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Hi #Berlin: Free Sideboard for pickup. 120cmx108cmx40cm, three doors, a small hole in the back for cables.

Many people are cheering for the popping of the "AI" bubble. Maybe it's not that simple though
https://tante.cc/2025/11/23/desire-to-pop/

Desire to Pop
Abstractions are powerful tools. Given enough abstraction everything gets somewhat simple. Somewhat clear. Also somewhat wrong. Abstraction turns everything real, material, consequential into mostly nothing. The abstraction of “a relationship” hides all the love and care and desire it might entail. The abstraction of “the border” hides the violence its defense entails. Given enough abstraction […]

I am kinda planning the upcoming months and the next year.
Any conferences you think I should put on my radar? Would love to speak more about decomputing/active luddism and tech.

Hey @…:
Das mit dem KI-generierten Zeugs ist für ein Medium, dass sich der Wahrheit verschrieben hat, natürlich schon ganz grundsätzlich problematisch. Aber, was geht denn da unter

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/115756875745330765
This is an interesting question (my money would be on WordPress TBH, even though Firefox might be more important)

Thanks everyone for the Karak recommendation. Been playing that for a few hours now. Had to force a breakfast break on the little dungeoneer ;)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115585682390541526
This thread.

Wenn er nicht für den Laden hier verantwortlich wäre, wäre Friedrich Merz' Inkompetenz beim Regierungshandwerk fast lustig. Der lernt einfach gar nicht dazu.

Worked with a hand-held circular saw today. It's been a good day. I am a sucker for power tools.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115746730662598273
FLOSS needs fewer corporations and more structures where the public (not only developers) can actually determine the path into the future.
FLOSS only means more than "Amazon and Microsoft ca…

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115746700098797838
(I also think Palantir is even worse but I would have expected OpenAI to be a bit more "popular".
Both employers are indefensible.)

"The [resonant computing] Manifesto promises to fix everything that’s wrong on the internet right now. But you look at the authors and the signers, you’ll see the same guys who caused the present problems. These guys made it rich on the Torment Nexus and they’re now claiming they can fix it."
(Original title: The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys)

The Resonant Computing Manifesto: same AI slop, same AI guys
Back in the 1990s, in the first flowering of the World Wide Web, the Silicon Valley guys were way into their manifestos. “A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace”! The “Cluetrain Manifesto!…

"Die Bundesregierung beweist mit dieser Reform, wie wichtig ihr die Bekämpfung von Kinderarmut ist: absolut gar nicht. Die Reform ist deshalb auch ein düsterer Ausblick auf das kommende Jahr: Der Abbau des Sozialstaates hat begonnen."
(Original title: Bürgergeld: Höchststrafe Obdachlosigkeit)
http://www.taz.de/Buergerge…

Bürgergeld: Neue Schikanen für die Ärmsten
Das Kabinett hat eine Bürgergeldreform mit Verschärfungen beschlossen. Von den Sanktionen sind vor allem Kinder betroffen.

Good night.

So if your software is not a thing people have already written a lot of times "AI" can't help doing it?
I thought for coding it was supposed to be super capable now?

"This Week in Videogames spoke to a dozen professional concept artists in the wake of Vincke’s comments, all of whom currently or have previously worked in game development, ranging from indie studios to large AAA developers. All, without exception, said that ‌generative AI image tools had only made their lives more difficult – even when simply used as reference material."

Transform Mozilla from a company to a democratically run collective and see how long management will still be overpaid and hires rentier capitalists.
https://social.cryptography.dog/@ansuz/115746707589261530

Which employer would you judge people more harshly for?

