Baldur Bjarnason

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Writer, web developer and consultant based in Hveragerði, Iceland. Lapsed Interactive Media Academic. Webby Tech Stuff and webby book stuff.

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https://softwarecrisis.dev/

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Spying on the tourists in the geothermal park

I’m not the best at taking clear photos of birds 😄

Today was a nice day for a walk.

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When the France election results are good

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The UK and France just proved that getting out and actually voting makes a difference. Don’t let anyone ever tell you differently.

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the amount of folx who think that the solution to bias in gen AI/big techs lack of quality data is to mobilise the public to crowdsource quality, labelled training data is astounding. often with no acknowledgement or mention of how this is extractive labour, all for the benefit of tech monopolies

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from the top

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We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.

Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

“OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers | TechCrunch” techcrunch.com/2024/07/05/o... This is, what, the third or fourth OpenAI security incident in less than two years? This is the sort of clown car you get if you're all-in on using LLMs for coding.

OpenAI breach is a reminder that AI companies are treasure troves for hackers | TechCrunchtechcrunch.com There's no need to worry that your secret ChatGPT conversations were obtained in a recently reported breach of OpenAI's systems. The hack itself, while

“Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted - HBS Working Knowledge” hbswk.hbs.edu/item/open-so... > Many companies build their businesses on open source software All of them. Not "many". ALL of them are built on Free/Open Source. It's just a question of degree

Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Grantedhbswk.hbs.edu Many companies build their businesses on open source software, code that would cost firms $8.8 trillion to create from scratch if it weren't freely available. Research by Frank Nagle and colleagues pu...

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oh you just found out about a horrifying secret? oh ha ha wow. ive actually known about that awful shit for a while, for years actually. i did Not tell anyone or say anything.

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since reddit is dying i want to share my favourite post about one of my favourite guys ever. i never really posted on reddit, just read stuff, but this post is now behind a locked wall. alt text to follow in a thread since it’s too long to fit in the alt text on the image

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Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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Remember when some of y'all got real mad at me for doing some back-of-the-napkin math about how much water "AI" likely uses, in light of the fact that they refuse to release their actual numbers? Anyway.

Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

Generative AI is a climate disasterdisconnect.blog Tech companies are abandoning emissions pledges to chase AI market share

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gotdamn if this isn’t EXACTLY what destroys relationships of every kind between men and women—family, platonic, workplace, romantic no amount of love can withstand being shot down every single time she opens her mouth

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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i spent the last year frazzled and ill and unable to write. two weeks ago we started pivot-to-ai.com and writing is *fun* and i don't feel *fried* and i'm literally feeling *healthier* so if you're feeling like that i dunno try starting a new fun project

Pivot to AIpivot-to-ai.com It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong

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Well this is grim

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One day we will learn to distinguish between "technical skills" and "using technology" but it is not this day

My son's grade school has a "tech literacy" class that taught the kids to look things up on google and chatgpt.

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Like remembering that before unions, a lot of folks worked 6 or 7 days a week, it's worth remembering that before environmental movements, the air and water in a lot of places were fucking gross. Left to their own devices, companies just straight-up poisoned people. They will again if we let them.

It's worth googling the Great Smog of London to see how far we've come. Images like this from the 1950s. It was caused in part from burning coal

Spotted this cat sneaking through the bushes #caturday

“Dynamic Type on the Web” furbo.org/2024/07/04/d... > This site now supports Dynamic Type on iOS and iPadOS Did not realise this was possible.

Dynamic Type on the Web • furbo.orgfurbo.org This site now supports Dynamic Type on iOS and iPadOS. If you go to System Settings on your iPhone or iPad, and change the setting for Display & Brightness > Text Size, you’ll see the change reflected...

Every "that isn't the real problem—you're a fool for believing it is—this other thing is the TRUE underlying problem" thought piece fails to understand that you can tackle problems on more than one front at a time. When the problem is a big one, you have an obligation to attack it on all fronts

“Why Zig has become the highest-paying programming language” thenextweb.com/news/zig-hig... I did not know that Zig was managed by a not-for-profit foundation.

Why Zig has become the highest-paying programming languagethenextweb.com This little-known programming language has allowed the few developers using it to increase their earning potential.

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Continuing with my weird fascination of how AI intersects with searches about TV shows, this AI summary describes an episode that is literally one where Ncuti stands on a landmine the whole show as an episode that doesn't feature him.

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Random photo from my phone:

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reskeet with a tweet you still think about

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Francie is here with a BLEP vs. MLEM tutorial. A blep is when the tongue is just hanging out at rest, stationary. Mlem is an action word for when the tongue is performing a licking motion - hence the name which is an onomatopoetic interpretation of the sound it makes.

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just $952 👀

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