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Last Notes npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 💯 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 😂 welcome to reality. 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His reason? Deep work requires deep focus. He communicates by postal mail, once every 6 months. While we’re drowning in social media & email notifications, this man is calmly finishing a masterpiece he started in 1962. Sometimes the most productive thing you can do is simply be unreachable. This is worth reading for anyone who works in IT industry or beyond https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/%7Eknuth/email.html npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/35949-volkswagen-app?page=3 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 I am dying with laughter. lmao. AI Agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42 https://lantian.pub/en/article/fun/ai-agent-bankrupted-their-operator-scan-dn42lantian.lantian/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 In a world of chatbots and data centres, go to the nearest library and read books. Visit the park and enjoy the cool breeze with your dog or cat. Disconnect. Be different. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Let's Encrypt appears to restrict certificate issuance in certain U.S. sanctioned territories due to legal compliance requirements as per the laws. While this is unfortunate from a security POV for affected users or IT pros, it is understandable given that the organization operates under U.S. laws. It may be worth finding whether similar free certificate services based in other region could help improve secure communications and internet infrastructurre npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 I don’t know what was worse, Stack Overflow’s moderation system, which many IT communities find annoying, or AI killing the site 🤔 Both extremes seem bad for the open web…. I still think that we don’t need three chatbots controlling everything. I fear Wikipedia might be next. This is not good for the Internet npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Bots just officially outnumbered humans on the internet for the first time ever. Cloudflare’s latest report shows AI and agentic traffic has grown so fast its now the majority of online traffic. We crossed a line and most people didn’t even notice 😳 https://radar.cloudflare.com/traffic#bot-vs-human npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 California's Assembly voted 68 to 1 to exempt debian and other open source Linux distros from its age verification law, then extended age-gating to browsers and websites in the same bill. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Google CEO tries to tell University students to love AI. They tell him to BOO off. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Awesome. A Redditor emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange. Actually got a reply https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/1t826y8/emailed_ken_thompson_about_the_unics_to_unix/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Days Without GitHub Incidents https://www.dayswithoutgithubincident.com/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 😂 https://xcancel.com/FFmpeg/status/2050279582037614638 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 We are now being told we need Digital ID, age verification and KYC to "protect kids" at OS level but the simplest solution is the best one. Hear me out: npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 The AI automation arms race layoff trap: npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 The future of AI in Ubuntu https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/the-future-of-ai-in-ubuntu/81130 🤡 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Some org started rehiring junior devs because AI companies keep increasing their token costs. It is becoming cheaper to hire humans again to handle basic tasks, like aligning a button on screen, fixing typos or even performing PHP+MySQL coding. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 klitoris is also less likely to spy on you and steal your files to train their shity AI or stuff like that. so i will take klitoris any day npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Atlassian will begin collecting customer metadata and in-app content from Jira, Confluence, and other cloud products by default on August 17, 2026, to train its AI offerings including Rovo and Rovo Dev. The change affects roughly 300,000 customers; metadata collection is mandatory for Free, Standard, and Premium tiers and cannot be opted out on those plans. https://letsdatascience.com/news/atlassian-enables-default-data-collection-to-train-ai-f71343d8 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 meanwhile at dentist office 😂 via https://xcancel.com/nocontextscats/status/2045428594332291503/photo/1 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 A New Bill proposes Federal Age Verification on any Operating Systems in entire U.S https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8250/all-info npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 🤯 😅 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 RHEL (its whole ecosystem like Fedora, CentOS and others) Could be getting AI slop soon. Leaked memo suggests Red Hat's chugging the AI Kool-Aid. An internal memo dispatched by senior execs at Red Hat suggests the software biz is starting to push AI tooling within its Global Engineering department. RHEL may be about to get some Windows 11-style "improvements." https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/31/red_hat_ai_dev/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Swedish government announced that the country’s schools would be going back to basics, emphasizing skills such as reading and writing, particularly in early grades. After mostly being sidelined, physical books are now being reintroduced into classrooms, and students are learning to write the old-fashioned way: by hand, with a pencil or pen, on sheets of paper. The Swedish government also plans to make schools cellphone-free throughout the country https://undark.org/2026/04/01/sweden-schools-books/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry https://xcancel.com/Fried_rice/status/2038894956459290963 😂 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 > how old are you? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 if people stopped giving all these corporations their age or id/kyc info and just canceled their subscriptions or accounts for 4 months we'd see how fast they stop asking once those next quarter results show up. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Moving from GitHub to Codeberg, for lazy people npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Soon Reddit users need to prove that they are human using ID verification. Your site is already garbage and I am not giving you any ID. