Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is

"From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by about 14,000 positions over the past 22 months. And Target said it would cut 1,800 corporate roles. Some academic economists have also chimed in: The St. Louis Federal Reserve found a (weak) correlation between theoretical AI exposure and actual AI adoption in 12 occupational categories."

"Yet we remain skeptical of the claim that AI is responsible for these layoffs. A recent MIT Media Lab study found that 95% of generative AI pilot business projects were failing. Another survey by Atlassian concluded that 96% of businesses “have not seen dramatic improvements in organizational efficiency, innovation, or work quality.” Still another study found that 40% of the business people surveyed have received “AI slop” at work in the last month and that it takes nearly two hours, on average, to fix each instance of slop. In addition, they “no longer trust their AI-enabled peers, find them less creative, and find them less intelligent or capable.”

https://www.fastcompany.com/91435192/chatgpt-llm-openai-jobs-amazon

Well @chrysn@chaos.social, I really appreciate your good intentions and will to fight for users' #privacy.
But I was not talking about you or the few independent developers who still volunteer at #IETF these days.
I was talking about IETF effects on the Internet standards as a whole.
I'm afraid the impact of a few independent engineers is not going to balance the power of organized and well funded #BigTech lobbyists.

As an example, let's stay on topic and look at RFC 9001, "Using #TLS to Secure #QUIC".
All that is said about the impoved ability of the server to identify (and thus track) the user are in two lines about session resumption (emphasys mine):

Session resumption allows servers to link activity on the original connection with the resumed connection, which might be a privacy issue for clients. Clients can choose not to enable resumption to avoid creating this correlation.

Now please notice the #hypocrisy: the wording is set up as if clients should opt-in, but it's pretty unlikely that users will be given a choice between a personal data leak at protocol level and an imperceptible increase in connection time, in particular with 0-RTT where " Endpoints cannot selectively disregard information that might alter the sending or processing of 0-RTT".

So while I'm pretty curious about @bagder@mastodon.social's perspective, I see that #Google managed to get a protocol designed to thwart user privacy and reduce its own server costs (even just the energy consumed during TLS hadshakes, amount to thousands dollars each day).

This way, if EU would decide to forbid tracking cookies at all, Google would get a competitive advantage over all other #AdsTech companies.

Now a properly working IETF would have rejected such shit, knowing that it would have been leveraged against people (and democracies) though #Chrome browsers and #Android defaults.

CC: @daniel@gultsch.social @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu

I started going to IETF meetings. Those events take place 3 times a year, with ~1000 people attending in person and another ~1000 remotely. A good chunk of those are paid to be there and some are employed by big companies like Apple and Google. This is the place where the fundamental fabric of the internet is constantly being improved. TLS 1.3, HTTP/3, MLS to name a few.

With this in mind I have no fucking clue what Moxie was on about when he said interoperable protocols are stuck in the 1990s.

Some people like to play up deer meat as being "organic, GMO free, etc.", but I assure yous that the deer in this midwestern farmageddon are eating a fuck load of cash crop corn and soy out of those fields.

They do have it as a smaller proportion of their diets than livestock do, since they forage broadly. And they get to live free in the woods and the fields. That's all really great. But trying to apply the lens of purity and cleanliness to it is very misplaced.

Jailed UK climate protesters facing conditions reserved for extremists on release - https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/nov/08/jailed-uk-climate-protesters-facing-conditions-reserved-for-extremists-on-release #starmer's outrageous war on protest and climate action

Last youth centre in one of England’s most deprived coastal areas faces closure - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/nov/09/last-youth-centre-in-one-of-englands-most-deprived-coastal-areas-faces-closure this is what is driving youth despair and disaffection, not social media or video games

Should I attempt to try out Bonfire?
https://bonfirenetworks.org/

I'm going to try migrating from KeePassXC to PasswordSafe. It's a little funny, in that PasswordSafe was the first such tool I used, years ago, but it looks like it's still being maintained.

KeePassXC starting to use LLM code provokes a lot of anxiety for me. That's a critical tool I use dozens of times a day. I'd expect the developers to be extraordinarily cautious. But they're clearly not.

