Tootfinder

My big gripe with "AI" is that a big reason why it's sold as the second coming of Jesus is that most tech people fundamentally do not understand how it actually works.
Their reasoning goes something like, "It works sort of ok for code generation, and programming is the hardest possible thing in the world to do, every other human endeavor is trivial compared to writing code, therefore it must excel at anything else!".
So it ends up being pushed due to a mixture of ignorance and hubris; and especially being stuffed into things it should never be used for (usually when users don't have a say which software they need to use for work).
The finbros are happily along for the ride because they just need something that can be hyped to pump and dump.

«The tech industry is being taken over by merchants of services, and the Open Source community is starting to depend on them. We've seen this coming, with GitHub being a startup, bought by Microsoft which is now pushing AI. They are the means of production.»
And FLOSS would be doing well to divest from the industrial-owened means of production sooner rather than later.
What AI is doing to developers - (not) my ideas
https://notmyidea.org/what-ai-is-doing-to-developers.html

All we're asking is for y'all to catch up on some history so you understand what you're coming into. Even #NoKings grew from #50501Movement, which started as a decentralized protest before being taken over by the nonprofit industrial complex. Antifa networks were doxxing fash hard through the first Trump admin, but those networks go all the way back to the 80's... And they inherited an even older tradition. If you really want to get down to it, the whole "no kings" thing in Europe was at the very least heavily influenced by indigenous folks in the so-called Americas. There's a lot of history that's lead to this moment, and it's kind of all relevant to understanding how we got here and how we actually get out.

In recent months, DDR4 and DDR5 RAM and SSD prices surged dramatically due to an ongoing AI chip shortage and panic buying; some RAM kits now cost 3x as much (Andrew Cunningham/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1

GPU prices are coming to earth just as RAM costs shoot into the stratosphere
Some RAM kits are over three times as expensive as they were three months ago.

Spain just fired up a biomass plant that fights wildfires while generating clean energy.
ACCIONA Energía's new 50 MW facility in Caceres uses forestry residues as fuel, clearing fire-prone vegetation while producing 380 GWh annually—enough to avoid 187,000 tonnes of CO2.
Beyond energy, it's creating 200 forest management jobs.

ACCIONA Energía starts renewable supply from Logrosan plant in Caceres
ACCIONA Energía has commenced supplying renewable energy from its Logrosan biomass plant located in Caceres, Spain, to the grid.

"Étonnamment [?], les temps de réaction lors de l'utilisation d'écrans au volant sont pires que ceux d'une personne ivre ou sous l'emprise de stupéfiants. Pas étonnant que 90 % des conducteurs détestent utiliser les écrans tactiles dans les voitures. L'industrie automobile revient enfin Š la raison."

Front yard garden as we head into Australian summer. Those beans on the right are 4 metres tall. Tromboncino battling it out with grapes for the pagola that shades all the east side of the house - green air conditioning for the summer. Tomatoes, capsicums, eggplants ripening, cucumbers to give away, snake beans coming on, carrots & fennel flowering to feed nectar to the ladybugs & make seed, so many geen beans I'm leaving some to mature. Onions & garlic nearly ready. Still p…

Top 25 New Biggest Free to Play Games coming in 2025 and 2026 - Enfant Terrible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvE5GTv0wJA

TOP 25 NEW BIGGEST Free to Play Games coming in 2025 and 2026
Take a look at the best free to play games with amazing next-gen graphics coming out in 2025, 2026 and beyond. Most of the games are being developed in Unrea...