When looking at what the western AI companies are doing my current view is:
- OpenAI is actively evil. There's no morals or anything. Just scamers trying anything to amass power and money
- Anthropic is has sniffed so much of its own farts that most of what they are doing is just writing fan fiction for their own models. They are not evil as much as they just need psychological help
- Mistral is yelling a lot of "we are European" which nobody hears cause who give…

Anyone here has any experience with a ToDo/Shopping list one can
- self host
- has an Android app
- allows sharing lists between users
?
(I have already googled, only interested in actual experience)
(EDIT: I am asking for an app because I want to be usable by another person who's not looking for an ideological project or an opportunity to learn markdown or how weird PWAs work. That's why a dedicated app would be a plus. )

RE: https://mastodon.social/@why_not/115578082606498050
Ich liebe diese Aktion. Denn Friedrich Merz ist ja vor allem ein 15jähriger im Körper eines 70jährigen, den packt das.
Wir sollten Leute für ihre Äußerungen viel häufiger shamen. Dinge müssen K…

RE: https://social.opensource.org/@policy/115575889086954433
Sure, bringing more Open Source into public infrastructures would be great. Pouring more funding (and structural support) into that space also would be fantastic.
But what has "AI…

Looking for a good dungeon crawler-y board game where the rules are simple enough to play it with smaller kids. (I have been playing a bit of Mice and Mystics with my 5 year old and he's super into the whole thing.
Any recommendations (only games you played, consider I know how to use internet searching)

GitHub is not your friend. They're also not on your side.

So, @… wrote an interesting reflection on "AI" and Firefox a few days ago: https://www.anildash.com/2025/11/14/wanting-not-to-want-ai/
…

I know you don’t want them to want AI, but…
A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

"Es braucht institutionelle Schranken für Lobbyaktivitäten, wenn sich das neoliberale Credo des „schlanken“ Staates nicht länger in politischen Entscheidungen niederschlagen soll."
(Original title: Einfluss von Lobbyisten: Es braucht klare Schranken)
http://www.taz.de/Einfluss-von-Lobbyisten

Einfluss von Lobbyisten: Es braucht klare Schranken
Lobbygruppen wissen genau, wie sie sich einen Weg in die Politik bahnen können. Dagegen braucht es ein Bewusstsein und institutionelle Schranken.

Ich würde euch ja nicht zum Fernsehen anhalten aber wenn das was ist, was ihr mögt: Am Dienstag abend um 20:15 diskutiere ich beim RBB live darüber, ob "KI" und dümmer macht. (Die Antwort wird niemanden hier überraschen)
https://www.rbb-online.de/fernsehen/progra

rbb24 - Der Talk 18.11.2025 20:15
Werden wir immer dümmer oder doch immer klüger durch KI? In Zeiten, in denen uns die Künstliche Intelligenz immer mehr "Denkarbeit" im Alltag und im Job abnimmt, stellt sich diese Frage dringlicher denn je. Wie steht es um unsere menschliche Intelligenz, jetzt da die künstliche Intelligenz so präsent ist?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@firefoxwebdevs/115740500373677782
I like that Firefox is (through @…) communica…

"What Mozilla leadership has continually demonstrated for the last several years is that they not only fail to understand the values of those who believe in and use the product, but they also have no intention of figuring out a non-parasitic financial basis for the organization to operate."
https://blo…

"... and the darkness takes over"
(Original title: Abyssal)
https://thesecretknots.com/comic/abyssal/

RE: https://nileane.fr/@nileane/115570855799458529
The Future(tm)

"Although Ecosia is a not-for-profit, they seem to be re-enacting the for-profit erosion of human knowledge and the active murder of the open web currently being orchestrated by Google and the other tech giants."
(Original title: Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech)
https://

Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech
Why replace human work with fossil-fuel-slurping mistake generators? Ecosia’s “Green AI” is selling false hope for bad tech

Im April spreche ich auf der Rack&Stack Konferenz über Decomputing. Weitere Teile des Programms sind nun öffentlich.
(Original title: Golem-Konferenz Rack & Stack 2026: Diese Speaker stehen fest, jetzt verbilligte Tickets sichern)
https://www.…

Golem-Konferenz Rack & Stack 2026: Diese Speaker stehen fest, jetzt verbilligte Tickets sichern - Golem.de
Das Programm für die Rack & Stack steht in großen Teilen, wir haben Zusagen von einigen tollen Speakern! Bis Ende Januar können noch Vorschläge eingereicht und vergünstigte Tickets gekauft werden.

"Don't be evil" is so far in the past, it's not even a memory anymore
(Original title: Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort)
https://www.404media.co/google-has-chosen-a-side-in-trumps-mass-deportation-ef…

Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group. “It is time to choose sides; fascism or morality? Big tech has made their choice.”

