Links archives for 2022/11/05

2024/04/15 #

10:47:00 +07:00 New Post: Typos and missing urls # markjgsmith.com
06:30:00 +07:00 New Post: My current linkblog format # markjgsmith.com
06:10:00 +07:00 Bluesky lifted its ban on heads of state signups - I find this mildly amuzing. How different the rollouts of social networks are compared to the early daysvof Twitter. I feel a bit bad that the heads of state missed out on Bluesky's showing-everyones-ass-phase. Hopefully they'll find another way to welcome them. # www.theverge.com
06:05:00 +07:00 WhatsApp trials Meta AI chatbot in India, more markets - This will make available generative AI tech without WhatsApp chats for about 500 million people. Globally WhatsApp has 2 billion users. That's a lot of people. Meta also announced the release of its latest open source language model Llama 3. # techcrunch.com
06:00:00 +07:00 Eastern Europeans buy up property in the West as Putin steps up ‘war on nerves’ - Sign of the times. Folks throughout eastern Europe are buying western european properties, especially in Spain, as a backup plan in case the Ukraine war spreads to other countries. # edition.cnn.com

2024/04/14 #

11:29:00 +07:00 The history of Wordpress from 2003-2024 - Really interesting post from Steven Miller that summarises the evolution of features. Of course I'm mentally comparing it to my static site generator, so the early years are particularly informative. Plugins, themes, admin dashboard, rest api, the direction is pretty clear. Setting up the corporate structure is eye opening too. I feel like the more recent direction is a bit less well defined, even if some features are pretty cool. # thegww.com
09:56:00 +07:00 New Post: Should we re-imagine git interfaces? # markjgsmith.com

2024/04/13 #

12:45:00 +07:00 🚀 Latest Newsletter: Good Output (Issue #159) # markjgsmith.com
12:01:00 +07:00 New Post: Rogan‘s vision of our AI governed future # markjgsmith.com
10:32:00 +07:00 Richard Branson’s cruise line launches month-long cruise for remote workers - It's $10k for 2, includes all the basics, food, Wifi, laundry, tea/coffee. Apparently he noticed this sort if trip was already being done by remote workers, so he figured he'd create an official package. That package sold out almost immediately. # www.cnbc.com
10:58:00 +07:00 NASA reveals view of total solar eclipse from International Space Station - I don't think I'd ever seen what sn eclipse looks like from space, aside from info graphics. These pictures of the solar eclipse as seen from the ISS are pretty amazing. # www.abc.net.au

2024/04/11 #

15:10:00 +07:00 Spotify launches personalized AI playlists that you can build using prompts - Sounds like an amazing feature. Might have to check out Spotify again. # techcrunch.com
15:00:00 +07:00 NASA Earth Observatory website posted satellite images showing Chiang Mai's growth from 1989 to 2024 - Incredible image, especially if you've been to Chiang Mai before. Great place to visit. It's been too long. # earthobservatory.nasa.gov

2024/04/10 #

09:18:00 +07:00 New Post: The softly softly murmurers # markjgsmith.com
08:24:00 +07:00 David Cameron meets Donald Trump amid push to shore up Ukraine support - It's just so horrible that Ukraine is stuck in the middle between Russia and western countries. Ukraine should be able to decide it's own future. It feels like this war is being made to purposely drag on, perhaps the military industrial complex is making too much money selling arms? It's strange to me that a massive country like Russia couldn't just crush Ukraine. What stars are they waiting to align before they end this thing? # www.theguardian.com
08:14:00 +07:00 Microsoft is confident Windows on Arm could finally beat Apple - It's good to see competition in the space is leading to advances that benefit users on all platforms. I'm interested to see what these devices look like. # www.theverge.com
06:34:00 +07:00 New Post: The improbabilty of total solar eclipses # markjgsmith.com

2024/04/09 #

06:20:00 +07:00 New Post: What do they mean when they say lie? # markjgsmith.com
05:42:00 +07:00 TSMC Gets $11.6 Billion in US Grants, Loans for Three Chip Fabs - Taiwanese TSMC will be investing more than $65 billion. They will build the first 2nm chip plant in the world, putting the US at the forefront of the AI boom. The US government has been on a shoping spree recently, deploying capital made available via the 2022 Chips and Science Act totaling $114 billion. Intel is to receive $20 billion, Samsung of South Korea $6 billion, with other announcements still to come. # www.bloomberg.com

