Reposted by AlmadJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14hNew: I pulled the Character ai bankruptcy documents. They show: - They were spending $14 million/month on compute alone at a time their revenue was around ~$1 million/month - Currently losing $9 million a month - They admitted they enshittified & that it didnt work www.404media.co/character-ai...404media.coCharacter.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't WorkCharacter.ai enshittified its product but was still burning tons of cash, its bankruptcy documents say. 7241061528
Reposted by AlmadKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/10/2026"Last week, New Jersey fined DataOne $1.1 million for running 45 unpermitted generators. This was the largest enforcement action the state has ever taken against a data center. It’s also a rounding error for a big data firm. Rest unassured, the generators are still running"energyathaas.wordpress.comBuying Time, Burning GasWhy AI companies are paying a premium to go off the grid (and what this costs the rest of us). The race is on to train the next generation of frontier AI models. Staying competitive in this race is… 6247115
Reposted by AlmadTim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026What’s that you say? There’s a significant sleaze factor (some Nvidia-bankrolled) in certain #Genai - boom sectors and cracks are starting to show up? I’m shocked… shocked […]cosocial.caOriginal post on cosocial.ca 002
Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026@glyph oh God please do that so I don’t have to 000
Reposted by Almaddaniel:// stenberg:// @bagder.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026"Launching an opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source software" / Anthropic www.anthropic.com/research/launchin…anthropic.comAn opt-in vulnerability-finding service for open-source softwareWe’re launching OSS Scanner, an opt-in vulnerability scanner for the open-source ecosystem informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing. Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost. 3418
Reposted by AlmadGlyph @glyph.im · 09/10/2026really don't like that I keep finding myself absentmindedly watching Warhammer 40k Lore videos and thinking that they are unrealistically optimistic 116
Reposted by AlmadSam Stokes @five-eights.com · 07/10/2026Coding agents reduce software development to a simple matter of: * specifying requirements * verifying correctness and quality * maintaining and operating software you didn't write As we all know, those have always been the easiest, most well-understood parts of the craft, so everything is fine! 213881
Reposted by AlmadProf. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Everybody has to coordinate with Starlink because SPACEX CONTROLS ORBIT. That's against the Outer Space Treaty. Your engineering challenge, SpaceX, is to provide your services with fewer satellites. Not yell at everyone else for having satellites too […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 91289
Reposted by AlmadGil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/10/2026The NYT is ok with extremist ideology as an anecdote in a profile—but highly allergic to any deeper examination of the ideology itself. No one gets to write an op-ed explaining any of this. That’s not allowed. But a billionaire can drop it in a quote as a passing comment. 8596101
Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026The sound of house robots was annoying when I was a kid, and now it’s a reassuring whirl of a work being done on its own. Quite deterministically even 000
Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026Since #climatechange is solved, we can finally get some economic growth! The Age of Consequences is coming anyway, but we’re sure trying to make sure it’s not boring… futurism.com/artificial-intelligenc…futurism.comAmazon's New AI Data Center Is So Enormous That It Appears It Will Become the Largest Single Source of Pollution in the United StatesAmazon's planned data center for Pecos County, Texas would come with a gas plant capable of emitting 33 million tons of CO2 every year. 011
Reposted by AlmadGlyph @glyph.im · 06/10/2026boosters one month ago: the vulnerabilities are REAL. they're REAL and they're SCARY. it can INDEPENDENTLY hack stuff. you CANNOT DISMISS that it can ONE-SHOT vulnerabilities PERFECTLY EVERY TIME. prepare for DOMINATION by the CYBER-OVERMIND boosters today: 1211
Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026@wvi You’re lucky, this is my everyday experience in one form or another 100
Reposted by AlmadEleanor Saitta @dymaxion.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026Now I really want the ability to write firewall rules for my phone camera, a totally normal and reasonable thing to want. Turns out if you scan a signal device link qr code with the normal phone scanner, even outside of the add linked device flow, you'll get jumped straight to approving it. 003
Reposted by AlmadProf. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026I had a meeting today that taught me that the SpaceX launch site in Louisiana is an even worse idea than I could have even imagined. You know what causes really intensely powerful vibrations in the ground? Rocket launches. And do you know what really powerful vibrations in the ground cause in […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 8553
Reposted by AlmadTim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026Hey, still more not-exactly-hippies casting side-eyes on the financial prospects for #GenAI, in this case the Wall Street Journal, in “Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on It To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will […] [Original post on cosocial.ca] 1011
Reposted by AlmadM.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]c.imOriginal post on c.im 12017
