Cryptix
@cryptix.pizza
Wrote go-ssb back in the day. Love offline-first systems. Previously with http://museapp.com and @mass.market
(Experimental) Music: https://peertube.1312.media/c/cryptix_channel/videos
Toots: https://social.coop/@cryptix
(Experimental) Music: https://peertube.1312.media/c/cryptix_channel/videos
Toots: https://social.coop/@cryptix
Hmm… I had a pretty interesting feed of top most liked posts last 7 days / last 3 hrs. It just disappeared and I forgot ofc who the nice person was putting that together…
December 22, 2025 at 11:37 AM
Hmm… I had a pretty interesting feed of top most liked posts last 7 days / last 3 hrs. It just disappeared and I forgot ofc who the nice person was putting that together…
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Big story here and among the many scoops in it is the allegation that China is quietly handing out passports and tolerating dual nationality for specialists recruited to replicate ASML’s EUV machines at a secret factory in Shenzhen.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
Exclusive: How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips
In a high-security Shenzhen laboratory, Chinese scientists have built a prototype of a machine capable of producing cutting-edge semiconductor chips that power artificial intelligence, smartphones and...
www.reuters.com
December 18, 2025 at 4:07 AM
Big story here and among the many scoops in it is the allegation that China is quietly handing out passports and tolerating dual nationality for specialists recruited to replicate ASML’s EUV machines at a secret factory in Shenzhen.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
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I acutely understand the issues with AI and there's something strange happening that I don't know how to explain. I'm not talking about sentience or anything like that but yes effectively general intelligence. My friends and I r making things that even I would have thought impossible 2 months ago...
December 18, 2025 at 3:06 AM
I acutely understand the issues with AI and there's something strange happening that I don't know how to explain. I'm not talking about sentience or anything like that but yes effectively general intelligence. My friends and I r making things that even I would have thought impossible 2 months ago...
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“In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and indie artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month.”
www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
December 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
“In the fascinating new reality of the internet, teen girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and indie artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month.”
www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
For my iOS peeps: locallyai.app - iPhone 15++ advisable
Locally AI - Run AI models locally on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.
Run Llama, Gemma, Qwen, DeepSeek, and more on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Optimized for Apple Silicon. Offline. Private.
locallyai.app
December 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
For my iOS peeps: locallyai.app - iPhone 15++ advisable
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Can't believe our tax dollars are going to be spent settling the upcoming exorbitant defamation suit with Sabrina Carpenter, but maybe this is just how public arts funding is going to work now.
Sabrina Carpenter ratioed the White House after it used her song in an ICE video.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
The WH deleted the post…but now it’s back with a new ICE video, this time using an altered clip from Carpenter’s SNL monologue.
December 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Can't believe our tax dollars are going to be spent settling the upcoming exorbitant defamation suit with Sabrina Carpenter, but maybe this is just how public arts funding is going to work now.
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Dear friends of offline,
we're organizing an art sale on 6. & 7. December to raise money for our expenses and ask your support with this to keep the space running.
We need people to cover shifts, help with preparations, cooking food and bringing cakes […]
[Original post on autonomous.zone]
we're organizing an art sale on 6. & 7. December to raise money for our expenses and ask your support with this to keep the space running.
We need people to cover shifts, help with preparations, cooking food and bringing cakes […]
[Original post on autonomous.zone]
December 3, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Dear friends of offline,
we're organizing an art sale on 6. & 7. December to raise money for our expenses and ask your support with this to keep the space running.
We need people to cover shifts, help with preparations, cooking food and bringing cakes […]
[Original post on autonomous.zone]
we're organizing an art sale on 6. & 7. December to raise money for our expenses and ask your support with this to keep the space running.
We need people to cover shifts, help with preparations, cooking food and bringing cakes […]
[Original post on autonomous.zone]
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Ein Jahr Vorratsdatenspeicherung, auch für Messenger wie Signal und Threema, wünschen sich die EU-Staaten zu Weihnachten. Das sollten wir verhindern.
www.heise.de/news/Vorrats...
www.heise.de/news/Vorrats...
Vorratsdaten: Kommission soll bis Mitte 2026 Vorschlag vorlegen
Die Vorratsdatenspeicherung kommt wieder, zumindest als Diskussionspunkt. Was die EU-Staaten sich wünschen, verrät ein vorweihnachtlicher Wunschzettel.
www.heise.de
December 3, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Ein Jahr Vorratsdatenspeicherung, auch für Messenger wie Signal und Threema, wünschen sich die EU-Staaten zu Weihnachten. Das sollten wir verhindern.
www.heise.de/news/Vorrats...
www.heise.de/news/Vorrats...
