"emulation isn't piracy" is, IMO, a "guns don't kill people" argument: while it's technically true, it's disingenuous to the point of being useless

that's not to say I'm against it: I'm actually all for emulation, but I think emulation's benefits are arguments in favor of piracy rather than arguments for why emulation ISN'T piracy

Here's a fun AI story: a security researcher noticed that large companies' AI-authored source-code repeatedly referenced a nonexistent library (an AI "hallucination"), so he created a (defanged) malicious library with that name and uploaded it, and thousands of developers automatically downloaded and incorporated it as they compiled the code:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/28/ai_bots_hallucinate_software_packages/

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EU: Sets up an official instance for all governmental announcements, federation using open standards.

US: Waits two years, puts one account up on an instance that is getting widely blocked for transphobia, racism, and other hate, and doesn't build or deploy any of its own infrastructure.

Okay, tech vocabulary time:

A "Widget" is any UI element

The way to develop a widget it to sit down, uncomfortably: this will give you a Widgey. Then, develop functionality by working in slugs - sample versions of the real data you'll be working with. That should evolve your prototype to a Widgeotto. Once you've got to there, it's not long before you've got a fully evolved Widget, at which point your app will really be Flying.

title text: A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky.

(https://xkcd.com/2914)
(https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2914)

NYC’s government chatbot is lying about city laws and regulations

You can be evicted for not paying rent, despite what the "MyCity" chatbot says.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/03/nycs-government-chatbot-is-lying-about-city-laws-and-regulations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social