Augier ☭🏴☠️
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RE: https://diaspodon.fr/@AugierLe42e/117614012539242284
On peut même rajouter à cette vidéo le tag #droitDesÉtrangers. 🫠
NVIDIA Allegedly Engineered Scarcity By Funding AI Startups To Buy Its GPUs
Following the departure of now-former NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, a new report has emerged alleging that NVIDIA artificially inflated the ongoing GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups that would go on to buy NVIDIA GPUs and build data centers. The reason behind this was to maintain the perception of ongoing high demand and to move an oversupply of semiconductors from TSMC.
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Barriers to calling oneself an engineer are good, actually.
Not gender or race as barriers of course.
The kind keeping coked up, handsy, JavaScript-framework spawning zygotes from running critical systems.
@AugierLe42e @bakaniko
En plusse si ça se trouve le malotru, il est venu sans trucs à la pomme tout séchés j'parie...
murmf...
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Bad barriers to entry for running critical systems: being born a certain way in a certain place to people with less money.
Good barriers to entry for engineering:
Having to read a godsdamned book on a regular basis for years while teachers ram the importance of safety into your skull.
@sidalsolgun Definitely. I got a Geely this year, and it's been excellent. I hope they bring more models out in the UK.
sknob :noai:
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Quelques réflexions sur un des effets néfastes (parmi tant d'autres) des IAg dans l'enseignement : plus rien n'est perçu comme infaisable par les étudiants, on a perdu un capteur essentiel au fonctionnement en boucle fermée de l'enseignement (et pas seulement synchrone).
https://write.tedomum.net/flomaraninchi/on-a-casse-le-thermometre
Kagi Mail is coming to public beta!
Like everything we build at Kagi, it’s fast, private, and secure: paid by you, built for you. With an executive assistant on top that highlights what needs your attention and handles the rest.
Over the next few days, we’ll show you what’s inside 😉
@kagihq I am unlikely to use email that sits in US jurisdiction, but I am curious to see it.
dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker:
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A reminder that they said I was making fallacious claims when I suggested that this exact pattern of behaviour could only mean one thing, and that it was strange given all of the money spent on AI that nobody was actually making money… not even Nvidia.
Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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So this idea seems maybe plausible?
To summarize, I'm looking into planning a retreat, probably one month, where 5-10 people will travel (to the Netherlands, most likely) to stay and work together to make meaningful progress on the problems we face as a community with slop and bigotry and so on, to build community and solidarity, and have some facetime with kindred spirits to counter the pessimism we're all feeling. We would raise money to cover travel and accommodations, and maybe optimistically to cover lost compensation if participants need to take some unpaid leave from work.
To get the ball rolling I'd like to find one or two other people who are willing to put up their time to work together on organization and logistics. Please reply in this thread to volunteer. Please only volunteer if you expect that you would be able to attend and you have enough time to commit to helping to put it together.
You don't need to be a wizard to volunteer, if you're a generally chill person and you have time to organize please don't let impostor syndrome get in the way of speaking up 😉
It took the computing industry decades to get to five nine uptime reliability for crucial services. We must be fair to the LLM industry and allow them at least the same time. Say, one decade per nine. The global society can surely survive for half a century without online services.
@liw tbh i think we'd be better off if we learned to survive with approximately zero 9s.
I'm thinking about hosting an in-person hackathon with somewhere from 5-10 people, where participants can drop in for anywhere from 2-8 weeks throughout the duration. The goal would be to make a meaningful burst of progress on resistance to AI and fascism in FOSS and technology generally. I would invite people to help with some of my projects in this respect (e.g. AlpineBSD and Thunderbolt), with the aim of producing viable solutions that are ready to use at the conclusion of the work, and to help each other on our own projects in this space. We would cook for each other, teach each other, build community and friendships, discuss strategy, and enjoy some facetime with kindred spirits to combat the doomer attitude I'm sure a lot of us are struggling with right now.
