Folks, I think we're now past the time where we can claim to be in the middle about generative AI usage.

You're either for it and okay with intellectual theft, racism, land grabs, polluted water, higher power bills, and creating an addicted population that can't think.

Let alone the building of new polluting coal/oil/gas power plants and even of millions-of-years-of-long-term-damage-and-destruction nuclear power plants, including the destruction of "one of the most green and vibrant ecosystems in Iceland", as Bjaldur noted.

Oh, and the systematic exploitation of humans in mostly "the global south" for the sorting and tagging of the thieved works ("training data"), exposing them to the absolute worst of things found online, mostly in darknets.

And the eso-fascism of the TESCREAL ideology behind it, active haters of humanity.

I probably could continue. There’s just so much wrong with all of the current genAI/LLM and things built around it…

Or you're against it.

Full quote from Rachel "Red Pen" Lapidow, repeated here (and added to) so I can pin it.

I still think "AI tool" is either a contradiction, or a way to describe the sloperator

-- https://mstdn.social/@ozzelot/116436569387826850

Hot take: Docker is popular for the same reason AI is.

You don’t have to learn to set up the stuff yourself… just use someone else’s work.

-- https://mastodon.sdf.org/@philsplace/116403533512714913

A few more reasons to avoid the fashtech thingy: (some newer added at the end)

• https://fediscience.org/@jameshowell/116309452763757936 another list

• https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116302498173795149 more practically, for those wo do want to set aside all the other concerns (notwithstanding what we think about that, as shown above)

• https://kolektiva.social/@sidereal/116155034249976161 another practical argument

• https://mastodon.scot/@AlienAnomaly/116258275386325907 what every techbro considering using it should know

• https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116150709467968620 on the plagiarism point

• https://mastodon.social/@marginalia/116098502707996339 on the brain-rot point

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/116125146223980748 on the… ugh… TESCREAL point, I guess, and others:

  Big Tech's plan for human genocide and eugenics

  "Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’"

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@bodil/116093694360361788 the most glaring point

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@jnkrtech/116083770527548518 the fascism angle

• https://tldr.nettime.org/@w0bb1t/115910853597507208 fashtech network

• https://wetdry.world/@lucydev/115912618642468067 it doesn’t democratise anything

• https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/114999615783590491 it’s right-wing anti-labour instead

• https://c.im/@cdarwin/115914320802090355 yet more evidence of theft

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/115760265788529588 more on their dissembling of discussion

• https://corteximplant.com/@m4ra/115803691440852788 on the human brain angle

• https://infosec.exchange/@reverseics/115622628761543237 a relevant prahou comics, also available as sticker

• https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/115554484108496189 criticism from a founder of modern AI research

• https://mastodon.social/@razeback/115531398990093591 on the ecologic angle

• https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/115518890876430898 (🇩🇪) Doctolib puts sensible health data into the slop machine

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114987330170413413 … which is super dangerous

• https://helvede.net/@jwcph/115475458905029125 they cannot even summarise!

• https://eldritch.cafe/@Tattie/115471948737378653 it’s a trick!

• https://mastodon.world/@ApostateEnglishman/114721376018445495 more fascist angle

• https://mas.to/@mcdutchie/115278780610869693 long-term asbestos

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/115241804708250257 it cannot possibly not confabulate!

• https://beige.party/@maxleibman/114520618508217071 it’s confabulation, not hallucination

• https://unstable.systems/@sop/114898566686215926 iconic anigif

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115189490568935553 slavery / unethical preparation of “training data”

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115151695574808432 more of the same

• https://mastodon.social/@dahukanna/115178318018668062 “Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic and behavioural levels.”

