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Last Notes npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 also if you have elderly parents or grandparents, do yourself a favor for their safety. please install an ad blocker on their browser. this cuts out so much risks. Google or 100s of Ad vendors don't care about spyware/malware delivered using their Ad network. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Firefox is now the last known major browser that still supports uBlock Origin Ad blocker. Everyone including Microsoft Edge, Google and other Chromium browsers phase it out under Manifest V3. Firefox is also the only browser that check and ensure uBlock's code on every update to make sure the devs (or comprised repos) hasn't inserted spyware or malware into the extension code. The list of recommended and monitored or vetted FF extensions https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=recommended&type=extension npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 1 Quit your IT job. 2 Start your own company. 3 Take the risk. 4 That is how you go from making $15,000 per month to $0 per month. 5 ??? 6 Profit 🙃 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 😂 welcome to reality. The AI bubble crash is going to be spectacular one 💥 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/021/530/316/006/447/original/64caa18d9f13809e.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 The company that claims it can take over all IT jobs and says that "coding is a solved problem now" still has 10k+ of open bugs on its GitHub. Why can't its own AI fix them? 🤣 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues I can't wait this stupid bubble pop 💥 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Nothing is truly terrifying until it asks for administrative privileges 🤣 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/002/474/732/222/482/original/2410c8b71a2f9992.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 If you're using AI to build components of commercial software like OS and Office apps, why aren't you reducing prices now, given claims that AI would lower costs while you lay off developers? Someone is lying to me. It is like biggest scam ever where you fire people and still keep all profits. I hate everything about this. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 What is the biggest weakness of a robotic army in war? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 If your IDE isn't a tmux running Vim over SSH into a Linux prod box with a 9000 day uptime are you even programming? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 The modern tech stack is a lie. To me only 4 languages exists. Listen to me: 0. C - For pure speed, total control and the constant thrill of a random Segmentation Fault. 1. Perl - For solving impossible data problems with a string of regex that looks like a cat walked across your keyboard. 2. Python - For automating your job in 10 lines of code by wrapping C libraries in clean indentation. It can’t get better than this and it does web programming and math stuff too. What else do you need? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers: Changes proposed for ADB could kill an entire ecosystem of open-source power-user apps, mobile developer setups, and rootless privacy tools based on Shizuku. https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/ #android npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Google now support account recovery with AI and your face. What could possibly go wrong? Google having my face is not just bad enough but chances are high that selfie video may not work in edge cases or network down etc. https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/technology/safety-security/selfie-video-sign-in/ #privacy #security #DoNotwant https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/979/874/423/982/662/original/5283956736108fd1.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 I don’t care anymore about anything and This t shirt speaks my daily mood 🤣 tagging @nprofile…7q7j https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/963/806/320/535/887/original/f6dd725c5aca3f14.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 we are doomed, aren't we? https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/958/048/782/809/403/original/994e2b1d84843337.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 People are called luddites on social media simply because they don't want their water polluted by data centers or the industrial hum generated by AI servers. Imagine asking for the basic human right to drink clean water and be able to sleep at night, only to have that called nonsense or standing against progress. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Linus Torvalds: “I realize that some people really dislike AI, but this is an area where I'm willing to absolutely put my foot down as the top-level maintainer. Linux is not one of those anti-AI projects, and if somebody has issues with that, they can do the open-source thing and fork it. Or just walk away.” 😱 https://lore.kernel.org/linux-media/CAHk-=wi4zC+Ze8e+p3tMv8TtG_80KzsZ1syL9anBtmEh5Z40vg@mail.gmail.com/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Tech layoffs (and all other job layoffs where they replace YOU with shity AI) are a failure of leadership. There, I said it openly. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Your ChatGPT or Gemini generated flyer or infographic is garbage npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries and it could be a major breakthrough https://tech.supercarblondie.com/japan-recovers-up-to-90-of-lithium-from-used-ev-batteries/ Given such geo politics around oil and wars causing shock for everyone, I think such development is a good thing for clean energy for all. