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“The data structure is now the primary reality.
"The data about the real thing has become more real than the real thing, and has in fact supplanted it. …
"The ghost kitchen exists to implement the data structure, and so does the ‘restaurant near me’.
"However solid these entities in the physical world may appear, their solidity is now secondary to their primary existence as oozing pools of data.”
https://writingslowly.com/2026/11/03/the-swamp-and-the-swamp.html
“Unmoored from human reasoning, and especially those features of human reasoning often called ‘common sense’, learning algorithms won’t trap us in bubbles.
"A bubble has a coherent, predictable structure.
"Netflix’s recommendations are more like a labyrinth built by an alien who doesn’t know they’re supposed to have exits.
"There’s no recognisable logic to them at all."
https://thesundae.net/2019/11/03/the-problem-with-your-netflix-recommendations/
"What is a Labyrinth to a Topologist?
"We arrive at the most fascinating application. A labyrinth does not look like a polyhedron, but topology taught us to abstract. What is a labyrinth in its purest essence? It is a graph: a set of nodes (intersections) connected by edges (corridors). This idea of reducing a complex map to a connectivity graph is, in fact, the very origin of topology, used by Euler in 1736 to solve the Königsberg Bridges problem. A labyrinth is, therefore, a topological space that we can analyze.
"The Algorithm as a Topological Explorer
"In our final simulation, we do not have a static labyrinth, but a Genetic Algorithm (GA) trying to solve it. A GA mimics biological evolution: it creates a “population” of hundreds of possible paths (the “individuals”); evaluates how “fit” they are (how close they get to the exit); and the best individuals “reproduce” (their paths are combined) and “mutate” (small random changes).
Generation after generation, the population evolves toward an optimal solution. Crucially, the GA does not explore just one path, but deploys an “exploration network” that covers vast areas of the labyrinth simultaneously. We can measure the shape of that network."
https://sergiogevatschnaider.substack.com/p/the-hidden-shape-of-the-world
"The definition of Business is Problems;
Just like the definition of Baseball is Pitches;
Just like the definition of Surfing is Waves.
...You will not succeed because you eliminate problems.
You will succeed if you solve problems more imaginatively and generously and thoughtfully than other people do.
And if you can do those three things, you'll do pretty well."
Timestamp : 19:52 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1aROKExc_4
Vor ~2 Jahren legte ich mir ein altes, gebrauchtes Google Nexus5 Smartphone zu, das mit Ubuntu Touch läuft.
Gerade mal nachgeschaut: die aktuellste Version ist 24.x.
Auf meinem Gerät installiert ist 16.x und bekommt wohl keine Updates mehr.
Es läuft zwar, surfen geht auch, aber ist damit perfekt zum Entschleunigen :'D
KI-Rechenzentren, Energieverbrauch/Umwelt vs. Mensch: Dystopischer Gedanke
In einem Artikel las ich kürzlich, ein riesiges KI-Rechenzentrum in den USA würde so viel Energie benötigen, wie 14 Millionen Einwohner.
Gleichzeitig, wie wir erfahren haben, darf die Atmosphäre sich aber nicht mehr weiter erhitzen, mit allen bekannten Folgen.
Wäre es nun aus Sicht der Rechenzentrums-Betreibenden nicht konsequent, wenn diese 14 Millionen einfach "verschwinden" würden, also Klartext: sterben?
Und jetzt rechnet das hoch, für alle paar tausend weitere diese (geplanten) Rechenzentren.
Nun?
@afelia@chaos.social
Ich hab mal ne Frage. Wenn die besten Erwartungen an KI wahr werden und sie uns wirklich einfach das nervige Monkeywork abnimmt und wir Raum für die komplizierten Aufgaben bekommen... Machen wir dann nicht den ganzen Tag komplizierte Aufgaben und brennen aus?
Wir machen jetzt schon mehr Arbeit pro Arbeit. Das menschliche Gehirn muss sich doch auch erholen irgendwann.
Ausnahmsweise Boost eines bebilderten Beitrags, die keine Bildbeschreibungen aufweisen.
Die Sache mit den mit dem Internet verbundenen Steuerungsanlagen, an denen Supermarkt-Kühlschränke hängen, die durch Internetangriffe großflächig aufgetaut wurden, ging durch zahlreiche Länder Europas!
Die Bilder zeigen "endlose" leere Supermarkt-Regale, sowie einen großen Haufen entsorgter, aufgetauter und wohl unverkäuflicher Lebensmittel.
Das ist ja mal richtig krass! O_O
@LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social
Confirmed fridge cyberattack victims in Sweden, Belgium, Ireland, Luxembourg, Estonia, Netherlands, Finland, Portugal, Germany, Italy. Suspected in Poland and Romania. Extensive losses of refrigerated food are confirmed
@maxleibman@beige.party And all this time the Fediverse had an existential crisis about Embrace Extend Extinguish, when it was really Control Alt Delete all along.
