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Heute dann gegen 14:45 Uhr doch noch #rausgeschafft, sodass ich kurz vor Ladenschluß bei der Bike-Zone Baden war, um ein Velorücklicht mit gelben Seitenmarkern (ja, aus Amiland 🤓) zu kaufen, das ich eigentlich nicht brauche, dort aber deutlich günstiger war als sonstwo. Das war ein guter Motivator für eine #Radtour

In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/youtube-social-media-addictio…

YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury.

In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/youtube-social-media-addictio…

Mobilfunk als Fledermaus-Radar: Vodafone zeigt ISAC-Potenzial im 5G-Netz
Nicht erst mit 6G: Vodafone und Tiami Networks zeigen auf dem MWC, wie 5G-Netze durch ISAC zu hochpräzisen Sensoren werden können.

Thank you to the kind person behind the anonymous account who keeps DMing/forwarding me screenshots of interesting Twitter posts about my work a few times a year, but then never responds. You know who you are and I truly thank you for your service! 🙏
As much as I appreciate it, unfortunately I can not go back to that place [if this is partially meant to lure me back] and I'd much rather wish for people still there due to various network effects and social pressures to organize them…

'I will kill him for the future': Notorious Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump pleads guilty to threatening to assassinate high-ranking congressman | Law & Crime
https://lawandcrime.com/crime/i-will-kill-him-for-the-future-notorious-jan-6-rioter-pardoned-by-trump-pleads-guilty-to-threatening-to-assassinate-high-ranking-congressman/

Had je al een goede reden gevonden om Odido te dumpen? Hier is NOG een reden... Odido inventariseert de apparaten in je huishouden.
"Je router stuurt namen en MAC-adressen van devices in je huis door naar Lifemote. Verder deelt het ding de SSID’s en MAC-adressen van WiFi-netwerken in de buurt. En wat analytics-stats over je dataverbruik. Lifemote adverteert met 'AI-Powered Home Wi-Fi Solutions for ISPs’".

Odido-router verzamelt analytics van je huishouden
Je Odido-router stuurt analytics-data over apparaten in je huis naar het bedrijf Lifemote. Dit vond ik gisteren tijdens een onderzoeksprojectje om mijn eigen WAN-verkeer te mitm'en.

Any #FreeBSD sysadmins out there running #Bastille jails with multiple interfaces?
Or any sort of jail with multiple interfaces?
I was going to try out Bastille rather than old-fashioned manual "Thick" jail like the ones I’ve set up before because I've never done multiple interfac…

Documentation and/or implementation of 'network' subcommand unclear. · Issue #1440 · BastilleBSD/bastille
I am attempting to create a jail acting as a specialized proxy with access to multiple host vlan interfaces. The existing host config is: cloned_interfaces="lagg0 vlan0 vlan1 vlan2 lo1" ifconfig_la...

Dave Farber - Grandfather of the Internet - is reported to have died.
I was never his student, but I learned my way of thinking about networks, as distributed systems rather than collections of connected machines, from his early DCS work (via my friend and Farber student, Frank Heinrich.)
I had the good luck to interact with Farber many times. I have several hours of unpublished video in which we discussed the history of the internet (and other matters) - I remember that day: We…

Cynicism, "AI"
I've been pointed out the "Reflections on 2025" post by Samuel Albanie [1]. The author's writing style makes it quite a fun, I admit.
The first part, "The Compute Theory of Everything" is an optimistic piece on "#AI". Long story short, poor "AI researchers" have been struggling for years because of predominant misconception that "machines should have been powerful enough". Fortunately, now they can finally get their hands on the kind of power that used to be only available to supervillains, and all they have to do is forget about morals, agree that their research will be used to murder millions of people, and a few more millions will die as a side effect of the climate crisis. But I'm digressing.
The author is referring to an essay by Hans Moravec, "The Role of Raw Power in Intelligence" [2]. It's also quite an interesting read, starting with a chapter on how intelligence evolved independently at least four times. The key point inferred from that seems to be, that all we need is more computing power, and we'll eventually "brute-force" all AI-related problems (or die trying, I guess).
As a disclaimer, I have to say I'm not a biologist. Rather just a random guy who read a fair number of pieces on evolution. And I feel like the analogies brought here are misleading at best.
Firstly, there seems to be an assumption that evolution inexorably leads to higher "intelligence", with a certain implicit assumption on what intelligence is. Per that assumption, any animal that gets "brainier" will eventually become intelligent. However, this seems to be missing the point that both evolution and learning doesn't operate in a void.
Yes, many animals did attain a certain level of intelligence, but they attained it in a long chain of development, while solving specific problems, in specific bodies, in specific environments. I don't think that you can just stuff more brains into a random animal, and expect it to attain human intelligence; and the same goes for a computer — you can't expect that given more power, algorithms will eventually converge on human-like intelligence.
Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, what evolution did succeed at first is achieving neural networks that are far more energy efficient than whatever computers are doing today. Even if indeed "computing power" paved the way for intelligence, what came first is extremely efficient "hardware". Nowadays, human seem to be skipping that part. Optimizing is hard, so why bother with it? We can afford bigger data centers, we can afford to waste more energy, we can afford to deprive people of drinking water, so let's just skip to the easy part!
And on top of that, we're trying to squash hundreds of millions of years of evolution into… a decade, perhaps? What could possibly go wrong?
[1] #NoAI #NoLLM #LLM