2024/04/08 #

05:42:00 +07:00 New Post: The overrides bug # markjgsmith.com
15:04:00 +07:00 Gender pay gap in Great Britain smallest since reporting first enforced - It's good to see progress, abd I say this as a man that gets constantly bullied by women. I want to live in a world where that behaviour isn't the norm. Where it doesn't feel necessary. Unfortnately it probably takes several generations to get that way. You got to start somewhere though. Incidentally it feels to me like many of the women here have more money than the men. # www.theguardian.com

2024/04/06 #

20:45:00 +07:00 New Post: Complex malicious help # markjgsmith.com
20:07:00 +07:00 New Post: Motorbike gang stalker drivebys # markjgsmith.com
18:30:00 +07:00 New Post: Robot mates and LLM conversations # markjgsmith.com
12:45:00 +07:00 🚀 Latest Newsletter: Pushing To Main (Issue #158) # markjgsmith.com

2024/04/05 #

09:16:00 +07:00 New Post: Module caches and reusable workflows # markjgsmith.com
22:25:00 +07:00 New Post: Masks are sort of dumb # markjgsmith.com
09:16:00 +07:00 Linux On The Laptop Works So Damn Well That It’s Boring - It's amazing how far we've come with Linux on the desktop. If I ever have a chance to have another laptop, please god :), I'd most likely run Linux on it. My biggest worry would be how it integrates with mobile devices. You really want stuff like syncing photos abd videod to 'just work'. # clivethompson.medium.com
09:02:00 +07:00 Apple’s electric car loss could be home robotics’ gain - Apple robots for the home sounds like it could be awesome. I'd love to have access to the design teams that are working on this at Apple. I bet a greenfield hardware project like this would have a ton of really crazy ideas sketched out with weird prototypes. Some Apple engineers are likely having the times of their lives right now, which makes me smile :) # techcrunch.com
08:30:00 +07:00 Opera allows users to download and use LLMs locally - I predicted this would happen recently when I wrote about LLMs in the browser, seems like an obvious combination. Interested to see what form it takes. It's not obvious how it will change the browser UI. It's nice to get a prediction right for once :) # techcrunch.com
08:30:00 +07:00 Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016 - Mostly oil and gas companies, the worrying thing is they are mostly paying very little attention to climate deals, increasing emmissions significantly in the last few years. # www.theguardian.com
08:21:00 +07:00 German state ditches Microsoft for Linux and LibreOffice - It would be cool to find out more about this project. Do they have a team of developers working on features? Seems like Linux could be a good fit for government, big possibilities for automation, but I'd say you would need to have a great technical team. # www.zdnet.com

2024/04/03 #

13:34:00 +07:00 Redis’ license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about - The more I think about these open source project fiascos the more I wonder what incentive these large service providers have to make a deal with the original project maintainers. Surely they can just do the same trick everytime, which is to pay them nothing, then when the maintainers change the license, the service provider forks the project, inserting their own maintainers. Is this what is happening? # arstechnica.com
13:25:00 +07:00 Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores - Interestingly it's keeping the tech in UK stores. The replacement is some sort of bar code scanner mounted on your shoping cart. Given how much hype this had when it came out, feels like a big loss for Amazon. # gizmodo.com
13:17:00 +07:00 After the beep - Anonymous public voicemail with a retro interface. Looks kind of fun. # afterthebeep.tel
12:58:00 +07:00 Trump’s stake in Truth Social falls by $1bn after company reveals $58m loss - This will be an interesting one to follow because it might very well be the future of financing. The first famous person to do this was David Bowie back in the 80s. He sold a David Bowie bond and investors got paid back within 10 years. It was a big success. It's sort of similar to crypto initial coin offerings (ICOs). Truth Social doesn't have much sales yet but their losses are less than Reddit's. I wonder if with these celebrity stocks whether controversy actually contributes to the value going up. We shall see. # www.theguardian.com

2024/04/02 #

11:49:00 +07:00 New laws decriminalising personal use of cannabis come into effect in Germany - I'm suprised that I hadn't heard anything about this previously. I guess it's not an April fools joke? The one fact that stood out was that only 10% of the population actually smoke weed. Very interested to see how it pans out, Germany is a big country so will be interesting to see how it affects crime. I'd like to think most people are responsible and can handle having the option to try without fear of being arrested. So much police time is wasted on the crime surrounding weed. # www.theguardian.com

