tante

Sociotechnologist, writer and speaker working on tech and its social impact. #Communist. #Feminist. #Antifascist. #Luddite. Email: [email protected] | License CC BY-SA-4.0 #noAI

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2026-08-20 08:23:14 UTC

How often do we need to look at knowledge and skill acquisition and "AI" coming to the same conclusions but just ... keep on deploying and using that shit?

2026-08-18 22:57:57 UTC

That's why I use Zen browser. Firefox without "AI" and with some actually new and cool ideas about how to be a browser

2026-08-17 08:31:19 UTC

I love how this waxes poetically how "The exact words we choose when writing matter. I want any LLM I use to choose the very best, most precise words at every single decision point."
My brother in christ: Then you shouldn't be using a stochastic text extruder.

2026-07-22 12:11:37 UTC

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@nprofile…hszk (I had posted a link to that URL when I wrote the text)

2026-07-22 12:10:28 UTC

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@nprofile…hszk it's https ://tante.cc/2024/10/16/does-open-source-ai-really-exist/ and the error is:
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/963/555/912/000/430/original/65855e06b8a5b545.png

2026-07-22 10:16:09 UTC

(Also, I can no longer link to anything on my Website on this Mastodon server because for some reason this bug was triggered https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/29101 )

2026-07-22 08:48:57 UTC

No, OpenAI's new magic models did not autonomously hack Huggingface.
Per OpenAI's PR blog post (https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/):
"This incident occurred during an internal evaluation which prompts models to pursue advanced exploitation using complex attack paths, in an effort to quantify their cyber capabilities. We estimate maximal cyber capabilities by running this evaluation without production classifiers used to prevent models from pursuing high-risk cyber activity."
So they prompted their model running without guardrails to hack some shit. OpenAI told it to do that, the model didn't do shit autonomously (no LLM ever does anything autonomously, it's always prompted).
The whole story is PR. We know that from Anthopic's Mythos: "Look we have this super secret new model and it's so powerful. We are scared ourselves. And you will soon be able to rent it!"

2026-07-22 07:30:13 UTC

It passed.
https://codeberg.org/Codeberg/org/pulls/1253#issuecomment-19820434
Codeberg bans vibe coded slop.

2026-07-21 16:24:17 UTC

I think you should not get back to posting on Elon Musk's fascist platform built around an image generator optimized for the production of depictions of sexual violence and racism.

2026-07-18 11:40:56 UTC

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Just for those wondering: He posted fascist, racist right wing talking points to his company blog
https://world.hey.com/dhh/three-sacred-cows-that-must-die-so-europe-can-live-1afb203d

2026-07-18 11:38:07 UTC

DHH is a racist piece of shit and everyone supporting his shit by buying stuff from his company, inviting him to talks, using or promoting his garbage "distribution" (looking at you @nprofile…mvft ) is compliant and a morally bankrupt human being.

2026-07-17 13:51:27 UTC

Bei Axel Springer drehen sie beim rechten Kulturkampf noch mal richtig auf.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/935/640/582/224/469/original/77e49d9649f9ec0a.png

2026-07-15 16:13:14 UTC

"In a burning world we need to hold ourselves and each other to a higher standard. “Useful” is far, far from being good enough."
https://tante.cc/2026/07/15/useful-is-not-sufficient/

2026-07-14 12:40:05 UTC

"I’ve struggled to write something that would persuade my colleagues and friends to ditch AI and affirm their avowed beliefs about climate change, the trustworthiness of megacorporations, and our right to live and work with dignity."
(Original title: Hating AI in 2026)
https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/

2026-07-12 18:00:20 UTC

When you "break" the anti-AI software I have on my website that does not illustrate that the software doesn't work well enough: It shows that you are someone who explicitly circumvents people's stated values, preferences and borders. You are an abuser.

2026-07-10 10:28:50 UTC

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Like this graphic is complete hogwash. The title makes literally no sense. And the rest is basically: "People slowly adopt technology and integrate it into their live".
Sure we need a bunch of CS professors and people from Meta and Deepmind to tell us that. This is pur boxology without any meaning. It's spam.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/895/208/544/028/348/original/d4011c0a877b8cf4.png

2026-07-10 10:24:23 UTC

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So the corporate stance that "agentic AI will totally change the world" is what the UN beams into politician's brains.
We're cooked.

