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If you want help collecting some Gaps in the Linux Phone App Ecosystem, please contribute to this pad:
https://pad.hacc.space/XP5opplBQ3mWEpAcv47oSg#

(It's part of this #FrOSCon #FOSSonMobile Talk: https://programm.froscon.org/froscon2025/talk/0a60d401-814a-473d-af0c-5d6ac5913065/ (which won't be recorded, sadly).

#LinuxMobile

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Stephen Miller is recruiting an army of pants-pissers. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2025/8/15/2338519/-Cartoon-Join-the-war-on-US-cities

While the new ChatGPT might not be 20X better than the old versions, it just might take 20X the power to use.

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/08/how-much-energy-does-chatgpts-newest-model-consume.html

Oh gee, never saw this one coming...

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g-s1-83087/otter-ai-transcription-class-action-lawsuit

*sigh* Firefox auto-installed AI on everyone's browsers and turned the option "on" by default without asking anyone's consent.

This thread has how to remove: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1511036

I'm not sure if it covers the new thing, so for that, go to Settings (i.e. about:preferences) and scroll down to Tabs, then uncheck "Use AI to suggest tabs and a name for tab groups".

Wishing I was in DC so I could buy a drink for the Subway Slinger. He’s going to drink free for the rest of his life. The highlight of this week’s news.

“We’ve already seen AI systems effectively collude to raise rent prices and point the finger at innocent black men based on faulty facial recognition tech,” EFF’s Kit Walsh told @SFPublicPress. AI recreates patterns in its training data, including biases. https://www.sfpublicpress.org/california-pushes-ai-regulation-as-experts-reveal-looming-dangers/

This is great. It reminds me of some of the complex hinged 3D-printed objects that come out as a single print.

https://hackaday.com/2025/08/15/liberating-a-collapsible-chair-from-a-single-piece-of-wood/

As things stand, Bluesky has *very bad* terms of service that every user who creates an account has to subject themselves to. In particular, Bluesky's ToS contain a "binding arbitration" waiver that forces users to surrender the right to sue Bluesky no matter how the company harms them.

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Newly released documents shed more light on previous efforts by Trump’s DOJ to undermine a key law protecting internet users’ speech. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/08/new-documents-show-first-trump-doj-worked-congress-amend-section-230

We have a list of explicitly blocked IP ranges. However, a configuration oversight on our part only blocked these ranges on the "normal" routes. The "anubis-protected" routes didn't consider the challenge. It was not a problem while Anubis also protected from the crawlers on the other routes.

However, now that they managed to break through Anubis, there was nothing stopping these armies.

It took us a while to identify and fix the config issue, but we're safe again (for now).

Oakland folx! Come see us at Manic Monthly Market at The Stork Club. There'll be vendors, artists, vinyl DJ's and food! See you there!

We apologize for a period of extreme slowness today. The army of AI crawlers just leveled up and hit us very badly.

The good news: We're keeping up with the additional load of new users moving to Codeberg. Welcome aboard, we're happy to have you here. After adjusting the AI crawler protections, performance significantly improved again.

It's funny how there are all these people who say "ooh, em-dashes, must be AI slop" as if LLMs just invented the punctuation out of thin air.

What's actually happening is that LLMs are mimicking more formal or well-crafted writing—but it's easier to notice em-dashes at a glance than it is to notice... I don't know, good sentence structure or something.

#LLM #slop

Subs, hoagies, grinders, even "Submarine Sandwich" old-timers, we need to put aside our differences and form a united antifascist front.

It takes a lot of training to be this unfit for office. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

Many Linux users have recently reported their fans running at full speed and high temperatures. They discovered that Firefox was consuming all CPU cores, and it turns out that the cause was Firefox's new default AI features. This is how you ruin your product 😅 https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/firefox_ai_scoffing_power/