Excellent stance by #Bandcamp on AI.
"We reserve the right to remove any music on suspicion of being AI-generated."
Bandcamp’s Mission and Our Approach to Generative AI
blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/k…
We’re articulating our approach to generative AI so musicians can keep making music and fans can trust the music they find on Bandcamp.Bandcamp Updates
The lost 213th issue of Techno-Mage
"ON THE FRONTIER"
finally haphazardly assembled after 2 years!
analognowhere.com/techno-mage/…
#unix_surrealism #technomage #comic #linux #penguin #openbsd #gentoo #slackware #ubuntu
2025 according to NASA was.the
WORLD SECOND HOTTEST YEAR
With an anomaly of +0.58C vs 1991/2020 or +1.19C vs 1951/1980 it beat 2023 by 0.02C and was behind 2024 by 0.09C
European Copernicus and Japanese JMA had 2023 slightly ahead of 2025 (3rd hottest than)
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.Just the Browser
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Peak Solomon.
thestar.com/politics/federal/f…
Legislation that criminalizes sexual deepfakes would not cover most of the images that have proliferated on X in recent weeks, warns a Dalhousie University professor.Anja Karadeglija The Canadian Press (Toronto Star)
As if we needed more reminders how dangerous relying on unchecked AI content is:
"In preparation for the force response to the HMICFRS inquiry into this matter, on Friday afternoon I became aware that the erroneous result concerning the West Ham v Maccabi Tel Aviv [UK football] match arose as result of a use of Microsoft Co Pilot."
bbc.co.uk/news/live/c394zlr8e1…
An intelligence report referred to a football game that never happened - Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood will make a statement later today.BBC News
As I just came out of a meeting with 16 people who use Apple devices daily and all assumed there's no undo, here's a tech* tip that a lot of people appear to need:
Undo on 🍎 iOs: Do a three-finger tap and you'll get a toolbar with undo, redo and copy functionality.
edit: yes you can also shake the device to undo. Apple is currently breaking that functionality. Anyhow, for an interesting experience try to shake your laptop and see what it does!
#apple #ios #absolutelyShitNonIntuitiveUIDesign
As an addendum to this, SCREW AI CHAT BOTS!
First, it correctly identifies that I made two payments a few minutes apart. GREAT!
It then asks me which one of the two transactions to cancel. Doesn't matter, they're identical.
It insists, so I'm like, OK, just cancel the last one.
It then tells me that a "pay later transaction" can't be canceled. When I pointed out that it wasn't one of those, it tells me to contact the credit card issuer.
Hey, yeah... so that's what I was trying to do when I got your useless bunch of bits.
UPDATE: One of the company owners (whom I've known for many years and is a good person) has asked to speak with me in about fifteen minutes. I've agreed. I'm curious to see what he has to say. I'll update this post after the call.
Yesterday I lost a client. And I couldn't be happier about it.
It's a long-standing client, but the management changed a few months ago. On Monday, they requested an emergency intervention, which I handled immediately.
On Tuesday (yesterday, evening), they asked for a non-urgent enhancement to be closed by Wednesday evening. I explained that due to various reasons (including urgent family matters), I wouldn't be able to finish the task before Friday. That's when the lecturing started: they told me they set tight deadlines even for non-emergencies because "that's the proper way to do things", and anyone working with them must respect them without exception.
I requested a video call to clarify. I explained that the work requires nearly a full day and that I simply couldn't close it by Wednesday. Even the physical time required to copy the data exceeded their deadline. But the new management believes that by applying pressure, you can overcome anything. Even the laws of physics.
Their response was sarcastic: "Our requests take priority, even if you are dying". I smiled and reiterated that I had no other way. "We will therefore have to find a new consultant who respects our timing", they said.
My response: "Okay. Our agreement expired on 31st December. I was waiting for a renewal, but it never arrived. Meaning, I have no legal obligations toward you. You have the data, the passwords, everything. Have a great day.".
