02 Jul 2023
not a blog post
This is not a blog post. This is some links that did not make it into any blog post on here yet, from the script that collects links to make blog posts with. This is all worth reading, I just didn’t make the links. (and of course the categories are a matter of opinion)
Software and Internet
AI Is About to Dump More Work on Everyone
I tried out SyntheticUsers, so you don’t have to
SQLite has Write-Ahead Logging
3 Billion Chrome Users Are About to See This Privacy Sandbox Pop-Up
MDN can now automatically lie to people seeking technical information · Issue #9208
“A really big deal”—Dolly is a free, open source, ChatGPT-style AI model
Retrospective on a dying technology cycle, part 4: What comes next?
ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!
Why I’m all-in on the fediverse
People do use Add to Home Screen
How Rust went from a side project to the world’s most-loved programming language
Creating slides with Markdown using Marp
Clever Hack Uses YouTube to Back Up Your Data in Google’s Cloud for Free
Advertising vs. surveillance
Pluralistic: Everything advertised on social media is overpriced junk (08 Apr 2023)
In a shrinking marketplace, Magnite explores media trading without DSPs
Germany accuses Twitter of failing to remove illegal hate speech
Mobile Advertising in a Data Constrained Future
Inaudible ultrasound attack can stealthily control your phone, smart speaker
Introducing the California Delete Act, How the California Delete Act Further Protects Reproductive Rights
How Malvertising Shapes Behavior and Threatens An Industry: A Q&A with Yuval Shiboli, GeoEdge
Firefox rolls out Total Cookie Protection by default to more users worldwide
Is Micro-targeting Giving the Digital Advertising Sector a Bad Rap?
AI Drake Just Set An Impossible Legal Trap For Google, by Nilay Patel, The Verge
Firefox may soon reject Cookie prompts automatically
Why Are So Many US Companies Using Cookie Banners On Their Websites?
Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business
Meta was scraping sites for years while fighting the practice
Joe Brockmeier: Something I should’ve done a long time ago: Installing Pi-hole
Build security with the assumption it will be used against your friends
musings: a semester with the framework laptop
Until further notice, think twice before using Google to download software
Energy and economy
Heat pumps boom in Poland, Europe’s fastest growing market
Inside Europe’s high-tech scramble for better energy storage
How did solar power get cheap? Part I, part II
These deep-sea “potatoes” could be the future of mining for renewable energy
Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service
The U.S. produced more electricity from renewables than coal in 2022
Largest Ever Hydrogen Fuel Cell Plane Takes Flight
This giant ship is a symbol of the shift from oil to renewables
Paris bans cars: The city pulled off an urban dream. Is it a model or a warning?
The Silicon Valley Bank Collapse Should be a Radicalizing Moment
Moral hazard for thee but not for me
How Cigna Saves Millions by Having Its Doctors Reject Claims Without Reading Them
Block: How Inflated User Metrics and “Frictionless” Fraud Facilitation Enabled Insiders To Cash Out Over $1 Billion and Is Jack Dorsey going to get blown up by Hindenburg Research?
An Introduction To Class Warfare For The Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
I liked this simple calculus exercise
Bosses hate work from home because ‘home’ is for women
Is college stressing you out? It could be the way your courses are designed
Colorado Farmers Just Won a Historic Right-to-Repair Battle
Inside Rupert Murdoch’s Succession Drama
Weekend Update #23: Reflections from Ukraine
Reshoring Vacuum Tube Manufacturing, One Tube at a Time
This $39 Cooler Master case turns your old Framework Laptop parts into a tiny PC
Marsupials and other mammals separately evolved flight many times, and we are finally learning how
Why not put TSMC and Samsung fabs in Canada?
How to Understand the Well-Being Gap between Liberals and Conservatives
People Forgot How War Actually Works
‘Incredibly intelligent, highly elusive’: US faces new threat from Canadian ‘super pig’
Biden Went to Kyiv Because There’s No Going Back
Indiana lands new support for local news — and Capital B’s next newsroom
Congratulations on the mess you made of things
God Did the World a Favor by Destroying Twitter | WIRED
Is text-generating AI an industry killer or just another wave of hype?
Bay Area Cities To Lose ALL Housing Zoning Powers in 2 Days
Political stress test: Adopting a compliant Housing Element
Dungeons & Dragons Scraps Plans to Update Its Open Game License
Tanks for Ukraine Have Shifted the Balance of Power in Europe