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We Need to Talk About How We Talk About ‘AI’ ”The people and companies selling ‘AI’ technologies routinely use language that portrays their systems as human-like […].

Conflict-free replicated data type - Wikipedia In distributed computing, a conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) is a data structure that is replicated across multiple computers in a network, with the following features: The application can update any…

Erni Mangold, 13.

HTML Can Do That HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit.

diegodario88/quake-terminal: Gnome Shell extension to launch a terminal in quake mode The GNOME Shell Extension - Quake Terminal enhances your desktop by providing a drop-down interface, inspired by classic Quake games, that can instantly launch your pref…

The AI Hate Progression AI needs a do-over.

Airbus moves critical apps off AWS to a French cloud The concern driving all this is the US CLOUD Act.

At EMF 2026, the Electromagnetic Film team showed „Apollo 13” on an original 35mm print, which – of course – includes the famous movie quote by flight director Gene Kranz: „Failure is not an option”.

What does EMF Art & Installations do?

feoh/inside-voice inside-voice is a terminal app that helps you keep your speaking volume down while you are on Zoom, Google Meet, or other calls.

Microfiction by Mike Shewarda over on Mastodon: “My god!”

Generative AI Is Having Its Herbalife Moment I believe that vibe coding — irrespective of whether it’s useful for enterprises, which I doubt — is being marketed towards consumers in a deeply unethical way.

The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic’s con One of the issues in during this research—one that has perplexed me—has been that many people are convinced that language models, or specifically chat…

UK Age Verification The UK government’s plan to teach 10 million British children how to use VPNs may be one of the most ambitious IT education projects ever launched.

New Banksy sculpture appears to show politician blinded by his own flag | Arts and Culture | Al Jazeera Banksy has unveiled a new sculpture of a man stepping off a stone base with his face obscured by a flag.

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How to use NO as a complete sentence … the language we are using about AI adoption is very similar to how Clayton Williams described rape.

I managed to defeat anthropic’s LLM ("claude") today by making an AGENTS.md file that tells it to stop reading the code of your repo lessons learned: anthropic’s LLM assumes the persona of rich liberal who will only listen to you if you’re nice which is to

xssfox (crossy): ""NASA is aware of the anomaly …" - Cloud Island "NASA is aware of the anomaly that occurred tonight at Launch Complex 36…."

Programming Still Sucks.

EU’s tech sovereignty package delayed for third time | Euractiv The European Commission has delayed formal presentation of its tech sovereignty package to 3 June … marking the third such delay on the flagship plan’s big reveal.

The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born The ground is shifting underneath every industry that was built on the assumption that the US would protect and preserve the globalised status quo.

Replacing meatbags with failure prone agents isn’t the gold mine some CEOs hoped for Bosses betting on AI to slash headcount and boost margins are discovering an uncomfortable truth: the strategy isn’t working.

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display-popup in tmux TIL: display-popup in tmux Displays a popup running shell-command (or default-command when omitted) on target-client.

Study Finds A Third of New Websites are AI-Generated “The proliferation of AI-generated and AI-assisted text on the internet is feared to contribute to a degradation in semantic and stylistic diversity, factual accuracy, and other negative developments,”…