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We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
AI tools are 'deskilling' workers, philosophy professor says
A philosophy professor warns that AI reliance is weakening workers' judgment, creativity, and problem-solving.
www.businessinsider.com
November 30, 2025 at 6:09 PM
We can't really say this enough...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
> Anastasia Berg [at UCL Irvine] said that new research — and what she's hearing directly from colleagues across various industries — shows that employees who heavily rely on AI are losing core skills at a startling rate.
www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are...
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Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
November 30, 2025 at 12:22 AM
Anecdotally on twitter seeing a big shift the last few days from every AI slop account saying every other creative field is “over” and they’re in control now to now posting about how nobody likes them and it’s not fair and they’ll persevere and real artists respect and uplift eachother
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🇪🇺 Eurosky is building EU-hosted social media infrastructure on ATProtocol. Priorities: Commons for Content Moderation (CoCoMo), decentralized architecture, and reducing Big Tech dependency.
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
Eurosky dawns: Building Infrastructure for Sovereign Social Media – Open Future
The Eurosky initiative is building European social media infrastructure on the ATProtocol, representing a new step in Europe's digital sovereignty agenda as policymakers seek alternatives to Big Tech ...
openfuture.eu
November 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
🇪🇺 Eurosky is building EU-hosted social media infrastructure on ATProtocol. Priorities: Commons for Content Moderation (CoCoMo), decentralized architecture, and reducing Big Tech dependency.
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
Public funding + civil society collaboration = digital sovereignty. openfuture.eu/blog/eurosky...
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Mood, by noonsillustrations on IG.
November 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Mood, by noonsillustrations on IG.
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
Work tools for the cold season
November 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Work tools for the cold season
Came around to watching it today. Meine fresse. Love it but I already daunt the season cliffhanger.
everyone go watch pluribus right now
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Came around to watching it today. Meine fresse. Love it but I already daunt the season cliffhanger.
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Me when Google or Meta gives me an AI summary of something I never asked for.
November 8, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Me when Google or Meta gives me an AI summary of something I never asked for.
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Eeww... that's 10 times more creepy than all the predators on its site
This will be *interesting*: Tinder to begin accessing your camera roll for “insight” & training its AI models #privacy #AI techcrunch.com/2025/11/05/t...
Tinder to use AI to get to know users, tap into their Camera Roll photos | TechCrunch
Tinder is testing a feature called Chemistry that will get to know users through questions and, with permission, will access Camera Roll photos on their phones to learn more about their interests and ...
techcrunch.com
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Eeww... that's 10 times more creepy than all the predators on its site
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Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Pretty sure I have the scariest engineering costume of the day.
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More stupidity and recklessness purely to cover a fragile sense of their own power.
October 31, 2025 at 9:05 AM
More stupidity and recklessness purely to cover a fragile sense of their own power.
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
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This is obviously awful.
But what it tells me is that YouTube has a supply problem of new good videos. Otherwise there would be no reason to dig up very old ones for this treatment.
But what it tells me is that YouTube has a supply problem of new good videos. Otherwise there would be no reason to dig up very old ones for this treatment.
Youtube has announced that all low-res videos (i.e. older ones) are to be automatically AI upscaled to HD.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).
When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.
Creators can opt-out on a per video basis (but the channel may be long abandoned).
When researching props or behind the scenes, old videos are useful, but not if upscaling produces artefacts.
October 30, 2025 at 9:12 AM
This is obviously awful.
But what it tells me is that YouTube has a supply problem of new good videos. Otherwise there would be no reason to dig up very old ones for this treatment.
But what it tells me is that YouTube has a supply problem of new good videos. Otherwise there would be no reason to dig up very old ones for this treatment.
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The Register is reporting that OpenAI lost $11 billion in the last quarter. This company is a shambling monstrosity, financial insanity as a direct result with the markets’ obsession with growth.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...
Microsoft earnings suggest $11.5B OpenAI quarterly loss
: Satya has also delivered Sam most of the cash he promised
www.theregister.com
October 30, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The Register is reporting that OpenAI lost $11 billion in the last quarter. This company is a shambling monstrosity, financial insanity as a direct result with the markets’ obsession with growth.
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...
www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...
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Das ist spannend und ein deutliches Zeichen: Der internationale Gerichtshof schmeißt Microsoft raus und setzt auf deutsche Open-Source-Lösung - aus Angst vor Trump!
Da gab es bereits einen gefährlichen Präzedenzfall.
www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-i...
Da gab es bereits einen gefährlichen Präzedenzfall.
www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-i...
Handelsblatt
www.handelsblatt.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Das ist spannend und ein deutliches Zeichen: Der internationale Gerichtshof schmeißt Microsoft raus und setzt auf deutsche Open-Source-Lösung - aus Angst vor Trump!
Da gab es bereits einen gefährlichen Präzedenzfall.
www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-i...
Da gab es bereits einen gefährlichen Präzedenzfall.
www.handelsblatt.com/technik/it-i...