With the emergence of LLM “AI”, everyone will have to learn what many disabled people have always understood
After my last long post, I got into some frustrating conversations, among them one in which an open-source guy repeatedly scoffed at the idea of
Neeva was faster, simpler, and ad-free. But making something better than Google isn’t enough to beat Google.
The urge to replace the mainframe has reinvented the mainframe and its problems.
I’ve come to think LLMs/GPTs/whatever are a threat to conventional search engines because the modern web is an unbelievably annoying dumpster fire. They don’t really provide better or faster answers, what they provide is an experience that is not a complete pain in the ass. This frog has been simmering for a long while now and we’re so used to it that seeing literally anything else seems revolutionary. You visit a website and need to dismiss a cookie policy notification, a request to show popups, a request to know your location, an invitation to subscribe to a newsletter, a sales rep wants to have a chat with you, then you get random layout shifts for several minutes as all the ad auctions finish, and then just as you’re ready to read the content the website crashes and reloads and the circus starts over again.
Pluralistic: Tiktok's enshittification (21 Jan 2023)
from https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys
Over the last 15+ years, innovative electronics companies have designed and released thousands of open-source hardware designs, creating a flourishing industry. Open-source hardware companies colle…
Threads Adopting ActivityPub Makes Sense, but Won't Be Easy
from https://thenewstack.io/threads-adopting-activitypub-makes-sense-but-wont-be-easy/
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
Those of you not plugged into the Mastodon community may not be aware of the predominant reaction to Instagram Threads. This started when it was merely rumored, reaching a crescendo with reports that...
Understanding Threads and its threat to Twitter means understanding the current landscape of social media.
Cement is an industry where capturing carbon emissions may be necessary. A combination with process heat electrification could be better than CCS alone.
https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/articles/assessing-fire-risks-photovoltaic-systems-and-developing-safety-concepts-risk
According to this technologist, Facebook-turned-Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg isn't trying to revolutionize work. He wants to be the god of a digital heaven.
STOCKTON, CA—Cackling as the steps of the dastardly plan crystallized in her mind, local trans teen Brie Chandler told reporters Tuesday that she had hatched a nefarious plot to undergo years of medical treatments and counseling to win at swimming. “It’s oh, so simple: several years of sweet-talking medical…
Slovník zvukařských pojmů aka Zvukařský slovník
from https://www.fader.cz/2022/10/24/slovnik-zvukarskych-pojmu-aka-zvukarsky-slovnik/
CLever Audio Plug-in, the open standard for audio plug-ins and hosts
High-quality deconvolution software for impulse recovery of reverb, equalizer, speaker cabinet, etc.
This is the second in a series of short posts about ChatGPT. As I said before, the insights are not particularly original, I’m just raising awareness of issues. In this post, I’ll explore the deficien
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