⭐ What programming language do you use most of your life? Why exactly?
Most of my time I worked with almost the entire .Net stack, and in recent years it's Unity, so my language is C#
There were episodes in my life with mobile, many web stuff, java, c++, databases, etc.
#AI#GenerativeAI#ChatBots#LLMs#Web: "The problem, in extremely broad strokes, is this. Years ago, the web used to be a place where individuals made things. They made homepages, forums, and mailing lists, and a small bit of money with it. Then companies decided they could do things better. They created slick and feature-rich platforms and threw their doors open for anyone to join. They put boxes in front of us, and we filled those boxes with text and images, and people came to see the content of those boxes. The companies chased scale, because once enough people gather anywhere, there’s usually a way to make money off them. But AI changes these assumptions.
Given money and compute, AI systems — particularly the generative models currently in vogue — scale effortlessly. They produce text and images in abundance, and soon, music and video, too. Their output can potentially overrun or outcompete the platforms we rely on for news, information, and entertainment. But the quality of these systems is often poor, and they’re built in a way that is parasitical on the web today. These models are trained on strata of data laid down during the last web-age, which they recreate imperfectly. Companies scrape information from the open web and refine it into machine-generated content that’s cheap to generate but less reliable. This product then competes for attention with the platforms and people that came before them. Sites and users are reckoning with these changes, trying to decide how to adapt and if they even can."
#Reddit has stooped to a new low. Deleted comments are being undeleted.
I used a third party tool before they were all shut down to edit and then delete all of my comments and posts. Thousands of comments. They're all back now.
I've confirmed with others that this is happening. I have even seen a video where manual deletion was undone. They are refusing to remove content now.
Honestly the only reason I care about #p2p and #localfirst#web stuff is because it gives us practical tools to have nothing but what we have in our pocket and still be able to work with information technology and collaborate with others.
Everything else is just fun extras. :P
It pains me that communities need to either pay a corpo to own all of their shit or deal with complex nerd shit like the cloud to host their own (which is still paying some corpo eventually)
Really insightful article about the impact of the #ai and it's #spam content on the #web as we know it...
It's definitely up to all of us to shape the future of the web. If we stay passive consumers and let the #bigTech reshape the web according to their profit driven agenda - it's guaranteed to be worse than ever before!
Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, a computer science expert at the University of California, Irvine, posited in a 2021 study that there is a 1.6 percent to 12 percent chance of such a months-long "catastrophic" internet disruption occurring within the next decade.
The Small Web is for people (not startups, enterprises, or governments). It is also made by people and small, independent organisations (not startups, enterprises, or governments2)....
Five years ago today, I released In Octave! One of my first "ambitious" project, that still quite holds up today.
I'm still happy with the minimalist visual design, and how the procedural music turned out to be.
You can play it for free on itch.io. I believe it didn't have the attention it deserved! (mostly because I had zero marketing strategy for it)
If you're curious, its development is fully documented in its devlog.
What are your top #CSS features you played with, got excited over as they were supported in one browser... then years passed & support hasn't improved?
Mine:
✨@property Chrome-only for half a decade
✨filter() Safari-only since 2015
✨element() Firefox-only since forever
What can be achieved with it: irregularly shaped elements with borders with simple code & without using children or pseudos (for example for a thumb on a range, which can have neither). Like in the last image.
Is NASA prepared for an 'internet apocalypse'? (www.chron.com)
Sangeetha Abdu Jyothi, a computer science expert at the University of California, Irvine, posited in a 2021 study that there is a 1.6 percent to 12 percent chance of such a months-long "catastrophic" internet disruption occurring within the next decade.
What are your thoughts on the concept of the small web? (ar.al)
The Small Web is for people (not startups, enterprises, or governments). It is also made by people and small, independent organisations (not startups, enterprises, or governments2)....