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2023/10/20 #

Peak believable plausible deniability was reached a long time ago. We are currently at 99% plausible deniability events. #

Today’s links:

  • Cost of Spam - Matt Mullenweg on Twitter charging to stop proliferation of bots: "It’s an appealing idea, and charging definitely does introduce a "proof of work" that wasn’t there before, but the history of the web shows this is not really a big deterrent". It's also censorship of the unbanked, some of the most vulnerable people in our societies. ma.tt #

  • ECB starts preparation for digital euro in multi-year project - Banks are worried it will lead to their customers moving their funds to the ECB rather than holding them in the private banks. There will likely be a limit to how many digital euros can be kept by any one person. It's not clear to me how this will in practice be any different to using a bank card. Isn't that already basically all digital? www.reuters.com #

  • After ChatGPT disruption, Stack Overflow lays off 28 percent of staff - People are using AI chat bots more and more, and Stack Overflow is in trouble. The chat bots were trained on their data, now they are eating their lunch. That will be a heck of a disaster if they go under. It's hard to imagine getting unstuck on some coding problems without Stack Overflow. Although to be honest, recently it has seemed to me that some of the answers looked like they might have already been generated by bots. arstechnica.com #

  • Ozone hole goes large again - "The hole has reached a size of 26 million sq km on 16 September 2023. This is roughly three times the size of Brazil". Holy f-ing shit, not a good time to be outside a lot then. www.esa.int #

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