Highlights from Matt Mullenweg’s Spiciest Word Camp Presentation at WordCamp US 2024: More info and context on, and reactions to, the Mullenweg / WP Engine feud.
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2024-09-26: Just re-encountered Good Clean Fun’s classic “The MySpace Song”. Emotional …
2024-09-26
2024-09-25
As the open social web grows, a new nonprofit looks to expand the ‘fediverse’: I’m happy to see time and money going into improving and promoting open de-siloing technologies such as ActivityPub federation.
Social Web Foundation: It’s a slightly controversial organisation - mainly I think for implying via its name that it’s something with wider scope than it has - but anything that might help knock down the walled silos of monopoly big tech is a positive.
2024-09-24: Somewhat bewildered at what’s going on between the ultra famous web content management system …
2024-09-19: Now Hezbollah's walkie-talkies are exploding
2024-09-19
Do you really need a new phone every 2 years? How to get more out of your devices: If you must upgrade there are several options beyond throwing your old phone away.
Repairing – not recycling – is the first step to tackling smartphone e-waste: Reusing and repairing your old phone is much better for the environment than recycling it.
2024-09-19: New phones aren't all that more exciting despite what Google claims
2024-09-18
Using LLMs to Simplify your Writing: Using LLMs as a personal writing editor seems like one of their more benign uses if you’re happy to fact-check the results - and this idea is one my colleagues probably wish I’d take up.
Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model: OpenAI’s typical levels of actual openness surfacing again as they threaten to ban anyone asking their new model why it says the things it does.
2024-09-18: Remote cyber-attack on Hezbollah's pagers causes thousands of injuries and deaths
Hundreds of pagers exploded in Lebanon and Syria in deadly attack: Seemingly a coordinated attack on Hezbollah via explosive pagers.
2024-09-11: Save videos, photos and audio from your favourite sites with Cobalt
2024-09-06: A friend gets in touch to let me know that it’s not necessarily scary AI cyber-brains that are …
2024-09-01: Telegram is only end-to-end encrypted if you solely use 'secret chats'
2024-08-26: Ibrahim Al-Nasser has officially set a new world record for how many video games consoles anyone has …
2024-08-16: Gotta say, currently being in the midst of the outstanding book ‘The Age of Surveillance …
2024-08-04: I wasn’t wrong about the torment nexus AI plastic necklace company called ‘Friend’ …
2024-08-01: 📚 Finished reading The Future by Naomi Alderman.
2024-07-31: An AI company reinvents the concept of a 'friend'
2024-07-24: We unleashed Facebook and Instagram’s algorithms on blank accounts. They served up sexism and …
2024-07-23: Generative AI Is Totally Shameless. I Want to Be It Paul Ford writes entertainingly about generative …
2024-07-19: A bug in Crowdstrike's software breaks large swathes of the world
2024-07-19: No-one seems to sell cheap Linux laptops