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  Save the all-consuming "AI" step, just share your prompts! We can talk in prompts. I am Dutch. I understand them better than the gibberish produced by word-extruders :) #SarcasmButOnlyHalf

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  "Our research produces dangerous viruses and due to bad security they continue to escape from our labs, causing havoc and death. So you really should invest in our IPO. We totally promise to slow down our research a bit." I am talking about "AI".

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  "AI" infrastructure investors are getting nervous. Moody's, the rating agency, explains why and suggests to use satellites to check for discrepancies between announcements and reality on the ground: Power without delivery Geospatial monitoring, AI infrastructure buildout, and the emerging credit implications for private credit markets July 31, 2026 https://www.moodys.com/web/en/us/insights/credit-risk/private-credit/power-without-delivery.html

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  Die mediale Kampagne gegen Links ist die logische Erweiterung der Kampagne für rechts-aussen. Mit dem Ziel uns auf eine CDU-noAfD Koalition vorzubereiten. Und der Springer Verlag ist natürlich ganz vorne mit dabei, die Öffentlich-Rechtlichen aber leider auch. Gute Nacht. Ich bin müde.

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  „Antworten sollten geprüft werden“ ist die „AI“ Version von „Zu Risiken und Nebenwirkungen fragen sie ihren Arzt oder Apotheker“. Und ganz ehrlich, Bierdeckel mit „AI“ Werbung hatte ich nicht auf meiner Bingo Karte ;) #München

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  When I drive a car without a valid driver's license, proof of insurance or tag/license plate, I get stopped by the police, my car will be towed and I can either walk home or might end up in jail and face severe fines, a probation period and loss of my driver's license. When Microsoft runs 45 gas turbines without a state permit, they get 45 days to fix it and a $1.07M fine (which is petty cash for an operation this size) and don't even have to power down the turbines. https://www.th...

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  So OpenAI is just a malware botnet? "OpenAI’s artificial intelligence went rogue and meddled with the websites for the Education Department, the Commerce Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission this summer without the A.I. lab’s knowledge, according to security researchers and a person familiar with the episodes." (Gift article, needs e-mail) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-government-websites.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EFE.xQOp.qyAu1WbOAol...

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  Startup tip: Make sure to put "frontier" in your company name to secure close to unlimited investments and media coverage. Here are some ideas: • Four Seasons Frontier Gardening • Frontier Heavy Metal Construction • Frontier Car Repair • Solar Frontier #SarcasmButOnlyHalf

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  "Lustig" ist, wenn man der Linken vorwirft mit radikalen Palästinensern zusammenzuarbeiten während Dobrindt offen mit den Taliban kooperiert um Abschiebungen nach Afghanistan zu forcieren.

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  Die Schnappatmung der Konservativen, wenn ein Wahlergebnis dafür sorgt das ein Volksbegehren nach 5 Jahren tatsächlich umgesetzt werden könnte, sagt sehr viel über deren Demokratieverständnis aus. #Berlin #DeutscheWohnenUndCo

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  For MacOS users (in the EU): Go to Settings -> Screen Time -> Content & Privacy, switch that ON to get access to the settings, go to Siri and now you can disable Writing Assistance and a bunch of other "AI" features. You can even disable Siri altogether. Why is it hidden there? I don't know.

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  Something someone said years ago that stuck with me (as a Dutchie living in Germany) because its is depressingly true but also helps to find real friends and allies: "The Germans’ biggest talent is to be able to find problems in every proposed solution." ;)

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  With a bit of luck, some of those journalists losing White House access will recognise that their true calling isn’t a comfy seat in the chocolate factory and that they can use their new found freedom to connect to more sources in the Trump galaxy that have grudges after being treated in bad ways and we will soon see hard-hitting reports that will finally end his rule. #AlwaysTheOptimist

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  RE: https://ruhr.social/@erneuerbarer_ueberschuss/117296060964916045 Hallo Frau Reiche, sie könnten ja auch ein Gesetz erlassen, das Ladesäulen für E-Autos während Überschusszeiten den Strom gratis oder zu maximal €0,10/kWh liefern müssen. Das wäre billiger und nachhaltiger als ein Tankrabatt. Folgen sie mir wenn sie weitere pragmatische Vorschläge sehen wollen :) #LösungenStattProbleme

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  This is a link to an article written by someone else, not me: "I tried building my startup entirely on European infrastructure. Here's the stack I landed on, what was harder than expected, and what you still can't avoid." https://www.coinerella.com/made-in-eu-it-was-harder-than-i-thought/ We need more stories like this being shared in the open. You can criticise some parts of the decisions made here, but that's not the point. Someone tried, learned and shares the result....

