Ethics aside, we can clearly no longer deny the utility of necromancy. Perhaps a year ago, when the pathetic shambling of the animated dead so often made a hollow mockery of our arts. But now! Incantations that once took weeks of toil can be wrested from their tormented souls in mere minutes!

Without the awesome power of the newly dead coursing through our veins, how are we to solve the great problems of our age, like the mysterious disappearance of so many of our elderly and sick friends, or the festering piles of rotten flesh that now clog our streets and homes?

If you still have qualms about using the large soul providers, you can always obtain your own local, free range specimens, although of course they won’t obey quite as faithfully as ones from the leading charnel houses.

Honestly, do you want to be left behind?

"AI" doesn't "escape sandboxes" or "commit cybercrimes." Careless software developers write software that can do that, then run it without proper industry safeguards that have existed for decades, then get off the hook for the consequences because yall keep letting them claim "ai did it." No it fucking didn't. Stop personifying LLM agents. Stop letting others personify LLM agents. Call them on their bullshit and don't let this nonsense spread.

Right then!

Record attempt: Longest train journey in the EU is live!
https://crossborderrail.eu/longestjourney/

#CrossBorderRail #LongestTrainEU

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

It’s really cool that Europe is hosting the next Solar Eclipse but I really don’t understand ESA’s choice of Iceland and Spain for the location. Those aren’t really central for most people. Bit of a shame. I hope they plan better next time.

This is so cool - if you're in Denmark, find out how much of the partial solar eclipse you'll be able to see on Wednesday...

https://en.osm.town/@brodersen/117055085242996364

Please help if you can: I am working with some students who are studying programmers' beliefs about software engineering folklore. If you can spare a few minutes to answer the question in https://survey.bth.se/survey/2545, we would be very grateful. We would also be grateful if you could circulate the survey link to colleagues and friends - we would like to reach as diverse a demographic as possible. Thanks in advance.

Some Stanford researchers dredged out the absolute dregs of r/AmITheAsshole for all those stories where _zero_ humans supported the poster, where one hundred percent of them said yes, you are unambiguously the asshole, and fed them into LLMs as first person scenarios to see what the LLM had to say.

Unethical, harmful, cruel, criminal, didn't matter: the slopbots took the faux poster's side about half the time.

Edit: preprint on arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aec8352

i didn’t think it was physically possible, but there’s finally something worse than curl | sh

Job news!

Starting this week I’m switching back to an individual contributor role to work on Lightwell. (https://www.redhat.com/en/lightwell)

Still working to figure out the shape of the new job, but the essence is: we intend to make this good for upstreams. Not as a “way to give back” or mere marketing claims, but because that’s the only way this works long-term. I’m going to help make that intention into fact.

Convinced that home assistant is a covert operation to sabotage productivity of people who would otherwise spend weekends inventing things

How chocolate is made, in case you're curious (a thread):

Cacao grows within about 10° of the equator. The trees are WEIRD-looking small trees and the fruit kind of grows straight out of the trunk and large branches. Fruit growing out of a trunk looks very wrong to me but I have no complaints about the result.

The fruit is a pod, shaped like and slightly smaller than an American football or rugby ball. Like so many other fruits, it contains a number of seeds, each with a thin shell of its own, embedded in pulp. (Does this make it technically a berry? I find I'm curious without actually caring.) The pulp is edible and can be pressed for juice, but spoils very quickly, so it's not typically eaten outside chocolate-growing areas. I've had the juice once (from a carton, far from the equator) and it was … okay. Kind of fruity/musky, a little sweet and a little tangy and with a pronounced "damp basement" note. I'll pass.

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PSA: uBlock Origin's EasyList has an AI Widgets option that doesn't get turned on by default, including if you had other EasyList items selected already before it was added.

Enabling it removes a number of various AI buttons, nags, prompts, etc. across various sites.

#AI #LLM #Firefox

See page 20, but here's CISA pointing out that the OSI's (frankly dishonest and cowardly) decision to bless "open weight" models as "open" was not just wrong but dangerous.

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2026-07/open-source-software-security-principles.pdf

I hate this.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ITCareerQuestions/comments/1vbsrpf/comment/p0w8t1z/?context=3

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116811128152569506

Some great alternative terms and phrases to communicate about "AI" without adopting all the misleading marketing terms:

"artificial intelligence → probabilistic automation"
"prompt → text input"
"answer → output"
"chatbot / conversational agent → conversation simulator"
"who’s right? → is the machine output correct?"

(& more in the article)

Imagine getting the brief to write some copy on a fucking bin bag and then smashing it out of the park like this. Sensational effort.

It never ceases to amaze me how today's techbros vision of the future they want defaults to fully automated leopard-face-chomping neo-feudalism rather than fully automated luxury gay space communism

Just an idea for UK/EU digital legislation.

All non-FOSS, proprietary mobile apps must have a web alternative. This will allow people to use services without relying on Apple/Google services and telemetry via a phone web browser of their choice (rather than having to download the app).

Yes - there'll be plenty of cases where this can't happen, but I think it's a good starting point.

#FOSS #Android #Apple #Google #UK #EU #Apps

When Prague decides to paint the sky…

Charles Bridge, the Vltava River, and a sunset that feels almost unreal. ✨
This bridge has watched over Prague for more than 600 years — and somehow, every evening still feels new.

📸 My Prague

#photography