2026-07-10 10:23:04 UTC

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Problem is: It's a long document and going through it in detail showing that for example relying on "epoch.ai" (an effective altruist ai think tank) for your studies and data might not be smart just takes so much time.

2026-07-10 10:20:40 UTC

Looked at the UN report on "AI" (written by a bunch of mostly computer scientists who to a large degree have close ties to big tech) and it's really bad.
Just "AI" hype based on studies that are long shown to be garbage.

2026-07-08 14:31:02 UTC

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@nprofile…09mr Codeberg voluntarily runs infrastructure that it offers - for free - under certain terms. Defining those terms is an expression of the freedom of the members of Codeberg.
Codeberg is not a monopoly or a state actor, they don't have to include projects and people who don't follow the terms.

2026-07-08 08:29:49 UTC

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@nprofile…09mr They don't want to host that stuff (and pay for it). Which is totally legitimate. Microsoft takes all that code. Why does Codeberg need to accept it?

2026-07-07 20:26:35 UTC

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@nprofile…jnpj müsstest email bekommen

2026-07-07 18:02:00 UTC

If you are a member of Codeberg e.V. please take the time to participate in the poll that was just sent out about banning vibe-coded projects on Codeberg.
Please agree to the proposal. Slop can live on GitHub.

2026-07-07 14:40:05 UTC

"These are delusional, careless, and tedious people who will never suffer consequences like these, attempting to massage a bad message so they can get patted on the back for it.[...] You do not have to grant the upper management of Xbox plaudits for a kindly-worded bloodbath. They have done nothing for you and even less for the people who work, and worked, for them."
(Original title: You Don't Have To Hand It To Microsoft For A Well-Planned Bloodbath)
https://aftermath.site/microsoft-xbox-layoffs-asha-sharma/

2026-07-05 10:57:13 UTC

The goal is to just be this relaxed and comfy at least once in my life.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/867/004/182/613/721/original/940bec3026ffdcbe.jpg

2026-07-03 16:32:49 UTC

While the general statement is true, the line underneath undercuts the statement a bit. "I use these tools as well all the time". Okay but if you know that they undercut your ability to think ... why? What the fuck are we doing?

2026-07-03 13:38:06 UTC

Maybe we really need to transcend "Open Source" and move towards more of a "community software" or "humane software" kind of direction that puts the focus on Freedom (similar to how Open Source works) but also on responsibility and care for each other and the infrastructures these systems establish.
The "AI" reactions really show how heterogenous the "Open Source" field and the people's and organizations' values are.

2026-07-02 22:11:52 UTC

A search engine that was actually "green" or "interested in being sustainable" would not deploy any LLM shit. And not make it the default.
Offloading the responsibility of not triggering synthetic text extruders when wanting to search the web is deeply cynical.
@nprofile…jk36 is not a sustainable or green choice for a search engine and in their push for LLMs also destroying the meaning of search and the web itself.
Unless they change course maybe find a better search engine.

2026-06-30 21:21:59 UTC

A few thoughts on why people say shit like "I know AI's generate falsehoods but here's some slop" based on a few interactions at work.
https://tante.cc/2026/06/30/trying-to-manufacture-permission/

2026-06-30 16:35:32 UTC

Cool that after every other store was turned into a Burger Place now we get a metric fuckton of Chinese Noodle Places in Berlin. But could someone please bring a good Ramen place to Wedding please?

2026-06-30 13:34:52 UTC

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@nprofile…5m0j it means that it's not used derogatively or as an insult

2026-06-30 13:26:35 UTC

The "AI Compass" is cute. But I am disappointed not to get put into the "Luddite" group. And I personally wouldn't have made an artist that went all in on NFTs the "patron saint" of "The Conscientious Objector"
https://bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/839/284/353/638/466/original/e03b3e83c9abcdff.png

2026-06-19 13:01:34 UTC

> The use of AI Coding Assistants in software development is as of now widely regarded as industry best practice
That is exactly why software development as an industry is such a shit show and explicitly not engineering.

