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jbzfn, 43 minutes ago to ai

"The vision is that there will be a... Jarvis assistant in your phone that locks you into their ecosystem so hard that you'll never leave," Jenson continued, referencing the superpowered AI assistant in Marvel comics that can make meals for Iron Man and help him fight bad guys. "That vision is pure catnip. The fear is that they can't afford to let someone else get there first."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/google-strategist-slams-ai-greed

#GoogleSearch #GoogleGemini #AI

jbzfn, 14 hours ago to FunctionalProgramming

⚡Try Clojure

https://tryclojure.org/

#Clojure #REPL #FunctionalProgramming

jbzfn, 18 hours ago to typescript

🦾 Functional TypeScript #1: Algebraic Data Types | Injuly

"In functional programming, algebraic types are so ubiquitous that you would be hard pressed to find a language that doesn't support them. Strangely though, nothing about them demands that a language be functional by paradigm. That imperative languages have avoided ADTs for decades seems almost an accident."

https://injuly.in/blog/ts-adt/

#TypeScript #FunctionalProgramming #ADT

jbzfn, 1 day ago to OpenAI

Can't wait for OpenAI to start training on Fox News after that last deal. Just in time for the elections, what could go wrong with that.

#OpenAI #AI #Disinformation

jbzfn, 1 day ago to space

"When you look at the northern sky, you can follow the arm of the Big Dipper as it arcs around toward the bright star called Arcturus. Roughly in the middle of that arc, you'll find the Northern Crown constellation, which looks a bit like a smiley face. Sometime between now and September, if you look to the left-hand side of the Northern Crown, what will look like a new star will shine for five days or so."

https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/05/if-you-can-see-the-big-dipper-youll-get-to-see-a-star-go-nova-soon

#Nova #BlazeStar #Space

jbzfn, 1 day ago to SpaceX

🌠 SpaceX satellites threaten to hide asteroids that pose danger to humanity | Technology | EL PAÍS English

"It’s difficult to say exactly how many asteroids will be lost… but preliminary results suggest that for every five near-Earth asteroids we discover, we lose one solely due to constellation interference. That’s if no mitigation measures are taken”

https://english.elpais.com/technology/2024-05-18/spacex-satellites-threaten-to-hide-asteroids-that-pose-danger-to-humanity.html

#SpaceX #Starlink #Astronomy #Asteroid #Space

jbzfn, 1 day ago to random

Weapons of Mass Disinformation

jbzfn, 2 days ago to taringa

🤔 FORTRAN and COBOL Re-enter TIOBE Index

"So we have two legacy languages in the TIOBE Top 20 for rather different reasons - COBOL skills are still needed to sustain vital legacy (or should that be out-dated) systems. Fortran, on the other hand, has a role to play at the cutting edge of scientific research and can be expected to have an expanding role in its "Modern" incarnation."

https://www.i-programmer.info/news/239-awards-and-prizes/17194-fortran-and-cobol-re-enter-tiobe-index.html

#Fortran #COBOL #TIOBE #Legacy

jbzfn, 3 days ago to infosec

🔎 flawz: A Terminal UI for browsing security vulnerabilities (CVEs) | @orhun

"As default it uses the vulnerability database (NVD) from NIST and provides search and listing functionalities in the terminal with different theming options."

https://github.com/orhun/flawz

#flawz #cve #infosec #tui

jbzfn, 3 days ago to random

🤔 What ever happened to Modula-2? | Paul Lefebvre

"Nicklaus Wirth felt that something more suitable to operating systems and application development was needed so he began work on Modula. This became Modula-2 and would be essentially finalized around 1984 or so."

https://www.goto10retro.com/p/what-ever-happened-to-modula-2

#modula #modula2 #plt #computinghistory

nixCraft, 3 days ago to linux

Satya Nadella says Windows PCs will have a photographic memory feature called Recall that will remember and understand everything you do on your computer by taking constant screenshots. This is a great reason to ditch windows altogether. Switch to #Linux 🧑‍💻 They don’t care about your privacy or safety anymore and not hiding it either. Source https://youtu.be/uHEPBzYick0?si=2ekH11gESoyDeq3D

jbzfn, 4 days ago to VintageOSes

🔓 CP/M's open-source status clarified after 21 years | @theregister

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/15/cpm_open_source/

#cpm #osdev #retrocomputing

jbzfn, 4 days ago to ai

🔥 How DeviantArt died: A.I. and greed turned a once-thriving community into a ghost town | Slate

"Generate a bunch of free images and accounts, have them buy and boost one another in perpetuity, inflate metrics so that the “art” gets boosted by DeviantArt and reaches real humans, then watch the money pile up from DeviantArt revenue-sharing programs. Rinse, repeat."

https://slate.com/technology/2024/05/deviantart-what-happened-ai-decline-lawsuit-stability.html

#devianart #ai #genai #mastoart #midjourney #stablediffusion #dalle

jbzfn, 5 days ago to space

👽 Scientists Identify Seven Star Systems That May Be Hosting Alien Megastructures
— @futurism

"They created a list of seven strong candidates that may be hosting Dyson spheres by analyzing observations from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite an, as well as more infrared survey results from other ground- and space-based telescopes.

