Notices by Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)

@marick
That’s good to hear!

RE: https://spore.social/@minouette/117207166332422011

Wonderful art history lessons in the alt text on these images!

Nvidia buys Hugging Face, the Github of AI, for $13 billion

Nvidia says Hugging Face will stay open even as the chipmaker takes control of a key AI hub.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/09/nvidia-buys-hugging-face-the-github-of-ai-for-13-billion/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@arstechnica

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116990341529587008

@mathew @r343l

But that’s not a problem because obviously people version control everything

and always carefully check the diffs, always

and never hands the version control stuff over to the LLM too

obviously

@skinnylatte

This kind of content is the reason I provide financial support to my Fedi instance.

Consider the time interval

the incredibly, unbelievably, tragically •long• time interval

between when it was obvious that the “radium girls” were dying from their jobs and when the company stopped killing them.

https://thisiscriminal.com/episode-260-the-dial-painters/

@prism @eta @erincandescent @cwebber

I was also thinking thoughts along the lines of this conversation:

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/117129965997668260

RE: https://mastodon.radio/@VE3RWJ/117198869111716709

An excellent question.

And the answer, I assume, is “oral care companies who can use photos of the inside of your mouth to sell you cures for diseases you never even knew you had because they invented them.”

@zero @Andres4NY

> The problem is that Anthropic sold them the lie that they could. All of AI messaging is "one prompt, done" (literally is some cases). It is fraud.

Yes. That.

https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/117199629425105104

As replies point out, I’m sure in many cases people don’t even notice that an AI agent had shredded vital data until long after the fact — and then may not even realize it was the agent that did it.

And I’m sure there’s all kinds of denial, gaslighting, self-blame, shame about admitting…many of the same patterns we see in victims of con artists.

Truly, I applaud the person in the OP for going public with their mistake. That’s hard.

@inthehands I skimmed through looking for the part where they say "thankfully I have backups" 😬

@mhartle

If you want to never sleep again, read this article shared in another reply: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying

An AI agent that guides you through creating an offsite backup and testing it regularly

and does nothing else

ever

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/117199413640956786

I'm fairly sure that horror stories like this are quietly happening all over the world right now.

Quietly for now.

@joe

I do admire your ability to cut to the heart of things.

RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/117198307624143542

What do you get when you cross an accountability sink with weapons of war?

We’re about to find out the punchline to this joke, and I don’t think it’s a funny one.

@paul_ipv6

Right, right, I understand, and it's a reasonable objection. The problem is that route calculation is CPU-intensive — far more so than just serving up map data — and so I imagine that free-for-all server-side route computation raises costs in a way that OSM can’t afford to just eat, and login-gated is a way to limit that cost. The reason e.g. Organic Maps can do it anonymously is that it downloads the entire regional map first (which I imagine would outstrip practical browser storage limits) and then computes the route on the local device.

@paul_ipv6

Hmm, I'm not sure what the practical limits on long-term local browser storage are. Can a web site safely ask a browser to hold 10 Mb of data so it doesn't need to be re-downloaded any time soon? 100? 1000?

@grwster

Agreed! I like the nuance of this one, which seems to be a sound answer to the model problem (or on the path to one):

https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/lake-ontario-lake-america/146975/44