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Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 9m

♻️ codinghorror: I have no idea what the source of this image is, but yeah, I Laughed Out Loud.

Stack Overflow: “You’re absolutely wrong.”
ChatGPT: “You’re absolutely right.”

(Add “well, actually…” to the first sentence for additional hilarity to taste.)

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 29m

♻️ vgrass: Find the mistake.

#eu @europeanpublicspace
#CeterumCenseoAfDEsseDelendam

An event poster for the "Toward European Digital News Sovereignty" discussion, featuring the title in multiple languages and describing the challenges faced by democracy due to misinformation and big tech influence. The poster includes event details such as the date, time, and

So much for the automagically generated de/transcription. Not bad. Only that what is in multiple languages is ‚European Parliament.‘

And it missed the actual clou of the screenshot which is in the address field: ‚events.teams.microsoft.com/'

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 29m

The Great Software Quality Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

https://techtrenches.substack.com/p/the-great-software-quality-co…

"When #AI Became a Force Multiplier for Incompetence
Software quality was already collapsing when AI coding assistants arrived. What happened next was predictable."

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 49m

IEEE Security & Privacy

Agentic AI’s OODA Loop Problem

Barath Raghavan, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Bruce Schneier, Inrupt Inc., Boston, MA, USA
https://www.computer.org/csdl/ma…

If anyone talks to you about #agenticai I want you to cite THIS article

#ai #security

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 49m

♻️ Natasha_Jay: Newport Public Library 📚 banned books staircase.

The mural was created by artist Gary M. Herd of Kraken Studios as part of Banned Books Week celebrations.

#Art #Artwork #Artist

The books depicted on the staircase include:

1984 by George Orwell

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey

Animal Farm by George Orwell

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

And Tango Makes Three by Justin Richardson, Peter Parnell, and Henry Cole

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

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Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 13h

"Weniger ist mehr Samsung-Durchbruch könnte Nvidia, OpenAI und Co. Milliarden kosten"

https://www.fr.de/wirt…

"Denken mit winzigen Netzwerken“ ein KI-Modell ... mit nur sieben Millionen Parametern... damit 10.000-mal weniger Rechenleistung...

übertreffe ... Sprachmodelle… https://23.social/@tho…

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 18h

♻️ digiges_de: #fediday2025 Sandra Barthel - Das Fediverse als Baustein für eine gemeinwohlorientierte digitale Infrastruktur

https://fair.tube/w/gtcUqUthiAHqxbARgDxxSp

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 19h

A small number of samples can poison #LLM s of any size \ Anthropic
https://www.anthropic.com…

"... with the UK #AI #Security Institute and the Alan Turing Institute, we found that as few as 250 malicious documents can produce a "#backdoor" vulnerability in a large language… https://23.social/@tho…

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 22h

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/s…

“This was not NSA-level resources. This was DirecTV-user-level resources. The barrier to entry for this sort of attack is extremely low,”

#security… https://23.social/@tho…

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 22h

♻️ gerrymcgovern: How Indianapolis residents beat Google's $1 billion data center proposal

Franklin Township community organized for months to oppose Google's 468-acre data center, forcing withdrawal minutes before council vote through grassroots action.… https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/11536…

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 22h

♻️ mspro: ich weiß nicht, der wievielte volksentscheid einer großstadt ich bejubelt sehe. ich weiß aber, dass politiker*innen einfach immer drauf scheißen. deutsche wohnen wurde nicht enteignet, das tempelhofer feld wird doch bebaut, und ja, hamburg wird auch weiterhin auf… https://fnordon.de/@mspro…

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 22h

♻️ tante: So I think I'll need to read up on it a bit. I understand that "Passkeys" try to do something similar as SSH pubkeys.
But do you know a good technical explainer of what's going on and how it works?

