MOVED TO PLUSH.CITYany mf who honestly thinks that uploading your mind into a computer will let you live forever has never had to restore a file from 12 years ago in a format that doesn't exist anymore
craig
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Cloud infrastructure engineer working in civic tech. Done some time in infosec and engineering management. I read a lot and write sometimes. Built this server to check out Mastodon and see what the fediverse is all about.
This is so infuriating, and explains so much.
https://www.propublica.org/article/cigna-pxdx-medical-health-insurance-rejection-claims
"Bard may display inaccurate or offensive information that doesn’t represent Google’s views."
Challenge accepted.
Paul CantrellAny experienced programmer worth their salt will tell you that •producing• code — learning syntax, finding examples, combining them, adding behaviors, adding complexity — is the •easy• part of programming.
The hard part: “How can it break? How will it surprise us? How will it change? Does it •really• accomplish our goal? What •is• our goal? Are we all even imagining the same goal? Do we understand each other? Will the next person to work on this understand it? Should we even build this?”
Jeffrey P. Bigham 🔥🔥we have chosen to put most of our research into documents in PDF format.
PDFs are a huge pain to make accessible.
most scientists write their papers in Latex, overleaf, etc., which cannot produce accessible PDFs.
to make such PDFs accessible, one uses Adobe Acrobat, which is expensive and proprietary.
increasingly, we post our PDFs to arXiv, which ~forbids accessible PDFs b/c they can't be compiled from source.
~none of our science is accessible.
artifacts (and file formats) have politics.
@saraaccidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"
and honestly, where is the lie