Eternally confused neurodiverse nerd, lost between languages and cultures.
Full Snack developer by profession.
Tinkerer by passion.
Open source, Privacy, Decentralization, and Digital Sovereignty is very important to me.
Fediverse seems to becoming yet another echo chamber, with over the top emotional hot takes, where everyone else is wrong, where nuance and complex opinions don't feel welcome.
We are somehow managing to amplify anger and rage without any algorithms.
Time to uninstall this app.
My cover for the ‘New York Times For Kids’ which is in TODAY’S @nytimes.com. I drew the centrespread and some spot illustrations as well.
First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.
They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then what? Rinse and escalate.
You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.
We don't have to wait that it escalates.
We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.
Where does Berlin rank when it comes to open source?
A recent survey by the IHK Berlin shows that:
● Around three quarters of the companies surveyed already use open source software
● Eighty percent expect digital sovereignty to become increasingly important in software procurement.
Find out more about the figures, expectations, challenges, and the need for political action – and why platforms such as OpenCloud play a role in this.
https://opencloud.eu/en/news/berlin-companies-rely-open-source
I very much get a "we just discovered radium and want to put it in everything" vibe from this whole generative AI bubble.
(Including the thing where companies used to slap the word "radium" on existing products even though they thankfully did not actually have any radioactive materials. Like "radium butter".)
Insisting that everyone should have a clear, recognizable and unchangeable gender only makes sense if you want to treat people of different genders differently.
Which you clearly shouldn't.
don't get me wrong. Generative "AI" slop is garbage, and so are the AI companies pushing them.
but we don't need to engage in disinformation and fear mongering.
It's the "ChatGPT takes 10x the energy of a Google search" all over again.
And because most of us are tired of all the AI garbage, we'll just boost every toot that agrees with our sentiments.
This is how we create echo chambers.
There is plenty of genuine issues in the "AI". Why do news outlets think that we need clickbaity disinformation like this?
An average microwave consumes over a 1kWh, if the magnetron runs continuously for an hour (which no sane microwave will do). That's about 3 hours of continuous usage of a typical 3090, which can generate 5 second videos in about 15 minutes.
So, the numbers here seem exaggerated by around 12x.
More concrete arguments for digital sovereignty for everyone.
Between Granite 4.0 Tiny and Falcon-H1 we are starting to see more hybrid Attention + SSM open-source models.
Looking forward to running these significantly more efficient models locally, outperforming SOTA models from less than 2 years ago.
https://www.ibm.com/new/announcements/ibm-granite-4-0-tiny-preview-sneak-peek
I just want to give a HUGE shout out to all the developers working on #phosh and #mobian because the latest experience is amazing. I know there is no first class citizen Linux Mobile device, but the software has improved leaps and bounds over the last few years. Bravo to everyone involved. I only wish I could do more to help.
Gemma 3n seems like a good home-use LLM.
Just smart enough to do local tool calling.
I just spent the weekend trying to build an ESP32 NTP server from scratch, trying to understand NMEA and SAPOS, but so far in vain.
Andreas Spiess posted a video building the exact same thing 😍.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=BGb2t5FT-zw
https://github.com/SensorsIot/NTP-Server-with-GPS/tree/main/ESP32
I'm starting to really like 'vibe coding'...
I've now had several clients come to me to take over projects that another agency was working on because the other agency started using generative AI. Apparently there was a real drop in product quality. I wonder why.
Basically vibe coding is making me money specifically because I'm not using it.
Squinting at MCP as an old person, seeing which parts are like CGI, which parts are like Gopher, and which parts are like SOAP.
In light of GitHub going full genAI agents, which will likely lead to a flood of garbage PRs that will make dependabot nags a joke:
Would other foss maintainers with projects on GitHub be interested in some kind of event where we all get together and try moving our projects over to @Codeberg?
I’m thinking of it as a way to both promote our foss projects, provide mutual support during the moves, find solutions to small cuts we run into along the way, and just generally have fun together?
Boosts and ideas welcome!
If anyone is interested in talking more about this or participating, even if you’re not a core maintainer for a project, I’ve created Discord and Matrix places we can start chatting in: https://discord.gg/fcSeuv56qp and https://matrix.to/#/%23nohub:matrix.org
zbus recently passed 20 million unique downloads on crates.io. 🎉 With downloads peaking consistently on weekdays (reaching to 70K on some days) and dropping drastically on the weekends, it's very obvious that most of this use is commercial.
So if you or your company relies on zbus, please consider sponsoring my work. 🙏 Resharing of this message would also help.
Wird Zeit, dass die Pflanzen auf Interrupts umstellen, so viel Pollen sind nicht ok
“Direct capture is a scam, carbon capture is a scam, blue hydrogen is a scam, and electrofuel is a scam. These are all scam technologies that do nothing for the climate or air pollution,”
https://heimildin.is/grein/24581/climeworks-capture-fails-to-cover-its-own-emissions/
