I was very excited about open firmware and ran FreshTomato for a while. Eventually I decided it wasn’t reliable though (2.4Ghz wasn’t actually running on one router, occasional speed issues).

I switched to Unify and have had a great experience. Great visibility into link speed, which device is on which AP, able to SSH into each device and run iperf3, WiFiMan is a great debugging tool (which you don’t need their ecosystem to try), notifies me when the ISP is slow/down. There’s a bewildering array of hardware and it’s not cheap or always in stock, but there are some good guides around.

So, I’d like FOSS to be the right answer, but in this case I’m glad I switched to Unifi.

ETA: https://evanmccann.net/ubiquiti is the most useful guide. And a key aspect is Ubiquiti is the cloud services are an optional aspect, it won’t brick if they go under.

Leaders said there was a “robust process” to ensure the contracts align with Google’s AI principles.

Ah, I think you’ve identified their “robust process” and what the key “principles” are.

Yeah, got headhunted for 10 replace-doctors-with-AI startup for every 1 ed-tech company that even looked at my resume, and the company I’m at now, though good on paper, is squeezing AI into every nook and cranny as fast as they can while sidelining security concerns.

It seems like the AI never gets tired of writing code

I think that’s a telling observation. The whole reason we have software, and programming languages, is that people get tired.

Necessity has invented generally and reuse to combat repetition. With agents that don’t tire, they don’t gravitate to generally — but their endless repetition does tire their human reverse-centaur bodies dealing with the code review and maintainability they can’t reason about.

Primary source: https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260316-01.en.html

For me, it’s more that it’s a vivid image. I have felt that “immiseration” so it immediately resonates; I don’t need a metaphor. But when people who don’t know technology are gushing about the latest agentic process, I wonder if having a somewhat grotesque, embellished counter will be useful.

I clearly need to up my adblock game. But do y’all also use PeerTube, Nebula, Curiosity Stream? Happy to vote with dollars if there’s a good candidate.

Hadn’t heard “precaritized” either. Brings to mind some penultimate additions to pillow forts, though.

We may start to see people realize that “have the AI generate slop, humans will catch the mistakes” actually is different from “have humans generate robust code.”

I have no desire to stay on Google, but also have a lot of use cases to migrate before I can cut loose. Shared calendars, email accounts (should be able to sync with FairEmail as I work on migrating accounts), maps (OSM address search never works for me), Fi carrier, maybe others. Was the LineageOS transition a big change? How often do you need to troubleshoot for app installation, carrier configuration, etc?

As with other HONOR smartphones, we aren’t expecting a US release for the Magic V6.

And how much power does it use?

If you just run dhcpd on eth0 would that be enough? I’m assuming no based on your answer.

From the article:

At least seven states with a total of about 35 million registered voters have publicly reported the results of running their voter rolls through the system. Those searches have identified roughly 4,200 people — about 0.01% of registered voters — as noncitizens. This aligns with previous findings that noncitizens rarely register to vote.

And Ars published a piece about it — with AI hallucinated quotes attributed to the human maintainer. They have since retracted it.

I was having a discussion related to this with my team at work: some of them are letting through poorly-reviewed AI code, and I find myself trying to figure out which code has had real human consideration, and which is straight from the agents net. Everyone said they closely review and own all the agentic code, but I don’t really believe it.

Plot twist: the server giving worldwide access to send people electrical stimulation was also implemented by Claude.

Cool use of AI for spelunking, though.

Sounds great. I can’t figure out what the status is. Working prototype? Manufacturing?

You can print on standard sheets or paper rolls and choose between black or color cartridges, refillable at your convenience.

Looks like it’s more like NiMH than LiPo, but higher power than NiMH (which I guess lines up with their claims of charging super fast).

Chatbots are terrible at anything but casual chatter, humanity finds.