Eco-feminist & planetary worker, South Funen Archipelago. Also known as David Walther Birk Lauridsen (they/he).
Organised in:
* https://ukrudt.net (server collective) @ukrudt
* https://Kollektiv.email (email coop)
* Center for Militant Futurology (utopian future studies https://futurologi.org)
* Mejeriet (social center and workshops https://mejeriet.ukrudt.net)
* Teknologisk Arbejderkooperativ (tech-coop https://teknologisk.coop) @tak
For many people, the #Linux vs #Windows vs #Mac debate is a privilege — it assumes you can choose. But working with the Computer Upcycle Project, I've seen the real choice is often Linux vs no computer at all.
~95% of donated computers are "too old" for Windows 11 or macOS. Linux installs on them anyway, adding 10+ years of life to machines #Microsoft and #Apple called trash.
This isn't Linux vs Windows. It's Linux vs e-waste.
After three intense months of work from more than a dozen contributors, #deltachat 2.48 releases are rolling. Maybe the most feature-packed releases ever?
- "zero metadata" messaging
- native Audio/Video calls on Android and iOS, as well as UbuntuTouch
- Group and Channel descriptions
- A new background audio player
- Revamped Download-on-Demand
and, last but not least, the long-awaited next-generation of messaging resiliency through "multi-path" routing ....
A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons
https://apnews.com/article/typewriter-ai-cheating-chatgpt-cornell-ce10e1ca0f10c96f79b7d988bb56448b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology @technology-AssociatedPress
Once a semester, a Cornell University instructor requires her students to complete an in-class assignment using typewriters — an exercise to help them understand what writing, thinking and classrooms were like before everything turned digital. The exercise started in 2023, as Grit Mathias Phelps grew frustrated that her German language students were using generative AI and online translation platforms to churn out grammatically perfect assignments. The revival is part of a national trend toward old-school testing methods like in-class pen-and-paper exams and oral tests to prevent AI use for assignments on laptops.
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.
Bunk Computer Cooperative is a worker-owned cooperative. We build ethical alternatives to big tech computing infrastructure for businesses, non-profits, and the general public in Western North Carolina.
this is so cool. love to see it. wish businesses like this were everywhere. i wonder what it takes to start one, and also keep it going
TAK er med i det seneste nyhedsbrev fra Kooperativt København der har destilleret et oplæg vi holdt til en artikel: Guide til aktivistiske tech-strategier
De fleste virksomheder og foreninger bruger ukritisk Outlook og Microsoft men burde tage andre valg. Det mener Teknologisk Arbejderkooperativ. I følge dem står teknologisk ansvarlighed nemlig lige for, hvis man vil tage social, økonomisk og klimamæssig ansvarlighed til næste niveau. »Vælg din infrastruktur, som du vælger dine venner« er et af deres råd.
@snue Tak for en god tekst.
Jeg har selv været i samme situation, og er begyndt at bruge Delta Chat med flere grupper og foreninger.
Her er en kortfattet præsentation af Delta Chat og en guide til hvordan man kommer igang med at bruge Apps i delta chat, der virkelig gør det til en simpel organiserings schweizerkniv.
Mike 
Delta Chat
Associated Press
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a very weeny construct 💀
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