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– Locus Online" + url: https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/ + date: 2024-03-05T03:45:13Z + file: locusmag-com-lrcibx.txt +- title: "Subprime Intelligence" + url: https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-fried/ + date: 2024-03-05T03:51:01Z + file: www-wheresyoured-at-ntkfj5.txt +- title: "Neal Stephenson's Most Stunning Prediction - The Atlantic" + url: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/chatbots-ai-neal-stephenson-diamond-age/677364/ + date: 2024-03-05T03:53:39Z + file: www-theatlantic-com-qqbuyc.txt +- title: "Why all your notes and files should be plain text - The Verge" + url: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/18/24075077/bose-ultra-open-superlist-bulletin-text-files-note-apps-installer + date: 2024-03-05T04:06:47Z + file: www-theverge-com-118g7r.txt +- title: "Skiff Should Be A Reminder To Us All – The New Oil" + url: https://blog.thenewoil.org/skiff-should-be-a-reminder-to-us-all + date: 2024-03-05T04:06:47Z + file: blog-thenewoil-org-ahtqki.txt +- title: "How to make self-hosting and local-first software work - The Verge" + url: https://www.theverge.com/23938533/self-hosting-local-first-software-vergecast + date: 2024-03-05T04:06:48Z + file: www-theverge-com-ywplts.txt +- title: "File over app – Steph Ango" + url: https://stephango.com/file-over-app + date: 2024-03-05T04:06:48Z + file: stephango-com-hgqfrw.txt +- title: "More Files Please - Jim Nielsen’s Blog" + url: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/more-files-plz/ + date: 2024-03-05T04:06:49Z + file: blog-jim-nielsen-com-qvpn02.txt +- title: "The future needs files – Scott Jenson" + url: https://jenson.org/files/ + date: 2024-03-05T04:06:49Z + file: jenson-org-arxfgm.txt +- title: "The internet used to be fun" + url: https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/ + date: 2024-03-05T03:57:45Z + file: projects-kwon-nyc-bqys6y.txt +- title: "What’s the fun in writing on the internet anymore?" + url: https://jamesshelley.com/blog/writing-on-the-internet.html + date: 2024-03-05T03:59:48Z + file: jamesshelley-com-iaarz3.txt +- title: "Rhoneisms" + url: https://www.patrickrhone.net/14412-2/ + date: 2024-03-05T04:15:48Z + file: www-patrickrhone-net-u4rozv.txt +- title: "The Year of the Personal Website · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer" + url: https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-year-of-the-personal-website + date: 2024-03-05T03:44:34Z + file: matthiasott-com-qomg4t.txt +--- + +Highlights this month: a weekend in Wilmington, a successful 10K, and a solo dad weekend (including a rainy bike adventure followed by an incredible rainbow over Central Park). Plus some new music and a bunch of website improvements. + + + +{{}} +{{}} +{{}} +{{}} + +Here's a new track called "Arcus" -- smash play and read on. + + + +I'm really pleased with [my result][1] in the in the [Wrightsville Beach Valentine Run][2] 10K. You can see I'm still far from competitive, but that's much faster than I ever thought I'd be when I started this journey in 2021. Running (at least at the level I'm at) is one of the few things you can get improve at just by showing up. Want to get better? Run more. Were all the other things I pursue so straightforward. + +[1]: /journal/dispatch-13-march-2024/wbvr-result.pdf +[2]: https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/WrightsvilleBeach/WrightsvilleBeachValentineRun + +At the beginning of February, I updated the site to store encrypted photos and display them as black-and-white dithered images. I [documented the process in some detail][3], and then put a link to it on the [Hugo discussion forum][4]. Imagine my suprise when, a few days later, one of the core contributers posted that the next version of Hugo would ship with [native dithering functionality][5]. I guess my post [inspired him to add it][6], which echoed a post I'd read a few days earler, ["Publishing Your Work"][7]: + +> I don’t create or publish in the hopes of influencing others. I create things because I have an urge to create. But it sure is great to help others along the way, however small my contribution might be. + +[3]: /journal/encrypt-and-dither-photos-in-hugo/ +[4]: https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/encrypt-and-dither-photos-in-hugo/48157 +[5]: https://gohugo.io/functions/images/dither/ +[6]: https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/pull/12016#issuecomment-1936664139 +[7]: https://brainbaking.com/post/2024/01/publish-your-work/ + +I stumbled on a [retrospective of the HFStival][8], a DC-area music festival that was a big part of my adolescence. I remembered that I made fan sites for a few of them, and after a few minutes of trying to recall the domains, I discovered that the [1998][9] and [1999][10] editions