Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

Via Scientific American:
ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!
It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information

https://archive.ph/nMUTI#selection-221.0-226.0

The Big Tech companies responsible for this should be required to reimburse victims for the economic and other damage they've caused.

Sorry, kidding. Accountability doesn't exist for the damage caused by huge, arrogant corporations. https://www.reuters.com/technology/global-cyber-outage-grounds-flights-hits-media-financial-telecoms-2024-07-19/

This might be the very first time I've ever seen a major global IT issue described as it should be: a "Microsoft Windows problem". https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death

No one is getting fired over this, right?

Correct. HR systems are down too.

Luckily, almost none of the important infrastructural parts of the Internet depend on enterprise Microsoft products.

Our #cellarDoor POS runs on #Linux and we accept #cash - we’re open from 11am to 5pm at the #brewery on Saturday in #UpperHutt

Companies rushing to uninstall CrowdStrike enterprise-wide because “it’s a risk”: very many

Companies understanding that the exact same risk exists in every single Very Enterprise Security Software Tool: approximately zero

The thing that needs to be shouted from the rooftops is this:

Markets don't efficiently provide public services. They do, however, love to cannibalise them, by asset stripping and turning core departments into vehicles for rent seeking.

We tried neoliberalism for four decades. It's destroying everything except the balance sheets of the ultra wealthy. Time to kill it and move on.

Watching what some are pronouncing "the world's worst IT disaster" unfolding from the comfort of a completely Enterprise-Windows-free zone that is, unsurprisingly, entirely unaffected. Sorry for those poor sods who're having to mop up this mess - created by IT policy makers who probably don't have to do 'call'.

#Banks, #airlines and #media outlets hit by global #outage linked to #Windows PCs | #Technology | The Guardian

That’s what tends to happen if you trust your infrastructure to a monopolistic corporation that hawks second-rate #software.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death

#Microsoft #MS

Banks, airlines and media outlets hit by global outage linked to #Windows PCs - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jul/19/microsoft-windows-pcs-outage-blue-screen-of-death well, you know, some of us have been warning people for 30 years not to use Windows.... #OpenSource

Wow, looks like the fragile Windows monoculture has crashed worldwide. Had to happen eventually.

I feel bad for folks who're forced to run Windows (no one would do it by choice, would they?): https://mastodon.nz/@alexs/112811417815697253

#JustStopOil

"I want to remind the court once more that my reasons for taking action were not beliefs or opinions. Earth’s life-support systems are breaking down due to human activities, whether we believe it or not." - Cressida Gethin, court statement

She was sentenced to four years in jail.

@webology

@ntnsndr

give @zulip a try! Much better UX than Slack or Discord in my opinion

I got so lost in Zulip but have encountered serious true believers in the hacker class

Reminder that UX is relative

How did you see this poll?

(this poll = the one you're responding to right now)

Are there any #RightToRepair folks who are working with accessibility equipment? Specifically mobility vans?

The anti-consumer, monopolistic practices in this space are already getting to me and I'd love to get plugged into a network of folks fighting for more options and independence.

#Ableism @disability

@yala thanks - it's been very eye opening for me, too, given how many people are dead-set against self-hosting, usually claiming that it's not worth the trouble. It's *totally* worth the trouble (which is far less troublesome than most people assert). The cost profile is #libre software's best-kept secret. It's almost unbelievable, except that I can prove it's the real deal.

Great post on giving community orgs the right to buy buildings abandoned by their owners: https://talkwellington.org.nz/2024/derelict-on-main-street-property-laws-heritage-upkeep-and-vibrancy/