The manager, annoyed and failing to understand the implications, replied: "Fine, we’ll look for someone younger with fewer family ties to manage.".
This morning, the phone rang. It was the manager, asking me to reconsider. His tone remained contemptuous, so I told him my decision was final. Two minutes later, I got a call from their biggest client - the one responsible for over 50% of their revenue. They had been notified I was leaving and informed the company they would also leave if I was no longer the one supervising their machines.
I called the manager back, friendly, trying to see if they were willing to change their attitude - to move from peremptory orders to requests between human beings. He started talking about "suing for damages" if they lost their main client because of me (to be clear: I am not taking that client for myself).
I don’t know how this story will evolve, but right now, I'm just enjoying a breath of fresh air outside my window.
#IT #FreelanceLife #WorkLifeBalance #ToxicManagement #TechLife #Consulting #SelfEmployed
There are now sufficiently many different examples of Erdos problems that have been resolved with various amounts of AI assistance and formal verification (see github.com/teorth/erdosproblem… for a summary) that one can start to discern general trends.
Broadly speaking, we now see an empirical tradeoff between the level of AI involvement in the solution, and the difficulty or novelty of that solution. In particular, the recent solutions have spanned a spectrum roughly describable as follows:
1. Completely autonomous AI solutions to Erdos problems that are short and largely follow a standard technique. (In many, but not all, of these cases, some existing literature was found that proved a very similar result by a similar method.)
2. AI-powered modifications of existing solutions (which could be either human-generated or AI-generated) that managed to improve or modify these solutions in various ways, for instance by upgrading a partial solution to a full solution, or optimizing the parameters of the proof.
3. Complex interactions between humans and AI tools in which the AI tools provided crucial calculations, or proofs of key steps, allowing the collaboration to achieve moderately complicated and novel solutions to open problems.
4. Difficult research-level papers solving one or more Erdos problems by mostly traditional human means, but for which AI tools were useful for secondary tasks such as generation of code, numerics, references, or pictures.
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A community database for the problems on the erdosproblems.com site - teorth/erdosproblemsGitHub
What is NVIDIA without AI?
NVID.
Random neurodivergence thought: Stereotypes are often very binary.
People with ADHD are either loud boys who can't sit still for a moment or normal people who are a little unorganized.
Autistic people are either nonverbal and obsessing over trains or normal people who are a little awkward.
People with schizophrenia are always raving and hearing voices though. They're never normal people who are a little spacey. That's how stigmatized it is.
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@inliniac git, perl, pmccabe and gnuplot
github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
github.com/curl/stats/blob/mas…
Scripts for generating project statistics and for plotting them as graphs. - curl/statsGitHub
I'm having the first Radicle CI office hour this Friday at 08:00 UTC at meet.ffmuc.net/radiclecioffice…
If Radicle CI, distributed CI, or just Radicle, or just CI, interests you, feel free to join.
2026 will see #deMicrosoft trending - what's your pick?
#NoAI #MS365 #DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource
Not ready to pay increased prices for AI? Choose alternatives: tuta.com/blog/microsoft-365-pr…
Starting July 2026, Microsoft plans a huge price hike for Microsoft 365 of up to 16.7%. Time to look for replacements.Tuta
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Final Cut Studio used to cost $1,300 at one point, and now it's available to students for $2.99 a month. That's a huge win in my books.
I was once, many moons ago, a student paying top dollar for Final Cut Pro, later managing a Final Cut Studio …uh… studio.
Polizei mit Rechtsmittel am OVG gescheitert: Schmerzgriffe der Berliner Polizei gegen einen Aktivisten der Letzte Generation waren rechtswidrig.Legal Tribune Online
My #ScottAdams Story
In the 1990s, I worked as an office temp. I logged a lot of hours in a lot of different offices, and I had an instant and accurate way to sense how dysfunctional and toxic a workplace was as soon as I walked in.
I took note of how many #Dilbert comics were pinned up, and where.
