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@johnhood yaay!!! This is great news! I'm very pleased.

Gute Nachrichten für AI-Chatbot-BetreiberEs gibt sie doch noch, die guten Nachrichten:Das OLG Hamm hat entschieden, dass ein Unternehmen für irreführende Falschangaben seines KI-Chatbots nach § 5 Abs. 1, Abs. 2 Nr. 3 UWG haftet, weil der Chatbot kein „Dritter" im Sinne des Gesetzes ist und die Verantwortung des Unternehmens selbst dann besteht, wenn der Chatbot ausschließlich mit korrekten Datensätzen programmiert worden sein sollte.Will heißen: Sagt der Chatbot etwas Falsches, bist du als Betreiber haftbar. Und wir alle wissen ja, dass 10% der Aussagen verkehrt sind.Wenn das Schule macht und der BGH dem Urteil zustimmt, werden ein paar Spielkinder den Chatbots von Unternehmen wahrscheinlich Angebote entlocken, die den Unternehmen schaden werden. Und was da noch so alles passieren kann.Ich kenne da beispielsweise ein Unternehmen, das den Telefonsupport von Unternehmen durch Bots ersetzen will und auch Kaltakquise-Anrufe mit AI machen soll. Das wird lustig. Ich glaube, wir werden da wohl sehr viele Mobilfunkverträge bekommen, bei denen uns Vodafone und Telekom sogar noch Geld dazugeben.Wir werden sehen, was sich daraus noch alles ergibt.#shortpost #blogpost #blog #AI #OLG #Hamm #Chatbot #Haftung #Missbrauch

About this week and what I had planned vs what is actually happening.https://philredbeard.com/2026/05/13/not-what-i-thought/#Writing #Blog #Author #WritersOfMastodon

For years, whenever I'd share links to my Wordpress posts on social media the preview image would be seemingly pulled at random, usually ignoring the first image. Finally fixed it yesterday by installing a plugin called "Open Graph and Twitter Card Tags", then checking the box that says,"First image from the post/page content" in the settings. I'm sure there are better ways to fix but it worked for me. Sharing in case anyone still blogs and has the same problem. #wordpress #blog #blogging https://wordpress.org/plugins/wonderm00ns-simple-facebook-open-graph-tags/

@runjaj nunca lo sabremos!!!

La Nada sintética: El colapso de lo real ante lo artificialPor: Guillermo Ramírez Lovera 1. El avión de botellasTodo empezó un martes cualquiera de octubre pasado, mientras hacía lo que la mayoría de las personas hacemos para "desconectarnos" y que, irónicamente, nos conecta a una red actualmente llena de dudas: scrollear en redes sociahttps://www.tedic.org/la-nada-sintetica-el-colapso-de-lo-real-ante-lo-artificial/#Blog #desinformacion #InteligenciaArtificial #Paraguay

@lislegaard @tsrono We’re blaming Mirb for nesting in some cables (and looking at what’s occurring). 🪹‍

@nick_lenzen That's the Pelican Static-Site-Generator and a self-written Theme, that I created.

“From Cape Town to the Free State, local educational institutions recently announced work on language-focused AI models that better understand local languages compared to international giants like ChatGPT. On Monday, researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) announced that they had developed a new AI language model specifically trained on South Africa’s 11 official written languages.”I’m really glad to see this for two reasons: We should not just be blindly adopting a dependence on foreign owned AI tools, and secondly, we need to develop our own LLMs that can better understand the local cultures and nuances of our country.This is a practice that should be more widely adopted throughout local industry, and not just for LLMs. It enhances the innovation we have and encourages local skill building. Of course, it will also bring a lot of meaning and involve non-English language groups too.See mybroadband.co.za/news/ai/6457…#Blog, #AI, #southafrica, #technology

New Blogroll Post“Notes for the Week #19 (2026)” by Abhinav Sarkar@abnv: «This week note covers the week of 4th–10th May.»#Weeknotes #Personal #blog #indiewebhttps://abhinavsarkar.net/notes/2026-weeknotes-05-10/?mtm_campaign=feed&ref=blr.indiewebclub.org

I which I write about two difficult letters to play in the game of Scrabble.https://philredbeard.com/2026/05/10/the-trouble-with-cv/Enjoy!#Scrabble #Gaming #Blog #Author #WritersOfMastodon

@susam Ah, you're completely right, didn't know that, thanks!Loved the article btw and Wander is genuinely cool!