The seven candidates are all M-dwarf stars, meaning they're both smaller and dimmer than our Sun."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/star-systems-alien-megastructures

#space #science #aliens

jbzfn, 6 days ago to ChatGPT

🤖 NetBSD’s New Policy: No Place for AI-Created Code
— @linuxiac

“New development policy: code generated by a large language model or similar technology (e.g. ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot) is presumed to be tainted (i.e. of unclear copyright, not fitting NetBSD’s licensing goals) and cannot be committed to NetBSD.”

https://linuxiac.com/netbsd-new-policy-prohibits-usage-of-ai-code

#netbsd #copilot #chatgpt #bsd #ai #aicoding #opensource

jbzfn, 6 days ago to TeslaMotors

⚡Tesla's Supercharger Changes Tell the EV Industry: Fend for Yourselves
— Business Insider

"I got a bounce from every email address," said Andres Pinter, a co-CEO of Bullet EV Charging Solutions, which has about a dozen projects underway for Tesla. Other contractors, he said, may be in trouble if they don't have non-Tesla projects to fall back on."

https://www.businessinsider.com/teslas-supercharger-changes-hurt-wider-ev-industry-2024-5

#supercharger #musk #tesla #layoffs

jbzfn, 6 days ago to Utah

🦾 Utah Locals Are Getting Cheap 10 Gbps Fiber Thanks To Local Governments

"Tired of being underserved and overbilled by shitty regional broadband monopolies, back in 2002 a coalition of local Utah governments formed UTOPIA — (the Utah Telecommunication Open Infrastructure Agency). The inter-local agency collaborative venture then set about building an “open access” fiber network that allows any ISP to then come and compete on the shared network."

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/15/utah-locals-are-getting-cheap-10-gbps-fiber-thanks-to-local-governments/

#utah #connectivity

jbzfn, 6 days ago to cpp

🧑‍💻 Butano: Modern C++ high level GBA engine
— GValiente

https://github.com/GValiente/butano

#Butano #CPP #GBA #Retrodev #Gamedev #Retrogaming

jbzfn, 7 days ago to TeslaMotors

🧠 Exclusive: Musk's Neuralink has faced issues with its tiny wires for years, sources say
— @Reuters

"The company knew from animal testing it had conducted ahead of its U.S. approval last year that the wires might retract, removing with them the sensitive electrodes that decode brain signals, three of the sources said. Neuralink deemed the risk low enough for a redesign not to be merited, the sources added."

https://www.reuters.com/technology/musks-neuralink-has-faced-issues-with-its-tiny-wires-years-sources-say-2024-05-15/

#musk #neuralink #bci #bioethics #fda

jbzfn, 7 days ago to ai

I'm trying very hard to avoid getting sucked into the AI fad. It reminds me a lot of Crypto and Reactjs irrational exuberance.

Gonna wait til things calm down to resume my research.

It looks like my country will be forced to act as a giant battery for these global gibberish generators. Like it wasn't bad enough with crypto farms left and right.

#ai #aihype #climate #energy #audhd

jbzfn, 8 days ago (edited 3 days ago) to scifi

ᐅ The Making of Tron 1982 Full Documentary

https://youtube.com/watch?v=sbgHMrLPQrE

#Tron #SciFi #Cyberpunk #80sClassics

jbzfn, 8 days ago to design

:perfect: Clear Technology Was Everywhere. Then it disappeared...
— Dansplaining

https://youtube.com/watch?v=yO-mo49LCy4

#design #aesthetics #90s #retrogaming #clearcase

jbzfn, 8 days ago to linux

👀 PowerPC 40x Processor Support To Be Dropped From The Linux Kernel
— @phoronix

"Back in 2020 was a proposal for dropping PowerPC 40x support from the Linux kernel given that the code was orphaned for a long time with no apparent users. The PowerPC 40x processors were found in thin clients, set-top boxes, and other devices during the 90's. Finally now it looks like that the PowerPC 40x removal is set to happen"

https://www.phoronix.com/news/PowerPC-40x-Removal-Patches

#powerpc #linux #kernel #opensource

jbzfn, 8 days ago to FreeBSD

👩‍💻 How to use VS Code on FreeBSD
— @FreeBSDFoundation

https://freebsdfoundation.org/resource/how-to-use-vs-code-on-freebsd/

#freebsd #vscode #bsd

jbzfn, 9 days ago to ai

:cwy: I thought Google deepfaked Weird Al, but the truth turned out to be far more disturbing.

"Rebillet has over 2 million followers on both YouTube and TikTok, where he’s best known for his viral “Night Time Bitch” sound clip and songs in which he screams at people to get out of bed while wearing a bathrobe."

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/14/24156630/google-ai-io-musician-marc-rebillet-musicfx-dj

#googleio #ai #genai