what annoys you most when using a terminal?

RE: https://me.dm/@funcrunch/116591089975462227

Extremely relatable. My fellow white people need to get off their asses and do uncomfortable and even slightly dangerous things.

Neymar é substituido por engano e se revolta após árbitro confundir 31 com 10 – Jovem Pan
https://jovempan.com.br/esportes/futebol/santos/neymar-se-revolta-ao-ser-substituido-por-engano-contra-o-coritiba-e-uma-vergonha.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Collegamenti #7

Maggio mi sta mettendo a dura prova, il maledetto, ma ho accumulato un’altra bella manciata di collegamenti e vorrei dargli un’ordinata (per modo di dire, visto che li piazzo disordinatamente in un post generalista), dunque eccomi qua.

Questa volta inizio con il poster di un concerto: è quello dei Dope Purple, band noise e space rock taiwanese (che non conosco), e dei Dead Sea Apes, band drone rock e psichedelica di Albione (che invece conosco e amo). Il poster è arrivato a me tramite l’account Mastodon di questi ultimi ed è stato disegnato da Brett Savage, il loro chitarrista. Io fossi in voi darei un ascolto alla band (posso consigliare Night Lands e Rewilding) e una sfogliata al loro blog, dove trovate altri bei poster e tanta bella musica e tutto il cucuzzaro di informazioni; vi consiglierei di seguirli insomma, se non sono troppo indiscreto. Se poi vi trovate a Manchester il 12 giugno, be’, tanto meglio per voi.

Una cosa molto bella che ho trovato ultimamente sul web è questo sito, Equal Earth, che fornisce versioni ad alta risoluzione e in diverse lingue di una mappa del mondo «che mostra i paesi e i continenti nelle loro dimensioni reali rispetto gli uni agli altri». È possibile centrare la mappa dove si vuole e scaricarla liberamente in diversi formati, persino in Illustrator. Non è fantastico? Questa cosa l’ho trovata sempre su Mastodon grazie al thread-richiesta partito da @bbacc e risolto da @zeppe.

Salto a cose meno amene – dissenso, repressione e autoritarismo dilagante – segnalando tre articoli paralleli, ma che dico paralleli, direi contigui: Italo Di Sabato che sciorina un po’ di dati sulla repressione delle manifestazioni in Italia, Amnesty International che ci parla della ripresa della mobilitazione sociale in Italia, e il buon Luigi Manconi che sottolinea l’assurdità e l’autoritarismo del reprimere una commemorazione funebre (è il caso degli anarchici che volevano dare l’ultimo saluto ai compagni morti in un’esplosione al parco degli Acquedotti).

E dal paesaggio sociale salto al paesaggio agricolo e naturale.

In questo ultimo mese e mezzo o giù di lì, a parte correggere, revisionare e impaginare come se ci fosse un domani, ho pure trovato il tempo per qualche pedalata lontano dal PC, che mi ha dato l’opportunità di decomprimere e di scattare qualche bella foto; oddio bella, carina dai. Di tutte quelle che ho fatto (non molte in verità), ne ho scelta una che ritrae un campo appena arato che digrada verso il lago (di Bolsena) e un maestoso pino-stella polare cui sono molto affezionato (qui c’è lo stesso pino preso da sotto). Lo scatto è di inizio aprile, vorrei trovare il tempo di tornare sul posto per ritrarre quel campo ormai pieno di piante di patate; mi prometto di farlo, ché sono sempre stato un devoto del famoso comandamento di Saramago (se mi sentisse parlare così…):

Bisogna vedere quel che non si è visto, vedere di nuovo quel che si è già visto, vedere in primavera quel che si è visto in estate, vedere di giorno quel che si è visto di notte, con il sole dove la prima volta pioveva, vedere le messi verdi, il frutto maturo, la pietra che ha cambiato posto, l’ombra che non c’era. Bisogna ritornare sui passi già dati, per ripeterli, e per tracciarvi a fianco nuovi cammini. Bisogna ricominciare il viaggio. Sempre.