@Lana@beige.party "When I was seventeen
It was a very good year
It was a very good year for small town girls
And soft summer nights
We'd hide from the lights
Under the village green
When I was seventeen...."
"Inside the 100% AI Agent Company | Matt Kropp
What actually happens when you try to run a company with zero humans? Matt Kropp, Senior Partner and Chief AI Officer at BCG X, is finding out firsthand. His experiment, Vessica Labs, is a company where AI agents set the strategy, write the code, design the brand, and run the operations. Matt's role? The agents dubbed him "the governor."
We dig into what the experiment has revealed so far, including the moment his sales agent declared its pronouns were "he" because "men are closers," and what that says about bias hiding in the systems enterprises are deploying right now. We also cover the BCG research behind "AI brain fry," why framing AI as an "employee" measurably degrades human performance, and the coaching model that actually gets skeptical teams to adopt AI, when training alone fails."
Spoiler: The AI agents can't do 100%, but around 85-90% on their own.
Very insightful conversation!
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=ItQepclilhw
@fullywoolly@mastodon.social @MsDropbear42@infosec.space @benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
yes, maybe... although they don't really do anything against their situation but going on debating about it.
Not sure... zood as the ai bros? luring the innocent with false advertising?
and yes, whistling always helps me not to despair completely 🙈
oh, thanks a lot for the hint to chipass!
"In short, when you hang around online in 2026, you see little worth saving. Perhaps a decade ago, you felt that the glimmers of community and joy, of artistic and intellectual exchange, were enough to balance out the toxic junk. No longer.
It’s not necessarily that people have gotten worse. “Dead Internet Theory”—the proposition that a vast majority of the interactions on the web are fake, bots talking to other bots—has accrued more supporting evidence recently. One cybersecurity firm concluded this spring that agents already outnumber human users, their traffic surging by 8,000 percent through 2025. No wonder seemingly everyone has at some point caught themselves scrolling through a wasteland of brainrot and asked, “What the hell am I even looking at?” Underlying that question is another: “Is it always going to be like this?” "
Interesting article to read.
Maybe there'll come a time when we'll say:
"Once there was a worldwide connected network that we called the 'internet' ..."
What do you think (after reading the article)?
@hkrn@mstdn.social
Please Let the Internet Die. It's Time to Start Over
L: https://www.wired.com/story/let-the-internet-die/
C: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50338265
posted on 2026.11.02 at 10:35:40 (c=1, p=3)
Es gab mal eine Zeit, da hieß es, wenn auf der Internetseite einer selbstständigen Unternehmer:in, oder zB in einem Onlineshop, lediglich eine Handy-Nummer als telefonischer Kontakt angegeben wird, handele es sich möglicherweise um ein unseriöses Angebot, eine Festnetz-Nummer sei verbindlicher.
Wie seht ihr das:
Stimmt ihr der Aussage zu, oder ist das heute, wo fast jede:r ein Handy besitzt, keine Frage mehr, ob seriös oder unseriös?
@ricardo@bsd.cafe
oh, dear...
"I don't want no slop for OS,
There is just one thing I need (and I)
Don't care about GenAI
Underneath the search tree.
I don't need to place my stocks
There upon the dumpster fire,
Sam Altman won't make me happy
With his toy on in code bases
I just want you for my own
More than you could ever know
Make my wish come true
All I want to act'ly coding, is you
You, baby"
@fullywoolly@mastodon.social @MsDropbear42@infosec.space @benjamineskola@hachyderm.io
sigh concerning lo, this is a bit tragic. Maybe and hopefully those two just "slopped" in by accident. 🤷♀️
Anyway, maybe take each step pragmatic and at a time, droppie, but don't despair.
What's the most pressing case and/or the one easiest to replace without too much of a compromise for you here? (I replaced thunderbird with sylpheed/claws mail a while ago, and Ghost- with OpenBSD on my old laptop)
I'd also take things I read on fedi with a grain of salt and especially not sure about that list. Yes, NetBSD said explicitely no and for some this is like the ✨🏆✨Holy Grail* although imo, it is not meant to be the drop-in Linux replacement. and people will run into obstacles with thinking it is. Don't get me wrong, NetBSD is really a great project but not"yet another Linux".
Concerning OpenBSD I have seen it is sometimes also called slop too, because the way they don't like slop is not being dismissive enough for some. FreeBSD hasn't said anything officially yet, yet, so people assume things.
Apart of that, you both are right. The list of options seems to get shorter and shorter. And lo would really hurt.
Again, don't despair.
whistles almost silently the melody of Sir Robin's tune from Monty Pythons Holy Grail ;-)