iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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DS03 @ds03.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Merci Sandrine Rousseau

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Guillaume D. @gdeleur.bsky.social · 15h

Après 9 années à souffler sur les braises, il s'indigna de voir voler les cendres.

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Stefano Marinelli @bsd.cafe · 16/10/2026

Ok, looks like this is the week of funny experiences. Customer: "I had an AI check our server and it says the SSH port is open and that's not very secure." Me: "Yes, you asked us to open it so you could access the server via SFTP (actually, you wanted FTP, but we discussed it a bit and found […]

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Mitch Wagner @mitch.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Bad dogs. Watch this with the sound on.

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Ricardo Parreira @ricardoparreira.com · 16/10/2026

Pendant ce temps à l'Elysée : Par Gaary.

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Jessie Kirk @thejessiekirk.ohai.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

I don't care if the homeless person we house or the refugee person we welcome is a "good investment". Humanity is not a business. I just want as many HUMAN BEINGS to be warm, happy, safe and healthy as possible. Wrap that up in whatever political affilliation you care too, it's how we should […]

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Lucie / minute @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

currently blocking around 30 unique ai crawler bot IPs per second (!) on our gitlab

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Finally, a CAPTCHA that doesn't require me to instantly know what American fire hydrants or school buses look like.

A grid showing 16 different Roman busts, with the rubric "Please click each image containing an emperor of the Flavian dynasty
If there are none, click skip"

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Ed @edcates.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Data: - LLMs are killing the planet - LLMs are raising utility prices - LLMs are raising computer prices - LLMs give you teh dums - LLMs show negligible increases in net productivity - LLM costs are going up - LLMs run on stolen content - LLM companies keep breaking laws and saying, "Oopsie!" […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

Hey #debian :debian: folks, Same

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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

I read the study, and it's got really solid statistical evidence. It's also quite moderate in terms of what the results imply. But to lay it out myself: reviewing is a more skilled activity than writing, is also more annoying and tiring. Writing is also how we (humans) get more skilled. So the […]

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Glyph @glyph.im · 10/10/2026

this is the perfect metaphor to understand the distinction between AI doomer concerns versus AI skeptic concerns

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Stuart Wilkinson @fairtradestu.mastodonapp.uk.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

The second anniversary of this post is coming up, and surprise surprise these little "end of life" laptops are continuing to run well with #linux and do what we need then to, which includes spending less on tech so we can buy more actual books for the school […] [Original post on mastodonapp.uk]

A mastodon post from October 2024 showing a photo 8 laptops running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and libre office, the post explains the school has added Ubuntu to some old windows 10 devices that their IT support told them were end of life.

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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Another successful week, by at least one measure.

Workplace sign “this is a velociraptor-free workplace, it has proudly been [2.59x10¹⁰] days since the last velociraptor incident”

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Sam Stokes @five-eights.com · 07/10/2026

Coding 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!

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Martin @martin.boitam.eu.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Le dernier intervenant, un collégien, a dit que ça lui paraissait pas normal que ce soit à elleux de réclamer ça et que ce ne soit pas les adultes qui s'en occupent. Je crois que ça résume bien le mélange de fierté et de honte profonde que pouvaient ressentir les adultes de la salle.

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Martin @martin.boitam.eu.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

Pour vous résumer les choses entendues ce matin : les lycéen·nes et collégien·nes racontent des histoires convergentes de locaux vétustes et pas isolés, de classes surchargées, de temps de transport délirants, de sélection féroce, d'injustices sociales, de moyens qui se réduisent d'année en […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Just announced! Three new Gruffalo books commissioned from bestselling authors!

Lee Chilld:
The Gruffalo just wants a quiet life, but when a crime syndicate moves into the deep dark wood, he must use his terrible claws and the terrible teeth in his terrible jaws to protect the fellow.

Sally Rooney:
The Gruffalo moves to contemporary Dublin. He
ill ever see past his orange eyes, purple prickles and poisonous wart.

Kazuo Ishiguro:
After a long absence, the gruffalo returns to the forest and attempts to make sense of his past. Encounters with a mouse, a fox, an owl and a snake uncover long-buried memories, regrets and revelations.