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115151682173197970 “AI chatbots can distort memory”

• https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2025/trusting-your-own-judgement-on-ai/ and you cannot self-experiment with this

• https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/115100758921146954 why data centres pollute so much water

• https://social.erambert.me/@eramdam/114309822759993528 oh, btw, alt text doesn’t train “AI”

• https://social.chinwag.org/@FediThing/113386276555849839 the e-waste angle

• https://awful.systems/comment/6568236 thread (multiple relevant posts) about the eso-fascist angle, with a terrifying relationship to why they want Trump to annex Greenland (my [excerpts] in case it doesn’t load)

• https://hachyderm.io/@cczona/114518900536403299 a (older, by now) look at environmental impact, climate, but also contamination

• https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5.pdf it’s bullshit

• https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/12/us_copyright_office_ai_copyright/ (thanks Fefe)

  US Copyright Office found AI companies sometimes breach copyright. Next day its boss was fired

• https://awawa.club/objects/93987903-d4bb-41a0-8d07-3610061110f0 what to put into a job application form’s field asking about “AI” use

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/114410495463114687 they’re not tools!

• https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/114406490519883990 except to fraudulently hide how bad you really are at your job

• https://aus.social/@jimbob/114406766000950223 on dependency

• https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/114348159778338092 “100+ Meta employees, including Head of AI Policy, confirmed as ex-🇮🇱IDF”

• https://mastodon.social/@caseynewton/114265531280810009 bandwidth costs caused by “AI” scrapers illegally and without consent DDoSing everyone

• https://mastodon.social/@SteveFaulkner/114217712724605423 it cannot even write alt texts!

• https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/openai-whisper-risks/ nor transcribe audio

• https://mamot.fr/@krazykitty/114179525603659436 its use leads to significantly more security issues (see also the March-April 2026 leak of the code behind Claude)

• https://mastodon.social/@firusvg/114091868795515812 “Microslop CEO admits that AI is generating basically no value”

• https://towns.gay/@PedestrianError/114067667937606778 do not even use it to prove it wrong / laugh about it / criticise it, for that ⓐ does significant damage to the environment each time and ⓑ confirms their path

• https://mastodon.bits-und-baeume.org/@bits_und_baeume/113990541380729891 (🇩🇪) another older article on environmental impact

• https://mastodon.functional.computer/@samir/114014631970707257 the term “AI-generated” for its output is misleading; call it “regurgitated”, for that is what it is

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/114013196130019000 it cannot even summarise! (one would have thought that to be the one thing large language models were good at)

• http://www.tesio.it/2021/09/01/a_decompiler_for_artificial_neural_networks.html “There is no "learning" in "artificial neural network"”

• https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv/113973564347240002 Microslop knows they’re damaging the next generation

• https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/113969545750172492 Fakebook admits use of dozens of Tebibytes of stolen works

• https://hachyderm.io/@shafik/113909383572730415 companies notice that people who know more about AI are less likely to react well to use of it

• https://mastodon.well.com/@rk/113935547297276697 they cannot produce anything novel (or even exceeding average)

• https://mstdn.io/@deutrino/113772182693397843 what use of slop in marketing, headlines/teasers/photos, etc. signals (other than “go away”)

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/113724322984825466 LLMs are a dead-end: “From the perspective of software engineering, current AI systems are unmanageable, and as a consequence their use in serious contexts is irresponsible.”

• https://toot.cat/@dwenius/113629651684569770 even one gratis “AI“ computer is unsustainable due to power requirements

• https://mstdn.social/@ashleemboyer/113567433741433301 disabled people justifiedly getting angry at slop instead of true accessibility

• https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/113554112644010193 “LLMs are the new memory-safety bugs.”

