In five years time, some CTO will review the mysterious outage or technical debt in their organisation.

They will unearth a mess of poorly written, poorly -documented, barely-functioning code their staff don't understand.

They will conclude that they did not actually save money by replacing human developers with LLMs.

#AI #LLM #LargeLanguageModels #WebDev #Coding #Tech #Technology @technology

Did you know that the first Pokémon games were full of fascinating errors in code, called glitches? I’m incredibly captivated by the mysteries behind them and by what they can do! So, let’s have a look at how I personally got into them! ✨

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EFF's take on the amended version of KOSA. TL;DR summary:

We are asking everyone reading this to oppose this latest version, and to demand that their representatives oppose it—even if you have already done so.

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“As it stands today, we’re not ready yet to tell people that our voice assistant is a replacement for Google/Amazon,” Schoutsen wrote. “We don’t have to be as good as their systems, but there is a certain bar of usable that we haven’t reached yet.”

Key among the improvements that need to happen, according to Schoutsen:

• Audio input needs to be cleaned up (speaker voice separated) before it is processed
• Error messages need to be more clear about what’s going wrong, and input has to have more flexibility
• Non-English languages need a lot of commands and variables
• Compatible hardware that features far-listening microphones has to be more widely available
• Most people will want local processing to be faster

And I'd like to be able to do it privately too, that'd be cool.

Things I can do –

• write HTML and CSS
• register a domain and set up hosting
• use Filezilla

Things I don't know how to do –

• Create databases, I always had someone around to do that for me
• Self-host
• Set up an onion site 🧅
• Set up an eepsite
• Register a .bit domain

I am more of a content gal than a tech gal, but think of all the cool stuff I could create if I could spin up anonymous websites in a few hours.

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

I'm not a big fan of sports BUT the amount of money that gets poured into the tech behind it all is pretty fascinating.

This is an environment where I'd imagine there's practically zero room for error, some mistakes can easily be seen by millions of people and talked about for days. A lot of work is required to ensure all of this runs smoothly. It's definitely an incredibly thankless job that almost nobody will think about while the game goes on.

This article is a bit short on details but I thought it was a neat tour of some of the networking/dashboards/etc going on behind the scenes.

The new certifications for HDMI cables are now slowly coming onto the market. Known as Gen 2, these certifications will provide verification for the authenticity of a given cable and gradually replace the first generation certifications.

This formally began in May 2023, but the HDMI Licensing Administrator (HDMI LA) has allowed the old labels to continue to be used until stocks of the corresponding cables have all been sold. In its February newsletter, cable manufacturer Club3D drew attention to this change and stated that it is currently changing its label fulfillment provider, so packs with both the old and the new certifications will soon appear in stores.

The new certification has the advantage that it can be checked more easily. According to the HDMI LA, a simple scan of the QR code on the pack is enough to verify its authenticity. The old verification, on the other hand, required the proprietary HDMI app.