– da «Viaggio in Portogallo» (1981), traduzione in italiano di Rita Desti

E il viaggio non è solo quello che ti porta dall’altra parte del mondo.

Per la serie social media, resistenza agli algoritmi e alle Big Tech, segnalo invece un interessante articolo della biblioteca dell’Università di Groninga che, avendo già abbandonato X per passare al fediverso (su un’istanza creata appositamente per la comunità della ricerca e dell’educazione olandese), ha ora aperto un dibattito su cosa fare di Instagram, scrivendo tra le altre cose: «L’alfabetizzazione informativa è al centro della nostra attività come biblioteca. Aiutiamo gli studenti a sviluppare un approccio attivo e critico alla ricerca delle informazioni: effettuare ricerche mirate, valutare l’affidabilità delle fonti ed elaborare le informazioni in modo efficace. L’algoritmo di Instagram fa esattamente il contrario: filtra ciò che gli utenti vedono in base al coinvolgimento, non all’affidabilità». Mi piacerebbe leggere una cosa del genere a queste latitudini, sto chiedendo troppo?

Torno brevemente alla musica, poi passo e chiudo.

Sto continuando a tempo perso l’esplorazione delle produzioni musicali del 2016, ovvero #LaMusicaDel2016 se siete sul fediverso. I dischi belli sono tanti, ma è arrivato il momento di celebrare uno dei lavori migliori, più rappresentativi e più influenti di quell’annata; un album che dieci anni fa, di questi tempi, stavo certamente consumando, essendo uscito a fine aprile. Sto parlando di Nonagon Infinity dei King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: il miglior disco di rock psichedelico di questo primo quarto di secolo probabilmente, col suo mix allucinato di garage punk, space rock e sana ripetizione (disciplina) krauta. È qui che prendono l’avvio, seppur in modo ancora embrionale, gli esperimenti con la musica microtonale della band australiana che daranno vita ad altre opere bellissime, su tutte Flying Microtonal Banana.

E vado infine a chiudere con le copertine belle. Sono molto indietro con questa cosa delle copertine, ne ho accatastate tante ma le ho lasciate a far la muffa. Oggi ne riesumo due, ma aspettatene altre a breve. I dischi sono entrambi di quest’anno, appartengono entrambi a band italiane e, che ve lo dico a fare, contengono musica molto bella.

La copertina di Il sangue è pronto è di Emilia Wesolowska, ovvero una Neoprimitiva (ne sentirete la voce, nel disco).

La copertina del nuovo album dei Movie Star Junkies è invece di James Johnston, fondatore dei Gallon Drunk, ex organista e chitarrista nei Bad Seeds di Nick Cave e, dicono e io non faccio fatica a crederlo, affermato pittore. Il testo è scritto/disegnato a mano da Galileo Galeone.

Fine, per ora.

🐦 On me l'a beaucoup demandé, alors voici quelques infos sur le terme #sentience, qui a intégré les dictionnaires courants en 2020 en France.

Avec plein de dessins réalisés par mes soins à l'intérieur 👀

Je parle beaucoup de cette notion dans mes différents contenus et interventions depuis plus de 10 ans, mais je n'avais pas encore transposé ma fiche dédiée, initialement créée en 2019, sous forme de carrousel. Voilà qui est fait ! 🤗

⬇⬇⬇ #QuinzaineSentience

Mozilla alle autorità di regolamentazione del Regno Unito: le VPN sono strumenti essenziali per la privacy e la sicurezza e non dovrebbero essere compromesse

Le VPN rappresentano strumenti essenziali per la privacy e la sicurezza degli utenti di tutte le età. Nascondendo gli indirizzi IP degli utenti’, le VPN aiutano a proteggere la posizione degli utenti’, ridurre il tracciamento ed evitare la profilazione basata su IP. Le persone utilizzano le VPN per molti motivi diversi: per connettersi da remoto alla rete della propria scuola o del proprio datore di lavoro, per evitare la censura o semplicemente per proteggere la propria privacy e sicurezza online. Sebbene poter accedere alle VPN sia particolarmente importante per i gruppi vulnerabili come attivisti, dissidenti o giornalisti, le VPN migliorano la protezione di base di tutti online.

blog.mozilla.org/netpolicy/202…

@privacypride

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source

Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting0. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempers to fray. It is even rarer for those internal disagreements to spill over into public.