• https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/ai-industry-is-trying-to-subvert-the-definition-of-open-source-ai.html Bruce Schneier on how slopbros ruined the Open Source Initiative

• https://social.linux.pizza/@lalle/113370532309892596 one of the (by now several) suicides of children(!) caused by the slop machines

• https://toot.aquilenet.fr/@civodul/113370339503788304 just say no

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/113373172447099565 because their use in hospitals to transcribe speech confabulates wrong things about the patients 🙀

• https://fosstodon.org/@saramg/113365761968400493 it’s a planet-burning scam in a series of worldburning scams

• https://weatherishappening.network/@wordshaper/113356903751134576 what LLM summaries actually are “useful” for 😹

• https://final.town/objects/17ac3f46-2cff-4a53-83dc-bc625396b084 scammer caught

• https://tech.lgbt/@ShadowJonathan/113290617698486637 / https://mastodon.me.uk/@CatherineFlick/113294299997512316 “LLMs cannot do formal reasoning” (we knew)

• https://xoxo.zone/@clarity/113289517483316507 it’s slavery all the way down

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/113214687561016279 not even significant productivity gains!

• https://mastodon.social/@jawnsy/113192864281867455 “By turning off your lights all day every day for a month, you conserved about 1 percent of the energy needed for AI to generate a picture of a duck wearing sunglasses. Isn’t he cute? Aside from the fact that he has the feet of a human man, of course.”

• https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/113108955596753698 be careful with metaphors

• https://social.heise.de/@heiseonline/113091056784860072 (🇩🇪) of course it violates copyright

• https://mas.to/@gleick/113058537194470078 described as “money laundering for copyrighted data” a year before the python-chardet incident

• https://mastodon.social/@bkastl/112961789576564659 (🇩🇪) a university discovers how wrong they were about its utility

• https://mas.to/@Techaltar/112940344612631126 “if I see a slop intro/teaser/photo for it, I assume it's low quality spam”

• https://post.lurk.org/@emenel/112111014479288871 “remove all your stuff from Microslop Github” (and Microslop LinkedIn, which spies on you every time you load it in a Chromium-based browser, getting thousands of data points, including deeply personal info)

• https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/111226207940194391 more on energy use

• and of course what I wrote about this on https://mbsd.evolvis.org/permalinks/wlog2021_e20240726.htm and https://evolvis.org/~tg/cc.htm#refs contains a few references as well, below the part where I put interpretation guidelines for those works I CC-licenced because the Creative Commons institution followed the OSI in kowtowing to the fashtech bros

  • https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/ writing ChatGPT as a 498-line SQL query, to understand how it works (just fancy autocomplete)
  • http://web.archive.org/web/20260225211131/https://karpathy.github.io/2026/02/12/microgpt/ MicroGPT, same in 200 lines of Python3, includes “training” and therefore reduces model size to be tryable
  • https://not-just-memorization.github.io/extracting-training-data-from-chatgpt.html and similar papers prove the models are illegally distributed copies of copyrighted works
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20250502083335/https://pol.social/@adamczyk/112847107103084873
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20240913155859/https://linuxmom.net/@vkc/112831368601259815
  • https://mastodon.social/@bkastl/112774932819288179 🇩🇪 GEMA
  • https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/112715896771028555 Business Insider and even Goldman Sachs
  • https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/112777082678365894 more Goldman Sachs
  • http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=985e277b Forbes
  • http://blog.fefe.de/?ts=986071d7 The Economist
  • https://hci.social/@bwaber/112747571945535110 the IEEE
  • https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/112823809510441460 it comes down to the inept… (see also https://social.vivaldi.net/@synlogic4242/116858708420382660)
  • https://mstdn.social/@davidseidl/112847653136403091 … oh and attackers.
  • https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/116537862178252362 as of May 2026, NetBSD® is still holding up
  • https://mbsd.evolvis.org/MirOS-Licence.htm#guidelines exist

• https://social.nouveau.community/@andnull/116335068815668672 the social effect and why individuals that cannot respect anti-llm policies must be removed (thread)

• https://mastodon.social/@tef/116426764250277484 more on "AI" directly causing preventable death of children, and impact on brains in general; thread links to multiple studies

• https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart/116368038680446376 they cannot even do one thing (like removing the background from a drawing) without fucking up the rest, which is forbidden under § 14 UrhG; short thread

• https://anatomyof.ai/ was reported to be a phantastic resource as well

• https://scholar.social/@olivia/116421199865718260 an open letter to sign, yearly if need be

