With everything going on in #Illinois right now with #ICE , I just want to post this plaque from the town square of Aachen, Germany:

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here.

Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:

comic by Nathan W. Pyle

A few weeks ago I got the chance to totally nerd out with folks about building #quantum computers out of real, individual atoms. Within just an HOUR, they learned the basics of quantum mechanics, neutral-atom quantum computers, and how to use them to solve the maximum independent set problem - they CRUSHED it! Running this workshop was really a life dream of mine and it was so great to see their eyes light up. No corporate talk about quantum supremacy - just pure excitement over something cool!

@jmechner I had no idea the original was rotoscoped! My friend growing up had Sands of Time, which was my introduction to the series.

Hi, I'm micr0, the creator of Altbot.

Almost a year ago, your incredible generosity helped us raise the funds to buy the server that Altbot runs on today (locally and privately) It's been operating from my home ever since, and I'm so grateful for the support that made that possible.

But now, the situation has become unsustainable. My home network is under a sustained, targeted DDoS attack aimed at taking Altbot offline. And unfortunatly this isn't just a threat to the bot, it's a serious security and privacy concern for my family.

A lot of people are probabaly going to be asking the same question I did: "Who is doing this?"
but the honest answer is: I don't know, and I likely never will. These attacks are launched through botnets and proxies designed specifically to hide the source. Figuring out the "who" is nearly impossible. The only thing I can do is focus on the "how to stop it."

Running this critical service from a residential address is no longer viable. To protect Altbot and my family, we need to move the server to a professional data center with proper, enterprise DDoS mitigation.

The Goal: $2,880 to cover 12 months of secure colocation.

This will provide a secure, stable home for Altbot with:

• Enterprise-grade DDoS protection
• 99.95%+ uptime guarantee
• 24/7 monitoring and security
• Separation from my personal home network

Donations can be made via:

• Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/micr0byte/goal?g=0
• GitHub Sponsors: https://github.com/sponsors/micr0-dev (More direct, Fewer fees)
• Ethereum: 0xC992E57236eb9F30E79d0469446a6CF08Be05939

This isn't just about maintaining a service. It's about ensuring that an important accessibility tool remains available for everyone who depends on it, while also protecting my family's privacy and safety.

Please consider supporting if you can. If you're unable to donate, boosts are incredibly valuable for raising awareness.

Thank you for your support and for believing in Altbot's mission.

#Altbot #Accessibility

This is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Just thought I'd post it here for no particular or current reason.

Gentoo Linux's AI policy forbids any content, including code, created with LLMs, for contributions to official Gentoo projects due to copyright, quality, and ethical concerns.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy

In the age of batshit AI companies like Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and others, a few opensource projects are making the correct call. Can Linux foundation also ban LLM?

#AI #LLM

For your guidance and info I have made this D&D style alignment chart for major generative AI tools and chatbots.

The leadership of this country is so fucking stupid.

@thomasfuchs Their goal is to justify the otherwise vanishingly little difference between OS upgrades. So they decide to switch to a style no-one wants - and hey if no-one wants it they get the opportunity to roll it all back in the next major OS release! (under a new UX codename of course!)

Instead of "vibe coding", maybe try to spend some time learning a new skill - like coding!

@bagder Wow. Just finished watching it. I think it's really important for such a critical project to be standing up to the AI mythos perpetuated by tech giants and shareholders.

I'm honestly quite concerned about the computer science literacy of new developers as we move into the 2030's. I think the very human tendency to be lazy has led to so many people to stop taking the time and effort to actually learn something new.

My #froscon keynote video is now available https://media.ccc.de/v/froscon2025-3407-ai_slop_attacks_on_the_curl_project

We now show all UK users this page based on their IP address.

We have to do this because of a new censorship law that was passed in the UK.

See it in action:

https://community.lgbtqia.space/blocked-uk

I fucking hate corporate spyware.

@bagder Oh, wow.

@bagder It's probably from co-authors if I had to guess

This is great. #QuantumComputing #GenAI #AISlop
https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/1237.pdf

"Replication of Quantum Factorisation Records with an 8-bit Home Computer, an Abacus, and a Dog"