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I’ve been testing a theory: many people who are high on #AI and #LLMs are just new to automation and don’t realize you can automate processes with simple programming, if/then conditions, and API calls with zero AI involved.

So far it’s been working!

Whenever I’ve been asked to make an AI flow or find a way to implement AI in our work with a client, I’ve returned back with an automation flow that uses 0 AI.

Things like “when a new document is added here, add a link to it in this spreadsheet and then create a task in our project management software assigned to X with label Y”.

And the people who were frothing at the mouth at how I must change my mind on AI have (so far) all responded with resounding enthusiasm and excitement.

They think it’s the same thing. They just don’t understand how much automation is possible without any generative tools.

#AI #LLMs

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This is TERRIBLE! Mozilla people who used to follow me here... Talk some sense into your coworkers/management!

People don't use Firefox because it's loaded with crap and AI, they use it because it's not corporate owned and not feeding all your browsing data into the data machine. AI is not of any benefit to add to your browser, no matter the hype.

blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…

#firefox #ai #mozilla


Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we're working on and how you can help shape it

AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.
Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
#firefox #mozilla #AI

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Blind Telegram users. Under no circumstances should you update Telegram on iOS to the latest version. The developers have broken all accessibility. When using the VoiceOver screen reader, it is now impossible to type text messages or record voice messages. VoiceOver no longer focuses on these elements.

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# Let SSH retry connecting for you

I didn't know this!

Via @sin

sindastra.de/p/2786/let-ssh-re…


Let SSH retry connecting for you - Sindastra's info dump

You know the feeling when you rebooted a machine, and you keep retrying to connect over SSH, just to get a connection error? Or you keep pinging the machine until it's up? There's an easier way! Edit or create ~/.
Sindastra (Sindastra's info dump)
@Sindastra 🌈🍀

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I finally got some time to reconfigure my network. From now on #Turris #OmniaNG is my main gateway to the internet.
Well, the software needs a lot of polish:
🪲 It has a wifi7 card, but I have to run it only in AC mode, or any connected client causes restart of all radios. I hope this will be fixed soon.
🪲 The display only worked on first boot, since than it only shows scrambled image or nothing. I don't mind it, as it's just a novelty for me. One day I would like to try render my own stuff maybe.
❓ It has two SFP+ ports, so I also bought 2×Turris metallic 1/2.5/5/10G SFP+ modules. One for older Omnia, one for Omnia NG. It makes the connection, but it runs 2.5G in one direction (that's ok, it's the maximum older omnia can handle) and 0.2G in the other direction.
I don't understand why. Is it a hardware failure? Or software bug? Or technolohy incompatibilty of some kind? 🤷‍♂️
🪲 Some LEDs are resetting brightness to max often. That's a bit annoying.
Connected and running Turris Omnia NG
#turris #omniang

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Musik | Fanta 4: Endzeitstimmung


rheinneckar.social/system/medi…

Das Lied ist nach wie vor sehr aktuell. Hier noch der Text dazu:

Endzeitstimmung

Es wär' 'ne wunderschöne Welt ohne Religion
Michi Beck ist on the motherfuckin' microphone
Geht mir weg mit eurem Stolz auf die eigene Nation
Ihr seid nicht das Volk, ihr seid die Vollidioten
Keiner will, dass seine Welt aus dem Gleichgewicht kommt
Aber sind wir doch mal ehrlich, ist sie eigentlich schon
Denn es geht hier nicht um irgendwelchen heiligen Kram
Es geht in Wirklichkeit doch nur um reich gegen arm
Reich gegen arm, arm gegen reich
Hunger und Durst gegen Geiz
Hundert haben nichts zu trinken, denn das Wasser wird knapp
Während einer im Geld schwimmt wie Dagobert Duck
Hat da wirklich wer gesagt, „Das Boot ist voll“
Und im Mittelmeer ist wieder wer von Bord gefallen
Wo war denn unser Gott oder deren Allah?
Ganz genau, alle tot, keiner da

Darum lasst uns die Hände heben
Und dann stellen wir uns dem Ende entgegen
Denn solange da nichts ist außer Hate
Werden wir uns hier nicht wegbewegen
Komm, lasst uns eure Hände sehen
Und zusammen hier den Laden zerlegen
Alle! (Na na na, na na na na na)
Einmal Endzeitstimmung für jeden

Wer soll die Kuh jetzt vom gottverdammten Eis bekommen?
Yeah, der Smu is on the motherfuckin' microphone
Alle sind cool und modern und haben abgenommen
Leider hast du jetzt von alldem gar nix abbekommen
Ey f*ck, alles geht dir auf 'n Zeiger und stets
Auf 'n Sack, auf die Eier, auf 'n Keks
Und die Nerven sind nackt, du willst Biss und einen, der's packt
Dabei ist es doch Schiss, was du eigentlich hast
Ja, früher war's toll und alles war nasch
Heute stört alles voll, ha, alles am Arsch
Von wegen gute alte Zeit, von wegen alles verloren
Das Problem von deinem Scheiß liegt doch zwischen den Ohren
Hey, wer wird hier verarscht und wer glaubt jeden Mist?
Denkst du echt, dass die Visage da das irgendwie ist?
Einer ist doch immer schuld, solange du es nicht bist
Gestern niemand, morgen tot, und dazwischen Populist
Pop-Pop-Populist!

