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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

"If monopolies don't exist to become even bigger monopolies, then small companies won't exist."

AKA, government should stay out of our business unless it's to pour billions into infrastructure for our business.

The Silicon Valley doctrine is a hot mess.

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• Social media post with comments discussing Amazon abandoning a deal to buy iRobot, and a photo of a Roomba robotic vacuum on a wooden floor. "I'm really skeptical we're at a healthy place in these antitrust conversations from a consumer point of view. If mid-stage companies, especially in hardware, lose this exit path, then fewer will be attempted in the future."

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

It is breathtaking that government websites are still allowed to use #Facebook trackers in two thousand and twenty four, the year of our lord.

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• A smartphone screen displaying a list of websites including "facebook.net" and "columbus.gov" with a 'Back' button and status icons at the top.

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Daojoan ("Joan Westenberg") wrote:

We have conditioned ourselves to believe that artists, musicians, writers, inventors and creators must orient themselves as entrepreneurial go-getters - monetising their work into startups, small businesses or branded products.

The myth of the creator-entrepreneur radically narrows the complex motivations of creativity and pressures creators to view financial success as the highest marker of their worth.

https://joanwestenberg.com/blog/the-dangerous-myth-of-the-creator-entrepreneur

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

News blogs: why is everyone using ad blockers? 😭

Also news blogs:

🥴 #google #meta #tech #bigtech

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• Screenshot of Safari Privacy Report showing how often the sites I visit try to track me across other websites.
• A screenshot showing a Privacy Report list with various websites and the number of trackers contacted for each.
• Screenshot of a Privacy Report from a device displaying a list of websites with corresponding numbers of trackers, alongside green progress bars.
• Screenshot of a smartphone displaying a Privacy Report with a list of websites and the number of trackers prevented on each.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Privacymatters ("@PrivacyMatters") wrote:

Google has just unveiled an AI upgrade for Android. Google’s AI will read and analyze your private messages, going back forever.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2024/01/28/new-details-free-ai-upgrade-for-google-and-samsung-android-users-leaks/?

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

mpesce@arvr.social ("Mark Pesce") wrote:

AI can assist with brainstorming activities when you feel “stuck” and it can serve as a second “set of eyes” at times when another person is not available.

http://windowscopilot.news/2024/01/30/chatgpt-as-a-career-development-tool/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Colarusso ("David Colarusso") wrote:

@jsonstein FWIW, you can use the LIT Prompts browser extension I made + LM Studio to create local workflows around reusable prompt template for just such a use case. See https://github.com/SuffolkLITLab/prompts

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

loosenut@genart.social ("sɹɐʎA xɘlA 💻➡🗑") wrote:

Going to tell ChatGPT these are the Duras sisters.

#Rats #StarTrek #AI

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• Tree and Marlene, black and white sister rats, being cute on a black satin sheet in a lightbox with a white background. Tree has one eye closed, and Marlene looks apprehensive. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

ldodds@mastodon.me.uk ("Leigh Dodds") wrote:

Turns out you don't get a great frame rate when you try to run Doom on *checks notes* E.coli.

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/you-can-play-doom-using-gut-bacteria-but-the-framerate-is-atrocious

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

macrumors ("MacRumors.com") wrote:

CARROT Weather Coming to Apple Vision Pro With Interactive 3D Globe https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/29/carrot-weather-for-apple-vision-pro/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

christianselig ("Christian Selig") wrote:

I wonder if the Vision Pro's EyeSight feature will work at night. If so my favorite new activity will be walking into the pitch black bedroom with only my glowing eyes visible to terrify your partner

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• A stock photo of a bed shrouded in darkness with only the slight illumination of a man with glowing Apple Vision Pro eyes visible. He has a spooky hat.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

okay, this could change a lot of work flow... if I can just drop a dataset in to a specialty ChatGPT and explore it with "prompts", maybe I can do the same sort of thing starting from a locally-running open-source LLM

as a former teaching prof who struggled to get students interested in data exploration tools, this is fascinating...

