Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

If anyone is wondering how well ‘AI’ in hiring is going:

My partner just tried putting her CV through some ATS checkers that use LLMs. Her name can be turned into a male name by deleting one letter. Doing so caused her score to jump 10 points.

Anyone using these tools for hiring is going to have some massive discrimination lawsuits in their future.

Rapid #PCB #manufacturing . Turnaround time: about 3h. Yield: 67%. Minimum resolved spacing: 0.1mm, thinnest trace: 0.2mm. Minimum not resolved spacing: 0.25mm :S.

Not pictured: days spent learning the craft, the simpler board with 7 failed attempts, the 3 or 4 really simple designs in between, the first attempt ever that worked flawlessly, pants stained with lye.

#DIY #electronics #chemistry

Thinking about this post today #letterboxd

As a GP in Germany, I struggle with the claim that “people don’t want to work.” In daily practice, I see the opposite: many patients push themselves to keep working, even when they should rest. They worry about burdening colleagues, unfinished tasks, or upcoming deadlines.

If we want to understand rising sick leave, we need to look at real factors: increasing workload, constant pressure, lack of recovery time, social isolation, and overall exhaustion. Reducing this to a question of “motivation” ignores both evidence and lived experience.

In my experience, people who genuinely try to avoid work are a tiny minority. Framing the issue this way feels similar to old narratives about unemployment—oversimplified, misleading, and disconnected from reality.

#MedMastodon #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #WorkStress #MentalHealth #SickLeave #HealthPolicy #Germany #Arbeitswelt #Burnout #PublicHealth #Reform #AU #Arbeitsunfähigkeit #Gesundheitsreform #gesundheitspolitik #gesundheitssystem

@glyph @matt

The people that are going to get crushed the most by the societal harms of LLMs and the bubble collapse are the same people society neglects already - minorities, including blind people. This is just one part of a much larger conflict.

We need to do more to facilitate low vision and blind accessibility, but LLMs pushed by trillion $ monopolists cannot be part of that solution. Using alleged benefits to minorities as a shield to defend this technology harms those we want to help.

Google is building a new data center in Kronstorf, Upper Austria.

The Austrian power grid provider estimates that at full capacity, the data center will consume as much energy as 900.000 private households.

There are around 676.000 private households in Upper Austria.

The data center will also drain local ground water reserves. Google got permission to discharge 99 liters of water per second into the river Enns, indicating that the actual consumption will be much higher.

This is madness!

The Trump regime's all-out war on fair elections -- spanning myriad tactic and agencies, often blatantly illegally -- should be a front-and-center preoccupation of every American journalism organization. At best we're getting episodic coverage. ProPublica gets it. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover-takeaways

As we have gotten a number of inquiries due to confusions about this: Following our annual member assembly, we have indeed sent out emails for voting on its proposals. But only to those who have an active e. V. membership. If you are a ‘supporting’ member of Codeberg e. V., you do not have active voting rights.

Playing a benefit show for the Prairieland defendants. Don't ask me where it is, I have no clue.

New band with new 7"

https://vitalstress.bandcamp.com/album/vital-stress-s-t-ep

Finally read about cyclospora, and I'll be modifying all my salads to contain only the Bacon Bits for my own health and safety.

Billionaire-owned media only serves billionaires, while we answer to readers and movements. The investigative reporting and on-the-ground journalism you rely on exists because people like you choose to support it.

Support the Future of Journalism: https://bit.ly/4bb6fdW

They're Terri Schiavo-ing Mitch McConnell.

Spot the signs and save a planet. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

"Hi, we are Green Halcones, a social cooperative owned by formerly incarcerated individuals based in Los Angeles, California. We are working to make neighborhoods beautiful, grow healthy food, and protect the environment for future generations."

https://geo.coop/articles/introducing-green-halcones

@_elena

>Wondering if the fediverse - and Mastodon in particular - is undergoing a major spam / bot signup wave at the moment

Yes, broadly and consistently.

> I wonder if #agenticAI has anything to do with the uptick in suspicious, bot-like accounts

Yes, broadly and consistently.

It is overwhelming some servers and some moderators, and many more are just tired of dealing with it.

IFTAS needs to hear from admins and moderators in the annual survey:

https://tally.so/r/81MW6k

Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

“They are not prepared to change their society to come to terms with reality. And so they go down with the ship.”

Dr. Richard D. Wolff on Europe’s economic decline, rising militarism and the war in Ukraine.

https://inthesetimes.com/article/europe-economic-collapse-ukraine-war

Get 20% off this new title with code JULY here: https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1948

Really, being non-neurotypical is a blessing. Also a curse, but it all evens out by old white men's brains exploding over us not giving a fuck about hierarchy 😬