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An ambitious grey hat who's yet to bite off more than they could chew. They/Them.
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Long time no post.

I wrote a new entry in my People series, A Ritual of Some Sort?

This is a bit of a spooky story about something I saw one night while on a drive.

#IndieWeb #SmolWeb #SmallWeb #blogging #spooky
https://vzqk50.com/blog/people/a-ritual/

A Ritual of Some Sort?

Just what on earth did I witness?

The Hive
OpenAI Removes All Jony Ive Materials From Its Website It's only been a month since OpenAI announced its secretive new project with iPhone designer Jony Ive — and already, the partnership is ...

#Artificial #Intelligence #jony #ive #OpenAI #sam #altman #the #digest

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OpenAI Removes All Jony Ive Materials From Its Website

It's only been a month since OpenAI announced its new project with iPhone designer Jony Ive — and the partnership is already in hot water.

Futurism

PNG is back!

https://www.programmax.net/articles/png-is-back/ (by Chris Blume)

A new PNG spec was just released! […]

[…] After 20 years of stagnation, PNG is back with renewed vigor!

What's new?

* Proper HDR support (future‐proof, too!)

* Finally recognizes APNGs (animations!)

* Officially supports Exif data

* General tidying up—fixing errata, clarifications, etc.

#png

I went to work in tech because I wanted to use human ingenuity to solve problems and make regular life for regular people easier.

The longer I spend working in tech, the more I want to just burn it all down and go back to working the land with my bare hands.

If this is the cost of progress, then it's not worth the cost.

So for the Protocol hander discussion, I was particularly influenced by @timbray in articles such as this one: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/04/16/Decentralized-Schemes

Curious both if TIm thinks I took the right lessons from his writing....

And very much interested in @evan and his thoughts on the idea as describe in the post. And @jenniferplusplus

As well as what browser tech folks like @jon and @jensimmons would think of my rendition of the state of play and how to move forward on web protocol handler support.

Decentralizing Schemes

ongoing by Tim Bray

One of my best friends is due with their firstborn in just about two months. I'm going to make them a baby blanket since that's within my capabilities. Here's a swatch of the pattern I'm using. Though it will be the same material, I'll be using lavender for the actual blanket.

I'll link the creator of the pattern I'm the replies
#crochet #crafts #handmade #FiberArts #FiberArtist #BabyBlanket

Suicides Among ICE Agents Reach Alarmingly Low Numbers

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) revealed that ICE agents just aren’t killing themselves, despite being complete and utter dickbags with zero respect for human life.

The Hard Times

@nixCraft

#Perl: the programming language that allows you to create elegant and readable code, OR syntactical eldritch horrors.

Your choice, really. #TMTOWTDI

See, this is another problem with the chatbot bullshit. Here, an OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to 'subhuman' men saying they won't be able to find chicks no matter how much confidence they fake.

Dudes, let me tell you, this is TOTAL bullshit. I mean, if I can find a wife, ANYONE can. 😂 The incel bullshit is so sad. It's all lies, they're believing all these lies.

https://www.citationneeded.news/openai-incel-chatbot-subhuman-men

OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men

OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology

Citation Needed
Web 1.0 = Info
Web 2.0 = Personal Sites & GIFs
Web 3.0 = Crimes & Grifters
Web 4.0 = Exclusively written by LLMs
Web 4.5 = Exclusively read by LLMs
Web 5.0 = The Resistance™
Web 6.0 = Info (on rebuilding society)
Web 7.0 = Personal Sites & GIFs