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systemd lost the plot a long time ago. they stopped following the Unix philosophy and now they're busy adding nonsense like age verification. Just like Firefox, systemd doesn't understand its core user base. There are plenty of distros without systemd

Google sets new 24-hour process to sideload unverified developers Android apps. That is right. Now you can't load apps without google's permission. Who knows after sometime they might think 72 hours delay is needed and so on. More info https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2026/03/android-developer-verification.html?m=1

Sometimes you end up typing gail.com (typo) instead of gmail.com and you get this nice little website. Hah!

URL: https://gail.com/

Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/snowflake-ai-escapes-sandbox-and-executes-malware

Now you don't need any human to open email or click links. AI will do it for you :P Lmao.

Welcome to year 3 of the "6 months until you're obsolete software developer" club. btw, it is also the 3rd anniversary of the annual declaration that AGI is "just around the corner"

source: shameless self appointed president of AI tech bros club.

we finally located nginx HQ in japan. lol. pic credit https://xcancel.com/snmr_s/status/2033834665573048776

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech. Reddit researcher exposes Meta’s $2B campaign to force Apple and Google into building surveillance systems while exempting its own platforms
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Meta is pure evil who is pushing age verification laws to benefits from surveillance tech.

💯 vcs and tech bros act like they cured cancer with Gen AI. Lmao. In reality, they just stole every thing out there while causing large amount of environmental damage to build a slop machine and slop OS.

Ageless Linux: Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't.

https://agelesslinux.org/

Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam

https://www.theverge.com/tech/894803/digg-beta-shutdown-layoffs-ai

For anyone running a content driven site like a forum or blog, a new site or user generated content is now a bad idea. The users are long gone because these AI chatbots steal everything and keep users on their apps. So, I am not surprised they shut down. Even big newspapers are reducing staff, and everyone thinks LLMs will write news for them and I have the Taj Mahal to sell you ;)

Turing Award winner and former Oxford professor Tony Hoare passed away last Thursday at the age of 92. Hoare is famous for quicksort, ALGOL, Hoare logic and so much more.

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/tony-hoare-1934-2026.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare

#RIP

Debian Linux decides not to decide on AI-generated contributions https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1061544/125f911834966dd0/

Good stay away from that crap. AWS/Amazon just other day said they are seeing massive prod outages. We want stable desktop and server. No AI. Gen AI can 2>/dev/null himself.

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116205343316077705

Lmao. Gen AI is causing outages at AWS and Amazon causing business income loss. So now all AI created code needs senior developers to check it twice. So how is this saving time? #ai #llm #aws

it is actually wild that we live in a society where literal criminals are walking around free, but i have to hand over my Gov issued id and age verification docs just to download an os or use social media. it feels like common sense just doesn't exist anymore. please, some org or lawyers drag these thugs to court and stretch things out. i am tired of this bullshit.

Over the past few weeks, several US banks have pulled off from lending to Oracle for expanding its AI data centres, as per a report. So Oracle is now firing 30000 engineers as banks pull out from financing AI data centres and OpenAI deals to meet fools dream. Wise investors are pulling out of data centres now as they found out it's impossible to reach AGI & exponential AI growth through increasing the scale of compute. LLMs have already hit their developmental plateau https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/oracle-layoffs-tech-giant-to-slash-30-000-jobs-as-banks-pull-out-from-financing-ai-data-centres-11769996619410.html

Meanwhile BlackRock the biggest fund manager in world, started fund limits withdrawals as redemptions rattle private credit. Can you guess industry names that are using private credit (hint AI startups) ? https://www.reuters.com/business/blackrock-limits-withdrawals-private-credit-fund-redemptions-mount-2026-03-06/

Blackrock said on Friday it has limited withdrawals from a flagship debt fund after a surge in redemption requests, as investor worries mount around the $2 trillion private credit industry that giving loans to AI and software industry mostly.

You know how a gambler who loses it all starts begging his family for cash or putting their house up for a loan? We all know that story usually has a "happy" ending. Right?

Well, SoftBank is basically doing the same thing. They are talking to banks to get a massive $40 billion loan just to buy a stake in OpenAI. It is their biggest loan ever. I’m sure betting the house on a single hand will work out perfectly this time. https://www.livemint.com/companies/news/softbank-seeks-record-40-billion-loan-financing-banks-fund-openai-stake-invest-masayoshi-son-ai-bubble-concern-liquidity-11772773618772.html

These AI people are running out of money

Damn 😱 imaging not being able to download your OS because of where you live right now ...

Ubuntu Linux is planning to comply with Age Verification law.

On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2026-March/043510.html

@burnoutqueen deleted. damn. it is so hard to tell these days if it is a slop or real. fucking hell.