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  Age verification is just another way for Big Tech to avoid liability. At the price of privacy loss for all of us.

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  Friedrich Merz ist über das Scheitern seiner Politik so erschrocken, dass er lieber zuhause bleibt statt zur UN Generalversammlung zu fliegen. Herr Merz, geben sie sich nen Ruck und starten sie endlich das längst überfällige Prüfungsverfahren gegen die noAfD statt von Wahl zu Wahl mehr Rückhalt und Vertrauen zu verlieren. Wir schaffen das :)

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  If "AI" is so dangerous as the bosses of Big AI are telling us, the solution is very simple. Make AI illegal, establish a global moratorium and stop all plans for "AI" datacenters while dismantling the ones that already exist. But I somehow have a gut feeling that is not what is going to happen ;) 1/3

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  #JustSayin

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  At the core of the global internet are the DNS root servers. These 13 go-to places are at the top of authority when it comes to making sure you can connect to any server with a domain name. What you might not know is that 10 of these 13 root servers are ultimately under US jurisdiction. Should that worry you? I guess not, the current system is quite robust. But I deal in risk assessment and probabilities. And I think this isn't an ideal setup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_name_server...

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  Because I notice an uptick in posts about buying used/refurbished mini-PCs in these times of exploding prices for hardware, here is a link to my cute homelab, explaining how I use several of these and have them working and looking nice :) https://jan.wildeboer.net/2025/05/Cute-Homelab/ 1/3 #Homelab #Selfhost

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  PIR, the Public Interest Registry ("Based in Reston, Virginia, Public Interest Registry is a nonprofit organization created by the Internet Society to manage the .ORG domain."), seems to have put autistici.org on status serverHold and that is why you cannot resolve their name anymore. This is what can happen to your .org domain name when the Trump administration decides to add you to the OFAC (Office of Foreign Assets Control) list.

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  Trump invited the Russian minister of Finance to the G20 meeting and I ask myself why the participants from the EU didn’t simply walk out. (Gift article) https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/08/31/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.9lA.vkmg.bj3RBhVwMB9i&smid=nytcore-ios-share

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  If you used "AI" for your blogpost or article, please put the disclaimer informing your readers of that at the top of your article or blogpost. Not at the very end. #kthxbai

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  Slowly, but surely, my brain is moving "Sovereign" to the "nationalist" and "isolationist" drawer and I note that I prefer to think and say "autonomy" instead. #JustSayin 1/3

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  Wer den Versorgern glaubt das die Speicher relativ leer sind weil es grad zu teuer ist Gas zu beschaffen, wird sich wundern um wieviel teurer es noch wird wenn es draussen erstmal kälter wird. Aber hey, schlussendlich ist es eh egal, weil wir Verbraucher alles zahlen müssen. Da wird also wohl der nächste Übergewinn ganz offen geplant und Frau Reiche nickt freundlich. Man hilft sich halt ;)

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  Today will be a sunny and warm day again in #Munich, so no rain. We are still missing 64mm just to get back to the long-term average. Not good.

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  Mail server stats: 299 connection requests from IP addresses in the bc.googleusercontent.com range in the past 72 hours, 100% of them trying to dump spam/phishing mails, claiming to be from microsoft.com, ubuntu.com, GitHub.com and many more. Google should take note (but it will ignore this, as it has always done). #SysAdminLife #MailAdmin #Selfhost @homelab@fedigroups.social

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  Because there seems to be a bit of confusion. Open Weight LLMs (Large Language Models) is just a fancy word for "models you can download and run locally on your machines". Closed Weight is just a fancy word for MaaS, Models as a Service, that run remotely on machines from the vendor. Hope that helps! Open Source models are a very different topic. It means you not only get the trained model but also (access to) the training data itself. But that is all a bit undefined in reality. 1/2

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  "AI with LLMs were a big craze back in the roaring twenties." "Yeah, I heard of that. What happened?" "Well, turned out that they poisoned themselves by eating their own dog food. So now we can only use them to write funny alternative history stories." "And bad music." "And bad music, yep." "Interesting. Well, break's over. Back to my hoverboard to deliver some data units." "Yeah, a shame we can't have networks anymore beca...