Cory Doctorow, Chris Hayes, and David Roberts: why do people hate AI i can't figure it out
the AI companies: we are going to take away your ability to think and sell it back to you, that's our plan, literally and explicitly, we are saying it from a stage.
RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116217477822586442
The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever.
It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.
«¿Y si un médico te detecta un cáncer gracias a la IA, seguirás estando en contra de la IA?»
No has entendido nada.
No estoy en contra de cualqueir IA. Estoy en contra de la IA generativa. La IA de diagnostico, que es un sistema de clasificación de datos basada en machine learning y redes neuronales, pero que (a) no se ha generado robando masivamente datos, (b) ni tienen un impacto medioambiental masivo no está en esa categoria.
Digo más.
Aunque la IA diagnóstica necesita muchísimo menos poder de computación que la IA generativa, sigue necesitando hardware, energía y materias primas. Esos mismos hardware, energía y materias primas que la IA generativa consume de forma masiva, reduciendo su oferta y alterando su disponibilidad. Entre otras, reduciendo su disponibilidad para (exactamente) desarrollar y hacer funcionar la IA diagnostica.
Así que si mi médico me detecta un cáncer gracias a la IA diagnostica, no lo hará gracias a la IA generativa, sino A PESAR de ella.
Así que sí. Seguiré estando en contra de la IA generativa.
Open Source Radar Has Up To 20 KM Range
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/12/open-source-radar-has-up-to-20-km-range/
an LLM is a compiler in the same way that a slot machine is an ATM
Me he propuesto no corregir errores que vea cometidos por la IA.
El que quiera fiarse de la IA que sufra las consecuencias.
"The most wildly successful project I’ve ever released is no longer mine. In all my years of building things and sharing them online, I have never felt so violated."
https://beyondloom.com/blog/onwigglypaint.html
Edit: I am not the author of this. Please go check out https://beyondloom.com/ for more of the author's work.
Otra vez la tela de araña
Hace tiempo recibí la llamada de una persona de la Universidad de Sevilla con quien había compartido unos minutos en una feria. Anduvimos hablando de temas técnicos y comerciales y al final de la conversación me preguntó:
¿Tú eres el Francisco Molinero que traduces Ubuntu?
Sí, e inmediatamente me di cuenta de que le conocía desde hace meses por colaborar con las traducciones.
Me admira tu trabajo, me dice. Gracias -se las doy de corazón- eres la primera persona que me reconoce.
El mundo, la vida, está plagada de conexiones sutiles, pequeños hilos que se tejen y que esperan pacientemente que se los roce para avisar que alguien pasea por la tela de araña.
#cosasquemepasan
Seems like the original author saw this as well.
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/327
Please do not brigade the project.
A surprise collab just happened.
RE: https://chaos.social/@Foxboron/116170859737134271
When you try to get rid of LGPL, but LLMs generate no copyrightable works and you have accidentally gone from LGPL to Public Domain (and then you slap a license on it which you couldn’t do in the first place).
RE: https://eupolicy.social/@jmaris/116136455667388957
I lost the bet. Not a single mention of Open Source... It's like talking about construction without mentioning concrete! 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Following a decision by the Codeberg e. V.'s Presidium, Codeberg e. V. has joined the ranks of many organizations as a co-signatory of the draft letter of the "Keep Android Open" initiative: https://keepandroidopen.org/draft-letter/
Apart from the impact on the many independent developers hosting their source code on https://codeberg.org, we are concerned by the greater societal implications the Android ecosystem's current trajectory will cause. For more information, see: https://keepandroidopen.org
Así nos llegaban las ondas sísmicas (@CarlosGS) del terremoto de magnitud 4.3 ocurrido esta pasada madrugada en Tabernas (Almería) a distintas estaciones situadas en la península. Tenéis toda la información del evento en https://www.ign.es/web/ign/portal/ultimos-terremotos/-/ultimos-terremotos/getDetails?evid=es2026dgblx&zona=1
Yes, you may be killed by falling human made space junk, but the odds remain small(ish) that will occur. The (almost inevitable) #KesslerSyndrome may also prevent future #space flights if all those #satellites in Low Earth Orbit start colliding, creating countless debris.
However, we *ALL* have to worry about the ‘chemical problem’ being created by SpaceX et al in the upper atmosphere. I have been banging on about this for a while and the attached article summarises the science in an easy to understand way - I have pasted the bit about the ‘chemical problem’ below because we *ALL* need to understand what the billionaires are doing to the planet while we are watching.
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Debris on the ground attracts immediate attention, but atmospheric scientists are tracking a slower process with potentially larger consequences. When satellites vaporize in the mesosphere, 50 to 80 kilometers above Earth, they release clouds of vaporized metals that condense into aerosol particles. Those particles descend into the stratosphere, where Earth’s protective ozone layer resides.
Aluminum is the element of greatest concern. Upon reentry, aluminum oxidizes into aluminum oxide nanoparticles. A single 250 kilogram satellite generates roughly 30 kilograms of these particles. Unlike chlorofluorocarbons, which directly destroy ozone, aluminum oxide acts as a catalyst. One particle can facilitate chemical reactions that destroy thousands of ozone molecules over decades without being consumed.
Researchers from the University of Southern California’s Department of Astronautical Engineering documented an eightfold increase in atmospheric aluminum oxides between 2016 and 2022, directly correlating with the proliferation of satellite constellations, a finding reported in detail by CNET. In 2022 alone, reentering satellites released an estimated 41.7 metric tons of aluminum, approximately 30 percent more than the natural input from micrometeoroids.
Projections based on current deployment schedules suggest annual aluminum oxide emissions could reach 360 metric tons, a 646 percent increase over natural background levels, according to research highlighted by Popular Mechanics. Because these particles take 20 to 30 years to descend into the ozone layer, the atmospheric chemistry of today’s satellite fleet will not manifest as measurable ozone loss until the 2040s. By then, the upper atmosphere could already be saturated with catalysts.
NASA high altitude sampling flights over Alaska in 2023 detected the signature of this process. At approximately 60,000 feet, instruments found that 10 percent of stratospheric sulfuric acid particles larger than 120 nanometers contained aluminum and other metals traceable to spacecraft reentries, according to data presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting that year. The atmosphere now bears a permanent chemical marker of human activity in space.
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#space #science #TheBillionairesAreKillingUsAll
https://indiandefencereview.com/starlink-satellites-falling-nonstop-to-earth-risk/
A Supernova in Motion
In 1604, astronomers first caught sight of Kepler’s Supernova Remnant, a massive explosion some 17,000 light-years away. Twenty-five years of observations from the Chandra X-ray Observatory went into making this timelapse, which shows the supernova remnant‘s material pushing into the surrounding gas and dust.
In its fastest regions, the supernova remnant is moving around 2% of the speed of light–some 22 million kilometers per hour. Slower parts of the remnant are moving at just 0.5% of light-speed. (Image credit: NASA/CXC/SAO/Pan-STARRS; via Gizmodo)
#astrophysics #compressibleFlow #flowVisualization #fluidDynamics #physics #science #shockwave #supernova #turbulence"The chatbots also generated information that was just wrong or incomplete, including focusing on elements of the participants’ inputs that were irrelevant, giving a partial US phone number to call, or suggesting they call the Australian emergency number." https://www.404media.co/chatbots-health-medical-advice-study/
You don't use open source software because it's better (it usually isn't).
You don't use open source software because it's freer (it only sometimes is).
You don't use open source software because it's got better politics (it isn't always).
You use open source software because *it is the only option*. In the long run, if it isn't open source, it doesn't exist.
image source: keithstack.com