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Meta told to pay $375m for misleading users over child safety https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cql75dn07n2o npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 oh look, the AI batshit crazy Microslop is down the most out of the MAG 7. OpenAI's big investor, Microsof has lost 31% of its market cap in just a few weeks, and it’s gonna sink even deeper when the market opens in a few hours. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 plagiarism machine (Sora app) that created videos of ignoring all copyrights including deepfakes of people is dead. It look like OpenAI is running out of money as banks don't want to fund their plagiarism machine and existing investors demanding ROI. this is so good. i hope the rest of the AI industry dies down too npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Tech companies believe in intellectual property, but not yours. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 enterprise grade security vs. human the weakest link in the chain 😂 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 people don't realize this, but this is how they infect a good product and build surveillance network. today it is age verification for OS, tomorrow they will come with sex verification to target LGBQT+ groups or country verification to target minorities or immgirations, etc. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 the pressure from social media worked. In systemd, age verification has finally been reverted and removed for good. Linux is always for privacy conscious users, it isn't just another Microslop SlopOS https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/41179 thanks @nprofile…lg0a for the heads up! npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 450 FSFE supporters affected: Payment provider Nexi cancelled us https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.html npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 systemd lost the plot a long time ago. they stopped following the Unix philosophy and now they're busy adding nonsense like age verification. Just like Firefox, systemd doesn't understand its core user base. There are plenty of distros without systemd npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Google sets new 24-hour process to sideload unverified developers Android apps. That is right. Now you can't load apps without google's permission and flow control. Who knows after sometime they might think 72 hours delay is needed and so on. More info https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html?m=1 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Stores the user's birth date for age verification, as required by recent laws npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Debian Linux decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Lmao. Gen AI is causing outages at AWS and Amazon causing business income loss. So now all AI created code needs senior developers to check it twice. So how is this saving time? #ai #llm #aws npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGOL, Hoare logic and so much more. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 be ware of this new threat ... npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 it is actually wild that we live in a society where literal criminals are walking around free, but i have to hand over my Gov issued id and age verification docs just to download an os or use social media. it feels like common sense just doesn't exist anymore. please, some org or lawyers drag these thugs to court and stretch things out. i am tired of this bullshit. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Lmao. he is not hoarding books, he just preparing for a very long power outage :P npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 The US economy, currently driven by an AI bubble, is keeping its head above water for now, but it is only a matter of time before everything goes south. If you didn’t experience the 2000 or 2008 crises (I hope nobody sees it), I urge you to take precautions, starting by reducing unnecessary spending. Trim it down. If possible, build 6–12 months of savings to prepare for potential job loss. Avoid buying items on credit. Economic crashes are like harsh mistresses, they do not forgive easily. (2/2) npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 While everyone busy with AI and war news, China set its lowest growth goal (4.5%–5%) since 1991, due to global and domestic challenges. India, the 4th largest economy, also struggles with high unemployment rates. These are warning signs from manufacturing and consumer driven economy of an upcoming disaster. Meanwhile, US growth relies solely on 7 mega companies with AI craze. It is not just China & India, EU, Japan other ex-USA economies are showing sluggish. (1/n) npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Lmao. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 A CPU that runs entirely on GPU — registers, memory, flags, and program counter are all tensors. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 TIL, there is a term for huge human job loss created by technology like AI or other such stuff. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Ubuntu Linux is planning to comply with Age Verification law. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Apple introduces the new MacBook Air with M5 https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/03/apple-introduces-the-new-macbook-air-with-m5/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 >News: Another AWS zone hit with object and on fire npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Microsoft banned the word 'Microslop' in its Copilot Discord server, then began restricting access after users started posting 'Microsl0p' and other funnies. Microsoft CEO and AI chief wants you to stop using words like SLOP and Microslop because it upsets them a lot. Lmao. https://www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/microsoft-banned-the-word-microslop-in-its-copilot-discord-server-then-began-restricting-access-after-users-started-posting-microsl0p-and-other-funnies/ Maybe you shouldn't force Copilot AI on everyone and steal their data to train your shitty AI and then every day tell the world how they are scared as AI is going to replace 80% of jobs? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c178zzw780xo npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Motorola announces a partnership with GrapheneOS Foundation. