I was waiting for a hand to emerge from this reflecting pool and offer me an enchanted sword. Maybe next time.

Een verbod op de export van de ASML-chipmachines zou de AI-race naar de afgrond kunnen stoppen, schrijft een commentator in The Guardian.
'It’s rare that disparate groups all arrive at a similar conclusion: there is one single European card to play, and that it must be played. Instead of racing towards folly, let’s just halt the race. Right now, and for everyone.'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/sep/01/from-bill-gates-to-bernie-sanders-most-agree-the-ai-arms-race-is-disastrous-only-europe-can-make-it-stop

@cwebber
The negative effects on community are already perceptible.

I'm proud that #NetBSD has said just no to LLM output. I did the same for unison. Niche allegation accepted!

I used to think Debian was principled, but their recent spectacular fail (welcoming LLMs as long as the human LLM fan is ok with it, and of course they are) was surprising and concerning.

When Skynet becomes self aware, what is the first thing it will say out loud?

Sweepstake on time before Kier Starmer gets installed as a VP for some AI company... anyone?

@globcoco @jerome_herbinet si mais avec un delai de 24h. c'est naze

@Compeuter @theinternet Thanks! I think it's important to document this stuff because there's a tendency in the media to treat anything happening in tech now as sort of a continuation of how tech has always been rolled out since the dawn of personal computers in the 80s, and that's simply not true at all. It's become a very different scene. (And yet the seeds *were* there and we missed it. We need to grapple with that so history isn't doomed to repeat itself again…)

@jerome_herbinet

Hello. Il n'est plus possible d'utiliser Aurora store "grâce" à Google qui bloque tout. 😣

There was a little exhibition about David Lafferty, who in 1966 spent 130 alone in Gough's Cave, breaking the world record. Although I suspect a fair section of Mastodon would probably like the idea of 130 days away from human company, before trying this you should note that he went a bit crazy towards the end, missed England's World Cup victory, and had a wife and kids and presumably expected her to just get on with taking care of the household while he sat in the dark being dripped on for four months just for the sake of saying he did it.

Fair enough.

@backupbear Aaaah, I think I remember someone else saying they had that done, and it worked well. But it sounds scary!
Although maybe the sleep improvement once you're not trying to work across intercontinental time zones might help? Fingers crossed, eh? (Edit: it was @TheBreadmonkey I think!)

@adamgreenfield looks good

I‘m just using weird tricks to wrangle downstream systems into doing the right thing at this point

@emanuel I used HostUp before but the owner is some far right person. Was enough for us to change providers. But can't find the info right now @aral

I'm alive and in FL. I'm here cause my mother had to have a high risk surgery. All went well. Once she poops she can head home. ;-)

Today is a special day...Abuelita (grandma) is going to be making a batch of sofrito and I'm going to finally learn the recipe to make it myself.

What is sofrito? It's the special ingredient that is in EVERY Puerto Rican dish. And instead of having my grandmother make and ship it to me, I'm going to learn the family recipe.