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Louis Dureuil Mar 24

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
GitHub is down.
And so are you.

https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/kp06czybl7dw

Disruption with some GitHub services

GitHub's Status Page - Disruption with some GitHub services.

Louis Dureuil Mar 23

Ketan Joshi Mar 23

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024.

Compare that to:

Google: 71%
Nvidia: 88%
Meta: 96%
Microsoft: 119%

Where are all the multi-gigawatt, tens-of-megatonnes gas-fired data centres being proposed by Netflix? Are governments frantically rushing fast-tracking laws for video streaming?

Louis Dureuil Mar 21

chaotic enby Mar 20

My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"

Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC

Wikipedia:Writing articles with large language models/RfC - Wikipedia

Louis Dureuil Mar 21

Human Brain Enthusiast Mar 20

The kids are alright

Louis Dureuil Mar 11

Tony Finch Mar 11

from my link log —

Code reviews do find bugs.

https://entropicthoughts.com/code-reviews-do-find-bugs

saved 2026-03-11 https://dotat.at/:/GKGHF.html

Code Reviews Do Find Bugs

Louis Dureuil Mar 11

Helen LH Mar 11

ChatGPT as a cognitive crutch: Evidence from a randomized controlled trial on knowledge retention
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2025.102287
"Study suggests that unrestricted ChatGPT use impaired long-term retention, likely by reducing the cognitive effort that supports durable memory. The findings align with cognitive offloading theory and the ‘desirable difficulties’ principle: while AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning."
#learning

Louis Dureuil Mar 11

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Kevin Beaumont Mar 11

So @xaitax has cracked Microsoft Recall, he's got access to the encrypted database and has automated dumping of screenshots and all text from screenshots.

I've looked at most recent Recall and yep, you can just read the database as a user process. The database also contains all manner of fields which aren't publicly disclosed for tracking the user's activity.

No AV or EDR alerts triggered, world's #1 in infostealer 😅

* you can just read it in plain text