Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 14

OpenBSD on the Dell XPS 13 9380 - Jake Bauer: https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/openbsd-on-the-dell-xps-13-9380.html

Special Database 18 - Jon Keegan @ The Markup: https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/03/18/special-database-18

Getting Started With Selfhosting Part 2 - Rohan D: https://rohanrd.xyz/posts/getting-started-with-selfhosting-part-2/

Supporting Embedded Content - Web Browser Engineering: https://browser.engineering/embeds.html

I'll definitely support images in Haphaestus. iframes aren't a priority.

Due to input device constraints media would have to be moved into their own UI. I think this would be better on the desktop too, minimize the need for SPAs!

AI summaries and AI healthcare (links & notes) - Baldur Bjarnason: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2023/ai-in-health-and-summaries/
I haven't read the links on this page this time, but I do like Bjarnason's commentary!

A fair few links came into my feedreader over the LibrePlanet weekend...

The end of PfP: Pain-free Passwords - Almost Secure: https://palant.info/2023/03/20/the-end-of-pfp-pain-free-passwords/

Oh boy, do I relate!

@Julia Reflecting on a silly argument regarding supposed "innovation" I got last time I boosted this take, I wonder if you've read: https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/those-meddling-kids-the-reverse-scooby-doo-theory-of-tech-innovation-comes-with-the-excuses-baked-in/ ?

Episode 38 Production report 1 - David Revoy: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article957/episode-38-production-report-1

The venture capitalist's dilemma - Molly White: https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-capitalists-dilemma (Substack)

When should you use arrow functions in vanilla JS? - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/when-should-you-use-arrow-functions-in-vanilla-js/

@christi3k Not yet! We're working on it and actively reaching out to other conferences to hear what they did and how it worked out (and how they budgeted for what they did - we're just getting started with sponsors) but we also wanted to give ample time for input from track organizers. If there are items in a covid policy that would essential for you to run a track or if you just have a strong recommendation, we would be so grateful for you to note that in the proposal.

I wish more people understood that "I want the computer to generate a natural language text that sounds like a plausible answer to a question about x" and "I want the computer to answer a question about x" are two very different problems.

will not be getting that sense player. from what i’m hereing the mics are not that good witch for a $1000 player is a massive letdown. @devinprater @jon

@oluoluolu Not specific to accessibility, but the blog about the history of the web could prove useful!

https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/

Update. In rural America, right-to-repair laws are the leading edge of a pushback against growing corporate power.
https://theconversation.com/in-rural-america-right-to-repair-laws-are-the-leading-edge-of-a-pushback-against-growing-corporate-power-199372

"Under the agreement, John #Deere promises to give farmers and independent repair shops access to manuals, diagnostics and parts. But there’s a catch – the agreement isn’t legally binding, and, as part of the deal, the influential #FarmBureau promised not to support any federal or state #RightToRepair legislation."

#patents

@enkiv2
Pls remind us of the context for "system 2"?

Compare chatgpt to, like, Watson (which is like a wooden duck that has a cadbury creme egg machine in it -- a prolog-like formal inference engine).

Not that you should trust Watson, but at least it *theoretically* can *try* to check whether or not the things it says might be true.

Purely statistical models are purely system 1, so even if one somehow got human-level intelligence, the form of that intelligence would be like an extremely drunk & sleep-deprived person with severe untreated ADHD.

latest update to awesome search engines is here:
https://github.com/davidshq/awesome-search-engines

Biggest news is I've added a page for #BuildingSearchEngines - it's very partial at the moment but includes sections on #SearchEngines (open source), #WebCrawlers, and #CommonCrawl.

Know of other web-scale search engines, crawlers, etc. I should be aware of?

Another one showing how a smaller crop can end up revealing even more of the original screenshot image.

@samtuke @jameschip I'm not sure that strategy played out well for the US in the case of TikTok...

And I'd say true innovators thrive within constraints... But then I'm very cynical about what gets called "innovation"...