Hans-Christoph Steiner @eighthave@librem.one

Apparently, #Google has lost track of their goal for #Android "We wanted to make sure that there was no central point of failure, where one industry player could restrict or control the innovations of any other. " https://web.archive.org/web/20120501080416/http://source.android.com/about/philosophy.html

That page is 404 Not Found now...

#KeepAndroidOpen

On #Google's official download page for the #AndroidSDK they list a column "SHA-256 checksum" but then provide a SHA1 value. WTF?

https://developer.android.com/studio#command-line-tools-only

The last third of that is an interesting discussion about whether it actually pays off to use the latest versions of dependencies based on the data that #Sonatype gathers from #MavenCentral and other repositories

https://opensourcesecuritypodcast.libsyn.com/2026-state-of-the-software-supply-chain-with-brian-fox

#updates #security #software

The last third of that is an interesting discussion about whether it actually pays off to use the #latest versions of dependencies

#Native #apps have inherent advantages over #web apps, yet an open web is important. #Gatekeepers are abusing its openness. Web apps dominance on #desktop looks like an effect of the gatekeepers pushing for that. Web apps are pushed by #BigTech: #Google #Apple #Facebook #Amazon, partly as a way to break #Microsoft #Windows's dominance. Its good to break Windows' dominance, but now, Big Tech web apps serve as new gatekeepers.

#Government and #military leaders right now are talking a lot about how they need to prepare for the threats they are facing from other countries. But what they basically never talk about is how their own military #buildup makes other countries feel threatened. From what I've seen, this applies everywhere no matter which side they are on. That looks like a clear path to more war. They should be considering #deescalation is also a proven method for avoiding #war, not only #deterrence.

Another case of the #AI #bubble in action: insane #VC funding to create things that corrode the internet and public sphere and that people don't actually really want. #OpenAI's #Sora is no more! It was very expensive to run with hardly any paying customers.

https://www.revolutioninai.com/2026/03/%20chatgpt-gpt-54-mini-silent-switch-march-2026.html

"If that holds at scale, the “#AI coding boom” is not a #productivity #revolution. It is a #debt-acceleration loop wrapped in excellent #UX."

https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/an-ai-wrote-576-000-lines-to-replace-sqlite-7ea538826d72

#TechnicalDebt #Claude #ClaudeCode #LLM

Well, this is one way to get out of #NaturalGas and #oil 😂 Looks like #Iran, #Israel and the #US are going to blow it all up 😉 Sorry, the #IranWar is all so messed up and sad, I just have to make a stupid joke about it.

Watching two party politics like #Democrat vs #Republican in the #US, it seems like an endless game of "he said she said". With multi-party politics, there are more possibilities. When three differing opposition parties get together to have a hearing to hold the government to account, that sends a pretty clear message that is not possible in two party politics.

Democrats have a hearing, Republics say its just politics. Or vice versa. Then stalemate.
For example:
https://abcnews.com/Politics/follow-law-bondi-after-democrats-storm-epstein-files/story?id=131199517

Hey #Europe, check out how #Sanchez and the #Socialist party in #Spain stood up against
the #IranWar, ignored threats from #Trump, so far received no meaningful retaliation and improved their standing in the latest #elections.

https://www.politico.eu/article/pedro-sanchez-socialist-party-defeat-regional-election-castilla-y-leon-spain/

#Technology can empower people, the key is what it empowers people to do. #Weapons technology allows people to kill others ever more effectively. And #AI #ChatBot #tech like #ChatGPT can empower us to make our deepest darkest fantasies real. Most of the world has decided that it is not a net positive for individuals to have easy access to deadly weapons. Although chatbots can do useful things, it seems ever clearer that lots of the uses of #LLMs do more harm than good

https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/15/lawyer-behind-ai-psychosis-cases-warns-of-mass-casualty-risks/

After a couple of decades of working to make the #web private enough that we can search it alongside our #private files, now it seems the goal is to focus on #local data because the web is trending so fast towards drowning in #AIslop. "The best way to predict the future is to invent it"... thank you #AI #startups 😉 and #VentureCapital! 🤑 And I'm sure #OpenAI's trending towards #SurveillanceCapitalism is only going to make things better 😱

Its pretty well known in #software development that some can be 100x more #productive than others. Google says using #AI internally makes them 10% more productive, that seems to be a safe estimate. So 0.1x.

Seems all these billions in investment are missing out on the real gains. Another data point supporting the case that AI companies are not focused on making us productive, but being good enough so management can get rid of pesky humans. More highly productive humans weakens the boss' power