2024/03/31 #

11:15:00 +07:00 Git as debugging tool - Some great tips including one of the most concise and clear summaries of git's architecture that I've read. Loads of useful commands I wasn't fully aware of. # lucasoshiro.github.io
07:23:00 +07:00 The jobs being replaced by AI – an analysis of 5M freelancing jobs - It's good to see some facts based on real world data. Some of the results are suprising, several areas have actually seen an uptick in demand. The big thing at the minute unsuprisingly is chatbots and integrations with OpenAI. # bloomberry.com
07:04:00 +07:00 How We’ll Reach a 1 Trillion Transistor GPU - Currently we are maxing out at about 150 billion, and we are reaching the end of Moore's law, however this is causing chip makers to figure out new ways to incresse transistor count, and there is a sort of chips renaissance quietly happening in every layer. Innovative advances are being made in materials science, 3D stacking, integrated chiplets, lithography, and even the software and description languages used by chip designers. They will have a trillion transistors within a decade, which will fuel the AI revolution. # spectrum.ieee.org
06:41:00 +07:00 Google Podcasts service shuts down in the US next week - I use google podcast links a lot in the newsletter. It's unbelievable how many podcasters don't have their own website, so Google Podcasts is the best place to get a clean and tidy page for their show. I hope they don't 404 all the old pages. We need a good replacement. I can't inagibe YouTube Music will be adequate. # www.bleepingcomputer.com

2024/03/30 #

16:40:00 +07:00 Why Bluesky Remains The Most Interesting Experiment In Social Media, By Far - Mike Masnick does a great job of describing in laymens terms why Bluesky shows the most potential going forward out of all the social networks. # www.techdirt.com
16:15:00 +07:00 The Most Hackable Handheld Ham Radio Yet - The new device allows you to flash the firmware, and many users have started creating custom tools and interfaces. Eventually it might be possible to have an app store type entity fir Ham radios. # spectrum.ieee.org
12:45:00 +07:00 🚀 Latest Newsletter: Eating Glass (Issue #157) # markjgsmith.com

2024/03/29 #

09:40:00 +07:00 Three Cool (to me) Node.js Features - I didn't know about any of these either. A node --watch flag that is a built in replacement for nodemon, node --env-file which is a built in replacement for dotenv and styleText which gives you the ability to add colours to your console output, basically a built in replacement for chalk. Great writeup. # www.raymondcamden.com
09:24:00 +07:00 US and UK Probe $20 Billion of Crypto Transfers to Russian Exchange - Interesting data point. It was using stable coin Tether which seems to be very popular, especially in developing nations, from what I have read. Based on this looks like it doesn't offer much in the way of privacy. # www.bloomberg.com
09:13:00 +07:00 Reddit shares plunge almost 25% in two days, finish the week below first day close - Happened after Reddit executives sold off over a million shares. Not investment advice, but I would have though this might be good time to buy up some Reddit shares at the new low price. # www.cnbc.com
09:04:00 +07:00 Meta’s Smart Glasses Are Becoming Artificially Intelligent. We Took Them for a Spin. - I'm super curious about these glasses, especially in the age of the Vision Pro. Sometimes a device that just does the basics is good enough. I was under the impression that they had a heads up display, but I guess that's not the case. That would be cool so you can read basic text. Anyway they look pretty good, even with a mustache. Fun article. # www.nytimes.com

2024/03/28 #

09:10:00 +07:00 Astronomers Unveil Strong Magnetic Fields Spiraling at the Edge of Milky Way’s Central Black Hole - I'm still a bit confused how we are able to get these side on views since we are in the same plane as the rotation of the black hole. Or is it that the black hole rotates perpendicular to the plane of the galaxy? Or is it because of how the light gets polarized? Anyway cool picture, and cool to discover similarities between these beasts. # eventhorizontelescope.org
08:57:00 +07:00 Digital wallets and the "only Apple Pay does this" mythology - Has some interesting and useful technical info about digital wallets, specifically about the reasons and uses for FPAN and DPAN numbers. # birchtree.me
08:01:00 +07:00 New Post: Feature phone interfaces # markjgsmith.com
20:05:00 +07:00 Building a Micro HTMX SSR Framework - Super interesting to see how Vite works, and it's a very good tutorial, but I got about half way through and realised my idea of micro and the author's differ considerably. Imo this is very complicated, and it feels like there's quite a lot of 'magic' going on, or at least more than I am comfortable with. However I'm willing to concede it might just be my unfamiliarity with modern esm frontend applications. # blog.platformatic.dev

