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Just seen somebody describe Gary Marcus as “critical” of AI, which is very 🤨
\n\nGary Marcus is a career AI guy who is very, very pro-AI. He’s just not completely irrational. That people are describing him as critical just for pointing out the obvious is yet another sign we’re in a massive bubble
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\n\nKind of interesting to think how sometimes it only takes a single person to make a change that substantially improves things for an entire dev ecosystem.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-18T15:38:44+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/18/requireesm-in-nodejs.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/18/amazon-buys-nuclearpowered.html", "content_html": "“Amazon buys nuclear-powered data centre from Talen - Nuclear Engineering International”
\n\nThe other big customer of that nuke-powered data centre? A crypto miner.
\n\nBasically, “AI” and crypto are sucking up capacity that could have been used to wean society off carbon fuels
\n\nWe’re so screwed.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-18T12:22:29+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/18/amazon-buys-nuclearpowered.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/18/as-if-i.html", "content_html": "As if I needed more reasons to hate Shopify.
\n\n(Trying out Ubuntu and hadn’t updated Firefox. There is no reason on earth why an ecommerce system wouldn’t work with a five month old version of Firefox.)
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-18T10:36:52+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/18/as-if-i.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/18/the-growing-backlash.html", "content_html": "“The growing backlash against AI”
\n\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-18T09:43:56+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/18/the-growing-backlash.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/18/the-most-important.html", "content_html": "In this way “AI” is deeply dehumanizing: Making the spaces and opportunities for people to grow and be human smaller and smaller
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“The most important goal in designing software is understandability”
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-18T09:40:37+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/18/the-most-important.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/17/whenever-i-see.html", "content_html": "Whenever I see a pundit claim you can’t make a good Progressive Web App implying that Apple’s middling support is doing us a favour somehow, I get the urge to go all-in on the Chrome-only Fugu APIs just to show what could have been done in an alternate universe where Mozilla hasn’t given up
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-17T15:15:12+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/17/whenever-i-see.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/17/why-single-vendor.html", "content_html": "“Why single vendor is the new proprietary - OpenSource.net”
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-17T12:04:26+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/17/why-single-vendor.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/17/todays-ai-is.html", "content_html": "“Today’s AI is unreasonable. - Anil Dash”
\n\nI still fundamentally distrust Anil Dash’s judgement after his misguided “web3 is too big to fail” thread (read it twice,mind boggling on each read) but this post from last year is correct
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-17T09:55:32+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/17/todays-ai-is.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/17/volcanic-eruption-on.html", "content_html": "“Volcanic eruption on Reykjanes Peninsula - RÚV.is”
\n\nAs always, the best places for accurate updates on the eruption are either the national broadcasting service’s English language page (this link) or the official met office page.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-17T08:52:54+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/17/volcanic-eruption-on.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/16/ftc-inquires-about.html", "content_html": "“FTC inquires about Reddit’s AI deals, ahead of IPO”
\n\nAcquiring user’s personal data for one reason and then using it for another isn’t always allowed, even in the US
\n\nIn one earlier case the FTC jumped on a dating app dev who pivoted to facial recognition training their model on uploaded photos
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-16T09:43:02+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/16/ftc-inquires-about.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/15/this-invasive-and.html", "content_html": "“This invasive and manipulative service is out-competing our domestic invasive and manipulative services, so we’re going to force it to sell to a domestic fund that outright gives retired gov officials a cut of the loot”
\n\n… is not a good look for a country that occasionally cosplays as a free market
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-15T12:20:29+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/15/this-invasive-and.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/15/apple-annies-weblog.html", "content_html": "“Apple Annie’s Weblog · Creating 3x5.pics”
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-15T09:20:07+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/15/apple-annies-weblog.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/15/im-guessing-this.html", "content_html": "I’m guessing this means springs not here yet…………
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2024-03-15T08:55:32+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/15/im-guessing-this.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/14/the-ultimate-ideal.html", "content_html": "\n", "date_published": "2024-03-14T09:54:36+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/14/the-ultimate-ideal.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/14/how-we-fund.html", "content_html": "“How We Fund the Web Ecosystem”
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-14T09:53:57+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/14/how-we-fund.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/14/report-most-subscriptionbased.html", "content_html": "“Report: Most Subscription-Based Apps Do Not Make Money - MacRumors”
\n\n\n\n\nthe median monthly revenue for apps after one year is less than $50
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I’m sure this is fine and not an example of a completely dysfunctional and unsustainable market that has been micromanaged to death by Apple
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-14T09:52:11+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/14/report-most-subscriptionbased.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/14/lateral-thinking-with.html", "content_html": "“Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology”
\n\nAlways post when somebody finds Gunpei Yokoi and discovers a kindred soul
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-14T09:46:12+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/14/lateral-thinking-with.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/14/how-would-anybody.html", "content_html": "How would anybody notice if Google “crippled search in the EU”? Dysfunctional is already its default state.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-14T09:22:37+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/14/how-would-anybody.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/14/googles-gen-ai.html", "content_html": "“Google’s Gen AI Search Threatens Publishers With $2B Annual Ad Revenue Loss”
\n\nHard to see how this isn’t an extinction event for for-profit web media. Y’know… the outfits who do the reporting and writing those generated results are actually based on.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-14T08:51:01+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/14/googles-gen-ai.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/13/following-links-jim.html", "content_html": "“Following Links - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
\n\nI always try to follow links. You always end up somewhere interesting.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-13T09:53:29+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/13/following-links-jim.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/13/features-lost-across.html", "content_html": "“Features lost across versions of macOS - TidBITS Talk”
\n\nI mean, they aren’t wrong. The list is kind of long and depressing.
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-13T09:45:09+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/13/features-lost-across.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/13/my-guess-is.html", "content_html": "My guess is the duration of the AI Bubble in any given industry is going to be proportional to how intensely its execs hate labour. The bigger the dislike for the “entitled” employees (who do all the genuine value creation), the longer they’ll be chasing the idea that “AI” can replace workers
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-13T09:42:44+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/13/my-guess-is.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/13/a-generation-of.html", "content_html": "“A generation of design leaders grapples with their future”
\n\nBetween “let’s get rid of all the designers and replace them with AI!” and “let’s get rid of all of all the junior web devs and replace them with AI!” I’m guessing that, as bad as software quality has been in recent years, much worse is to come
\n", "date_published": "2024-03-13T09:30:37+00:00", "url": "https://notes.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/03/13/a-generation-of.html" }, { "id": "http://baldur.micro.blog/2024/03/13/gender-bias-in.html", "content_html": "“Gender Bias in Tech: 73% of Women Report Experiencing Discrimination | HackerNoon”
\n\nNone of this surprises me, unfortunately.
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