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The only lesson to be had in the OpenAI drama is the money always wins.
Did you know the #DoctorWho theme tune has lyrics? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8zsNvU-GXg #DrWho
No criticism of capitalism can ever top the suits at Netflix seeing Squid Game and thinking “Let’s make it real!” #capitalism #SquidGame
Given my extensive experience with video games, it’s disappointing how few pressure plates we bump into in regular life. I’d like to drag a big rock over a pressure plate to escape the office one day
Listen to Ep 215: Paul Rudd from Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster. It’s the last episode of series 10, and our true crime podcast finally gets resolved: does Paul Rudd like sauces? Trigger warning: this episode includes talk about dieting. Paul Rudd (and James) star in ‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’, which is in cinemas in 2024. Recorded and edited by Ben Williams for Plosive.Artwork by Paul Gilbey (photography and design) and Amy Browne (illustrations).Follow Off Menu on Twitter and Instagram: @offmenuofficial.And go to our website www.offmenupodcast.co.uk for a list of restaurants recommended on the show.Watch Ed and James's YouTube series 'Just Puddings'. Watch here.
You put your Altman in, You take your Altman out, You put your Altman in, And you shake him all about, You do the hokey-pokey and you move VC around, That's what tech's all about
For modern "subscriptions," all the money you spent provides no value after you end the subscription. That's not a subscription, that's club membership. You're only paying for access. That means they can and will change what access means. They'll add or remove things. They'll change the price. But in the end, when you stop paying, all the access is revoked. I really hate how that feels, and would like to move away from that in any place I can, to be honest.
The existence of UNIX implies the existence of MENIX, INIX, and THEYNIX.
Attached: 1 image When I work at the computer all day, my back gets stiff and sore. To prevent this stick a soft, warm cat in the crook of your back. Follow me for more work hacks. #cats
Open Policy Agent and Gatekeeper give us the ability to have a unified framework to manage policies across Kubernetes and our cloud native stacks.
Attached: 1 image Got reminded of one of my favourite sentences ever put to the page.
Content warning: tech punditry
Remember everyone, if you're delulu enough, you too can fire, hire, fire, rehire all in a few days at your non problematic at all company. If you're really audacious you can remove women from your board, and replace them with *checks notes* problematic whyte techbros. #tech #infosec #nerd #ai #techbros
Sam Altman is back as OpenAI CEO with a new board. And of course the new board was hand picked to no longer restrict Altman so he can run OpenAI as a business as he sees fit (until he jumps to one of his own things he's been preparing for months now). The interesting aspect of this: The new board no longer has any women, the 2 women on the old board were replaced by Larry Summers who's known to think that women just have less "intrinsic aptitude" for "science and engineering". So Yeah. Says a lot about what OpenAI considers important.
The Open Policy Agent is used for policy decision-making across the stack. In the case of Kubernetes, it is often used as an admission controller to protect the API Server with dynamic rules that don’
I think folks need to understand that within a number of years, AI-generated "content" will be the microplastic of our online ecosystem.
A company lays off thousands of people, nobody bats an eye. A company fires one CEO and everyone loses their mind.
@hamatti@mastodon.world Including the company’s employees. Employees who could be laid off any time by CEO they’re fighting for. 🙂
Attached: 1 image “I see you’re planning a coup!”
Steve Francia is a highly accomplished technology executive and entrepreneur. Steve is a Managing Director at Two Sigma, serving as the Product Lead for the Investment Management Platform. Two Sigma is a technology-driven investment firm based in ...
Stop treating open source projects and foundations like consumer-facing businesses. Unless you've got a paid support contract that's being neglected, or there's a grave concern, it's inappropriate to escalate issues to massively public forums. Maintainers and the staffers and volunteers at foundations are already overworked. Don't make it harder for them to address your issue by ALSO making them waste time firefighting in public. #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS
Emily delves into her revenue strategy and positioning which aid in accelerating growth for open-source startups. She also discusses the crucial role played by open-source workers in enhancing business profitability.
