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  It’s fascinating how some corners of the “Libre Software” movement has no problems with and even eagerly align themselves with fascism. If free software is more important to you than people, you’re doing it wrong.

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  Wow private spaceflight companies are so much more efficient than publicly owned state-run spaceflight. It took SpaceX just 21 years to get their heavy lift rocket into (early aborted) orbit.

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  The web now consists mostly of Cloudflare verification pages and maybe occasional actual content

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  I’m trying to find the “coolest” digital watch from the 1980s. What do you think that is? (Must be released 1980–1989)

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  RE: https://infosec.exchange/@applsec/117350248853780060 A good account to follow if you have any Apple devices!

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  who amongst us isn’t a weird battery chemistry enjoyer

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  “Scientist perplexed that AI company would steal the work he put into the chatbot and declared it as ‘AI discovery’” is starting to be a pretty boring trope

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117342996887517198

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117342960003386545 The æsthetic of Office 95 running on Windows 95 is unsurpassed. They should have stopped updating the UI right there and then.

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  What’s new?

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  @gloriouscow@oldbytes.space I’m very pro running operating systems on computers they have really no business running on

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  #caturday

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  Why are all flashlights marketed as "tactical"? What if I want a strategic one?

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  I hate these articles so much, guys when it's 45ºC and 95% humidity a "gentle breeze" in the building won't keep people from dying. Just stop.

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  Guy going on for two decades about beautiful code and artisanal hand-crafting of software: “I’m now vibe-coding everything in a programming language I won’t bother to learn.” Truly spectacular stuff.

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  RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117312373576583428 It's almost like these fascist snotwaffles never find anything wrong with how they lead their companies, it's always the employees who are at fault.

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  PSA: if you're in the US and bought an iPhone 15 Pro/Pro Max or any iPhone 16 as the original owner between June 2024 and March 2025, there's a class action settlement and you can probably get like $25 for filling out a form: https://smartphoneaisettlement.com

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  This is the Wikipedia definition for human intelligence. Artificial intelligence (in the form of LLMs) does literally none of these things. It doesn't act by itself, it isn't self-aware[1], it doesn't learn[2], it doesn't understand or form concepts[3], it doesn't logic or reason[4], it doesn't recognize patterns[5], plan, innovate, solve problems, make decisions[6], retain information or even use language to communicate[7]. LLMs are a simulated model (aka it's not...

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  Really deeply wondering about people going through life believing that art isn’t political

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  RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117298424029981245 Also, LLMs don't just do things on their own. They're an algorithm that transforms an input of tokens (basically word fragments) to an output. That's it. They don't "propagate over the Internet" and they don't "choose targets to attack" and they don't "hack companies". Humans are choosing to do these things, using LLMs as one of the tools to do it.

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  PSA: "Superintelligence" is not a thing. "AGI" is not a thing. "AI" (as in LLMs) doesn't have intelligence nor is it artificial; it's literally using statistics to rearrange human-written words. Carry on.

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  Maybe the Sheeran debacle is a good lesson for “content creators” now that far-right figures are rushing to support Sheeran. You’re either a good person or a bad person. You can’t be “neutral” by not saying anything. If you’re neutral you’re automatically also a bad person.

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  This new operating system is awesome

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  I implore you to learn that fascists do things to gain power, and that’s it. If you start discussing (with them or with others) “the technical side” or “it’s not all bad” or the merits or demerits of what they say… you have already lost. They are criminals who should be in prison, not on social media and GitHub.

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  Computers used to be these amazing machines enabling humans to create the most amazing shit and, to borrow the Steve Jobs line, were truly a "bicycle for the mind". These days every feels so bleak. Like you can only rent the bicycle and all roads have mud, ice and tram tracks on them and only ever go uphill.

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  I'm not sure how to explain this, but you can't take anything a fascist says at face value. Everything they fart into the world from their face holes and everything they ooze on to a (web) page is poison designed to gaslight you. "But the project that he runs gives money to open source" is like saying "but Hitler was nice to dogs".

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  If a machine does harm it’s always, without exception, ultimately a human decision to make or use a tool that’s unsuitable for a given task* in a given situation. If I use a chainsaw to cut my toenails it’s not the chainsaw deciding to “go rogue” and make foot carvings. *the definition of the task itself is also the result of human decisions which can be just as flawed

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  Companies-not-sponsoring-Nazis-challenge 2026

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  Every single one of these doomerism articles is a) 100% bullshit and b) is put there to make the technology seem magical when it's just matrix multiplication Will your butter knife kill off humanity? Cutlery scientists and politicians wrestle with risks of butter knives

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  If you use AI or shrug about AI or talk about AI or love AI or hate AI—please watch this video showing that there's no mind behind it.