“Scammers Are Using AI to Sell Ripped Off Versions of Other People’s Books”
“OpenAI’s ChatGPT Can Actually Make Workers Perform Worse”
I’m pretty sure that the overall effect that LLMs have on both productivity and quality of work is going to be negative
“Making a Website is for Everyone - Jim Nielsen’s Blog”
This.
“The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)”
“They Studied Dishonesty. Was Their Work a Lie? | The New Yorker”
Certainly starting to look like behaviour economics is mostly bullshit
What is it with 80s/90s movies presenting predatory sociopaths destroying people’s lives as sympathetic and loveable?
Made the mistake of watching Other People’s Money, which claims to be a satire but seems more interested in satirising the people whose lives are being destroyed
“‘I follow you for tech, not politics’ | Go Make Things”
My friend, all tech is political.
“Adactio: Links—Just Another Music Monday - by Rusty Foster - Today in Tabs”
“Sam Altman Says He Intends to Replace Normal People With AI”
AGI is a religion and it isn’t one of the lovey-dovey ones. More the other kind.
My aunt’s husband has been making violins for forty years so there’s going to be a show dedicated to his work and a concert. Scroll down for English.
“Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly irresponsible” security | Ars Technica”
No, really. Microsoft is really, truly bad at security and has been for decades. Azure is no exception.
“Compromised Microsoft Key: More Impactful Than We Thought”
This includes managed Microsoft applications, such as Outlook, SharePoint, OneDrive, and Teams, as well as customers’ applications that support Microsoft Account authentication
A reminder that MS is bad at security
“Meta in Myanmar, Part I: The Setup - Erin Kissane’s small internet website”
Fucking hell.
“Why We’ll Never Live in Space - Scientific American”
I’ve always been a big fan of space research, but I think we’ve reached a point where some of the money should be funnelled into climate research instead. At least for as long as the crisis is playing out.
“Pre-order the hard-cover print edition of Out of the Software Crisis“
So, this is a thing that’s happening. Simultaneously very stressed and very excited about it 🙂️
(Ended up having to use Shopify and Paypal for this. Unfortunately had no other option.)
That Ive/Altman “AI phone” thing is going to reach Segway levels of hype isn’t it?
Ugh.
‘The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon Over an Economy-Wide “Hidden Tax”’
“Google accidentally leaking Bard AI chats into public search results”
Mass layoffs followed by deathmarch development of trendy new features leads to mistakes. Odds are that we’re going to see more like this.
Not a huge fan of “considered harmful” these days but, in addition to the points in the post, using env variables is also a great way of making otherwise platform-agnostic JS completely dependent on node.
“We Don’t Need CEOs Anymore and AI Could Easily Replace Them”
Can’t be any more dysfunctional than the executives we have.