Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

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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"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