Category: en
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Dice drawing
Love this simple generative art recipe by @wblut. All you need is a piece of paper, a ruler, a compass, a pencil and a dice.
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Link dump from MDRAI
Tonight I attended an event at Elisava organized by the Master in Design for Responsible AI. I gathered a few links from the presentations by Caroline Sinders and Leandro Ucciferri. I’m just going to dump them below to explore later.
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Deltachat is amazing
Deltachat, a messaging application I’ve talked about here before, is adding features at break neck speed and is now, from my point of view, on par with a lot of the other secure, open source and/or proprietary messaging applications most people have heard of.
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Quoting Sonia Shah
Human mobility is fundamental to our biological resilience. Our capacity to cooperate across geographic barriers relies on the cultural connections forged by people on the move, injecting genetic and cultural diversity into otherwise insular societies. Migration is the planet’s connective tissue. It’s not the crisis we reflexively imagine it to be. In a rapidly changing…
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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…
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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.
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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.
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Quoting Joan Westenberg
The technical sophistication of the heist doesn’t make it any less of a heist.
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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.
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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…
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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.