Tabs for August 11th 2023
- Converting a cargo bike to en e-cargo-bike
- Scott Galloway talk. I love him.
- Sup.. Federated, encrypted instant messenger a-la WhatsApp/Signal.
- Solo stove. Saw this and reckon it might solve my issue with our log burning pit thing in the back, which basically drowns you in smoke.
- Open source projects you should contribute to this year
- Best rolling pin for pizza dough. I'm a connoisseur.
- The value-destroying potential of AI
- Firefox & Chrome are squaring-off about ad-blockers. Without noting anything here, you can guess who's on which side of this pathetic fight.
- What Apple did to Nokia, Tesla is doing to auto companies. I don't believe this to be true. Tesla isn't crushing any traditional OEM by any measure at all, not even EV sales anymore. Tesla absolutely re-invented the wheel and inspired a cleaner generation of car drivers. But VW out-sells them, and Toyota will too once it gets it's act together.
- In every reported case where police mistakenly arrested someone using facial recognition, that person has been Black
- Threads Has Lost More Than 80% of Its Daily Active Users
- Limerick fast becoming worst place in Ireland to own derelict property
- Folks are starting to doubt that ChatGPT and A.I. ‘hallucinations’ will ever go away. To be fair, GPT will not work as a generalist, but will be super powerful as a specialist in a single threaded vertical, industry or tech stack.
- The remote lounge in NYC
- Apple IIc portable
- Would building a Dyson sphere be worth it? We ran the numbers.. Strong argument that Musk is already trying.
- EFF Launches the Tor University Challenge
- What Can We Do With These Patient Monitor Videos?
- Survey finds top reason Tesla owners sell is down to Musk. If the reliability, uptime, security and speed of my vehicle is compromised by such an unhinged twit, then yeah, selling is probably a good idea. Every time EAP makes a weird jitter or mistake, I immediately jump to the conclusion that Musk has pulled engineering talent away to play on X instead of on critical safety features of the car customers actually paid for. I've said it for years now, Musk has to go.
- Photon on Lemmy. Oh this is a very, very slick Lemmy skin that absolutely makes Reddit great again.
- Parenting in Barbie land
- AI boyfriend
- Dark mode in ancient times
- Ed Zitron on the current climate in work. The notion that society is in mourning post-Covid is so beautifully astute.