Hard Pass

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1528851/new-york-is-forcing-t-mobile-to-stop-putting-data-caps-on-low-income-home-internet-plans

Students are relying on AI so heavily that universities are being forced to fundamentally rethink how they grade their work.

England’s higher education regulator, the Office for Students, is warning universities that they may need to replace traditional take-home essays and open-book exams with supervised assessments that prevent students from relying on artificial intelligence to do their work.

AI-detection tools are too unreliable to consistently determine whether students have used the technology, the OfS said in a report published Wednesday.

The 2026 blue wave could end up washing away the Electoral College. In addition to winning Congress, Democrats won full control of state governments in Arizona, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. That means that a two-decades-in-the-making plan to switch our presidential elections to a popular vote system — a plan 18 states have already approved— […]

I really enjoy programming with AI agents. This is the closest I’ve ever come to having magical superpowers. Today’s AI is already smart, capable, resourceful and agentic enough to bring me joy.

This post is about the flip side of that: for most people I know, this fun turns into a death march. We have these powerful tools, but we feel more exhausted and overworked than ever. We ship more, but enjoy it less.

Source: https://frantic.im/bottleneck/

Sure thing you got disappointed - you chose not to train your mind, your confidence, your attitude… to stay self-sufficient and actually treasure achievements to be proud of. No. You chose to outsource, to depend, and to atrophy yourself and your history, where no names exist but tokens.

Congratulations. You damaged your own history.

Hard agree. Bless 🙏

Even my washboard-like chest is probably attractive...to someone out there 🥲

Hey, c/selfhosted! Thanks to all who participated in my recent '2026 Self-Host User Survey'. This community contributed a bunch to this year's increase in respondents (+52%), and I'm incredibly grateful for the support.

The results are visualized as usual via Chart.js. Happy to talk through any of the results or provide more details where things might not be clear.

New this year is a section on AI usage, a Linux distribution question, and the ability to overlay prior year responses on the charts for easier year-over-year comparisons.

Thanks again!

Im so pleased whenever I see developers hosting their own repos. It just feels like its meant to be, straight from the source and official.

Rep.-elect Don Leonard said he will not vote for Rep. Hakeem Jeffries without a commitment to address Citizens United and U.S. aid to Israel

"So unless Speaker Jeffries is willing to commit to enforcing our nation’s laws, like the Leahy Law, against Israeli genocide in Gaza; unless the speaker is willing to get to the heart of this crisis, which is Citizens United, he will not have my vote,” the incoming lawmaker said in a clip he also posted on his social media."

Hey, c/selfhosted! Thanks to all who participated in my recent '2026 Self-Host User Survey'. This community contributed a bunch to this year's increase in respondents (+52%), and I'm incredibly grateful for the support.

The results are visualized as usual via Chart.js. Happy to talk through any of the results or provide more details where things might not be clear.

New this year is a section on AI usage, a Linux distribution question, and the ability to overlay prior year responses on the charts for easier year-over-year comparisons.

Thanks again!