The internet watches OpenAI unravel in real-time, tldraw has a new experiment going with GPT-4 Vision that turns mockups into code, Tony Ennis makes the case for HTML First, James Somers writes a “eulogy” to coding for The New Yorker & Laurence Tratt describes and details four kinds of optimisation.
Anyone got any tips or best practices for building #OpenPolicyAgent into your project? Had an idea to integrate it with dependency-management-data and now can't unthink it 🤓
Dropping a speaker a message (via pretty much any means of communication they make available to you) that you genuinely liked their talk is a very kind thing to do, and I can assure you that it never goes unheard or unnoticed.
Move slow and mend things.
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All the people they laid off, but here’s a guy who, to my knowledge, is just a VC tech kid and not an expert, who openly follows a “philosopher” who blatantly believes _Black people are not as smart as white people_ and they can’t wait to hire him. Gee, what group of people were hit hardest by layoffs again? I am beyond disgusted by this. I have to go practice whatever shit I learned in therapy to calm down. Every single person they laid off is worth ten of this racist venture capital fuck.
The biggest mistake I have made as a creator is letting my ego, my ambition and the shallowness of social media convince me that I had an "Audience" instead of a network. It's a self centred worldview that strips the humanity out of the folks around us. We end up treating people like numbers and vanity metrics. That's just bulls**t.
Everyone: AI is the future, let’s gooooo Open ai: not so fast, hold my beer
Mat Ryer returns with his guitar, an unpopular opinion & his favorite internet virus.
Presentations - Call for Participation https://fosdem.org/2024/news/2023-11-20-call-for-presentations/
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Week Notes 23#46 (4 mins read).
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Is there an #opensource backed standard for annotating others’ webpages? I’m thinking specifically being able to tag others’ sites with #IndieWeb h-cards (eg. Adding machine readable event tags to pages like this: https://www.ewanbleach.com/events) or something more fancy, like letting me attach (#ipvm runnable?) WASM to that page that will extract an iCal file. I want to make microformats and standard metadata more available without everyone having to get on board.
Jerod goes one-on-one with our old friend Justin Searls! We talk build vs buy decisions, dependency selection & how Justin has implemented POSSE (Post On Site Syndicate Elsewhere) in response to the stratification of social networks.
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about how we can get back to that “new good internet.” Cory’s new book The Internet Con offers a lens to this conversation about disenshittifying the internet through anti-trust laws, limits on corporate tweaking, regulating unconstrai...
What do we want? To stop procrastinating! When do we want it? Tomorrow! From: @jerod https://changelog.social/@jerod/111437958220583114
These people can't even run a company competently but think they can create an AI that is smarter than humans and control it? This is some Jurassic Park level hubris.
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I had a Captcha today that had ai generated images - this is not new. But the prompt was also clearly ai generated, as it made zero grammatical sense. Refreshing the page was the only option, as refreshing the captcha gave the same prompt with different images. How is solving problems a computer can solve far easier than a human a good way to determine the user isn’t a computer?
Being an adult is just saying ‘Things will slow down next week’ to each other until you die
So the thing I don't get about tumblr is why it's so strict on anything remotely sexual, yet happily broadcasts and pushes ads with graphic violent content of people being shot in a video game. To me, I find violence 100x worse for society than something mildly sexually explicit. It's deeply saddening just how normalised violence is in our society, but sex is so taboo.
Attached: 1 video “It makes me so angry, the way they’ve weaponised this idea of being woke; that being asleep is something to aspire to.” What a hero. #DavidTennant #TheLastLeg
You know what? Fuck billionaire tech-boys and the toys they develop that continue to ravage the world and heighten inequity and fill our society with the dangerous detritus of their little boy egos. #InAMood
Content warning: Explaining Friday's news cycle in terms that would make sense to the OG Marvel Universe