⊥ᵒᵚ Cᵸᵎᶺᵋᶫ∸ᵒᵘ ☑️ @falken@social.cleverlibre.org

There's an ongoing cloudflare outage, if you're seeing low-level weirdness out there today.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/hm7491k53ppg

Has anyone posted this as a "UX fail" recently or is it my turn?

Hilariously, Apple tried to claim with a straight face to the EU, that it offers not one, but three distinct web browsers all coincidentally named Safari.

Lucky for us the team at the EC dismissed this ludicrous gambit and painstakingly ripped Apple's argument to shreds. It is baffling to us why Apple's legal team is willing to sacrifice their credibility on something that has such a low chance of success.

An excellent overview of the hardware developer ecosystem around Framework Laptops by FairywrenTech on hackaday

https://hackaday.com/2023/10/30/how-framework-laptop-broke-the-hacker-ceiling/

People go to Stack Overflow because the docs and error messages are garbage. TLDR exists because the docs and error messages are garbage. People ask ChatGPT for help because the docs and error messages are garbage. We are going to lose a generation of competence and turn programming into call-and-response glyph-engine supplicancy because we let a personality cult that formed around the PDP-11 in the 1970s convince us that it was pure and good that docs and error messages are garbage.

Anyway I wrote up my ACPI stuff in a slightly more structured form: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/68350.html

This is hilarious! “I saved my company half a million dollars in about five minutes. This is more money than I've made for my employers over the course of my entire career because this industry is a sham. I clicked about five buttons.” https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-accidentally-saved-half-a-million-dollars/

If any of you have a date in London next Sunday and you aren't planning to take them on a pub crawl via vintage bus, what even is the point of your budding romance.

Testing HTTP based adaptive bitrate systems such as MPEG DASH and HLS needs test content.

We offer a set of streams for this - and we've just updated them to include live, low latency, audio description and alternative language and webcast versions:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/blog/2023-10-streaming-media-testing-dash-hls

#MPEG #DASH #HLS #streaming #video

Wiktor_Tomanek is building a Joystick Expansion Card: https://community.frame.work/t/framework-joystick-modules-turning-your-frame-work-13-into-an-handheld-coming-soon/39011

"Focusing on doomsday scenarios in artificial intelligence is a distraction that plays down immediate risks such as the large-scale generation of misinformation, according to a senior industry figure attending this week’s AI safety summit."

Yeah - it is frustrating that there's so much focus on silly sci-fi threats when *right now*, LLMs are being used to fill the web with spam.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/29/ai-doomsday-warnings-a-distraction-from-the-danger-it-already-poses-warns-expert