Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

So, if it turns out all of the Chinese “AI” companies were actually using high end Nvidia chips all this time, does that mean that all the talk about how little they were spending on training was, y’know, a lie?

(Honest question. Still on my first coffee of the day.)

@neil Some of us remember what happened when they bought Hotmail and tried to run it on Windows servers.

@KimPerales
Teens: Since the tech bros are so determined to inject industrial quantities of uncertainty into your lives with Ai, secure your future NOW by suing them for ruining your life before the cash runs out when the Ai bubble bursts.
#Ai #SocialMediaLawsuits

What are the chances that the 1 person who knows how to fix the Outlook outage was one of the 60,000 laid off by Microsoft?

#Tech #CyberSecurity #Microsoft #Outage #Outlook #Email #Cloud

Are we relieved to know that Microsoft's massive outage isn't due to hacking, but rather incompetence?

@drahardja don’t worry, they’re predicting the service will be restored as soon as the problem is fixed.

“In its latest update, Microsoft attributed this incident to “a large number of servers being unexpectedly unavailable””

Ah yes, our servers are down because they are unexpectedly unavailable.

#microsoft #outlook #outage

https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/12/microsofts-outlook-email-hit-by-new-outage/

Australia's "immigration debate" boils down to exactly one thing in my opinion.
And that is the fear that a group of people will come here and do to us what we did, and continue to do, to Indigenous Australians.

Holy shirtballs, all the evidence I need that the llms are enabling people to turn off their brains is the exact repeated questions in a slack group for staff to enable their llm access. All posting the exact same error message, not a single one having read the matching posts within the last 24 hours or learning a single damned thing.

In previous jobs (maybe even this one before llm-brain hit), not reading the history and posting the same question was ridicule-worthy, perhaps even requiring ‘performance management’

Infrastructure is so often a story of eggs and baskets, whereby some have far too many.

It's hard to avoid mentioning that the self-hosted equivs to Teams/365/Outlook I look after are down for no more than an hour a year. This is not unique. It's the same for many others I know, from fellow sysadmins to my own students. It's a fairytale that self-hosted infrastructure is unreliable. Simply not the case when built up with best practices, maintained with sufficient knowledge & care.

RE: https://federate.social/@jik/117604910777153683

My drumbeat for this week: We don’t need anything to help us build software faster right now.

We need things that help us build it slower.

It is possible to construct several narratives about how we got from then to now; the corporatisation of sponsorship, the wider reactionary movements against feminism, the normalization of authoritarianism, the centralization and fracturing of online spaces, and most recently those preaching the doctrine of claude et al.

They are all equally true, and just as equally entangled with each other.

Working together to destroy the illusion that there was a space with enough shared ground to work.

but of course AI works great for coding! if you apply this list of proper engineering practices your manager really won't let you apply because the point is to go faster, not correctly

no you can't see my allegedly wonderfully engineered AI code

#NAZA will be released in full on the #Guardian’s website for free in early December.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2026/nov/12/naza-how-to-watch-guardian-acclaimed-gaza-documentary

#gzagenocide

@lwriemen My desktop has become flaky recently, and the motherboard is only two years old. I figured it was some hardware issue, but now I wonder...

The headlines on #YouTube political #videos are getting ever more ridiculous. Not only are the thumbnails usually #AI distortions of real images, but the captions always now tend to be something like “X destroys Y” or “It’s over for Z”. Almost all #Clickbait.

The Prison Litigation Reform Act makes it incredibly difficult for incarcerated people, including incarcerated journalists, to bring civil rights lawsuits and for outside reporters covering prisons to report on court files.

Urge your representative to repeal the PLRA.

https://freedom.press/action/repeal-the-prison-litigation-reform-act/

Microsoft wants to build a 32,500 square-meter and 19-meter tall DATA CENTER in Malmö!

Launching the Malmö Neighbors Against Data Centers campaign on Saturday Nov. 28 13:00 - 18:00

https://dukop.dk/en/event/11011/

#AI #noAI #Malmö #Sweden #Sverige #Skåne #dataCentres #dataCentre #dataCenter #dataCenters

https://liberationnews.org/final-ohio-results-disprove-spoiler-nonsense-about-socialist-greg-levy/

#USPol #socialism

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