• https://toot.cat/@zkat/116445259957086606 another good summary of all the problematic things LLM users agree with

• https://infosec.exchange/@cxiao/116459805542959670 on who, between “AI” proponents and opponents, really is naïve and ignorant

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@mgorny/116465292654071299 if you use LLMs, you are complicit in the destruction of FOSS infrastructure

• https://sfba.social/@crozilla/116472175706995839 uhm, and maybe… don’t fly any more (from a pure reliability angle, if nothing else)

• https://social.saarland/@fedithom/112455121136790239 another long list+thread of reasons and links to resources

• https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116477233391503688 emissions from "AI" data centres estimated to be about 100x as much as earlier estimates (that’s 10000% as much!)

• https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115259068665906083 the kids are fine

• https://infosec.exchange/@guyjantic/116478760444351678 even the teens are fine

• an “AI” data centre nearly drained all drinking water off a region with two illegal, unbilled taps… during a drought!

  • https://ngmx.com/@sindarina/116558263075661582
  • https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116557757097525763

• https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/116563518833219784 […] halted talks on a Microslop “AI” data centre after it became clear that the project would consume half the country’s daily power output

• https://writing.exchange/@hiisikoloart/116368038680446376 to people who still don’t believe that “AI” cannot do a change ceteris paribus but will always ruin unrelated parts of the input (i.e. it cannot reformat code/data without a good chance of doing semantic changes as well)

• https://helvede.net/@jwcph/116113359097988833 it’s not a tool, you lose skill and knowledge, so it’s not an asset, it’s a liability

• https://infosec.exchange/@cxiao/116459805542959670 it’s pro-“AI” technologists who are the naïve and ignorant ones; opponents of “AI” are generally better informed

• https://cyrneko.eu/ai-policy.html blog article about “AI” policies and the enforcement thereof and how to deal with problems around them

• https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@evgandr/116486618535456834 if some folks think that necessity to learn something, RTFM and use a brain before making some programming is “gatekeeping” — well, then they are dumb

• https://mastodon.social/@decathorpe/116490426579083997 lamenting what “AI” discourse in the FOSS space sometimes sounds like nowadays 😿 (same on LWN…)

• https://tech.lgbt/@dotjayne/116491317903273444 you let a flock of stochastic parrots into the server room and now[…] 😹

• https://social.treehouse.systems/@TheEntity/116499431351797858 astonished how many defences of LLM contributions are a flat “you can’t enforce this and you can't actually stop us”, just completely steamrolling past consent[…]

• https://mastodon.social/@prietschka/116510626653142854 its purpose is to undermine labour

• https://mastodon.social/@Cdespinosa/116508920269155277 They want slaves. (Patriarchs, “AI” fashbros, racial supremacists, they’re very overlapping circles.)

• https://chaos.social/@cm/116493351514383410 🇩🇪 bei “KI” ist niemandem ein verantwortungsvoller Umgang möglich […] deskilling, suchtpotential und psychosen […] ressourcenverbrauch, ausbeutung von menschen in entwicklungsländern, umgang mit geistigem eigentum, […] business model nicht tragfähig […]

• https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116517323058732323 “AI” relating to fascist UK politicians

• https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/116521624608253005 stop “AI”-faked voice call scam, define a codeword now!

• https://mastodon.online/@danirabbit/116528152756007029 “Sure it comes with trade offs but it’s a truly useful and powerful tool” 😹

• https://kolektiva.social/@violetmadder/116539543239921257 bit of a rant, e.g. This shit is being brought to us by eugenicists who want to build digital gods using the last fresh water in a burning world […] single damn about ethics […] these bots are psychological WEAPONS […]

• https://hachyderm.io/@aburka/116545724365215181 “but which one is the *least* evil?” 🙄 (LLM discourse on LWN reminds me of this)

• https://www.osnews.com/story/144823/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/ article+link “AI as a fascist artifact”

