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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/10/2026

@mspro Also ich hab das Gefühl, der Sturm verstärkt sich noch...

Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

"[...] which ballooned to a net loss of $80 billion in the first six months of 2026" "the company’s revenue for the first half of 2026 [...] grew [...] to $16.3 billion" I don't get how anybody with more than a dime of brains worth their money could look at these #anthropic numbers and say […]

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Volksverpetzer @volksverpetzer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

Danke Merkel! 11 Jahre später zeigen die Fakten: Die Aufnahme der Schutzsuchenden von 2015 war richtig. Sie sind inzwischen gut integriert, arbeiten, zahlen in die Kassen ein, haben unseren Wohlstand vergrößert, sind geschätzte Nachbarn, Freunde und Mitbürger geworden. Deutschland erlebte die 10 […]

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Ben Werdmuller @ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2026

"When people see AI as a more competent, trustworthy, and preferable source of input than a colleague, they replace human interactions that otherwise would have built or maintained trust." And teams suffer for it. #AI […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Now that my #quickshell #desktop #shell is almost finished and I'm thinking about packaging it, I'm *really* tempted to write an #LCARS one next. Please stop me 😅 🫠 #linux #unixporn

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

And here sit I, having written not one, but four shaders just to have cursor animation in my terminal 🫠🫠🫠

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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

A Global Device ID (GDID) is a permanent, unique digital fingerprint that Microsoft automatically assigns to your computer when you install Windows or sign into a Microsoft account. Microsoft uses it to manage software licensing and Windows Store apps, but because it links all your online […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@wickedlester (On the other hand, the average merge time is "only" 20 minutes, so I guess it could be worse.)

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

@wickedlester #nodejs is particularly offending because they have so many things to fix after AI scans all the codebases... In the last year, I have emerged #nodejs 30 times. 29 of these were in 2026. 10 of these were in the last two months.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/10/2026

Before I added an #emoji #picker to my launcher I was not sure it'd actually be a useful feature. But the more I bring this into muscle memory, the more useful I actually find this. #gentoo #linux #unixporn #quickshell #wayland

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Gabriele Svelto @gabrielesvelto.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@benjamineskola @bitprophet Like, this is 2026, there is ZERO reason for one thing to just go and say "I'll look different from anything else all of a sudden). That's just the very antithesis to what #Linux #desktop should be and it makes #Firefox look like another electron app (looking at you […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@benjamineskola @bitprophet My hate for #firefox comes from the same angle it also comes from: Why does an app (even an important one such as a browser!) want to decide how things look? I have my desktop theme management set up (be it kde-control-center or whatever) and I expect EVERYTHING to […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

@bureaux Ich weiß nicht, wie man auf #gentoo == "rechts" kommen könnte. Gentoo ist so nahe am #BSD-Gedanken, wie sonst kein #Linux-OS. Auch Verzicht auf #systemd und #ai #slop ist doch nun wirklich eher links.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@MMagdowski totally unrelated, but: why does it say memory could not be "read"[sic!]? What would be the difference from unhyphenated reading?

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@gedankenstuecke @tante * This is the only way I can rationalize some of the more glaring oversights with so-called AI in both academia as well as engineering - aside of intentional misrepresentation, obviously.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@gedankenstuecke @tante That's kind of my experience as well coming into the field as a physicist. Instead of building (mental) abstractions of what relations to model and which hypotheses to use for that, more often than not, for computer scientists, "the observations *are* the model" instead […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@gedankenstuecke @tante I stopped recurring on that sometime in 2024... 🫠

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Tim Carmody @tcarmody.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is the funniest thing I've seen today, possibly ever

A tweet by SarahStarberry that says "oh god read the vertical axis" on top of a chart measuring AI models' release dates and model numbers rather than any real capabilities

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@gedankenstuecke @tante It's not just that, but also that in order to have enough training material for larger models the inputs necessarily get more repetitive, hence exacerbating any bias in the inputs.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@tante E.g. take quickshell. I've been building personal dotfiles for a little over a year now and I have something that can rival many of the bigger installments for the functionality that I personally want out of it, imo. Should I boycott it now that it's funded by omarchy? Sure. Is it […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@tante I take some pride in following through my announcement to leave when the takeover talks were still ongoing. As a seasoned Tesla hater by profession*, I don't regret leaving. I still feel though that both the usable part of FOSS and the web at large are shrinking. And that's not just a […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

There was this consensus of not going to X after Elon Musk turned it into a right-wing hellhole but I see more and more especially journalists going back "because the AI people are there". Yes, because the "AI" folks mostly agree with right wing talking points because that's what the whole idea […]

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Bastian Greshake Tzovaras @gedankenstuecke.scholar.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

LLMs really have put the academic publishing system of "publish or perish" into a death spiral: arXiv introduces a limit of two submissions per month for 'authors'. Academia has been broken for a long time, but this really lays it bare… Fair Moderation, Equitable Access, and AI: arXiv’s Updated […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@benjamineskola @bitprophet If you open up your browser three or four times in between updates, you just cannot get back the cycles you spent on that compilation (and it would be even better to get a binary anyways.)

