This whole Sam Altman series of events are extremely suspicious and I hope it is already being investigated by the USA authorities since this is not the first time that Microsoft pulls this kind of getting the top executive of a “partner” company to work fully under their (Microsoft’s) interests. Let’s not forget about Stephen Elop.
I like playing with new technologies, so of course I have tried some AI models and tools and so far, most of them are barely useful as inspiration prompts, thumbnail generators, translating text or organizing bit chunks of information in a specific manner. But it does hallucinate A LOT. It is more unreliable than reliable. So there you go. Yay! AI is totally not bullshit… right? RIGHT?
Eli the Computer Guy
While I’m watching this video on Python programming by Eli The Computer Guy it came to my mind that this guy is an unrecognized hero.
Continue readingFinally, I’ve had enough and decided to get rid of Git, GitHub, and continuous integration to manually upload this site, generating the build from my local machines. When you learn to use Hugo, everywhere you look, you’re shown how to do a deployment with GitHub, but I think all of that is too much for the needs of most people and ends up increasing the technical debt that you constantly have to carry when maintaining the site.
Furthermore, I don’t think it’s environmentally sustainable to have to deploy a container or VPS every time you have to do a build when those tools are already installed on my machines. We’ll see how long I last with this setup, but for now, something simpler seems appropriate.
The dead of the old Internet
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RARBG is down.
- The BitTorrent protocol isn’t going anywhere. Farewell, Saint of Sharing Indexes. F.
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Reddit is down.
- Taken down by the administrative class that as always has great disdain for the value of the users and the employees. Decreasing the value of a human being till acquiring them becomes profitable.
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Twitter is … Twitter.
- People forget how damaging the short text restriction is for nuanced and deep conversations. This site doesn’t do anything special. Mentions and the easiness of reach are its biggest strengths.
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APIs are a paid luxury now.
- Big tech companies forget they depend on user-made content to populate their platforms and have anything to offer. This will increase the resentment of the creative class.
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The bot’s have gotten hyper-interactive.
- Large Language Models and Stable Diffusion models can get you horny or can make you inflict damage on yourself.
- Not everything that speaks is intelligent is the new normal.