• https://fedi.catto.garden/objects/4f4cb118-6231-485c-9d2d-f74ad9d93737 remember Aaron Swartz, who was driven to suicide for extracting a few papers? Scrapers run by sloperators do it en masse, they even admit at using Terabytes of illegal torrents to “train”

• https://codeberg.org/small-hack/open-slopware#stolen-training-data (among others) link to new research papers from 2026 about how trivial extraction of original works from “models” is

• https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index another index of slop-free software

• https://mountains.social/@Coho/116529378043380915 “AI” is causing heaps of problems in the botanical identification world

• https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/116577337458835399 「Every “I’ll just ask ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini”, every LLM-regurgitated (and wrong, at that! see above) summary, is driving data centres on a mission to “be bigger than 2000 Walmarts, dump ‘23 atom bombs worth of energy’ into the environment every day, and terrify locals”」

• several posts on the Ethics thing after Rust (the programming language) just removed theirs:

  • https://tech.lgbt/@nicuveo/116579904487009225
  • https://aus.social/@Joshsharp/116264707245417459
  • https://tech.lgbt/@nicuveo/116579702740666305
  • https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116585071770277275 Thread, also touches on how Rust are enablers of copyright laundering even before LLMs and do that badly, too
  • https://chaosfem.tw/@Athena/116578993491995353 good thread, more direct quotes in replies
  • https://mastodon.social/@rasterweb/116580590710923863 Fediverse vs. everywhere else (even e.g. LWN commenters’ section)
  • https://mastodon.social/@cr1901/116579493371804727

• https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116581323302861165 […] The role of the “human in the loop” is not to prevent errors, it is to be blamed for errors. […] (terrifying example of radiologists)

• https://infosec.exchange/@NotYourSysadmin/116581590089920668 LLMs are capitalists’ latest attempt to turn software development and products into something that’s cheap, disposable, and almost non-durable and resilient by design

• https://mastodon.social/@celeduc/116584954618185159 it’s telling that hardware for user-controlled computing is disappearing: memory and storage are disappearing from the market and it feels intentional

  • Thread: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116584520306804548 Datacenters are an anti-pattern

• https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116563557179749014 “AI” psychosis is growing worse

• https://mastodon.social/@Viss/116582183134988942 those who present output from an LLM as fact have lost all credibility

• https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@yora/116580476909548162 people who buy into the hype that this is the future that takes over the world in three years are idiots, because the whole idea is stupid (wherein “AI” is just the latest, at the point of writing)

• https://wandering.shop/@aldeka/116579398917966513 invented a word for the corporate AI ascendance: the stochastrophe

• https://mastodon.social/@davidtheeviloverlord/116576128912586334 coined the ‘stochastic errorist’

• https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/google-and-amazon-acknowledged-risks-and-ignored-responsibilities Google acknowledged the risks tied to its technologies, then ignored its own human rights commitments

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@highergeometer/116576889640697232 on arXiv banning slop contributors (good!)

• https://thefire.work/objects/b7d6ef33-d3c2-4339-ad79-1fce4686ad12 (thread) if you have ML (not LLM) or other classical OCR or similar, do not advertise it as “AI” these days lest you be taken for a slop promoter and lose credibility

• https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/116579055796634826 one does not make art with LLMs

• https://feed.hella.cheap/@bob/statuses/01KRM0NVXCFT80AVFBRSB1G6G4 on rationalism (part of TESCREAL, see above)

• https://social.v.st/@quixoticgeek/116574952286195556 “Can the AI load the dishwasher or clean the toilet?”

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116573818588548666 the valuation of Anthropic is a big lie

• https://vt.social/@lina/116572354451838860 on loss of skill

• https://ngmx.com/@pathunstrom/116565726550598652 Gallup (drives so much of policy decision-making in the USA) now using slop instead of statistics

• https://weredreaming.com/mookie/p/1778851663.956612 “I feel more pressure to use AI as an adult than to do drugs as a teenager.”

