Technology

I've been shocked by how expensive (though also powerful) these pis have gotten.

Cool stuff!

Interesting new browser that's become pretty popular lately

The token has been controversial in Silicon Valley for its ambitious and unorthodox approach to trying to solve two vexing problems: Online identity authentication and income inequality.

I'm inclined to agree in general. GPT has actually gotten worse over time.

For one it's just way too locked down now. But I also have noticed a decline in overall quality of responses, especially for technical stuff. It used to translate between programming languages quite well, and that's been more broken lately.

I'm wondering if they purged a bunch of copyrighted material from it and that's why it got dumber.

Just something fun

In other words, he doesn't trust Google not to randomly kill projects.

The EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) is the third attempt between the trading bloc and the US to iron out privacy kinks in the flow of data about their citizens. This latest agreement marks the EU's determination that "the United States ensures an adequate level of protection – comparable to that of the European Union – for personal data transferred from the EU to US companies under the new framework," the Commission said in a statement.

Key to today's decision [PDF] was an October executive order signed by US President Joe Biden that the Commission said adds new safeguards that address the problems raised with the second attempt at a transatlantic data agreement, Privacy Shield.

TL/DR: Google used flimsier parts that are more likely to break over time (aluminum over stainless steel, etc).

Meanwhile my iPhone 12 Mini is doing great with 4 gigs.

This has probably been pointed out before, but it's not like Twitter is hard to build, especially for a company like Facebo—I mean, "Meta."

What's hard is content moderation and community building.

This article was mostly fluff but I haven't seen much ml talk.

I do wish nvidia had more competition, though I somewhat doubt AMD will offer it soon. Having competive performance in PyTorch is a good start.

The Twitter shitshow continues.