Which is what makes GDS's latest guidance so surprising. At the start of the month, NHS England made the bizarre and irresponsible decision to close all their Open Source repositories due to unfounded fears of AI hacking1. Lots of people within the NHS were outraged. As were many outside - with this petition against the move gathering over 2,000 signatures.

Within other parts of government there was also alarm. Although I no longer work for Government Digital Service, I was contacted by several concerned people there who remembered all my work on Open Source. The brilliant team in Whitechapel have now published their guidance "AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector".

It is brutal.

They utterly repudiate the NHS's stance and forensically eviscerate it. I'll let you read the whole thing, but here are a few choice excerpts:

Recent public reporting about organisations restricting access to public repositories due to AI-enabled code analysis illustrates how quickly leaders may reach for blanket closure in response to uncertainty.

Basically, non-technical managers need to stop over-reacting.

Private repositories can create a false sense of security.

I think that's the crux of the argument. Closing code doesn't solve the underlying problems.

Making code private is not an appropriate mitigation for lack of ownership, patching capability, or operational assurance, so systems that cannot be safely maintained should be remediated or retired.

If you are so concerned about the poor security of your systems, you should shut them down completely to mitigate the threat.

Closure can become a one-way door.

As I said to the BMJ, "nothing lasts longer than a temporary fix".

Where code has been developed in the open, making a repository private later may not remove access for a capable adversary as popular repositories are often mirrored or forked

Indeed. A friend of mine has already archived all of the NHS's repositories. You can see the ones they've tried to hide.

But the killer blow, I think, is this:

Moving code from public to private as a substitute for investment in secure-by-design delivery, ownership and remediation is a warning sign because it reduces sharing and scrutiny, can slow coordinated improvement across government and suppliers, and does not remove the underlying weaknesses in a running service.

Exactly! Coding in the open has been shown time and again to produce high quality and secure work. The looming threat of AI vulnerability scanners doesn't change that - security is a shared responsibility. Technical teams need to be well enough resourced to create secure systems; hiding code is as reliable as papering over structural cracks.

GDS was created was to be a strong centre with vast technology expertise. This was to counter the frankly shoddy approach to tech in other departments. Back then, a Service Assessment was a way for a department to prove that they were actually capable of designing, launching, and managing a complex IT project.

Most departments have become significantly better at the development and running of these sorts of projects, so the raison d'etre of GDS has somewhat waned. Departments feel more confident in running off on their own. Usually I'd celebrate that - it's important that GDS doesn't become a bottleneck and that the talent is distributed throughout the whole Civil Service.

But NHS England has always been a bit of a weird one. One of the reasons NHSX was created2 was to ensure that the health service had strong expertise in technology and its deployment. As the Head of Open Technology there, I helped craft the policies which embedded Open Source and Open Standards within it3.

I don't know what discussions have taken place within NHS England - although I looking forward to receiving a response to my FOI request. It looks to me like a small group within NHS England have received a report showing some potential vulnerabilities discovered by Mythos. Rather than following their own internal guidance, they've over-reacted and slapped a blanket ban on coding in the open.

I fervently hope that this new guidance will encourage DHSC to bring NHS England into line with best practice. If not, perhaps GDS ought to reassert itself as the technical authority with power to veto a department's incomprehensible decisions?

