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"oh no we can't deliver code because claude is down!!!!" no, you can't deliver code because you made a series of awful fucking decisions.

when i see software with a really barebones web presence, i assume it's gonna probably be around in a working state for 20+ years. seeing software with a really polished website *always* gave me the vibe that i'd be lucky if it lasted 3 years. nowadays that's a signal that it may not even still be around in 3 weeks

The fact that a company that, a month ago, was almost exclusively supplying hardware to the hottest hardware market in recent history and, tomorrow, will still be an almost exclusive supplier of the same physical hardware to the same market and - due to a change of CEO - the stock of that company has lost more than a quarter of its value in that time proves that the stock market is complete and utter nonsense.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/117592857554097967

I mean. You can also just not use LLMs.

Insane to me how many people think open-weight models like Qwen just come out of thin air:

As if they aren't trained on smuggled NVIDIA GPUs and deeply reliant on NVIDIA remaining alive
As if they aren't reliant on distilling American models
As if they aren't built via Alibaba Cloud scraping the shit out of your websites
As if they aren't reliant on the same exploitative labour relationships in poor countries, for annotation and training as the Americans use
As if they aren't released by Chinese tech giants which do the same, and worse things, than the American ones
As if they don't use massive data centres for training, mostly outside China or in poor regions of China, so people can pretend "oh China has no data centres". People are literally protesting these right now in Indonesia

Absolute L take from 404 Media

#NoAI

The Enemies List: The Trump administration’s war on the Left is designed to suffocate dissent.

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More than ever, fraudsters are using AI to clone the voices of organizational leaders and fool employees into helping them steal millions. Newsrooms should be prepared.

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#noAI

Foreign Intelligence Has Easy Access To White House IT Systems Thanks To Dodgy Russian Proxy Software - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/11/12/foreign-intelligence-has-easy-access-to-white-house-it-systems-thanks-to-dodgy-russian-proxy-software/

@davidgerard yeah the whole "it works if you just prompt it carefully and build harnesses and verification etc etc" argument misses the point that the *entire* claimed benefit of LLMs - speed - is negated, since you could just code it yourself and actually understand it AND not pay for a stupid tool that makes everyone in the room stupid and depressed.

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Healthcare is a human right, fuck everyone who thinks otherwise 🤷

What a terrible (but unsurprising) stance from Rep. Himes.

There’s no need to rush Section 702 reauthorization.

Let the new Congress debate and decide whether the government needs a warrant to spy on Americans.

https://thehill.com/national-security/6215401-jim-himes-fisa-702-extension-spy-powers-congress/

Email migration underway. I'm trying out Posteo as my main provider, and for now have shifted my custom domain from Tuta to Mailbox.org (although I'm not 100% happy that Mailbox doesn't completely reject LLMs, they do appear to trying to be slightly responsible).

Haven't decided if I'll completely abandon my custom domain and just shift everything to a Posteo email. We'll see.

We had to temporarily restrict pulling images from the Codeberg container registry due to an abuse wave. This is related to authenticated traffic being slow earlier today.

We're sorry for the inconvenience. No ETA for a fix, but we're working on it. ~dmi

Has the meat industry laid waste to the UK’s biggest lake? - https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026-11-12/lough-neagh-has-the-meat-industry-laid-waste-to-britains-biggest-lake meat industry must pay for the clean up

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I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

If you use Humble Bundle, surprise! They replaced their entire website with insecure slopcode garbage, so maybe delete your payment details as soon as possible there since there’s obviously no way this stays a good safe for long