Notices by nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)

YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/improving-ai-labels-viewers-creators/

This is a good start. Next give me button where I want to hide all AI slop from YouTube music and videos. If I am paying for YouTube music and video, I want my money given to real artist and not scammers who upload 100s of videos or music.

DuckDuckGo's AI-free search saw nearly 28% more visits in the week following Google's insistence that people love AI mode. Is anyone surprised by this result?

https://xcancel.com/DuckDuckGo/status/2059371174023348514

Github was down again today. Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests Incident Report for GitHub https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/xy1tt3hs572m

RE: https://wandering.shop/@clacksee/116639351820042391

😂 exactly this

Now that Google official killed search engine with AI summarise and added chatbot box to it. For those who wants alternatives to Google search try (this is sorted list):

Brave
DuckDuckGo
Ecosia
Kagi
Marginalia Search
Mojeek
Qwant
Startpage

Add more to below 👇

"Idolatry of profit"

That might be one of the strong phrases I've heard anyone use about the AI companies. Pope Leo has called for *robust regulation* of AI and limits on its use for warfare, as he warned of the dangers of a technological revolution driven by "the idolatry of profit". That is an incredibly strong statement coming from the Vatican and I wonder how will AI companies will react? Let me take a wild guess? They will ignore him. Take jobs. Use it for wars.

https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft.com/content/12313f08-991d-4079-9631-9ce7ae70c3e3

For those asking when the AI bubble will burst? ah, yes. that is a big question. See, it is not a single day event. These kinds of crash happen over years. The dot-com bubble burst wasn’t a single day event, it was stretched over 2 to 3 years until everyone accepted that the market had reached its down peak, after which it remained flat for a long time. hence the term lost decade post dot-com crash. these are stock market related terms and then you experience job/income loss in tech sector badly

Good! Europeans are dumping VISA and MasterCard.

Adieu Visa et Mastercard : 130 millions d'Européens basculent vers un paiement 100 % souverain dès 2026 ( English translation: Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130 million Europeans will switch to 100% sovereign payment by 2026 ) https://www.lesnumeriques.com/banque-en-ligne/adieu-visa-et-mastercard-130-millions-d-europeens-basculent-vers-un-paiement-100-souverain-des-2026-n250918.html

New site: google just killed search https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/google-search-as-you-know-it-is-over/

yeah, we know. We saw a massive drop in SO/Wikipedia traffic over the last 2 years, so yday's announcement was just closing the deal. Google has officially killed the web that was made of links. It is now a giant box that steals web pages/images/videos from all websites and pretends to know everything with its model and weights often with lots of wrong information. I hope this madness leads to a better search engine and EOL of Google.

Google CEO tries to tell University students to love AI. They tell him to BOO off.

It is good to see kids are saying no and fighting back. Do you know why? Because the future of bots, AI and robots doesn't offer any jobs to these young kids. They know greedy AI companies want to get rid of working class. It is simple as that.

For those who wish to read instead of the clip. See BBC page: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8pqd54qneo

#ai #llm

Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list 'almost entirely unmanageable' https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/05/18/linus-torvalds-says-ai-powered-bug-hunters-have-made-linux-security-mailing-list-almost-entirely-unmanageable/5241633 😂

FYI, the Linux kernel officially allows AI-assisted code https://docs.kernel.org/process/coding-assistants.htm This is all big tech who are members of Linux foundations forced AI assisted code inside the Linux kernel. Now what's the point of crying about it?l

#linux #opensource

Debian 13.5 reminds Linux users why boring distributions still win https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/debian-13-5-linux-security-update/

#linux #opensource

i have yet to meet a single dev or office bee who was forced to use AI and now adopted that AI and saw their workload decrease. it's actually the opposite. now they are just working 2x/3x as hard to double check the AI's "help" 😂

this is one the greatest scam AI companies pulled on everyone while destroying jobs and environments.

Sovereign Tech Fund invests over €1 million in KDE software development https://kde.org/announcements/sovereign-tech-fund-invests-kde/

#opensource #linux #unix

Smart glasses are 'an invasion of privacy' - Meta's are selling better than ever

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj37z8357e5o

At this rate, everyone should get dividends from Meta and make it a public utility, because they don't have any concept of privacy and everyone's data is up for grabs for AI training and targeted Ads. You can't opt out of these Meta glasses and in most cases nobody knows if you are wearing one. So yeah. It is a a big disaster.

currently there is no evidence that any productivity is gained using these forced AI tools. if anything everyone is nervous because they don't know if they are next in the line. btw, CFO is worried that cost of AI is more because they are running those AI agents 24x7. the whole thing is a mess. nobody is knows what the hell is going on anymore. the legal teams wants to know what those AI companies do with customer data and there is no clear answer from anyone. welcome to modern IT. (2/2)

GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch https://cyberinsider.com/grapheneos-fixes-android-vpn-leak-google-refused-to-patch/

current status after 40% job cut:s

me: i am pretty sure they keep me & other person around in the age of AI because they know if something goes wrong, you need someone to actually fix this shit. Otherwise, the state of the team is:

9 devs fully burned out with AI & the old way of coding

2 devs fully adopted AI

1 dev does the bare minumum & getting ready to become an electric contractor

3 people doing multiple jobs of reviewing PRs, providing support, emails, running many AI agents etc (1/2)

Awesome. A Redditor emailed Ken Thompson about the UNICS to UNIX namechange. Actually got a reply https://www.reddit.com/r/unix/comments/1t826y8/emailed_ken_thompson_about_the_unics_to_unix/

#unix #history #computing

‘The cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees’: Nvidia executive says right now AI is more expensive than paying human workers https://fortune.com/2026/04/28/nvidia-executive-cost-of-ai-is-greater-than-cost-of-employees/

Nobody is saying the loud part because they are too deep into AI now. They know teh only way to keep going is to pretend everything is working as promised. This is how the dot-com era happened & the upcoming AI bubble crash will too. They are disconnected from our reality. There is no cure for AI psychosis at CEO levels 😂