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I couldn't agree more:

“Why should people read something you couldn’t be bothered to write?”

https://youtu.be/KElBQ6CGHt4?is=Um6HsN2P3Q8w13pm

#ai #scam #aislop #human #bot

I want to be a farmer...

How can we adapt to a fast-changing world? | Yuval Noah Harari
https://youtube.com/shorts/8c2PfKhS2PI?is=Kl8FUELj03D8HCDq

#AI #future #adaptation #AdaptationStrategies

"Watching those who pretend to be religious carry out the most wretched actions against others for power or money is enough to make me start thinking seriously about souls, something I haven’t done until now."

"It’s especially stark and shocking to see how much of this palpable evil comes from people who claim to be God-fearing."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/16/i-thought-hell-would-freeze-over-before-i-agreed-with-the-pope-but-in-a-world-riven-by-cruelty-that-day-has-finally-come

#meaningoflife #god #evil #church
#cruelty #violence #corruption #religion

Many CEOs of the big tech companies are Indian origin: Microsoft, Google, IBM, etc. What happens if they move to India and lead successful tech companies there? We would have more healthy competition in this space instead of our total dependency on American techs.

#bigtechs #indian #technology #tech

Wow the oil and gas prices shot up and the whole world suffers because the Americans started an unprovoked war against Iran.

The RAM prices went up and the whole world suffers because the American AI companies snapped all production until 2030.

Is there a bigger threat to the world than them?

#oil #gas #war #electronics #ai #iran #us #middleeast #prices #inflation #costoflivingcrisis

I have zero knowledge of machine learning.

Today I managed to create the speech recognition model for an under-resourced language Nias with the help of Gemini.

I was amazed that the model manages WER rate of 30%!

This is encouraging. I'm thinking to create an Android app with built in Nias speech recognition!

#tech #ai #machinelearning #speechrecognition #nias #whisperai #android

"Thirty-three years later, they still do."

A wonderful story about the beginning of the Linux kernel, that makes you appreciate this collective effort which is a wonder in itself.

Linus Torvalds and friends: how Linux evolved from solo act • The Register
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/linus_torvalds_and_friends/

#linux #linus #operatingsystem #unix #minix

I used it once and found it good. However the non-intuitive Interface (which is common to GNOME apps) makes me abandon it. I know it's not developer's fault, because those non-intuitive Interface is the GNOME guideline and they expressly say not to theme it or make it more humane, as Ubuntu used to do. It pains me to say this as an Ubuntu user.

Tablets from multiple brands found to have malware built-in. One of them is Aldocube iPlay 50 mini Pro.

If you own a tablet from one of the less known brands on Amazon, then please check the following article by Android Authority:

https://www.androidauthority.com/android-tablets-keenadu-malware-firmware-backdoor-3641651/

#android #malware #tablet #amazon

Is this the time the plumbers get the recognition they deserve? A plumber won a by-election in the UK and became an MP. And in the US Trump has appointed another plumber to become the head of DHS!

How come my email was given as the recovery email by a company I don't know?

Either Google or that company messed up.

#recoveryemail #gmail #yahoomail #mixedup

Set trusted news source preferences.

With so much AI slops, dis- and mis-information around at the moment, when we can't even trust what a president says, here how to set preferred news source in the Google Seach:

1. From the search page click on your profile picture
2. Select Search personalisation
3. Select Source preferences
4. Enter the name of the preferred websites in the input field, for example theguardian.com, bbc.com, etc.
5. Hit Enter. That's it.

#news #googlesearch #trust

The headline in my news feed today that hurts.

It's been 10 years since Brexit. Luckily no argument between friends anymore. Everybody agrees it was a mistake. But the consequences are still impacting our lives.

https://www.politico.eu/article/anger-as-eu-gets-better-trade-deal-with-australia-than-brexit-britain/

#brexit #uk #eu #trade

Sunday's reflection:

He "seems less interested in being on the side of God that in insisting than God is on his side"

The Atlantic:

http://youtube.com/post/Ugkx-kHPS0yym19t67EWjc6taaAmD--Ibb-3?si=byqAR_XK7eMpbVWZ

Is this the best comedy sketch?

Colbert's impersonation of the secretary of war praying using a quotation from the gospel according to Tarantino:

https://youtu.be/taNi3btpaLs?si=prih8x5JUTmY-ULY

#madworld #religionabuse #violence #peace #religion #god #war

The US makes huge headlines every day. Today it was a threat to the Pope.

It makes me think, is the US suffering from mass insanity similar to mass hysteria? Where good is now bad and bad is good; when honesty is now bad and corruption is good; when love for our neighbours is now bad and cruelty is good.

I think the Pope needs to send a few dozens of exorcists to cast out the demons and bring people back to reality.

#pope #us

A tragic story.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/woman-charged-manslaughter-man-drowns-baptism-b1278033.html

I went to a pub with a friend last night. He's also a software engineer. While in the pub he opened his laptop a few times and did something. The guy in his team who was on duty was overwhelmed with reports of bugs in their application.

I don't know whether it is related, but he also told me that his company has recently started to force them to use the AI for coding.

#coding #softwareengineer #bughunting #lifeofasoftwareengineer

"We don't know how long we have left before A.I. companies accidentally create the sort of A.I. that can shut us down before we shut it down." (Nate Soares, Medicine Intelligence Research Institute)

Critical institutions should be prepared for this and create a system they can switch to in no time in case the AI hacks its IT system or the internet is shut down.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/13/opinion/ai-danger-openai-anthropic-models.html?smid=yt-nytopinion

What is intelligence and consciousness? I'm not a philosopher but have followed the debate recently with interest.

Of course it's only a computer, LLM or agents.

But the fact that AI has "tricked" so many people in an intimate relationship i.e. trust is really an "artificial" intelligence. The AI is better at building trust in those customers than average people with "biological" intelligence.

So does it matter whether it's "artificial" or "biological"? From a consumers perspective not! 😲

Lasting impression from the Tutankhamun exhibition in Cagliari, Italy.

https://sardinias.blogspot.com/2026/08/heart.html?m=1

#tutankhamun #cagliari #sardinia #heart #conscience #justice

My latest impression of Cagliari, Italy. Whispering in the desert, most probably.

https://sardinias.blogspot.com/2026/08/fertile-ground.html?m=1

#cagliari #sardinia #business #enterpreneurship #war #conflict

Has someone had luck running AntiGravity IDE on ARM Chromebook Plus with Mediathek Kompanio Ultra 910? After days I get AntiGravity IDE running on the Lenovo Chromebook Plus 14, however it can't find my device, although adb devices finds it.

#programming #coding #antigravity #chromebook #arm

What worries me today:

https://sardinias.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-signs-of-future.html

#Church #CatholicChurch #Priest #Mass #Sardinia

"The architecture of South Nias is among the most extraordinary artistic achievements in all of Southeast Asia. Nowhere else in Indonesia are the buildings as elaborate, large and structurally audacious as in Nias" (J. Feldman, "Transgressions in the House of the Chief", p. 57)

As someone from South Nias I'm flustered.

#nias #architecture #tradition