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[?]Thomas Fuchs [he/him] » 🌐
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io

So to summarize, AI will cause personal computers to cost ten thousand dollars, all applications will forever be frozen to about 2025 design and implementation (because that’s what vibe coding outputs), power to run the computer will be twice the price and also you need to sign in with your passport to start your computer in the first place.

Explain to me again how this is progress?

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[?]Tech Tangents » 🌐
@TechTangents@dialup.space

@thomasfuchs

I swear it's like there's this whole other world of software developers who want to do anything but develop software. So many libraries, niche languages, layers of abstraction, all culminating in maximally inefficient software that writes itself using all of the terrible practices they've built.

I feel like "AI Software Developers" would next up on the Golgafrinchan Ark ship in HHGTTG with the telephone cleaners.

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    [?]tante [he/him] » 🌐
    @tante@tldr.nettime.org

    McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.

    mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-eco

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    [?]Roy » 🌐
    @roytoo@mstdn.social

    @tante
    Excellent closing sentence:
    you should just stop asking questions, luddite.

      [?]3Jane Tessier Ashpool » 🌐
      @3janeTA@beige.party

      @tante I think I’m going to boost every iteration of shares of this today. So good.

        [?]Mother Bones » 🔓
        @_L1vY_@mstdn.social

        @tante Benjamin's Mules, lolsob

          [?]jgrzinich » 🌐
          @jgrzinich@mastodon.social

          @tante Thanks, this is a riot

            [?]Alex Lubertozzi 🇺🇦 » 🌐
            @alexlubertozzi@mastodon.social

            @tante I think 4 is my favorite:

            4. Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit. Goldman Sachs builds an altar to Benjamin in their lobby and cuts out the heart of a junior analyst on it every Friday. They call it “Blood Sacrifice Friday.” The name isn’t catchy, but the event becomes a management favorite nonetheless.

            Alt...4. Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his workers and purchases 99 mules, expecting a 1,000 percent productivity gain. The driverless mules cause plow damage to his property in excess of $50 million. Benjamin loses another $5 million due to the loss of productivity from his one remaining employee, who no longer guides a plow but instead spends 100 percent of his time shoveling mule shit. Goldman Sachs builds an altar to Benjamin in their lobby and cuts out the heart of a junior analyst on it every Friday. They call it “Blood Sacrifice Friday.” The name isn’t catchy, but the event becomes a management favorite nonetheless.

              [?]Stephen Cox Author » 🌐
              @stephenwhq@mastodon.social

              @tante

              accurate and balanced

                [?]fitrush89ww » 🌐
                @fitrush89ww@mastodon.social

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                [?]Pride_is_a_Protest » 🔓
                @BustaMarx@corteximplant.com

                @tante Damn if that wasn't a broadside I've never seen one.

                  [?]Laura » 🌐
                  @landelare@mastodon.gamedev.place

                  @tante I feel called out 😅

                    [?]Nicole Parsons » 🌐
                    @Npars01@mstdn.social

                    @tante

                    Is AI funded by the fossil fuel industry as a new element of an intergenerational trust?
                    bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

                    So much about the AI fraud is reminiscent of JP Getty's money shuffle, where paper losses, tax evasion, & fraud go hand in hand.

                    There's no such thing as a perpetual motion machine. There's no such thing as a perpetual money machine either.

                    1. Oil fields
                    2. Shipping
                    3. Refineries
                    4. Gas stations
                    5. Hotels & housing
                    6. Getty Trust

                    m.youtube.com/watch?v=aCSga0_K

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                      [?]SpaceLifeForm » 🌐
                      @SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange

                      @tante

                      With a bridge inside that I am willing to sell.

                        [?]Toni Aittoniemi » 🌐
                        @gimulnautti@mastodon.green

                        @tante New loans must be created, even if it’s against all things that make sense. Loans are the only way to create new money.

                        Without creating new money stock prices that aren’t reflective of anything real can’t keep going up.

                        Ps. Stocks are mostly bought with loans, not cash. The leveraged routinely exceed 10:1.

                        Pps. The inflation trickles down to us.

                          [?]Gilgwath [Yes! (Any)] » 🌐
                          @gilgwath@social.tchncs.de

                          @tante Meanwhile I'm overhere stashing as much popcorn as I can and selling at a premium when the bubble finally bursts.🍿

                            [?]Uwe Küchler » 🌐
                            @oraculix@ieji.de

                            @tante Wondering if @davidgerard has seen this already.

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                              [?]David Culley » 🌐
                              @davidculley@hachyderm.io

                              California and Colorado legislated that Linux distributions, being free and open-source, are exempt from the age verification in operating systems, unless they are proprietary like SteamOS (and Windows).

                              Too bad the systemd developers already complied with fascism in advance before the bills were even finalized.

                              Will Lennart Poettering and his followers now please remove the birthDate field from systemd?

                              P.S.: If you reply with any variation of "You need to calm down," I will block you.

                              gamingonlinux.com/2026/05/colo

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                                [?]tech? no! man, see... » 🌐
                                @technomancy@icosahedron.website

                                google had to level up by killing RSS and XMPP before they could gain enough XP to kill email.

                                once they're done with that they will move on to the final boss of killing the web.

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                                [?]Baldur Bjarnason [he/him] » 🌐
                                @baldur@toot.cafe

                                “I Did Not Come to This Kids Party for an AI Sermon - Justin Ribeiro, Ph.D.”

                                justinribeiro.com/chronicle/20

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                                [?]Baldur Bjarnason [he/him] » 🌐
                                @baldur@toot.cafe

                                "The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born"

                                baldurbjarnason.com/2026/the-o

                                This ones leans a bit more into theory and politics than I usually do when writing about the industry, but this moment in time warrants it, I think.

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                                [?]cpresser » 🌐
                                @cccpresser@chaos.social

                                Today released its component library to the public.
                                They are licensed CERN-OHL-P-2.0
                                Thank you OSPO ❤️ for getting this done.

                                Originally the library is made in Altium and will also be maintained in Altium. The repo only contains files that have been automatically converted.

                                It is a database library which contains only fully specified parts. There are lots of weird connectors. Have fun exploring.

                                home.cern/computing/cerns-kica

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                                  [?]Luis Falcon » 🌐
                                  @meanmicio@todon.eu

                                  Yesterday a colleague from GNU shared this great link about "Free/Open Source Software tainted by LLM developers/developed by genAI boosters, along with alternatives."👇

                                  codeberg.org/small-hack/open-s

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