Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

I agree with @nikitonsky , and I think this is at root of much of the managerial mania for LLMs.

Having their terrible ideas go unchecked by underlings with expertise is basically crack cocaine for bad org leadership.

1/ https://mastodon.online/@nikitonsky/115792431499413784

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Trump supporters hail US strikes in Nigeria as ‘amazing Christmas present’ - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/26/trump-supporters-nigeria-airstrikes yes, killing people with high-tech weapons is surely what #jesus would have wanted...

Every “rewards” program is a surveillance program.

Get this junk on clearance. https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/115786817774728155

Someone dropped an exploit script for a new Mongo vulnerability that leaks memory for unauthenticated attackers.

(Image description: Shodan report for query product:"MongoDB", showing 214,153 hits, with breakdown by country, org, port, etc.)

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This is a feature of capitalism. https://www.inquirer.com/consumer/businesses-closing-philadelphia-region-2025-20251226.html

@ludicity @Riduidel i know of *one* study that bothered actually measuring actual time to do things with LLM coding, and that's the METR study and it's got a low n=16 and is full of caveats

but I see LLM advocates (a) pooh pooh it utterly for 1000 reasons (b) absolutely never run a single study themselves to the same degree of rigour

must be a reason for (a) but never (b)

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If I understand this correctly the reason RAM has quadrupled in price is that a huge quantity of RAM that hasn't been produced yet has been bought to populate GPUs that also haven't been produced yet to go in datacenters that haven't been built yet that will be powered by infrastructure that might never exist to meet a demand that doesn't exist at all to make profit margins that mathematically can't exist and economists talk about this thing they call the "rational markets hypothesis".

FYI, some of us will be present at the #39c3 in Hamburg, Germany.

https://39c3.c3nav.de/l/codeberg

@davidgerard I think it's worth a screenshot of Galen's actual job listing on LinkedIn, for those unlikely to click further:

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MIT Technology Review profiles @rondeibert who understood that civil society needed digital defense long before just about anyone else and has been doing it ever since.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/24/1129294/ronald-deibert-citizen-lab-digital-threats-spies-cybersecurity/