2026-05-09T01:44:27Z https://yabu.me Penguin Rebellion https://yabu.me/npub1aj4535yg4ef9p3kxavydeq62gh0ykhtcja2j0je8pnzndpzrkjvs30cdjs https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/accounts/avatars/116/210/866/728/705/852/original/9a67bbe109107f03.png https://tldr.nettime.org/system_nettime/accounts/avatars/116/210/866/728/705/852/original/9a67bbe109107f03.png https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswg5ndkzgc7q3hm8mv4fclv3dkvkp2033fdzh5re3rs04s2rhfsggzyrk2kjxs3zh9y5xxcm4s3hyrffzauj6a0zt42f7tyuxv2d5ygw6fjx5q5ur Excellent article by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub1l76qp958vgsdd6jlz0kncdqwvffv3a4dtt47fhspy90kvfdl9vqswkcve4" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Emanuel Maiberg</span> (<span class="italic">npub1l76…cve4</span>)</a></span> over at 404 Media, who looked into why a meta study paper has been retracted that concluded #ChatGPT had beneficial effects on #learning:<br/><br/>»“This meta analysis on #ChatGPT effects on learning appeared only two and a half years after ChatGPT was launched,” Williamson said. “So what we are supposed to believe is that in the intervening period, dozens of high quality studies of the effect of ChatGPT on learning performance took place, were written up, submitted for peer review, and published, which the meta analysis authors then painstakingly synthesized using robust methods.<br/><br/>**What appeared actually to be the case is that the meta analysis aggregated a whole bunch of very low quality research published in disreputable journals**.« (emphasis added)<br/><br/><a href="https://www.404media.co/nature-retracts-paper-on-the-benefits-of-chatgpt-in-education/">https://www.404media.co/nature-retracts-paper-on-the-benefits-of-chatgpt-in-education/</a> <br/><br/>&#34;#AI&#34; 2026-05-04T18:43:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9mahucef88fuglgyta9fgzw209kfdkdh00gny2nxtm9rmafhjetqzyrk2kjxs3zh9y5xxcm4s3hyrffzauj6a0zt42f7tyuxv2d5ygw6fj7xhqqc »When Peter #Thiel said, “I no longer believe that #freedom and #democracy are compatible,” he wasn’t talking about your freedom. He was talking about his own. You don’t exist.«<br/><br/><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/?gift=7cjjyPZIuS21UKXXq4Z-JNg5WJmVwq9FbLl-9yvqo1Y">https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/05/billionaire-consequence-free-reality/686588/?gift=7cjjyPZIuS21UKXXq4Z-JNg5WJmVwq9FbLl-9yvqo1Y</a> 2026-04-20T15:39:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswzmny6zsnggar4uqz9s7wx040f3jvtt8jq35empg0m86kmgtufkszyrk2kjxs3zh9y5xxcm4s3hyrffzauj6a0zt42f7tyuxv2d5ygw6fjma6uvv A wonderful text by <span itemprop="mentions" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"><a itemprop="url" href="/npub17uxpdhz0kqqwej08g36e40hzxc6ceg5yp4m7yq70qhs5hjj2ej9ssh329m" class="bg-lavender dark:prose:text-neutral-50 dark:text-neutral-50 dark:bg-garnet px-1"><span>Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:</span> (<span class="italic">npub17ux…329m</span>)</a></span> <br/><br/>&#34;#AI&#34; #EchoChamber #GreekMythology <br/><br/>»We will not help you steal others work, or enable genocides by using the companies that provide the infrastructure for governments to do harms to their peoples. We won&#39;t be polite to the people that allow the sloppy auto correct to cause extra work in an already overloaded technical community.<br/><br/>We will judge you. Which is what you fear really. Being an outcast and not being welcome in our spaces. The spaces we had to build for our safety.<br/><br/>You&#39;re not welcome here. You have plenty of other spaces online to peddle this. Leave our spaces alone.«<br/><br/><a href="https://dotart.blog/cobbles/where-is-the-echo">https://dotart.blog/cobbles/where-is-the-echo</a> 2026-04-14T20:02:35Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsvxkjf59c9zh7la8j5e78jwql069n0dyheyu2qfktp5l75depnm5szyrk2kjxs3zh9y5xxcm4s3hyrffzauj6a0zt42f7tyuxv2d5ygw6fj58le70 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs2czdyhu865qhmhysxjvpwwa4ees9lt6ggvjrf8cqnuk3nxy5c6jqu4dscf'>nevent1q…dscf</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Because it has been shown, and to keep playing the &#34;it&#39;ll be fine, one day&#34; card won&#39;t help.<br/><br/>People ignoring this and giving &#34;guarantees&#34; one cannot trust in are an integral part of the problem.<br/><br/>»LLMs can generate license-protected code without providing the necessary license information, leading to potential intellectual property violations during software production. This paper addresses the critical, yet underexplored, issue of license compliance in LLM-generated code by establishing a benchmark to evaluate the ability of LLMs to provide accurate license information for their generated code.«<br/><br/><a href="https://arxiv.org/html/2408.02487v3#S7">https://arxiv.org/html/2408.02487v3#S7</a> 2026-04-13T12:31:44Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqspdyurv99df3ueqp82l8jchnrler8pj26s4yd89mkguk7uulzv00szyrk2kjxs3zh9y5xxcm4s3hyrffzauj6a0zt42f7tyuxv2d5ygw6fjm53v74 In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs25rv4utezysqll7mcsev7uva8vhmj7ye7v9hp84kvu3p8fu0xmtgfkgskw'>nevent1q…gskw</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>Neither did I agree both terms were equivalent, as you are implying with &#34;they&#34;; nor did I make the claim you are falsely attributing to me.