Hoping a chatbot can save us is a sign of cognitive impairment.

I guess developers working on AWS are increasingly vibe coding.

Or maybe the invoices are accurate, and LLMs continue to increase memory and hosing cost for everyone.

The US has set the bar pretty low. It would take tremendous effort to look worse than USA under Trump extremist leadership.

Anything but PoW

Oh no, not the coal and gas-powered currency.

What about a 5 years delay on shareholder dividends? That may encourage longer-term thinking, or at least beyond quarterly.

Why would you need to plug a console to the Internet to play solo games?

Connecting mostly bring enshittification: sending telemetry to 3rd party, ads, updates triggering a random time making it impossible to play when powering the console.

My console is offline 95% of the time, behind a slow connection 5% of the time. No physical media would mean not buying any new game. No new games means there’s no point in buying the latest console to play new games.

[…] PuffPal, a platform that manages membership and age verification for cannabis retailers and clubs across Europe.

Get ready for many more leaks, as governments require identity and age verification everywhere online.

Many organisations, which cannot be trusted with this data, are going to be processing it.

This is dumb on multiple levels.

Caving to US’ silly demands would get the EU nothing but more silly demands. Methane emissions worsen health. And worsen the climate.

Those who think it’s possible to reason with Trump, or soothe him, are delusional.

The EU is large enough and has enough allies to take a harder stance against US economic and environmental threats.

That’d be ideal, and would affect adtech’s ability to track without consent. So that’s a good goal.

Requiring adtech to honor an automated signal would still be progress, hopefully reducing enshittification and making it easier to refuse tracking.

It would be an extra bit or 2 that could be included in fingerprint. IMHO it’s worth it if there’s regulation that makes it easier to go after companies that ignore those signals

Well said.

The one exception where producing images with generative AIs could be acceptable is to study their impact on society and the environment.

Even in such case, care should be taken to minimize the amount of images generated to the strict minimum, to give as little money as possible to toxic corporations and to minimise pollution. Favor studying images previously generated and already available online if that’s sufficient for the study’s purpose.

Good point. The first repo, anon-vpn, has single commit made 3 weeks ago.

Security sensitive software require time, review or audit. Let’s give this time. It may take from a few months to 2 years until there’s enough scrutiny to either confirm it’s safe, or reveal problems.

Until them, keep using well-known open-source software.

When he eventually gets burried in his pyramid bunker, I hope Meta gets burried with him, and sealed so it gets undisturbed for thousands of years.

There are other reasons to buy local-ish. If you’re lucky, local farms have stricter labor and environmental regulations, ie use less pesticides and better treat workers, than oversea farmers.

That being said it make sense to focus on eating less beef and lamb products.

They’re requesting mostly wrong solutions for real problems.

Age verification doesn’t address social media’s problems, but does increase data collection and decrease privacy. Same for decrypting private messages.

A guardian account does seem reasonable.

They could also completely turn off user seach for minors, so they would have to add contacts by username or email, and couldn’t reach or be reached easily by online strangers.

Minors could circumvent this if there’s no age verification. But today’s age verification methods are neither privacy-friendly nor hard to circumvent. Until they are, it’s not worth requiring age verification.

Debian trixie has a fix https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431

Sounds about right

Are you aware of the Piefed API? It’s provided specifically to allow building front-ends and bots while avoiding scrapping.

An average fill up runs at about 34 megawatts.

Most of that energy is lost because ICE are very inefficients. Still, impressive.

Also, it’s not possible to refill at home, and it’s expensive when there’s a war near an oil-producing country at the other side of the world.

Electrifying has this downside of slow recharge, but quite a lot of benefits as well.