It's already been said many times that the U.S., under President Donald Trump, was turning its back on #Ukraine.
But the past few days show something worse than abandonment: Trump is now actively helping russia win the war.
https://kyivindependent.com/editorial-donald-trump-is-helping-russia-win-the-war-2/
"Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work"
https://www.404media.co/character-ais-bankruptcy-documents-show-the-economics-of-ai-dont-work/
This is likely the first of many. The pets.com of the AI bubble?
“The International Court of Justice giving its advisory opinion is in a way saying to all the judges all over the world: you need to pressure governments and companies to act."
– Justine Ripoll, Notre Affaire à Tous
#GlobalCarbonFeeAndDividendPetition
https://www.independent.co.uk/commercial/climate-health-law-cop-environment-science-b3062834.html
@hedders I've had people say to me "I don't really care about the quality of the sound so I'm not going to move off Spotify" and so I start talking about their business practices, their investments, the way they screw over artists and before long there's another person who doesn't want to speak to me any more
We all sort of know that the boom around AI & related technologies is built on circular financing.... and in that sense the role of Nvidia, essentially playing both ends to the middle, nonetheless needs to be more widely understood; so here is Ruipeng Lui & Sagarika Mishra setting it out for The Conversation.
You may know this already, but I wonder how widely this circular financing is understood (along with the concentration of risk it entails).
"gaza-verified" spam has escalated to a new level, after having risen the last few weeks with the usual modus operandi (follow request spam) they now send DM spam 😾
(I’ve been informed it is not, as a whole, scam. It’s still super annoying, and against good manners.)
"Electric cars saved oil-importing countries $20 BILLION in crude oil imports in the six months since the US-Israel war with Iran began"
🐧 A plea not to use uv-build
｢ However, build times aren’t the biggest problem; portability is. You can run Python pretty much anywhere where you can get a working C compiler. Some minor features may not work, but the core is reasonably portable ｣
https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/10/12/a-plea-not-to-use-uv-build/
La semaine prochaine, @dcoutadeur et @clementoudot présenteront un comparatif #Keycloak / #LemonLDAP::NG à l'occasion des Identity Days.
Si vous vous posez des questions sur les différences entre ces deux logiciels, cette conférence est faite pour vous !
➡️ Reprendre le contrôle de son authentification avec les solutions SSO libres (Keycloak & LemonLDAP::NG)
🔗 https://identitydays.com/conference/reprendre-le-controle-de-son-authentification-avec-les-solutions-sso-libres-keycloak-lemonldapng/
📍 Le mardi 20 octobre, à 11h, au NewCap Event Center Paris X
The problem this "AI" these days, is they are built like their owners
Sneaky, stealing, bullshitting, continuous apologies and the asshatery
Hugz & xXx
I remember when the Linux kernel started using the GPL-2 License to prevent evil capitalism from happening.
Well apparently, the kernel maintainers just took a round of steaming shits on the GPL-2 License and #AI is totally on the menu. Not good if you like a secure system. Not enough to avoid #systemD and other bloat. This is like having a treaty with the USA or Russia and getting totally invaded and communities destroyed.
#NetBSD lives true to its roots, aiming for compatibility with carefully vetted code trees, and never has been a moving target. The choices we make today will save us endless grief decades from now.
"Postgres isn't slow, your storage is" - sorry HN but no. Postgres is slow.
like, the raid on Omar's house is really, really bad. it's an assault on democracy, on the rule of law. it's racist tyranny.
that matters, even if it doesn't lose Omar the election.
the mass production of part of software development has largely been abstracted, automated, standardized away: distribution of boundlessly replicable bit-perfect copies of software over the internet. that gives us the illusion that more automation is needed, since the remaining work seems manual by comparison. but you can’t and shouldn’t automate it; it’s design, feedback loops, thinking, creating, problem solving; all very irregular, reactive, and unpredictable types of work
Quick, fellow GenX: How do we induce the rogue self-replicating AI worms to be punk?
To do things like wipe out medical debt, pay past due rents from billionaire accounts, glitch the yachts, cut CEO pay and pass it to line workers?
I think some people have a hard time with the notion that Trump is a Russian asset, because they think that means he's a KGB agent with associated spying skills.
That's not what it means. All it means is that he is being handled by Russia. It just means that he gives them what they want. It doesn't have to mean anything other than that. It doesn't even have to mean that he is knowingly subverting the United States.
And yet, he is doing it knowingly. His diesel deal is all the evidence (1)
Look up something from your own field of expertise on Grokipedia. Then ask another ai to tell you what Grokipedia got wrong about it.
I may be beating a dead robot here, but ai is a failure.