Mastodawn

I am excited to spend some time this weekend updating this slide. 🙂 🚏 🚌 🚆 🚴 🚶‍♂️‍➡️
That's a delta of $113,173; meaning every five years without an automobile purchases __one year__ of earlier retirement.
#transportation #publictransportation #michigan #GrandRapidsMI

Adam Williams 4h ago

Yes, I understand that this is bad - https://browsergate.eu/executive-summary/ - but what is the overall usage of __browser extensions__ like "Anti-woke", "Deen Shield", job search tools (as browser extensions?) ...

Again, not minimizing or anything. It just seems like a lot of effort to collect what could be, statistically, just noise. Which I suppose makes it even worse if someone takes the results seriously.

Executive Summary

Microsoft Corporation’s LinkedIn is running a massive, global, and illegal spying operation on every computer that visits their website. 1. The Regulation of Linkedin In 2024 Microsoft was designated as a “gatekeeper” under the Digital Markets Act in the EU. The two regulated products are Microsoft Windows and Microsoft LinkedIn. The Digital Markets Act mandates that gatekeepers allow business users and authorized third parties free, effective, high-quality, continuous and real-time access to all data, including personal data, that is generated through the use of (LinkedIn).

BrowserGate

Adam Williams 9h ago

If you are in the American Midwest: stock up on air-filters. 😢 #MidwestUSA #Michigan #Indiana #Wisconsin #Illinois #Minnesota

Adam Williams 2d ago

Will C 2d ago

"This is how the core myths of generative AI were built: by executives saying stuff and the media publishing it without thinking too hard. " -> The Case Against Generative AI https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/

The Case Against Generative AI

Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 words. I've written it specifically to be read at your leisure — dip in and out

Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At

Adam Williams 2d ago

Jordan Maris 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 #NAFO 3d ago

Adam Williams 4d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@miwebguy/116318741165600692

You can earn $25 dollar gift cards with your commute. #GrandRapidsMI

Adam Williams 4d ago

In case you somehow missed it, it is the 50th Anniversary of Apple computers. On this annual holiday Apple fanboys traverse the entire internet spreading their false history that Apple invented the graphical user interface.
They do this in honor of our fiercely their favorite company used legal intimidation to curtail the innovations of other, less resourced, companies.
#Apple #technology

Adam Williams 4d ago

The entirely pointless war has now gone on long enough that podcasters, and interviewers of all types, are having to reach deep for new [filler] content as, apparently, we can't talk about anything else.
It is OK to say there is nothing new to say, and that the astute intellectual analysis of geriatric tantrums is missing the point.
#news #journalism #podcasting

Adam Williams 6d ago

😀🚲6d ago

The signs say "no kings", but the credit cards in the gas pumps keep saying "YES KINGS! ANYTHING YOU WANT KINGS!"

Adam Williams 6d ago

Romano Roth 6d ago

Amazon mandated 80% AI coding adoption, tracked as a corporate OKR.

Three months later: their AI tool deleted a production environment (13h outage), then AI-assisted code caused 6.3 million lost orders in a single day.

New rule: seniors must sign off all AI-generated code.

The data: AI code has 1.7x more bugs, 10x more security issues. Companies accumulate tech debt at 3-4x previous levels.

This is not an AI problem. It is a management problem.

https://the-decoder.com/amazon-makes-senior-engineers-the-human-filter-for-ai-generated-code-after-a-series-of-outages/