2026-06-18 07:35:21 UTC

There is a massive campaign to delegitimize protest about "AI"/data center water usage as "fake". But I wonder, is there more "substance" that the effective altruist blog post by Andy Masley as a basis?
(Link to post, but be aware it's on the Nazi platform Substack https://blog.andymasley.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake )

2026-06-17 17:48:12 UTC

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@nprofile…n9ku Ich kenne den nicht. Irgendein Dude hat nen Blogpost in meine Mentions geschrieben

2026-06-17 17:40:40 UTC

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@nprofile…n9ku Don't give people any ideas. Ich hatte heute so jemanden in den Mentions.

2026-06-16 09:59:54 UTC

Ich habe einen Essay to "KI" und Effizienz in Demokratischen Systemen veröffentlicht. Effizienz kann nicht unser Hauptziel sein:
"Somit ist die grundsätzliche Ablehnung von Bürokratie als „ineffizient“ oft nur ein Proxy für die grundsätzliche Ablehnung demokratischer Prozesse."
https://tante.cc/2026/06/16/ki-effizienzversprechen-und-der-niedergang-der-demokratie/

2026-06-16 08:21:21 UTC

Is that good?

2026-06-16 08:00:05 UTC

"Freiheit entsteht aus Sicherheit. Aus der Sicherheit zu wissen, dass man niemals allein gelassen oder fallengelassen wird. Aus der Sicherheit, dass die eigenen Bedürfnisse erfüllt werden: Wohnung, Nahrung, Gesundheit, soziale Teilhabe, Selbstentfaltung. Erst dann werden wir frei sein können."
(Original title: Sicherheit ohne Überwachung Redebeitrag)
https://tante.cc/2026/06/15/sicherheit-ohne-uberwachung-redebeitrag/

2026-06-15 12:23:39 UTC

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If you actually like toys or Cartoons or whatever, go apeshit. (I also love me some Invader Zim and other things). But It feels a bit regressive when the only path to joy is leading backwards and not in the present or the future.

2026-06-15 12:22:18 UTC

I wonder if this trend of "Kidults" (as in adults buying toys or having other very "child-like" hobbies and preferences) is fueled by how little pathways to joy we leave to adults so many revert back to when Ninja Turtles made them happy.

2026-06-15 08:29:55 UTC

Ich durfte die @nprofile…drql Demo mit einem Redebeitrag begleiten. Für die, die nicht da sein konnten, habe ich ihn hier ins Internet gepackt.
Kernthese: Wir müssen die Begriffe "Sicherheit und Freiheit" dem rechten/konservativen/liberalem Diskurs entreißen und diese zentralen Konzepte menschlich definieren. Sonst rutschen wir weiter in den Faschismus ab, der uns "Sicherheit" als Homogenität und Gewalt verkauft.
https://tante.cc/2026/06/15/sicherheit-ohne-uberwachung-redebeitrag/

2026-06-14 18:47:17 UTC

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@nprofile…5ekp kinda fucked up how many names on that speaker list I know.

2026-06-14 18:14:13 UTC

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@nprofile…5ekp ewwww

2026-06-12 10:30:47 UTC

McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies

2026-06-11 19:02:36 UTC

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@nprofile…c2aq @nprofile…zwhh @nprofile…p6d3 @nprofile…3eu7 @nprofile…afmx weird. Let's see if the weird posts stop appearing without following the hashtag. Maybe one was a bug. Or edited. I don't know.

2026-06-11 18:51:40 UTC

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@nprofile…c2aq @nprofile…zwhh @nprofile…p6d3 @nprofile…3eu7 @nprofile…afmx check if there are some followed tags here https://tldr.nettime.org/followed_tags

2026-06-11 18:37:56 UTC

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@nprofile…c2aq @nprofile…zwhh @nprofile…p6d3 @nprofile…3eu7 @nprofile…afmx did you maybe accidentally follow a hashtag?

2026-06-11 10:19:49 UTC

So yeah. If you see anything that might make sense -> [email protected]

2026-06-10 21:48:09 UTC

I recently borrowed a book from the library to read to my son before bed. It had a huge sticker on the cover stating "made without AI". Probably because it has a few illustrations in it.
But "no AI was used is really starting to become a mark of quality or at least a mark of something worth looking at.

