#Mozilla is losing their mind. They're now promoting themselves with #AI-generated red panda videos, and doubling down on AI apologetics:

"AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of most apps, tools and technology we use today."

#Firefox is in dire straits. It needs to be rescued from Mozilla.

Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

#AI tags (and the #lobster everyone is going crazy over), software updates and launches, a spotlight on #VanillaCookbook - a simple #recipe platform, and more in this week's #selfhosted recap!

selfh.st/weekly/2026-01-30/

#selfhost #selfhosting #newsletter #foss #opensource #fosdem #homelab #privacy #security #sysadmin #devops #smarthome #fediverse #clawdbot #moltbot #openclaw #immich

Self-Host Weekly (30 January 2026)

Lobster-themed AI assistants, milestone releases, and the latest NAS operating system launch

^{Ethan Sholly (selfh.st)}

☀️ CEO of W, Anna Zeiter, was #eBay Chief Privacy Officer and VP #AI and Data Responsibility:

"... [eBay's AI] policies have recently come under regulatory scrutiny, particularly in Europe where privacy authorities in Germany have raised concerns about [eBay training AI with user data after users complained]."

"Sellers have also raised transparency concerns around ways that eBay may be using AI to alter their listing information without their explicit permission and without clear disclosure to them or to consumers..."

#bigtech #venturecapitalism #AI #socialmedia

Anthropic just published a paper.

TL;DR - efficiency benefits from AI-assisted coding are insignificant, detrimental effect on codebase comprehension and developer skills are not.

#ai #vibecoding

reddit.com/r/programming/comme…

I’ll be arriving in Brussels tomorrow around noon for #FOSDEM

This year, I’m especially interested in learning about locally run #AI models on #SBC such as the:
store.axelera.ai/products/meti…

My focus areas include:

Automated support ticket/email classification for open-source ticketing systems (like itflow?), with an administration focus.

RAG for both general use and processing OCR-scanned documents and received emails(with doc attachments)

Also keen on DevOps stuff!

Metis Compute Board - Single Board Computer Axelera

A compact, power-efficient Single Board Computer (SBC) and complete IoT platform engineered to run AI applications that require intense compute resources on devices at the edge.

^{Axelera AI}

How it’s going:

(Bankruptcy or bought out at the latest Q2 2027?)

#openai #ai #samaltman

Signal President Meredith Whittaker warns AI agents embedded in OSes are eroding end-to-end encryption's real-world security, despite its mathematical soundness. With root-like access to messages & data, they bypass E2EE isolation—urgent rethink needed! 🔒🤖❌
cyberinsider.com/signal-presid…

#AI #Privacy #Cybersecurity #Newz #Signal

Signal president warns AI agents are making encryption irrelevant

Signal president Meredith Whittaker said AI agents embedded within operating systems are eroding the practical security guarantees of E2EE.

^{Alex Lekander (CyberInsider)}

Thanks for the ableism Fediverse! It's MUCH appreciated!🙄

#Loops #Disability #Disabled #Ableism #AI

SVT Aktuellt igår hade ett inslag igår där de åskådliggjorde med AI-genererade bilder. Det är bra att de skrev att de var AI-genererade. Bilderna tillförde inte mycket utan var mest för att ha någon grafiskt under pratet (en sak som radio inte behöver).

Jag skulle vilja att de inte använder AI-bilder ens som bakgrundsbild. Är detta ett billigt eller snabbt arbetssätt jämfört med icke-AI-lösning, och därför bra? Vad tycker du?

#AI #SVT #Aktuellt

It's WEDNESDAY! You know what that means!

AEW Dynamite has a LOADED card! Here's your preview, Celebrity Deathmatch Edition!👀

#AEWDynamite #ProWrestling #AI #AIvideo #AEW

Tired of Government overlords?!? Sick of corporate censorship?!? Join the Fediverse today!🙌

#Loops #Fediverse #Fedi #AI #AIvideo

GOG now using AI generated images on their store gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/gog-…

#GOG #AI #AIGen

GOG now using AI generated images on their store

AI continues to be everywhere, and now it's appearing on the GOG store too most recently a big banner for their New Year Sale.

^{Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)}

Richard #Stallman Critiques #AI, Connected Cars, #Smartphones, and #DRM

news.slashdot.org/story/26/01/…

#privacy #FLOSS #FOSS #RMS

Richard Stallman Critiques AI, Connected Cars, Smartphones, and DRM - Slashdot

Richard Stallman spoke Friday at Atlanta's Georgia Institute of Technology, continuing his activism for free software while also addressing today's new technologies.

^{news.slashdot.org}

The British state has accepted $1m from #Meta to “develop cutting-edge #AI solutions … to support national security and defence teams”.

