@Ars Technica credited this image to Paramount, which doesn't answer the question I have about it: did Paramount use #AI image generation for this? That's not an *accusation,* but it's definitely a question. Neither I nor anyone else can definitively distinguish AI generated images from human art beyond the shadow of a doubt, but this one "whiffs" of AI to me. And it's seriously pretty gross if an entity the size of Paramount doesn't bother to employ a human artist for something like this.

Professor Anil Madhavapeddy published a nice step-by-step explainer on how the Energy and Environment Group of his university is beginning to use #Sanoid and #syncoid to manage "100s of terabytes of satellite imagery, biodiversity data, academic literature, and the intermediate computations that go along with them."

Anil Madhavapeddy

Semi distributed filesystems with ZFS and Sanoid

Exploring ZFS and Sanoid for distributed filesystem management with automated snapshots and replication to replace centralized NFS storage.

Sometimes I forget just how shitty #Microsoft has been steadily making #Windows. Then I sit at a client's desk, when that client hasn't done anything to stem the tide of shit on their own. A Windows notification popped up for some "Avowed Premium Edition" game nonsense, and I thought it was from some website that had been given notification permissions. Nope. "Suggested" is not clearly labeled as Microsoft's own way to throw random low-quality ads at you, but that's exactly what it is.

This is EXTREMELY relevant to my interests: an ultra minimal <$20K work capable small pickup truck, due to launch next year.

The Verge

Slate Truck is a $20,000 American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, and no touchscreen

Would you buy a truck this bare-bones?

You may now add me to the list of FOSS folks directly impacted by unethical AI scraping effectively performing Denial of Service attacks. My wife informed me this morning that our billing system had been knocked offline. The reason? #Amazon, #OpenAI, and similar bot scraping traffic blew up my access logs to the point of filling that server's entire drive. They're constantly scraping and re-scraping my FreeBSD wiki.

Ars Technica

Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries

AI bots hungry for data are taking down FOSS sites by accident, but humans are fighting back.

Major respect to former Nouveau kernel maintainer Karol Herbst for standing up for what's right.

Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel&#039;s Toxic Environment - Phoronix

Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver

Q: why don't you sell your Tesla, you hypocrite A: https://heatmap.news/electric-vehicles/musk-tesla-sell This might be an oddball venue, but it's a good logical explainer. Nobody should buy a Tesla new anymore, but--if you understand their intrinsic flaws, and they ABSOLUTELY have them--there's nothing wrong with a used one, and it's just plain stupid to take a massive hit disposing of one. My M3P went from $65K resale value to $30K resale value in only two years. I'll probably be driving it till the wheels fall off.

Netflix: we're increasing your monthly cost to $34, for questions please call 1-900-EAT-SHIT Netflix: hey verge you see this shit? This is only the beginning, we're calling this "six percent monetized" and people will still pay a LOT more than this. Plus we want them getting ads again, too, even as we raise prices. Fuck yeah!

The Verge

Netflix won the streaming wars, and we’re all about to pay for it

Netflix is cable now. And cable is expensive.

Me: you know I literally still WEAR my old SuprNova shirt, douchebags...