A thing media outlets could do to improve their credibility is to cease the practice by which the body of the article is attributed to a real person, but the headline, social media posts and push notifications linking to the article and placement of the article are all totally anonymously decided.

Goodbye Skype!

Microsoft is to permanently discontinue Skype in May 2025.

Skype GUI in 2003 ↘️

Lately, the news is just a DDOS attack on my brain.

"PDF specifically arranged for easy home printing and stapling into a small group of zines" is an under-explored format we could pay more attention to, for no particular reason.

I feel that a worrying number of people treat every post as an improv prompt

chatgpt has fully broken-through to every facet of the corporate environment. I'm spending a not-insignificant amount of my time every week now explaining to people that just because chatgpt told you that something was possible doesn't mean that it a) is or b) even exists

There are some applications of AI or automated decision making that are simply too dangerous. A risk-based policy like EU's AI Act would prohibit unacceptable risk.

As it is, we have no enforceable legislation regulating AI, only 'voluntary guardrails' and an insufficient Privacy Act.

the grindset but it's me getting to sleep on time

Site Reliability Engineering but it's just reminding me to eat breakfast

In the 2000s through mid-2010s, agile was THE thing in software engineering. And there absolutely was a kernel of truth that designing things upfront is often a waste of time. Unfortunately the field got kind of taken over by… charlatans? People who couldn’t actually DO anything at all

It's appropriate that this sentiment comes after the industry realized that they haven't done anything useful in 20 years so they descended into mass psychosis over tech that does nothing but purports to do everything