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 /e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled”, mobile ecosystem npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 data destroyed by 1 yo? A new threat model unlocked 😅 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 this is so evil ... npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 haha. credit: https://www.truenuff.com/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 checking the BBC homepage has been a curse since COVID days. not a single day goes by without bad news. it feels like the whole decade is jinxed. i'm actually exhausted. does any one else feel like this? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 me: i need to validate some email addresses, so i am going to write a quick regex. how hard can it be? npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 😂 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Somebody made this AI slop Ad to target these tech bros. Is it a shitpost? Yes, but the way things are going and the talk about replacing all jobs with AI, I won't be surprised if this is where we end up. The Matrix is a cautionary tale, and this AI slop ad is all about that. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Claude Code blog post: We are modernising COBOL. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Just like 2008 had "Subprime Mortgages (or "Dot Com" crash) that nobody understood, 2026 has "Circular AI Revenue" deals. Ex: Microsoft gives money to OpenAI, who gives it back to Microsoft for Azure credits, which Microsoft then reports as "AI Growth". npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Mac mini will be made at a new facility in Houston https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2026/02/apple-accelerates-us-manufacturing-with-mac-mini-production/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Red Hat Learning Community will officially decommission on March 31, 2026 https://learn.redhat.com/t5/Red-Hat-Learning-Community-News/Evolving-how-we-learn-together/ba-p/57899 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 AI Added ‘Basically Zero’ to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says https://gizmodo.com/ai-added-basically-zero-to-us-economic-growth-last-year-goldman-sachs-says-2000725380 😂😂😂 npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 you know Anthropic security tool/plugin is garbage if it can't stop distillation attacks 😂There’s so much nonsense going on with LLMs right now. people actually think anyone can just build a banking system or a food delivery app or security system by typing prompts. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 So this wasn't some startup moving fast. This was Amazon, one of the biggest tech companies and their own AI coding tool still managed to take down a prod for 13 hours and it happened multiple times? If they can't get the this stupid AI stuff right the rest of the world should probably think twice on giving these AI tools write access to database, cloud, email and IT . Of course, Amazon is motivated to make more money by firing devs/IT staff and they think it is the next big thing. LOL npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Amazon service (AWS) was taken down by AI coding bot named Kiro npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Are you stressed? Watch this: npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Keep Android Open npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Damn. PayPal discloses data breach that exposed user info for 6 months npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 the irony npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Lmao. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 GrapheneOS - break free from Google and Apple https://blog.tomaszdunia.pl/grapheneos-eng/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Sony's introduction of the PS2 Linux Kit caught the attention of researchers at NCSA. They combined 70 PS2 consoles in 2003 to form a supercomputer, highlighting its ability to perform complex scientific calculations. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 hehe npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 DDWrap provides a graphical interface around the `dd` command that allows you to do things easily. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 ASML firing 1700 people, mostly managers https://www.asml.com/en/news/press-releases/2026/strengthening-focus-on-engineering-and-innovation ( https://www.ed.nl/binnenland/asml-kondigt-1700-ontslagen-aan-maar-boekt-ook-recordomzet~a04807f1/ ). Almost all of these positions are in US and Netherlands office. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Your brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of cognitive debt when using an AI assistant https://www.media.mit.edu/publications/your-brain-on-chatgpt/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 GenAI, The Snake Eating Its Own Tail: How tools like ChatGPT and Claude are destroying the ecosystems they rely on, and what to do about it https://www.ybrikman.com/blog/2026/01/21/gen-ai-snake-eating-its-own-tail/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 PwC survey finds more than half of 4,500+ biz leaders see no revenue growth nor cost savings. Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 IPv6 is not insecure because it lacks a NAT https://www.johnmaguire.me/blog/ipv6-is-not-insecure-because-it-lacks-nat/ npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 100% kids need this and no smart mobile phone. maybe give dumb Nokia for texting and emergency. but that is all. some social media apps are very dangerous these days combined with AI. You need to protect your kids and family from these tech bros. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Microsoft just turned all Office users into AI users. Lmao. It’s now called the "Microsoft 365 Copilot" app. Get ready for fee increases and having your data opted into training by default with confusing settings. Enshittification has peaked. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 Independent sites cannot compete with companies like Google, Microsoft, or OpenAI, which have unlimited money. Even Wikipedia has mentioned this problem. They are losing a massive amount of traffic from Google. These AI apps do not give credit or send users back to the original source on the web. As a result, people are stopped from creating new Q&A or editing and adding information to Wikipedia. npub1esmepyc8y2l6w03glx325zpjwp5ggvzuhqrg0csfylrevrdejxzsnexjlr nixCraft 🐧 This chart shows the total number of Stack Overflow questions asked each month. As you can see, AI summaries in Google and AI coding tools have nearly killed the site. It is only a matter of time before the site shuts down completely. The golden age of independent news, blogs, forums, and specialized sites like Stack Overflow is over. Whether this is good or bad, only time will tell. Personally, I think we are now restricting all internet traffic to just a few Gen AI apps https://data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflow/query/1926661#graph