Reposted by AlmadThe New Oil @thenewoil.org · 02/10/2026#California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people techcrunch.com/2026/10/01/californi… #privacy #Meta #IoT #SmartGlassestechcrunch.com 217
Reposted by AlmadDan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 6377
Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026In #space news www.universetoday.com/articles/find… 000
Reposted by AlmadDavid Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026best conspiracy theory: the Super Intelligence thing is so Trump could sell .si domains in Slovenia which benefits Melania in some unspecified manner 31110
Reposted by Almad@reiver ⊼ (Charles) :batman: @reiver.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Reddit is removing its RSS web feeds. And, removing its public APIs. techcrunch.com/2026/09/30/reddit-is… #reddittechcrunch.com 004
Reposted by Almadtante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]tldr.nettime.orgOriginal post on tldr.nettime.org 157
Reposted by AlmadDaniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it. 20128453
Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026A difference between an RGB code, a manufacturing and a story. This is awesome :) storiedcolors.comstoriedcolors.comStoried ColorsStoried Colors: named colors with documented histories. 000
Reposted by AlmadThe New Oil @thenewoil.org · 29/09/2026#Nvidia Unveils #AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog it.slashdot.org/story/26/09/28/1502… #cybersecurityit.slashdot.orgNvidia Unveils AI Agent Safety Platform With Hardware-Based Watchdog - Slashdotwiredmikey shares a report from SecurityWeek: Nvidia on Monday announced the Open Agent Safety Platform, which combines open source software and a reference system design to keep AI agents within set boundaries from testing through deployment. The chipmaker explained that the platform pairs the open... 001
Reposted by AlmadShauna @shauna.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026RE: hachyderm.io/@evacide/1173503736136… Trying to seperate people into the groups "deserves to be exploited by big tech" and "does not deserve to be exploited by big tech" will not in fact prevent anyone in the latter group from being exploited by big techhachyderm.io 117
Reposted by Almadjonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173247908… Lmao citing the meta engineers saying that muse being your own personal VPS gives the LLM license to hack itself - "the kid gloves are off" 1417
Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026RE: front-end.social/@fox/1173521387390… Another irony is how with the advent of AI coding, “taste”, “style” and “judgment” are now the alleged differentiators. Somehow people rarely mean UI, FE or CSS…front-end.social 010
Reposted by AlmadLance Bachmeier @lance.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026In case you can't read what I boosted: Anthropic's 2025 financials were just revealed: $6B in revenue $8B in operating losses $42B in net losses 0537
Reposted by Almadhighly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026If you told me twenty five years ago that 2026 would feel like if douglas adams wrote cyberpunk i would think i’d be enjoying it more 1642
Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026Buzzword of the day (from a webinar): “ninja-level engineer”. Thought that’s so last decade… 000
Reposted by AlmadGlyph @glyph.im · 27/09/2026honestly in a world where we had real liability laws and people could be held to account for doing harm with software, LLMs would probably a pretty cool and fun technology with interesting applications that did not provoke nearly so much existential dread 106
Reposted by AlmadProf. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026[incredibly depressing, satellites] As you look up and admire the beautiful moon over the next few nights, remember that a US-based company has clearance from the FCC to launch a satellite that will be about 4x brighter than the full moon, and moving across the sky at Starlink speeds. And they […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 048
Reposted by AlmadLiam Proven @lproven.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026This is a modern motherfucking website. And it’s still fucking perfect. modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamsta…modernmotherfuckingwebsite.dreamstation.systemsThis is a modern motherfucking website.Zero of the bullshit. 919124
Reposted by AlmadGlyph @glyph.im · 26/09/2026we are pleased to announce that we have internalized the key lessons of the breakout science fiction hit “torment nexus 3: okay you dumb fucks, if you ever build the torment nexus then you must destroy it and here’s how” and created the Indestructible Torment Nexus, which is resistant to all of […]mastodon.socialOriginal post on mastodon.social 107
Reposted by AlmadGlyph @glyph.im · 26/09/2026I cannot imagine a better possible ad for this movie mastodon.social/@dangillmor/1173349…mastodon.socialDan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/ (Meanwhile, Corporate Journalism continues to support him. Of course.) 114
Reposted by Almad`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂 920121
Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026Apparently if you have low power #Synology like DS2xx, running #Tailscale in userspace instead of TUN completely kills your network performance. I want my evening back, but also happy this finally works… 000
Almad @almad.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026RE: mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/1173… OK whenever I think worst possible use cases for #LLM are already covered, somebody comes up with something new 000
Reposted by AlmadTim Bray 🇨🇦 @timbray.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History - WSJ (gift link) www.wsj.com/economy/the-ai-build-ou… 111