2026-06-10 07:40:47 UTC

A court in Munich declared that Google is liable for their "AI summaries" and all its hallucinations. This is an important step to bring "AI" slop in line with all other products on the market: "AI" products are basically the only ones where a provider can just deliver unchecked garbage and put all the liability on the consumer. I hope to see aggressive change here.
https://the-decoder.com/landmark-german-ruling-declares-googles-ai-overviews-are-googles-own-words-and-makes-it-liable-for-false-answers/

2026-06-09 10:01:48 UTC

"Durch das Sprind-Freiheitsgesetz ist sie seit Januar 2024 von verschiedenen Compliance-Vorschriften befreit, die für andere Bundes-GmbHs gelten."
Warum diese halbseidene Hüpf-Innovations-Bude in Leipzig nicht dieselben Compliance Vorgaben hat wie andere Bundeseigene GmbHs wüsste ich auch gerne.
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/719/570/618/261/090/original/ef7fd45db541aee8.png

2026-06-08 11:59:25 UTC

So now I read the Bregman "We need to embrace AI" piece and seriously? That's the best that capitalist centrism can provide? This is obviously heavily edited by "AI": The whole non-sequitur structure, the lack of actual arguments. Pathetic.

2026-06-06 11:13:22 UTC

The crypto bullshit is still alive and has conferences. Like one in Berlin soon.
https://web3summit.com/
It's sad to see some respected people put their name to that garbage (Nick Srnicek was the most disappointing in my view.)
Don't launder scams with your name even if they pay you decently. Have some standards.

2026-06-03 19:13:21 UTC

Another banger by Ted Chiang on "AI":
"Employing philosophers might endow LLM companies with an air of respectability that slot-machine makers don’t get from the behavioral psychologists they hire, but in both cases the companies are preying on people’s tendency to see something that’s not there."
https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/?gift=R2zbWGNBDp_xHqoa7Q8ZRp-EV6jGaHiamQBxQQlMJqI

2026-06-02 12:52:10 UTC

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@nprofile…tg2e The point is that funds investing will push SpaceX up leading to people putting their money into that stock "which just keeps going up" until Musk and friends dump the bags

2026-06-02 11:27:03 UTC

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@nprofile…7adr The numbers are completely bonkers, the proposed profits don't make any sense for a business burning the amount of money. SpaceX's rockets don't work but they claim that their potential revenue is higher than the US federal budget. But they cheated their way into Nasdaq and other indices so big pension funds etc will start buying the stock and after a few months when the insiders can sell their stock it will take a dump. But nobody can do anything because of how Musk set up the company.

2026-06-02 08:00:20 UTC

"The SpaceX IPO is great for Elon Musk and terrible for you
- The biggest public offering ever is financial nihilism’s final form."
The SpaceX IPO and the way it's being shoved into all indices to force ETFs etc zu buy SpaceX stock is criminal. People will lose their savings.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/940001/elon-musk-spacex-ipo-ai

2026-06-01 12:12:20 UTC

Never Post's most recent episode on "Why does everything run Doom?" is excellent because as Mike says at the beginning: Doom was very much based on enabling creativity in contrast to today's systems pushing consumption. (Applies to Open Source as well)
https://www.neverpo.st/why-does-everything-run-doom/

2026-05-31 11:38:55 UTC

Hier ist mein Hot-Take: "Hackathon" ist ein reines Rudiment der 2010er und war schon damals wenig zielführend sondern eher Beschäftigungstherapie und Theater.
Die Idee, dass viel Sinnvolles entsteht, nur weil man ein Paar Wannabe-Nerds irgendwo hin einläd, um irgendwas zu bauen ohne die Domäne zu verstehen, ist genau der Brainrot, der uns "Design Thinking" gebracht hat.

2026-05-22 10:18:15 UTC

Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live:
Rage Against The Machine
Bohren & Der Club Of Gore
Alexisonfire
DJ Shadow
Asian Dub Foundation
Portico Quartet
GoGo Penguin
La Dispute
65daysofstatic
Health

2026-05-20 09:29:45 UTC

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@nprofile…4xpq I don't follow that train of thought to be honest.

