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Listened to Stuart Langridge (@sil) is a true wonder of the world, off-topic is default setting! by Tech: Off-topic
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Mike (⁠⁠https://twitter.com/ukmadlz⁠⁠ https://mastodon.social/@ukmadlz) and co-host Jim (https://twitter.com/secondej https://phpc.social/@SecondeJ) gather for the first time in a while and are joined by Stuart Langridge (https://twitter.com/sil https://mastodon.social/@sil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Langridge). The usual variety of social tech chat goes truly off the rails to the point where it's more teachable moments than tech discussion. But some of what we cover is: Elon is against Chat GPT 4+ https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/pause-ai-development-open-letter-warning/ Don't deploy on Friday horseshit is BACK https://twitter.com/allenholub/status/1637111242610610182?t=EBkSZzQ6-zVpZ0I5lC4s4g&s=19 Dilbert Twitter outage two weeks ago was because they fired everyone with access to mint certs https://izzodlaw.com/@IzzoD/110001516908481048 You can't avoid politics in tech sometimes https://twitter.com/AlyssaM_InfoSec/status/1637383087020548096 The topics list was a lot longer, and this is all we got to. I think we hit a new level of off-topic with this episode, so enjoy.

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So Google's domain registrar was supposed to have released eight new top level domains on April 2nd (.foo, .zip, .mov, .nexus, .dad, .phd, .prof, and .esq). As of right now they don't seem to be live yet. Now, I'm not an information security kind of guy but I can't be the only one who realizes that having two TLDs that match common and widely used file extensions (.zip and .mov) is absolute pants on head lunacy.

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Why I prefer bloggers. - Search for something - Read blog entry with solution and links Why I dismiss YouTubers. - Search for something - Get a YouTube link in the results - Monetised video, so two boring commercials to sit through - Minutes of blah introduction blah - Sponsor shoutout - Minutes of blah problem description - Sponsor message - YouTube ads again - Possible solution - Nothing helpful in video description, comments full of hate trolls