ianbetteridge

ianbetteridge, 10 days ago to random

In journalism it’s always important to get the local angle

ianbetteridge, 10 days ago to random

Of course a venture capitalist doesn’t believe that corruption should be punished. That would threaten his business too much.

Maguire posting “Hey Noah, when is the last time you Jaywalked? Speaking of which, it was a school zone so we're elevating the charge to a Misdemeanor Actually there was a bus that might have gotten into an accident because you were obstructing their view Now it's a Felony ~ A dangerous game~”

ianbetteridge, 15 days ago to random

Every time Elon Musk has run a software company he’s failed. So of course his VC mates are falling over themselves to give him money for xAI, because VCs make rational decisions.

ianbetteridge, 15 days ago to random

The traditional way of testing out a new Apple Pencil.

ianbetteridge, 15 days ago to random

There are definitely times when the Urge to do Journalism bites. For example: I'm sat drinking a coffee overlooking Whitstable harbour. There's a ship unloading, and I search for the name. This leads me to find out that it was impounded earlier this year for a bunch of safety violations, and is owned by a reasonably elaborate bunch of shell companies. Probably nothing illegal, but quite a lot of playing "pass the asset" from one company to another.

ianbetteridge, 15 days ago to random

Now about these options you're presenting me with...

ianbetteridge, 16 days ago to random

Tempted to write an article headlined "Are LLMs really artificial intelligence?" because... well you know what the answer is.

ianbetteridge, 16 days ago to random

I haven't really been keeping up with the omnishambles that is the Tory election campaign, so I'm only just finding out that "we got you through Covid" is one of their campaign lines. Sure, you got us through it, by setting rules that you were ignoring at the time to such a degree the PM had to resign.

ianbetteridge, 16 days ago to random

Someone should probably tell Rishi Sunak that if he seriously believes that young people are being radicalised, teaching them how to shoot modern weapons might not have the outcome he thinks it will.

ianbetteridge, 16 days ago to random

I would be much more supportive of compulsory national service for 50-60 year olds. The ones who got free education, affordable housing to buy, etc. It’s about time we gave something back to our country.

ianbetteridge, 17 days ago to random

Hey, Copilot, you OK hun?

ianbetteridge, 17 days ago to random

Curry sweats are the best sweats

ianbetteridge, 18 days ago to random

The funny thing about Microsoft's new Recall feature is how little actual "AI" it's doing. It's basically just making automatic screen captures, then running OCR and image recognition to create a semantic index you can search. Unless I'm missing something, there's no LLM (or small language model) used in it. Maybe in parsing queries?

ianbetteridge, 18 days ago to random

Can I just have a small moment to swear about websites which only work properly on Chromium based browsers? Can I?

ianbetteridge, 18 days ago to random

People: "Machine learning needs to be entirely local and controlled by the user, not done in the cloud!”

Microsoft: “Here's a machine learning system that's entirely local and controllable by the user”

People: "Not like that".

(Snarky comment, but a serious point: machine learning should be local, not cloud based, and it should be controllable by the user. This can be useful tech. Do I trust MS to do it “well enough”? Nope. Is it still a step forward that it can be done? Yep.)

ianbetteridge, 18 days ago to random

Oh and if people could stop saying interesting things to me for about four hours I would greatly appreciate it.

ianbetteridge, 20 days ago to random

This is just such a weird reading of this. The data is encrypted AND if you have Windows 11 Pro, also protected by Bitlocker. You would have to be parsing the sentence pretty oddly to read it as "not encrypted on Windows Home".

Maybe this is a privacy PITA, but writing breathless pieces based on press releases is just silly. Let experts pick it apart when they have their hands on it.

https://www.techradar.com/computing/computing-security/windows-recall-sounds-like-a-privacy-nightmare-heres-why-im-worried

ianbetteridge, 23 days ago to random

Well that’s quite pretty

ianbetteridge, 25 days ago to random

There's a wonderful tone which the seriously Christian* take when scolding someone who thinks their very conservative views = the heart of Christianity. This is that tone.

(*That's people who take the teaching of Christ seriously, who focus on peace and tolerance, rather than BURN THE UNBELIEVERS)

ianbetteridge, 27 days ago to random

"Google will now do the Googling for you, and everyone who benefited from humans doing the Googling will very soon need to come up with a Plan B." Spot on, and what I've been saying for a while.

https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

ianbetteridge, 27 days ago to random

If you’re in publisher SEO and the Google IO demos aren’t making you consider a new career, you’re probably not paying attention…

ianbetteridge, 1 month ago to random

I think is spot on. The culture has changed (and Apple doesn’t see it). But also Apple’s place in the culture has changed and it is just another tech giant. I would argue, though, that’s down to Apple itself, and its behaviour. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/09/dhh-crush

ianbetteridge, 1 month ago to random

This ad was all “lemmings” and no “1984”

(And you really need to know your Apple marketing history to get that…)

https://9to5mac.com/2024/05/09/ipad-pro-crush-ad-apology/

ianbetteridge, 1 month ago to random

Possibly my favourite Steve Albini story. https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/sep/30/steve-albini-rant-about-dance-music-turned-into-billboard

ianbetteridge, 1 month ago to random

Uploading this because I know everyone here will find it useful at some point.