

There’s a capital strike on, and you can’t simply withhold capital or else it is put to use elsewhere so it has to be employed for enshittification.


There’s a capital strike on, and you can’t simply withhold capital or else it is put to use elsewhere so it has to be employed for enshittification.


If you used Google Translate previously for translations, they’ve switched out the backend for Gemini. Most of the existing translation tools have been destroyed and replaced with LLMs already.


I mean, he definitely did it. We all remember the breathless coverage of his 2am ketamine tweets to manipulate the market:
Musk’s May 13 tweet — “Twitter deal temporarily on hold pending details supporting calculation that spam/fake accounts do indeed represent less than 5% of users” — was “false because the buyout was not, in fact, ‘temporarily on hold,’” the lawsuit says. That’s because Twitter did not agree to put the deal on hold, and there was nothing in the merger agreement the two parties signed that allowed Musk to put it on hold, according to the lawsuit.
I wonder if he has enough clout left with the Trump admin to weasel out of this one, like he did with the Tesla deal.


There’s a lot of people who come to fedi looking for this spot — maybe it makes sense to see if programming.dev is willing to host such a community?

Huge benefits for small cost if we design with this in mind:
It is incredibly easy to press a button on the remote and watch the room temperature drop by 10 degrees Celsius in a matter of minutes. However, perhaps we would not be so reliant on this sudden cooling if our cities offered high-quality and accessible urban design featuring vegetated surfaces, shaded areas, or water elements that help reduce overall urban temperatures. The revitalization of the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul is a practical example of how we should approach our cities. Following its revitalization and integration into Seoul, it was observed that temperatures along the river decreased by between 3.3°C and 5.9°C compared to a street just a few blocks away.
In addition to urban considerations, when it comes to architectural strategies, passive mitigation of high temperatures relies on several well-known yet perhaps equally underestimated measures. These include shading (via vegetation or built volumes), reflective surfaces, generating thermal mass through materials, proper solar orientation, and cross ventilation. Research suggests that combining these passive strategies can result in an average internal temperature decrease of 2.2°C, a 31% reduction in cooling load, and a 29% energy savings.


They both have to be careful about bites (bytes)?


I’m not as quick as you. I got most of the way through article and was still wondering why X would expose a database of historical prompts to an llm for querying by law enforcement.


I mean, most llm makers work pretty hard to conceal the system prompt, and I have no idea why XAi would give Grok access to a database of historical prompts. LLMs don’t have memories by default, and their inability to learn from past experiences is kind of a big stumbling point for a lot of folks. You can ask, but I doubt you’re likely to get anything other than a confabulation.


I think I like the draft headline better, despite it’s clunkiness.


People commenting after only reading the headline and not the article is exactly the behavior I find irritating and distasteful about headline-related complaints.


I’m usually against complaints about poor headlines, but this one is completely factually incorrect? The FBI didn’t interact with Grok here literally at all? They issued a search warrant to X to get their logs?
Usually I roll my eyes pretty heavily at the WhateverPorn names for non-pornographic communities, but I suspect this one’s gonna be accurate more often than not.


Ugh. Thanks for the heads’ up — I’ve definitely posted archive links without noticing they’re blocked before. PBS and NPR have really gone downhill with the budget cuts. ProPublica is great, but their coverage is pretty narrow, so there’s a lot of stories they don’t cover at all. It’s getting harder and harder to find a quality source.


I’m certain they’ve wanted to do this for a long time, and AI is a convenient way to justify it, rather than admitting they don’t want humans using it to circumvent the paywall. It does solidify for me personally that the LA Times is the paper of record for the United States going forward, rather than the New York Times.


Read the diffs. Not all of them.
How do you write this whole article and come to the conclusion you can merge unread diffs?


Any good archiver will check for an archived copy before making a request, and batch requests. This was very different than the attack you’re imagining — if you opened any archive.today page, it would poll a developer’s personal blog, regardless of whether you were interacting with content from that blog.


Unfortunately, they’ve allegedly modified the contents of some archived articles, so even though they may do better to archive, nothing archived is of any value because it cannot be trusted.


It does more to handle client-side rendering than archive.org, so there are pages that could be rendered by today that were not archivable by org. Also, because of differing usage patterns, it has archives of pages that org didn’t, and even for pages that org does have, at times org doesn’t.


Deeply saddening. Archive.today was a great resource, and stored a vast repository of human knowledge. As the internet turns to slop, we need sites that preserve the history of the web more than ever, and it’s very disappointing that the team at archive.today has failed us so profoundly in our hour of greatest need.
Uh-oh, seems like trouble in paradise:
Hope you get everything up and running again — keyboard vagabond is awesome.