2024/03/27 #

11:37:00 +07:00 New Post: Regulators as secret crypto shills # markjgsmith.com
11:22:00 +07:00 Behind the plot to break Nvidia's grip on AI by targeting software - Qualcomm, Google and Intel plan to create open source software that will help people migrate off of Nvidia's platform - "The UXL Foundation, a consortium of tech companies, plans to build a suite of software and tools that will be able to power multiple types of AI accelerator chips". # www.reuters.com
11:08:00 +07:00 Donald Trump media firm soars in stock market debut - At one point in early trading the company was being valued at $9bn. This is despite the fact that revenue last year was only $3.3m, and they lost almosy $50m. Trump stands to make $4bn. # www.bbc.com
10:57:00 +07:00 Julian Assange wins temporary reprieve in case against extradition to US - How can this case still be going on? I feel like he's been on trial for most of my career. # www.theguardian.com
10:44:00 +07:00 Apple Announces WWDC 2024 Event for June 10 to 14 - The 35th anual event will be an online event rather than in person, anyone can attend for free. It's likely they will announce their AI strategy going forward. # www.macrumors.com

2024/03/26 #

13:13:00 +07:00 Time to examine the anatomy of the British Library ransomware nightmare - The article is a bit of a nothing burger, but it links out to the official report, which will no doubt be pretty interesting. How on earth could the British library be taken down for such a long time? It's mindboggling, and it has sort of paralleled my 3 month mysterious illness(es?). Perhaps the British library also found some small bits of glass in it's breakfast, as I did this morning? That really would be a strange coincidence. # www.theregister.com
12:56:00 +07:00 As AI booms, land near nuclear power plants becomes hot real estate - Companies that use a lot of electricity are setting up shop near plants. # www.theregister.com
12:39:00 +07:00 BlackRock Unveils ‘BUIDL’ Tokenized Asset Fund on Ethereum--With $5 Million Buy-In - Blackrock are one of the biggest investors worldwide, with $10 trillion in assets under management. CEO Larry Fink has been making money via tokenization in traditional finance his whole career, being the first to use computers on the trading floor. His move to enable tokenization of real world assets onto blockchains could prove to be very popular. # decrypt.co
06:30:00 +07:00 New Post: The AI layered tech stack # markjgsmith.com
06:00:00 +07:00 New Post: David Pierce summarises the complaints about Apple # markjgsmith.com

2024/03/25 #

14:21:00 +07:00 New Post: The bitcoin layered stack # markjgsmith.com
10:36:00 +07:00 New Post: The bitcoin and crypto rollercoaster # markjgsmith.com
08:11:00 +07:00 Feedle - It's a world of feeds! - A search engine for blogs and podcasts. It has some interesting features like creating RSS feeds for all your searches. Worth checking out. Also the discussion on HN is interesting. # feedle.world
07:57:00 +07:00 Linux Crisis Tools - Could be an idea to follow the advice here, getting your servers ready for debugging future issues by having these tools installed before anything goes wrong. # www.brendangregg.com

2024/03/24 #

10:11:00 +07:00 Reddit shares soar on first day of public trading - The company is now valued at $8.87bn, up from expected valuation of $6.4bn. It's been quite a turbulent journey for them recently. Hopefully they will get some stability, enough time to regroup and set their new public company direction. I bet Huffman feels somewhat vindicated about his high salary. I'm really interested to see what they do next. Congratulations to all involved. # www.theguardian.com
10:05:00 +07:00 AsyncBanana/microdiff - Microdiff is a tiny (currently <1kb), fast, zero dependency object and array comparison library - I can see this being really useful in clientside apps. # github.com
10:00:00 +07:00 Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defends his $193 million compensation following backlash from unpaid moderators - Looks like the redesigned his compensation package to be equity based, so that he effectively owns some of the company, despite being re-hired a few years back. He had to earn his company ownership back. He owns about 3% now. It's performance based so if Reddit does well, so does he. # fortune.com

