CvX

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Just fantastic technology all around. Absolutely no worry where this is all going to go.
My First Months in Cyberspace: Phil Gyford revisits the heady days of 1995, I was also a regular on Club Wired and Spacebar back then https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/10/15/1995-internet/
My first months in cyberspace

Recalling the difficulties and wonder of getting online for the first time in 1995, including diary extracts from the time.

Phil Gyford’s website

Honestly I think there's a disconnect between LLM proponents when it comes to code and the rest of us. They see code as a purely mechanical thing, and so ripe for automation. To them claims of artistry and craft are something to roll your eyes at, arrogance from senior engineers who think too highly of themselves

Meanwhile said senior engineers have the decades of experience to know how much of programming relies on artistry and craft, how much of it is fundamentally a creative endeavor

Google around 2000: let's simplify html by a few bytes so we can save a lot on bandwidth and thus energy!

Google around 2025: Here's AI summary of your query.

Only one journalist -- @molly0xfff -- did the serious reporting this year on the cryptocurrency industry's successful purchase of politicians who will deregulate the most corrupt crowd since the 2000s real-estate and banking crew stole countless billions from average folks and nearly killed the global economy.

They may succeed this time with the latter.

You should follow Molly White and subscribe to (and support) her work.

https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-70/

Issue 70 – The Cryptocurrency States of America

Crypto’s efforts to buy the 2024 elections paid off, and we’re in for a bumpy ride.

Citation Needed
Bop Spotter: an Android phone hidden in the Mission is set to Shazam all audio 24/7 and post the roughly 120 songs/day it can identify https://walzr.com/bop-spotter
Bop Spotter

Apple’s Definition of a “Photo”

One of my favorite parts from Nilay Patel’s review of the iPhone 16 Pro at The Verge was the answer he got from Apple’s VP of camera software engineering Jon McCormack about the company’s definition of a “photograph”: Here’s our view of what a photograph is. The way we like to think of it is

Mozilla deciding to put an end to its Fediverse investments while simultaneously going all in on AI tells you everything you need to know about what it has become.
Simply put, AI-generated images undermine trust.
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