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  The type of data centers humans used to build geteilt von: feddit.org/post/37154210 geteilt von: sh.itjust.works/post/68780608 (TikTok screencap)

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  Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote

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  ‘BYD effect’: electric vehicle boom becomes unexpected tool to combat inflation cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/36667361 cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/73150694 Electric vehicle sales are surging in Australia, powering a transition that goes beyond fuel savings to become an unexpected tool to combat high inflation. The abrupt shift away from petrol and diesel vehicles, accelerated by elevated fuel costs caused by the Iran conflict, is being supported by an influx of cheaper E...

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  Not in your top 100 Trump evil acts: DOJ wants to protect Elon+bros from all pollution damages because AI is "national security policy". Elon did Mississippi/Memphis dirty. cross-posted from: lemmy.ca/post/72356176 Trump’s DOJ would probably intervene in all other objections to datacenter projects, at least on appeal, if oligarchs lose anything. National Security vs. Clean Air: The Legal Battle Over Musk’s Memphis Supercomputer MEMPHIS, TN — A fierce legal battle is unfolding...

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  The Making of an AI Data Centre Warrior | The Tyee

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  Kernel Summit: "The time has come to make it harder for new people to contribute code to the kernel." -- Linus Torvalds reacting to AI assisted code contribution flood cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/53100937 “Torvalds said that the time has come to make it harder for new people to contribute code to the kernel. People like Kroah-Hartman have spent years trying to teach people how to contribute; it is time to stop doing that, he said.” lwn.net/Articles/1099594/ It is diffi...

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  Meta’s Muse Is Spying on All Your Friends and Family: "They're trying to know you like a friend, which is honestly pretty creepy."

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  Rich Hickey: 'AI' is Not a Tool cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/36615673 Forgive the smelly domain. This is a fantastic short essay by Rich Hickey.

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  Passkeys are a trap. Do not use them.

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  "We're building an army:" Angry anti-renewable groups take to city streets ahead of state election cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/43777872 The protest, organised by Across Victoria Alliance, brought around 300 CFA volunteers, farmers, One Nation and National party supporters, and a variety of renewable energy opponents into Melbourne on the sunny Friday morning. Speakers, mainly men standing inside a large delivery truck, used Trumpian language to play up city-countr...

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  ‘BYD effect’: electric vehicle boom becomes unexpected tool to combat inflation cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/73150694 Electric vehicle sales are surging in Australia, powering a transition that goes beyond fuel savings to become an unexpected tool to combat high inflation. The abrupt shift away from petrol and diesel vehicles, accelerated by elevated fuel costs caused by the Iran conflict, is being supported by an influx of cheaper EVs that is reducing associated costs such as ins...

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  Rolling Release Distros Superior To LTS Distros In The Patch-Heavy GenAI Era?

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  Internal files add to evidence of an ExxonMobil climate deception campaign

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  Protests against OpenAI get increasingly creative

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  Data Centers Are a $6 Trillion Time Bomb, Analysts Warn: "What the industry needs is a wave of innovation that will dwarf what mobile and cloud unlocked."

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  This plaza in downtown Guadalajara, Mexico, used to be a noisy, polluted car sewer. Now it's a place for people, bikes, and life, with underground rapid transit [Before pic in description] cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/52872413 How it used to look: A better world exists if you want it.

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  Coding is NOT solved cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/36071801 This author trieds hard to do a pragmatic view. He does not mention ethical or ecological concerns (which should matter far more and subject to legal regulation IMO). Instead, he focuses on the quality topic. His thinking is that companies are doing now a kind of quality arbitrage: Companies can make low-quality code at far cheaper costs, and sellthe result still at human-made prices. Which will only work for so long, he th...

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  The Making of an AI Data Centre Warrior | The Tyee

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  Kernel Recipes 2026 Talk - Security in the LLM age | presented by Greg Kroah-Hartman cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/43394805 Interesting how he mentions LLMs have a 50% error rate, and predicts how no one will pay for a tool with such a poor rate.

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  Why not LLMs? [Codeberg]

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  San Francisco gay bars back off Al-assisted face scanning technology after privacy uproar geteilt von: piefed.social/…/san-francisco-gay-bars-back-off-a… Badlands and Toad Hall announced over the weekend that use of the controvresial technology would end for now.

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  Don't Take the Black Pill (Text Adaptation) - Andrew Kelley cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/35625554 I’ll leave you with one final message, addressed to people of all ages, whether you are younger than me, a peer, or my elder. We don’t have to take it lying down. Next time you’re feeling alone, count your allies: VideoLAN Organization, Blender Foundation, Software Freedom Conservancy, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Linux Foundation, Signal Foundation, KDE e.V., the PostgreSQL C...

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  Switching to GNU Guix: A Beginner's Perspective Arch Linux was my distribution of choice for more than a decade. With its rolling-release model, minimal base, and the invaluable ArchWiki, it felt like the final distribution I would ever need. My primary Linux machine is a dedicated home server, handling services like Home Assistant, local DNS, background jobs, and developer sandboxes. For a server running 24/7, long-term stability and maintainability are critical. Over years of incrementa...

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  Supposedly wonderful “human artisanal code” has plenty of fuckery. These are supply chain attacks and in the case of xz utils, the attacker had gone to extreme lenghts to hide the attack from a well-meaning, good-hearthed but overworked and burnt out solo maintainer. To compare this to bugs that people unwittingly introduce in normal human-written code is not sincere.

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  There’s a difference between vibe coding and the hundred other ways to “use AI” on a project. I am not talking about the Linux kernel or the Rust project - they have stabdards way above average commercial projects - but generally “using ai” in practice means to use it for code generation. Then, programmers are expected to review the output but are not given extra time for it. This creates an extremely slippery slope leading to mostly unsupervised code creation. Also because reading and unders...

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  Big Tech and Big Oil have fused – Call it Fossil Tech cross-posted from: piefed.social/…/big-tech-and-big-oil-have-fused-c… (Big Tech data-centers are increasing fossil fuel use and GHGs, while the executives are making prophecies that “AI will fix it”)

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  Like for example selecting Linux distro, downloading it and saving on an USB. Using an USB thing is the somewhat decadent newfangled way to do things. The more classy way was to download the whole distro to an 1.44 MB floppy drive. \installation was by dd … of=/dev/fd0. Yeah, it required 16 megabytes of RAM. It was possible to boot it on an 386 PC. Though kernel compiles were a bit lengthy.

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  Faulty Towers, vibe sickness, and the vibe bobsled -- Dustycloud Brainstorms cross-posted from: feddit.org/post/35091193 About the limits of reviewing and understanding code: Ka-Ping constructs a model voting machine, and decides to see how hard it would be to verify that we know it behaves correctly. To push that exploration to its furthest, Ka-Ping Yee and David Wagner try an interesting experiment: David Wagner and I decided to insert three bugs into Pvote to see if the reviewers w...

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  Void Linux maintainer orphans 100+ packages over AI policy dispute

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  "I Don’t Have a Smartphone…"