Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

ICYMI: Get a bunch of cyberpunk games in this latest bundle - has great Steam Deck and Linux compatibility https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/07/get-a-bunch-of-cyberpunk-games-in-this-latest-bundle/ #Linux #SteamDeck #Gaming

The Nintendo Famicom—the Japanese precursor of the NES—is 40 today!

(Sorry, I didn’t write an article about it because I’ve purposely stopped keeping track of anniversaries after doing it for 15 years 😁)

MIT research study shows ChatGPT helped good writers get done 40% faster and weaker writers to produce high quality output.

That ChatGPT is a productivity booster is indisputable. The question is whether it leads to fewer jobs as companies need fewer people or whether it leads to more opportunities in those fields?

Will ChatGPT do for writing what Excel did for accountants (good) or what Google Translate did to translators (bad)?

https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/07/13/1076199/chatgpt-can-turn-bad-writers-into-better-ones/

@gpowerf It was unbelievable. I just wish it never existed because now I want that same convenience but nothing comes close to it.

@gpowerf awww you got Snoopy Tennis G+W. Had that as a child. Wish it was more affordable here these days.

Bluesky’s having a bit of a moderation crisis, which got me thinking about the ways in which the major Twitter clones approach moderation:

#Bluesky has libertarian “free speech at all costs”.
#Threads has puritan neoliberal top-down moderation.
#Twitter (Musk era) has Nazis-to-the-front anti-moderation.
#Mastodon has community moderation, a server covenant, and vote-with-your-feet accountability.

The first three are run by tech-bro billionaires. The latter is not. And it shows.

reddit is just privatized usenet. slack is just privatized irc. streaming is just privatized piracy. social media is just privatized blogging

Last October I preordered the ClockworkPI uConsole...

Well I just had the notification from FedEx, it should arrive on Tuesday 😂

So hopefully I'll finally have a portable 4G capable #raspberryPi - it'll only been 9 months since I ordered it to getting it

#linux #clockworkPi #uConsole

Elon Musk notoriously steals content and passes it off as his own. He even justified stealing other people's content to me directly in a response to a story I wrote about this topic for the NYT just 2 years ago https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/style/elon-musk-memes.html

OMG who did this? I am crying

Apple’s anti-remote policy allows them to legally discriminate against both disabled and older applicants.

- many disabled people are fully qualified to do a job, yet can’t be in an office environment.
- older applicants often have established families that are impossible to relocate. Owned housing. Spouses/partners with established careers.

Being remote doesn’t disqualify you from being able to do many Apple jobs. I was fully remote for 12 years at Apple. Pre-webex. It was never an issue

In solidarity with the writers strike I will

The old computer desk is getting ever more busy. After some restoration work this weekend, I hope I can get the last ones working again. #retrocomputing