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Great talk by @… of #GNU #Hurd fame, in a packed room, selling the the Hurd really well (in my not entirely unbiased opinion, of course) and starting with
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#AI / #LLM propaganda is so insidiously effective even for laypeople.
I’ve had multiple conversations with family members who: don’t speak English, don’t own computers (only mobile phones), and barely spend time online.
I told them that I am no longer working with most tech company clients because I don’t like AI and don’t want to support it (“AI” here = gen AI, LLMs).
And yet these people all reacted the same way: concern, shock, and comments like “but this is inevitable”, “this is the future”, “you’ll have to accept it eventually”, “won’t refusing it ruin your career prospects?”
These are people who know nothing about technology. They usually wouldn’t even know what “AI” meant. And yet here they are, utterly convinced of AI company talking points.

"So what if, right, what if, we put the data centres in … space!
This idea has a lot of appeal if you’ve read too much sci-fi, and it sounds obvious if you don’t know any practical details."
(Original title: AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work)
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AI data centres — in SPACE! Why DCs in space can’t work
Spending all the money you have and all the money you can get and all the money you can promise has a number of side effects, such as gigantic data centres full of high-power chips just to run lyin…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Vorsicht, Kunde: Wenn die Stromrechnung zu hoch ausfällt
https://w…

AWS and Google Cloud announce a jointly built multicloud networking solution and a new open interoperability spec; AWS plans a rollout with Azure later in 2026 (Ryan Christoffel/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/12/01/amazon-googles-new-interco…

Amazon, Google’s new ‘interconnect’ might prevent major web outages - 9to5Mac
A new collaboration between Amazon and Google might just be the start of putting major web outages in the past.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
L’Rain:
🎵 New Year’s UnResolution
#LRain
https://lrain.bandcamp.com/track/new-years-unresolution-3
https://open.spotify.com/track/7iXBCAOrI7AGXBxxrwdILn

Alteration history of aluminum-rich rocks at Jezero crater, #Mars: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02856-3 -> Findings suggest red planet was warmer, wetter millions of years ago: https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/2025/Q4/findings-suggest-red-planet-was-warmer-wetter-millions-of-years-ago/ - evidence of rain-driven climate on Mars found in bleached rocks scattered in Jezero crater.

Running my own full-service, multi-tenanted & multi-domain email service gives me a remarkable feeling of power. It's is seriously cool (been running 4 of them for a bunch of years). In other news, Mailcow is superb - . https://mailcow.email/ (I run their Dockerized install)

Buyout von Electronic Arts: Saudi-Arabien stemmt über 90 Prozent
EA wird von einem Private-Equity-Konsortium gekauft, zu dem drei Firmen gehören. Nun werden die neuen Kräfteverhältnisse bekannt – sie sind wohl sehr einseitig.

Elon Musk fusioniert SpaceX mit xAI: KI aus dem Weltall mit Sonnenkraft
Elon Musks Raumfahrtfirma SpaceX übernimmt Elon Musks Firma xAI. Dazu gehören Grok und das Soziale Netz X. Die Pläne sind hochtrabend, selbst für Musk.
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