2024/03/23 #

12:45:00 +07:00 🚀 Latest Newsletter: Backlash (Issue #156) # markjgsmith.com

2023/12/31 #

18:10:00 +07:00 Happy new year! New Zealand welcomes in 2024 - Wow fireworks! Colors! Not long now, 2024 on the way :) # www.bbc.com
15:45:00 +07:00 How AI-created fakes are taking business from online influencers - The big worry currently is AIs that pretend to be real humans. I wonder if we will look back and realise how quaint this worry was. Perhaps the real threat will be when people actively find AIs cooler than boring humans. # www.ft.com
15:31:00 +07:00 The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again - I had just emerged from a pretty serious crypto black pill session when I got down to reading this. Very refreshing. The year 2000 and the years that followed were indeed a lot of fun. Let's do that again. # www.rollingstone.com
06:10:00 +07:00 Why 2024 will be the year of ‘curated chaos’ - I don't want to take all the credit for this trend, but I think it's fair to say I have been doing currated chaos for #147 issues now. I don't look into the fashion world all that often, but I found this an interesting read. There's something about how the fashion looks at the world that reminds me of how crypto views the world. # www.theguardian.com
06:05:00 +07:00 The Guardian view on the AI conundrum: what it means to be human is elusive - Ultimately its not the technology that is dangerous, it's the people directing the technology. Short and somewhat mediocre article about that. # www.theguardian.com
06:00:00 +07:00 Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Is a Big Lie - People aren’t always very honest with trade-offs. I’ve pointed that out recently about bitcoiners and self-custody, it appears some aspects of ecologically minded lifestyles could do with being re-considered too. # www.wired.co.uk

2023/12/30 #

12:45:00 +07:00 🚀 Latest Newsletter: Happy New Year (Issue #147) # markjgsmith.com

2023/12/29 #

19:24:00 +07:00 UK vinyl sales at the highest level since 1990 - The cool thing about vinyl is the awesome artwork that often is included. There’s so much creativity that goes into the production. That’s the one thing that we lost with digital. I’m glad people are still collecting, record stores are a big part of the music scene. # www.bbc.com

2023/12/28 #

16:33:00 +07:00 ‘We don’t want the kids to be afraid of each other’: the Jews and Arabs uniting to heal rifts of war - "We don’t want the kids to be afraid of each other and hate each other. Here, they get to know each other and the parents get to meet". This is really great. # www.theguardian.com
16:15:00 +07:00 Jacques Delors: Architect of the modern European Union - European politics is a weird thing growing up in Europe. I recognize many of the names, including Delors', but it felt like all the politics was happening just out of reach, sort of peripherally. Anyhow based on the description of his role, I guess his passing is probably quite a big deal. My recollection was that UK politicians didn't like him that much, but that was likely shaped by the mainstream media of the time. I'm curious to see what the next phase of the european project will look like. Who are the current day European Union 'architects'? # www.bbc.com

2023/12/27 #

13:08:00 +07:00 Great unknowns: nine top scientists on the one mystery on Earth they’d like to solve - I love reading all these various questions from the scientists, it creates new and interesting perspectives in your head, new ways of looking and seing the world. Honestly I'm also completely transfixed by the first image in the article of planet Earth, just floating there in the deepest of space, doing it's thing, with all the oceans and enormous weather system of clouds and that blue glow around the edge. It's so unbelievably beautiful, isn't it? That's where we live, every single one of us. Take a look and think about it for a few seconds. # www.theguardian.com
09:01:00 +07:00 I’ll never stop blogging: it’s an itch I have to scratch – and I don’t care if it’s an outdated format - Music journalist Simon Reynolds on why he'll always keep on blogging. My brain thinks blog-like too mate. What a phenominal Tricky reference. Saying blogging is outdated though is a bit like saying jquery or a Sunday roast is outdated. Some very vocal people say it a lot, meanwhile 80% of websites still love their Sunday roasts. # www.theguardian.com

2023/12/26 #

10:53:00 +07:00 With my nani in Chennai I was loved just for being me. Isn’t that the essence of Christmas? - It's strange and often difficult living in between two different cultures, but people figure out ways to adapt. A short story about wisdom, principles, integrity and growing old. # www.theguardian.com
10:39:00 +07:00 ‘It feels very fun and freeing’: US sees ebike boom after years of false starts - I've been seing more of these here too. They are noticeably bigger than regular bycicles. It's a bit strange to see them zip by with their fat wheels and the rider doesn't even need to pedal. I supppse I remember even regular mountain bikes looked a bit strange whrn they first got popular in the 80s, pushing aside racers and bmx‘. # www.theguardian.com
10:19:00 +07:00 Apple Vision Pro Currently In Mass Production - The much anticipated device is set to be released in the first quarter of 2024. Estimated number of units looks to be less than expected. Staff in stores will be trained soon. You will need an appointment to test it out. # wccftech.com
06:58:00 +07:00 Chilly dips and cherry blossoms: photos of the day – Christmas Day - It's a bit chilly where I am this morning so I feel a bit connected to all these Christmas swimmers :) # www.theguardian.com

