Mon serveur grattait sérieusement des disques durs, ce qui montrait une utilisation intense et quasi constante qui non seulement faisait du bruit (donc pas cool pour moi) mais aussi chauffait, usait les composants, et avait sans doute un impact sur les performances

Puis j'ai empêché les IA de visiter mes peertubes. Principalement le crawler de Meta. En utilisant https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

Mon serveur est de retour à la normal.

Les IA nuisent à mon sommeil, mon confort, et bousillent aussi l'internet décentralisé

On calcule souvent l'électricité consommé par les IA lors de l’entraînement mais ce serait aussi cool de tenir compte des crawlers et leur impact sur les serveurs

edit: ah, on en tient compte https://www.arcep.fr/uploads/tx_gspublication/rapport-IA-generative-defis-internet-ouvert-janvier2026.pdf
merchi @quota_atypique

🪨 Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC w/DOS 🛠️

Did you know that #Lotus123 is still referenced in Microsoft #Excel documentation to this day, but not #visicalc I finally spent some time getting to know VisiCalc's literal killer. When I struggled to get a chart made, I turned to the only one who could help me: an AI. From 1986!
#retrocomputing #spreadsheet

https://stonetools.ghost.io/lotus123-dos

Check out our new case study: Citizen science in Zurich with Camptocamp and Mergin Maps

https://merginmaps.com/case-studies/citizen-science-in-zurich-with-camptocamp-and-mergin-maps

#QGIS #Mapping #MerginMaps #Camptocamp #casestudy

✨ MapFish Print 4.0 is out.

🖨️ A key and widely used tool for high performance cartographic report generation, MapFish Print reaches a major new technological milestone.

👏 Congratulations to the Camptocamp teams and many thanks to the external contributors!

➡️ MapFish Print v4 https://github.com/mapfish/mapfish-print/releases/tag/4.0.0
➡️ About Camptocamp: https://www.camptocamp.com⁠

#MapFishPrint #GIS #JasperReports #OpenSource #Camptocamp

If you are an author whose work is on the ACM DL, I'd like to strongly encourage you to check the accuracy of the AI Summary of your paper, and send feedback to the ACM on this feature and the inaccuracies in your summary. See more here: https://dl.acm.org/generative-ai/summarizations

Please boost, repost, and otherwise steal this post to reach other authors.

In long:

The ACM has begun rolling out "Digital Library Premium" features. A very notable one is AI Summaries of papers, which displace the author written abstract with an AI generated summary of the paper on the front page for the paper.

Of the several I've checked, they all contain subtle inaccuracies that would VERY EASILY mislead even experts familiar with the work.

This is a HUGE DISSERVICE TO SCIENCE. These summaries might appear to make science more accessible, but subtle errors introduced into the authors original text is the very opposite of making science more accessible. This will mislead rather than educate.

The ACM has a feature to send feedback on these summaries. Open your DOI, and look for the "Feedback" button on the right of the page, or the "Send Feedback" link in the footer. (You might need to disable ad-blockers, as this services uses mopinion.com)

The ACM is requesting this feedback, and it's important to let them know that such "hallucinations" are not solvable:

These tools were designed in consultation with a diverse group of Digital Library stakeholders and will continue to evolve as Artificial Intelligence advances. We are continuously tuning our Foundational Model to optimize readability and we conduct regular audits for hallucinations and other errors. We are very interested in your thoughts and suggestions- please leave them by clicking the "Feedback" button on the far right of this page. If you find a problem with a specific AI-generated summary, please return to that summary and click the Feedback there.

More aggressively, you might email dl-team@hq.acm.org (also linked in the footer).

Update 1: It seems the ACM no longer displaces the abstract with these summaries, so I can hope this feedback has been helpful in affecting change.

Update 2: It seems these summaries have been generated on papers whose license may forbid it, such as CC-BY-ND. If you have a restrictive license on your paper, you may check whether it’s being followed and send further feedback if not.

How tenaciously Palantir courted Switzerland

The controversial tech company Palantir provides surveillance technology to militaries and intelligence services around the world.

In Switzerland, however, its pitches have been rejected by both government authorities and the army. Internal documents have now revealed why.

Our articles from December 2025 finally available in english and paywall-free!

Because of THIS article (there is another one) Palantir is suing us.

Please read and spread it. And if you want donate and support us, you can donate us for this specific article without subscribing.

We are commited to journalistic standards, we have a huge documentation and provided lots of evidence to the court.

https://www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/how-tenaciously-palantir-courted-switzerland

Well, today is the day. I'm finally "sorta happy enough to pull the trigger" on publishing the book I've been working on for a very long time. It's a technical history book: by a techie, for techies (although I think that between all the code samples, there is plenty of meat for "tech-adjacent" and "tech-interested" people). It tells the story of the Lisp programming language, invented by a genius called John McCarthy in 1958 and today still going strong (to the extent that many people see it as the most powerful programming language in existence).

And this is a time for shameless self promotion, even if you don't plan on buying the book, please repost :-). Self-publishing is self-marketing, so there we go.

If you do buy and read it, please let me know how you liked it!

The book landing page, https://berksoft.ca/gol, has links to all outlets where you can buy the book,