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  Kernel Recipes 2026 Talk - Security in the LLM age | presented by Greg Kroah-Hartman cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/43394805 Interesting how he mentions LLMs have a 50% error rate, and predicts how no one will pay for a tool with such a poor rate.

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  Why not LLMs? [Codeberg]

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  San Francisco gay bars back off Al-assisted face scanning technology after privacy uproar geteilt von: piefed.social/…/san-francisco-gay-bars-back-off-a… Badlands and Toad Hall announced over the weekend that use of the controvresial technology would end for now.

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  Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) - Andrew Kelley cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/35625554 I’ll leave you with one final message, addressed to people of all ages, whether you are younger than me, a peer, or my elder. We don’t have to take it lying down. Next time you’re feeling alone, count your allies: VideoLAN Organization, Blender Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Linux Foundation, Signal Foundation, KDE e.V., the PostgreSQL C...

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  Switching to GNU Guix: A Beginner's Perspective Arch Linux was my distribution of choice for more than a decade. With its rolling-release model, minimal base, and the invaluable ArchWiki, it felt like the final distribution I would ever need. My primary Linux machine is a dedicated home server, handling services like Home Assistant, local DNS, background jobs, and developer sandboxes. For a server running 24/7, long-term stability and maintainability are critical. Over years of incrementa...

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  Supposedly wonderful “human artisanal code” has plenty of fuckery. These are supply chain attacks and in the case of xz utils, the attacker had gone to extreme lenghts to hide the attack from a well-meaning, good-hearthed but overworked and burnt out solo maintainer. To compare this to bugs that people unwittingly introduce in normal human-written code is not sincere.

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  There’s a difference between vibe coding and the hundred other ways to “use AI” on a project. I am not talking about the Linux kernel or the Rust project - they have stabdards way above average commercial projects - but generally “using ai” in practice means to use it for code generation. Then, programmers are expected to review the output but are not given extra time for it. This creates an extremely slippery slope leading to mostly unsupervised code creation. Also because reading and unders...

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  Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech cross-posted from: piefed.social/…/big-tech-and-big-oil-have-fused-c… (Big Tech data-centers are increasing fossil fuel use and GHGs, while the executives are making prophecies that “AI will fix it”)

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  Like for example selecting Linux distro, downloading it and saving on an USB. Using an USB thing is the somewhat decadent newfangled way to do things. The more classy way was to download the whole distro to an 1.44 MB floppy drive. \installation was by dd … of=/dev/fd0. Yeah, it required 16 megabytes of RAM. It was possible to boot it on an 386 PC. Though kernel compiles were a bit lengthy.

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  Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled -- Dustycloud Brainstorms cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/35091193 About the limits of reviewing and understanding code: Ka-Ping constructs a model voting machine, and decides to see how hard it would be to verify that we know it behaves correctly. To push that exploration to its furthest, Ka-Ping Yee and David Wagner try an interesting experiment: David Wagner and I decided to insert three bugs into Pvote to see if the reviewers w...

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  Void Linux maintainer orphans 100+ packages over AI policy dispute

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  "I Don’t Have a Smartphone…"

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  Taxpayers Must Not Be on the Hook for Bailing Out the "AI" Industry cross-posted from: sh.itjust.works/post/66183461 cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/74936481 … as hundreds of billions of dollars are flooding into artificial intelligence, there are serious concerns that an AI bubble could trigger another bailout with taxpayer money. In the interview that follows, leading progressive economist Gerald Epstein, who initiated and directs the Game Changers project at t...

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  These 10 Countries Are Scaling Up Renewable Energy the Fastest

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  The trick to lowering gas prices is driving less, US energy secretary says

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  AI: Considerations for people who make decisions - Bert Hubert's writings

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  Greg K-H: CVEs per release

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  I changed my license cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/35110129 This year I decided to switch my “default license” to EUPL-1.2. This is an OSI-approved free software license created and published by the European Union. And it is quite a divergence from the licenses I’ve used in the past. EUPL is a strong copyleft license that closes the “SaaS loophole” by requiring reciprocal licensing regardless of how the software is distributed. Over the years it has been clear that we in the “open s...

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  Minnesota solar project set to replace retiring coal plant reaches 710 MW

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  Video - Cuba’s Green Solution to the U.S. Oil Blockade: Solar-Powered Electric Tricycles cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/49499563 cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/49499558 Duration - 2:44 [a video about Cuba from the news collective Belly Of The Beast] Electric tricycles have exploded across Cuba as the country faces extreme fuel shortages due to the U.S.-imposed oil blockade. But blackouts now last so long — 20 or more hours a day — there isn’t enough electricity to charge them....

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  A bicycle for the mind This is what computer programming means for me. You can build your own tools. You can share them with others. When you build and share such tools, you meet other people that perceive and interact with the world in the same way as you do. You make new friends. I guess this is what I’ve been trying to do in my life. Get people to understand this process. With computers, you can make your own tools, and so you can augment yourself, and others, to accomplish more things. This...

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  The Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic | flyingpenguin

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  It is killing future life. As is needlessly driving a car or flying.

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  Fossil energy resources are finite, and they will become expensive in every sense of the word. I learned that in sixth grade, which was in 1979.