2023/08/31 #

16:28:00 +07:00 Should you use AsyncLocalStorage? - I've read through this a couple of times now and though I do understand most of the code, I feel like I'm missing something crucial. It looks like it might be a very useful nodejs API but I'm not seeing yet exactly what type of use cases it could br relevant. Hopefully I'll get some more time later to find more examples. # eytanmanor.medium.com
12:43:00 +07:00 The new economics of Twitter outrage - The twisted economics that are playing out on Twitter with Elon Musk's new rules. It has changed the "main character" dynamic from something that could benefit people that fitted into existing structured of business, politics and media to one where "you’re just paid directly by a billionaire -- though only if you can afford to pay him first". I'm not sure what it is exactly but some things in this article ring true to real life for me. # www.garbageday.email
12:30:00 +07:00 Bézier curves - Richard Ekwonye did a deep dive on this topic and created this article which containts some excellent interactive examples illustrating how Bézier curves are used in animation easing, but also in adding curves to simple and complex shapes found in fonts, icons, illustrations, data visualization charts, 3d objects and other visual elements. # blog.richardekwonye.com
11:29:00 +07:00 CSS Nesting just landed in Firefox 117 - Wes Bos Twitter thread where he gives 11 examples of the new CSS nesting feature which is now implemented in all browsers. This is awesome. Having a nesting feature in native CSS will make things so much easier to organize. # twitter.com

2023/06/30 #

08:00:00 +07:00 🚀 New Post: Building digital asset economies - Distinguishing between the different digital asset classes that DeFi is making available, and looking at some specific examples that demonstrate the new reality that is fast approaching. We are entering a world where new digital asset economies are being forged. # markjgsmith.com
06:04:00 +07:00 Architecture of an early stage SAAS - This is a great writeup. It’s a somewhat more modern version of the nodejs architecure I used for my SaaS. The author also covers the frontend setup abd code organisation. It relies on Fly.io but you do get a lot of nice features out of the box. It is quite involved, but building and running a SaaS is complicated and difficult. # www.feelback.dev
06:03:00 +07:00 Hugging Face CEO tells US House open-source AI is ‘extremely aligned’ with American interests - I'm still amazed at how easy and cool it is that anyone in the world can watch these type of government hearings. It wasn't always like this. Isn't the world wide web awesome? Btw Hugging Face is like Github but for AI and large language models (LLMs). Open Source AI is a very interesting topic that we are only starting to grapple with. We are still in the new-ideas-permeating-everything phase which is quite confusing, but some academics trained in thinking at a macro level are starting to ask very detailed & specific questions which are highlighting the magnitude of the sea change that is ahead. # venturebeat.com
06:02:00 +07:00 Let's welcome Meta, not block them - The author Manton Reece, founder of micro.blog, writes about the movement to pre-emptively block Meta before it has even released it's product, mentioning Open APIs, data privacy, getting your own house in order, and monocultures. Micro.blog by the way supports posting to ActivityPub, Nostr and Bluesky. Pretty cool. # www.manton.org
06:01:00 +07:00 Freefaces - Open source typefaces gallery - There are some pretty neat looking fonts in this collection. # www.freefaces.gallery
06:00:00 +07:00 Decentralized Twitter rival Damus will be removed from the App Store over Bitcoin tipping - That does seem like a bit of an over-reaction. Surely they aren't the first iOS app to add a tipping feature on a social media app?# appleinsider.com

