FOSDEM starting in a bit!
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But don't fall into the trap of jumping into European-based big tech!
That'd be the same predators, just based in a different location
Instead, what this moment needs is social initiative, not more
says LeenaarsDependency on short-form content & LLMs is hampering childrens' brain development, suggests Leenaars
It's a form of dementia, but worse, because they're not even developing a fully functioning brains
(disclaimer: i don't know the exact studies on this, just reporting the talk)
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Dependency on short-form content & LLMs is hampering childrens' brain development, suggests Leenaars
It's a form of dementia, but worse, because they're not even developing a fully functioning brains
(disclaimer: i don't know the exact studies on this, just reporting the talk)
What does war look like today?
"It's not [just] enemy lines, it's your lines of code that are causing real-world damage", says Leenaars
As a form of warfare, code & computation is:
- Super cheap
- Very low risk
- High yield
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What does war look like today?
"It's not [just] enemy lines, it's your lines of code that are causing real-world damage", says Leenaars
As a form of warfare, code & computation is:
- Super cheap
- Very low risk
- High yield
The pager explosions in Lebanon in 2024, during which thousands were wounded an many Lebanese people got killed, was a zionist supply chain attack
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The pager explosions in Lebanon in 2024, during which thousands were wounded an many Lebanese people got killed, was a zionist supply chain attack
What and who do you depend on in your projects? How fragile is that infrastructure?
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What and who do you depend on in your projects? How fragile is that infrastructure?
"There's no Claude, there's just other people's code", Leenaars offers a reality check
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"There's no Claude, there's just other people's code", Leenaars offers a reality check
These models are ingesting everything and anything, indiscriminately. They're over-eating
At a certain point they'll be ingesting their own excrement & barfing that up, suggests Leenaars
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These models are ingesting everything and anything, indiscriminately. They're over-eating
At a certain point they'll be ingesting their own excrement & barfing that up, suggests Leenaars
@onrust I'd argue they already are: AI summaries in search engines summarize SEO-optimized slop...
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These models are ingesting everything and anything, indiscriminately. They're over-eating
At a certain point they'll be ingesting their own excrement & barfing that up, suggests Leenaars
In a time of war, the free & open source infrastructure shouldn't build weapons!
Instead it should be used to defend communities, and should be funded as such, suggests Leenaars
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FOSDEM starting in a bit!
Some talks that could be interesting for workers:
31 Jan, 10:00
FOSS in times of war, scarcity and (adversarial) AI -> war always most hurts working peopleWe need to talk about war. And we need to talk about companies building bots that propose to rewrite our source code. And about the people behind both, and how we preserve what is great about FOSS while avoiding disruption. How do geopolitical conflicts on the one hand and the risk of bot-generated (adversarial) code on the other influence the global community working together on Free and Open Source software?
cc @techwerkers
@onrust @techwerkers ik heb vooral de security ruimte op het oog. Nog andere aanraders?
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@onrust @techwerkers ik heb vooral de security ruimte op het oog. Nog andere aanraders?
@Huubje deze morgenochtend lijkt mij ook erg relevant, vanuit het arbeidsperspectief: https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/L3BK7S-free-as-in-burned-out/
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