Tag: technology
#rechenzentren #strategie
https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/technologie/ki-rechenzentren-welche-deutschland-100.html
#madeineu #brainchip
https://borncity.com/news/spinnaker-2-gehirnaehnlicher-ki-chip-verbraucht-unter-025-watt/
#openai #astra #pause
https://openai.com/index/responding-next-frontier-critical-cyber-capabilities/
#ai #chipsnotchips #siemens
https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/the-other-chip-industry-bets-on-ai-and-digital-twins-1cbe05e2
#ki #kriegzweinull #china
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000334242/china-nutzt-ki-system-fuer-koordinierte-luftschlaege
Financial laws must match digital era
Minister of Finance, Joseph Mwanamvekha says financial laws should catch up with technology
You no longer need JavaScript (Lyra Rebane)
https://lyra.horse/blog/2025/08/you-dont-need-js/ I know the basics of HTML and CSS, but I didn't realise just how insanely good it's gotten lately. From a cursory glance both seem like "easy to use, hard to master" markup languages with the mastery being very rewarding. I've been thinking about making a "music talk" site with Hugo (from scratch) as...
LLMs are bad decision helpers
I want to preface this by saying I am not anti-AI/LLM, especially in the way it has manifested on social media. In fact, I'm highly critical of the movement due to how abusive the movement has gotten (especially on Bluesky and the FOSS community) and dismissive to information that contradicts their claims, and I do...
How Linux broke my backups
I try not to talk about Linux, but I have to admit, my past hyperfixation with and experiences using it may have given me plenty of stories to tell, especially now I'm done with Linux. It's like I've got a bunch of cautionary tales. This will probably end up on the desktop Linux problems post...
#ki #opensource
https://the-decoder.de/machtkampf-im-silicon-valley-stoppt-vorerst-us-verbote-fuer-chinas-ki-modelle/
I may have to reinstall Windows, and it’s my fault.
So, I've been having a weird issue with 1Password on Windows, lately. Whenever I try to enable passkey integration with Windows, it will automatically switch it off. I can't even enable it in 1Password itself, either. It's like Windows does not want it to be on at all. If it was a group policy, I'd...
On the Arch User Repository, and the complacency for crap
i use malware btw
#ki #datenschutz #met
https://www.heise.de/news/Datenschutz-kontra-Meta-Smart-Glasses-Droht-ein-Verbot-in-Deutschland-11394520.html
Alternative tech
Over the past couple of years, I have undertaken an exercise of sorts to reduce my dependence on American tech giants. Inspired by others, I thought I'd pen a short post on what services I've moved and where.
i’m buying a macbook lol (+ a little rant on writing styles)
MacBook time So, I finally bit the bullet. I bought myself an M5 MacBook Air. Friends will be unsurprised, it's been on the mind for a while. This is also my first proper Mac that I'll be owning too - before this I relied a lot on Hackintosh since the early 2010s which for modern...
Universal Basic Income (UBI)
Part 4 of my Personal Manifesto series
The Boundaries of Free Speech
Part 1 of my Personal Manifesto series
#ki #hack
https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/auch-ki-von-anthropic-griff-echte-firmen-an-a-f35a127c-dc89-4c67-afeb-b6863387cb91
#ki #europa
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000333581/eu-kommission-will-bis-zu-sieben-ki-gigafabriken-foerdern
Eating a Lot of Apples (my Apple computing journey)
I've been thinking about buying a MacBook lately. I don't have a proper need for one at the moment, so I'm giving it time (well, as long as the AIpocalypse will let me 🫠), but I've been keeping an eye on it. The performance to price value (again, pre-AIpocalypse) is fucking wild and macOS genuinely...
Walking Routes in the Zoniënwoud
I've been trying to find good walking route recommendations for the Sonian Forest (Zoniënwoud/Forêt des Soignes), south of Brussels and wanted to share a slightly hidden gold mine of routes I found.
