Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
#BankOfAmerica is fined $1.21 billion for "money laundering and other illicit activity". Sounds like a lot, right? Now consider they are currently spending $6 billion a quarter on stock buybacks. That's $24 billion a year. This is not even a slap on the wrist, although it is the "third largest fine in US treasury’s history". Could we start punishing #criminal banks for real please?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/oct/14/bank-of-america-fined-money-laundering
I strongly believe in making programming more accessible. One of the things that makes me quite sad about this boom of #AI #LLM #GenAI #code assistants is how they cement reliance on giant companies in order to achieve easier coding. Imagine if the piles of cash were instead invested in more human programming environments and better, more engaging education. We could have easily achieved the same level of #accessibility, but then, everything an individual needed would run on their own #computer
"Ich darf nicht über mein Kopftuch entscheiden".
Ich finde einen #Kopftuchverbot eine völlig absurde Idee und ist einfach #Intoleranz pur.
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Hoppa, my presentation is done at @oscl 's Decentralized and Federated track.
My talk was a bit more general, about the need to move away from centralized platforms (duh). It was at the same time as the EDIC Digital Commons talk, Murena's mobile ecosystem talk, and one about Digital Autonomy in South Tyrol, so I was amazed there was anyone at all 😅
Now I can finally relax 🥳🥳
Video will become avaliable at some point. You can find the slides here:
https://pretalx.com/media/open-source-conference-luxembourg-2026/submissions/K8ZKZQ/resources/OSCL26_Gina_Plat_The_l4G9IUT.pdf
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We're at the final talk of the Decentralized and Federated track at @oscl
The amazing @_elena talks about the state of social media, her Fediverse experience, and the importance of moving EU public institutions towards ethical, decentralized platforms. 🔥🔥
#OSCL26 #Oscl #digitalsovereignty #opensource #mastodon #pixelfed #fediverse #eupolicy
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DYK?
🐢 40% of marine animals caught globally is unintended bycatch, including hundreds of thousands of turtles and seabirds.
🧴An estimated 171 trillion plastic particles float on the ocean surface.
🐟 Around 90% of global fish stocks are fully- or overexploited.
🪸 Now the corporations want to start mining the seafloor. We can stop the destruction before it starts.
🦈 Humans kill ca. 11,000 sharks every hour.
There is this story that when times get tough, then #governments need more powers and #secrecy to provide #security. But this is not based on the facts, but fiction. Shows like Homeland or movies like Bourne portray that. Facts and real world experience tell a very different story, that overall, this approach leads to domestic abuses and escalation of foreign conflicts rather than resolution, although it can help in specific circumstances
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-intelligence-agencies-gain-powers-russia-china-threats/
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Okay Mark. 🤥
Muse might look like an amazing AI assistant - BUT - knowing that Meta makes huge profits off collecting your data & its history with unethical practices, can you actually trust the tech giant with access to every aspect of your digital life?
We certainly wouldn't!
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RE: https://flipboard.com/@euronews/europe-news-vn516gnfz/-/a-IR6zdmiLReeEgmm7Wm2Pcw%3Aa%3A89340020-%2F0
No thanks. I'd rather ask actual reporters. You know, the ones that are part of a free, democratic press. #AIslop
The scale of the #AI #buildout is absurd and now being #securitized:
"These arrangements transform rather than eliminate risk. Moving assets into separately financed vehicles can raise leverage..."
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/4c_Van-Nieuwerburgh.pdf
Where've I heard this story before? I recall something about how #mortgage-backed #securities became magically risk-free, then everyone put so much money into them, then... anyone remember 2008? Could we at least agree to not bail them out this time? That worked for #Iceland
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How long will it take for #OpenAI to be charged with attacking other computing systems? If individuals were being found out doing all these things, they would likely already have been under intense investigation or been arrested.
Turns out that OpenAI has an AI ban in place in their work 🤣
"People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI"
https://www.404media.co/people-training-openais-ai-fired-for-using-ai-to-train-the-ai/
🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
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We've been working diligently to get #FDroid Client ready for release.
If naming our releases 'alpha' or 'rc' impeded you to update, now you are free to install.
As usual we are exercising this as a stage roll-out, so you can now expand Versions and install 2.0.
If it's the first time, or even the n-th time, you've heard about our new client work, you can read all the gritty details in the 15 mins post: https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html
To everyone involved in delivering 2.0, a sincere "Thank You!"
It looks quite clear that #LLM #AI is on the same path at #Bitcoin but with a lot more money and industry behind it. Both are based on a small kernel of a good and useful idea. But the vast majority of what they are actually good for is shitty, anti-social, harmful, and all too often, criminal. Two recent examples:
#vibe #code autophishing services for all! https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/microsoft-takes-down-eviltokens-device.html
Pesky humans want to review your kill list? AI chooses targets in minutes without remorse https://gizmodo.com/pentagon-investigators-say-overreliance-on-palantir-ai-tech-contributed-to-u-s-strike-that-killed-123-iranian-children-2000814477
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@eighthave The SDK hands you five tools and no glue: aapt2, d8, zipalign, apksigner and bundletool each stand alone, and the only official way to chain them is the Gradle plugin, a JVM build for what is a shell script's worth of steps. Every wrapper is someone reaching for the shell script.
So I just saw this new #Android #build system #Lightbuild. It seems to be yet another wrapper project in the #AndroidSDK. What is it about Android that make it sprout so many wrapper layers? #OAT #DEX #JVM #Gradle #Groovy #Kotlin
Arms control treaties work. They are perfect example of how #AI could be regulated:
"Treat compute, the main ingredient in AI training, like fissile material. Track it and restrict access to quantities large enough to improve AIs beyond known-safe levels."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/14/google-deepmind-ai-warnings
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#Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice
Joined Aug 2019
