Pedro de-las-Heras-Quiros

Distributed systems, computer networks, formal methods, ethical CS, free/libre software, world history.

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2026-05-26 14:40:43 GMT

The AI bubble isn't like the internet bubble
By
@npub1fdr…lvhs
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/26/the-ai-will-continue/#until-morale-improves

2026-02-18 08:55:41 GMT

"Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up'
Projects like Godot are being swamped by contributors who may not even understand the code they're submitting."
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/open-source-game-engine-godot-is-drowning-in-ai-slop-code-contributions-i-dont-know-how-long-we-can-keep-it-up/

2025-12-22 15:14:56 GMT

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"a handful of public authorities in Austria, Germany, and France, alongside the International Criminal Court in The Hague, are taking concrete steps to regain control over their IT."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/
[@bert_hubert](https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert ) @npub1fdr…lvhs

2025-12-21 11:16:38 GMT

"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates only an 80/20 chance of finding a suitable provider."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/19/airbus_sovereign_cloud/
/cc [@bert_hubert](https://eupolicy.social/@bert_hubert ) @npub1fdr…lvhs

2025-11-27 04:45:22 GMT

Colonies
The EU of the USA is not sovereign:
"Europe’s antitrust chief Teresa Ribera has unleashed a blistering attack on the Trump administration, accusing Washington of using “blackmail” to strong-arm the EU into watering down its tech rulebook"
https://www.politico.eu/article/top-eu-official-teresa-ribera-accuses-us-of-blackmail-in-trade-talks/

2025-10-28 06:25:37 GMT

Belgian academics, including renowned AI professor Luc Steels, have joined Dutch scholars in criticizing students’ use of AI for learning at universities.
https://apache.be/2025/10/24/belgian-ai-scientists-resist-use-ai-academia?cdlnk=OFNhOGFlak5qRTE1cjhPbXR6eWMvL2VMRER0cVArcDNzT1Q0cjhVU3N2NVhYUG5GT3dKcjFsZVM2dDFPMyt5SVhVRStyQ3BvRVA4bTU5R1k5MnplSGc9PTo6YzQ1Mzc5NzAzODk5OTI2ZDkzNTY1NmUxNmQ3MjU5NTk%3D

2025-10-21 18:57:50 GMT

Cory Doctorow ( @npub1fdr…lvhs ) :
"The very worst-case speculative scenario for Huawei-as-Chinese-Trojan-horse is infinitely better than the non-speculative, real ways in which the US has killswitched and bugged the world's devices."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/20/post-american-internet/

2025-08-04 15:23:46 GMT

Quotes from @npub1fdr…lvhs ' blog post analyzing how AI is being used by SW development companies:
"AI's are basically doing bug steganography, smuggling code defects in by carefully blending them in with correct code."
' "centaurs" (people assisted by machines)
"reverse-centaurs" (people conscripted into assisting machines)'
https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/

2025-04-27 07:34:49 GMT

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Companies "going to the cloud" risk being enshittified.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
What has been done to users can be done to whole companies.
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2025-04-03 16:06:55 GMT

"The Brewing Transatlantic Tech War
How Silicon Valley Got Entangled in Geopolitics—and Lost"
Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/brewing-transatlantic-tech-war cc [@bert_hubert](https://fosstodon.org/@bert_hubert )

2024-05-22 16:52:49 GMT

"The use of probabilistic techniques to determine who is worthy of death – wherever they’re used – is, to me, the most chilling example of the serious dangers of the current centralized AI industry ecosystem, and of the very material risks of believing the bombastic claims of intelligence and accuracy that are used to market these inaccurate systems."
Read the whole piece by @npub1vt7…5vdp
https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin