Mythos der Innovation". Man kann sich noch anmelden […]

it's truly amazing what LLMs can achieve. we now know it's possible to produce an html5 parsing library with nothing but the full source code of an existing html5 parsing library, all the source code of all other open source libraries ever, a meticulously maintained and extremely comprehensive […]

Beim Forum Kommunikationskultur der Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur habe ich dieses Jahr eine Keynote über digitale Resilienz gehalten. Der Mitschnitt steht nun zur Verfügung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Jo7mqhKdI

Mozilla has a new CEO which: - Has been at Mozilla for less than a year - Has no prior open source experience (but well in "fintech" and "real estate") - Has a MBA (aka "brainworm diploma") - Is all-in on AI That’s exactly the kind of profile the whole community has been waiting for.