I'm already worried about Red Hat using LLM code. We're going to lose the fucking Linux kernel.

#Doonesbury by #GarryTrudeau on GoComics

https://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2025/11/09

#Humour #Cartoon

#Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say - https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/nov/09/drax-still-burning-250-year-old-trees-sourced-from-forests-in-canada-experts-say stop these obscene subsidies

📢📢📢 abra v0.12 has arrived 📢📢📢

TLDR; `abra upgrade` 👍

Upgrade docs:
https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgrade/

Changelog:
https://git.coopcloud.tech/toolshed/abra/releases/tag/0.12.0-beta

0.11.x-beta 👉 0.12.x-beta migration guide:
https://docs.coopcloud.tech/abra/upgrade/#011x-beta-012x-beta

A huge thanks to everyone who helped get this release done ❤️‍🔥

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Happy Hacking 🫂

-- d1

AI has really fucking ruined the internet. I was just checking on safe meat hanging temperatures, and one AI generated site told me to make sure to keep it above 32F because otherwise the deer won't be able to keep its core temperatures up and might not survive.

My guy. I appreciate your concern, but I think we might be past that.

Anyways, I'm glad I have paper books from the before time. Gonna start hitting thrift stores for old textbooks and how-to manuals.

please for the love of fuck don’t have a parasocial relationship with a password manager, an encrypted mail provider, or any other security or privacy software vendor

you absolutely don’t need to defend the honor of a project you like. you especially don’t need to defend a project that’s provably doing something dangerous

when I call out keepassxc or proton or whatever in the strongest terms possible, I do it because it’s important. I do it to create awareness, not fear.

How many stupid LLM tricks must we read about. Neither the “researchers” (quotation marks definitely required) nor the “tech journalist” author realise that robot planning is like a 50-year old field with people earning PhDs and spending entire careers on it. The Mars fucking Rover does not have an LLM in it.

So Mr Amateur Hour Jones, who has fuck all experience in the field, shoves an LLM into a robot vacuum. They discusses none of the prior research in robot navigation and planning, makes up a stupidly simple task that the LLM fails to do. The headline is not “LLMs fail again to do something incredibly simple that robots could do 30 years ago without LLMs”. The headline is about the science fiction crap it spewed as it failed.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/llm-robot-vacuum-existential-crisis

Friends, please stop linking to Spotify like it’s ok.

The company steadily siphoned money from independent artists, then spent millions to host Joe Rogan, then littered their library with AI music, and now the CEO is investing in AI weapons.

There are plenty of less damaging ways to listen to music and podcasts.

The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked a court order requiring the Trump administration to fun SNAP so that millions of children, seniors, and people with disabilities could eat food. The Republican party is trying to blame Democrats, but there isn’t a single Democrat who has sought to block food or healthcare assistance to those in need.

The American government is not broken and dysfunctional, it’s callous and malevolent.

Boring Company fined nearly $500K after it dumped drilling fluids into manholes
L: https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/elon-musk-boring-company-fined-150000426.html
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45862674
posted on 2025.11.08 at 22:32:46 (c=1, p=6)

SPACE DATA CENTERS!
PARTICLE ACCELERATOR CHIP LITHOGRAPHY!
100 NUCLEAR GENERATORS!
SEX BOTS! (Ok, maybe that's just Elmo McFuckup)
SUPERINTELLIGENCE!

It would be more amusing (and yet still deeply pathetic), if people didn't actually take these fools seriously.

It just illuminates the deep intellectual bankruptcy of the industry, and especially venture capital.

This Veteran’s day, don’t thank me for anything I did in the military. There’s no honor in it.

My service to humanity began when I requested a hardship discharge, joined Iraq Veterans Against the War and Veterans for Peace, and started resisting militarism.

Reclaim Armistice Day. Peace through resistance.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/06/job-cuts-accelerate-october-layoffs-trump/

🚨 Jobs Shock:
Layoffs surged in October — 2025 job cuts have now hit recession-level highs, according to new data from Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
The warning signs are flashing red for the economy.

#jobs #Economy #Layoffs #Recession #washingtonpost