Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

RE: https://mastodon.sdf.org/@netbsd/117396625341557692

Hey #FreeBSD folks, NetBSD hit more than double their funding target after adopting a strong no-LLMs policy. Something to think about while you draft yours, perhaps?

I recently discovered a marvelous thing: instead of prompting an LLM, you can also prompt... yourself? Like, you express a desire for a drawing of a cat and then... an appendage of your choice picks up a pencil? And a cat is drawn? I'm still not quite sure how this works

Monthly creation of new AI bad debt slows, as lenders wonder if they're issuing just a bit too much future defaults

https://app.ft.com/content/9c13d40e-d2b2-45d5-921c-a68cd4b308f9

> AI-related debt issuance globally dropped to $23bn in September, less than half the amount raised in the previous month, according to data compiled by Morgan Stanley, which covers both public bonds and private placement transactions. New financing has steadily fallen since the market hit a peak in June, when companies raised a record $113bn to help pay for infrastructure critical to the technology, including data centres and chips.

> In the US investment-grade market, where blue-chip tech groups borrowed around $306bn between January and August, AI-related bond issuance ground to a halt last month.

@WeirdWriter my mainstream pieces is mostly in Polish, or example:
https://oko.press/chatgpt-cala-prawda-o-wielkich-modelach-jezykowych
https://oko.press/ai-nie-rozwiaze-kryzysu-klimatycznego
https://krytykapolityczna.pl/swiat/ibm-microsoft-technologia-ludobojstwo/

Here's an English piece on "AI" and the job market in Iceland:
https://grapevine.is/feature/2026/06/20/rapyd-layoffs-attributed-to-ai-hint-at-something-else/

And I write a bunch about this on my blog, for example:
https://rys.io/en/180.html
https://rys.io/en/181.html
https://rys.io/en/182.html

10. We oughtta be building more wind, especially in seasonal climates like Europe. Solar will get built anyway, it’s cheap, but wind blows at night and in the winter. We’re going to need something to charge the batteries in winter, especially with rising heatpump use.

Time for 2026 updates to my annual “opinions about solar” thread, now with storage. If you like these, you might like edition 2 of my book, Solar Power Finance Without The Jargon. A 30% discount code WSQ0437 is valid on publisher website til end-November 2026.

It's the book I should have read before trying to get a job in renewable energy. Reviewers say it is “to the point, important, and taught me a lot” and “surprisingly entertaining, don’t be put off by the title”.

https://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/q0437#t=aboutBook

RE: https://ohai.social/@dcoderlt/117420992135195411

Good morning to everyone except #WSocial people who are forcing me to work on a Sunday.

New article about their latest scandal coming soon (tomorrow or Tue morning at the latest). There is SO MUCH more to unpack that hasn't been revealed yet - and I've got plenty of evidence to share.

The W Social people had a meltdown about this yesterday on the Atmosphere, asking critics "who is funding you?"

This reporting is entirely self-funded, with childcare help from my in-laws and my husband 💁‍♀️

Looking at routing in #BengalOS I stumbled over an issue at #NetworkManager that explains why Linux clients started having problems on my home wifi: via #DHCP I sent a router (option 3) and a static route (option 121).

Background: at the time of configuration I used a VPN connection while connected to my wifi that routed 192.168.0.0/16. I needed one /24 subnet to be routed over my default gateway. The static route for the class-c net had the smaller netmask and overruled the class-b route for the VPN-connection.

After the change I was missing a default route, added it to NetworkManager as a local entry and had been done until stumbling over it again with a new installation.

Now I know … 😉

Coming up this Thursday: An Introduction to Public-Interest Infrastructure with #CoopCloud, this Thursday 15th October @ 19 UTC

Call link: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying

Calendar event: https://coopcloud.tech/ics/public-interest-infrastructure-2026-10-15.ics

Dramatic countdown: https://time.is/countdown/19:00_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC?Intro_to_Public_Interest_Infrastructure

https://time.is/19_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC?Intro_to_Public-Interest_Infrastructure

HUGE thanks to @la_rosa for the awesome flyer!

– 3wordchant

#Coops #Libresoftware

Nicolas Cage Says He’s ‘Probably Not’ Working With Amazon Again After Refusing to Sign AI Waiver for ‘Spider-Noir’: ‘I’m Not an AI-Friendly Actor’
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/nicolas-cage-ai-waiver-amazon-spider-noir-1236907564/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into VARIETY @variety-Variety

#Georgia’s Communications Commission bans two TV channels from using 93 words and phrases - https://jam-news.net/georgias-communications-commission-bans-two-tv-channels-from-using-93-words-and-phrases/ blatant censorship

Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund “unethical” vaccine trial - https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/10/rfk-jr-still-eager-to-fund-vaccine-trial-that-would-expose-babies-to-deadly-virus/ "would expose newborns in Guinea-Bissau to hepatitis B, putting them at high risk of a lifelong infection, which can lead to liver cirrhosis, liver cancer, and premature death." #murica

Feminist orgs claim #Meta censoring posts about #Cornell 7 case - https://mashable.com/tech/meta-censoring-posts-about-cornell-7-orgs-claim "Florence Pugh received a "sensitive-content" warning on her Cornell post; she doesn't appear to be the only one."

#Batteries are now cheaper than #naturalgas turbines used at many data centers - https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/09/batteries-are-now-cheaper-than-natural-gas-turbines-used-at-many-data-centers/ and amazingly, they will soon be even cheaper; you are a mug if you don't use them

EU calls US sanctions on International Criminal Court 'regrettable' - https://www.euronews.com/2026/10/09/eu-calls-us-sanctions-on-international-criminal-court-regrettable has to be a wake-up call to the civilised world: #trump the mad dictator can do this to anyone. get off US tech and systems #icc

RE: https://journa.host/@fulelo/117415703350243644

#trump has been dying to do this for his mate/boss #putin

"A senior colleague of mine found one of his favourite problems among those solved and attempted to read the accompanying paper. He told me it was so unintelligible that, had he received it as an editor at a mathematics journal, “it would have gone straight into the bin”.
—Melissa Lee, Monash University

https://theconversation.com/is-this-the-mathocalypse-why-openais-latest-results-dump-has-left-mathematicians-in-shock-293837

EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request - https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/trump-eu-disinformation-conference staggering cowardice by #eu at a time when it must stand up to #trump the bully

RE: https://mstdn.social/@rysiek/117415566348765527

“When the copy failed to load or the model closed it by mistake, the model instead navigated to the website where the real form is normally hosted and submitted the form there.”

US Gov’t Interferes To Get Foreign Sponsors To Drop Conference Because A Panel Asks If The US Engages In Foreign Information Interference - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/10/08/us-govt-interferes-to-get-foreign-sponsors-to-drop-conference-because-a-panel-asks-if-the-us-engages-in-foreign-information-interference/ great dissection of this sorry saga by @mmasnick