Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

People are taking this democracy thing further than the Dem Party is comfortable with.

https://truthout.org/articles/petition-urging-dems-to-reject-jeffries-as-house-speaker-passes-1m-signatures/

District-installed spyware on computers assigned to kids isn’t only offensive, it’s ineffective. Anybody who has written a swear filter or attempted to automate moderation will tell you that it’s a fool’s errand. You can’t automate and surveil your way to compliance with district policy.

What's crazy/depressing/fascinating is seeing a chatgpt conversation someone sent me that they'd had about some software/reverse engineering I'd done and asking for some advice...

*I* am the only source of the information, there is no one else, and yet the chat is confidently chirruping plausible sounding shit....

"well what a lot of people have found is..." ! a lot of people??? there ARE NO OTHER PEOPLE. just me.
"yes it's quite common on these devices for..."??? Quite common??? NO-ONE does this! my blog is THE ONLY SOURCE OF INFORMATION.
"it's not unheard of for some people to have success with..."??? yes.. yes IT *IS* UNHEARD OF.

A bit like those situations where you see news reporting of a story you're familiar with, it's fascinating seeing complete fabrications of information that are structured and explained in a plausible sequential manner.

RE: https://digipres.club/@alexandra/117576651383899283

“The Free Software movement doesn't pursue the goal of "liberty for all
humanity". If you think it does, you are gravely mistaken. Our goals
are different, and are well described elsewhere.”

Ah, the mask comes off.

Who's ready for the pivot to quantum?

We need one more translator/reviewer for Greek! If you speak Greek, please let me know.

60 yr old "Martin" harvests #Halloween pumpkins in Ventura county for min. wage. "The work involves very heavy pumpkins, which takes a serious toll on my back. There's often large orders to fill, so we have to start early and often there's no set time to leave work." #WeFeedYou

I don't care for the preview image cropping of this comic, either, gang. https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/11/6/800123989/cartoon/bluenami-or-bust/

the actual function of this technology is to produce a totally overwhelming volume of spam

also for all the "the models are good now" people: the actual content of these submissions is, on the whole, terrible. if any of it identified a real problem I would rewrite the fix myself. I am yet to see a single nontrivial work produced by an LLM I thought was even acceptable let alone good

Bro, poor Rust programmers, I just saw someone saying "the Discord client rewrite is probably vibecoded".

Not because it's Discord, and that company sucks, but because "it is being made in Rust, and only sloppers use that language".

DUDE I FEEL BAD FOR RUSTACEANS NOW

"I'm using Rust so that it's easier to have AI safely generate code for me!" sounds a lot like "I installed seatbelts in my car so I can safely drive drunk!"

Curious to see whether there's a meaningful correlation between a developer's affinity to writing (blogs, scripts, etc.) and AI. Reposts are much appreciated to get me out of my echo chamber.

If you're a developer, what statement align closest with your opinion?

I think I’m ready to add translations to https://whynoai.info

Because I’m not an expert in every language, I’d like to *pair up* translators for each language so you can check each other’s work.

If you’d like to help, let me know. Communications will be mainly on Signal, and maybe Codeberg if you’re technically inclined!

DM me on Signal at drahardja.81 if you’re interested!

#translation #ai #noAI

Dear non-crafters.

Please stop suggesting that hobby crafters who do things simply for the love of it start selling their work. It is not the compliment you think it is. It's like seeing someone with children and saying "wow your children are not misbehaving. You should consider being a babysitter. People would pay you for that.".

Sincerely, someone who was told yet again that I should monetize the hobby that I use to escape capitalism.

This week's comic: A cartoon to train AI models

#internet #technology #cartoon #comic

@gael @Research_FTW

I'm an engineering manager in SF and read a lot of research on AI. The most likely scenario of Murena incorporating it is...

1. A temporary boost in productivity that lasts about 6 months and increases output with no business impact.

2. Increased maintenance costs due to technical debt accrued by LLMs and loss of context among your engineers.

3. Loss of customer confidence as they run into more bugs that take longer to fix.

I've seen it at multiple companies now.

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The real story of gen AI is the story of widespread, uncoordinated, unreported resistance.

When you see a CEO firing people who don’t use enough AI, the real story is that many of their employees refuse to do so unless their livelihood is held hostage.

When you see AI added to an application, present on every page, impossible to remove, the real story is that customers won’t use it unless it’s forced down their throats.

AI rejection is everywhere if you read between the lines.

#noAI #antiAI

401(k)s are a financial concept designed to tie the long-term survival concerns of workers to the success of the ultra-wealthy and they should be abolished.