Wow, an exciting and unexpected honor seeing INVENTING THE RENAISSANCE on the #BSFA awards l long list for best nonfiction long-form. It does indeed relate to SFF reflecting on the myth of dark & golden ages in fiction. (And quoting Firefly & Babylon 5 😉🚀)

https://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa-awards-longlist

@grimalkina I've had too many conversations where pointing out that nearly half of women STEM grads have left those fields after a decade earns me a stock "well, we need to train more women for STEM careers then" and ... I'm like, my friend, my brother, you call yourself an engineer but I say "half of X falls unaccountably out the side of process Y after Z time", and your answer is "we need to shove more X in the front end?" If you said this in a meeting about making cat toys you'd be fired.

@jpkolsen @jpelckolsen @kramse @jchillerup @mshdk @borup har altid bare købt de billigste kabler. Vær dog opmærksom på at der er forskel på Cat6 og Cat6a. Sidstnævnte er skærmet (sølvpapir rundt om trådene) og giver derfor bedre signal over lidt længere afstande. Mest relevant for 10g, men kan jo blive relevant at opgradere, og så ærgrer man sig over at have sparet 100 kr på kablet!

Ift AP'er har jeg aldrig set et kommercielt produkt der var værd at anbefale, så her er min eneste anbefaling at installere OpenWrt. Så skal man bare vælge noget der er understøttet; her er en liste: https://toh.openwrt.org/?view=normal - flere af Ubiquitis er på den og fungerer glimrende!

Why there’s no European Google?
And why it is a good thing!

My answer to the European Commission "call for evidence on Open Source."

https://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.html

#geminiprotocol link: gemini://ploum.net/2026-01-22-why-no-european-google.gmi

#Language #Mathematics #English #Grammar .

In the early days of personal computing CPU bugs were so rare as to be newsworthy. The infamous Pentium FDIV bug is remembered by many, and even earlier CPUs had their own issues (the 6502 comes to mind). Nowadays they've become so common that I encounter them routinely while triaging crash reports sent from Firefox users. Given the nature of CPUs you might wonder how these bugs arise, how they manifest and what can and can't be done about them. 🧵 1/31

"I thought that we (men) were better than this, but I was wrong"

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/03/i-thought-that-we-men-were-better-than-this-but-i-was-wrong/

Calling all the PhDs on the Fediverse to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better) ...

#AI #LLM #GenAI

RE: https://mstdn.social/@JugglingWithEggs/115932678575633726

Here's a thought... maybe constraining economic activity isn't so bad?

Perhaps... just a wild idea here... we're not just put on this planet to increase shareholder value and line the pockets of the rich.

What if we considered arranging society so that its primary function was to ensure the welfare of people -- all people -- and "economic activity" can take a backseat for a few generations and see how that works out.

What if we started from the idea that all people have inherent value regardless of how much wealth they have or create?

@icing right, I do realise it would not be super portable across protocols (or OSes). So you're rate limiting the read()/write() socket calls and just letting the OS do its thing, essentially?

@icing interesting! Do you do anything to limit the amount of buffering in the TCP stack when rate limiting (e.g., adjust the receive buffer size), and/or to pace out the traffic on send?

So we've strayed a very long way from Nextcloud's task manager, but the older I get the more I see "Who does the dishes after the revolution?" as one of the first questions that should be asked in any progressive space. I've seen at permaculture camps where the men wonder off to form a drumming circle while the women set up the cooking rotas and compost station. I've seen it at the meetings where the men stand up and give inspiring speeches while the women organise drinks and take the minutes

RE: https://social.coop/@afewbugs/115927624405622429

I love where this thread goes

After spending far too much personal time this weekend playing with a little arm64 soc that is supposedly fully supported upstream, I'm thinking there would be a lot of value in a tool that would take a dtb file and give you a kernel config that had all the drivers needed enabled.

The device/bus topologies and dependencies on SoCs are really complex, and hunting down one by one what random driver is missing that is preventing some other driver to load can be a real time sink when just trying to get a kernel running. And starting from an old BSP config doesn't help much as the upstream drivers may be renamed or under a different config.

But it seems like having supported dtb compat strings in the CONFIG setting in the Kconfig files might be helpful to generate this.

Housemate:

"The existence of http and https implies the existence of http3, http: Resurrection, and http vs. Predator.

Discuss."

This is some deeply weird and troubling shit. #GenAI

Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane? | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/agent-psychosis/

Dear FOSS Community 👋,

I’m researching Open Source funds and support programs that directly pay FOSS maintainers or contributors (not just offering mentorship), similar to the Fellowship program by @sovtechfund

I’m especially looking for programs that:
- are aimed at FOSS maintainers or contributors (not only students),
- focus on paid support and
- offer funding for at least 3 months.

If you know of any funds, organizations, or initiatives like this, please comment (or boost). Thanks :)

cool, so there's a whole new github dork people can do: claude chatlogs.

they live in .claude/logs/ and are full text records of peoples entire conversations with claude

and they're ending up in public on github because i guess people arent adding them to .gitignore

happy monday! ai is going great!

Mozilla wants your input. Please provide it.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

Here's mine.

#OpenSource #OpenWeb #Privacy #AI

A thought that popped into my head when I woke up at 4 am and couldn’t get back to sleep…

Imagine that AI/LLM tools were being marketed to workers as a way to do the same work more quickly and work fewer hours without telling their employers.

“Use ChatGPT to write your TPS reports, go home at lunchtime. Spend more time with your kids!” “Use Claude to write your code, turn 60-hour weeks into four-day weekends!” “Collect two paychecks by using AI! You can hold two jobs without the boss knowing the difference!”

Imagine if AI/LLM tools were not shareholder catnip, but a grassroots movement of tooling that workers were sharing with each other to work less. Same quality of output, but instead of being pushed top-down, being adopted to empower people to work less and “cheat” employers.

Imagine if unions were arguing for the right of workers to use LLMs as labor saving devices, instead of trying to protect members from their damage.

CEOs would be screaming bloody murder. There’d be an overnight industry in AI-detection tools and immediate bans on AI in the workplace. Instead of Microsoft CoPilot 365, Satya would be out promoting Microsoft SlopGuard - add ons that detect LLM tools running on Windows and prevent AI scrapers from harvesting your company’s valuable content for training.

The media would be running horror stories about the terrible trend of workers getting the same pay for working less, and the awful quality of LLM output. Maybe they’d still call them “hallucinations,” but it’d be in the terrified tone of 80s anti-drug PSAs.

What I’m trying to say in my sleep-deprived state is that you shouldn’t ignore the intent and ill effects of these tools. If they were good for you, shareholders would hate them.

You should understand that they’re anti-worker and anti-human. TPTB would be fighting them tooth and nail if their benefits were reversed. It doesn’t matter how good they get, or how interesting they are: the ultimate purpose of the industry behind them is to create less demand for labor and aggregate more wealth in fewer hands.

Unless you happen to be in a very very small club of ultra-wealthy tech bros, they’re not for you, they’re against you. #AI #LLMs #claude #chatgpt