Biggles @Biggles@qoto.org

As far as I can tell the only documentation on how to use the JavaScript API is this unofficial documentation here https://github.com/manicmaniac/sips-js-apg

I dislike formerlies, but I'm long overdue for an #introduction. I'm Will Smith (not that one).

I was one of the first editors at Ars Technica, the EIC of Maximum PC for a while, started Tested.com and the YouTube channel. Host of a bunch of podcasts--currently @techpod and The FOSSPod (https://fosspod.content.town). I used to host a talk show in VR and made cartoons in front of live studio audiences.

Now I work on The Anacrusis at Stray Bombay. I live in northern CA with my wife and daughter.

I'm still deeply skeptical that it's a good idea to power a "search engine" with a language model that can't tell truth from fiction and actively invents material like a skilled improv artist, even when it's just supposed to be summarizing content

Related: I am now playing classic DOS Lemmings on my iPad with the magic keyboard + trackpad. 😂 Thanks to @pixel for pointing me to https://github.com/litchie/dospad

Today I'm proud to announce the release of Homebrew 4.0.0.

The most significant change since 3.6.0 enables significantly faster Homebrew-maintained tap updates by migrating from Git-cloned taps to JSON downloads. In short, this means `brew update` and auto-updates will be much faster.

Also, if you read to the end you get to see me in a stupid beer outfit the other maintainers made me wear.

Check it out:
https://brew.sh/2023/02/16/homebrew-4.0.0/

If you've been waiting for full-text #search on #Mastodon, please go to #TootFinder and sign in. The more the merrier.
https://www.tootfinder.ch/

It's opt-in, not opt-out. It respects Mastodon culture and doesn't index accounts that don't sign in.

That means the index might be small if we don't spread the word.

#mastotips#feditips

accidentally wrote "saad" instead of "saas" in a text to my partner; they immediately coined "Software as a Disappointment"

and honestly, where is the lie

@stroughtonsmith I've been working on a GUI for Homebrew. It's written in SwiftUI and already supports many of the core functionalities, like installing, uninstalling and updating packages, tapping taps and more. It even shows some info that is hard to find if you're using the CLI, like when a package was installed and how much space on the disk it takes up.

It's free and open source, you can check out the repo here: https://github.com/buresdv/Cork

#showcase

I've seen this dynamic:

>A man stands atop a soap box in city park in Berlin in the 1930s.

“The Jews and the bicycle riders will be the ruin of Germany,” he begins.

A crowd gathers. The man continues his speech, repeating the refrain: “The Jews and the bicycle riders will be the ruin of Germany.” Finally someone in the crowd interrupts.

“Wait a second,” the audience member asks, “why the bicycle riders?”

“Aha!” the speaker replies, lighting up. “Why the Jews?”<

https://chicago.suntimes.com/columnists/2023/2/9/23591710/antisemitism-trans-rights-lgbtq-desantis-putin-bigotry-republicans-florida-sanders-steinberg

@simon Your toot about #generativeAI made me curious, Simon, so I looked up the "bicycles for the mind" #quote by #SteveJobs.

Am sharing in case anyone else is curious too!

The text wouldn't fit so here's a screenshot, for those of you looking for inspiration today. :)

Screenshot courtesy of Maria Popova aka @brainpicker and the Marginalian website:

ugh sorry, https://touchhle.org

well. i’ve recently had a lot more free time than usual, and…

… I should have taken more breaks and paced myself, but …

touchhle.org

yeah. enjoy!

also, a huge thanks to my friends cassie, erin, puck and mary for help at various points.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Blz7qJrZ-s8 (video of gameplay — sorry, my instance doesn’t support direct video uploads yet ^^;)

Trying out https://toot.readthedocs.io - since I have some bots I need to move to Mastodon

24 Seriously Embarrassing Hours for AI.

(- by @garymarcus )

All the recent goodwill and enthusiasm could evaporate fast.

🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/24-seriously-embarrassing-hours-for

#ai #artificialintelligence #machinelearning #intelligence #GaryMarkus #selfdrivingcars #OpenAI #Tesla #ChatGTP

Every single person in #IT has that one device (server, storage frame, switch/router) that they can't wait to decommission and use a baseball bat on.

Shameful to see the College Board cave to the demands of DeSantis and white supremacists, especially as we kick off Black History Month. Just shameful.

A HS student to their TX school board, which is banning books:

“I’m not going to sit here and talk about the slippery slope that book banning leads to because I learned from a book, that I checked out from my school’s library, that I don’t need to resort to logical fallacy to make a point. I’m simply going to say that no government – and public school is an extension of government – has ever banned books, and banned information from its public, and been remembered in history as the good guys.”

Some #Twitter things that the company didn’t build or invent itself

• Twitterrific was the first mobile Twitter app
• The word tweet made its first official appearance on Twitterrific
• The hashtag was from Chris Messina
• Advanced Twitter Search was originally Summize
• Twitter bought TweetDeck
• Live stream was from Periscope acquisition
• The official Twitter app was originally Tweetie which they purchased from Loren Brichter
• Mentioning people with an @ was user driven and wasn’t linked to accounts because they didn’t consider conversations to take place on Twitter initially
• Quote tweet was adopted from people copy+pasting tweets and adding RT in front of the copied tweet
• Threads were built to accomodate existing user behavior

Did I miss anything major?

When macOS spots a Windows computer on your network it uses a beige screen with a blue screen of death from what looks like an easy 90's VGA screen to represent it :)

This list of pitfalls for journalists to avoid in reporting on artificial intelligence is broadly applicable to emerging tech in general. Useful to anyone who wishes to spread insight instead marketing snake oil. https://aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/eighteen-pitfalls-to-beware-of-in
Many thanks to @Julia for bringing timely knowledge into my inbox:
https://themarkup.org/hello-world/2023/01/28/decoding-the-hype-about-ai (And thanks to @craignewmark, for funding @themarkup)