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The America First Agenda, include eliminating most civil service protections for federal employees, allowing summary dismissals without appeal; expanding domestic oil and gas production by opening up new federal lands for fast-tracked petroleum exploration and drilling, and resumed construction of the Keystone pipeline; imposing supervised ultrasound requirements and mandatory waiting periods before abortions, as well as ending federal funding for organizations like Planned Parenthood; opposing red flag laws that restrict gun ownership for high-risk individuals; and supporting nationwide reciprocity for concealed carry permits, enabling a permit from any state to authorize concealed carry across all 50 states.

There is zero context, zero information, very alarming language but nothing about mitigation factors.

This is a terrible way of communicating vulnerabilities.

Looking for a different mail provider I passed on Proton because of their support for cryptocurrency and because the CEO politics.

I don’t care you are hosted in Zwitserland, your CEO makes me distrust the company dearly.

I have (re)watched Star Trek TNG more times than I can remember. I got a shock when I saw the title of this post.

I’m still sad that Debian is now integrating (external?) LLM in the build process which seems antithetical to the core values of Debian (as pointed out).

There is no alternative to Debian for me. I’m ready to justy throw out all my computers and become a goat herder at this point.

PS I’ll remove memory and storage from said computers to pay for land and goats before I chuck them out of my window.

That (caring for poor people) is anti-christ to the goals of Thiel, who wants to get rid of democracy and create city states governed by autocratic rulers.

Greta Thunberg. I am dead serious, this is what Thiel believes.

Telling people that you are a convicted fellon without disclosing what you did is a red flag to me.

Especially if its for the purpose to drum up interest for your autobiography.

It's easy to harp on PHP but I wonder if we're going to get this kind of vulnerabilities in languages like Python or Go soon too.

This is a multi-trillion dollar industry, too much money is at stake to be all ethical, moral and principled about things!

The idea that a for-profit company is allowed to scan licence plates and make this data available and searchable without restrictions seems ludicrous to me.

In The Netherlands, we do have ANPR camera's but they are run by the police and there are strict rules about data retention (no hit on a licence plate means drop the data). ANPR cameras aren't used as dragnet surveillance. The NL situation is not perfect, but it's on a different playing field.

With the absolute unregulated situation in the USA, the outcome has been predictable: cops stalking people and innocent people jailed for weeks due to mistakes.

I love Benn Jordan's work, including the video where they went to a Flock office building, filming employees. They didn't like being filmed, but it did not teach them a lesson unfortunately.

If you (still) work for Flock, don't think of yourself as a moral, decent person.

People should also know that Jeff Geerling is anti-abortion (even after r@pe), anti-contraception and anti-homosexuality. I wouldn’t go if I could and I love homelabs. Your politics matter, especially now.

Palo Alto by Malcolm Harris - a re-read about the history of Silicon Valley, highly recommended.

That's a very long post to state that you still hold your positions as stated more than 10 years ago.

You are still anti-abortion (even after rape), anti-contraceptives and anti-homosexuality, right?

Disclosure: I wrote that blog post but with sources.

If people are technical brilliant but they hurt people I want nothing to do with them.

My remark was to inform people so they can make up their own mind what to do or support.

At no point did I talk about government intervention or something like that.

Just civilians being informed to make choices they want to make

Frankly, personal politics matter a great deal to me. I can't look away.

I don't support people who advocate for policies that hurt and kill people (mostly women in this case). That cause tremendous suffering.

I can't support such people in any way, even if their personal politics have nothing to do with their work or whatever event they plan.

People can believe and support what they want, but they should not be free of consequences for such beliefs: exclusion and boycots.

People should also know that Jeff Geerling is anti-abortion (even after r@pe), anti-contraception and anti-homosexuality.

I wouldn’t go if I could and I love homelabs. Your politics matter, especially now.

It's insane to me that the fastest Mac chip is almost a fifth faster than the fastest Intel chip for a fraction of the power budget.

> I pointed Claude Opus 5 at a C codebase I've been working on for years and it immediately found five serious bugs

These 'serious' bugs aren't important if you've been working on this code base for years and only now they pop up. I suspect - although I'm guessing - that probably a hobby project.

Frankly speaking, although this comment is very dismissive about the opinion blog article - assertively stating that this isn't a well-thought-out post - it seems to me that the personal anekdote is irrelevant and that the blog post in question still fully stands.

Nice Work! Take note of the usage of aluminium extrusions, if you're not familiar with them, take a look, they are very handy and not expensive. I've built a 10 inch mini rack with them, really handy.

I really wonder why Nvidia would do this.

> But, I am fairly certain for trivial tasks, or bureaucratic tasks AI has lessened my cognitive load (data point of one).

That can't justify the 1+ trillion invested in AI, right?

> Money is the means by which we facilitate exchange. But in reality, the energy in the universe is ginormous. > Is AI bad for the environment or is it the way we obtain energy bad for the environment?

I find this dishonest, we know that it's running on natural gas mostly and it's thus contributing to climate change + harm for communities. There's no way around this.

This isn't how it works. Hundreds of billions are spend on existing NVIDIA AI hardware that must first be recuperated. This kind of speculation doesn't make sense to me.

The 2025 paper showed how people could fool themselves. How easy it seems that you fool yourself.

The 2026 paper admitted it's different and has issues.

> A lot of software projects don't make money directly. Our company makes money.

That's an evasive answer and you know it. It's about AI making an impact on the bottom line, justifying it's cost.

> A lot of software projects don't make money directly. Our company makes money. This would have cost thousands of dollars paid to a contractor previously with unclear results so yes it's 100% justified.

Thousands of dollars is pocket change even for a small company. That's not the kind of impact AI is supposed to have. You see why I'm not convinced? You also don't talk about the unsubsidised cost of AI nor the negative externalities.

1. Does this make money

2. Does this warrant the unsubsidized cost of AI?

3. Does this justify the harmful externalities of AI?

I don't need personal anecdotes. I want evidence that organisations make more money, get more efficient (and so on) due to AI. Please cite a paper.