If you’re upset and trying to guilt people of color for rightfully pointing out that nobody gave a shit until it happened to a white lady, maybe sit down and shut the fuck up

RIP human(-made) creativity? Cartoon for Dutch newspaper Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

Note: this cartoon was made without any use of AI.

#AI #creativity #ArtificialIntelligence #BigTech

@pj @gruff how about non-EU folks?

It's been zero days since I lost time on a GH repo before realizing 'oh wait, this is slop, that's why none of this makes any sense' after 15 minutes.

Is there some nice community list/plugin that I could use to give me a big red border around repository pages of vibe coded garbeoleum?

I know about open-slopware, but that's not what I'm looking for - I want a baseline filter for obvious useless slop, not one where well established projects might fall into just because someone used an LLM once.

How hackers are fighting back against ICE when they are invading US cities and how to defend communities and hopefully protect them through clever use of technology https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

If Andrew "bunnie" Huang didn't exist, I'd swear he was a character out of a(n extraordinarily technologically well-informed) cyberpunk novel. Every time I interact with this legendary hardware hacker, he blows my mind with some project or insight that permanently alters how I think about tech.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/09/quantity-break/#so-many-chips

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*slaps speaker* this thing can fit so much mainline in it

@ariadne @matrix please

hey @dpk can you do something about this?

https://codeberg.org/alpine

It is the same person who is impersonating Alpine on Telegram.

https://gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/council/-/issues/699 for more details

edit: @dpk has done something about this. thanks for the swift response!

Your irregular reminder that Alpine Linux DOES NOT have any Telegram channels and any community use of the Alpine marks in a way which indicates an official relationship with or endorsement by the project is forbidden by our Code of Conduct.

Unfortunately, it is hard to get Telegram to do anything about this. We have been trying for years.

@fazalmajid @ariadne Okay, no worries :)

Yesterday evening I geeked on @postmarketOS and installed u-boot and a brand new version of postmarketOS on an "old" 2011 android 4.0 tablet. So happy to see this device with new up to date software 🤩🎉

#reuse #recycle #postmarketOS

@fazalmajid @ariadne Now debunking the other part: postmarketOS does support running Android apps thanks to Waydroid https://waydro.id/ (which runs an Android (LineageOS 20) lxc container on-top of your regular Linux) and Android Translation Layer https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer (which is similar to wine, so it doesn't require an android container and can let you run apps directly). Other solutions exist in postmarketOS too. See the following wiki pages: https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Android_Translation_Layer https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/Waydroid

@fazalmajid @ariadne FuriOS is not linux. It's Debian with a downstream Android kernel and an infinite amount of hacks (aka. Halium) to make that aging (typically 4.x) kernel work with debian userspace. It is closer to Android than it is to desktop Linux. And obviously it only works on their own phones (one of them just being a rebadged cheap Gigaset phone).
This means you're relying on an ancient Android kernel and lots of hacks that may break at any time, as well as a whole bunch more hacks to get all the android userspace blobs working, It may work now, but in no way is it sustainable. TBH I hate them calling it a "Linux phone" .. like I said it is much closer to Android than it is to Linux. Also, a lot of FuriLabs' Android emulation magic is proprietary and there is no reason why they cannot opensource/free it.

So, postmarketOS being less free than FuriOS? I'm sorry, where do you get this information from?

@davidgerard You're a year late.

New product names coming right up:

GitHub —> CopilotHub
LinkedIn —> Copilot Unemployed
Xbox —> XCopilot
Teams —> CopilotSkype
Azure —> CopilotCloud
OneDrive —> CopilotDeleteurfiles
Edge —> CopilotExplorer
VSCode —> CopilotCursor
Bing —> Copilot4cucks
Defender —> CopilotNoViruses
Intune —> CopilotMalware
Windows —> CopilOS
Authenticator —> CopiletMeIn

the METR study is gonna go round again because Fortune *just* posted a fresh writeup of it yesterday, based on their own article from July

https://fortune.com/article/does-ai-increase-workplace-productivity-experiment-software-developers-task-took-longer/

every time you see an AI guy dismiss it as insufficient, ask them where the better studies are. (there aren't any.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Raghadfamily/115846914089361231

@AnnaLion @Geri @celestinia