• https://codeberg.org/brib/slopfree-software-index another slopfree software index

• https://picdetective.com/ a reportedly AI-free reverse image search

• https://social.tchncs.de/@lukasrotermund/116679683079776007 a “human-made” website ring

• https://wandering.shop/@xgranade/116591314412492985 remaining pollution is no excuse

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@AmenZwa/116559040522448617 on professionalism in IT

• https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116593777742217412 on the human factor, especially in resistance

• https://hachyderm.io/@benjamineskola/116656513183367271 “ordering the machine not to ‘make stuff up’ doesn’t help” (duh, of course; so why do LLM addicts not realise that?)

• the jqwik anti AI logging drama:

  • https://meemu.org/@Siph/116663934240947511 if plain text in a log file is considered malicious software, wtf…
  • https://det.social/@jlink/116722225601188311 the author’s statement

• LLMs and the conditionalisation:

  • https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116657411750038515 makes a point for gambling addition
  • cannot find the one where it is likened to (hard) substance abuse atm (or it’s already above)
  • https://23.social/@leyrer/116719483737039552 the “It’s happening whether you want it or not” line (and others) of argumentation are rape

• https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol40/0996/2026/en/ Amnesty International calls for a prohibition of “AI” and agrees it’s “unlawful by design”

• https://wandering.shop/@vollink/116671140111985951 LMGTFY is dead

• https://toot.wales/@linguacelta/116600964539347661 another good overview by Dr. Dr. Bethan Tovey-Walsh

• https://hachyderm.io/@mahryekuh/116681424544348115 bad patterns in web design perpetuated by LLMs

• https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/116682673383826121 beyond cognitive capture, LLMs also shift researchers’ sociopolitical values without their knowledge it was happening

• https://mastodon.social/@courtcan/116698760677289676 “but it’s sentient!” (spoiler: no.)

• https://zombofant.net/@jssfr/116668044538688356 “but what about using it for security?” (majority still says no.) Thread worth looking at.

• https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116708238082426388 using LLMs in OSS is going to be seen as an adversarial move that undermines community building

• https://infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/116725663205605698 Google entered in a legal court disposition that “Everyone knows LLMs produce nonsense, no one should ever trust the output of an LLM in any situation that matters, it's not Google's fault if people read the output of an LLM and believed it might have some connection to reality.”…

• https://www.osnews.com/story/145261/german-court-rules-google-is-liable-for-whatever-googles-ai-generates/ … but that doesn’t save them from being liable for it: ‘the “AI” expressions are coming from an algorithm, not a person, and are above all an expression of Google’s business activities’

• https://blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/ overview and repudiation by an early adopter who soon saw the dangers and acts on them

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@bremner/116786259842569522 crowdsourcing “good (no) genAI contribution policies”

• https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html Free Software Needs Free Tools, from 2010 but evergreen and relevant

• https://mastodon.social/@radioscout/116795938482887745 “AI” companies buy tons of books from antiquariates, scan them to feed them to their slop machines, then burn them

• https://nya.social/notes/819ef079106762d66a4ed21c boilerplate is a solved problem, not an excuse

• https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116798647432960567 on LLMs and adversarial communication

• https://post.lurk.org/@mycorrhiza/116800307621732908 “You have to admit…”: no, we don’t; also see entire thread

• https://mathstodon.xyz/@slava/116800243553764171 “A blanket ban on LLM contributions is not impractical, idealistic, or too radical — it's just common sense.” (or you’ll lose the contributors you actually want)

• https://social.vlhl.dev/objects/ca8107de-05b5-42d2-b2d1-e48a4df1c915 à propos heatwave and climate change… ([context, via https://chaos.social/@uint8_t/116817312506044877)

• https://aus.social/@fullfathomfive/116808326398699001 on LLM use in medicine and the extra suffering it brings to humans

• https://hachyderm.io/@hgrsd/116804729038269542 Simplicity, agency and mastery. What you gain from LLM abstinence.