Darum lasst uns die Hände heben
Und dann stellen wir uns dem Ende entgegen
Denn solange da nichts ist außer Hate
Werden wir uns hier nicht wegbewegen
Komm, lasst uns eure Hände sehen
Und zusammen hier den Laden zerlegen
Alle! (Na na na, na na na na na)
Einmal Endzeitstimmung für jeden

Onanie hat noch keinem einen Preis gewonnen
Thomas D ist on the motherfuckin' microphone
Die Ironie ist zum einen, ihr seid weit gekommen
Denn am Ende geht's für keinen hier so weiter, ihr Honks
Und dabei fragt man sich schon, wo wollt ihr eigentlich hin?
Scheißegal, solang ihr damit Kohle verdient
Doch es ist leider so, es gibt am Ende der Show
Als Belohnung nur den Darwin-Award
Aha, auch wenn die einen immer meinen, diese Welt ist im Arsch
Und sich andere so verhalten, als gefällt ihnen das
Es gibt 'n Leben danach, wie beweisen wir das
Heh, Veganer voraus, alle beißen ins Gras
Egal, wie scheiße es war, es führen Wege hier raus
Führt ihr die Hände zusammen und spendet regen Applaus
Kämpft für 'n Happyend und wenn das nicht drin ist
Dann eben für 'n Happy-Finish

Na na na, na na na na na
Na na na, na na na na na
Na na na, na na na na na
Na na na, na na na

Darum lasst uns die Hände heben
Und dann stellen wir uns dem Ende entgegen
Denn solange da nichts ist außer Hate
Werden wir uns hier nicht wegbewegen
Komm, lasst uns eure Hände sehen
Und zusammen hier den Laden zerlegen
Alle! (Na na na, na na na na na)
Einmal Endzeitstimmung für jeden
Zweimal Endzeitstimmung für jeden
Dreimal Endzeitstimmung für jeden
Viermal Endzeitstimmung auf jeden

#Musik #Fanta4 #Fantastischen-Vier #Endeitstimmung #HipHop #noYouTube #Video #2025-11-09

#video #hiphop #musik #fanta4 #Fantastischen-Vier #Endeitstimmung #noYouTube #2025-11-09

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Fellow free software people, read this essay. writing.exchange/@erlend/11554… It is tremendous.

Erlend Sogge Heggen

2025-11-14 18:12:55

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Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.

blog.muni.town/open-source-pow…

I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else.

But I'm scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

#OpenSource #foss #licensing



Open Source Power

We have to talk about open source licensing.
Erlend Sogge Heggen (Muni Blog)

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Anti-fascistic software is made possible by pro-labor licensing.

blog.muni.town/open-source-pow…

I've been trying to write this piece for years. Every time I get started I'm just overwhelmed with paralyzing visions of the FOSS commentariat accusing me of WrongThink, more so here on the fediverse than anywhere else.

But I'm scared and tired and we urgently need to get our shit together.

#OpenSource #foss #licensing


Open Source Power

We have to talk about open source licensing.
Erlend Sogge Heggen (Muni Blog)
#foss #opensource #licensing
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Day Garwood

@ToniBarth Yup. Landlord's coming to fix it tomorrow so I'm hoping against hope it'll stop raining and/or my protections won't give in overnight. Some of the wires have been moved a little further away but not sure just how close to the sockets the leak is. It's been going for some time though, so I don't think it's that close - I'm typing on the computer right now and my S88 still works... really hoping it stays that way.
@Toni Barth

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So I grew up next to #Chernobyl and this is, well, TERRIFYING.

A story for y’all: I’m from a city called Zhytomyr, 2 hours west of Kyiv in the North of #Ukraine. We were downwind of the Chernobyl #nuclear power plant when the 1986 disaster happened.

I wasn’t born for another 12 years, but my childhood was filled with stories and the aftermath of it all. Things like:

- My grandmother worked as a head doctor in a hospital and rehabilitation facility exclusively for children of Chernobyl victims to treat the extremely high prevalence of Tuberculosis and other severe health complications. (To specify: these were SECOND GENERATION of exposure).

- A lot of the kids in that facility were orphans, because their parents died young from health problems.

- My uncle’s wife was born in Pripyat. She was 1 year old when the disaster happened. Her parents were told to evacuate while given no information about what happened. They had to pack up their things and rush out to an unfamiliar city with their baby, never to see the rest of their belongings, apartment, or hometown again.

- When I was a kid, it became so common to see weirdly mutated animals and insects that even 2-3 year olds would make jokes about “Chernobyl mosquitos” and I wouldn’t even flinch seeing occasional giant bugs, dark frogs, weird-looking dogs.

- We’d frequently hear of nearby farms having issues with their animals being born too mutated to survive or random outbreaks from contaminated water / food. Crops would randomly fail. People would get poisoned on a regular basis. This all got less common as I grew up.

- My mother still remembers being a little girl, 10 years old, and looking outside from their balcony at the clouds blowing over from Chernobyl that day. People were told to not go outside and to shut all the windows, but not given an explanation as to why. My mother swears that the rain looked different. They weren’t able to go and buy more food for the kitchen for multiple days.

Anyway - nuclear safety isn’t a joke. I don’t understand how this level of carelessness can happen after Chernobyl and Fukushima.

404media.co/power-companies-ar…


Power Companies Are Using AI To Build Nuclear Power Plants

Tech companies are betting big on nuclear energy to meet AIs massive power demands and they're using that AI to speed up the construction of new nuclear power plants.
Matthew Gault (404 Media)
#Ukraine #Nuclear #Chernobyl

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All I want from #Mozilla is for them to improve* the damn bookmarks organizer dialog (the one that shows up with Ctrl+Shift+O) & bookmark popover in #Firefox, but instead I get an opt-in hallucination engine that I'm never going to use :psyduck: : blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/ai…

These, instead, are the kind of improvements I want:
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…
* bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

#privacy #UX


Introducing AI, the Firefox way: A look at what we're working on and how you can help shape it

AI Window is a user-controlled space we’re building in Firefox that lets you chat with an AI assistant and get help while you browse.
Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)
#firefox #privacy #mozilla #UX
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