Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Trial of live #FacialRecognition in #London stations leads to a #FalsePositive and no arrests | Facial recognition | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/29/trial-live-facial-recognition-cameras-london-stations-false-positive

#UK #England #Surveillance #Policing

Loops also blocks AI code contributions.

I should have made this policy much sooner, my apologies ❤️

https://github.com/joinloops/loops-server#ai-generated-contributions

Pixelfed bans AI generated contributions.

We heard you! We are not accepting any AI or agentic code contributions, and will keep building Pixelfed by hand.

Thank you for your feedback!

https://github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed#ai-generated-contributions

#pixelfed #aiBan

"We're in an AI race with China" okay why aren't we in a solar race or high-speed rail race or healthcare race or quality of life race or some shit.

A decade ago during a project, I was griping about the trouble friends of mine had been having with their landlord, who was controlling the thermostat remotely to save money (rent was inclusive of bills). This was a shit thing to do when you don't know a family's schedules or even the local weather…

But when I was venting about this, the other devs got defensive and angry.

Turns out they were both landlords who did exactly the same thing to their tenants

Even if the code quality hadn’t declined overall, LLM users would still make the worst collaborators.

That feeling when coworkers on a freelance project, who used to send nicely curt and to-the-point emails with clear questions, now send massive essays with vague questions on random things from the code base that are nonetheless marked as [URGENT]

UN warns of ‘narrowing window’ to restore world’s forests - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/sep/29/un-warns-of-narrowing-window-to-restore-worlds-forests we need more trees

Man based on the recruiter mails I get it is *astonishing* how many AI companies are looking for someone to secure their bare metal servers a significant period of time after they started selling product on them

“Inside the anti-climate campaign against researchers” by Chelsea Harvey, Lesley Clark and Corbin Hiar for @politico:

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/28/climate-science-conservative-documents-universities-01065669

Any social or technological innovation can be construed as 'useful', if you're either ignorant of the downsides or aren't held to account for them. History is littered with them.

New Kickstarter post on the upcoming free Zoom event on Sunday, October 4th.

Share! 🎉 🎉 #NoAI

Plus news about my book writing progress, and a call-to-action to late pledge to my successful Kickstarter campaign, because it's my only source of income. About $12 USD for an eBook.

https://t.ly/AfterAIBook

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/recovering-after-gen-ai/posts/4810752

Realizing I don't actually know how to ask for an introduction or recommendation.

All my previous successful job searches involved already knowing someone on the inside of a company I liked, and for whatever reason that's not happening this time. But I do see a few people that some ex-colleagues know.

Is it as simple as "Hey, I see you have a LinkedIn connection to so-and-so at Whatever Corp, would you be willing to recommend me to them?" or what? This feels like something I should already know but I've only worked at 2 places in the past 13 years so I don't have much practice. 😅

"Death by Data Centers"

dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/data-center-energy-pollution-cancer-alley/

> The data centers haven’t infiltrated the cancer statistics yet, but state politicians, including those at the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, already deny that residents of Cancer Alley face a higher cancer risk.

Or at least what we have observed, that people are using LLMs to replace search is a very real thing.

And I can point out that it was LLM spam that broke search in the first place, and I can be correct about that but it doesn't matter.

The power and control of information flows that is represented by running search engines may be changing hands and changing shape. Search engines have gotten worse, and LLMs do their job more effectively and people are changing their workflows accordingly.

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