Notices by Kevin Marks (kevinmarks@xoxo.zone)

@evan it was a lot easier to pitch PubSubHubbub than WebSub

@Gargron @davew @werd.io wrote about the problems yesterday
https://werd.io/2024/protecting-artists-on-the-fediverse

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the-millennial-captcha

@lauren that's the motonormativity speaking.

@foone @glyph I know a couple of people with CD-ROM backups of Domesday…

@jamiemccarthy @cstross @jappel young Heinlein did understand money (you can see it explained well in For Us The Living and even Beyond This Horizon) but he lost it later on. The post stroke novels remind me of talking with post stroke or Altzheimer relatives where occasionally they come up with amazingly lucid personal narratives, but they can't maintain coherence for very long.

@mntmn is there part of the startup routine that assumes that buffers are full of zeros, and if they're full of noise instead could be misinterpreting contents as signal?

The Fallacy of AI Functionality
“Deployed AI systems often do not work. They can be constructed haphazardly, deployed indiscriminately, and promoted deceptively. However, despite this reality, scholars, the press, & policymakers pay too little attention to functionality. This leads to technical & policy solutions focused on “ethical” or value-aligned deployments, often skipping over the prior question of whether a given system functions, or provides any benefits at all.” https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3531146.3533158