Curious to gauge reactions to this idea. Would you like to participate? Would you donate to a fundraiser to cover travel and lodging costs for participants, or logistics for the event? Please answer the survey for a quick vibe check on what people think of the idea 😃
ArneBab
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Guten Morgen - Tässle Kaffee ☕️?
Die algorithmische Wutwelle seit 2012 macht Nutzende von Konzernmedien im Durchschnitt wütender, dümmer & einsamer. Menschen verrohen, werden mimetisch zu schlechteren Versionen ihrer selbst. Nicht selten entstehen toxische Abhängigkeiten.
Ein inzwischen 33jähriger Influencer aus Hamburg brachte Menschen in peinliche Situationen & veröffentlichte dann auf TikTok & Instagram Videos über sie. Auch nach mehreren Warn-Verurteilungen zeigte „langlebepapa“ keine Reue. Nun schon - denn jetzt gibt es Haft.
„"Sie hatten es einfach noch nicht begriffen," sagt der Richter. Dieser Fall sei ein Beispiel für die Verrohung der sogenannten sozialen Medien, fügt er hinzu. "Man müsste eigentlich von unsozialen Medien sprechen," so der Richter in seinem Urteil.“
#Wutwelle #Algorithmen #SozialeMedien #UnsozialeMedien #Verrohung #Radikalisierung #Influencer #Videos #Urteil #Haft #Hamburg
No evidence yet on anything.
But the FAA was rolling out its $875 million SMART “AI” system yesterday
https://www.transportation.gov/sites/dot.gov/files/2026-09/SMART%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf
And today NOTAMs are saying that US originating flights are grounded.
@fj
So the smart system is intelligent enough to recognize how bad flying is for the environment and grounded all flights ... I did not know AI is that advanced.
Marcus Rohrmoser 🌻
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💻 Windows 10 support has ended — but your old PC doesn’t have to!
EndOf10 is back at #SFSCON26, and it’s fully booked: participants install GNU/Linux with FUSS on decommissioned computers… and take them home.
Less e-waste, more digital independence.
With Fusslab & PC Doktor Bz
Before I went to bed last night, I did an inplace upgrade of a remote server from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.9 to 10.3. Because that's the kind of "fun" I like. The short version: You may have noticed that my blog was down for a few minutes but that's all. The upgrade succeeded and thanks to the warnings I got from the `leapp` upgrade tool I fixed all the little things that were needed afterwards. Open heart surgery, virtual style, done. Patient happy.
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@jwildeboer @homelab I love the "Before I went to bed last night, I did an inplace upgrade of..." It's really the kind of black hole I fall into every Friday evening... With me saying... "I will quickly upgrade my servers..." and then... Quickly becomes... Days sometimes
"Fracas" (last syllable) rhymes with
@voxel for me, none of the above. It's a short 'a' sound, shorter than in car.
L'égrégore André ꕭꕬ
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Jag har varit på bio mycket mer än på länge i det senaste och fascineras över hur respektlöst folk börjat behandla eftertexterna. Vill man lämna under eftertexterna gör man den diskret och under tystnad. Är det eftertexter med illustrationer, klipp osv sitter man kvar på sitt ärsle och håller käften. Behöver man lämna gör man det snabbt och diskret. Prata ohämmat gör man efter att belysningen i salongen tänts.
Duchamp Pérez
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The recent "Human Emacs" thread on emacs-devel raised a deeper question than just LLMs: where do the ethics of the free software movement stop?
When "only the code matters" becomes the rule, we end up blind to the labor, supply chains, and people affected by the software we build.
I wrote down some of my thoughts on why I've been feeling a little disillusioned with the free software movement, how I feel like it isn't free enough, and what judging the process, not the person, could look like: https://foss.life/notes/2026/free-software-isnt-free-enough/
#FreeSoftware #FOSS #Emacs #OpenSource