• https://mastodon.social/@a2_4am/116816754167367770 Peter Naur had it right in 1985: “[…] the proper, primary aim of programming is, not to produce programs, but to have the programmers build theories of the manner in which the problems at hand are solved by program execution”

• https://lgbtqia.space/@dianea/116823830717167702 “slop extruder” is a good name for the regurgitation machine

• https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116821142636030767 exploitation continues: “Hasbro has begun demanding that CHILD ACTORS […] sign over the rights for the company to use AI to clone their voices for future commercial use. CHILD ACTORS are being asked to sign away control of their voices.”

• https://social.kernel.org/objects/b659a791-613b-4c27-b355-74850e75989a meanwhile the DDoS from “AI” scrapers continues, putting extra load on already-overheating servers

• https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/116833616723978137 whom you support when you use commercial LLM tools, including freely available "open weight" models

• https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116834677947217913 decision making

• https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116835270118770044 “a really important read for understanding both what's under the hood with LLMs, but also why it is impossible to secure any LLM”

• https://hachyderm.io/@simontatham/116837810194589740 only tangentially related, on erosion of trust by replacing established tools

• https://polymaths.social/@amin/statuses/01KWAMMFWME18PJGZWRBCK84G7 a writer on how “AI” personally harmed him

• https://mastodonapp.uk/@ljs/116849844785345246 a Linux Kernel core maintainer on the ridicule he received for warning about what is essentially digital asbestos… despite being relatively pro-“AI” compared to most of the Fediverse

• https://caneandable.social/@WeirdWriter/116786200810110999 meanwhile Doctorow is over-hyped as well

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61345-5 LLM-generated messages can persuade humans

• https://mastodon.mediafaro.org/@mf_newsdigest/116788590931855133 Norway reacts

• https://stopgenai.com/ Stop Gen AI — Mutual Aid and Political Activism

• aren’t “open models”, as promoted on the title page of this month’s Linux-Magazin, not just “theft and slaves for everyone”?

• The [[https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/webcomics/miniFantasyTheater__Avian-Intelligence.html](Avian Intelligence)] webcomic series by https://framapiaf.org/@davidrevoy is worth a laugh. Or a cry. Probably both. AIn’t, but is art.

• https://typo.social/@pixelambacht/116855697443111670 “AI” is killing even joy in small things

• https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116852402335308365 the data centre situation is worse than untenable

• https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116849596518513644 meanwhile, password thieves are happy with the proliferation of “AI” built into webbrowsers

• https://mefi.social/@MissConstrue/116846393674213456 and why exactly is Claude Code putting steganographic signs into things?

• https://hachyderm.io/@cyberlyra/116844864803984763 the stock market is on top of things, I suppose

• https://mastodon.social/@r_alb/116777114683924349 how do we call when a formerly good person falls?

• https://zeroes.ca/@kimcrawley/116855905060316668 Kim Crawley is going to put out a book on “recovering after Gen AI”

(We’re at about 31k characters already. At some point, I will move the top of the list, between the intro post and the bottom of the list, into a separate post (a reply to this post) to make space. Why the top of the list, not the bottom? Because I append at the bottom, so this post is the one people interacted with (favourite, boost) to get edit notifications.)

As punishment for using GenAI cat tail for April Fools',
we made our marketing guy draw it by hand.

😈 Manual mode, Viktors, no more AI toys for you!

I am also losing notifications, so if you think I should have interacted with something you wrote and didn’t after a couple of days, feel free to ping me about it.

What the actual fuck, #LetsEncrypt‽

Let’s Encrypt will no longer include the “TLS Client Authentication” Extended Key Usage (EKU) in our certificates beginning in 2026.

That makes them unusable for SMTP servers. Gah!

Anyone got a usable alternative that doesn’t ruin financially?

Update: I’m in communication with them, let’s hope they recognise the usefulness.

