@kubikpixel@chaos.social2026-05-27 16:05:10
«Gemini statt Suchergebnisse — Googles KI-Strategie könnte das freie Internet zerstören:
Nach KI-Übersichten und KI-Modus will die Tech-Firma ihre Kernfunktion auf lange Sicht immer mehr an große Sprachmodelle übergeben. Unser Autor hält das für eine schlechte Idee und eine Gefahr für Googles Geschäftsmodell.»
…und nein, ich verstehe es immer weniger weshalb viele Googel heutzutage noch nutzen.
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@DamonHD@mastodon.social2026-05-27 11:54:34
Yesterday evening I bought a pint for the evening TTK meeting but it was off and horribly sour on first taste (I like sours, but this was not good). So was the second pint drawn by the bar steward, so I switched to something else. The evening went OK but when I got home and tried to sleep I got what is technically known as "massive gut rot" and had to sit up a lot of the night etc. I seem largely better now, and no technicolour yawn happened. Didn't go into uni: did supervi…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk2026-06-27 07:42:41
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-26 16:51:51
Konya is plagued by rapidly proliferating sinkholes.
In central Anatolia, where the agricultural fields of corn and wheat and beets stretch out for miles and miles,
the ground looks like it has been attacked by a cosmic hole punch
https://www.
@frankel@mastodon.top2026-07-18 09:20:33
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-05-22 05:10:51
The security industry is somewhat unique. It's probably the only industry created by the worker as a threat. If you talk to hackers who were in the scene before Operation Sundevil, you'll realize that it's always been a Bullshit Job.
Folks in L0ft and cDc were hacking companies and basically blackmailing them into paying for their services. Operation Sundevil "straightened up" the industry. Some people went to prison, some people build security services companies. Pretty much anyone who actually believed in the manifesto was locked up or edged out.
Using the Graeber framework here, hackers are partially duct tapers and partially goons. The critical thing here is that the industry was basically created to give money to people who would otherwise destroy the system.
Neuroatypical folks have always been forced to the margins of society, but computers gave us a super power. Now we were extremely dangerous. Tech, especially hackers, have always been paid a lot to minimize the risk of developing a class consciousness.
Graeber talked about this. Kings and nobles would often find some job or title that they could bestow on potential enemies in order to keep them close, to defang them. What better role than sheriff, a type of goon, for a rebel?
We turned it in to a whole thing. Not only did hackers make their own industry and force everyone else to accept it, we even created a whole parallel box ticker industry of "compliance" as a side effect.
The Hacker's Manifesto was decontectualized and made a fun artifact of the past. We were sold a story of "good hackers" who "protected grandma from the bad hackers." But the whole industry always existed to keep us on a leash. The funny thing is that it was a leash that we made ourselves.
But now we're seeing massive layoffs in tech, even in security. Now that we're this far in, everyone has forgotten the history. Leadership doesn't understand what security people do, so they think that LLMs can replace us. But the people in the industry now, the ones who came to it as a career, don't understand the history.
There was always a split for these weird outsiders, these people who couldn't fit in to the system but now had power over it. Some wanted in and they were willing to use extortion to get in, and others wanted to destroy the system to set everyone free.
Operation Sundevil, and the industry that evolved out of it, existed to neutralize those revolutionary elements by offering extortionists a safe entry. Extortionists trusted the capitalists to not stab them in the back the same way capitalists have stabbed everyone in the back through all of history. Now my LinkedIn feed is full of Meta layoffs, and I wonder if that class consciousness is starting to click for anyone yet.
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-05-20 10:02:15
Sam Altman says OpenAI offered to invest $2M in tokens in each startup in the current YC batch; a source says the offer is in exchange for equity via SAFE (Jemima McEvoy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/sam-altman…
@NFL@darktundra.xyz2026-05-22 16:06:38
Matthew Stafford's back injury was so bad that Rams almost QB placed on IR to start 2025 season
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/matthew-stafford-injury-qb-sean-mcvay/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-06-17 04:05:36
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-23 19:35:39
Tens of thousands of people in southeast Los Angeles County
have been engulfed in a dense cloud of smoke for nearly a week
as a fire continues to tear through a massive refrigerated warehouse in Boyle Heights.
Toxic air has covered the San Gabriel Valley and beyond at times,
as the fire continues to burn and the wind shifts the pall in different directions.
People have reason to be concerned about their loved ones breathing in the plume, experts say.
“The…