Groene daken zorgen voor verkoeling en meer natuur. Toch zijn bijna alle daken in Nederland grijs. De kosten voor aanleg zijn relatief hoog en collectief eigendom van huizen werkt ook niet mee. https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/08/05/een-groen-dak-brengt-verkoeling-houdt-vocht-vast-en-is-goed-voor-de-mens-waarom-heeft-dan-van-elke-200-panden-maar-een-pand-een-groen-dak-a4933549?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon&utm_term=20260805
Kind of refreshing a POPL submission that is sloppy and bad in a way that only a researcher rushing to a deadline could be. The absence of AI stench is nice.
Raccoon at an overpriced artisanal burger joint wondering if the meat is unsalted because the cook messed up the recipe or if bland food is part of the concept.
RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/117042705696896382
Don’t know… one of the hottest days I’ve ever suffered through in Europe was in The Hague.
it is pretty funny that the rebrand of "ai" that's supposed to be smart and got boy names for most of its projects is just running over the feminine coded old digital assistants with a truck to make more room. classic shit
Microsoft 365 Copilot's (formerly Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)) newest feature
Just loving how John Cleese, now reduced to one of his own caricatures, rages about immigrants coming to the UK and failing to accept "our" culture, from his home in ... (checks notes) ... Nevis in the Caribbean.
Whether or not anyone thought about the implications in the case of Google Earth, Google does know what they are doing when they add an AI generation feature to something.
They know AI is most useful for deceiving people, but they keep putting it in everything anyway. That much IS intentional, even if they go "whoops. Creating this specific disinformation tool seems to have crossed a line" (by which they mean that THEY don't want to receive the blame for the harm people could do with it).
Of course, I bet that if someone makes the suggestion of putting an AI feature in one of Google's existing products, that suggestion probably gets fast-tracked with 0 pause to reflect, as they are desperate to "sell" AI to us as if it's something we need & want.
But they are inventing things that make creating disinformation convenient, & while it's possible no one at Google specifically thought this one through, they are adding AI to everything knowing that disinfo is a primary use.
RE: https://ohai.social/@dcoderlt/117014788096780396
So...Google says they are "rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails," but I'm still going to say what I initially felt on reading this:
It's getting hard to believe that it's accidental that all these disinformation tools are being widely distributed to the general public. It feels like we are being handed a bunch of tools for ripping our social bonds to shreds & losing our own sense of reality.
Amazing installation instructions at github.com/0xeb/ghidrasql
Install with an AI agent (recommended)
The fastest way to get ghidrasql running end-to-end is to point an AI coding agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Aider, etc.) at the bundled installer prompt:
install-prompt.mdIt is a self-contained runbook with explicit verification gates at every step — preflight checks, building libghidra, installing the LibGhidraHost Ghidra extension, building ghidrasql, and a first live query. Hand it to your agent and let it drive the install; intervene only if a gate reports a failure.
JFC.
h/t to rairii: labyrinth.zone/…/96478395-64d9-452c-a906-9e6159cd…
To all the netops on fedi, how unwise is it to simply unpeer with Microsoft (AS8075) and Google Cloud Platform (AS396982)?
These ASes are by far scraping my infrastructure the most. Besides, I am not using any Google/Microsoft services in the first place on my infra, with GitHub being the unfortunate exception, although that operates as it’s own AS outside of AS8075.
This hurts my brain
Julian Barnes on when a young Guy de Maupassant — born #onthisday in 1850 — was invited to lunch by A.C. Swinburne. A flayed human hand, porn, monkey meat, and inordinate amounts of alcohol, all made for a truly strange Anglo-French encounter: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/an-unlikely-lunch-when-maupassant-met-swinburne #OTD
EA just announced Bonesaw, a game where you play a noble and handsome prince who has no choice but to murder journalists who disagree with him
My answer is LOL ROFL (dickbrain)
The terminally AI-pilled can't even *imagine* some people have *never* asked stochastic parrots to cheat at their job for them.
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i am sort of stuck on this. you have to remember whenever these totally off the planet AI guys describe their workflow to stop and do the math for what that would mean in a normal person's life. so with 12+1 $200/month claude subscriptions and the one $200/month chatGPT subscription, that's $2,800 a month. He says that's the equivalent of $87,000 a month of token usage.
$2,800/month is more than my rent and utilities, and $87,000 is more than i make in a year. This guys addiction costs more than my annual salary per month for nothing. this is the future of software development where you have to be ridiculously rich to play - where he is also actively pulling the ladder up and saying "don't develop shared libraries" - no more "if you have a laptop and a keyboard you can program," not even a fig leaf to "AI enables nonprogrammers to program."
the vision of the future of programming that's being presented here is literally just "if you have more money than 99.9999% of people on this earth, then you can totally lose your mind"