If you didn't know, MikroTik is a Latvian 🇱🇻 company and in our YouTube channel, we have made several videos "outside of the office", where you can get a glimpse of what it's like here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXr-HoBo2VtUnYv11F7zJ6yCVE3WChZR0

I just saw I boosted a post I definitely did not boost.

This could be https://github.com/feditext/feditext/issues/266 (in which case that bug is even worse than I thought), or accidentally recognising an attempt to scroll as click, or perhaps an unknown issue in Semaphore, as I don’t know which of the clients did it.

Anyway, my apologies if you see favourites or boosts from me you did not expect, or don’t see them which you expect.

Has anyone ever seen this behaviour: (sorry screenreader users for the amount of # in this, trying to get a broad coverage)

I have a #WLAN with a @mikrotik hAP Mini as access point and bridge into the LAN; DHCP server is the BSD box behind that in the LAN.

I was associated from a #Lenovo #Thinkpad #X61 #iwl4965 running #Debian #bullseye with sysvinit and #ifupdown.

Then someone on a #Tuxedo #InfinityBook #N13xWU #iwl8265/8275 with Debian #bookworm and systemd tried to connect, also with ifupdown. In that same moment, I saw this in my dmesg:

Apr 26 16:21:08 host wpa_supplicant[7322]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-BEACON-LOSS 
Apr 26 16:21:12 host last message repeated 4 times
Apr 26 16:21:12 host vmunix: [9833573.801654] wlan0: deauthenticated from xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (Reason: 6=CLASS2_FRAME_FROM_NONAUTH_STA)
Apr 26 16:21:12 host wpa_supplicant[7322]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-DISCONNECTED bssid=xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx reason=6
Apr 26 16:21:12 host wpa_supplicant[7322]: wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (SSID='myssidname' freq=2422 MHz)
Apr 26 16:21:12 host wpa_supplicant[7322]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=CORE type=WORLD
Apr 26 16:21:12 host wpa_supplicant[7322]: wlan0: CTRL-EVENT-REGDOM-CHANGE init=USER type=COUNTRY alpha2=DE
Apr 26 16:21:15 host wpa_supplicant[7322]: wlan0: SME: Trying to authenticate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (SSID='myssidname' freq=2422 MHz)
Apr 26 16:21:15 host vmunix: [9833576.586487] wlan0: authenticate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Apr 26 16:21:15 host vmunix: [9833576.591044] wlan0: send auth to xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3)
Apr 26 16:21:15 host vmunix: [9833576.600286] wlan0: authenticated
Apr 26 16:21:15 host vmunix: [9833576.603383] iwl4965 0000:03:00.0 wlan0: disabling HT/VHT/HE as WMM/QoS is not supported by the AP
Apr 26 16:21:15 host wpa_supplicant[7322]: wlan0: Trying to associate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (SSID='myssidname' freq=2422 MHz)
Apr 26 16:21:15 host vmunix: [9833576.608113] wlan0: associate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (try 1/3)
Apr 26 16:21:15 host vmunix: [9833576.716107] wlan0: associate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (try 2/3)
Apr 26 16:21:15 host vmunix: [9833576.828160] wlan0: associate with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx (try 3/3)
Apr 26 16:21:15 host vmunix: [9833576.940095] wlan0: association with xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx timed out

From that point on, I could not connect any more, even when the Tuxedo left the WLAN, until I toggled the rfkill switch in front of the device twice.

(About ten minutes before that, the Tuxedo was connected and I was not, and I could not connect either until I toggled rfswitch twice.)

Peeking into the syslog of the Tuxedo, whose time is roughly synchronised, I see that at about 16:21:09 they did an ifdown, not an ifup, which came a couple of seconds later‽

For added fun: apparently, systemd starts a global copy of wpa_supplicant but ifupdown rewrites its config and starts its own, so at that point, two were running…

More tags: #WiFi (for those who don’t use the term WLAN) #wpa #wpa_supplicant

If you know any #Mikrotik users on here, boost this toot, let them know we are here as well :)

Several episodes of increasingly heated #Inkscape hate later…