Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

“No one paid me to disagree with Jonathan Haidt. It was teenagers who taught me that he was wrong.”

https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io/no-one-paid-me-to-disagree-with-jonathan-haidt-it-was-teenagers-who-taught-me-that-he-was-wrong/

> Cuz here’s the thing… It IS possible to despise the tech companies AND understand why teenagers use their products and find value from doing so. Listen to teenagers; they get these contradictions. Their hatred of the tech companies is growing exponentially even as they use the tools those companies provide. (You should see their attitudes towards AI companies)

I am really tired of the whole ecosystem of "coding would be secured if we educated engineers better" and its sibling "if people could be jailed for releasing insecure code, we would get better code".

We have multiple decades of trying this and the results are empirically not there!

I understand the attraction to these arguments. I understand the reasoning. But these theory are simply disproven by reality.

If all you want is to feel superior and believe in a Just World, sure. I understand.

But if you care about a better world out there for everyone, with better, safer code. Then we need to accept these solutions do not work. And we need a different approach.

I am sorry. I know it is upsetting. But multiple decades with no real impact. At some point, it becomes unethical to still listen to these theories.

@ChrisMayLA6 No, because the involvement of LLMs in the PHP panic was vastly over-hyped. To keep the bubble inflated a little bit longer.

The PHP flaw was extremely difficult (impossible with typical server configurations) to exploit, with or without a pattern-matching bullshit generator.

There have been many more serious vulnerabilities found, and quietly patched, over the years. Software has bugs, this is quite normal.

We should worry much more about unpatched OpenSSL installations, that are both common and relatively easy to exploit.

But the biggest problem we have is "AI" making almost everything on the internet and modern media untrustworthy. The LLM slop is going to take decades to clean up.

Let's see if #getfedihired works:

I'm a SW engineer, I'm very proficient with C++ (25yrs, I'm one of the coauthors of the static reflection feature), Python 20y, Bash 20y, I have quite a lot devops and some webdev experience. I have done team/tech leading and I have also taught at a university for 12 years (OS/Shell, SQL DBs, meta-programming, Linux kernel programming, etc.)

I'm looking for a new IT job, with the above in mind, preferably remote (in GMT+1)

Boosts appreciated

#jobs #jobsearch

Imagine if real engineers said “we asked an AI because checking the integrity of the steel that went into that bridge was slow and boring”. Grow up and do your job, computer touchers

IMO you can’t “manage” this; you have to ban it. You can’t spend time reviewing “how much” AI you want to let through, because AI is a DDoS on your staff’s attention. People can generate new AI submissions orders of magnitude faster than you can review them.

You have to ban it. Reviewing doesn’t scale. You have to have submitters sign a legally binding contract requiring that they don’t use AI in their submissions, and you must ban developer accounts that violate that condition. The alternative is your site becomes a dumping ground for #AI garbage titles that will drown out legitimate submissions, especially when you’re popular. @index https://aftermath.site/itch-ai-games-pc-slop/

When does 4 = 5? Why would strings become 8-bit integers? And how could an SQL table have rows with different columns? We don't know, but it's fun to imagine! The latest #Jepsen report covers 96 issues in ParticleDB, Orkes' multi-model database built for and with AI.

https://jepsen.io/analyses/particledb-1.1.4

RE: https://raphus.social/@MaddieM4/117542889228899060

Fucking cosigned.

lolll you know how the new line is "but the bobot is super good at refactoring actually"

WELL IT FUCKING TURNS OUT,

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.40269

This week's comic: Decision 2026

To be clear, I applaud the efforts of candidates to go on the offensive and reframe the political conversation around corruption and predatory billionaires. I just remain mystified how so many voters seem drawn to the most obviously unqualified, repulsively corrupt politicians that ever existed.

#comic #cartoon #uspol #corruption #elections #voting

@drahardja A former coworker, who grew up in the DDR, told me that that was what public life there was like in the last years before the wall fell. Everyone was so used to being propagandised to that most people kinda just assumed that everything was a lie.

In fact, in the regions of the DDR where Western media was available, people were generally *less* west-friendly - because they assumed that Western media was lying to them as well.

I don't understand why our society values speed and innovation so much without any qualifiers defining where this is going and what it's innovating.

Moving fast in which direction?
Breaking which things?
Innovating what?

Going fast in the wrong direction isn't a good thing. Supporting innovations that cause harm, injustices, and inequalities shouldn't be celebrated. What is the end goal here?

We need to demand more than those empty words justifying nothing and leading nowhere.

Otherwise, we might remain oblivious to the fact that they might be leading us to our own demise.

Reading Linux news is increasingly like getting Facebook updates from a family member who joined a cult and subsequently broke off contact

There are many more Trump defeats than Trump wins.

Judge dismisses lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska Senate race if GOP incumbent loses
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-senate-dan-sullivan-peltola-investigation-b35acffc8b55ef58679d9b8395760f98

#TrumpMustGo #KingOfTreason #RepublicansDidThis #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Susan Collins has held office as a corrupt piece of shit for THIRTY YEARS.

She promised to leave decades ago; show her the door.

The FBI anti-corruption squad was circling Susan Collins — until Trump got in the way
https://www.bangordailynews.com/2026/09/22/politics/elections/fbi-anti-corruption-squad-susan-collins-joam40zk0w/

#ChooseTroyJackson #Maine #USPol

There is no such thing as "ethically using AI". AI is trained on stolen data. AI is destroying the environment and communities. AI is making us stupid. Use AI if you want, just don't pretend you're doing it in ethical way.

god remember when libreoffice and tuta embarrassed themselves by revealing that their previous anti-AI marketing on here was a lie, then thunderbird stumbled in drunk and went “wait guys don’t forget about me I love uhh whatever it is we’re talking about”

Everyone who runs a website has to update their software now because of OpenAI. They cannot get in the sea quickly enough. Fools

My son told me something worrying about how third level education is hollowing itself out. He was given an assignment, they were to use ai (he refused). The assignment would be written by ai, and the student would check it to make sure the references were real

That's it. No reading skills, no learning, no parsing information, no higher education. Just ask the computer and mark your work done.

We are so screwed if colleges are building a world that can't think
#ai #noai

In the week when Nancy Pelosi tried to pull the rug from under one of the democrats' best new politicians, the UK greens former leader is in the news, "Green party must avoid being taken over by hard left, says former leader"

None of these people get it. Everyone wants change. Not back to the way it was before the rise of fascism. That will just repeat the cycle. Actual change. Not weak ass centrism. A future for people. Positivity, not austerity to prop up a corrupt system