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I wrote about AI in software engineering, and about making choices.
A longer and more nuanced follow-up to my viral toot from last week.
by Arne Brasseur It's been nine years since the paper that introduced the Transformer architecture, which made LLMs possible, was published, and four years since ChatGPT kicked off the current genAI hype cycle. In tech years that is a long time, but opinions are still heavily divided on where this
Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
📡 At Teufelsberg (Berlin) I saw a decayed listening station…my reminder of a world we should not rebuild.
Yet the EU wants to scan EVERYTHING: chats, cloud, mail… 🤯 in the name of safety.
Mass surveillance erodes freedom.
💡If you do one thing this weekend, let it be reading this explanation of ChatControl:
👉 https://edu.nl/fcwvf
Dedicado en especial a toda esta gente muy seria que dice que en @el_pais no se puede hablar bien del #Fediverso porque algo algo de medios corporativos y todo eso
#autobombo 🪘
https://elpais.com/opinion/2025-06-25/el-santo-y-el-mastodonte.html
Discovered Rural Hackers at t3chFest a truly Spanish initiative that helps bring tech and art to residents of small villages suffering from depopulation.
Like transforming a town of just 97 people through technology and art.
Apple's rhetoric regarding DMA fines is wilfully deceitful and intentionally misleading. Let's look at the depths Cupertino will plumb to defend *extremely* predatory behaviour.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm248vzg9jwo
The BBC quotes Apple repeating lines that it often trots out whenever anyone points out that its rent-extracting behaviour via the App Store is monopolistic and predatory:
`... Apple saying it was being "unfairly targeted" and forced to "give away our technology for free."`
Been working on various shader & behavior update and options for #Actiniaria... it's all starting to come together! 🤩
(Note: Sadly Firefox does not seem to respect the Rec2020 color profile in the video, please use Chrome or Safari for viewing...)
#ThingUmbrella #GenerativeArt #AlgorithmicArt #NoAI #Boids #Color #Video #Animation #TypeScript #WebGL
Last year our account went down and we're missing a lot of followers to get back to at least the 500 mark.
A little share would be amazeballs, thanks. 😊
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If your criticism of "big tech" is merely a result of the unhappiness about the fact that Meta, Google and Microsoft aren't EU-corporations you are missing the point.
There is nothing that indicates that SAP or Deutsche Telekom would hesitate a second at the chance of becoming equally violent and exploitative forces.
The solution to Big Tech isn't EU Big Tech. It's de-commercialisation and democratization of tech.
Arne Brasseur
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Wladimir Mufty
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