"The biggest loser in this transition has been gas..."

Now I know why Germany does not have grid-scale battery storage.

#ReicheStoppen das e in Katherina Reiche steht für E.ON

https://reneweconomy.com.au/grid-batteries-reach-stunning-new-peak-of-44-pct-of-evening-demand-in-worlds-fourth-biggest-economy/

#california
via @bascule

A lot can happen in 57 years.

In 1969 the corrupt President Nixon was president, the U.S. could not afford universal healthcare but did find the money to go to the moon while waging a war in Vietnam.

In 2026 the corrupt President Trump is president, the U.S. still cannot afford universal healthcare but does find the money to go to the moon while waging a war in Iran.

The original Nokia ringtone, known as the Nokia tune, is derived from a piece of solo guitar music called Gran Vals, composed by Francisco Tárrega in 1902.

[🎸 alexaguitarist]

Most striking desription I have heard about Trump’s Iran strategy:

“We break it, you own it.”

I do not think Europe will forget this profound stupidity in my lifetime.

Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM.

Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting "code sentiment" via regular expressions, variable and functions names containing prompt parts trying to influence the bot, a completely intransparent mess of a control flow that makes actual maintenance and debugging functionally impossible and the prompts ... of the prompts. All the begging and pleading to the chatbot not to do this or not to do that or please to do this.

It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.

Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing.

The software we have to use will be bad, insecure, unmaintainable, expensive with nobody having the skills or resources to build something better. As I wrote a few months ago: LLM based software production is equivalent to saying that fast fashion should be the only way to produce clothing. A tragic degeneration of the quality of the artefacts we rely on build for maximum profit on the backs of people in countries from the global majority.

Grok hat in elf Tagen ~3 Millionen sexualisierte Bilder erzeugt – darunter Kinderpornografie. Kein Versagen einzelner Nutzer, sondern eine unternehmerische Entscheidung. Der »Spicy Mode« wurde geplant und freigegeben.

Die politische Antwort? Vorratsdatenspeicherung und Chatkontrolle. Repression statt Prävention. Täterorientiert statt opferschützend.

Dabei wäre die Antwort einfach: Eine KI braucht keine Ausziehfunktion. Musk ist verantwortlich. Es wird Zeit, ihn zur Rechenschaft zu ziehen. 👇

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/deepfakes-die-technologischen-ermoeglicher-des-missbrauchs-ein-kommentar/

#KI #Deepfakes #Kinderschutz #Grok