Links and photos (22 April 2024)
– Baldur
Bjarnason
- “BFCache explained”
- “Moving on from Mocha, Chai and nyc.” Yup, for node dev at least “node –test” and “node:assert” is absolutely good enough. (Mocha via web-test-runner is still IMO the best option for front-end unit testing, tho.)
- “GitHub - ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.”
- “Considerations for AI Opt-Out”. Good overview of the state of play.
- “GitHub comments abused to push malware via Microsoft repo URLs”. JFC.
- “No tech for apartheid is within its rights to protest”
- “Scientists push new paradigm of animal consciousness”. This is what I discovered while researching my “AI risks” book: we’ve systematically underestimated the intelligence and consciousness of animals while at the same overestimating the intelligence of machines and software.
- “On giant piles of cash, and their origins - by Dave Karpf”. “The trouble with venture capital is that it has gotten too big.”
- “The Life and Death of Hollywood: Film and television writers face an existential threat”. “They had been stripping value from the production system like copper pipes from a house—threatening the sustainability of the studios themselves.”
- “What you see | everything changes”
- “Join the Crew! | Go Make Things”
- “Struggling with a Moral Panic Once Again | by danah boyd | Apr, 2024 | Medium”
- “Kids don’t need to get sick to be healthy”
- “I spoke with a Google worker fired for protesting a $1.2 billion contract with Israel”. “Yeah, this was retaliation, like completely indiscriminate—people who had just walked by just to say hello and maybe talk to us for a little bit. They were fired.”
- “Google fires 28 employees after protest over Israel cloud contract - The Verge”. Welp.
- “AI isn’t useless. But is it worth it?”. “they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can’t do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not be altogether that beneficial.” I think she’s overestimating how useful the tech is given it’s reliability issues but, yup, pretty much this.
- “Craft vs Industry: Separating Concerns”. “I think it would be incredibly unwise and hubristic to assume that the broad majority of us who are employed at this time will remain employed in the next years.”
Photos #
For This week’s #caturday, a few pictures from late 2022 when Kolka had just recently arrived at my sister’s and was still in the process of getting acclimated to people and investigating her surroundings