2026-05-20 09:24:05 UTC

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@nprofile…4xpq why not all of them? ;)
This is not a "just google is bad" kind of thing. It's just that the one company that structures most people's access to the web decided to change the contract unilaterally. I think that that specific thing needs highlighting while also burning Meta and X and all them to the ground. We can contain multitudes (of ways of defending access to information, expression and connection)

2026-05-20 08:03:11 UTC

In Yesterday's IO Keynote Google declared war on the remnants of the Web.
While they packaged it as a lot of "AI" talk what their whole approach of decontextualizing information, of taking away links to sources and instead producing some LLM generated response means is that they want to establish a new abstraction layer on the web. Where Zuckerberg with his Metaverse failed Google is starting the next attack: Your website, your work no longer matters.
Well it matters as (unpaid) raw material for their synthetic text extruders but not as cultural artifact you can share with others.
This is a literal revolution but one against the participatory web, against us: The goal is to take away the web and guide people into Google's abstraction on top of it. An abstraction they control and moderate. It's about monopolizing access to information.
If you care about the web, about people's ability to participate in it as more than mere passive consumers, this needs to be taken seriously. De-Googlifying your mental apparatus becomes more urgent today. Find other search engines, don't use their browser. Or wake up in a slopified AOL kind of environment.

2026-05-20 06:18:51 UTC

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@nprofile…an9k @nprofile…frjj I switched to kagi a few months ago

2026-05-19 21:34:06 UTC

So Google really wants to kill the web and search?

2026-05-18 13:43:49 UTC

Bei der ZEIT diskutieren Sascha Lobo, @nprofile…54m9 und @nprofile…0qc2 über das Internet. Das meiste ist nicht überraschend, aber ich finde es erfrischend entlarvend, wie der Boomer-Influencer Lobo seine "Privatwirtschaft über alles, weil die meine Talks zahlen" Nummer runternudelt.
Lobo: "Ihr wollt eine Welt ohne Big Tech – aber ich will europäisches Big Tech."
Ja digga, dann bist du halt nicht Teil der Lösung.
https://archive.ph/lisr2#selection-2185.418-2191.39

2026-05-17 20:16:26 UTC

I never expected to live to the point where "Being able to do something is cool" is a radical stance but here we are.

2026-05-16 10:00:44 UTC

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@nprofile…8l0n
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/583/670/661/756/951/original/72509a04cb17cc2c.mp4

2026-05-16 09:22:47 UTC

I had planned to dive into rust next month in some time off but it looks like I'll be doing something else.

2026-05-15 17:36:41 UTC

"But you can't deny that it's useful" is what I hear often when I criticize "AI". But that's not the argument because everything is useful to someone for some purpose usually at someone's cost. "Child labor" is _useful_.
Question is: Do the uses bring more social value than the cost?

2026-05-13 10:19:44 UTC

"Meet the Sad Wives of AI
Are you married to a man who’s obsessed with AI? I’m so, so sorry."
https://www.wired.com/story/meet-the-sad-wives-of-ai/

2026-05-12 13:54:27 UTC

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@nprofile…x8t7 by now that seems to be the only fully working Microsoft product

2026-05-07 11:44:57 UTC

"There are no more juniors. There was a funeral for their passing in 2024. Nobody came. The machine does what they do now, but cheaper. Of course, juniors weren't valuable for what they produced, they were valuable for who they would become: the senior engineer who knows where the bodies are buried. We optimized for output, and abolished apprenticeship. A few years from now, we'll wonder where all the seniors are. We shot them. Nobody will remember."
https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

2026-05-07 10:00:05 UTC

Is OpenAI's model showing signs of model collapse?
(Original title: OpenAI ChatGPT goes goblin mode — let none say ‘model collapse’)
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/05/06/openai-chatgpt-goes-goblin-mode-let-none-say-model-collapse/

2026-05-05 11:55:40 UTC

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@nprofile…fw8h what have I ever done to you?

2026-05-05 11:53:48 UTC

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@nprofile…fw8h hab ich vergessen / verdrängt

2026-05-05 11:47:42 UTC

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@nprofile…fw8h OMG

2026-04-30 15:02:40 UTC

Oh Mullenweg exploded again.
The thing is: He criticizes processes and slow pace (which one can do) but his solution basically is no process and just winging it. Which - given wordpress runs millions of people's websites - is just childish and irresponsible. It's the classical "strong man" argument.
Wordpress' processes might be problemattic ( ;) ) but that also stems from lack of vision and lack of establishing modes and spaces for experimentation where people are not afraid that Mullenweg is gonna publicly shit on them for not loving LLMs enough.
The problem is still weak leadership. Who is the leader again?