2023/06/29 #

17:33:00 +07:00 🚀 New Post: Ideal offline reading app for web development content - Reading web development content offline has some specific requirements over and above what is generally needed to read other types of content. I detail the ideal required basic and advanced feature set. # markjgsmith.com
17:30:00 +07:00 The Mac Pro’s biggest problem is the MacBook - I started out reading this article thinking I wasn't that interested in the topic, but as I read, memories of jobs past, and various digital collaboration environment infras I helped setup, flooded my thoughts. Turns out I actually have quite a lot to say about high end mac hardware. Most of the VFX shops I worked for used Windows and Linux, because of upgradeability/modularity but also because it was easier to integrate them into the workflows. The folks running macs tended to be one offs, on their own island so to speak, with their own custom setup. From a sysadmin perspective, those systems were harder to maintain. At one place all the engineers actually got Mac Pros because then we could have any OS we wanted by running Parallels, which made sense given we were supporting artists running all 3 OSs. I loved my silver tower, it was freaking awesome! But probably way more power than I actually needed at the time. Oh how things change. Dear lord how I wish I had enough power to not have to wait 5 minutes switching feature branches or pushing to remote. Life is waiting for progress bar atm. # www.theverge.com
07:12:00 +07:00 🚀 New Post: Revisiting Instapaper for offline reading - A continuation of the exploration of Read Later apps that I did earlier in the week. This time I decided to try Instapaper again. The aim here is to have a way to read web development content offline. So far the results from using Safari Reading Lists and Pocket have been very variable. How about Instapaper, is it as bad as I remember? # markjgsmith.com
06:01:00 +07:00 Six more companies competing with OpenAI - Adept AI, Inflection AI, Runway, Alph Alpha, AI21 Labs, BAAI - The magic film visual effects tools company sounds very cool, uses generative AI to add all sorts of effects from text prompts. There also appears to be a trend in training models in non-english languages, which of course makes sense. I'd also like to try out the AI gramerly tool. Which one of these companies is going to be the next google, microsoft, apple or meta? # aisupremacy.substack.com
06:00:00 +07:00 The top six rivals competing with OpenAI - Looks like quite a decent list of some of the big players in the wider AI space: OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Anthropic, Cohere, Stability A.I., EleutherAI, Hugging Face # aisupremacy.substack.com

2023/06/28 #

06:01:00 +07:00 FTC sues Amazon over deceptive signup and cancelation process - I don't know that much about the flow to have an opinion. Ben Thompson has a piece that goes into a lot more details with screenshots. Seems like there might be too many steps. Reguardless though I'm happy that government insitutions are putting dark pattern usage on the agenda. I think it's something we really need to be aware of, especially with the rise of AI, it might get more difficult to detect. It's an area in which we probably want to avoid an arms race, that would likely be very bad for everyone. # www.cnbc.com
06:00:00 +07:00 Amazon to start using bodegas and small businesses to deliver packages - I have seen something similar where I am in Vietnam. Some shops have a large metal cabinet into which staff place small packages customers give them. It appears to be for sending rather than receiving. Anyhow, such partnerships with small businesses could prove to be very valuable in a future where physical increasingly integrates with digital. Amazon famously has highstreet stores called Amazon Go, that automatically tally up the food you put in your trolley as you shop and charges you as you walk out. The new packages delivery program has a cool name too, Amazon Hub. Wouldn't it be interesting if Amazon opened a major crypto exchange and turned high street shop partners into crypto exchanges? That was an idea I put forward in my recent ultimately very pro-bitcoin article that in retrospect was sort of maskerading as a hit piece. It's strange how creativity works sometimes.# www.axios.com

2021/03/31 #

15:37:38 +07:00 Suez Canal - How did they move the Ever Given?# www.bbc.com
15:05:45 +07:00 Unsplash is being acquired by Getty Images# unsplash.com
14:55:32 +07:00 Very off topic - London’s Top Hairstylists Predict The Biggest Trends For Spring# www.refinery29.com
08:47:43 +07:00 YouTube is experimenting with hiding dislikes to protect creators’ well-being - “It’s experimenting with hiding dislikes to discourage ‘dislike mobs’ from deliberately downvoting videos from creators and channels”# www.theverge.com
08:34:52 +07:00 Google collects 20 times more telemetry from Android devices than Apple from iOS# therecord.media
07:00:35 +07:00 Dapper Labs announced a $305 million funding round Tuesday from another batch of National Basketball Association stars and a venture capital firm backing its runaway hit, NBA Top Shot - The NFT run picks up more steam# www.coindesk.com
06:55:07 +07:00 Arm Announces Armv9 Architecture With Major Performance, ML And Security Enhancements - Securitywise they are introducing the concept of realms, which need to be supported in software, but offer the possibility of hardware level separation between trusted and untrusted data for running applications# hothardware.com
06:47:02 +07:00 Apple supplier Foxconn says chip shortage will curb shipments# asia.nikkei.com

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