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SANAGA @sanaga.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Le dessin du jour pour @vert.eco

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

— President, the rogue AI has taken control of our nuclear weapons. Armageddon is coming! — We tried everything we could for the last years… Humanity is doomed. Let’s pray. — … — … — Wait… Nothing is happening. The AI has vanished! — We are saved! I wonder who is our saviour! Meanwhile, in a […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@david_chisnall/11… 100%. The whole "terrorists can use an LLM to build a bomb" is a dumb movie plot threat. If you want to hurt people, lack of knowledge is not your problem. And nobody needs to develop a new chemical to do terrorism. All you need is […]

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

The data on the difference between chat interactions vs agentic use is absolutely bonkers - such a significant increase. And this is as the hyperscalers keep reporting ever-increasing emissions. What is this going to look like in 5 years, if there is widespread adoption of agentic AI?

a chart showing a huge increase in energy from agentic use

a chart showing each company's total energy consumption

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 29/09/2026

This is a scatter plot of energy use vs AI score, essentially a test of capabilities. It shows *really* nicely how the 'advancements' of LLMs are really just brute force energy intensive spam: repeating and re-repeating looping queries in a shockingly wasteful way.

an increase in energy use to perfom better on tests

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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I'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 […]

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2 Spoopy 4 You @jcrabapple.dmv.community.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

People like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel are not geniuses. They're just evil morons who have been able to take advantage of a system built by and for evil morons. We need to rebuild a society where these idiots cannot get money and power.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

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Susanne @karhima.graz.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

#Akademy2026 has concluded and it was too good to be true. As part of the local team, I'll go straight to hibernation, so see you all next spring! @kde @akademy

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Heathrow airport has special corridors reserved for passengers with antlers, which seems very thoughtful of them but also oddly specific.

Sign reading: “→
Flight Connections
All terminals”

with a pictograph of a person walking and two pictographs of airplanes that appear to be radiating out of their head, resembling antlers.

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My latest @newscientist.com cartoon. many more here: www.newscientist.com/author/tom-gauld/

Image: A graph with lots of red dots clustered together in a curve. The are all looking upwards at a single red dot wearing sunglasses.

Caption: Mike was an outlier and would probably be excluded from the study, but all the other data points secretly thought he was really cool.

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Nemo @iinavpov.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

There are regularly people who discover moderators of largish groups soon enough decide that their job is to keep people civil. And this discovery causes outrage. How can they not see that there is a matter of Justice! But wisdom would be realising that asking moderators to be arbiters of good […]

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dra!_kulix @drakulix.de · 22/09/2026

[ranty, KDE, DDH, big tech] I swear FOSS discourse has evolved into the same reactionary infighting seen in leftist spaces. It is wild to me, how a bunch of people scream “nazi bar”, when a certain guest speaker in the KDE space brings up Omarchy as a bad example and publicly denounces DDH […]

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

The deed is done, Konqi has been ritually sacrificed at #Akademy2026 by the KDE e.V. board. 😱

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

#Akademy2026 is turning dark! We're having a victim for the dessert. 😂 @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

This will be my last #sketchnotes for #Akademy2026. A really fun talk from Nuno and Filip about Oxygen past, present, and future. I can't give justice to the craziness shown on screen at the end of the talk. Be sure to watch the video! @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

#Sketchnotes fresh off the press! Qt folks presented StyleKit at #Akademy2026. It brings neat styling abilities across QtWidgets and QtQuick Controls. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Nate and Harald shared the state of #KDE Linux at #Akademy2026. Here is my summary as #sketchnotes. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

#Sketchnotes from the session "What has been brewing in KDE PIM land?" at #Akademy2026. Glad to see my @enioka colleagues Arnaud and Dominique do an excellent job summarising the neat improvements coming. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

First #Akademy2026 talks of the day all wrapped in a single session: the KDE Goals reports. Here are my #sketchnotes, covering what have been said about "KDE Needs You", "Caring for input support", and "Streamlining the application development experience". @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2026

Your #Akademy2026 #sketchnotes service will resume in a minute. Watch this space. 😉 @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

We just got a glimpse of the QA infrastructure of #KDE in Bhushan's and Nico's talk at #Akademy2026. Here are my #sketchnotes. @kde @akademy

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Kevin Ottens @ervin.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

And now the #sketchnotes of the great talk about the desktop UX by Scott Jenson. Very inspiring and I'm glad we could have him at #Akademy2026. @kde @akademy

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