@Dr. Bruce Simpson
Another oldschool Internet networking person. In FreeBSD since 2003.
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- wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write
Recent Notes
@nprofile1q... Their CEO comes across as something of a delusional whackjob obsessed with a "growth mindset" and has fantasies of "social permission" for illegal LLM training which he spouts in public discourse, while the people keeping the lights on in Azure are pushed out or fired. Bizarre.
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This is pretty brutal:
»Of 21 high-income countries, the UK is one of only five th...
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Can we expect "Heavy Weather" to become reality with the AI data centre heat islands?
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LLMs code really fast. It's just not feasible for a human to review it all while maintaining perfect robotic attention. We need automated quality gates - this isn't news. But we are still discovering ...
@nprofile1q... They may code really fast, but they code really dumb. As Gerben Wierda already said, "You can clone the artisans, but you can't clone the art."
“Behold,” declares the AI bro, “we have created a new mind!”
“Behold,” I declare as I a hold a seashell up to his ear, “I have created a new ocean!”
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... "If we teach the word guessing program enough words, maybe it will wake up." -- Cory Doctorow (with extra sarcasm)
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I can't speak to that but I believe his intentions are sound. For my part I'm looking at a mixture of MPL-2.0 and proprietary for my to-be-proposed work. But probably also MIT-advertising for stpecpy().
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@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Is Bruce Perens' PostOpen.org an answer, though? My issue with Perens' proposal is the "trust me bro" factor.
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OH from my partner in the other room, who is not in IT: Teams is not a document repository!
It's not just nerds fighting that shit. 😆
@nprofile1q... There is Nextcloud, but it's Affero GPL and some people can't handle it.
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OpenAI ships ChatGPT Images 2.0 (API: gpt-image-2): a model able to reproduce UIs, screenshots and interfaces nearly indistinguishable from the real thing.
Open questions on:
▪️ art. 50 #AIAct ...
@nprofile1q... It is all kind of EU Directive violating nonsense by the sounds of it
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In short, I worry that AI is the asbestos we're shoveling into our civilization's walls, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1000x-liability...
@nprofile1q... Any claim of so-called AGI or ASI gets a very firm "Citation Needed".
Once again, Cory puts words to something I’ve been trying to express for a while.
„When public services go wrong, people don't always know who to blame, but they definitely notice that somethin...
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Erosion of existing social contracts is very much their modus operandi. They think they can get a free pass on this due to specious economic arguments. The apparent growth or efficiency turns out to be risk transfer or reverse wealth transfer. This is Ed Zitron's Rot Economy concept at work.
@nprofile1q... PSA: #Brave has started indexing and presenting results from #grokipedia , a known #disinformation source which uses #LLMs unethically. I am very disappointed by this development; #Grok pollutes public discourse in a very #toxic way, similar to #Meta 's use of LLMs, for example. There is a way to filter these out: use the #NoGrok extension. https://github.com/403-html/NoGrok #grandtheftautocomplete #enshittification