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EA was a toxic company even before the Saudi's and the Trump's bought it off. Now it's like a sewage pit where people decided to dump radioactive waste and asbestos in.

@mekkaokereke nazis literally settled there, and the fascists are you sending us all a signal we should pay attention to. These arent "refugees" at all.

This is some sort of social warrior project. Always has been. Always will be.

ha!

@tschfflr My favorite is the bubbles: 🫧 They're so fun and textured

@rperezrosario @arstechnica
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-missed-climate-goals-ai

https://futurism.com/science-energy/amazon-spewing-record-carbon-emissions-ai-data-centers

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/06/lanarkshire-scotland-ai-datacentre-project-renewable-energy

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/cheyenne-suspends-data-center-fill-and-flush-and-closed-loop-discharges-after-meta-contractor-contaminated-its-reuse-water-system

https://japantoday.com/category/features/environment/data-centres-emitting-more-co2-than-thought-study

https://archive.ph/0rwgt

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15830803/Georgia-mom-home-ai-data-centers-eminent-domain.html

But sure, ongoing debate. 🙄

@jeroenbosman @wikidata @MsPhelps I matched up about 25 journals now tagged as "diamond open-access journal" in #wikidata with the dataset as reference: https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Special:WhatLinksHere/Q140540990&limit=500

I GET KNOCKED DOWN

BUT I GET UP AGAIN

YOU'RE NEVER GONNA KEEP ME DOWN

#FSFE today celebrates their 25ᵗʰ year at their annual meeting in Kraków, Poland: https://fsfe.org/about/summermeeting-schedule.en.html (it's a side event to #EuroPython ).

@kirschner (FSFE President) kindly personally invited me to be there, but sadly due to a transient medical issue, I couldn't make the long trip this week to the event.

Some might not know that the FSF Europe is *not* the #FSF; FSFE is an entirely different organization. FSFE has been doing great work the last 10 years!

#FOSS #FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Does anyone have any recommendations on how to do Disk I/O benchmarks? I want to compare a ZFS disk with an ext4 disk. Seems bonnie++ works slower on ZFS so I'm not sure what stats to look at, or if bonnie++ is even the right tool for the job.

le principal problème quand on a un petit frigo d’appartement parisien, c’est que les trois bouteilles de champagne pour célébrer les trois décès qui feront toutes les une de journaux du monde entier, hé bé ça prend de la place, vous voyez

@josephcox
Surprised you guys aren't going to be at HOPE next month.

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Download:
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#zxspectrum #retrogaming

There’s a big difference between the promise of GenAI and the reality.

The promise is the democratization of expertise. Anyone can be a coder, analyst or lawyer with AI.

The reality is actually the erosion of expertise. Being an expert is no longer valued yet experts are needed to vet AI lies.

RE: https://mastodon.acm.org/@ACM/116929782064773116

The ACM wants to open up their library to LLMs for inclusion in synthetic text extruders. This is obviously massively misguided.

There's a form for you to tell them about your thoughts: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeq7MFM7TlSXIaIXQnIltiQeWE_w3cl36HFPwql4S7u-drmzg/viewform

My response:
"Science is a deeply human endeavor based on collaboration and mutual respect. Giving machines based on massive appropriation of data _against many creator's explicit will_, machines that are deeply problematic in their tendency to hallucinate even more legitimacy by allowing them access to the ACM Library is massively misguided.

The ACM as scientific organization must care about proper attribution of work and transparency in where certain positions and data come from. That is in fundamental opposition to how LLMs work. If ACM takes their own foundational values (and itself seriously) accepting LLMs as valuable tool is out of the question.

Not only is that an insult to the many researchers who subscribe to the fundamental processes for collaborative science and therefore do not see LLMs as the benefit that OpenAI, Anthropic and a few others claim them to be. The legimatization of the deeply unethical systems that Amnesty International recently called "fundamentally incompatible with human rights" would be the ACM giving up its role as defender of quality in engineering and science but doing PR for a handful of unethical companies.

The supposed benefits are marginal and often potential at best while the harms are real and material. This is the wrong call by ACM and I urge Leadership to rethink it and focus back on its core values."

@Lone Welcome, hope you'll enjoy it here!

@lowqualityfacts
I wouldn't expect less.