Week 20, 2023

Generation X / Millennial Overlap, in between worlds

I was born on October 29, 1980, which technically places me in Generation X, which spans those born from 1965 to 1980. So, while technically I would fall into Generation X, I may identify more with Mi...

Book extract: Cultish, the language of fanaticism by Amanda Montell

I keep coming back to this book because, it’s literally a gem everyone should read and I think parents should give it to their teenagers and friends to their friends in any obvious spiritual quest of...

J’ai envie de dire: crises des démocraties, (pas que retraites) que nous apprend Machiavel ? www.radiofrance.fr/francecul…

With IndiePass and Micro.blog I’m testing disabling automated cross-posting to different socials silos and instead use case by case basis to send my updates to where I want, while using my blog as the...

Le balai libéré ! #UCL Ou comment reprendre les choses en mains ! youtu.be/FHEIyTv4S… lebalailibere.be

40 years later… The MIDI 2.0 code for the Linux kernel is now under review and if all goes well could potentially be mainlined for the v6.5 cycle this summer. www.phoronix.com/news/MIDI…

Interesting read : Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already And stop confusing performance with competence, says Rodney Brooks “It gives an answer with complete confidence, and I sort of believe it. And hal...

It’s like our specie is discovering fire on demand all over again… #AI www.atomic14.com/2023/05/1…

#chatThis github.com/simplex-c… is REALLY an impressive and mature alternative to signal that allows you to gather people without exchanging phone numbers, it’s also possible to self-hosted the relay...

Huh this is cool :) Nyxt browser: The hacker’s #browser nyxt.atlas.engineer

Crazy nice idea implemented in a cool way! Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles & Unreal Engine nilsbakker.nl/portfolio…

I have been dreaming of a “virtual screen” since as long as I remember having a computer (that’s 1998) and I believe the hybrid device that will fit this idea will change personal computing forever. m...

This is really nice tooling to work with #ChatGPT llm, ttok and strip-tags—CLI tools for working with ChatGPT and other LLMs simonwillison.net/2023/May/…

Pandora’s box to even more mass-surveillance 🤔 A majority of the EU Council of Ministers seem to favour expanding the scanning of private messages to audio communications to detect child sexual abuse...

The United States and the European Union are currently pursuing separate initiatives to regulate artificial intelligence. But in order to address the significant risks posed by generative AI, American...

Turkish Elections Data #dataviz oballinger.github.io/projects/…

mjg59 | Twitter’s e2ee DMs are better than nothing mjg59.dreamwidth.org/66791.htm…

“In any case, the fact that she’s (Yaccarino) taking over for a Shiba Inu would seem to say a lot about what Musk thinks of the role.” www.platformer.news/p/why-you…

🤖 Use different chatbots in one app, currently supporting ChatGPT, new Bing Chat, Google Bard and Claude (via Poe), will integrate more in the future 💬 Chat with multiple chatbots at the same time,...

The UK government is quietly expanding and developing a controversial surveillance technology that could be capable of logging and storing the web histories of millions of people. www.wired.com/story/...

Willow - A Practical, Open Source, Privacy-Focused Platform for Voice Assistants and other Applications github.com/toverainc…

Dans ma liste de lecture : Agone et Chomsky en Ukraine : errances et complaisances de la gauche française (et pas que Française) mlallouet.com/2023/05/1…