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Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

🔗 If you love a website, back it up via @misty

This story starts with a little tragedy. See, I’ve got these old webpages I love to go back and look on every now and then. There’s websites that have been online unchanged for years and years, or decades, and there’s something a little cozy about checking in on them every now and then to see an old friend is still doing okay. Sometimes,...

blog.mistys-internet.website/p

blog.mistys-internet.websiteIf you love a website, back it up - The Future Is NowIf you love a website, back it up This story starts with a little tra...
Frankie ✅@Some_Emo_Chick@mastodon.social

“Ram Altman” Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PC

respawnfirst.com/linux-script-

RespawnFirst"Ram Altman" Is Now a Linux Script That Emails Sam Altman Daily to Report How Much Unused RAM Is in Your PCDeveloper builds Ram-Altman, a Linux script that automatically emails OpenAI CEO Sam Altman daily progress reports on idle desktop memory.
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

🔗 This is a Conflict and there are Sides via @bruno

A little over a week ago, on the night of the Brazilian election runoff, I spent several hours going slowly from despair, to cautious hope, to a sort of weary joy. I live, these days, in a downtown area of São Paulo. I generally hate crowds, but on that night I did walk the length of Avenida Paulista, the city's de facto public square, where people were...

azhdarchid.com/there-are-sides/

AzhdarchidThis is a Conflict and there are SidesOn recognizing the battle line when it appears outside your window.
Mat Wright@MatWright@mastodon.social

It's the biggest single day rout in the history of the NASDAQ, and continuing with futures - Dems win bigly and the markets go FUUUUUUCK

A reminder, stock markets are not the economy, they are banks for billionaires, tech bros and climate denying oil and gas shitheads

screenshot showing headline Wall Street lost single biggest day loss in tech stocks ever
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

🔗 The future of the internet via Erik Johannes Husom

This is yet another lament on the consequences of widespread use of generative AI, though a bit more aggressive than usual. Only proceed if you're still not tired of people complaining about large language models.

erikjohannes.no/posts/20261023

erikjohannes.noThe future of the internet – Erik Johannes HusomResearcher and runner writing about technology, nature, and physical endeavours.
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

📝 Caching, bot defense and a CDN

I've been wary of and interested in putting a CDN in front of my site. I had tools in place to block bots (and several countries), but they were fragmented and it was an ongoing rock fight. I had a Go job that banned IPs after too many 404s, a crawler denylist that mirrored my robots.txt, and an SQL-injection probe filter (regex). I also wanted the improved load...

coryd.dev/posts/2026/caching-b

Cory DransfeldtCaching, bot defense and a CDN • Cory DransfeldtI've been wary of and interested in putting a CDN in front of my site. I had tools in place to block bots (and several countries), but they were fragmented and it was an ongoing rock fight. I had a Go job that banned IPs after too many 404s, a crawler denylist that mirrored my robots.txt, and an SQ…
Zhi Zhu 🕸️@ZhiZhu@newsie.social

"I find the prospect of predicting the incredibly dismal – even offensive. A predictable future is set in stone, immune to human agency. A predictable future runs on rails, and we're the prisoners of , tied to the tracks...

My intention isn't to demoralize you into tying yourself to history's tracks – I'm here to show you how to grab the wheel and steer off the rails altogether."
- @pluralistic

pluralistic.net/2026/10/27/tie

Headline and text from article: History is something you do (permalink) Prediction is hard. Especially about the future. That Yogi Berra gem proves that you don't have to be a science fiction writer to get irritated with people insisting that you must know what's going to happen tomorrow, but (as a sf writer), I can tell you that this is one of our main occupational hazards. Obviously, this is a self-inflicted injury. Our genre is full of big names who self-mythologized as scientific Nostradamuses. From the "future history" bar-charts in Heinlein's books (I was once on a panel with Robert Silverberg where he referred to RAH as "Robert A Timeline") to the McGuffin of Asimov's Foundation series: a "scientific" discipline that could predict the trajectory of human civilization for millennia into the future. But me, I find the prospect of predicting the future incredibly dismal – even offensive. A predictable future is set in stone, immune to human agency. A predictable future runs on rails, and we're the prisoners of history, tied to the tracks.
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

📖 Hyperscale by Paris Marx (★★★★★)

An eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point Underlying our seamless access to AI, cryptocurrency, and unlimited cloud storage is a hulking, costly physical infrastructure. Massive data centers full of energy-hungry chips and processors power everything we do online. Scrambling to meet dubious market demand, the tech...

coryd.dev/reading/books/978180

Cory DransfeldtHyperscale • Cory DransfeldtAn eye-opening account of how the data center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point Underlying our seamless access to AI, cryptocurrency, and unlimited cloud storage is a hulking, costly physical infrastructure…
Zhi Zhu 🕸️@ZhiZhu@newsie.social

"Despite massive investments & widespread hype around , the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech...