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• specialized ChatGPT data explorer after I dropped in an XSLT file on historical male height data and asked whazzits? (remote)

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

GitHub made it harder to get the URL to download a zip of a repo recently - you used to be able to right click and copy URL on the "Download ZIP" button but they broke that with a recent frontend change

I built this Observable Notebook to compensate: https://observablehq.com/@simonw/download-github-repo

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• [Animated demo. Notebook is called URL to downloaed a GitHub repository as a zip file

 You enter the URL to the repo (or in my case I typed simonw/datasette) and it gives you a URL to a zip, which starts with codeload.github.com
 
 Clicking the "Use the latest commit hash" button fetches the latest commit hash and shows you that URL instead.][6] ([remote][7])

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Writing a blog post takes me weeks, because that's how long it takes to realize I'm trying way too hard to be clever and I should just delete like half of what I've written and get to the point.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Oscar the Housepanther apparently likes chard

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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

brownpau ("how now") wrote:

Remember the weird "BWAAAANG" noise they used for V'Ger in the Star Trek: The Motion Picture soundtrack? That instrument is called THE BLASTER BEAM: https://youtu.be/cj4f5z6nRhs

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

okay, DALL-E really is amusing

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• parrot and cat who is wearing eyeglasses are sitting together in a book-lined room with a sunny window at a laptop on a desk, they are looking focused, and the caption reads "pair programming" (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

robconnolly@fosstodon.org ("Rob Connolly") wrote:

Where have all the websites gone? - https://www.fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/where-have-all-the-websites-gone/

#oldweb #indieweb

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

I would love to see the term Digerati make a comeback to describe the corporate social media personalities disguised as celebrity tech influencers.

It’s a whole thing and we’re really not talking about it. #Meta #Threads #BigTech #SmallWeb https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digerati

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Just want to give a big shoutout to my #freelancers. The ones who've been in it for years. There's an element of exploitation that is often invisible to rest of the world. And the #freelancer often must deal with that alone. It's a weird and tough life sometimes.

I see you. I feel you. 🧑🏻‍💻👩🏿‍💻👨🏽‍💻👩🏼‍💻❤️

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Have started calling React-era stacks "contemporary frontend" rather than "modern" because "contemporary" implies that it's messy, contested, and unrefined.

"Modern" implies class, taste, style, and timelessness that most the codebases I inspect are devoid of, and we should reserve good words for good things.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

This is cuttingly on-point: https://johan.hal.se/wrote/2024/01/24/concatenating-text/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The abysmal state of iOS Push Notification support featured in a blog-length footnote of my most recent post, but it wasn't exhaustive. Thankfully, @rgadellaa is on the case.

TL;DR: it's bad. The horrible, no-good, verging-on-useless kind of bad.

The cynical among us might suspect it's part of a checkbox exercise to throw regulators off the scent without getting anywhere near capable enough to allow major apps to take the web seriously.

https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/web-push-ios-one-year/

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LaurieWinkless@scicomm.xyz ("Laurie Winkless") wrote:

I've written another newsy science article exclusively for my website. In this one, I talk about a major new paper that's been hitting the headlines - it shows that emissions from Canadian oil sands facilities may be many times higher than we'd realised https://www.lauriewinkless.com/journal/oil-sand-emissions-may-be-64-times-higher-than-reported #climatechange #oilandgas #athabasca #oilsands

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nuala@mastodon.art ("Nuala, with two As") wrote:

A man goes to see the great clown Pagliacci. He says, "Pagliacci, something is wrong with me, I don't find you funny." Pagliacci says "Maybe you are depressed, you should go and see a doctor" and the man says "but Pagliacci, I

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

(Not that there aren't many other pressing things to worry about. 🙁)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Thinking today about the gap between these two ways of thinking about computing and my future employment prospects.

Me: Computer as a workshop of tools to help me accomplish my personal goals. Sometimes working with others to accomplish shard goals.

Corps, people who own them, etc.: Computer as a workshop of tools for surveillance, manipulation, undermining labor, and rent.

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

There must be a feed setting somewhere between "I never want to have any idea what's going on in the world" and "I want to be overwhelmed with devastating news every second of my existence," but I've never quite been able to find it.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

macdonst@mastodon.online ("Simon MacDonald") wrote:

I wrote about React on Friday, but more importantly, check out our updated website. The team put in a lot of hard work on it. Hats off to @colepeters @kristoferjoseph and @scottjehl 👏

https://begin.com/blog/posts/2024-01-26-removing-react-is-just-weakness-leaving-your-codebase

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

djlink@mastodon.gamedev.place ("David Amador") wrote:

Someone created a fully funcional 16-Bit 3Hz CPU in Excel!!! with 128KB of RAM 16 color display, and a custom assembly language to run some programs in it. It’s open source too

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rg7xvTJ8SU

Code: https://github.com/InkboxSoftware/excelCPU

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