Notices by tante (tante@tldr.nettime.org), page 12

This is interesting. Let's see how good the results will be. This does totally undermine the OSI's plans to water down "Open Source AI" which is great.
https://social.coop/@luis_in_brief/113477780103561238

@alcinnz totally, I have given a few rather successful talks arguing exactly that

I know that this one is making the rounds since it is basically Masto-bait, but "Privacy" is not a feature like "AI" is. It can have technological aspects to it, sure, but way more important are affordances, the social system and the rules a technical artifact is being released into etc. etc.

(Oh and privacy as many understand it is mostly a bourgeois fantasy)

https://hci.social/@infinimatt/113472781592526225

The most confusing thing about the AI push is that we just accepted that this fancy new tech is so bad that every product comes with a "everything this thing generates might be wrong and it is upon you to check". Bad products that externalize all the risks and problems to the user. And we just accept that. Because "Innovation".

https://www.codastory.com/stayonthestory/nursing-ai-hospitals-robots-capture/

"I’m a neurology ICU nurse. The creep of AI in our hospitals terrifies me"

This interview confirms all the things I have been going on about for the last year.

"I don’t think the goal is really to provide a safety net for everyone — I think it’s actually to speed us up, so we can see more patients, reduce visits down from 15 minutes to 12 minutes to 10. Efficiency, again."

Sure, LinkedIn. Sure.

All the energy used, all the carbon emitted, all the e-waste created and still every chatbot has the "anything this thing says might be false, you still need to check" label all over it.
I cannot believe the resources we are spending on this bullshit instead of doing literally anything else.
https://mastodon.social/@dw_innovation/113463890083280062

If Europe and the EU would not themselves experiment with fascism right now, with the way that the US will probably act in the next years there's a huge window to actually change the web and tech if one had some will to actually do something.
(And I am not talking about "EU Unicorns" or a "European Palantir". I mean something that actually puts the common good and the people using technology to structure parts of their lives front and center.)

Many joked when Crypto bros started pouring money into the US election but they seemed to have bought themselves a very friendly future environment. Which will mean that many people who are definitely not super well-off will lose their savings because grifters are gonna sell them bullshit tokens.

"There’s something darkly fitting about these two forces, Silicon Valley and Trump, conjoining so amicably right now. The tech industry has never been bigger, or richer, or piloted by wealthier or more influential billionaires. Crypto, as close to a purely speculative instrument of capital as exists, is being hyper-charged. Trump, of course, has no regard for rules or standards; he respects only the accrual of power and wealth. The digital casino is open, there are no house rules apart from ‘don't insult the boss’, and there are certainly no guarantees. Anyone who gets screwed is either a loser or a sucker or shouldn’t have been there in the first place. "

(Original title: Silicon Valley got what it wanted)

https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/silicon-valley-got-what-it-wanted

The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.

Antonio Gramsci

Wissing bleibt doch nur, damit nicht noch jemand in der Zwischenzeit bis zu den Neuwahlen irgendwo fies zu Autos ist oder ne Bahnstrecke beauftragt oder doch das Deutchlandticket günstig macht.

I guested on a podcast and we talked about why "Open Source" no longer cuts it for our digital infrastructures.

(Original title: Podcast: “Digital Infrastructure and Why Open Source Is Not Enough Anymore”)

https://tante.cc/2024/11/06/podcast-digital-infrastructure-and-why-open-source-is-not-enough-anymore/

For those who don't know: This is the CEO of Vercel, a major player in the JavaScript ecosystem. https://hachyderm.io/@joelanman/113437102479692781

Today more than on most days remember:

When people show you who they are, believe them.

Those who lick fascist boot today will never support you.

My main point is that "Open Source" no longer cuts it.

I was a guest on two podcasts this week. And while they both are very tech related and the current issue is way bigger than that I still think both got more important given the election results.

A lot the infrastructures we depend on depend on the goodwill and support of a bunch of people who just helped a fascist rapist become president again or at least did not have the guts to push back. Even a bit.

And as people interested in the commons we need to rethink our approach.

Silicon Valley and the other billionaires got their president.

Now realize that those guys are not, not ever, on your side.

Holy fucking shit.

It's cute that this software supply chain attack on NPM directly targets Ethereum users who are supposed to check every smart contract they want to interact with to protect themselves but don't seem to use the same rigour when checking code they include.

(Original title: Hundreds of code libraries posted to NPM try to install malware on dev machines)

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/11/javascript-developers-targeted-by-hundreds-of-malicious-code-libraries/