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Benjamin Balder Bach

benjaoming@social.data.coop

<p>❤️ing computer reuse, repair and Open Source<br />🤜️ing tech solutionism and colonialism<br />🦫ing as an open source consultant/activist (currently on fulltime, so less activism)</p><p>Part of <a href="https://data.coop" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">data.coop</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, <a href="https://django-denmark.org" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">django-denmark.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, <a href="https://fairdanmark.dk" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fairdanmark.dk</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, co-organ

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    @sorenhave@mastodon.nu @je5perl@eupolicy.social utroligt det her er sket uden nogen whistleblower stod frem (tolker historien som at Ingeniøren selv har gravet). Måske er det fagforeningerne, som skal begynde at presse mere på for, at medarbejdere får træning og retningslinjer i, hvornår man kan gå til pressen - når ens arbejdsgiver bryder loven, menneskerettigheder etc. Synes fint om at politianmelde... men bare ikke til Østjylland 🤪

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    LOL, Bun is now fully AI generated (rewritten from Zig to Rust in one PR). Gonna be interesting to follow how badly that&amp;#39;s gonna go. Already the issues are piling up. Move fast, break stuff... break a LOT of stuff... https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/30706

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    The Coding Assistant documentation for the Linux Kernel says &amp;quot;All code must be compatible with GPL-2.0-only&amp;quot; How does that make sense for LLMs? Validating that *somehow* AI Coding Assistants are compatible with GPL sounds like a dangerous direction. It adds reason that the way LLMs extracted content is legal. Docs then go on to assign *attribution* to the AI coding tool, which may even be worse. Anyone know of a qualified discussion? 🙏 https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding...

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    RE: https://mastodon.online/@tomshardware/116561094013168641 The planet has overheated, its resources are depleted etc. Promoting any further data center addiction is irresponsible. And we&amp;#39;re not gonna find Microsoft doing anything to reverse the course (rather the opposite). But while we&amp;#39;re spending all the time yelling at big tech, there&amp;#39;s a component of complicity in playing along to this crap. Please do not hype it, please advocate the alternatives (i.e. what you di...

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    Looking at a build error from 5 hours ago and #GitHub CI says: Error: Error response from daemon: Get &amp;quot;https://ghcr.io/v2/&amp;quot;: net/http: request canceled (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers) But no updates on https://www.githubstatus.com/ nor https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ There must be a dark number to add to the current 86% uptime stat.

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    &quot;Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent&quot; Recommended to read some of the details in this report... It&#39;s completely bonkers and immoral, whether because of privacy or climate. There is zero respect for the user nor planet left. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/

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    @mhoye and that was even in 2021... I doubt mining crypto has become more profitable since? (energy markets, memory, GPU is probably all more expensive now)

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    Vildt nok, at Store Bededag og 1. Maj er på samme dag i år... håber at mange af de normalt mere uengagerede arbejdere bruger dagen på ikke bare at spise hveder, men vågner op og går på gaden med deres fagforening.

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    At first, I wanted to just be upset about something condescending that Armin Ronacher wrote in his blog post.. But okay, life is too short for that.. and reading on in the Fediverse comments, I see more folks object to the very ill-defined concept of &amp;quot;self-hosting&amp;quot; for software projects. There are also many great and positive comments. So new take: Remember this debate is easily polarized/reduced to something like for/against self-hosting, which is bad ⚠️ https://hachyderm.i...

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    Happy International Worker&amp;#39;s Day to everyone that celebrates!! And to all the brave union people of the world that went on strikes, protests, blockades etc... today, in the past and in the future to defend our common interests and give us the privileges we&amp;#39;re taking too much for granted - THANK YOU ✊ 😎

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    A cyber-terrorist hacker group has DDoS&amp;#39;d Canonical, causing a 24h+ major outage in the midst of critical kernel patch roll-outs. Their demands: Remove systemd and Wayland, bring back compiz. #lowqualityfact

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    That whole &amp;quot;Co-Authered-By: copilot&amp;quot; is really funny because it came right after the terms of service said it&amp;#39;s only for entertainment purposes.

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    @djangoconeurope @markush oh wow just seeing the @paulox talk come in, too :christmasparrot: https://fosstodon.org/@djangoconeurope/116222377815024096

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    @pmakholm true, if the content maker is already into deceiving the reader, then the timestamp doesn&#39;t matter... disguising slop by dating it before the slopocalypse 🤪 it did make me wonder when slop actually started.. I guess it says a lot about recent history that it&#39;s hard to even grasp such a simple question.

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    Credits: J.L. Westover: https://www.patreon.com/posts/ruinternet-155183806

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    I hope people can see through the whole scheme with Mythos, whether their claims are true or not: It&amp;#39;s to lodge AI into our stack as a mandatory tool. If we don&amp;#39;t use Mythos, someone else will use it on our software / dependencies. (which can make enterprise customers show up with a lot of money 💸) If it ends up like that, we should definitely have common/collective scanning platforms.. rather than individualized (= more data center pollution and money for AI bros).

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    Is this slop from 2023 or just completely bonkers clickbait? Article is called »Exploring The Differences Between Rucola And Arugula« A super-long text, somewhere in the text it says »So, are rucola and arugula the same thing? Yes, they are.« https://shuncy.com/article/rucola-vs-arugula

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    Hurray, my Thunderbird UX bug was fixed 🥳 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924357

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    Is there a way to build #consent/legal terms into the #ActivityPub protocol or is it already there? Specifically, I want to make it clear that data isn&amp;#39;t allowed to be used for personal profiling nor training AI. That it would be a violation.

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    RE: https://mastodon.world/@lastfmstatus/115855534233229757 @kfitz @hello looks very similar to last.fm now

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    Watching some BBC World the past couple of days, and they&amp;#39;ve now been hyping the danger of Anthropic Mythos for like 36 hours... I congratulate Anthropic on their succesful &amp;quot;hybrid&amp;quot; marketing and condole the death of critical coverage at BBC 🤪 Their experts are from https://controlai.com/ - how on earth they thought this was a great objective source is beyond my wildest imagination of journalistic decline.

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    @malte @siggi tjek, jeg har især præference for at købe den i en lille boghandel og så at en af forlagets bøger omtales som at være til salg i &quot;Boghandleren Godthåbsvej, København, BRØG Litteraturbar, København&quot; - så dem tænker jeg at prøve

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    At #DjangoConEU2026, we had a community conversation about #Django and AI usage, hosted by @thibaudcolas and Laura Gates: We had a tiny sub-group of esteemed people (@jong0uld!), we talked about the &amp;quot;Who Gets Left Behind by AI&amp;quot;. The framing isn&amp;#39;t necessarily perfect (tempted to also argue &amp;quot;Who is free from AI&amp;quot;), but it&amp;#39;s DEFINITELY a *necessary* perspective.. and one of the most critical ones. With AI and current trends in mind, we noticed the...

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    From the Mouldiness Manifesto against Rationalism in Architecture by Hundertwasser 👏 »In the so-called slums only the human body can be oppressed, but in our modern functional architecture, allegedly constructed for the human being, man&amp;#39;s soul is perishing, oppressed.« https://www.hundertwasser.at/english/texts/philo_verschimmelungsmanifest.php

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    I forgot to lock my screen and they&amp;#39;ve been making plans #DjangoCon #Django #DjangoConEurope

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    Haha, a webcomic from 2011 about the &amp;quot;Croesus of Lydia&amp;quot; who asked the Oracle what would happen once he attacked Iran.... it so nearly says &amp;quot;a whole civilization will die&amp;quot;... https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-09-18

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    The VP of Engineering at Too Good To Go has after 90 days of horrible GitHub performance for enterprise customers decided to leave. He calls the new AI features &amp;quot;bling&amp;quot;. I wonder if he knows about enshittification as a concept 🥲 Source on LinkedIn.. another great Microsoft platform: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/roberthjertmann_why-github-why-why-did-you-forget-the-number-share-7446828295389667328-vK7y?

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    LOL, GitHub has an independent status page because: &amp;gt; GitHub stopped updating its status page with aggregate uptime numbers some time ago — if you use it regularly, you might have a feeling why. This is the missing version. Turns out their uptime in the past 90 days is 89%. https://mrshu.github.io/github-statuses/ Ironically, the status page is hosted on GitHub and vibe coded... so I dunno.. increasingly feels like everyone has lost their minds.

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    it&amp;#39;s so backwards how everyone gets a free AI chat friend fueled by endless monkeys on typewriters... but we still can&amp;#39;t freaking just reuse glass bottles

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    I&amp;#39;m not believing my own eyes when reading that the Danish Ministry of Digitalization is replacing Microsoft internally 🤯 Half of employees are supposed to be changing to LibreOffice and Linux within the next month or so, and by the fall, all staff of the Ministry should be rid of Microsoft. Source: https://politiken.dk/viden/tech/art10437680/Caroline-Stage-udfaser-Microsoft-i-Digitaliseringsministeriet