Ahoi München.
Am Mittwoch, den 11.02.2026 sprechen wir abends bei der Münchener Volkshochschule im Rahmen des Programmschwerpunktes Zukünfte über den "Mythos der Innovation".
Man kann sich noch anmelden:
https://www.

I criticize Mozilla quite strongly. That's not cause I want them to die. It's because while they might've lost their way I strongly believe we need organizations like Mozilla. (Even if Mozilla as "tech-company" probably needs to either massively pivot or be replaced with something that servers the people [insert my usual "There should be a government funded agency that buys things like Firefox and develops it in a transparent and democratic way" shpiel])

RE: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EC_DIGIT/115564144071125950
Yeah you can save a lot of time by accepting that "it cannot" is the answer. You mustn't draft legislation with an LLM because in that context words do massivel…

tante.cc is again protected by the most recent iocaine version.
It's gotten really easy to set up and it's already capturing (and poisoning with Luddite writings) boatloads of "AI" bots
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/documentation/3/

Polizisten dreschen mal wieder auf Abgeordnete der Linkspartei ein. Um als Parlamentarier sicher vor der Polizei zu sein, muss man wohl bei der AfD mitlaufen...
(Original title: Parlamentarische Demo-Beobachtung: Polizisten schlagen Linken-Politiker*innen)
http://www.taz.de/Parlamentarische-Demo-B

Parlamentarische Demo-Beobachtung: Polizisten schlagen Linken-Politiker*innen
Gleich zwei Linken-Bundestagsabgeordnete erleben Polizeigewalt. Sie verfolgten als parlamentarische Be­ob­ach­te­r*in­nen Demonstrationen in Berlin.

"The tech platforms that promised to transform our attention spans succeeded, but only superficially. They created a new, much worse way of creating culture. A universe of dumbasses talking to other dumbasses, measured by numbers that don’t make sense and don’t reflect anything other than passive screen time."
(Original title: The Great Dumbening)

The Great Dumbening
Read to the end for it’s Tronin’ time

So I think I'll need to read up on it a bit. I understand that "Passkeys" try to do something similar as SSH pubkeys.
But do you know a good technical explainer of what's going on and how it works?
(Yes, I could search myself but I am looking for recommendations of articles you have read that you found helpful and clear.)
EDIT: https://

Passkeys.io – A Real-World Passkey Demo & Info Page
Try a Realistic Passkey Demo Login and User Profile. Browse the Passkey Directory and Find Websites With Passkey Support. Learn About Device Compatibility and Technical Details.

This Never Post episode on the question of whether "AI" is the esthetics of American Fascism is great. Mike Rugnetta takes you on an enlightening stroll through media theory and the fucked up reality we live in. It's challenging but worth it. https://www.neverpo.st/a-i-and-new-america

🆕 Never Post! A.I. and New American Fascism
Is a generated aesthetic the look of our times?

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115555052555644231
In fact: The "post scarcity" that the western, rich countries feel mostly comes at the cost of the global majority. Colonialism always felt "post-scarcy". Because it forces the cost …

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115554649044087489
Der Pipeline von "KI" Forscher zu Rassentheoretikern und Eugenikern ist leider extrem ausgebaut.
Wäre doch ne schöne Gelegenheit für den

Ich habe ja nicht so oft die Gelegenheit für die Jacobin zu schreiben, aber wenn, bin ich der Designs wegen doch immer begeistert. Die neue Ausgabe ist jetzt erhältlich, ich habe über Chatbots geschrieben.

Beim Forum Kommunikationskultur der Gesellschaft für Medienpädagogik und Kommunikationskultur habe ich dieses Jahr eine Keynote über digitale Resilienz gehalten.
Der Mitschnitt steht nun zur Verfügung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1Jo7mqhKdI

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/115730052589989499
It is super expensive but it really seems to be time to think about how to create and fund an entity that can fork Firefox while Mozilla does some weird AI pie in the sky shit.

Been re-reading Langdon Winner's "The Whale and the Reactor".
Winner published this in 1988 and it still 100% applies. His criticism of "values" discourse, of certain strategies of trying to defend important structures by adopting the language and thinking of the opponent. The focus on numbers while devaluing experience. The hollowness of the decentralization discourse.
Damn.