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Tabs vs. spaces is a distraction. The real test is whether you know how to exit vim without closing the Linux terminal 👀 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 There are two types of Linux users. the ones who use the OS & go home, and the ones who use it as a personality trait 😂 i am in the last camp 😅 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 You have to set up a brand new Linux machine for a non-tech family member. You cannot touch it after today. What distro and desktop environment are you installing to ensure zero support calls? 🤔 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 You can’t make up this stuff 😂 how does anyone become execs ? They learned the hard way that "the cloud" isn't made of actual water vapor and renting it costs a fortune 😂😂😂 Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/execs-confused-horrified-huge-ai-135718505.html npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 😂😂😂 taken from https://github.com/Vandivier/ladderly-3/issues/639 #satire #ai https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/883/175/916/508/030/original/306bb793adc5a68c.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 🛜 To all my IT PEOPLE : Write a story about the current state of the IT industry using only 7 words… npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 If AI hadn’t eaten all the RAM & SSDs, what would be on your desk right now & how much longer are you waiting on that NAS/laptop or desktop upgrade? 🤔 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 😅 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/862/863/988/113/061/original/42cc1beeb9951a84.jpg npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 If I broke into your home office and stole what’s under your desk, what would I get? 🤔 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 And now it is time for some dad jokes now 😂 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/857/241/545/433/744/original/4c7bf7d88e909fe2.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Microservices, because one big problem wasn’t enough, you needed a hundred small ones talking to each other over unreliable networks 😏 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 You are not expected to understand this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Commentary_on_the_UNIX_Operating_System #unix #history #linux #opensource https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/852/007/361/299/577/original/204d316bff397285.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Lenovo declares a 'new normal' for higher memory pricing in the 2030s, while Microsoft forecasts prices to double again in a year https://www.techradar.com/computing/memory/lenovo-declares-a-new-normal-for-higher-memory-pricing-in-the-2030s-while-microsoft-forecasts-prices-to-double-again-in-a-year yeah, everything sucks about this AI bullshit. RAM and SSD are expensive and they say it will double by next year. WTF? Hope all those AI/tech bros are happy that nobody will be able to afford a new laptop/deskotp if this keeps up. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Choosing a public DNS resolver Pick what matters to you, such as privacy, malware blocking, parental controls, speed, IPv6, or a specific jurisdiction, and the finder narrows 29 global public resolvers to the ones that fit. https://evilbit.de/dns-resolver-guide.html#finder Of course, this may not be useful for someone who runs their own DNS resolver on RPi at home with Adblocker at DNS level or at work but this a great little tool for home users or anyone who wish to use 3rd party DNS resolver https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/829/297/392/766/908/original/64943692cbcb85a3.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 the IBM ThinkPad 235, a cult classic subnotebook released in late 90s. IBM engineering made incredibly compact machines like this one, which was exclusive to the Japanese market. There was time when IBM and many consumer products were made with industrial design teams and user replaceable parts. Sadly that era is gone now. Anyway, i am sharing this for nostalgic reasons. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/805/954/137/501/188/original/e428126bdfd98c0c.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 😱 Bezos said that in order for AI to reach its potential, certain resources must be allocated and prioritised for the technology rather than for human consumption like water. It’s a remarkably tone deaf statement from one of the world’s richest men, essentially suggesting human needs should yield to AI infrastructure need. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos says human water consumption is limiting AI’s potential https://theprint.in/feature/jeff-bezos-water-consumption-amazon-ai-potential/2964266/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 What do you think we should bring back from the 90s IT departments? 🤔 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 How to cleanly shut down a legacy Unix server Minute 1: Send a broadcast message warning all logged in users (wall) Minute 2: Gracefully stop non-essential daemons Minute 3: Sync teh filesystems (sync; sync) Minute 4: Unplug the power cord from the wall because the ACPI driver froze in 2013. It’s just a standard decommissioning process, what’s stopping you? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 I am dying with laughter. lmao. AI Agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/ While modern AI models have expressed some capabilities in certain fields such as coding, cybersecurity research, language translation, etc, no AI model is capable enough to replace the critical thinking and common sense of an actual human being. 