1. Of course, all the budget cuts mean that biscuits cannot be purchased for any meetings. Which may explain some of the morale issues within the Civil Service. Thanks Austerity. Thausterity. ↩︎

2. As of today, they've shut down nearly 200 repositories. More may be coming. ↩︎

3. I was there right before the start of NHSX and helped set it up. ↩︎

4. Which, I suppose, is why I'm bitter and angry that all our hard work is being undone. ↩︎

Does anyone make a consumer uninterruptible power supply that doesn't completely deplete its expensive ($55 OEM, ~$25 3rd party, in my specific case) lead-acid battery in 18 months regardless of whether it ever actually uses it? Because I'm getting real tired of this cyberpower one.

Somehow everything else that uses a lead-acid battery can keep it alive for years with much heavier use so I don't understand how it's possible for the UPS to kill it after maybe 3-5 charge cycles in 18 months

Please boost this so that I can get some product recommendations

If anyone would like to experiment with followers-only groups, check out

https://pelago.1sland.social/@chat

Simply follow @chat in order to take part in private (followers-only) discussion groups.

And you can also log into Pelago with your existing fediverse account and follow from there if you prefer.

The gist is that you can @mention the @chat group after you've successfully followed it and start a thread, or you can reply to an existing post from @chat with a private mention and it will be securely passed along to the group. Those who unfollow or are evicted from the group can't see anything. Like, retroactively the posts should be pulled from view (tested in Mastodon/GTS, anyway).

There's also a fun aspect of this where if you create the top post, you are the moderator of it and everyone who replies under that can have their posts deleted and (coming soon) you'll even be able to ban individuals from groups you control. You're also currently able to lock a thread, or delete the thread entirely.

You should be able to use this to create polls and add attachments, too. Feel free to test this out and let me know.

Note: It can take a minute or so for the bot to recognize and accept your follow request.

Capturing actor Robert O’Reilly as the bug-eyed high chancellor was tricky but oh so satisfying. Getting the LEGO pieces in the correct colors was another matter all together. You might have seen some of my frustrations in my LEGO posts these last few months.

The result was totally worth it however. This is likely a one-off creation. #StarTrek #DeepSpaceNine

L'"IA" est une ânerie: arrêtez de relayer le discours publicitaire! - coup de gueule contre la réduction du discours sur les approches computationnelles aux publicités de deux entreprises de merde
https://blog.sens-public.org/marcellovitalirosati/iaanerie.html

Haunted house but it’s just me in my own house getting jump scared by my husband who is just going about his business.

Seriously was I a prey animal in my previous life? There’s no reason for this level of startle response!

@0xabad1dea my "no comments about the ethics, morality, practicality of LLMs" clause is raising a lot of comments specifically prohited by the clause

Die #Boomer unterschätzen weiterhin massiv, auf welch fundamentalen Generationenkonflikt die Gesellschaft zusteuert.

Oder besser: sie die Gesellschaft hinsteuern.

Der ganze Artikel ist voll von absurden Zitaten.

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/generation-babyboomer-rente-okay-boomer-generationenkonflikt-100.html

@atax1a@infosec.exchange I've noticed that there are indicators of the prompting process but they aren't the same as indicators of a thought process. Let's say someone guided the prompt two or three times because it wasn't working quite right. Often there will be two or three new variables or interfaces because of those passes. There's not actually two or three new ideas to represent, it just kept adding to get closer to solving the problem. It's really hard to refactor code like this later because noise that looks important but isn't important is so hard to be sure you can remove. Or even know how to remove to fit in with the bigger concept (cuz there isn't one).

So this is a mini essay I wrote for my employers, to explain why I refuse to use AI tools at work. They have recently been pushing it and I wanted to make my position crystal clear and attempt to open up discussions. I'm not in a management position so don't have any voice when it comes to decision making. I also struggle to express myself verbally and miss out context.

