I can at least appreciate that they don’t gaslight with “We value your privacy” immediately before launching into “We and our 142 partners store…”. Do we really need to make it 80% of the screen height though?

It's very sad to see #rsync getting polluted with LLM slop now.

Even more sad, given who is doing it.

People are talking angrily about "the maintainer" and suggesting "this guy" [should have his commit bit revoked] etc. apparently not realising that "this guy" is Tridge, both the original author of rsync and creator of samba. His PhD thesis "Efficient Sorting & Synchronization Algorithms" describes the original rsync algorithm. Still worth a read, even now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Tridgell

none of this is inevitable.

#art #AI #illustration #liberation

(poster by earth liberation studios: https://linktr.ee/earthliberationstudio)

It's the Sloppiest™

THIS IS IMPORTANT!

While #StopKillingGames is advancing, the industry is seemingly preparing counter measures behind closed doors tomorrow!

Please read this open letter about the situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/StopKillingGames/comments/1tuz5qu/skg_letter_to_the_community/

This Telegram bridge bot is so ass. I have to always correct something: handles with incorrect at symbols, broken links, excessive line breaks... And it's half broken SSL site reeks of vibecoded shit. I had tried taking a different bot and hosting it on my own, but that has its problems as well.

The backlash against Palantir is widening, following organic resistance in the NHS against its software, the London Mayor's halting of a Met Police contract with the firm and publicly expressed concerns by commentators, yesterday the House of Commons technology committee joined the calls to reduce the use of Palantir's products/services, with a call for the Govt. to enact the break clause in its contract with the firm in 2027.

Can we rid ourselves of this blight?

#politics #Palantir

h/t FT

You know, when I was playing Cyberpunk, I thought it was a bit silly that literally every single enemy could be hacked remotely. Even bosses (although they get some resistances to the actual hack effects). And like, it seems like it would be pretty easy to protect yourself against such attacks: Just don't connect to the net.

And even if you absolutely need to connect, for getting like, tactical data or some other bullshit: Just sandbox it. At worst, you'll lose your tactical data, instead of getting your gonk brain fried by a sneaky asshole a block away who proxied through 7 cameras (I'm the sneaky asshole!).

But seeing the news of fucking rsync of all software becoming unreliable, to the point that it risks wiping your data, because it's getting vibe-coded updates... That made me realize that this is how Cyberpunk happens in real life. Critical infrastructure becomes vibe-coded to the point that everything becomes insecure.

Even the stack of software that hosts, distributes and keeps tracks of versioning for other software could potentially become, or depend on vibe-coded slop. Leading to a corruption of the record of the last known good software versions. At the very least, it could make it difficult to find out which versions are the good ones. Github is already falling apart for fucks sake! And yeah, there's alternative hosting solutions. But as far as fiction goes, for CP2077, it more and more looks like the only part where you need to suspend your disbelief, is that every single piece of usable software got infected by vibe-coding in one way or another, to the point that Software Engineering as a profession ceased to exist. Replaced entirely by techbros with a Claude subscription.

As a result, humanity mostly forget what sandboxing even is. And even those who know, can't really do anything about it, because all remaining traces of sandboxing has vibe-code all over the place, and building a secure sandbox from scratch is impossible because it needs to be built on a vibe-coded OS, which itself connects to the world on a vibe-coded protocol...

So yeah, that's my headcannon. And I don't think the real world will come that close to the fiction (I hope!), but at least it makes it plausible that you can just hack into anything and everything in this game.

Well, well, well... look who comes crawling back. 😂 The data is in, and the AI hype cycle is hitting a massive reality check. 55% of executives now admit they regret replacing human workers with AI. Even worse? 29% of companies have already had to rehire for the exact roles they cut. https://emeraldbook.org/news/may-3126-2/

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1187

La Commissione Europea si è svegliata.

Meglio tardi che mai!

Le premesse sono buone, ora vediamo se il Parlamento e il Consiglio, sotto la pressione delle varie lobby, terranno botta.

#sovereignty #opensource #europeanunion

"Be stupid" is an easier motto to live by than "Don't be evil." https://patreon.com/BrianMcFadden

→ Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its #Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

https://www.wired.com/story/meta-smart-glasses-face-recognition-nametag-connections/

“"The feature is not yet exposed to consumers but seems nearly ready to go," says [Cooper Quintin, a #security researcher and senior public interest technologist with the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Threat Lab]. "Despite the billions of reasons not to, #Meta seems to have created the capacity to turn their customers into a distributed #surveillance machine."”

#Face

Fight back against obnoxious spyware that will never work, and only harm creativity and experimentation. Bloomberg wants to control what you can and can't make with your 3D printer, milling machine, etc. #maker #3d #manufacturing #innovation #CAD #CAM #CopyAndRepost and add appropriate tags,

https://youtu.be/E1B2cWEaWDw

Yikes. I just found out that I overlapped with Alex Karp (multi-billionaire CEO of Palantir) for a year at our very small university ('college' in the US). Don't remember him, but it's scary to see what he's become. Just watching this... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H7VOoFwDtU

This is hilarious. After decades where the conservatives pushed for “religious exemptions” based on “sincerely held beliefs”, a Catholic woman working at tech company just won a religious exemption: she won’t have to use AI in her work.

https://www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-religious-exemption-using-ai-at-work-2026-6

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