antifuchs @ antifuchs @awful.systems

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Ah yes, the classic open source guy stance of “you get to praise me publicly but direct criticism or problems to [over there]”

PR for AI slop generated DWARF support for ocaml. Expectation: doesn’t work

Reality: replicates existing support from another project including attribution to the author.

I would love this, lmfao

Claims to be against politics in the workplace, takes down rightwing websites anyway

This might be one of those “careful what you wish for” scenarios. The neutral outcome might well be that they generate dialog with training data from Scots Wikipedia. Or Scots Grokipedia I guess

Oh look at that, another report on the economics of ai datacenter buildouts https://publicenterprise.org/report/bubble-or-nothing/

Eh, how often can one guy be right

Rolling Stone on the emergence of the ai chatbot psychosis religion

A fact-generative AI, you say? https://aphyr.com/posts/398-the-future-of-fact-checking-is-lies-i-guess

Just saw this post on DHH, it’s really good: https://okayfail.com/2025/in-praise-of-dhh.html

If you’re not careful, one day you will wake up and find that you’ve pushed away every person who ever disagreed with you.

Living a life as if it was able to bear a “I bought one before I knew he was a jerk” bumper sticker.

Fuuuuuuck. Thanks for the info but i hate it ):

Im very very happy on Fastmail. They are sensible people who offer mainly email (and calendar stuff) with no overpromises. Their servers are hosted in the USA tho, so that may affect your choice.

Oh don’t worry, in the second Dyson sphere datacenter they’ll just heat up a metal heat sink per request and then eject that into the sun. Perfect for reclamation of energy.

That’s how you know a human wrote it

In lighter news, this anti-LLM rhyme made me chuckle:

I will not talk with a chatbot
\ I do not want it while I shop

I do not want it on Windows X-box
\ I do not want it in Firefox

I do not want it in my house
\ I do not want it on my mouse
\ I do not want it here or there
\ I do not want it anywhere.

I do not want AI and Spam
\ I do not want them Sam-Alt-Man

JFC some CSAM collector stormed a Wikipedia conference with a gun https://slate.com/technology/2025/10/wikipedia-editors-conference-gunman-culture-war.html

I love a good thorough takedown of fash tech; not sure it’s effort well spent, and I’m not agreeing with the author’s suggestions on some specific security matters (gnupg, argh, please avoid it), but damn, they actually installed it and used it. That’s some commitment to the bit.

Keep sneering! Research shows it’s working!

It can be done (friends and I have tried around 2007, and saw minor success until the company ran headfirst into the financial crisis and our inflexibility regarding user privacy and choice), but it’s not easy if you don’t already have money and connections.

If you do have those connections, nobody will stop you from building the stupid company of your dreams tbh.