Tabs for March 17th 2023
- Mixed reality use-case for skiing
- Old Korean cinema on YT
- "Capitalism ruins everything"
- Sam Altman interview. The CEO of OpenAI has an in-depth discussion on ChatGPT among other things. I thought he was thoughtful, considered and intelligent here.
- Google Reader’s death gave life back to RSS newsreaders. David Chartier celebrates Reader's ultimate demise as the birth of true RSS innovation. For me, I used Feedly as my home post-Reader. Never needed to pay for it. And I pay for Reeder macOS+iOS client.
- MNT reform. I love these projects. Indie hackery laptops and devices for everyone. I'd love to decouple from Apple a bit, but it would be difficult.
- Fed bails out depositors, but not investors. FTX and now SVB. I've been saying it had to get worse before it gets better. 2023 will still have twists in the tech world.
- Retro computing pop-up shop. I'd love to see more of this stuff in Ireland.
- The demise of SVB
- Open Cubic Player. I don't recall this music player from the 90s, but I love it.
- SpaceX Crew Member Realizes He Fired After Being Locked Out Of Capsule. The Onion nails it.
- This is your periodic reminder that 10 years ago an audiophile forum started debating which versions of memcpy had the highest sound quality.. Via @danports.
- Losing Signal
- Microsoft lays off it's AI ethics team. Timing is interesting on this. But these teams tend to be corporate window dressing at best.
- Ring LLC, the home security and smart home company owned by Amazon, has been ransomed by ALPHV ransomware group. They left a simple message to Ring: "There's always the option to let us leak your data".
- GPT-4 has been launched by OpenAI. And it features customer stories from folks like Stripe.
- Lessons from Disney's botched CEO handover. From last year, but fascinating nonetheless.
- Kottke.org is 25 years old. I've been doing some form of website stuff since I was about 12, which is 26 years. So holding onto the passion and grit required to do one site for 25 years is impressive.
- Kali Linux Purple. Focused on defense.
- Leveraging ChatGPT to explain someone elses code. Very fun use-case.
- Drawing to functioning website via GPT-4
- "Holy shit. GPT-4, on it's own; was able to hire a human TaskRabbit worker to solve a CAPACHA for it and convinced the human to go along with it."
- Docker deleting FOSS projects. What a bizarre decision to look towards short-term profits in lieu of damaging the reputation with the very engineers and projects that made Docker what it is.
- Musicians need to tell fans they can actually buy their music. Spotify is now even worse for musicians than it already was. But bands & artists do a disservice to themselves by not actually helping fans discover where they pay the artists they love. I have a vinyl collection to throw money towards artists I love, even if I mostly consume their work via Apple Music.
- Rugby kicking positions worked out by Numberphile
- Japan & South Korea want to work more closely together. Two incredible countries with deep histories, but should share a common future side-by-side. Much like European countries.