😂 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 In a world of chatbots and data centres, go to the nearest library and read books. Visit the park and enjoy the cool breeze with your dog or cat. Disconnect. Be different. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Let's Encrypt appears to restrict certificate issuance in certain U.S. sanctioned territories due to legal compliance requirements as per the laws. While this is unfortunate from a security POV for affected users or IT pros, it is understandable given that the organization operates under U.S. laws. It may be worth finding whether similar free certificate services based in other region could help improve secure communications and internet infrastructurre https://letsencrypt.org/documents/LE-SA-v1.7-June-04-2026-diff.pdf npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Why is #Linux like a religion? Everyone thinks their distro is the one true path, and they’ll die on that hill usually mid `apt upgrade` npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Apple: Our Apple Intelligence (AI) totally secure, trust us. It wiil change your life. Apple: BTW, Apple Intelligence (AI) is not available in the EU because of safety concerns. Me: Maybe Apple Intelligence (AI) is not secure and private, otherwise it would have been available in EU too 🤨 tl;dr: Avoid Apple Intelligence (AI) on your iPad or iPhone or Mac. It is powered by Google Gemini. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do https://human-in-the-loop.bearblog.dev/llms-are-eroding-my-software-engineering-career-and-i-dont-know-what-to-do/ Every model that we tested had hallucinated. There is no way LLM will do your IT job with 100% confidence. The real risk is management folks who think that LLMs can do your job and there is no cure for that stupidity and hence job loss risk is real. That is my take. How it will play out? IDK. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 HR: Where do you see yourself in five years? HR in 2040: (credit for cartoon goes to https://rollistuff.com/ ) https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/703/200/156/290/400/original/185430e59ef7f274.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 I don’t know what was worse, Stack Overflow’s moderation system, which many IT communities find annoying, or AI killing the site 🤔 Both extremes seem bad for the open web…. I still think that we don’t need three chatbots controlling everything. I fear Wikipedia might be next. This is not good for the Internet https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/702/323/066/935/345/original/535527a16db22cec.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 GitHub accidentally deletes Slack and Teams subscriptions causing outages. I wanna know how this happened, but I’m afraid the answer would just be equally disappointing for me. https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/2nmfnbknhlnv npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Back in the late 90s Linus Torvalds made the famous sarcastic declaration, "If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux, it means I've won". Now they made full distro. Haha! Azure Linux 4.0 is Microsoft’s first general-purpose Linux https://github.com/microsoft/azurelinux How times have changed? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Bots just officially outnumbered humans on the internet for the first time ever. Cloudflare’s latest report shows AI and agentic traffic has grown so fast its now the majority of online traffic. We crossed a line and most people didn’t even notice 😳 https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human Dead internet theory is now becoming a reality https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/692/724/658/562/860/original/0acd3412661ff0b3.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Adult gaming routine: ✓ Spend 8 hours earning money ✓ Spend 1 hour deciding what to play ✓ Start a game ✓ Play through exactly one loading screen & 10 mins ✓ Suddenly remember you're 40+ and exhausted ✓ Close game ✓ Sleep Repeat tomorrow. who is with me? 😭 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 California's Assembly voted 68 to 1 to exempt debian and other open source Linux distros from its age verification law, then extended age-gating to browsers and websites in the same bill. https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/1tuw4ua/californias_assembly_voted_68_to_1_to_exempt/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Poor man's calc (more like bc wrapper): ``` calc () { echo "$@" | tr -d ',₹' | bc -l } ``` The `tr -d ',₹'` used to remove unwanted stuff that i often copy from emails or pdf and then pass everything to the bc for actual calculations. #unix #linux #tips #tricks https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/676/859/342/689/626/original/99d578821aa0b732.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/664/600/692/190/967/original/061ac2d07851a67e.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 @nprofile…wv76 just alphabets a-z list that is not google. i have not checked other stuff like their background, country origin, funding, or any other issues on that list right now. because i am not aware of it. this is what i found. it is not ultimate recommendations but more like alternatives that i am aware of it... npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Now that Google official killed search engine with AI summarise and added chatbot box to it. For those who wants alternatives to Google search try (this is sorted list): Brave DuckDuckGo Ecosia Kagi Marginalia Search Mojeek Startpage npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 😂 see i was right. this is fools dream. the numbers are mind blowing and get ready for the 1930 style recession once everything will overblown. #nevent1q…mdr7 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 How does software engineering in IT looks as of May 2026? ✔️ AI AI AI ✔️ AI driven layoffs not 1 or 2 employees but it comes in thousands of layoffs at a time ✔️ package manager getting compromised is daily event ✔️ cloud provider blocks your account randomly using AI agents and AI support doesn't understand anything ✔️ github hacked and all code is available for sale ✔️ AI submitted low quality patches overwhelming FLOSS devs what else am i missing? https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/608/614/783/053/918/original/773db1801f62465a.