RE: https://social.vivaldi.net/@ianbetteridge/117502790573921130

Reminder: This below is the signalling and attitude (plus much, much worse[1]) needed on display these days to raise ~$22 million (thus far) from Silicon Valley within just a few short months for an agent-friendly veneer of an existing open source project. Some of the same donors in turn have dropped their previous support (minuscule in comparison) of other FLOSS projects on which they've partially built their businesses on...

This is less about DHH, as it is about the actors enticed by and enabling these developments and their politics[2], just in case you're still in doubt about the great mask-off period in the technology landscape currently underway and why so many people/practitioners are increasingly frustrated and disillusioned about these reveals, about the(ir) work done for decades and for solidarity, now being co-opted by people using wealth and access as platform for nothing else but spewing hate, division and to enrich themselves even further...

"Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely"
— John Dalberg-Acton

[1] https://brennan.day/normalized-fascism-in-open-source-12-million-given-to-dhh/
[2] Claiming projects are "apolitical" is politics, especially when outspoken anti-humanitarians like DHH are in leadership positions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apoliticism#Criticisms

#OpenSource #FLOSS #2026

RE: https://mastodon.social/@peterjriley2024/117506111721685066

Must watch👇

Brazil and Serbia, defying rise the tide of autocracy. This is how we do it, everywhere. 🌈

Aw man. Jubilant scenes in Belgrade – giddy, universal civic delight. Incredible.

Inshallah we too will have our Ding-Dong, The Witch Is Dead moment.

Arrival (2026)

(Inspired by film years ago, experienced last month...)

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Alps #Forest #Light

This analyst's report from Apollo about AI uses the term "S&P 493" to refer to the "S&P 500 minus the Mag 7" - because if you take out the AI companies, the S&P 500 is tanking. https://www.apollo.com/wealth/insights-news/insights/daily-spark/no-signs-of-ai-payoff-outside-the-tech-sector

A simple rule for life is that anybody who talks about "curing cancer" in earnest is very foolish and you would do well to listen to them less or not at all.

As a public health friend of mine once put it, "that's like saying you're going to 'cure virus'"

(One of) The fundamental issues with AI/LLM/agent use in #FLOSS is that what has been a culture of communities largely defining and organizing themselves through certain ways of creating/learning/working/maintaining/exchanging in the open, has slowly been turned into an anti-culture which is essentially only focused on free end results (products), produced ad-hoc, with source available, but more or less as a side effect, as just another output artifact from a black-box process, and definitely not a central organizing factor or value anymore...

We really need to start acknowledging this dichotomy of purpose & value and start refining our language to defend existing meanings of what "open source culture" is/was about...

(Link to quoted post, which apparently doesn't seem to work for some... 🤷)
https://floss.social/@downey/117501743018241252

#OpenSource #FLOSS #Culture #Community #AI

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Climatehistories/117500969952728353

This cannot result in merely a "cost of doing business" fine.

There must be an order to restore the land to its pre-purchase state at Google's expense, revocation of planning permission on this site, a bar from similar permissions until restoration is complete, a restitution fine based on the environmental damage caused, a punitive fine based on a percentage of global revenue for true deterrence purposes and a charge of ecocide for those who gave or allowed the order to proceed.

Scale Override Ⅱ (2025)

Another view of the same scene from further away, illustrating the scale even better. Note the same hut from earlier in the bottom-left corner. Even though entirely unintentional, and not an aerial photo, it somehow reminds me in character of some of Werner Friedli's[1] work...

Ps. Hard to imagine the hardships when the top of this mountain (at almost 4000 meters a.s.l) was an active frontline[2] during WW1... 😩

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Friedli_(Fotograf)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_War

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Alps #Mountains #Scale

Scale Override (2025)

(Berglhütte/Rifugio Borletti at the bottom left. Located at 2188m, but only near the bottom of one of the main spurs leading up to the majestic white Ortler summit at 3905m...)

#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography #Alps #Mountains #Scale

A little background on this, with a few thoughts on photographing in "brutal", direct sunlight: https://www.alex-kunz.com/the-drive-photographic-martyrdom/

#PhotoBlog #LandscapePhotography #BlogPost

"Unmatched Mix"

Desert landscape along North Shore Road, Lake Mead National Recreation Area, Nevada; October 2026.

#LandscapePhotography #Desert #LasVegas #LakeMead #Landscape #Photography

The way computer security works in 2026:

1. queers go to congress and demonstrate multiple serious exploits against actual security software. the maintainers deny there’s a problem. nobody pays attention except other queers at congress

2. OpenAI finds a bug which could, hypothetically, in a very difficult-to-orchestrate attack and in the absence of already-existing mitigations, have a security implication. the entire industry has an overnight meltdown. coverage on national news stations worldwide. meanwhile, nobody is provably able to actually make it work as an exploit

Today I saw one of the weirdest and coolest sea slugs I've ever seen and it was in New Hampshire. This is Elysia chlorotica, a slug that eats algae and steals its chloroplasts to use for photosynthesis. Yes, this slug is solar powered!

#seaslugs #underwaterphotography #macro #om1 #NewEngland 🦑 📷

Still remember the first time I listened to this epic track by Daniel Myer aka Architect some twenty years ago... glitchy, heavy, trancy, melancholic, fantastic sound design, build up and layered production...

(If you're not too keen on the more glitchy parts, skip the intro to 3:07)

Architect — St. Vodka (2005)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ct1nbUyKi8

#Music4Coding #Architect #IDM

Wolves roam into Finnish villages after Google destroys 1,300 acres of forest for AI data centers — forest where wolf packs used to live is now an expanse of mud https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/wolves-roam-into-finnish-villages-after-google-destroys-1-300-acres-of-forest-for-ai-data-centers-forest-where-wolf-packs-used-to-live-are-now-an-expanse-of-mud

Wanted: The Kraftwerk-inspired Thermian leader's voice from Galaxy Quest for GPS navigation guidance. How to make that happen on iOS?

(A recent update of @organicmaps somehow reset the voice to some 1990s default voice config and it very much reminded me of that character... :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIWPKy98pKw

We are in a very dangerous time, when "AI" security companies are competing to prove that their technology will provide returns on investment. The industry has always been broken. There has always been an incentive to inflate the importance of vulnerabilities, but there was always a risk of burning hard earned trust. In the end, a lot of folks decided it wasn't worth it.

But "AI" companies haven't worked to earn that trust. They have something to prove, right now, or they don't exist. So now everything is critical, "impossible to find without AI," and so on. Blah2shell sells, and now everyone wants their little vuln labeled that way regardless of the complexity or risk.

Burning trust in security is the absolute worst thing you can possibly do in terms of tech. I'm worried about where things are going right now.

There have always been more bugs than we can fix. We've had to triage. If we break that, we flood maintainers until they burn out. Our job is not to fix everything. It's to filter information for the people who do.

But right now I'm reading vuln reports that aren't distinguishing between a 100% reliable and trivial exploit like log4shell and complex memory corruption bugs that are incredibly noisy and basically impossible to exploit with ASLR. ASLR is like 25 years old. You have to do better than a simple buffer overflow now to get a shell.

But people have shit to sell, so we have more noise. Again, "we've put the attenuator on the wrong side of the equation."

Getting ready for creating a larger contact print of this image tonight... Just some more fine tuning of the talus fields needed...

#Photography #BlackAndWhite #NoirCountry #Darkroom #PrintMaking