What could possibly go right?

theguardian.com/technology/202…

UK ministers accept $1m from Meta amid social media ban consultation

Campaigners decry ties with ‘Trump-supporting’ tech firms after funding is accepted to develop state AI systems

^{Robert Booth (The Guardian)}

Midnight.🌓

#AI #AIart #Cat #Cats #Catstodon #Caturday

🎶Day n Nite, the lonely loner seems to free his mind at night🎶

#AI #AIart #Depression #Stoner #Cannabis

🎶A singer in a smokey room
A smell of wine and cheap perfume🎶

#AI #AIart #Midjourney

The average toxic Fediverse user.🤣

#Loops #Fediverse #Fedi #Funny #AI #AIvideo #Sora

Loops infomercial? Hmm...👀🤣

#Loops #AI #AIvideo #Funny

🚀 New Ollama Model Release! 🚀
Model: kimi-k2.5
🔗 ollama.com/library/kimi-k2.5

#Ollama #AI #LLM #mcpo

kimi-k2.5

Kimi K2.5 is an open-source, native multimodal agentic model that seamlessly integrates vision and language understanding with advanced agentic capabilities, instant and thinking modes, as well as conversational and agentic paradigms.

^Ollama

winbuzzer.com/2026/01/27/moons…

Moonshot AI Unveils Kimi K2.5 Open-Source Model

#AI #OpenSourceAI #KimiK25 #MoonshotAI #AIAgents #AgenticAI #OpenSourceAI #AIModels #AICoding #ChinaAI

Proof that we live in hell.

@ubuntu #snap @itsfoss #microsoft #windows #copilot #ai #artificialintelligence #fediverse #mastodon #ubuntu #linux

This is an essential read from @pluralistic – well worth your time to understand the points he’s making fully as he’s spot on and the excellent analogies will make it easier for you to discuss the topic with others.

theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int…

#AI #capitalism #neoliberalism #tech #reverseCentaur

AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage

AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

^{Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)}

“Unprepared for what has already happened” captures how many people feel about the #AI boom.

But that doesn’t mean you’re behind. We’re still at the starting line, and can intentionally shape our future, explains a professor who leads workshops on adapting to AI. theconversation.com/feeling-un…

Feeling unprepared for the AI boom? You’re not alone

As businesses race to adopt AI, you might worry that the experience and expertise you’ve built up has become a lot less valuable. But you still have more control over your future than you think.

^{The Conversation}

About that, "We built a web browser from scratch with AI," claim…

> When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype. Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter. go.theregister.com/feed/www.th…

> "… I agree this isn't just wiring up of dependencies, and neither is it copied from existing implementations: it's a uniquely bad design that could never support anything resembling a real-world web engine."

#AI #programming #stupid

When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

Opinion: Autonomous agents may generate millions of lines of code, but shipping software is another matter

^{Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)}

My god..

#AI and with that, I mean #LLM's are doing SO MUCH damage

#Laracast is another one who's quitting because of it

I really freaking HATE this

youtube.com/watch?v=g_Bvo0tsD9…

Två nyheter:
"Tanken är att AI ska hjälpa till med att bedöma symptom hos patienter, föra deras journaler och erbjuda medicinsk vägledning i områden där sjukvården är begränsad."
Vs.
"Sjukhus använder AI för att transkribera patientbesök, men tekniken har svårt att tolka dialekter som skånska, vilket kan leda till felaktigheter i journalerna."

Nån som tror det kommer bli bättre transkribering/tolkning av afrikanska läkare med regional dialekt/accent?

#ai

Important blog about a threat few people understand.
"AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy. When AI Can Fake Majorities, Democracy Slips Away""
garymarcus.substack.com/p/ai-b…

Underlying paper (preprint), arxiv.org/abs/2506.06299

#AI #Democracy

AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy

^{Daniel Thilo (Marcus on AI)}

Shoutout to Open WebUI. It's the sleek, self-hosted dashboard that makes interacting with these powerful models as easy as using ChatGPT, but with full control. See it enabling web search integration in AI-driven spreadsheet processing taxonomy classification task.
#OllamaCloud #UnPerplexedSpready #Ollama #OpenWebUI #Matasoft #SearXNG #AITools #AIFormula #SpreadsheetAI #AI #LLM #AttributeExtraction #DataCategorization #DataMapping

matasoft.hr/QTrendControl/inde…

"Think of it like making a photocopy of a photocopy, again and again. Each generation keeps the bold strokes and loses the faint details. Both trends, in turn, weaken our ability to verify information independently. In the long run, this will leave people relying on systems that amplify errors, bias and informational blind spots, especially in niche domains and low-visibility communities."
noemamag.com/the-ai-powered-we….

#Ai

The AI-Powered Web Is Eating Itself

Without a framework of “Artificial Integrity,” AI search platforms risk collapsing the information commons that made the web possible.

^{Hamilton Mann (NOEMA)}