Mathias

I'm on a rewatch-tv-series-spree. Have just finished Person of Interest and (re-)started watching Mr Robot. It is quite fascinating how well before their time they were, compared to reality of today. I mean, 10 years ago they predicted, pretty much exactly, what we see right now. They asked the moral questions we don't see anyone asking today when the (then) futuristic technologies were to be implemented, and what the dangers of that could be.

Sure, there some goofy takes on some of details in the intricacies of hacking or programming, but the overall message(s), and the overall view of AI without steering, are amazingly spot on with what we read in the news right now.

Next after Mr Robot I will probably revisit Westworld, which definitely are eerily much like what we see the developments are going (and I'm not necessarily talking about ai-robots for amusement) with AI keeping track of everyone and everything, and you might be excluded from some jobs (and thus places to live etc) based on your medical history, or your family, or your place of birth.

#PersonOfInterest #MrRobot #Westworld #tv #series

Had a quite productive day!

* Created a bot/gateway for my main Hermes-agent so I can talk to it via DeltaChat, something that I hadn't found elsewhere. Obviously Argus (that's his name) built it and tested it for me, I mostly cheered him on and re-started gateways when told to do so.

* Helped a friend with a multi-lingual Wordpress site. Haven't toyed around with Wordpress for years, but still quite fun to dig around. I apparently remember quite a bit of it still.

* Installed Tailscale on one of my Arch boxes and was once again impressed over how well Tailscale works. It is rather impressive what you can do within the limits of "free" accounts with tailscale. It is really quite neat to have all my devices on an E2EE private network and it literally takes minutes to set up on each device. I can even set exit nodes in the network, and thus can theoretically benefit from my NAS AdGuard installation even when I'm out and about with my phone.

Nothing like summer vacation eh? 😄

#Hermes #DeltaChat #Wordpress #Tailscale

Scary times. I am baffled governments and enterprises just wholesale give all their data to Palantir.

"NHS Staff Told ‘Stop Criticising Palantir or Lose Your Job’"

https://novaramedia.com/2026/04/14/nhs-staff-told-stop-criticising-palantir-or-lose-your-job/

#ai #palantir #nhs

Kind of makes sense that Romania sends the members of the Dracula family, no?

#Eurovision

Well, yeah.

#politics #uspol

Only of interest for #GW2 players: today I got my first set of Obsidian Armor (light). Yay!

I’m not doing great on my ”perhaps I should craft some legendary trinkets…?” (of which I still have zero) as I allowed myself to get sidetracked with Eternity, Klobjarne Geirr and now armor. NOW maybe I should get them trinkets…ooohh…Bifrost looks shiny! 😆

#gw2 #guildwars2 #gaming

Austria figured this is an expensive event to host and tries their best to not having to host it next year too.

#Eurovision

So, utterly bonkers eye makeup on one eye (only) is apparently ”the thing to do” this year. Noted.

#Eurovision

😆

I say, that was a class act of Bring Me The Horizon, bringing Maphra to perform Doomed in front of their audience. I've now seen 3 separate clips of it, from different angles and distances, and from wildly different people, so I guess it actually happened.

It was already clear that The Plot In You supported her cover of Silence, and even cleared it before she had released it, but I, like many others, were curious about what BMTH actually thought of her version of Doomed.

Bringing her up on a stage in front of their live audience to co-sing it kind of clears any doubt one might have had.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4amZD8uJtrY

#BringMeTheHorizon #Maphra #Doomed

Finland is worthy of the top spot this year.

#Eurovision

And that is one helluva comb-over. 😆

#Eurovision

I am normally not a huge fan of political drama, but I have to say that 5 episodes in on The Diplomat (Netflix) I find it excellent so far. Great writing.

#TheDiplomat #Netflix #TV #series

This is getting more and more relevant:

https://idiocracy.wtf

#humor #politics

Woohoo! It isn't snowing, only heavy rain (unlike the previous two mornings)!

#DoneWithWinterForThisTime

I can’t hear/discern a word he sings…ah well.

#Eurovision

Just to clarify: that is NOT ”growl”. Doesn’t matter what any presenter miss-labels it as. That was not growl. Trust me on this. I’m somewhat of an expert on the topic of growling.

#Eurovision

Today is the annual "Check the sources" day where people actually verify the sources.

"Play me something heavy" you say? Ok then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QEA3FpqKUE&list=RD4QEA3FpqKUE

#HumanitysLastBreath #Metal #HLB

Interesting topic regarding the differences between open web, open tech and open source and what it can mean for actual openness vs convenience. I haven't watched the video just yet, but as Chris (@codepo8@toot.cafe) is wise I have added it to my to-watch list.

https://allthingsopen.org/articles/trading-openness-convenience-app-stores-ai

#open #source #web #tech #opensource #convenience #NotSoOpen #appstore

Now this is cool!

So, as I have been dabbling with AI-solutions, not to replace my creative work, and not to write my texts, but to actually do the things I would prefer to rather not do (so I can free up time to create music, take photos etc) I have over time installed/integrated quite a few memory layers on to my AI-agent of choice (Hermes-agent). I could tell you all about that some other time.

However, I have half-jokingly been thinking that >> I << would benefit from a memory add-on too, just to remember all the silly stuff I always (often repeatedly) search online for. Then today I came across yet-another-ai-plug-in. But this one is rather different. It sets out to add memory, not to your AI-agent, but to you.

The idea is that you pick a topic, you get a couple of baseline questions (which you could answer correctly or incorrectly, it doesn't really matter, either will help you with the next step), sets up a learning path for you, based on your skill level and where you would like to be in a couple of months.

My AI-agent then becomes my tutor, sets up my course, who keeps track of my learning, my progress, and which keep nudging me everyday with "reviews" to not let the skills "cool down" in to "oops...forgot that, didn't I...".

I set it up earlier today, I picked a topic (Zero-Trust architecture), it asked me questions to figure out my baseline, where my goals are and how I would like to use my skills, and then set up a learning path which we now have embarked on, and it works really well (I should perhaps wait with saying that until after 3 months, to see if I TRULY remember what I've learnt) but hey.

You can run it with your local models too (as long as your agent/models have internet access to top up on topics). Very cool.

https://github.com/nagisanzenin/engram

#ai #hermes #engram #learning #productiveAI

It is not that I'm a huge fan of mosquitos, wasps, flies, bees, bumblebees (they are cool though) etc, but is it only here there has been a distinct lack of them this summer? And I mean ANY of them?

Normally during summers (in my part of Sweden) you need an actual strategy combined with serious preparations to fight off mosquitos and wasps from destroying a BBQ evening, where mosquitos eat you and wasps fly away with your steak.

This year I think I've smashed one unfortunate (desperate?) mosquito who was caught in the act. I have only seen wasps one-at-a-time looking for their mates in a slighly confused state, not the orchestrated and organised food-stealing gangs, with thugs to keep pesky humans away whilst others do the lifting of food.

I mean, if there are no insects to pollinate things and to feed birds, perhaps we should be slightly worried, no?

#insects #summer #mosquitos #wasps

Gravity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_1eut_6xPo

#metal #BlackTongue

Joråsåatteeehhh...

https://webperf.se/articles/sapo-soker-spioner/

#security #intelligence #privacy

On the topic of non-US services:

Have you seen https://www.eurosky.tech, which is built on the AT protocol. Opinions? Experiences? Views?

Wouldn't it, today, still have a dependency to BlueSky? Or have I misunderstood how it (AT) works?

Apparently no one I know or am connected with is talking about it, as my search here in the Fediverse couldn't find a single post about it.

#eurosky #europeanalternatives #european #alternatives