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Here are other sovereign payment networks designed to bypass the traditional US big tech based credit/debit card (unsorted list): a) EU - Wero & EPI b) China - UnionPay, Alipay & WeChat Pay c) India - UPI/RuPay d) Brazil - Pix e) Turkey - TROY f) Pan African nations are also building or have independent payment networks More https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Credit_card_issuer_associations We will see more digital sovereignty for security, privacy and to have independent control over their digital assets, infrastructure and data npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Good! Europeans are dumping VISA and MasterCard. Adieu Visa et Mastercard : 130 millions d'Européens basculent vers un paiement 100 % souverain dès 2026 ( English translation: Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130 million Europeans will switch to 100% sovereign payment by 2026 ) https://www.lesnumeriques.com/banque-en-ligne/adieu-visa-et-mastercard-130-millions-d-europeens-basculent-vers-un-paiement-100-souverain-des-2026-n250918.html npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Google CEO tries to tell University students to love AI. They tell him to BOO off. It is good to see kids are saying no and fighting back. Do you know why? Because the future of bots, AI and robots doesn't offer any jobs to these young kids. They know greedy AI companies want to get rid of working class. It is simple as that. For those who wish to read https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pqd54qneo #ai #llm https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/601/724/936/330/211/original/1064ff86439598f3.mp4 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 GitHub is sinking https://dbushell.com/2026/04/29/github-is-sinking/ AI batshit crazy Microsoft has successfully ruined another product. I hope FLOOS devs get rid of it and move to other alternatives. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Awesome. A Redditor emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange. Actually got a reply https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/1t826y8/emailed_ken_thompson_about_the_unics_to_unix/ #unix #history #computing https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/544/467/689/835/152/original/37e7ea4e6f1bdd64.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 ‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/ Nobody is saying the loud part because they are too deep into AI now. They know teh only way to keep going is to pretend everything is working as promised. This is how the dot-com era happened & the upcoming AI bubble crash will too. They are disconnected from our reality. There is no cure for AI psychosis at CEO levels 😂 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce as AI adoption reshapes operations https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/cloudflare-cut-over-1100-jobs-2026-05-07/ Another massive job cuts due to AI. Get ready for more outrages as these companies are adopting AI to write code and push to productions. Can any human review 5000 PRs per day? Noop. They are just gonna rubber stamp it. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/07/8 This is a report on "Dirty Frag", a universal LPE that allows obtaining root privileges on all major distributions. This vulnerability has a similar impact to the previous Copy Fail. #linux #security npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/ > No consent dialog. No opt-out UI. Re-installs itself if the user removes it manually. That is the true definition of malware. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Days Without GitHub Incidents https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/ I didn't realize how bad GitHub has become. The future of AI driven software development and bots is here and we can see how reliable is everything from this site. 😂 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 😂 https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/2050279582037614638 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/506/185/389/711/807/original/af49bb84b27fe05f.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out: Keep computers in common areas (kitchen or living room) and delay smartphones. We shouldn't trade everyone's privacy for a problem that can be solved with parenting, love, explaining dangers to kids and stricter corporate accountability. How hard is this? What am I missing? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 The AI automation arms race layoff trap: 1 Competitive pressure pushes firms to automate using AI more than needed for market 2 Now jobless workers can't buy products/services, harming both labor & firm owners 3 Suggested solution by AI companies like UBI/upskilling/lower wages cannot stop the AI doom cycle The study concludes that only a Pigouvian automation tax can fix the problem. Policy makers must address the competitive drive to automate, not just the post AI fallout afterward https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/481/749/939/584/763/original/3cb69459302f6ade.