Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Note to self: In the future, do not waste time trying to help people who are using "ai" to write or debug software.

After all, if the race to age-gate the internet was purely about child safety, we would expect its strongest supporters to be child-development experts or privacy advocates. Instead, the loudest advocates are organizations dedicated to policing sexuality, attacking LGBTQ+ folks and reproductive rights, and censoring anything that doesn’t fit within their worldview.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/20/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control/

I really hope the Debian developers choose/vote not to allow AI use in the development of Debian.

#noai #debian

Everyone who voted for this ding-dong even once should be put in a conservatorship to protect us from their bad decisions. We can call them "conservatives" for short.

"You are against AI because you are afraid it is going to take away your job" is the new "You are an atheist because you hate God".

#noAI #AI #LLM #LLMs #slop

@crowbriarhexe "A Swedish software engineer claims to Roose that his company spends more than his salary on his Claude Code tokens alone"

Imagine finding out they could double your salary or double the size of your team this way.

You don't believe Altman is such a figure but you think Amodei, who insisted that OpenAI use all 10,000 GPUs and train the biggest model possible, when he was there, is such a figure?

In his video, Bernie is literally creating a Claude ad, showing the system as an all knowing being that answers all of his questions. An ad for Anthropic, a company claiming that they can't even confidently say that "Claude isn't conscious".

@_elena @mat reminder, the Bluesky team explicitly mentioned commercial use of their data in their 2024 arXiv preprint:

“…as Bluesky grows, there are likely to be multiple professionally-run indexers for various purposes. For example, a company that performs sentiment analysis on social media activity about brands could easily create a whole-network index that provides insights to their clients. Web search engines can incorporate Bluesky activity into their indexes,…” pg. 5

it’s been part of the model from the start…

They are banning books in addition to banning the web because they want to prevent children from coming into contact with ideas.

I am older than the www, I lived in an underdeveloped country, didn't get a computer until I was 14. Libraries were my window into the world. I became a member of the adult library aged 11 because there was not much to read in the children's library. My mother tried to keep me away from the library after I showed her Cosmos by Carl Sagan and said: "See, this book also says that god does not exist, it is not just me".

That's why to this day I have a thing for libraries. We have to make sure they are preserved, because the web surely won't be.

https://hsnl.social/@Dany/116271552680700342

Systemd: preemptive compliance with fascism (HT: @aral )

#ageVerification #FOSS #FLOSS #surveillance #surveillanceState

A British school library banned around 200 books deemed inappropriate. Including books about totalitarianism, toxic masculinity and books aimed at queer teenagers.

This is a worrying move, and extra worrying is the use of AI to classify the books. It demonstrates the Bias as a Service that is inherently part of what AI is.

https://www.indexoncensorship.org/2026/03/school-book-banning-escalates-in-the-uk-as-greater-manchester-secondary-school-censors-scores-of-books/

@cwebber ugh, as someone who loves the rust programming language, it's been so depressing to see everything around it progressively get worse

there are many reasons why i love rust:
- having a haskell-like type system is super nice
- mutable xor shared is a very good idea
- the borrow checker is great to work and promotes having simple ownership graphs
- have a crate as the basic compilation unit, rather than a rust file, is a very sane trade-off, and i like it more than having per-file compilation units
- the culture around correctness is very nice
- rustfmt creating a very consistent way to use rust
- embracing inclusivity from the start

there is a reason why i have "rust is my favorite dirty haskell" on my profile

but then, there are a lot of things which are very bad:
- being co-opted by corporations very quickly
- embracing github and discord
- no stance against proprietary software
- no stance against centralization
- crates.io is very centralized and does not play well with distribution package managers
- cargo being the one blessed build tool, rather than embracing variety
- rust applications being annoying to package properly in distributions

seeing people who i used to respect a lot, like fasterthanlime[0][1] and niko matsakis[2][3][4] embracing the slop machines has also been very depressing

it really makes me look more in the direction of embracing c and zig, but those have their own issues

there is a lot to like about zig, and the project itself seems to have a moral compass[5]. the compiler has a stance against llms and moved away from github. sadly the zig ecosystem does not seem to share this stance. for example ghostty[6] embraces it

0: ewie.online/posts/20260214-arborium-is-ai-slopw/
1: github.com/facet-rs/facet/tree/main/.claude
2: github.com/nikomatsakis/zulook
3: github.com/nikomatsakis/retcon/tree/main/.claude
4: github.com/nikomatsakis/dada/tree/main/.claude
5: codeberg.org/ziglang/zig#strict-no-llm-no-ai-policy
6: github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/blob/main/AI_POLICY.md#ai-is-welcome-here

#Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Just Training A Generation In The Art Of The Workaround - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/20/australias-teen-social-media-ban-is-just-training-a-generation-in-the-art-of-the-workaround/

@cwebber "They claim nearly every line was rewritten by a human" smells the same as "I have reviewed all the code in this 40k lines monstrosity PR that I made with Claude"

UK police force presses pause on live facial recognition after study finds racial bias - https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/20/uk_police_force_suspend_live_faical_recog_racial_bias/ never mind the pause, bin it

When everything falls apart, why do we always insist on a return to "normal"? Normal sucks, for most people in most places.

"Post covid", after the Iran war, or after Trump, or after *whatever* is going on, the best we look for is back to "normal".

Why do we lack imagination, that "back" is the best we can look forward to?

The bad guys? They are sure as shit building toward something they think is better. We need to do the same, or what we had is the best we can hope for.

Playing games is usually good for your brain, but you need to have one to begin with. https://www.dailykos.com/story/2026/3/20/2373927/-White-House-games

It really bums me out that I keep seeing blog posts from technical people like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical implications of LLMs, I'm interested in evaluating whether they can be useful for my work."

Like "putting aside the obvious moral and ethical concerns of breaking into my neighbours' houses, I'm interested in evaluating whether this can be useful for acquiring other people's valuables."

A bit course, but spot on: https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/

This is POSSE <- to which we should all aspire. https://indieweb.org/POSSE

A Georgetown University teacher to her students: Don't be part of the "AI" lemming brigade.

https://medium.com/center-on-privacy-technology/an-open-letter-to-georgetown-students-in-response-to-recent-announcements-about-generative-ai-8869dcd523ef