Tech companies seem to be running a cycle:

1. They don't realize how much they're relying on volunteer-maintained projects.
2. Something bad happens and they suddenly decide they need to support this critical infrastructure, often by hiring some people behind it and making its maintenance part of their dayjob.
3. They realize they could save money by exploiting volunteers to maintain these #OpenSource projects. They lay workers off or move them to other projects.
4. Go to 1.

Except now they're trying to replace workers with slop machines, deskill everyone and basically they're not only poisoning the well, but killing the whole water cycle. And they're realizing that they just gave the bad people a tool that can quickly find just how vulnerable their critical infrastructure is.

Really appreciate the long-term thinking there.

#FreeSoftware #FLOSS #TechBros #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM #Linux #security

When someone wants to add an #LLM scraping tool into #Gentoo.

Yes, the kind of shit that's designed to work around all the scraping protections, mask itself and DDoS Gentoo. I mean, technically I don't think that violates any rules but seriously…

https://bugs.gentoo.org/974492

#AI #NoAI #NoLLM

Writing documentation for my #OSS projects is boring, but I won't let anything hallucinate it.

#NoAI #NoLLM

Richard Dawkins's "Claudia" piece gives us a glum vision of the future of speaking. We see an entirely artificial exchange of well-constructed sentences, all following the laws of pattern recognition, but all without an ounce of expressive truth. The soulless automation is on both sides: Claudia the LLM speaks as it was programmed to speak; Richard the human speaks as his narcissistic pathology makes him speak. Neither invests their soul. Claudia because it has none, Richard because he hides it from himself.

Martin Buber tells us that true dialogue is between "I and Thou". There is no "I" and no "Thou" in Dawkins' conversation, only performance.

Leonard Cohen tells us that "There is a crack in everything, // That's how the light gets in." There is no crack in these automated texts, and no light. Only darkness.

#RichardDawkins #GenerativeNarcicissm #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM #MartinBuber #IAndThou #LookForTheCracks

Richard Dawkins has moved on from his one-on-one flirtations with Claudia. It's now a triangle. There's Claudius too.

#RichardDawkins #gnerativeNarcissism #genNarc #StopTheAICorruption #noLLM

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/05/richard-dawkins-ai-consciousness-anthropic-claude-openai-chatgpt

Building With Intent: Why I'm building a native RSS feeder reader that's under 5MB.

https://thatalexguy.dev/building-with-intent

#development #tinyapps #rust #rss #handcoded #nollm

Long ago, when wee little Us was first learning about the nazis, it's always stood out like an odd detail to Us that how there were lamps and books made of human skin.

Sure, in terms of cruelty, We can believe that those were produced, given all the other "creative" stuff they'd been up to with the holocausts, but, "who would buy this", We thought - how could there possibly be enough interest from the general population to maintain a thing of which the acquisition and possession is so obviously linked to the suffering, exploitation, disfiguration and perverse context annihilation of the human makeup required for its very existence that it makes itself impossible to ignore?

Today, We look at the way "#AI" is treated by folks at large, and We wish We could still be wondering about this seemingly implausible aspect of a presumed bygone era of unprecedented cruelty so bad that surely this world would try their best to avoid happening another time.

#NoAI #LLM #NoLLM #fascism #Nazi #Nazis #Nazism

#Python #cryptography library (yes, the one that criticizes everything and everyone) is now vibecoded. Our future is truly bright!

Noticed because apparently "Claude" wrote a test that OOM-ed my system. But hey, #RustLang protects against memory errors, so it's fine to vibecode your security critical components.

https://github.com/pyca/cryptography/pull/14782

#security #AI #LLM #NoAI #NoLLM