there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth... With no impact on the bottom line, mainstream corporate America is pulling back & starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins."
apollo.com/wealth/insights-new

ht: @pluralistic

Headline on left, and text from article on right. Headline: Macroeconomic Indicators & Trends October 24, 2026 No Signs of AI Payoff Outside the Tech Sector by Torsten Slok Partner, Chief Economist Text: Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech. Revenue per worker is rising for the Mag 7 but is flat for the S&P 493, see the first chart below. Profit margins are rising for the Mag 7 but are flat for the S&P 493, see the second chart below. And there are still no signs of AI boosting productivity growth, see the third chart below. With no impact on the bottom line, mainstream corporate America is pulling back and starting to view token spending not as a source of growth but as a cost center that weighs on margins. VC-backed companies are spending more and more on tokens, but mainstream corporate America does not need the latest model and is unwilling to pay for it. As long as agentic AI and token spending are confined to a small part of the economy, the macroeconomic effects of AI will be very limited, see the fourth and fifth charts below. The question looking ahead is whether, even as models become commoditized, mainstream corporate America can turn increasingly cheap intelligence into higher revenue growth and higher profit margins. That may be harder than it sounds. AI may be a great calculator, but in business, intelligence is mostly judgme
🆈 Solace 🆈@formflux@sunny.garden

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What a perfect time to tell you all how great @pluralistic ’s book Enshittification is.

It’s the true story of how and why all things on the internet that were once great and drew us all in eventually changed. What started as a nice piece of cheese that everyone enjoyed end up becoming the bait that tech companies built a trap around. They then used us as bait to build a trap around advertisers.

The terrible cheese analogy is entirely mine. I promise the book doesn’t mention tech cheese. 😂

app.thestorygraph.com/books/71

JWcph, Radicalized By Decency@jwcph@helvede.net

RE: mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11745585

"The problem here isn't advertising, it's surveillance. The ad-tech sector has convinced advertisers that targeting ads to users rather than content will massively improve ad performance. The evidence for this is very poor: targeted ads improve clickthrough rates by less than 5% (relative to content-based ads that relate to the substance of the page you're looking at), and they're incredibly expensive (and very dangerous!) to serve." - @pluralistic

Mamot - Le Mastodon de La Quadrature du NetCory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)Attached: 1 image More than half of all internet users have installed an ad-blocker; Doc Searls calls it the largest consumer boycott in history. -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, track…
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

🔗 Dark Patterns Won via Ron Bronson

Many moons ago, I used to post a lot on Twitter about so-called deceptive design/dark patterns that proliferate consumer UIs. There were sites dedicated to these practices and even a spoof by a designer making realistic hostile patterns that were almost eerily realistic.

blog.ronbronson.com/dark-patte

blog.ronbronson.comDark Patterns Won - Ron BronsonMany moons ago, I used to post a lot on Twitter about so-called deceptive design/dark patterns that proliferate consumer UIs. There were sites
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

🔗 "AI, make the website good" via @zachleat

Millions of Large-Language-Model-generated words have been spilled on craftsmanship in this gilded-age of software development. We now have agents to plan how code will be written, agents to write code, agents to review code, agents to orchestrate and dispatch tasks to other more (or less) capable subagents (these heavily subsidized tokens aren’t going...

zachleat.com/web/ai-websites/

Zach Leatherman“AI, make the website good”—zachleat.comA post by Zach Leatherman (zachleat)
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

📝 My router is not a calculator

I run my own analytics on this site. It's straightforward, collects as little as possible and gives me some basic counts, referral info and a list of 404s to (potentially) fix. Server-side analytics are noisy, so most of this is reported from a simple client-side script. What is surfaced from the server requests are 404s. I use these to find links I've broken, near-miss...

coryd.dev/posts/2026/my-router

Cory DransfeldtMy router is not a calculator • Cory DransfeldtI run my own analytics on this site. It's straightforward, collects as little as possible and gives me some basic counts, referral info and a list of 404s to (potentially) fix. Server-side analytics are noisy, so most of this is reported from a simple client-side script. What is surfaced from the s…
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

🔗 Dark Forestry: notes on a new season for technologists via @henry

Seasons are changing for technologists, and the industry we work in isn't the same as it was a decade ago. We have new realities and new responsibilities to accept.

henry.codes/writing/dark-fores

henry.codesDark Forestry | Henry From OnlineSeasons are changing for technologists, and the industry we work in isn't the same as it was a decade ago. We have new realities and new responsibilities to accept.
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

"If these measures are enacted, the US could be writing its own losing ticket to this race, and the consequences would last generations." Don't threaten me with a good time.

futurism.com/artificial-intell

FuturismAmazon Warns Local Communities to Stop Defying Its Massive AI Data CentersAmazon web services CEO Matt Garman pleaded in a 3,000 word blog today with communities to please embrace data centers.
Cory Dransfeldt :demi:@cory@follow.coryd.dev

📝 Become worthless (to tech companies)

Tech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value you, why provide value to them? If they back political positions hostile to your interests, why not return that hostility?

coryd.dev/posts/2026/become-wo

Cory DransfeldtBecome worthless (to tech companies) • Cory DransfeldtTech companies and their executives have, broadly, moved to align themselves with investors and adopted a posture of, often, disdain or outright hostility towards their users and employees. If tech companies don't value you, why provide value to them? If they back political positions hostile to you…