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Anyone from Microsoft following me?
I’m going to leave GitHub (I’ve been a user since the beta days) and will incessantly ask everyone I know to leave it as well if you don’t roll back the “can’t opt out” force-feeding of “AI” nonsense.
You should also have no integration or collaboration with Xai at all, ever.
Make your management have some sense, this is hostile and disgusting and wrong.
#github

Anyway, I was looking really fresh and feeling calm, just flowing with good energy earlier today.
#Nature #Relaxing #Zen

Lord help me I'm starting to enjoy coding in C .
I find myself saying "if you're writing *that* kind of C you've done something wrong at the design stage"
I caught myself feeling grateful that the language punishes you with unreadability and untestability when you do too much in one function
Is this... Stockholm Syndrome?

Was removing some snails from the greenhouse. Opened skylight to fling them over the fence (into an uncultivated garden) and the window collapsed on my head! No injury as I was wearing a cap and the glass didn't break. Mortice joint had rotted through. Greenhouse was quite old when we arrived 40 years ago and I keep replacing bits.
Luckily I'd kept a partially rotten roof spar so was able to cut it down, using the sound part and joint it to fit.
Never throw anything that …

Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
SINOFAR: No.
GIROC: [Laughs] The weapon built into that hand will not work here, primitive.
SINOFAR: Nor will brute force, until *I* allow it.
GIROC: His impulse to kill is primitive.
SINOFAR: As ours was not?
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/218

OK, maybe I went too nerdy 🤓 on this one? 🤣
#Ternary

Study warns climate leadership falling short in New Zealand #NewZealand

Study warns climate leadership falling short in New Zealand
New Zealand leaders favor small, incremental changes in response to escalating climate impacts rather than the bold changes needed to make a real difference, according to research by University of Auckland academic Dr. Sasha Maher and Professor Brad Jackson (University of Waikato).

🏧 Crypto ATMs fueling criminal activity, Treasury warns
#crime

Crypto ATMs fueling criminal activity, Treasury warns
The Treasury Department warned that the massive increase in the number of crypto ATMs — convertible virtual currency kiosks — has been accompanied by a spike in the number of operators who fail to comply with anti-money laundering rules.

Imgur blocks UK access after the ICO notified it of a possible fine over its handling of kids' data; the ICO calls Imgur's move a "commercial decision" (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/30/imgur-pulls-out-of-uk…

Imgur pulls out of UK after data regulator warns of fines | TechCrunch
Imgur, one of the web's most popular image sharing and hosting platforms, has shut off access to its site in the U.K., following a notice of a fine by the country's data protection watchdog.

To my mind the following article suggests that the present day "AI" approach is very wrong.
Why? Because biological RI (Real Intelligence) out performs CI (Computer Intelligence) by orders of magnitude on many dimensions: power required (perhaps 20 to 50 watts for the human brain), weight, size, cooling, and ability to innovate in new ways.
Our present digital computer approach to intelligence seems about as apt as trying to power passenger airplanes using onboard coal…

OpenAI Signs $38 Billion Cloud Computing Deal With Amazon
After signing agreements to use computing power from Nvidia, AMD and Oracle, OpenAI is partnering with the world’s largest cloud computing company.