<br/><br/>Please stick with what I actually said, else you leave me no choice but to block you. 2026-04-13T12:12:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswphatxgf7f2qxedpnsdq322e8q7fqpr6eededdvww2kmqu64dynqzyrk2kjxs3zh9y5xxcm4s3hyrffzauj6a0zt42f7tyuxv2d5ygw6fjerwddf In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs95j8dds5pzzqedux0kwmk5zg04kde8rxyygzt0khw49cxjsgh4vs9wndl5'>nevent1q…ndl5</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>The heading approved by #Torvalds is »AI Coding Assistants«, the respective document name is &#34;coding-assistants.rst&#34;.<br/><br/><a href="https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst">https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/coding-assistants.rst</a><br/><br/>If you have information that says otherwise, please let me know. 2026-04-13T11:29:06Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsx2c43v660d9vj972vec4axxva49ayq9yar03hefe8gw998yaswtszyrk2kjxs3zh9y5xxcm4s3hyrffzauj6a0zt42f7tyuxv2d5ygw6fj9ppl2a New #Linux #kernel #policy: when writing code, humans can be &#34;assisted&#34; by &#34;#AI&#34;, but they have to disclose it, and take full responsibility, as contributors.<br/><br/>While this gets celebrated as a &#34;pragmatic stance&#34;, it simply delegates responsibilities to individual contributors that no one in good conscience can reasonably take.<br/><br/>Would you be willing to guarantee, legally binding, with all consequences, that your &#34;AI&#34; &#34;assistant&#34; didn&#39;t copy-paste code that&#39;s under an incompatible license? Or even proprietary, stolen one?<br/><br/>This is a cop out, not a responsible policy. Basically the dirty #subcontractor pattern: Everybody knows that nobody can actually guarantee what they&#39;re promising, but hey, *wink* *wink* here&#39;s their signature, they &#34;promised&#34; it *wink* *wink*<br/><br/><a href="https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-lays-down-the-law-on-ai-generated-code-yes-to-copilot-no-to-ai-slop-and-humans-take-the-fall-for-mistakes-after-months-of-fierce-debate-torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement">https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/linux-lays-down-the-law-on-ai-generated-code-yes-to-copilot-no-to-ai-slop-and-humans-take-the-fall-for-mistakes-after-months-of-fierce-debate-torvalds-and-maintainers-come-to-an-agreement</a> 2026-04-13T10:16:12Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsv007wetjnazgamjpdma6erwpa9amgvqgcjjn58fqhk4e4nkv9s4szyrk2kjxs3zh9y5xxcm4s3hyrffzauj6a0zt42f7tyuxv2d5ygw6fjx9ymd4 &#34;Compress the kill cycle with Red Hat Device Edge&#34; <br/><br/>In case you&#39;re wondering why you can&#39;t find this #whitepaper by #RedHat anymore: they&#39;ve purged it from their website, and made everybody who hosted a copy do the same.<br/><br/>Apart from the #InternetArchive, that is. (So far.)<br/><br/>While you still can, have a look at how proud one of your favorite #Linux #distro providers is about helping to speed up killing people via warplanes and drones:<br/><br/>»Solutions for emerging challenges<br/>Accelerating the sensor-to-shooter cycle«<br/><br/><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf">https://web.archive.org/web/20260000000000*/https://www.redhat.com/rhdc/managed-files/ve-compress-the-kill-cycle-detail-693397pr-202402-en_3.pdf</a> 2026-04-10T07:56:43Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs0q3hl7qj9cqjqhw04djkc03ng7zmgwgaakc9m2uqadxhktxryegszyrk2kjxs3zh9y5xxcm4s3hyrffzauj6a0zt42f7tyuxv2d5ygw6fj9fa9fx It is useful to keep in mind there can never be any kind of actual end-to-end encryption (#E2EE).<br/><br/>Your understanding of &#34;end&#34; is probably deliberately ignorant.<br/><br/>While you understandably so wish to believe the &#34;end&#34; was in the respective minds of the conversation partners, it is factually and technically located in the hardware and software of the devices used.<br/><br/>Which opens up a myriad of surveillance options, from sinister keyloggers; to simply glancing at your screens; to &#34;AI&#34; &#34;assistants&#34; &#34;summarizing&#34; what you&#39;re receiving, and allegedly just &#34;fleshing out&#34; what you&#39;re sending.<br/><br/>Even if conversation data was transmitted, &#34;end-to-end encrypted&#34;, between brain implants, the producers or vendors of such implants would still happily provide backdoors for &#34;law enforcement&#34;. 2026-04-07T07:43:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsxvx6j962rc3x5prng2da6lstru6sz6ql7hfn0hn0ur3ygpm6uzqqzyrk2kjxs3zh9y5xxcm4s3hyrffzauj6a0zt42f7tyuxv2d5ygw6fj8yw27j **No, Mozilla is not rolling out a &#34;free #VPN&#34; with #Firefox.**<br/><br/>It&#39;s merely a #proxy, traffic is encrypted via TLS only, and you need a user account.<br/><br/>Since there is a 50GB per-month limit, it follows some amount of traffic logging and accounting must take place on Mozillas servers, as well.<br/><br/>Which begs the question: What data exactly is collected, and may fall under US jurisdiction, potentially to be handed over to US law enforcement, without you even being notified, due to gag orders?<br/><br/>This may still be better than nothing, but it&#39;s no alternative to a real VPN, and also deliberately misleading marketing.<br/><br/>#Media and #journalists should not simply adopt such wording without question.<br/><br/><a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/built-in-vpn/">https://blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/built-in-vpn/</a> 2026-03-31T12:03:00Z