Blue Lagoon closes for a week
They should have closed days ago. Even though it isn’t certain there will be an eruption, the earthquakes are close and big enough to the Lagoon to be potentially dangerous
“AI pivots” at software companies usually mean that they’ve lost interest in fixing existing issues with their products and they are now instead all-in on completely new products that come with a fresh batch of unknown problems and issues
I need to set aside some time to go over this.
“Omegle, the Site That Paired Strangers for Video Chats, Is Dead”
“Universe 2023: Copilot transforms GitHub into the AI-powered developer platform - The GitHub Blog”
I guess this means existing bugs in the regular GitHub platform (and there are plenty) will never be fixed. And new non-AI features will be pushed way down the priority list
So, I wrote a bit of a rant on Mastodon and it was long enough to warrant compiling and editing into a blog post.
“Web developers: remarkably untalented and careless?”
“How do build tools break backwards compatibility? | Go Make Things”
“A fountain of fakes – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog”
“An Intermittent Platform Bug – Chris Coyier”
These kinds of bugs are essentially impossible for a web dev to deal with.
“Cruise Self-Driving Cars Struggled to Recognize Children”
Who’s willing to bet against me that problems like these are endemic in the self-driving industry but hidden by the companies?
“A new Eleventy mascot from David Neal! — Eleventy”
I like this one. A much more defined character.
Honestly, I’m personally more of a “commit histories should be true and accurate, even if it’s messy and makes us all look like fools” kind of person, but I understand why many people disagree.
“Chatbots May ‘Hallucinate’ More Often Than Many Realize”
When summarizing facts, ChatGPT technology makes things up about 3 percent of the time, according to research from a new start-up.
This is while summarising, which even savvy users assume is broadly accurate
And I’m glad to see that there isn’t a browser in existence that I can’t lock up completely just by bookmarking open tabs.
When did Firefox make bookmarking all tabs in a window so involved? I swear there used to be a “bookmark all open tabs” menu entry at some point.
This week’s notes are a bit more grumpy than usual, but not too grumpy I think? Sort of mid-grumpy. Like walking halfway to grumpy, stopping, and decide “yeah, this is just grumpy enough.”
“Ian Betteridge - On Steven Sinofsky’s post on regulating AI”
Sinofsky was, IIRC, the dude that tried to argue at one point that the regulatory action against AT&T’s monopoly (and their eventual force break-up) had been bad for the tech industry.
I’m a big movie buff, always have been, but I generally avoid going to the cinema after COVID hit
Looking at the box office performance of most new films in recent years, I’m guessing that I’m not the only one
“The next frontier in IP parasites: codec royalties on content. – Rocknerd”
Software patents, generative models, crypto, the “gig economy”. Tech is for looting the rest of society.
Every time the US has one of it’s rare genuine union action, it immediately becomes obvious that US execs don’t know the first thing about negotiation and even less about collective bargaining