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One trick pony. Yakshaver. Legacymancer. Herder of cats. Sometimes barking up the wrong tree. Social reading as @stitzl [bridged from https://mastodon.social/@stitzl on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
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after 25 years of a career of trying and mostly failing to make the world a better place with software it is truly soul-wrenchingly exhausting to watch a substantial plurality of the entire software industry decide that actually, it is more lucrative and easier to make the world worse instead

This story of an ex-Googler is well worth reading. After some personal observations, @elilla asks interesting questions: > What is crypto mining if not a textbook Captain Planet villain scheme—to kill and raze and destroy for nothing but imaginary tokens proving that you did lots of killing and […]

The vibe-coding trend is going to end up being one of the biggest national security risks we've seen in the software industry https://flipboard.com/@semafor/semafor-qhf227ugz/-/a-Rkaq4LdoR7y9sCQ38tqofQ%3Aa%3A3943444710-%2F0

Okay this is very cool and anybody who is touching big data should pay attention to how this evolves: https://ducklake.select/manifesto/

Wäre Hitler 100 Jahre später geboren worden, hätte er vor lauter Talkshow-Einladungen in ARD und ZDF vielleicht gar keine Zeit mehr gehabt, einen Weltkrieg anzufangen.

@chrisstoecker Das scheint perfekt in Dein Thema "Männer, die die Welt verbrennen" zu passen: https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:66lbtw2porscqpmair6mir37/post/3lnn3zgdj5225

Incredible satellite image of the 33 (!!!!) operational fossil fuel combustion engines at the site of Elon Musk's XAI data centre “appalling that xAI would operate more than 30 methane gas turbines without any permits or any public oversight" @selc.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Der ewige Irrtum: Als könne man Faschismus bekämpfen, indem man ihm Foren eröffne und Bühnen überließe. Faschismus lässt sich weder domestizieren noch einbinden noch diskursiv erledigen. Faschismus zerstört eine Gesellschaft von innen, mit ihren eigenen Waffen. Wehe denen, die ihn gewähren lassen.

Seems like OpenAI is now out of the "hallucination" phase and into active denial: https://xcancel.com/TransluceAI/status/1912552046269771985

Still not over the fact that the Allianz, a German insurance company that is seen as pretty conservative, predicts substantial risk for capitalism in general. Günther Thallinger, board member: "The financial sector as we know it ceases to function. And with it, capitalism as we know it ceases […]

[Feuerwanzenbild, gross] Keine Ahnung, was es beim Namen der neuen Koalition zu streiten gibt. Es ist ganz eindeutig die Feuerwanzenkoalition.

I wonder how vibe coders feel about vibe debugging