When you are using the "AI" framing, does the way you talk about "AI" carry water for the Sam Altmans of the world? That is, are you helping to paint a picture of their tech as inevitable, all powerful, and/or anything other than commercial products?

If so, why? Are you under pressure to do so? Where does that pressure come from? What would happen if you resist?

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free software without progressive politics is just free labor

End of Japanese community at Mozilla due to the introduction of AI-based translation.

The community members have expressed disappointment and frustration that their long term volunteer efforts and local knowledge were being replaced by machine translation, which they felt did not match the quality of human provided support.

This is why Mozilla sucks so much, they are going crazy like rest of the industry.

Source
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/contributors/717446

Added screenshot in case Mozilla decided to remove it

@xgranade

I used Windows for five years when I worked at MS. My conclusion was that it’s not ready for the desktop.

"But until I see a male writer asked that question, I am going to respectfully decline to answer it.”

Source:
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/07/lauren-groff-on-florida-as-a-state-of-mind/

Back from vacation, I caught up on discussions about the kernel and had nice chats with my @igalia colleagues.

At the end of the day, I published a blog post about my Kworkflow talk at Kernel Recipes 2025 with speaker notes and live demo script. So that, you can check what I presented in more details.

https://melissawen.github.io/blog/2025/11/03/kworkflow-talk-at-kernel-recipes-2025

This blog post also reminded me how fun the #KR2025 days were.

""[…] In this article, we will do a deep dive into […] showing off #eBPF’s ability to poke deep within the #Linux #kernel internals to answer questions about the state of the running kernel.

The subject of our investigation is #netfilter, […] Which of the rules in my firewall ruleset caused the drop of a particular packet?

The goal of this article is to demonstrate how to answer this question. We can use this same approach to answer a myriad of questions about the kernel and to hook into pretty much any arbitrary point inside the kernel.""

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2025/11/03/using-ebpf-attribute-packet-drops-netfilter-rules (written by @toke)

#LinuxKernel

I studied Artificial Intelligence for four years, and I am not touching LLM AIs with a ten-foot pole.

It's not really about the insane electricity demands, the water usage, tho that's a good reason. It's not even, if I'm honest, about the disastrous effect on the sum of all human art and knowledge.

It's because a) I've studied enough AI to know it's a trick, a sort of linguistic illusion, and b) I've studied enough everything else to understand that I'm not immune to such illusions.

Running a package update on my Arch system and it ends with:

(666/666) upgrading xdp-tools

Spooky indeed 👻 😱

Now this is ridiculously catchy.

And yes, I bow to my socialist vampire overlords 🙇‍♂️

TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html
🧵
https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/

I can somewhat empathize with wanting to "keep tech free of politics":

Many of us were drawn to tech because of a strong feeling of agency, and something that (for all it's emergent properties) is feasible to comprehend.

Alas.

As we grow up and mature, I think that's not a position that can be held to without appearing either negligently or intentionally naïve.

Any non-trivial tech is build by (and for) communities.

How we form those - and with whom - *is* political.

Sorry.

Worth your time:

https://terminal.ahumanfuture.co/posts/2025-10-17/the-world-is-something-that-we-make/

(can't recall link source; apologies if it was you!)

All modern digital Infrastructure

Thank you #xkcd

"Worse still, the techno-fascist assault on universities increasingly comes from within. In recent years, the AI industry has captured university administrations, co-opted faculty unions, and even enlisted individual teachers and researchers to promote its tools to colleagues and students."

https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-will-not-save-higher-education-but-may-destroy-it-by-olivia-guest-and-iris-van-rooij-2025-10

@projectsyndicate.bsky.social @Iris

The Milky Way over Monument Valley
Credits: Tom Masterson
#nature #space #astrophotography

This is the Big Lie of #OpenSource.

(It is also bizarre for DHH to be quoting an LLM in this matter, but I digress)

Tech communities are *already* fractured. There is no "big tent". Instead, what happens is a slow brain drain. Troll-friendly spaces built on top of offensive edgelord culture inherently degrade over time…a shrinking pool of expertise as those with diverse perspectives & backgrounds go silent.

DHH is king of a noisy yet dying world. And ultimately the ecosystem always suffers.

Newsletter: Anatomy of a crypto meltdown

October 2025 brought the most dramatic crypto flash crash of all time, but it was only a dress rehearsal for the systemic crisis the industry is building toward.

https://www.citationneeded.news/anatomy-of-a-crypto-meltdown/

#crypto #cryptocurrency #USpol #USpolitics