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baldur

@baldur@toot.cafe

Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.

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stavvers, to random
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not all heroes wear capes

futurebird, to random
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The decisions and policy that have the most profound impacts on the greatest number of human lives often aren't the ones talked about most often in political discourse.

What is the biggest difference between life in this era and say... European feudalism?

I would argue it's near universal literacy. And along with simply having access to the written word, the highest percentage of a population armed with some scraps of what you might call a "liberal arts education"

The ability to self-teach.

futurebird,
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I think that's why AI, is such a seductive technology for these people. What if you didn't need to have workers smart enough to make good decisions? What if you could have a machine, which you could own and control take care of those choices?

Then the workers could be functionally illiterate, with minds full of fear and superstitions. Easy to manipulate, and no one would ever threaten your place at the top, raise your taxes, or write mean articles about you in the newspapers no one could read.

jenniferplusplus, to random
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Is ghost on here? Is there a way to beg them not to do this? Random bloggers aren't generally prepared to moderate comments on their own pages. There is no way on earth they're prepared to moderate their subscribers across the whole social web. It's a catastrophically bad idea.

https://activitypub.ghost.org/day2/

dangillmor, to random
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Google doesn't seem to realize that its AI "search" isn't just comically wrong on occasion. It's a reputation killer.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-ai-im-feeling-depressed-cheese-not-sticking-to-pizza-error-rcna153301

angusm, to LLMs
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It's fashionable to criticize , but can you think of another human invention that allows us to spend the energy budget of Tanzania to lift shitposts out of context and present them as if they were authoritative knowledge?

polotek, to random
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We got solar on the house last year. It wasn't necessarily about saving money for me. It became important to me to take a concrete step towards combatting climate change.

But something else started to dawn on me too. The fact that I'm now generating my own power, from an essentially unlimited source, is a truly radical act. I've been thinking a lot about creating a society centered around abundance instead of scarcity. It's not just theoretical.
https://assemblag.es/@theluddite/112496059286904697

rachsmith, to random

https://rachsmith.com/code-sketch-6/

another code sketch for

slightlyoff, to random
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I'd missed this post, but it's a great encapsulation of why I spent so much time on web packaging, Isolated Web Apps, and PWAs. The web isn't worse, even for complex scenarios; in many cases all that's missing is understanding and a little bit of imagination:

https://emilymstark.com/2024/02/09/e2ee-on-the-web-is-the-web-really-that-bad.html

peter, to random
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damn, that is brutal. https://infosec.exchange/@chrismerkel/112495797916386580

mergesort, to random
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Can't believe I have to fight app review to approve a TestFlight for my wedding app. 🤦🏻‍♂️

mergesort,
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After four denials I asked Apple "can you clarify what I should do to get this app approved, I'm happy to make any changes necessary" and they approved it without even responding to my message… This system is ridiculous.

kissane, to random
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This @briankrebs story is so wild

“As detailed by researchers at Radware, NoName has effectively gamified DDoS attacks, recruiting hacktivists via its Telegram channel and offering to pay people who agree to install a piece of software called DDoSia. That program allows NoName to commandeer the host computers and their Internet connections in coordinated DDoS campaigns, and DDoSia users with the most attacks can win cash prizes.”

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/stark-industries-solutions-an-iron-hammer-in-the-cloud/

raganwald, to random
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Those who describe moving all of an automobile’s controls behind a touch screen as “minimalist design,” don’t understand either word.

anniegreens, to random
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📝 From Apple Annie's Weblog

Companies are made of and for people.: https://weblog.anniegreens.lol/2024/05/companies-are-made-of-and-for-people

2024-05-24

timbray, (edited ) to random
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Do you know someone with significant quality-of-life problems due to Long Covid?

Boosts appreciated.

matuzo, to random
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I made a little website for my book. Before I publish it, is there any feedback you have? Does it answer all your questions? Are there bugs? Is anything missing? Thank you! ❤️

https://accessibility-cookbook.com/

peterdutoit, to climate
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I don’t think any of us really understand how quickly collapse can happen:

> About 85% of the country expected to see highs of at least 40°C
> Almost 40% of the country’s dams below 20%
> 40% are between 20 and 50%.
> Mexico City (Population 22.51 million) forced to reduce water supply as reservoirs that feed city dry up.
> Stores running out of mineral water.

https://apnews.com/article/mexico-heatwave-drought-protests-monkey-deaths-6310778f139ef786a8c70301fb340bd5

#ClimateCrisis #Heatwaves #Mexico

marick, to random
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Oh, so so many wrong paths in coding/design I could have avoided if I’d voiced nagging suspicions.

Life in general, probably. https://botsin.space/

Patricia, to random
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Ok, I’m sorry, I’m going to ruffle feathers here but… I’m trying to read some newer development process books and… oh my… even super popular ones are so immensely long winded and unconvincing in their dogmatic argumentation: this is bad, this is good, because I said so that’s why.

Recent examples that I’m struggling to finish: “Team Topologies” and “Data Mesh” - I mean they might be great but I’m getting strong “this should’ve been a blogpost” feels.

Patricia,
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This is completely true and also the most devastating burn: this book would’ve been an order of magnitude better if it was written by a large language model.

aworkinglibrary, to random
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Geoff Ryman’s HIM is very, very good and also the kind of book that will make anti-trans folks break out into paroxyms of rage which means it’s very VERY VERY good. https://aworkinglibrary.com/reading/him

rachsmith, to random

I need some quotes to letter

https://rachsmith.com/i-need-quotes/

HunkThunderzone, to random
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Always be skeptical of anyone who claims that XYZ is "the way of the future"

If you're young you may not know this, but that gets said A LOT. Most of the time it's BS.

Very few things live up to that promise. Which is why you're not checking Friendster on your Palm Pilot.

kpwags, to random
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I use @eleventy now on 3 projects. Highly recommend it, and of course supporting it.
https://fediverse.zachleat.com/@zachleat/112485776015229718

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

GossiTheDog,
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I got ahold of the Copilot+ software.

Recall uses a bunch of services themed CAP - Core AI Platform. Enabled by default.

It spits constant screenshots (the product brands then “snapshots”, but they’re hooked screenshots) into the current user’s AppData as part of image storage.

The NPU processes them and extracts text, into a database file.

The database is SQLite, and you can access it as the user including programmatically. It 100% does not need physical access and can be stolen.

GossiTheDog,
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And if you didn’t believe me.. found this on TikTok.

There’s an MSFT employee in the background saying “I don’t know if the team is going to be very happy…”

They should probably be transparent about it, rather than telling BBC News you’d need to be physically at the PC to hack it (not true). Just a thought.

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