Was in a trolly mood so I submitted a "Decomputing" talk to a conference on "digital sovereignty". Let's see how that lands.

"LLMs use fewer resources doing $task than humans so using them isn't an ecological problem."
So what are you arguing for? What happens with the humans we no longer "need"?
That argument leads only to monstrosity.

It's absolutely fucked up how quickly Google Search went from my go-to search to a "yuck, why is this shit on, get me out of here".
Like when I search on Android by accident and get AI summaries I have literally yelled at my phone. Absolutely batshit how quickly Google could destroy the reputation if their core product.

Just checking: Hat sich Friedrich Merz für seine rassistischen Ausfälle über "Probleme im Stadtbild" wenigstens entschuldigt? Oder ist es jetzt einfach öffentlich akzeptiert, sich derart menschenfeindlich zu äußern?

I mean I'll take "Engineer" but why the fuck would you put this into your "free wireless at our location" captive portal?

A few remarks on "AI" usage and the narrative surrounding it. I think it's about the difference between disconnected creating and embodied making.
(Original title: Something from nothing)
https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/

Something from nothing
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I’m “selfmade” and that my position in society, my access to resources, etc. had nothing […]

"These findings show that the use of stakeholder tends to performatively entrench the existing power of “industry stakeholders” or nameless but clearly already engaged and empowered “key stakeholders”"
(Original title: You have a stake in reading this – Hi, I'm Heather Burns)
https://

We bought into the "post scarcity" narrative because digital tech feels so magic and ethereal but we need to get back to an understanding of the material costs and effects of those systems. They are not very post-scarce in reality.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kathrinpassig/115554872054837228
Kathrin schreibt die beste Science Fiction.

RE: https://norden.social/@wackJackle/115547032609725592
Joscha Bach, der hier einen Zivilisationsbruch nach dem nächsten im Austausch mit seinem Geldgeber Jeffrey Epstein macht, spricht dieses Jahr _wieder mal_ auf dem Chaos Communication Congress btw

This comment on the "resonant computing manifesto" really nails it.
The job of that manifesto was to capture the growing trend of "fuck this tech landscape" vibe und direct it in a way that the same people who profited of the last decades will continue to profit. Off of us.
https://

the resonant computing manifesto
() background: the resonant computing manifesto counts among its drafters at least three xooglers with at least a decade of tenure each; three venture ca...

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115706875475817593
(Really happy I stayed in the Debian camp all my Linux live, I was tempted to play around with Fedora Silverblue but that feeling has somehow vanished)

I do not think that Meta's Metaverse failed cause the devs weren't efficient enough. It's conceptually flawed and underbaked at best, without vision and direction. A toy Mark no longer cares too much about.
(And even getting 5% more efficiency out of LLMs is a stretch, studies show improvement of 1 or 2% at best - because you have to spend a lot of time to clean up the generated mess, especially if you are building frameworks and foundational technologies)

Meta Tells Workers Building Metaverse to Use AI to ‘Go 5x Faster’
Meta says that its coders should be working five times faster and that it expects "a 5x leap in productivity."

RE: https://mastodon.social/@campuscodi/115719147481715249
Good decision by the GNOME project
Edit: It's not fully true. You can use AI but you will get your extension rejected if it does the usual AI generated code shenanigans.

Ich wills ja nicht beschwören, aber ich sitze in einem Zug von Berlin nach Basel, wir sind kurz vor Freiburg und auf die Minute pünktlich. Funktionierende Infrastruktur ist schon auch geil.

Have to get up a 5:15 tomorrow morning to catch a train to hamburg :(
But on the other hand: Tattoo consultation in the evening. Ending on a high note.

Whenever a company releases a fancy new "desktop app" and it's just electron shit, they should pay me 100 bucks.

