I left after dinner on a Friday evening to ride the nearby, 220km, Capital Trail mountain bike loop. Wasn’t sure if I’d ride through the night but apart for stopping for a quick nap in a field, I rode all the way through and arrived back the next afternoon.
A trailer for a film I’d watch. Made in 2007 by an Australian film collective called Alrugo Entertainment.
Bob Dylan talking more than usual while in a car with John Lennon.
An interesting (and slightly controversial due to basically being opt-out by default instead of opt-in, but apparently this is fixed) project is back. Holos Discover is a A #Fediverse search engine that uses standard #ActivityPub federation. It now follows you like any account, respects indexable flags, #nobot, #noindex, locked accounts. Deletions, edits, blocks are processed instantly through ActivityPub.
You have full control. Block it, mention it with “unfollow”, or disable indexing in your settings.
It’s still early days so the index will take some time to build up.
LLM AI can do some cool things. But is anyone measuring the quality of the output vs the real costs (I mean real total costs, not just your investor and environment subsidised free tier or small subscription) and effort of the input? Is it real inteligence, or just like a plastic doll that says “I love you” when you pull it’s string? Just good enough for small kids to suspend their disbelief for entertainment, companionship, and help in learning social skills.
Watch: AI Overlords Are Engineering a Broke Society ft. Ed Zitron
“We’re all living through the enshittocene, a great enshittening, in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are turning into giant piles of shit” – Cory Doctorow. First platforms are good, then they abuse their individual users to make things better for their corporate users, then they abuse the corporate users for profit, then they die. It’s destroying the internet to ensure better short-term shareholder returns.
