Joseph Kohlmann

@jkohlmann
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Someone's AI agent has been performing a wide variety of manipulation to the project for a while to the Fedora project. https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1077035/c7e7c14fbd60fae9/

It's clearly linked to an account that precedes the, ahem, "agentic AI era", but it also seems the account wwas probably compromised, but everything is unclear, including motivations or the extent of damage.

AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere

Agentic AI systems can be used to do a variety of things autonomously on behalf of a human user [...]

LWN.net

RE: https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/116726207676804579

I stopped buying iPads with cellular ever since I ended up with a good iPhone tethering option.

But man, this seems like a really awesome deal. Even cheaper than some of the daily hotel internet rates I’ve seen.

so if AI is so amazing, why don’t articles and books written with it have huge “proudly made with AI” banners and stickers on it

we all know why

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116728001022328890

I recently borrowed a book from the library to read to my son before bed. It had a huge sticker on the cover stating "made without AI". Probably because it has a few illustrations in it.

But "no AI was used is really starting to become a mark of quality or at least a mark of something worth looking at.

Juvenile Tricolored Heron
St. Augustine Alligator Farm

#Birds #photography #wildphotography #birdphotography #WIldlifePhotography #Wildlife

It looks like the World Economic Forum has woken up and realized that without entry-level positions, there is no middle or senior level. Let's see how long that wisdom takes to trickle down to decision-makers.
#AI #entrylevel
https://www.weforum.org/stories/2026/06/ai-leadership-crisis-gen-z/

Sometimes you gotta get up and find your own sunshine (to snooze in).

#cats #quote #choosehappiness #CatsOfMastodon

The President of the United States is a racist, homicidal dumbass and a liar among other things. We’re still doing the “deal is coming soon” dance? For whose benefit? https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/b49f98b6-6f93-4bf2-91d7-f58afaa46ed8
Btw, maybe the EU also sucks! But maybe these generative AI integrations with Apple operating systems simply shouldn’t exist. It all comes back to that for me.