2026-04-29 12:58:40 UTC

The Open Source community never learned that big tech is not trustworthy.
Maybe this time?
(based on https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Zuckerberg_-_dumb_fucks.png)
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/488/111/320/619/976/original/93f42305253181ca.png

2026-04-29 12:42:13 UTC

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@nprofile…s733 it's kinda insulting TBH. Not even coming up with "we are being attacked" or anything. Just "yeah we created a bad situation and we do not invest into the core business because we are too busy misusing all the code you naively gave us"

2026-04-29 12:32:50 UTC

Microsoft and people working there just are not very trustworthy sources of information these days.
As the GitHub exec's gaslighting shows.
They just think you are dumb or very ill-informed so the can get away with nonsense.

2026-04-27 10:56:28 UTC

Okay gotta migrate off to stock Debian then I guess.
Microsoft kills its OS with all the copilot garbage users do not want and Canonical has to go: "Yeah, that's where we need to go."
Strategic genius.

2026-04-24 13:32:07 UTC

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@nprofile…c3an musst ihn als Hörer mal drum bitten ;)

2026-04-24 13:23:07 UTC

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@nprofile…c3an Ed ist nicht so politisch, ich glaube er kann mit meinen Argumenten nicht ganz so viel anfangen

2026-04-24 12:43:54 UTC

A lot of the time when people argue that we should look at the opportunities of "AI" instead of always looking at the damages, that "AI" just won't go away I mentally replace "AI" with "child labor" and it really shows how people think about the world.

2026-04-24 12:32:47 UTC

I do have a hot take in me that I hopefully can write something about tonight:
"AI" is not software as we commonly understand it.

2026-04-24 12:26:55 UTC

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@nprofile…c3an nope. Der sucht glaube ich eher US Promis

2026-04-24 09:53:55 UTC

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@nprofile…m0rx getting books on is a little finicky: It can connect to a wireless network and then has a web interface to upload things to. It's not a USB mass storage device sadly. But that's the only annoyance I have.

2026-04-24 09:51:48 UTC

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@nprofile…m0rx it has the perfect size
https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/media_attachments/files/116/459/059/788/006/143/original/1eaa65ba7ccf6f3a.jpg

2026-04-24 09:48:53 UTC

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@nprofile…m0rx It is fantastic. I use the Open Source Firmware and it works beautifully.
I don't use it to read long papers of texts that I want to annotate (it does not have that functionality) but I have gotten to spending my lunch breaks reading fiction books (currently going through Ursula K. Le Guin's works) instead of staring at the phone.
The reader is so small that I just have it in my coat pocket all the time. The battery lasts forever.

2026-04-23 13:32:33 UTC

I never understood why people do not want to know stuff or understand stuff or be able to do stuff.
Sure nobody wants to know/understand/be able to do _everything_ but the current "LLM does t all, I just prod it" is super alien to me.

2026-04-23 11:32:56 UTC

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@nprofile…sksg thank you!

2026-04-22 09:40:19 UTC

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@nprofile…q5hl thank you so much. It always is a very special day when my writing connects to people.

2026-04-22 07:38:00 UTC

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Okay I did it https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7452618832789106689/

2026-04-22 07:16:38 UTC

Wondering if I should also post my "AI is a fascist artifact" thing to LinkedIn or if that would just go right over people's heads there.

2026-04-21 21:40:07 UTC

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@nprofile…wt4z I really like the idea. But I draw a line at giving money to fascists. Among other things. I draw a lot of lines. Look like a crazy person at times TBH.

2026-04-21 21:39:16 UTC

With my day job being a bit ... in trouble (company is not me as a person) I keep looking at whether I should try to do a PhD.
Which is a massively dumb idea that I should not follow up on cause it would not work and I'd just hate myself.
If I mention it again, please punch me over TCP/IP.

2026-04-21 21:18:52 UTC

We do not.

2026-04-21 21:15:29 UTC

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(I care so much about this issue that I actually did even some proofreading!)