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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 6d

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Jon Rowe @jonrowe.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey bksy, I’m on the look out for my next project, I’m an experienced Elixir dev (> 8 years commercially, and > 10 years of Ruby before that + I'm still the maintainer of RSpec), very familiar with Phoenix and LiveView, and have enough CSS / JS knowledge to approach projects from a full stack angle.

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 7d

The Obsolete Man
#TheTwilightZone #SciFi #Dystopia

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The Obsolete Man (BEST)

YouTube video by MIndMattersMost

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leah @uncenter.dev · 7d

what browsers are people using today?
brave: ew crypto, ew brendan eich
zen: slow, DRM/widevine
firefox: slow, behind on web features
safari: no web extensions
chrome: google tracking
opera: weird
vivaldi: ?

orion maybe? does ungoogled chromium have DRM? helium doesn't have DRM iirc.

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 7d

Kurzgesagt: AI SLOP IS KILLING OUR CHANNEL

Also Kurzgesagt: 10 ways the black hole inside the Earth's core is killing us.

#ai #aislop #popsci

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Nelind @nel.pet · 15d

the fact that we live in a universe where vape companies create "disposable vapes" with full on fucking arm cortex-m0+ chips in them says a lot about our society i think.

like youre telling me we slap full on fucking arm processors in so called disposable products just cause its cheap ... wtf??

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Adolfo Neto @adolfont.github.io · 11d

The AI Con and Brazil - a conversation with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna
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The AI Con and Brazil - a conversation with Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna about the dangers of ‘AI’

YouTube video by Fronteiras da Engenharia de Software

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 11d

🧠 Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts / Reuters

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#austria #science #uspol #research

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 12d

🤔 Scientists Say They May Have Just Detected a Wormhole From Another Universe
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#wormhole #astrophysics #science #GW190521

Scientists Say They May Have Just Detected a Wormhole From Another Universe

Wormhole researchers suggest that LIGO and Virgo instead picked up the signals of a black hole collision in a different universe than ours.

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 12d

⚠️ Against Tech Inevitability

｢ That is why inevitability talk is so powerful and so dangerous. They present themselves as a law of physics while it’s only an act of communication whose power comes from people believing in it ｣

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#ai #hype #bubble

Against Tech Inevitability

My dear startup founder friend, You told me that everything is “hyper-determined,” that “life is a big game because of that.” You’re not alone in t

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 12d

🦄 AI Investment Is Starting to Look Like a Slush Fund / NYMag

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#openai #ai #oracle #softbank

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 12d

🇨🇳 Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home / Rest of World

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#china #uspol #immigration

Why I left Silicon Valley: Chinese tech workers talk about returning home

Chinese-origin tech workers are abandoning the American dream and returning home, where state-led incentives and ambition are plentiful.

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 12d

🤖 Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man

｢ A man with cerebral palsy who uses a mobility scooter to travel experienced a blood-boiling episode when he kept getting cut off — by a robot ｣

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#clankers #ai #robots #disabilities

Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man

A viral video shows a delivery robot in Los Angeles brake checking and cutting off a man with cerebral palsy using a mobility scooter.

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 12d

🚱 Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built
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#ai #climatechange #drought

Residents Shut Down Google Data Center Before It Can Be Built

A planned data center in Indianapolis by Google was shut down after residents protested its possible environmental impacts.

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 12d

⚡ OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

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#openai #climatechange #energycrisis

OpenAI's New Data Centers Will Draw More Power Than the Entirety of New York City, Sam Altman Says

OpenAI's planned AI data center projects would consume as much as the entire city of New York City and San Diego combined.

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 12d

Scientists say X (formerly Twitter) has lost its professional edge — and Bluesky is taking its place

After Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter, many scientists report the platform is no longer suitable for professional use. A recent survey indicates that researchers are increasingly turning to…

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 12d

🦀 Fish 4.1 Released With Nearly 1,400 Commits To This Rust-Based Shell - Phoronix

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#fishshell #rust #opensource

Fish 4.1 Released With Nearly 1,400 Commits To This Rust-Based Shell

Following the release earlier this year of the Fish 4.0 shell that was ported from C++ to Rust, Fish 4.1 was released this weekend as the next major feature release.

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 13d

｢ BSD Router Project (BSDRP) is an embedded free and open-source router distribution based on FreeBSD with Quagga (a software routing suite) and BIRD (an open-source implementation for routing Internet Protocol packets) ｣

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#bsdrouter #freebsd

BSD Release: BSD Router Project 2.0 (DistroWatch.com News)

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 13d

｢ IceWhale Technology has published ZimaOS 1.5.0, an updated release of the company's independently-developed, Linux-based operating system for personal servers and network-attached storage (NAS) devices ｣

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#zimaos #homelab #opensource

Distribution Release: ZimaOS 1.5.0 (DistroWatch.com News)

News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 13d

｢ As expected, Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.17 kernel on-schedule as the kernel version powering Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43, and other upcoming Linux distribution releases and rolling releases ｣

www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6...

#linux #kernel #opensource

Linux 6.17 Released: Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Graphics Ready, New Optimizations

As expected, Linus Torvalds just released the Linux 6.17 kernel on-schedule as the kernel version powering Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora 43, and other upcoming Linux distribution releases and rolling releases.

www.phoronix.com

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 13d

🐧 Cryptography Performance Improvements Coming For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix
#linux #kernel #cryptography #opensource
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Cryptography Performance Improvements Coming For Linux 6.18

Adding to the list of pull requests submitted early in advance of the Linux 6.18 merge window opening are several cryptography-related improvements

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jbz @jbz3n.bsky.social · 13d

｢ The Fedora Council, a top-level leadership and governance body of the Fedora Project, published a draft policy on AI-assisted contributions, opening a two-week window for community review and feedback before a final vote ｣

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#fedora #ai #opensource