Hard Pass

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/twitterblueskymastodon/p/1124740/fancy-label-for-old-infrastructure

why did they call them "ai datacenters" when they could have called them "slopping malls"

Mastodon.

Sen. John Fetterman’s latest high-profile vote backing Donald Trump angered Democrats, who lambasted him as “shameful” and a “traitor.”

On Wednesday, Fetterman again voted to block another war powers resolution to constrain Trump’s authority to wage war on Iran without congressional approval.

It was the seventh time Democrats have attempted to rein in Trump’s power.

This time, however, Fetterman was the deciding vote after three Republican senators — Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins and Rand Paul — supported it.

GitLab, a significant player in the open-source and DevOps communities, has announced a major restructuring as it prepares for what CEO Bill Staples calls the “agentic era” of software development, in which AI agents play a larger role in planning, coding, reviewing, deployment, and maintenance.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1124775/xai-now-has-46-gas-turbines-without-air-permits

Louisiana, Alabama, Tennessee and more are pushing to eliminate Democratic districts after supreme court ruling

US southern states are rushing to redraw congressional maps to eliminate Democratic districts and dilute the influence of Black voters in electing candidates, a bare-knuckled blitz occurring even in some states where voting in congressional primaries has begun, and prompted by the US supreme court’s decision gutting section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.

I've written this blogpost, this isn't just "AI is bad", but it's mostly "AI is almost all the time bad".

The focus is on the usage as a tool, and maybe bringing some more context to the conversation with the pointing out that the problem maybe is on how the tool were created, and how it's beying pushed. Not sure.

Let me know what you folks think about it.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/twitterblueskymastodon/p/1124932/ship-it-maybe

I always end my git commit messages with a ? because who knows if the change actually works. I want plausible deniability.

Mastodon.

Another sneaky way is to simply put "allegedly" at the end of every commit message. This also feels more appropriate in times of AI where you don't know what the code does anyway.

Reply on Mastodon.

Good.

Our family watches TV trough IPTV and via streaming services and it's been fine enough for quite some time. However, now one of our broadcast companies got in a fight about streaming contract with our IPTV provider and we lost a few of the channels. Not that big of a deal for me personally, but apparently there's some shows the rest of the family wants to see. This isn't the first time and likely it won't be the last.

However, all the free channels are available over air as well (and that's one excuse for IPTV operators to exclude offerings, "you can watch it anyway"). We have an antenna, but previous house owners just left the cable loose at the outside wall and brough it trough a hole in window frame. I've removed the cable and patched the hole for it and it'd be pretty difficult to run antenna cable to our TV set cleanly. However, I could pull a new cable nearby to my server stack with reasonable effort.

It's been quite a while since I've played with capture cards and any kind of streaming, so maybe hive mind here has some ideas. TV already has Android TV box connected, so anything that works with it is a bonus, but not a requirement.

So, what software (and hardware) I could use to pull video from DVB-T2 and stream that over local network?

This is an old opinion piece by Northrop Frye way back in 1986(!) about thought, articulation, social control, and militancy. It's an increasingly difficult article to find (for some reason/s) so I've liberated it and posted it.

And I can't help but feel that in LLMs we have reached the apotheosis of Frye's feared "verbal formulas that have no thought behind them but are put up as a pretence of thinking".

I think Frye, had he lived to see their introduction, would likely have sunk into a great depression over LLMs and what they represented.