(Yes, I could search myself but I am looking for recommendations… https://tldr.nettime.or…

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 22h

♻️ zendis: Die US-Regierung nutzt Software als Druckmittel

„Also on November 1st, we will impose Export Controls on any and all ciritical software“ – der letzte Satz von Donald Trumps Truth-Social-Post sollte ernst genommen werden: Der US-Präsident ist bereit, Software als… https://social.bund.de/@…

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 22h

♻️ sbamueller: Der Landtag hat die Anti #Palantir Petition endlich online gestellt!

Direkt unterschreiben: https://petitionen.landt…

Wer etwas gegen die Nutzung der gefährlichen Software tun will, kann hier unterschreiben und auch andere Personen aus #BaWue auffordern es zu… https://freiburg.socia…

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 22h

♻️ KimPerales: 🚨"The US power grid is on borrowed time.

Spare generation capacity across major regions is projected to fall below the critical reliability threshold by 2026.

At this pace, parts of the country could face more power shortages as soon as next year."
-Stock… https://toad.social/@KimPe…

The image presents a graph displaying trends in effective peak summer spare power generation capacity across various US power markets (ERCOT, MISO, PJM) from 2015 to projected data up to 2030. The graph indicates a decline in spare…

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Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 1d

♻️ christianschwaegerl: „South Texas lured Tesla, along with Exxon Mobil and other energy behemoths, with the promise of land, cheap energy and, perhaps most critically, abundant #water. (...) The companies spent billions of dollars (...) building plants that use huge amounts… https://mastodon.socia…

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Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 1d

♻️ knud: "KI" ist eine Blase, die auf dem Weg ist zu platzen. Jetzt versuchen nur noch ein paar Leute, die finanziellen Folgen von den großen Firmen auf die kleinen Leute abzuwälzen. Zum Beispiel Larry Fink, Chef von Blackrock (verwaltet 12 Billionen $, ja, mit einem B). In… https://mastodon.social/…

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 1d

'Circular' mega-deals by Bay Area tech giants are raising eyebrows
Hundreds of billions of dollars in commitments are flying around the artificial intelligence industry

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/arti…

Computing power now measured in GW. #AI is not delivering the circular industry I have expected

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Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 2d

♻️ bert_hubert: Big chip news from The Netherlands: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgk21nng0vo

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 2d

♻️ pantaRhei: @MontyRunner das erinnert mich an einen Artikel der taz von letztem Jahr. Thema war die Energiewende in Uruguay, interviewed wurde der Physiker Ramón Méndez - die treibende Kraft dahinter.

Die Überschrift war: „Mit Klimawandel keinen überzeugt“ (siehe [1]).… https://freiburg.social/@p…

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 2d

I will give a talk about

"Datacenter Degrowth and Decentralization as a Chance for Europe" at the

🇬🇧 | ecoCompute Conference 2025
https://www.eco-compute.io/talk/2025/datacenter-degrowth-and-decentralization-as-a-cha…

Lot of people from @bitsundbaeume and @Weizenbaum_Institut will be also there

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Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 2d

Gratuliere, #hamburg zum #hamburgerzukunftsentscheid

Und etwas neidisch in #Berlin!

Ergebnisse Hamburger Zukunftsentscheid in Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg
https://www.wahlen-hamburg.de/Hamburger_Zukunftsentscheid_2025/

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Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 2d

#hamburgerzukunftsentscheid

Wahlberechtigte*Wahlbeteiligung*Zwischenstand sagt

1312260*0.436*0.521

298087.73 > quorum

Das würde heissen, dass er angenommen ist. Wenn ich alles richtig verstanden habe!

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Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 2d

♻️ echo_pbreyer: 🇪🇺#ChatControl now officially removed from the agenda for Oct. 14th🥳: https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/ST-1…

⚠️However, EU governments continue to work on the proposal.
🗓️The next meeting of EU interior ministers is on Dec. 6/7.

🚫📡🔐Mission: No mass scanning, no backdoors!

Thomas Fricke @thomasfricke.bsky.social · 2d

♻️ brucelawson: Anthropic stole the books I co-wrote in order to train their planet-burning hallucination machine, so I've filed a claim. They wept that if every plagiarised author does so, the company will go bankrupt. Boo emdash hoo. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com