Jeremy Keith

Oct 2, 2023, 8:09 AM -04:00

Crawlers

A few months back, I wrote about how Google is breaking its social contract with the web, harvesting our content not in order to send search traffic to relevant results, but to feed a large language model that will spew auto-completed sentences instead. I still think Chris put it best: I just think it’s fuckin’ rude. When it comes to the crawlers that are ingesting our words to feed large language models, Neil Clarke describes the situtation: It should be strictly opt-in. No one sh...

NerdCulture

titaniumbiscuit (@titaniumbiscuit@nerdculture.de)

@desmondrivet@indieweb.social Please don't use literal ASCII but sth like UTF-8 😅 > Longevity is also the reason I avoid solutions like Obsidian or Roam Research for my notes or my GTD lists. I don't know how these pieces of software store your notes behind the scenes, but I do know that if they suddenly up and disappeared, I'd be in a bind. At least Obsidian literally does use plain text files, markdown and [[wiki-style links]] which should be compatible with a lot of other software.

Mastodon

Ana Rodrigues (moved!) (@ohhelloana@mastodon.social)

What is your favourite blog post that you’ve written?

Current Affairs

The Perils of ‘Innovator’ Mindset ❧ Current Affairs

<p>Five people are dead because Stockton Rush believed in a toxic ideology that sees ‘regulation’ as the enemy of ‘innovation.’ </p>

YouTube

Torta piu amata in Italia 🤩 La farai ogni settimana 🍋🍋🍋

Ingredienti : crema :500 ml. latte2 uova4 cucchiai amido di mais6 cucchiai zucchero80 gr. mascarpone o philadelphia1 limone 🍋1 uovo120 gr. zuccheroscorza di...

Drew Cook

Thoughts on writing my first game. If I Can Do It, Maybe You Can, Too Many Gold Machine readers do not follow the contemporary interactive fiction scene closely. Likewise, many contemporary IF players do not read a lot of game criticism about the Infocom catalog. Still, there is a lot of overlap and cross-pollination that goes on. That being so, I think some–not all, and that’s ok–readers will be interested in my recent experiences writing a text adventure game called Repeat the End...

Chelsea

On the Psychology of “Tech Money”

Reading Time: 11 minutes One time, a literal millionaire purchased a coffee for me while he was pitching me to come work for him as an engineer. I splurged and asked for a vanilla latte (about $6). a latte After we spoke about the position, I told him I didn’t think I was a fit and explained my reasons why, none of which were personal. It was an “I could probably do this job, but I’m not uniquely qualified to do it” type of situation. He texted me within the hour to ask for hi...

Mastodon

Fred Rocha (@john_fisherman@mastodon.social)

@desmondrivet@indieweb.social you’re live! https://fredrocha.net/like-minded/

Mastodon

Fred Rocha (@john_fisherman@mastodon.social)

We finished #btconf last night talking about the discoverability of personal websites with @sophie@social.lol and @nickautomatic. It turns out it's hard to be read, even if you have captivating and original content. Reply to this post with your personal url and I'll link you on my website, https://fredrocha.net. Bonus points if you have an RSS feed link. Let's start a @btconf webring! #indieweb

What other kinds of servers are on the Fediverse?

As well as Mastodon ⧉, there are lots of other server types on the Fediverse, for example: BookWyrm ⧉ – A social reading platform, an alternative to Amazon’s GoodReads Friendica ⧉ – A general social network with no character limits, sort of like Facebook used to be on its older interface Funkwhale ⧉ – Music and podcast storage and sharing Kbin ⧉ – Link aggregation and discussion, sort of like Reddit Mobilizon ⧉ – Event organisation, the Fedi’s alternative to Facebook Events ...