I initially sent it to my manager on Tuesday. She then had a meeting with her manager and brought it up, and he suggested I send it to him and 2 members of the extended leadership team above him, who are directly below the CEO.

My managers managers response was very positive, he messaged me to say it was very powerful and he wanted to take the weekend to process.

Anyway it's not my best writing but here it is.

#aislop #copilot #antiai #ai

Why I refuse to use AI tools such as Co-pilot, ChatGPT, Claude etc.
Written by human hands and mind – Jax Ven****

As *** leaders increase their push for employees to use AI tools, I would like to lay out the reasons why I refuse to do so. I feel the need to do this in order to show that I am not acting out of a fear of new technology, but as someone who understands technological progression and has been interested in this field for decades, studying virtual reality and AI at university 15 years ago and following the industry closely since. I also hope that this may convince you to pause and reflect, and commit to allowing every employee to choose for themselves if they wish to use AI tools, without being penalised or left behind should we choose not to.

I have always been very optimistic about what AI could bring us and how it could benefit our lives not just in the workplace, but also at home and for society in general. However, to borrow a phrase used often in online tech circles, ‘this is not the AI we were promised’.

Instead we have AI that is unreliable at best, and risking our lives and our environment at worst.

The environmental impact of data centres is huge. A recent report by the IEA (International Energy Agency) found that data centre energy usage had surged during 2025 and was set to continue.

“According to the report – Key Questions on Energy and AI – power consumption per AI task is declining rapidly, with efficiency improving at a rate unprecedented in energy history. However, more people are using AI, and energy-intensive uses – such as AI agents – are on the rise. As a result, electricity consumption from data centres is set to double by 2030, and power use from those focused on AI is poised to triple.”

https://www.iea.org/news/data-centre-electricity-use-surged-in-2025-even-with-tightening-bottlenecks-driving-a-scramble-for-solutions

The IEA article goes on to speculate that AI may drive the creation and large-scale adoption of greener tech, but we are not there yet and the current state of play is dangerous and damaging to our environment right now, regardless of future potential. Future potential does not cancel out current harm.

I do not wish to contribute to this.

In addition to the environmental impact the creation of new data centres is having a detrimental effect on neighbouring communities with the blatant disregard for them. For example, residents of a town in Michigan voted overwhelmingly to not have a 21 Million square feet data centre built close to their town, with the town commission also voting in favour to reject due to the impact it would have on the local environment, electricity demand and increased traffic. Related Digital (OpenAI, Stargate Initiative) successfully sued the town and are going ahead anyway.

https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/ai-data-center-michigan-saline-politics-farmland/

These data centres are costing billions and billions. The people paying for them are well aware that they have enough money to be able to do whatever the hell they like while making promises of increased opportunities and future green tech. All while they risk destroying the communities surrounding them.

I do not wish to contribute to this.

AI is now being used in war. The same companies that are used to summarise emails or generate a slide deck are being used in cyber defence.

“WASHINGTON — On April 27, the Army convened 14 senior cybersecurity executives from leading technology companies at the Pentagon for the second iteration of its artificial intelligence tabletop exercise, an effort designed to accelerate adoption of agentic AI for cyber defense.
The exercise, known as AI TTX 2.0, brought together C-suite leaders from companies including Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and others alongside Army and Department of War leadership. The Office of the Principal Cyber Advisor hosted the half-day event, with design and moderation support from the Special Competitive Studies Project, and partnering organizations including U.S. Cyber Command, U.S. Army Cyber Command and the Army Cyber Institute at West Point.”
https://www.army.mil/article/292158/army_convenes_industry_leaders_for_ai_tabletop_exercise_focused_on_cyber_defense

I do not wish to contribute to this.

The effect of regular use of AI tools on cognitive function is still being studied but so far the results are extremely concerning. I enjoy using the skills I’ve developed over the last 30 years. I enjoy figuring things out and learning new things. I enjoy putting my thoughts into words with my own voice. These are the things that motivate me.