The Apps That Made Social Feel Like Home There is a specific kind of joy that comes from opening an app and feeling – before you even do anything – that someone built it for you. Not for advertisers. For you, the person holding the phone.That was Apollo. That was Twitterrific. That was Tweetbot. That was Spring. Third-party apps that wrapped Reddit and Twitter in something the official versions never quite managed: the craft. You could feel the opinion of the developer in every swipe gesture, every haptic tap, every transition. These apps had taste.The platform gives you the water. The third-party app gives you the glass, and some of those glasses were beautiful.Then came the API shutdowns. Reddit killed Apollo in 2023 with pricing that made no economic sense for indie developers. Twitter became X and quietly strangled its third-party ecosystem. One by one, the lights went out. It felt less like a business decision and more like a demolition, like tearing down a neighbourhood to build a parking lot.Which is exactly why Mastodon feels different today. Open protocols mean that third-party clients are not a tolerated exception, they are the intended design. Apps like Ivory (built by Tapbots, the same people behind Tweetbot) or Mona or Ice Cubes exist not despite Mastodon but because of it. The ecosystem remembers what the internet once valued: that the interface is not a moat, it is an invitation.I am under no illusion that Mastodon has replaced the reach or chaos of the platforms it mirrors. But every time I open a well-built third-party client, I feel that familiar warmth. I remember that the era was never really gone. It just needed a platform willing to let it exist. #Tech #review #apps #blog #blogging #writing #iOS #social #twitter #Mastodon #Reddit #apollo #Ivory

271 real bugs. Real Firefox. All patched.The scariest thing about this week's Mozilla post isn't in the bug table.It's in the methodology section.https://blog.ppb1701.com/better-rivets#ai #anthropic #blog #firefox #glasswing #infosec #mozilla #mythos #security #userhostile

@peritia There are solutions for some of the issues you've brought up - and of course, they aren't all in one place. In terms of boilerplate/reusability, I use the dendritic pattern with den (https://github.com/denful/den) which cuts down so much on boilerplate stuff. You can put all your nvidia stuff into a module and only import it on certain machines that need it, that sort of thing. Makes managing my laptop, desktop and handheld pretty easy. Of course, that means flakes, that means one more thing to learn on top of that as well.wrapper-modules might be interesting for you for making some of your environment more portable, Vimjoyer has a video about setting that up: https://birdeehub.github.io/nix-wrapper-modules/md/intro.htmlAlso, don't forget that you can use build-vm to build a VM out of your nix configuration too.I'm not using Nix on my homelab as I'm pretty standardized on Proxmox so I can't say I know much about how difficult it is to set up Minecraft the nix way. I'm basically using a docker image in a VM for it.The hardest part is avoiding systemd if you feel that strongly against it (as I did at one point long ago as well, still not happy with it). All in all, I think it was pretty fair and interesting blogpost.

@underlap interesting.  I love restic. Didn't realise Dropbox supported rclobe and therefore restic.Not that I use Dropbox but always good to keep in the old head storage system.@82mhz

@krutonium Good post, I made the switch when I decided to come back to NixOS recently and I had a bit of trouble wrapping my head around it at first but yeah, really love that you can set it up and not really worry about where the files are organized as they will get imported regardless.

“Subscription costs have a way of feeling invisible. You might have a cloud storage here, an AI tool there, a transcription service you barely use anymore. All of this can add up to something substantial. But if you own a mid-range GPU, there’s a good chance you’re paying for things your hardware could handle for free. I have an NVIDIA RTX 3060 (currently around $250), and last year it saved me $819.96 by allowing me to cut or downgrade four subscriptions. It wasn’t by doing anything exotic, but by running free, open-source tools locally that do the same job.”I started to realise this myself, just this week, as I was experimenting with AI tools and AI image generation. I made the mistake when I upgraded my video card a few months ago, from a 6 GB VRAM card, to a 12 GB VRAM card. This was because I had a game that really wanted about 8 GB of VRAM and I reckoned that the 12 GB would give it a bit of headroom. DaVinci Resolve Studio also wanted 8 GB of VRAM for its new AI functions.Yep, I know the prices get expensive as you go higher up, but I was thinking in a gaming mode, and not what else I could use that card for. Thinking now with this other mindset I realise I should have pushed higher on my new card.Still that said, you can work efficiently with a 12 GB card, or even a bit smaller, if you don’t run too many GPU intensive apps together, and you can get away with smaller more efficient AI models too.See howtogeek.com/ways-my-old-nvid…#Blog, #GPU, #opensource, #subscriptions, #technology

@AAKL no, just wasn't diving into that as much. whole thing keeps being one wtf after another.

A blog post summary of my experience as an art vendor at Godwit Days, a local birding festival. https://coreyartusimagery.com/blogs/musings/godwit-days-wrap-up(Just an FYI, you can subscribe to my blog using an RSS reader, and get each post sent to you directly. Jus’ sayin’.)#Blog #GodwitDays #Birds #Birdwathing #Birding #Birdart #art #MastoArt