Notices by Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social), page 31

“A lot of the coverage talks about them as not yet ready or still underdeveloped—something that suggests that this is a path to something that would work well, and I don’t think it is,” me to @haydenfield in this piece for Tech Brew:

https://www.emergingtechbrew.com/stories/2023/03/07/how-google-s-2021-ai-ethics-debate-foreshadowed-the-future

#AIHype #MathyMath #ChatGPT #Bard

Went pretty well. That firstboot script takes forever because the first few Flatpaks need a LOT of dependencies. I wish the GUI was able to tell you what was happening like you would see if you ran flatpak from the command line.

There's more writing, quality or not, than anyone can possibly enjoy all of it in their lifetimes!

I'll continue sharing the indieweb-original shows I enjoy, & I encourage others to do likewise! The Red Panda declares it!

Even if the professional curators are now struggling with an onslaught of GPT-generated submissions... That's the very worrying bit.

Then again I suspect the automated (proprietary) hueristics will fare even worse... No lawsuit required to take them down!

From the links about GPTs I shared this morning, I don't know if the AI future we're rushing headlong into would really look that different from the status quo. Even if it'd reinforce the worst aspects & put people out of paid work.

Most people will still watch whatever advertisers shove in their face & defend its artistic merit, beyond a certain threshold. Whilst the talented writers linger in obscurity.

And there'll be an even larger garbage heap to dig through...

1/2

The 8086 processor's microcode pipeline from die analysis - Ken Shirriff: http://www.righto.com/2023/01/the-8086-processors-microcode-pipeline.html

The Present Needs Files - Scott Jenson: https://jenson.org/files2/
Yes, please!
(Though I do have qualms about cloud, & am more excited by CRDTs!)

The Great Replacement (Not That One, the Real One) - Catherynn M. Valente "Welcome to Garbagetown": https://catvalente.substack.com/p/the-great-replacement-not-that-one (Substack)

The Fallacy of AI Functionality - Inioluwa Deborah Raji, I. Elizabeth Kumar, Aaron Horowitz, & Andrew Selbst @ ACM Digital Library: https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3531146.3533158

Those meddling kids! The Reverse Scooby-Doo theory of tech innovation comes with the excuses baked in - David Karpf @ NiemanLab: https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/03/those-meddling-kids-the-reverse-scooby-doo-theory-of-tech-innovation-comes-with-the-excuses-baked-in/

Can publishing survive the oncoming AI storm? - Suw Charman Anderson "wordcounting": https://wordcounting.substack.com/p/can-publishing-survive-the-oncoming (Substack)

The (extremely) loud minority - Andy Bell: https://andy-bell.co.uk/the-extremely-loud-minority/

Relatedly, yesterday I found...

The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era - Jared White "The Spicy Web": https://www.spicyweb.dev/the-great-gaslighting-of-the-js-age/

Updates for February, 2023 - elementary: https://blog.elementary.io/updates-for-february-2023/

Can you help me teach privacy to those who need it most? - Heather Burns: https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/03/06/can-you-help-me-teach-privacy-to-those-who-need-it-most/

AI is making it easier to create more noise, when all I want is good search - Rach Smith: https://rachsmith.com/i-want-good-search/
Not much more than the headline, but I do like that headline. The fallacy that computers solve discoverability has always been a thing in computing, & it often lands on sysadmins to uphold this illusion by serving as librarians.

Keep your AI claims in check - Federal Trade Commision: https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/02/keep-your-ai-claims-check

Home Electrification: There's not a lot to do, and it doesn't have to be hard (Part 1) - Technology Connections: https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=CVLLNjSLJTQ (YouTube via Invidious)

The "open source native" principle for software design - Gabriella Gonzalez: https://www.haskellforall.com/2023/03/the-open-source-native-principle-for.html

Monetising online content - Manuel Moreale: https://manuelmoreale.com/@/page/QNseJ8hc5RP6SaRI

Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes - Julia Evans: https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/03/06/possible-reasons-8-bit-bytes/

The age-appropriate rubber dinghies of the sunlit uplands - Heather Burns: https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/03/07/the-age-appropriate-rubber-dinghies-of-the-sunlit-uplands/

PyCon Italia 2023 - Paolo Melchiorre: https://www.paulox.net/2023/05/26/pycon-it-2023/

HTML over the wire - Go Make Things: https://gomakethings.com/html-over-the-wire/

Idea: thumb drives that retain data for a set amount of time (say, 24h) and then destroy it automagically.

I want to not have to think about safely deleting the data from the thumbdrive I used to move two files across the hall.

Surely we could have that technology?

#InfoSec 🧵