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@benjamineskola @bitprophet One slight addendum: There's e.g. the "pgo" (profile-guided optimization) USE flag for #firefox. It will measurably improve the performance, but it will cost twice the compile time. Is it worth it? Sure, sounds like a good idea. Is it worth it on every machine with […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@benjamineskola @bitprophet That being said, on my main workstation I'm being a total #gentoo #larp, running ~amd64 and compile everything with -O2 because I can and want to, but for my other machines I'm way more selective and will use binaries whenever I can UNLESS there's a specific reason […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@benjamineskola @bitprophet The downside of this is of course that obviously, browser packages like #firefox or (dangit) #qtwebengine are huge and eat many CPU cycles from compiling, whilke at the same time the potential benefit from optimizing specifically these packages (and leaving out stuff […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@benjamineskola @bitprophet If, on the other hand, you can leave out #AI stuff from something like #firefox, an application that you use for hours each day, shaving off twenty minutes of compile and making your website tabs load faster in the range of seconds (as compared to ms with #CUPS...) […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@benjamineskola @bitprophet I know this is not for everybody, because let's be honest, most people would not be able or willing to even catalogue their usage of very exotic binaries they have no business differentiating. Like: Is it worth compiling CUPS with -O2 to get a few ms of spooler […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@benjamineskola @bitprophet Sometimes, Os is a better choice simply because the operation you do is small and the total binary footprint is large, leaving you with much more I/O than actual compute to do, and so on. The primary benefit from gentoo is thus - in my personal opinion - to leave out […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@benjamineskola @bitprophet There is a lot to be said about optimization levels; they are subject to a kind of no-free-lunch theorem in that IF AND ONLY IF you know the precise conditions under which you want to run the binary, clearly it makes sense to add SSE extensions to the code when you […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

@bitprophet As a longtime #gentoo user, I'm not sure I agree with your assessment. Sure, #gentoo #linux systems tend to be snappier, but it's not necessarily the case that compiler flags alone account for this. In my experience, the decisions about use flags steering to include or exclude […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: chaos.social/@fuzzyleapfrog/1173656… Yes, and it's the purpose of everything. Until only platforms stay.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"Session beenden" sitzt auf SUPER+SHIFT+Q. Ich wollte gerade mit STRG-C einen Text kopieren und habe mir stattdessen den Compositor beendet. So ein Tag wird das also. #wayland #linux #gentoo #keyboard

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

@j2bryson.bsky.social If you look at the track record of any frameworks that #nvidia has ever published, this is 50% virtue signaling, 50% ai grift marketing and, unfortunately, 0% substance.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

This, guys. This is how the #subprime #ai #crisis finally begins. I think #oracle will first try to #bancrupt their construction „partners“, but eventually it will all come down […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@lvl3k Sure. But, again: That's neither the same thing nor does it structurally necessitate recoloring and reshaping...

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@astridchristofori.eurosky.social Auf jeden Fall. Die positive Umdeutung kann man aber auch übertreiben.

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@astridchristofori.eurosky.social Die Koll. Geyer schafft es erstaunlich zuverlässig, wichtige Herausforderungen zur KI-Entwicklung richtig anzusprechen und dabei IMMER einen positiven Spin zu behalten. Vor allem dort, wo er m.E. NICHT gerechtfertigt ist. (Muss man wahrscheinlich bei LinkedIn […]

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@lvl3k Also, I don't buy the speed argument at all. Resizing and recoloring things is not what makes browsing slow... #firefox

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Fabian Transchel @ftranschel.norden.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

@lvl3k Yeah. Lots of ick from my side. Good thing is you can deactivate that or override with userChroma.css, but c'mon... the audacity. (Why am I not using other browsers? I can't on all my devices for security reasons. The #librewolf pipeline is too slow for some threat models on some devices 😟)

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