Notices by Antti Peltola ⁂ (anttipeltola@mastodon.world)

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"To underscore the consequences of not having that kind of data, Smiley pointed to a recent attempt to rewrite SQLite in Rust using AI."

"It passed all the unit tests, the shape of the code looks right," he said. It's 3.7x more lines of code that performs 2,000 times worse than the actual SQLite. Two thousand times worse for a database is a non-viable product. It's a dumpster fire. Throw it away. All that money you spent on it is worthless."

https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/17/ai_businesses_faking_it_reckoning_coming_codestrap/

#AIBubble

I saw this on a Finnish post, so let me reformulate it a bit and post it in English.

Finnish universities 1996:

"Here's an operating system we created for you. Here's a chat network we created you can use with the operating system."

Finnish universities 2026:

"We don't know how to replace Facebook for public communications."

Learned helplessness.

#Linux #IRC #Finland #Suomi

Whatever this European tech sovereignty formulates into DO NOT give us European Big Tech.

Open protocols, open standards, open source. Like the 1990s internet I enjoyed as a kid. The European governments finance the projects and largely leave us the fuck alone.

No gods. No masters. ✊

#EU #Europe #EUPol #EuroPol

@aral

Another Bluesky rug pull in the making.

It's interesting how we managed to keep the Nazis at bay by offering everyone a quality source like the Financial Times free to read online. The blogosphere also was free to read for everyone with plenty of left-wing activist content.

Now even left-wing activist content has been paywalled behind Nazistack, and people wonder why we're losing the information war. Meanwhile, the Nazis are largely giving out their content for free.

#Substack #Journalism #Fascism #Authoritarianism

@AnarchoNinaWrites

The best negotiation tactic with this clown is "Don't do stupid shit, or we'll nuke Mar-a-Lago".

Denmark and allies boost Greenland military footprint as Trump ramps up pressure

The deployment comes as U.S. President Donald Trump intensifies talk of taking over the Arctic island.

https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-allies-boost-greenland-military-presence-donald-trump-ramps-up-pressure/

#Greenland #Denmark #NATO #Defense

The good stuff from IRC:

#IRC #UnitedHealth #BrianThompson #CEO

If you wonder why there's war against remote work let me lay it out. The FT already in 2021 laid out a doomsday scenario for office REITs (real estate investment trust).

Office REITs have leases expiring from big tenants this year and in order to prevent crisis in big cities they're forcing you back to your cubicle, overpriced housing and 10 USD lunch hour sandwiches.

You're just a cog in the machine unless you've got serious fuck you money laying around.

#Finance #Capitalism #WFH #RTO #REIT

We live in a weird world when Cheneys are the good guys now.

@BeAware

BitTorrent is the people's VHS these days.

Remember the 1990s when you had VHS tape ready to record if MTV ran a really good music video.

Sound quality was quite good if your equipment supported NICAM or probably the first digital audio codec that saw widespread adoption and was carried in the excess scanlines of NTSC and PAL.

#1990s #90s #VHS #MTV #NICAM #NTSC #PAL

@goatsarah
Crypto nerds sounds too respectable. I like crypto crooks more.

I'm posting my top feature request for #Mastodon 5.0.

On the web interface if someone posts a link to an another posting i want the web client to generate a link there through my own instance so i'm not getting kicked out of possibility to reply to that posting. #BlueSky #Twitter @Gargron @Mastodon

Either #Mastodon gets its shit together or it will end up like #Usenet and #IRC with easier to use proprietary competitor eating up its market share for lunch. #BlueSky #Twitter

I remember Max Keiser calling this the most revolutionary graph he'd ever seen: