“It’s inevitable” often means “we’re doing this against your will and without requiring consent because we’re in a position of power”
@tzafrir The $100 is to become part of the co-op. You can buy albums from the website without joining the co-op.
TIL subvert.fm - a co-op based music platform that has just launched. It looks really promising.
You still deserve privacy, even if you:
- don't use Linux
- use big social media sites
- aren't "techie"
- are just an average computer user
@daniel All US tech is now a serious liability, it sounds like hyperbole but it would take a lot these days to convince me otherwise.
@cwebber I'm all for it! The people who use this kind of shit deserves what they get, let it all burn!
Daily Maverick: "New data centres set to swallow 34% of Cape Town’s current electricity supply"
I'm really annoyed at the arrogance of the companies who are deploying these, treating the city's bylaws as "mere formalities" that can be skirted sideways, while everyone else has to abide by it. I hope it gets shut down fast.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-04-28-new-data-centres-set-to-swallow-34-of-cape-towns-current-electricity-supply/
I'm really annoyed at the arrogance of the companies who are deploying these, treating the city's bylaws as "mere formalities" that can be skirted sideways, while everyone else has to abide by it. I hope it gets shut down fast.
https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/article/2026-04-28-new-data-centres-set-to-swallow-34-of-cape-towns-current-electricity-supply/
@soapdog And then they have the gal to complain when the Chinese use their models to train their models
@nuintari Where does the "Hazard" come from? That's not one of the canonical Daxes?
@nuintari Heh, just checked out your profile and noticed your dog's name. My dog's name is Curzon Dax!
I find it amusing that people are only freaking out about Open Source Software when it comes to Claude Mythos. You do realise that LLMs can just as easily read binary files as source code, right? Sure, they'll be missing out on a few helpful things like comments, and some logic might be obfuscated/optimised, but I'd even go as far as to bet that this is going to be significantly more of a negative impact on proprietary software than it will to free software.
@nuintari @fellmoon Although, I suspect that perl doesn't have many (or any?) proper web frameworks and you use CGI? That probably opens you to a world of injection attacks that you won't get on for example, a flask app that runs on wsgi. I'd still recommend Python for something like this for various reasons, but if it works, it works!