It’s pronounced “Gulf of Mexico” Your favorite free map provider may lie to you. Your GPS even may lie. But I will not lie. I’m not paid to lie, or lying to suck up to Daddy, to avoid government interference or worse “regulation”. No here it is, the truth, both plain and simple. It is…

Who sez’ Spotify’s recommendation engine is no good. This band is described as Try to imagine an even more energetic incarnation of the Boredoms. And that’s good enough for me. Hellz Yeah! gimme summa dat dere Spotify Recommendation Engine, yo!

bullenweg Bullenweg.com is no longer available following threats of legal action from Matthew Mullenweg. Platforming the claims in the lawsuits, in particular, is shaky ground. I encourage you to read this article: https://www.vulture.com/article/piers-morgan-apologizes-jay-z-beyonce-uncensored-jaguar-wright.html It is important to me to know who is behind Bullenweg, and I believe the legal system provides ample opportunities to do…

https://campustechnology.com/Articles/2024/09/20/Digital-Layers-and-Human-Ties-Navigating-the-CIOs-Dilemma-in-Higher-Education.aspx Nice little summation of the role tech plays in removing the “need” for intervention/assistance from a person in the loop. Ideally everything is DIY, freeing you to spend less of your valuable time waiting to perform a key activity, chore if you will, for work or daily life. The more those automations occur, the…

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/14/pycon/#atom-everything Simon’s sharing some slides for a talk he gave at PyCon 2024. Well worth reading his account of what “was” back in 1956 when the term “artificial intelligence” was coined. This is in contrast to what we have NOW, Large Language Models. And this is the killer slide for me:

I’ve followed Hackaday for a number of years via RSS, because they have been able to deliver the goods on a daily basis. Sometimes it’s simple stuff that gets shared, like an overlooked YouTube video on something old or esoteric. But sometimes there’s long form pieces like this one attempting to survey the current trends…

https://www.anandtech.com/show/21440/silicon-motion-demos-7-watt-pcie-5-ssd-controller-sm2508 Input/output operations per second (IOPS, pronounced eye-ops) is an input/output performance measurement used to characterize computer storage devices like hard disk drives (HDD), solid state drives (SSD), and storage area networks (SAN). Back in the heady days of 2002, I got wise to the coming wave of flash memory based storage devices. I had…

It’s the end of an era certainly. I remember seeing the doge meme show up. I’m guessing it was probably peak Facebook era for me, 2007-ish perhaps? A good 3 years before I jumped on Twitter. Those were the days, eh?!