Hallo Baden-Württemberg!
Eure Regierung will Palantirs Software einsetzen, was absolut nicht im Interesse von irgendwem ist.
Es gibt eine offizielle Petition dagegen, mitzeichnen, weiterleiten, Eure Eltern und Familien damit zusammen:
https://petitionen.landtag-bw.de/Pe…

In der Episode 6 des ShareCast des Zentrums für Verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung (@…) geht es um Open Source und ob das alles super ist. ich darf mal wieder ein bisschen in die Suppe spucken:
https://

"In the end, we are defined not just by our actions, but by the actions we tolerate."
Mike Monteiro with another banger
(Original title: How to eat with others)
https://buttondown.com/monteiro/archive/how-to-eat-with-others/

How to eat with others
This is the last painting I did at my old studio. I left it behind. You can support my shenanigans for a mere $2/mo. This week’s question comes to us from...

This is just such a waste of money.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115343249383566862

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image Europe is upping its game in AI. Researchers, innovators & policymakers now have stronger support to shape the future of science. Today we launched two AI strategies to boost EU leadership in scientific innovation: 🥼 AI in Science 🔹Access to AI Factories & Gigafactories 🔹Stronger EU & global cooperation 🔹 Impact on major challenges such as climate change and health 🔬 Apply AI: 🔹Enhances EU tech sovereignty 🔹Targeted actions to boost AI in key secto…

You cannot be a company arguing about values (right to repair, autonomy) and then trample other people's rights. Shame on @….
https://bsd.network/@dch/1153425494265

dch :flantifa: :flan_hacker: (@dch@bsd.network)
Hey @frameworkcomputer@fosstodon.org I just cancelled my order because you fund #HateSpeech via hyprland & omarchy. I got a minisforum workstation instead of funding your sponsorship. #TransRightsAreHumanRights

First time seeing a bigger band on a stage I myself have given a talk on. (Coheed and Cambria @ Festsaal Kreuzberg)

Falls jemand hier im Bereich Software Entwicklung / Prototyping unterwegs ist, in Berlin wohnt (oder wohnen wollen würde) und nen Job sucht, wir haben gerade openings. (Nicht nur die explizit ausgeschriebene Junior Stelle, auch Seniors könnten relevant sein) https://artcom.de/?job_description=jun…

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@nettime_mod/115649227256364783
Dear users of the TLDR instance: Fundraising is still going.

The current "Never Post" episode on DIYing your "cloud" is great. Not just cause it shows what is possible, that you actually can do a lot, but also the cost (financial and others). Because hosting things (especially for others) is and requires care work. Great interview.
https://www.neverpo.st/dont-do-it-yourself…

🆕 Never Post! Don’t Do It Yourself
Unless you know what you're doing.

"chatbots over-rely on this kind of sensory-immaterial conjunction because[IT] impresses people passing superficially over a text--exactly the kind of fake-deep crowd-pleaser for which L.L.M. output is being fine-tuned."
(Original title: Will A.I. writing ever be good?)
https://maxread.substa…

Will A.I. writing ever be good?
Some notes on A.I. writing

"These “prediction markets” take Zuckerberg’s “here are 12 photographs of eggs” philosophy to its logical endpoint. A way to capture one of the few parts of the human experience they haven’t been able to ingest into their mega-platforms. Here are 12 photographs of opinions, bet on which ones will come true."
(Original title: Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on)

Here are 12 photographs of eggs... you can bet on
Read to the end for the only place you should go when your wife becomes a sex addict and starts cheating on you with everybody

"tief gekränktes Männerego" ist Friedrich Merz' komplette Persönlichkeit.
(Original title: Merz bei Miosga: Der Kanzler missbraucht seinen Kinderreichtum für Seitenhiebe gegen Merkel)
https://www.

Familienpolitik: Merz missbraucht sein Vaterdasein, um Merkel herabzuwürdigen
Friedrich Merz brüstet sich damit, der »erste Kanzler mit eigenen Kindern« seit 1998 zu sein. Das ist nicht nur falsch, sondern infam. Und offenbart ein von Vorgängerin Angela Merkel tief gekränktes Männerego.

That was the weirdest thing about the Metaverse: That Mark Zuckerberg having more money than god couldn't spend a few buck on people who could actually develop a compelling vision for their toy.
https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115350074152009101

RE: https://hci.social/@fasterandworse/115708118238131855
We all know the pitch is just that you no longer have to write. They want to be the infrastructure for entities to "create content" (derogatory)

(Do not quote post your wordpress' activitypub posts cause that stuff doesn't seem to be cached by most caching plugins so you dDOS your server)

RE: https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/
I wrote a thing about "AI" (again). Sorry.