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 The future of AI in Ubuntu https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81130 🤡 Ubuntu started pushing AI and LLM into OS now. I guess any distro *without* LLM or AI is a better option at least for me. What about you? #ai #llm #donotwant npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Some org started rehiring junior devs because AI companies keep increasing their token costs. It is becoming cheaper to hire humans again to handle basic tasks, like aligning a button on screen, fixing typos or even performing PHP+MySQL coding. You just have to wait until the AI bubble bursts or the VC money dries up. Approx 40% to 50% of AI data centers planned for 2026 in the U.S. are likely to be delayed or canceled as banks and VCs are refusing to provide further financing 😂 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 klitoris is also less likely to spy on you and steal your files to train their shity AI or stuff like that. so i will take klitoris any day https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/442/157/818/691/459/original/db190f7282f76442.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Atlassian will begin collecting customer metadata and in-app content from Jira, Confluence, and other cloud products by default on August 17, 2026, to train its AI offerings including Rovo and Rovo Dev. The change affects roughly 300,000 customers; metadata collection is mandatory for Free, Standard, and Premium tiers and cannot be opted out on those plans. https://letsdatascience.com/news/atlassian-enables-default-data-collection-to-train-ai-f71343d8 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Palantir pulished bizarre manifesto denouncing inclusivity and regressive cultures https://xcancel.com/PalantirTech/status/2045574398573453312 I am no expert but they want strong military hard power (which you know always goes to everywhere in the world causing many issues like recent energy issues), traditional national service, and a rejection of modern culture and political correctness. No thank you. I really hope they go out of business. More here https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/19/palantir-posts-mini-manifesto-denouncing-regressive-and-harmful-cultures/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 meanwhile at dentist office 😂 via https://xcancel.com/nocontextscats/status/2045428594332291503/photo/1 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/425/479/904/613/320/original/6e7f6b5a95d84301.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 A New Bill proposes Federal Age Verification on any Operating Systems in entire U.S https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info Another slippery slope to target everyone, especially minority groups, and make their life hell under the name of protecting kids. If you want to protect kids, tell Meta, Google, & all other social media companies not to let kids usew the app. It is that simple. But Meta, who is behind the lobbying is niw shifting this burden to OS providers and targeting everyone on the planet. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 there will be tons of job for de-vibing code bases made out of AI slop mess, after AI slop crash happend in near future npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 🤯 😅 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/347/975/648/018/021/original/ec7f548bd5ca126b.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Where is my flying car? 🤔 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 😂 credit https://ashermaxperlman.com/#cartoons https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/342/041/671/988/735/original/fdc6be83b2933361.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 RHEL (its whole ecosystem like Fedora, CentOS and others) Could be getting AI slop soon. Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid. An internal memo dispatched by senior execs at Red Hat suggests the software biz is starting to push AI tooling within its Global Engineering department. RHEL may be about to get some Windows 11-style "improvements." https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/red_hat_ai_dev/ I am not surprised with age ID and other stuff they are forcing via systemd along with AI slop. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 AI psychosis among the C-suite is really high now. I’m seeing it at work, where they validate everything using AI even though they know it screws up. For example, if I tell them a reboot isn't needed for a CVE because we aren’t running the app directly on the server, its in Docker, they will immediately fact check me with AI right while we talking. It’s just 1 example, but I’ve never seen such bizarre behavior. They treat AI like some divine truth. Has anyone noticed this? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a pencil or pen, on sheets of paper. The Swedish government also plans to make schools cellphone-free throughout the country https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 DDR5 RAM prices fall by as much as 30%. Guess what? Who was behind the rise and fall of RAM prices? 😂 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Linux reaches new peak of 5.33% in Steam Hardware & Software Survey: March 2026 https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1sa2s6y/linux_reaches_new_peak_of_533_in_steam_hardware/ https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/334/669/471/279/546/original/42661980dcee1c00.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry https://xcancel.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963 😂 Guess what? Most of code is either slop or even old good regex like for detecting negative sentiment in users prompt which is then logged https://github.com/chatgptprojects/claude-code/blob/642c7f944bbe5f7e57c05d756ab7fa7c9c5035cc/src/utils/userPromptKeywords.ts#L8 These tools are going to replace 80% of all dev jobs and their plugin is gonna maintain all security and banking code? 