Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one
Joined Aug 2019
It seems somehow perfectly fitting that #influencers are being replaced by #AI. I guess those who want to be plugged into #TheMatrix are taking the next logical step on that path.
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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Hans-Christoph Steiner
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If European response to US big tech is trying to replicate it, we have already lost.
A) Copy is rarely better than the original.
B) US big tech fucking sucks. Why would you like to be like that?
Hans-Christoph Steiner
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💳 Who should decide what content is acceptable online? Banks?
In TRANSACTION DENIED, author Rainey Reitman joins Annalee Newitz to discuss why content moderation decisions shouldn't be made by financial institutions. 💵💷💴
As banks, payment processors, and credit card networks gain influence over who can participate online, questions of speech become questions of financial power. ⚖️
🎧 Listen & subscribe to the Future Knowledge #podcast ⤵️
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/transaction-denied
The #LLM approach to #AI is famous for needing vast amounts of data. Web programming is where LLMs excel because #bots can scrape all the websites out there, on top of ingesting all the code in #GitHub, etc. This vast pool of web code that has fed the big AI companies #models includes the 95% of startups that have failed, the supply chain #security nightmare that is #npm, and other gems. For other key dev platforms, there isn't this vast pool available to LLMs
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We're temporarily pausing the bimonthly open calls with the exception of #NGI Taler & Fediversity. We'll be taking stock of a decade of Next Generation Internet. After the summer the application process will re-open with 3 new programs under the Open Internet Stack (OIS) umbrella.
Ongoing projects are not affected and can continue their important work of providing the building blocks for an open, resilient, and secure internet for all.
https://nlnet.nl/news/2026/20260612-NGIZero-stocktaking.html
#NGI0 #OIS #fossfunding #FOSS
This reminds of me a bit about how email changed the work place. Yeah, I'm old, I worked in offices before we had email there. At first, email was a great improvement, but then came the tsunami of emails. It was so easy to send, people started sending far too many. Then everyone is drowning in it, wiping away most of the productivity gains.
In my minimal experience coding with #AI, it is clear to me that #botsitting work is really draining. There are so many other boring things I'd rather be doing, and they don't take much of my energy. So there does seem to be some small #productivity gains from using AI, it would end up making my quality of life worse. So I'll happily stick to getting in the zone, and just rolling with the boilerplate, refactoring chores, etc. until I see these tools make me happier
https://www.glean.com/work-ai-institute/reports/work-ai-index-report
Joined Aug 2019