"IBM owns Red Hat which in turn runs Fedora, the popular desktop Linux distribution. Sadly, shit rolls downhill, so we’re starting to see some worrying signs that Fedora is going to be used a means to push “AI”."
(Original title: Using “AI” to manage your Fedora system seems like a really bad idea)

@… also fun: https://www.osnews.com/story/144006/using-ai-to-manage-your-fedora-system-seems-like-a-r…

It's not that "the Internet" is worse or "enshittified" or whatnot. That's just clinging to the belief that the Internet is special and separate from the "real world".
The world is being made worse by capitalism in a massive way.

Die neue Tech Won't Save Us episode ist @… Bait:
"Why We Need a War on Cars"
https://techwontsave.us/episod…

Why We Need a War on Cars w/ Doug Gordon and Sarah Goodyear - Tech Won’t Save Us

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115684069138548218
(Basically I recommend ever Never Post episode because it's my favorite podcast about the Internet. Subscribe to the feed and maybe even go for their 4 USD/month package? It's absolutely worth i…

My laptop fully agrees
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/115304284911682449

This film if from 1976 and it's hard to overstate how much all of this applies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwMVMbmQBug

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@nettime_mod/115649227256364783
The Paypal issue is fixed so if you wanted to support this server now is the time.

But if AI is so userful and everyone wants it, why does Microsoft have to cut its AI sales targets in half?
(Original title: Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas)
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/12/mic<…

Microsoft drops AI sales targets in half after salespeople miss their quotas
Report: Microsoft declared “the era of AI agents” in May, but enterprise customers aren’t buying.

"It's not that any of the other streaming services are good, but Spotify is almost certainly the worst. Do not trust it. Do not let it turn your enjoyment of music into stats and algorithmic playlists."
(Original title: Spotify Haters Club)
https://knru.polin.ski/spotify-haters-

Spotify Haters Club
You know something that is absolutely worth considering? Planning an exit from the culture-destroying, weapons-investing, ICE-advertisement platform known as Spotify, a place where music is seen only as a tool to destroy people's imaginations and flatten art into a homogenised, AI-friendly, beige churn of endless content to immiserate us all.

"Digital Sovereignty" as a term always has the implicit danger of fueling nationalist narratives. We should be finding better terms, I like @… 's "resilient infrastructure" framing.

Got to say a few words on "AI and Art" on the "Blaues Rauschen" Podcast. My main point: AI art will not only diminish what people using it can express but will also change people's acceptance of friction: If all you know if perfectly smooth slop, will you really accept anything but? Also: Decomputing.
https://

If you "cannot imagine how to figure out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT" maybe you shouldn't be the caretaker of one TBH.

It's kinda weird how the Linux Foundation has accepted to become the dumping ground for tech/infrastructure that fall out of some tech hype. First they picked up a lot of Blockchain stuff, now they do AI infra.

There is a special place in hell for AI boosters who claimed stochastic parrots to be the best thing ever and who now pivot to talking (usually in the form of criti-hype) about the societal dangers of Sora2.

I know Star Wars is often kinda dumb. The movies are plot-holey and often kinda bad.
But seeing the first one with my almost 6 year old and playing Lego Star Wars with him is something special. Like the joy he feels seeing those characters do their weird shit, the way he really gets into thinking about the stories and why people do what and who they might have also talked to is just ... the best. I'm actually looking forward to watching even the prequels with him.

So we've been using a Neato vacuum robot for years. It works and with cats having the main living areas vacuumed every day was great. Now the company who bought them no longer wants to run the backend cloud service that allows the robot to actually run on a schedule which is the point of the whole operation.
Vorwerk just created a whole lot of e-waste for shits and giggles.

Here's the CEO of Vercel chatting with Netanjahu about AI _today_.
Great that Mr Rauch is now "Optimistic for Peace, safety and greatness for Israel and its neighbors". People in Gaza will be very happy.
You still deploying all your shit to Vercel and using their software stack?
(Link: https://x…

No idea what the Kagi crawler does but it has been caught by iocaine ;)
EDIT: It wasn't the Kagi crawler but the Google crawler ;)