I thoroughly believe that the more we rely on AI tools, the easier it will become to offload simple tasks to these tools and the temptation to have them do as much of our workload as possible is too great, especially when we are being told to use AI tools to increase our productivity.

“A new MIT study titled, Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task, has found that using ChatGPT to help write essays leads to long-term cognitive harm—measurable through EEG brain scans. Students who repeatedly relied on ChatGPT showed weakened neural connectivity, impaired memory recall, and diminished sense of ownership over their own writing. While the AI-gener”ated content often scored well, the brains behind it were shutting down.

https://publichealthpolicyjournal.com/mit-study-finds-artificial-intelligence-use-reprograms-the-brain-leading-to-cognitive-decline/

I do not wish to be a victim of this.

Things I am also concerned about but have not written about here in great detail (or this would be 20 pages long) are;

‘Enshittification’ of the internet: can no longer trust search results, or that academic papers, news reports, images, videos and music are not AI created.

Security Risks; apps and software being developed by ‘vibe coding’ are being found to contain serious security flaws that would enable hackers to obtain sensitive customer and company data. Who is checking vibe coders code?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jodiecook/2026/03/20/vibe-coding-has-a-massive-security-problem/

AI is a technology that I would love to be using, and it should be a natural progression of my career. I should relish digging in and getting to know how everything works, being creative and finding new ways to use it. That’s who I am. I would fully embrace it and advocate for it. But not in it’s current format, with it’s current harms, and it’s current masters. The likes of Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Jensen Huang are billionaires who do not live in the same reality as the rest of us, and do not have our best interests at heart. The AI models these people are enabling are not the AI we were promised. For all of the reasons outlined above I cannot in good conscience contribute by becoming a user. This is at the core of my ethics and my beliefs, and it would devastate me to be forced to take part. This may seem dramatic but I am just one of many, many people worldwide who are also refusing to take part and that number is growing day by day. I guess we are ‘conscientious objectors’.

It’s not just about an individuals personal use. One could argue that the amount of energy one person uses or their monetary contribution to AI companies from simple day to day workplace tasks is not great enough to be an issue. However, it is about collective use and about ethical standpoints. Do we, as a company with a mission to help people embrace greener technology, really want to contribute to all of these things? Sometimes the only power we have is to choose where our money goes. It’s something I do as an individual consumer and something that companies can do on a grander scale to take a stand and be on the right side. Yes, I understand the need to increase productivity and remain competitive but we were already on the right track before the push to use AI tools. I also believe it is a mistake to rely on them too much as subscription costs are set to soar and the ‘AI Bubble’ predictions are looking more and more likely. I think it’s far better to pause or greatly limit use, allow employees to decide they don’t wish to use it at all, and see what the state of play is in a year or two. ‘Fear of Missing Out’ is a very real phenomena that I sadly see playing out here.

I guarantee I am not the only one at *** who feels this way, but with the job market as it is right now (thanks to AI) it can be very risky to speak out. I know people in other companies who are being forced to use AI tools or risk losing their jobs and I would like to think that we are better than that at ***, but this still feels risky. However I cannot stay silent any more and need to make my position, and my reasoning for this position crystal clear and hope that everything I have outlined can be given serious thought.

Thank you for reading and I look forward to discussing this in more detail should you wish.

.....,..........
Edited to add a little update 😊

This has now gone to the extended leadership team who have responded that they will take some time to read it through carefully and 'give it the consideration it deserves', and will come back to me once they have discussed.

This is very positive and a good sign that they are not dismissive about it 🥳

Thank you for all the boosts and likes it means a lot 🥰

Week in Fediverse 2026-05-15

Servers

- PieFed v1.6.23
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Clients

- FediLab v3.40.0
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- Phanpy changelog
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Tools and Plugins

- FediFetcher v7.1.18
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For developers

- BotKit v0.4.1

Articles

- There Are a Million Fediverses. Some of Them Are Louder than Others

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