are still online. Not bad, 15-year-old Dave. Funny how I'm still doing basically the same thing 25+ years later, though I guess we have CSS now and I write in Markdown rather than hand-editing HTML files on a server. + +[8]: https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/remembering-hfstival-dcs-biggest-music-festival/65-60a8d4f0-68a7-4ac0-b79a-80d596e6ec67 +[9]: https://hfs98.tripod.com/ +[10]: https://hfs99.tripod.com/ + +I made several website updates this month: + +* The site now has full-text RSS; I wish this was the default or at least a toggleable option. [The fix][11] is to copy the RSS template into your site and then change `.Summary` to `.Content`, which is a maintenance headache. + +* I added a favicon using this [friendly generator][12]. + +* I moved the site to a new server on Digital Ocean. My previous VPS was running a version of Ubuntu from 2014 and was just a mess. I haven't really kept up with modern DevOps and didn't want to learn [Ansible][13] for my relatively basic needs, but I do have a lot of experience with [Docker][14] and decided to use Docker Compose to run this site and a handful of others. It all came together easily with [Caddy][15] plus `php-fpm` and MySQL for an old [Textpattern][16] site I keep around. Now I've got all my infrastructure in a version-controlled repository I can test locally, and the actual server is doing very little. [Here's a handy script for running `docker-compose` as a `systemd` service][17] that I used. + +* Finally, I've wanted to be able to send out these dispatches as emails for a while now, but didn't want to sign up and pay for a service like [Buttondown][18] when I've no idea if anyone would sign up. I discovered [Listmonk][19], which is open-source, self-hosted software that offers exactly what I need: a signup form, an admin UI, and an API for creating new emails. It snapped into my Docker setup super easily, and now you can go to [dispatch.davideisinger.com][20] and sign up to receive these posts in your inbox. Go on! Be the first. + +[11]: https://jasonmurray.org/posts/2021/rssfulltexthugo/ +[12]: https://favicon.io/favicon-generator/ +[13]: https://www.ansible.com/ +[14]: https://www.docker.com/ +[15]: https://caddyserver.com/ +[16]: https://textpattern.com/ +[17]: https://techoverflow.net/2020/10/24/create-a-systemd-service-for-your-docker-compose-project-in-10-seconds/ +[18]: https://buttondown.email/ +[19]: https://listmonk.app/ +[20]: https://dispatch.davideisinger.com/subscription/form + +This month: + +* Adventure: we're headed back to Wilmington again, this time to run the [Steve Haydu St. Patrick's Lo Tide Run][21]; I've also got my annual Vegas trip and we'll head to Lake Norman at the end of the month +* Project: Nev has this little [fidget toy][22] that I'm obsessed with; I want to learn [three.js][23] and create a digital version of it +* Skill: just keep making music; I've got my eye on this [Roland SP-404][24] sampler that I might pick up -- curious how that might pair with my Novation Circuit + +[21]: https://runsignup.com/Race/NC/CarolinaBeach/LoTideRun +[22]: https://www.amazon.com/Fidget-Rainbow-Stocking-Stuffers-Fillers/dp/B092M5DS4X/ref=asc_df_B092M5DS4X&mcid=ba508808da2c3bf09cb27e0b262f1682?tag=bngsmtphsnus-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=79920869053533&hvnetw=s&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=&hvtargid=pla-4583520396659984&th=1 +[23]: https://threejs.org/ +[24]: https://www.roland.com/global/products/sp-404mk2/ + +Reading: + +* Fiction: [_The Disposessed_][25], Ursula K. LeGuin +* Non-fiction: [_Dilla Time_][26], Dan Charnas + +[25]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-dispossessed-ursula-k-le-guin/7899183 +[26]: https://bookshop.org/p/books/dilla-time-the-life-and-afterlife-of-j-dilla-the-hip-hop-producer-who-reinvented-rhythm-dan-charnas/18480833 + +Links: + +* [What Kind of Bubble is AI?][27] + + > Tech bubbles come in two varieties: The ones that leave something behind, and the ones that leave *nothing* behind. Sometimes, it can be hard to guess what kind of bubble you’re living through until it pops and you find out the hard way. + + Best piece of AI skepticism I've read (though I'd also recommend [Ed Zitron][28]) + +* [Neal Stephenson's Most Stunning Prediction][29] -- if I had to pick a favorite book, _Diamond Age_ would be it; I should re-read it at some point, especially now that I have a young daughter + +* On files & data ownership: + + * [Why all your notes and files should be plain text][30] + * [Skiff Should Be A Reminder To Us All][31] + * [How to make self-hosting and local-first software work][32] + * [File over app][33] + * [More Files Please][34] + * [The future needs files][35] + +* On personal websites / writing online in general: + + * [The internet used to be fun][36] + * [What’s the fun in writing on the