"AI" is not intelligent. Nor is it conscient.

There is no "it" behind LLMs. Only rich people who want you to unlearn all your skills, by relying more and more on their LLMs. And once you've unlearned all your skills and once you're so utterly dependent on LLMs because you're so helpless without them and once you no longer know how to do *anything* without consulting a LLM, these rich people will crank up the subnoscription prices and become even richer. Because in rent-seeking capitalism, of course everything is a subnoscription.

Companies like OpenAI keep telling you that AI is real and will soon™ become sentient and destroy the world. And for that reason, OpenAI and its likes are actually public benefit companies, at least according to their own arguments, because they—the good people, the Sam Altmans of the world—work on making AI safe, and are thus the saviors of the world!!! Messiah-complex much?

And because these companies now positioned themselves as public benefit companies, they get massive funding. It's all just a giant grift, designed to make rich bastards even richer. And people who spend way too much time on LinkedIn fall for it, in masses.

It's time to wake up! You've been utterly fooled if you didn't know any of this. But it's not too late. Do the programming yourself again instead of vibe-coding some shit you don't understand. Unless you *want* to pay ever-increasing subnoscription fees to the Sam Altmans of the world, like a serf, milking you until the day you die.

#AI #LLM #madness #rant

The thing I hate most about AI, in the current era:

Google, DDG, Bing, etc. are all now effectively worthless on the first 2-3 pages, for most of my queries having to do with *anything* general.

Even specific queries like 'smart outlet energy consumption card HA'.

The problem is AI slop; there are thousands of websites (even some old venerable sites that were sold off) that just have "that exact query as a web page", but the results are AI generated, and have no helpful information inside.

So, Google just launched a major new AI demo that requires people to relax their browser security settings. Wow.

GitHub took down the repository just now. It was up for 19 hours when we reported it. GitHub took action within roughly 2.5 hours, which was rather quick.

Linux Is Perfect Unless You're Blind #Linux #YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvxdkmPka20

@geerlingguy@mastodon.social The Internet, soon...

Addio alle chiamate spam dai finti numeri italiani: l'agcom mette finalmente una pezza.

L'AGCOM blocca lo spoofing: entro 6 mesi stop alle chiamate commerciali con numeri italiani falsi usati da call center esteri.•Previste multe fino a 1 milione di euro per gli operatori telefonici che non fermano le chiamate di telemarketing truccate.

#spam #agcom #telemarketing

https://www.smartworld.it/news/agcom-spoofing-chiamate-truffa.html

might be a controversial take but pirating photoshop doesn't hurt adobe and is thus bad

you're still using their software and learning it and getting used to it

you're contributing to the pandemic of people that can't use anything but adobe products

you're contributing to the "oh but my friends/colleagues use it so I don't have a choice"

pirating adobe products means the dependency on adobe products doesn't go away. you're only worsening it

❄️ NixOS 25.05 has been released.

https://nixos.org/blog/announcements/2025/nixos-2505/

#NixOS #Nix #Linux

Watching Microsoft’s robots telling Microsoft’s other robots that they need to agree to Microsoft CLAs in between Microsoft’s developers begging Microsoft’s robots to actually understand the problems they’re trying to fix in Microsoft's platform code on Microsoft's version-control website is kind of amazing.

This is definitely the future Terry Gilliam promised us.

What being a Windows user is like in 2025

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/in-3-5-years-notepad-exe-has-gone-from-barely-maintained-to-it-writes-for-you/?comments=1&post=43746095

If your industry (AI) can only exist by ripping the work of others without credit, then it shouldn't exist.

The big companies are just steamrolling over the rights of everyone because they're getting away with it. Governments have been cowardly to act on this.

💥 Refund4Freedom is here! 💥

The FSFE and @ItaLinuxSociety are happy to announce the launch of Refund4Freedom!

👀 This initiative promotes the right to choose your operating system and get a refund for pre-installed software that you don’t want.

Check out its website for more information - https://refund4freedom.org/

📆 And save the date! Join our launch event on 29th May (in Italian).

Registration for the event: https://pretix.eu/fsfeItaly/refund4freedom/

#SoftwareFreedom #DeviceNeutrality #FreeSoftware

Many have asked how to avoid Google AI search results. Here are some suggestions:

1. Use other search engine like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, or Qwant instead of Google.

2. If you must use Google search, avoid Google Chrome. Use Ungoogled Chromium or LibreWolf instead.

3. If you still want to use Google Chrome, append &udm=14 to your search queries.

4. If you find steps 1-3 too complicated, visit https://udm14.org.

Regardless of your approach, enhance your privacy by using tracker blockers, Tor, VPNs, AdGuard, uBlock Origin, or other DNS-level blockers. Combining several of these tools is even more effective.

#Privacy #AI #Google #GoogleAI #GoogleSearch

Why old games never die, but new ones do

Link: https://pleromanonx86.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/why-old-games-never-die-but-new-ones-do/

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44083917

Per chi ha qualcosa su #Meta oggi è l'ultimo giorno per dirgli che non possono usare i nostri contenuti per la loro #AI https://youtu.be/vrmJqcnWbo4

The #EuropeanCommission has published an "Impact Assessment on retention of data by service providers for criminal proceedings". It is open for comment until 18 June: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14680-Impact-assessment-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-_en

This is a terrible proposal which will seriously weaken the fundamental #privacy rights of #European #citizens. Please take the time to read it and add your comments. You don't have to be an #EU citizen to comment.

#ec #politics #democracy #freedom

@strangequark@dice.camp plus it has been written by a mysterious "High Level Group" to which @echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social asked their names but only got a blacked out list.

https://www.reddit.com/r/europe/comments/1kvmguc/comment/muanbqa/

https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/going-dark-expert-group-eus-surveillance-forge/

🇬🇧 Have you heard about the #EUGoingDark plan to reintroduce blanket #DataRetention & undermine #encryption 🔓?

Intransparent 🇪🇺 work on what the new EU Parliament & Commission should implement after the #EUelections will be finalised in Mai & June.

#Pirates