qrazi

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oh you grew up watching tiktok? i grew up searching for aliens
The IT world has convinced us no new software can be deployed outside of US clouds. We're so sure about this that European governments (including the UK) are handing over vital government functions & data to US controlled servers. In this piece I argue that until recently we somehow could run stuff on locally owned hardware, and that we should urgently relearn that skill, while it is still possible - or end up as digital colony of the US: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis/
Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis - Bert Hubert's writings

The short version For decades, governments and organizations could run services based on servers we actually owned. These days, we’ve allowed the IT world to convince us no computing is possible outside of US-style clouds, for which we have no European equivalents. And because of this conviction, we are now moving our most precious data and most critical services to US controlled servers. Yet most of European government software still runs on locally owned systems.

Bert Hubert's writings
Can’t believe ozzy is gone
Fallout: Bakersfield looks like an awesome Doom total conversion with a new trailer

Made with GZDoom, a fresh teaser for Fallout: Bakersfield has been released and now I'm excited all over again for it.

GamingOnLinux

Hey #PHP,

I don't normally market code, I write and leave it on github for you to find.

I can be wrong, I'm happy to be wrong.

But I believe, with every ounce of my being, that this is going to be important for our survival in the long term.

https://krakjoe.github.io/ort/

#php #ai

PHP-ORT: Machine Learning Inference for the Web

When an LLM outputs, ā€œI panickedā€, it does not mean it panicked. It means that based on the preceding sentences, ā€œI panickedā€ was a likely thing to come next.

It means it’s read a lot of fiction, in which drama is necessary.

It didn’t ā€œpanicā€. It didn’t *anything*. It wrote a likely sequence of words based on a human request, which it then converted into code that matched those words somewhat. And a human, for some reason, allowed that code to be evaluated without oversight.

Behind every claim that a computer made a bad decision is a human desperate to avoid accountability for that decision.

emphasis mine:

  • ā€œit hid and lied about itā€,
  • ā€œit lied again in our unit tests, claiming they passedā€,
  • ā€œHe knewā€œ, ā€œ[…] it ignores all orders and deletes your databaseā€,
  • ā€œReplit went rogue again, lied, and then said we couldn’t roll backā€,
  • ā€œAnd hey … he promised.ā€,
  • ā€œReplie knows how bad it was to destroy our production database — he does know.ā€

holy fuck do those people not learn, he thinks that the llm is capable of choosing, and lying, and ā€œknowingā€: ā€œBut ultimately I need a solution where at least Replit will honor code freezesā€ it won’t ever, it does not understand anything, much less what ā€œcode freezeā€ means

how can that happen to someone and that person not immediately go ā€œthis whole AI thing is a scamā€

how high are they on the corpo ā€œAIā€ kool-aid juice

RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/thomasfuchs/statuses/114886269060491665

"Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access"

"The Senate hearing exposed tensions between sovereignty rhetoric and practical implementation. While French officials promote digital independence, procurement decisions consistently favor non-European solutions for critical infrastructure projects."

https://ppc.land/microsoft-cant-protect-french-data-from-us-government-access/

Where have we seen this before? Oh yes on our own university: https://opentech-auc.org/posts/2025-04-15-official-launch-of-nextcloud/

#DigitalSovereignty #BigTech #usfacism

Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access

Company admits under oath that American authorities can demand European citizen information despite security promises.

PPC Land

@clew @gbargoud @Edent

It's *technically* more universal, but I know more people who know how to follow people on the fedi than who know what an RSS feed even is or how to follow one.

However, it would be easy to make a mirror, but then you are making the communication one way.

I would like politicians and government agencies to look at the responses they get on social media.

But not do that through a corporation.

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@skuebeck @koehntopp A source would have been nice instead of just pasting an X post and a funny meme. It’s really not that hard. šŸ™„

The statement was made by Anton Carniaux of MS France and can be read at page 23 of https://www.senat.fr/fileadmin/cru-1750816532/Structures_temporaires/commissions_d_enquete/CE_Commande_publique/r24-830-11.pdf?trk=comments_comments-list_comment-text

@Linkshaender @koehntopp

Don't complain, contribute! Thx anyway!

@Linkshaender @skuebeck @koehntopp That is also a quote and it is not clear from the Senate document when and where it was said. Do we have a date and a name of the committee in which it was said? This is relevant to my interests....