“If you come across a bear, never push a slower friend down, even if you feel the friendship has run its course.”
National Park Service, 2023
Alex
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Software Engineer. Musician. Lifelong Learner.
Jeremy KeithThe success of a search engine depends on two interrelated things—accuracy and trust.
I’m flabbergasted that Google and Bing are perfectly willing to squander their reserves of both.
Geoffrey LittSome reflections on my experience building the Twemex browser extension, and why tweaking existing software can be nice:
https://www.geoffreylitt.com/2023/01/08/for-your-next-side-project-make-a-browser-extension.html
Steven Op de beeck“Mansplaining as a service.” Spot on.
Quoting @andrewfeeney: https://phpc.social/@andrewfeeney/109466122845775778
Andrew Feeney (@[email protected])
@[email protected] Christine Lemmer-Webber (@[email protected]) described ChatGPT as Mansplaining As A Service, and honestly I can’t think of a better description. A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures in an instant with unflagging confidence in its own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or even awareness of the level of expertise of its audience.
Adam CookNever forget how #ElonMusk pandered to this #Bolsonaro fascist.
Gabriel H. NunesAsking for help from the #OSINT community here on #Mastodon!
We in #Brazil need urgently to gather all the #tweets being posted by the #terrorists attacking our #democracy, particularly those containing #geotag.
Relevant coordinates: -15.8005489,-47.8618812
Drew HarwellBecause Elon has continuously misrepresented this:
The data used for flight-tracking accounts like ElonJet - called ADS-B data - are transmitted from nearly every plane in the sky.
The signals are unencrypted, and anyone with a $20 RTL-SDR radio can pick them up. Aviation hobbyists gather the data and put them on websites like ADS-B Exchange.
It's publicly available, legally acquired data of the kind Elon Musk said he'd allow, until suddenly he no longer did.
… Additionally, private jets are a luxury mode of transportation that can be afforded by only a small percentage of the population. As such, there is no legitimate reason to shield the location of these jets from the public. The freedom to publish information about private jets online is protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees the right to freedom of speech and the press…
Well done, ChatGPT:
AR: Give me a concise argument about why location of private jets should be allowed to be published freely online
chatgpt: Private jets are owned and operated by private individuals and companies, not by the government. Therefore, there is no issue of national security or public safety at stake in publishing the location of private jets online…
Jack SweeneyElon has gone on damage control banning journalists. Any and everything related to me is banned. So much for free speech.