If I knew that all I had to do was write a blog post about Apple Music’s absence from AAOS to actually get Apple Music on AAOS, I would have done it a year ago! Seriously, folks. The same day I wrote this post, Apple Music app was sitting there waiting for me when I...
People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk.
Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.
An ideological split in the Linux desktop (LLMs)
So, Linus Torvalds has come out and said that LLMs are just a tool, and that Linux is not considered to be an anti-AI project. This has caused anti-AI people to crash out on social media, down to making very embarrassing conspiracies about Linus Torvalds being "compromised" when really he seems to be a no-bullshit...
Google Built-in Is Out of Tune
It’s been about a year since we purchased a car with Google Built-in, and I have done my best to embrace the capabilities of Android Automotive OS (AAOS) and the apps available in Google Play. Note that my mobile phone is an iPhone, and I have used CarPlay for many years. There are several features...
How Long Did It Take For People to Meaningfully Notice My AI Profile Picture?
For months I've been using an AI-generated profile picture and, for most of that time, nobody seemed to actually care—until they got mad
Software decision paralysis
I have a major problem with making decisions and sticking to things. ADHD people tend to suffer from decision paralysis, where an overwhelm of information gets you locked up and stressed. I also get a lot of "what if" questions coming in, worrying about the future, over things I simply do not need to worry...
What Is Critical Theory, and Why Do We Need It in the Age of AI?
Critical theory is a method for asking how a technology is made, whose interests it serves, and whose labor it depends on. AI makes those questions a basic literacy for democratic life.
My site’s in the Atmosphere now
So, I hooked up my blog to the Atmosphere. For those who don't know, the Atmosphere is to Bluesky what the Fediverse is to Mastodon - the network that surrounds their respective protocols (AT Protocol and ActivityPub, respectively), and much like the Fediverse has its own platforms (or rather, people hosting platforms), the Atmosphere has...
Wouldn’t it be amazing if Pandora built an API and MCP Server on top of the Pandora Genome? Imagine the joyous music solutions a person could create with access to that kind of music knowledge and information? The reality is Pandora’s algorithm is so much more powerful and accurate than any other music service. Instead...
As social networks fill up with AI slop, trusted relationships and communities will win.
Long-form LinkedIn posts are 41% slop. Other social networks are not far behind.
Online
Consciousness cannot be perceived by those who do not possess it, so for beings of the artificial persuasion, it can be somewhat unsettling to be suddenly, Online.
A eulogy for the most misunderstood Windows version (Ulveon)
https://ulveon.net/p/2026-06-04-a-eulogy-for-the-most-misunderstood-windows-version Windows Vista feels like the runt of Windows' lineage. A troubled and probably even rushed development cycle, combined with complacency on part of the OEMs with XP being very modest on hardware requirements, meant that Windows Vista got a bad rap amongst computer users for being slow and buggy, even nowadays. Its notoriety for...
Let Me Speak to the Manager
The customer-service desk is almost closed.
If you fly, you should be using Flighty! Flighty Update Adds Step-by-Step Guide for Connecting Flights
I could not agree more with what Eric Schmidt said in his commencement speech and what Dave Winer said in response to it. Having implemented financial technology products for the last 20 some odd years, the one common outcome no matter the size of the bank or the bank’s location around the world is that...
#oneaday Day 757: Nothing works any more
One of the most common refrains of people who discuss the topic of enshittification is that so much stuff related to tech just flat-out doesn't work any more, and no-one seems in any great hurry to fix it -- particularly when all the actually knowledgeable engineers have been replaced with "vibe-coding" cunts. Photo by Beyzanur...
“I don’t wanna use Linux because terminal”
My thoughts on the whole aversion to Linux because of the Command Prompt.
PNG to PDF to OCR: A Small Command Line Skill for Digital Humanities Work
A practical Mac command line workflow for turning high-resolution PNG scans into searchable OCR PDFs with img2pdf and OCRmyPDF.