🤡 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 > how old are you? I am old enough to remember encyclopedias coming in 25+ big book volumes &the only place to find and read thme was the school library. No normal family in my country could afford a full encyclopedia due to cost, but some grants or rich folks with good fortune donated such books to our school library. Reading was fun in young days and seeing even many black and white pictures helped in those books take trips into the future or past. Good times & so many memories. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 if people stopped giving all these corporations their age or id/kyc info and just canceled their subscriptions or accounts for 4 months we'd see how fast they stop asking once those next quarter results show up. governments would wake up pretty fast with less VAT, GST, and Tax revenue, too. you give them an inch and they will take a mile. cut that inch and cut their source of revenue, and they will all fall in line. that is the only solution to all these stupid laws. #nevent1q…mzxw npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people https://unterwaditzer.net/2025/codeberg.html That is right, keep dumping Microslop services. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Soon Reddit users need to prove that they are human using ID verification. Your site is already garbage and I am not giving you any ID. https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/1s3ezrc/humans_welcome_bots_must_wear_name_tags/ Mastdon and Fedi seems to doing fine without any ID. https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/295/737/159/112/201/original/2bcb0227e4d40ea7.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Meta told to pay $375m for misleading users over child safety https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql75dn07n2o A jury found that Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, was liable for the way in which its platforms endangered children and exposed them to sexually explicit material and contact with sexual predators. This is the same company behind age verification lobbying effort to protect child but in reality it is the biggest offender out there. How ironic? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 oh look, the AI batshit crazy Microslop is down the most out of the MAG 7. OpenAI's big investor, Microsof has lost 31% of its market cap in just a few weeks, and it’s gonna sink even deeper when the market opens in a few hours. OpenAI is running out of cash & can't find new investors. Even the banks refused to sanction loans for Oracle to build an IDC for them. Now Microslop says they tone down the AI & Ads in Win11 just to win back users. their slop machines aren't generating enough profits https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/289/351/041/541/525/original/aafb0dd0c4d62284.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 plagiarism machine (Sora app) that created videos of ignoring all copyrights including deepfakes of people is dead. It look like OpenAI is running out of money as banks don't want to fund their plagiarism machine and existing investors demanding ROI. this is so good. i hope the rest of the AI industry dies down too https://xcancel.com/soraofficialapp/status/2036532795984715896 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 lmao 🤡 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/285/615/906/477/253/original/06d458e30e382ab5.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Amazon says AWS Bahrain region ‘disrupted’ following drone activity: The disruption marks the second time in a month that AWS operations have been affected by the Iran war https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/24/amazon-says-aws-bahrain-region-disrupted-following-drone-activity AWS in that region has still not recovered from the March 3rd attack. The loss of human life is beyond any recovery & now energy costs have increased for everyone. Amazon will likely write this off as a biz loss & move on, but the loss of human life & pain is forever. It is a sad state for our world :( npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Microsoft spent 4 years stuffing Windows 11 with unwanted ads, forced Copilot integrations, stealing data to train its shity AI and other bloatware, now they want applause for promising to remove it. Reasons for a Change of Heart: 1 Increased Linux gaming 2 Apple's entry into the low end PC market with 0 forced AI 3 The "Microslop" social media shaming campaign 4 Increased costs due to AI leading to almost 0 ROI since there is no consumer demand https://www.sambent.com/microsofts-plan-to-fix-windows-11-is-gaslighting/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours. The Hypocrisy at the Heart of the AI Industry https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/03/hypocrisy-ai-industry/686477/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 enterprise grade security vs. human the weakest link in the chain 😂 https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/272/816/325/061/064/original/e39b505da2b13538.png npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 people don't realize this, but this is how they infect a good product and build surveillance network. today it is age verification for OS, tomorrow they will come with sex verification to target LGBQT+ groups or country verification to target minorities or immgirations, etc. Meta, the evil corp who is behind this, wants everything trackable, starting with your age &d id verification, KYC, & whatnot. it is my computer, & i am not going to be tracked. it is the same reason you use an adblocker