@xuv writes

  • Quoting Henry Farrell

    Large Models should not be viewed primarily as intelligent agents, but as a new kind of cultural and social technology, allowing humans to take advantage of information other humans have accumulated. […] Our central point here is not just that these technological innovations, like all other innovations, will have cultural and social consequences. Rather we…

  • Barefoot developers

    [L]ocal software that means software that is built close to the home and serves the needs of the home. It’s software someone might build for themselves, their family and friends, their neighborhood and community. It solves local problems for local people.

  • Citation de Gregory Chatonsky

    C’est qu’une nouvelle dialectique du maître et de l’esclave à l’ère des intelligences artificielles se met en œuvre. Une dialectique extrêmement trouble où on ne sait plus qui maîtrise l’autre, qui est programmé et qui est programmateur parce que les procédures relationnelles entre l’être humain et la machine semblent s’étendre à toute chose. Dans cette…

  • TT-RSS reader for Android

    Not really sure why, but the official Android application that works well with TT-RSS Reader is neither available from the Google Playstore or F-Droid. But it’s still possible to install it on your phone if you know where to find it.

  • Quoting Joan Westenberg

    The technical sophistication of the heist doesn’t make it any less of a heist.

  • Link sharing blog

    Following Simon Willison’s blog practice, I’m planning to shift the pace and type of things I write on this blog. So, if all works well, expect more frequent writings and suggested readings around here.

  • Quoting Will Lockett

    Musk isn’t an engineer and doesn’t understand iterative design, and now SpaceX and NASA are facing a sunk cost fallacy. You never achieve iterative design with a full-scale prototype. It is incredibly wasteful and can lead you down several problematic and dead-end solutions. I used to engineer high-speed boats — another weight- and safety-sensitive engineering field. We…

  • 100 pains

    L’histoire banale d’un type qui reçoit un livre sur le levain et décide de pousser son boulanger à la banqueroute, un pain dans la tronche à la fois.

  • FediTree, the ActivityPub app that I’m missing

    I’m truly in awe with all the amazing apps that populate the Fediverse. I, myself, use a few: Mastodon, Peertube, WordPress and Bookwyrm. And I’m sometimes tempted to expand my portfolio with a Lemmy, Flipboard or Postmarks account. But I’m concerned the people who enjoy following my activities might get lost in this forest.

  • ExTwitter Cleanup

    With recent political events surrounding ExTwitter’s owner, I wanted to take one extra step to terminate all relationships with this enterprise and, from my little corner of the Internet, stop supporting the actions of a technofacist king.

  • One simple addition to your WiFi fixes a privacy leak

    Your WiFi router is leaking its precise location… but you can easily change that. Recently, researchers discovered that Apple was leaking every WiFi router’s precise latitude and longitude to anyone who would ask. They even send you the location of the 400 closest WiFi routers around it. If you are interested in the technical details…

  • Originality report

    Currently attending an online course at the University of Maastricht. When I enrolled in the class, I got an email insisting on ethical principles and letting me know that plagiarism wasn’t tolerated and could result in my exclusion from the course. I wasn’t expecting this, although I fully agree with those principles. I don’t remember…