If I saw one or two #Dilbert comics scattered around, I knew people had their gripes and complaints about their co-workers, but it was nothing too serious.
1/9
#iran Saluons le courage des #iraniens et des #Iraniennes qui se battent aujourd’hui pour leur #liberté. #FemmeVieLiberte
L’ #Europe doit soutenir le #peuple #iranien qui se bat face au #régime #dictatorial des #mollahs.
Contributors have asked for this for very long and now we finally had time to do it: DAVx5 translations can now be done using the awesome and open-source Weblate @weblate 🎉 🎉 🎉
If you want to see or refine your language for DAVx5 register there and start translating – it's really super-easy! 📝 💚
hosted.weblate.org/engage/davx…
Thank you for your contributions to the project!
davx5 is being translated into 42 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.Hosted Weblate
It's about sustainability too. #curl is a small project. We cannot spend multiple hours every day arguing with people who want money for having found what is perhaps a bug - but often is not even that.
It drains us. It drowns us.
Onward and upward!
Wasn’t 📈exponential growth📈 what every project was hoping to achieve?!
Maybe it should be mandatory that the HackerOne submission must be done with `curl -X PUT … `, including BearerTokens/OAuth etc?
github.com/curl/curl/pull/2031…
There, now you know.
Remove mentions of the bounty and hackerone.GitHub
First: we have not cut anything, we have a proposal about doing it end of January.
Then: we plan to shut down the curl bug-bounty, which is what pays security researchers for reported confirmed security vulnerabilities. Today we get those reported through Hackerone.
There is no perceived problem in the curl project related to issues or PRs on GitHub and we do not intend to change anything in regards to them at this point.
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Thank you for clarify that. I thought hackerone is just something like a secondary issue tracker targeting on security issues. Aren't there security issue reports direct on the Microsoft GitHub issue tracker?
Microsoft (GitHub) is sponsoring curl? Give me a number and lets see if we can find an alternative. 😋
> Aren't security issue reports direct on the GitHub tracker?
No. As they need to be kept private until assessed (and possibly dealt with).
> GitHub is sponsoring curl?
Yes.
> Give me a number
North of 10K USD/month.
And this +10K is used for CI, not for your living expenses? The latter is payed by wolfSSL, according to the website?
I think +10K per month might not be a big deal for some other CI companies around. Especially when it is a popular project like curl which they can also use to polish up their image.
Thank you for sharing.
Už pár dní diskutuji s kolegy z našeho think tanku Solvo o cíleném žhářském útoku na kabelový most u elektrárny Lichterfelde u Berlína. Jak jsme se dočetli, zaútočili na luxusní čtvrť. Za rozsáhlým výpadkem proudu v Berlíně stojí levicoví extremisté.iDNES.cz
"Všem je nám jasné, že čím větší majetek, tím větší starosti"
Normálně mi ukápla slza. Mají to fakt těžký. 😢
@sesivany Tady si zase na bohatstvi stezuje slechta, neco na tom musi byt 🤔 irozhlas.cz/kultura/televize/k…
"Lidé, kteří mají své úkoly, starosti, rodiny, a že není tak jednoduché se o to starat. Neznamená to, že když to dostanete, tak se stanete boháčem. Naopak, stanete se otrokem."
@zoul
Česká televize začala vysílat nové díly série Modrá krev o šlechtických rodinách. „Úplně se změnil vztah lidí k nám. Náhle nejsme nepřátelé,“ říká průvodce cyklem František Kinský.Jan Pokorný (iROZHLAS.cz)
Okay, so earlier I saw the announcement of Anthropic's grant/sponsorship/agreement with the PSF.
I had a few thoughts on another thread, but decided to expound my thoughts on my blog.
Caution, there's also a sidequest there which was initially unplanned for, but such is life...
pythonbynight.com/blog/on-the-…
In spite of the optics, the PSF has the opportunity to put these funds to good use. But I'm also lauding the luddites.Python By Night
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