In Brief:

• Two motions regarding "artificial intelligence" and Large Language Models (LLMs) were voted on among Codeberg e. V. members and passed.
• We are promising to not use any of your data to train LLM and explain what the planned Terms of Use change mean for 'vibe-coded' projects.
• We believe that LLMs endanger the free/libre software ecosystem as a whole.

Codeberg is a Germany based platform for hosting source code, operated by a non profit. With its latest changes to its TOS vibe coded apps are banned from the platform

You build systems by measuring things — gathering information, quantifying it as data, and taking action on it. And Jill’s big thesis in the book is that this kind of systemic measurement is really a dehumanizing act, one that flattens human concerns into something, well, artificial.

These artificial structures touch everything — not just in the more obvious places like in apps or AI, but all the way up to politics and governance itself, and Jill’s insights here are a telling portrait of the way Big Tech and its billionaire figureheads have managed to break the very idea of the state itself.

The company’s total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025. This is very easily the biggest increase in their electricity consumption ever, and it puts them way ahead of Microsoft. It is almost certainly a reflection of the obscene energy hunger of their ever-expanding bloated generative AI systems, and a vindication of the warnings we’ve been raising for several years now.

The country will be represented by CBC/Radio-Canada, Canada’s national public broadcaster, which recently became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).

Canada will compete in the Semi-finals and becomes the first new country to join Eurovision since Australia in 2015.

Cross-geposted von: https://feddit.org/post/31996415

In a remarkably strange statement at a recent California State Senate hearing over the Protect Our Games Act (AB 1921, California's Stop Killing Games-endorsed bill to compel publishers to provide ways to keep playing discontinued games), a representative of the Entertainment Software Association declared private servers for the likes of Minecraft and Call of Duty "illegal," adding that, so far as the ESA is concerned, "we consider it piracy."

In a statement to PC Gamer, the ESA wrote that, so far as it's concerned, "Private servers infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of game publishers. Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them."

As per his Substack-newsletter:

I’ve thought about approaching the BBC again about Doctor Who but they’ve never taken me seriously before, so I’m not convinced they’ll start. It’s probably worth a try.

I would open cold as if the show is new. Strange and eccentric young ‘inventor’, amnesiac, with an odd TARDIS machine that can go anywhere and is bigger on the inside. That’s all you need to get started.

I expect they’ll opt for the young Doctor full reboot, which would be a mistake. You have a universe. You have lore in the bank. That’s good to have as long as you don’t rely on it. In fact, barely even mention it. It’s so easy to do a young ‘Doctor Who?’ showing up in a field where he’s found by some kids who think he’s Jesus. Amnesiac…TARDIS stolen…whodunnit…etc… Kids who get into the show will be excited to discover there’s a huge back story to get into – but who am I to say?

As far as being saddled with a lot of dangling threads goes, ‘they’ could just reveal that Gatwa’s Doctor was an unstable bi-regeneration who tried to make the most of his brief mayfly existence but just sort of flickered along, barely there. When he glitched out, he reached for a familiar face and got Billie Piper off the telly. She then tracks down David Tennant’s Doctor, going mad with his earthbound ordinary life round at Donna’s. He can’t stop attracting terrifying, vengeful enemies from space so he’s on the run when they meet – and fuse back together with a lovely Rose and the Doctor scene to wrap the whole RTD era in a neat bow, while the Doctor’s understanding family cheer them on – then it all goes wrong – and new-new-Who picks up from there with nary a backward glance.

You don’t even need to show any of that – but it’s all there for a Big Finish.

Edit: Grant Morrison is a Scottish writer. Their work includes New X-Men, which many consider one of the defining runs of that team and All-Star Superman (which inspired the 2025 Superman movie). They have also written for Doctor Who before, mostly comics for DW Magazine.

They also created the SYFY TV show Happy!

Kurz gesagt: KI ist fundamental unvereinbar mit emanzipierten, egalitären und freiheitlichen Gesellschaften. Nicht weil KI von den falschen Dynamiken geprägt wird, sondern weil die Technologie genau dafür gebaut ist. [...] KI ist keine Zukunftstechnologie und keine Innovation, derer sich linke Bewegungen bemächtigen sollten. Sie ist inhärent konservativ und homogenisierend und damit nicht etwa ein Maßstab für fortschrittliche Gesellschaften, sondern eine Zementierung des Status quo. [...]

Diese Systeme übertragen Muster aus der Vergangenheit auf die Zukunft und beeinflussen individuelles und gesellschaftliches Handeln und Denken. Die Reproduktion von Mustern ist zwangsläufig konservativ, weil die Daten nur Vergangenes abbilden können.

Let me tell you about a Microsoft AI researcher [...] who recently spent quite a lot of time considering whether the legendary Microsoft real time strategy game Age of Empires II is conscious, and built a basic neural network within the video game using digital goats to prove his point. [...]

De Wynter built an LLM within AoEII using goats. “The point of the paper is to formally show that we anthropomorphise too readily, and that sometimes the claims we make with regards to LLM capabilities are too strong,” he told 404 Media. “It's not an easy task, given that ‘human-like attributes’ is a bit of an abstract term.”