internet anymore?][37] ([via][38]) + * [The Year of the Personal Website][39] + +[27]: https://locusmag.com/2023/12/commentary-cory-doctorow-what-kind-of-bubble-is-ai/ +[28]: https://www.wheresyoured.at/sam-altman-fried/ +[29]: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/chatbots-ai-neal-stephenson-diamond-age/677364/ +[30]: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/18/24075077/bose-ultra-open-superlist-bulletin-text-files-note-apps-installer +[31]: https://blog.thenewoil.org/skiff-should-be-a-reminder-to-us-all +[32]: https://www.theverge.com/23938533/self-hosting-local-first-software-vergecast +[33]: https://stephango.com/file-over-app +[34]: https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/more-files-plz/ +[35]: https://jenson.org/files/ +[36]: https://projects.kwon.nyc/internet-is-fun/ +[37]: https://jamesshelley.com/blog/writing-on-the-internet.html +[38]: https://www.patrickrhone.net/14412-2/ +[39]: https://matthiasott.com/notes/the-year-of-the-personal-website diff --git a/content/journal/dispatch-13-march-2024/race_121539.jpg.enc b/content/journal/dispatch-13-march-2024/race_121539.jpg.enc new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e739d93 Binary files /dev/null and b/content/journal/dispatch-13-march-2024/race_121539.jpg.enc differ diff --git a/content/journal/dispatch-13-march-2024/wbvr-result.pdf b/content/journal/dispatch-13-march-2024/wbvr-result.pdf new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7648cfa Binary files /dev/null and b/content/journal/dispatch-13-march-2024/wbvr-result.pdf differ diff --git a/static/archive/blog-jim-nielsen-com-qvpn02.txt b/static/archive/blog-jim-nielsen-com-qvpn02.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2376cd5 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/archive/blog-jim-nielsen-com-qvpn02.txt @@ -0,0 +1,63 @@ +[1] Jim Nielsen’s Blog Verified ($10/year for the domain) [2]Archive [3]About +[4]RSS Preferences +Theme: This feature requires JavaScript as well as the default site fidelity +(see below). +Fidelity: + +Controls the level of style and functionality of the site, a lower fidelity +meaning less bandwidth, battery, and CPU usage. [5]Learn more. + +[6](*) Default [7]( ) Minimal [8]( ) Text-Only Update +More Files Please + +2024-02-27 + +Scott Jenson has a great article called [10]“The future needs files”. + + The power of files comes from them being powerful nouns. They are temporary + holding blocks that are used as a form of exchange between applications. A + range of apps can edit a single file in a single location. + +Files as a medium of exchange between applications — I like that. It’s akin to +the usefulness of currency. + + The most powerful aspect of files is that they liberate your data. Any app + can see it and do something useful to it. + +Files represent a “data first vs app first organization”. If you’re planning a +wedding, you put everything wedding related into a folder. All your data is now +in one place vs. strewn across various apps. + +Documents — like a Notion doc — are today’s folders: they contain a list of +links to “files” that will open in bespoke applications. + +But there are drawbacks, like interoperability. Do we want to trust our data to +the success or failure of a single company? + + Files encapsulate a ‘chunk’ of your work and allow that chunk to be seen, + moved, acted on, and accessed by multiple people and more importantly + external 3rd party processes. + +Can you imagine working on a codebase — which is a set of files — but the files +were locked to a particular IDE? Craziness. + +Personally, I’m a file guy. I love files. And I wish more products worked in +the currency of exchange of files. + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +Comment? Reply via: [11]Email, [12]Mastodon, or [13]Twitter. + + + +References: + +[1] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/ +[2] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/archive/ +[3] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/about/ +[4] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/feed +[5] https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2022/website-fidelity/ +[10] https://jenson.org/files/ +[11] mailto:jimniels%2Bblog@gmail.com?subject=Re:%20blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/more-files-plz/ +[12] https://mastodon.social/@jimniels +[13] https://twitter.com/jimniels diff --git a/static/archive/blog-thenewoil-org-ahtqki.txt b/static/archive/blog-thenewoil-org-ahtqki.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..176068b --- /dev/null +++ b/static/archive/blog-thenewoil-org-ahtqki.txt @@ -0,0 +1,209 @@ +[1]The New Oil + +Skiff Should Be A Reminder To Us All + +February 18, 2024 + +Last week, encrypted email, cloud, and calendar provider Skiff announced they +will be shutting down in six months after being acquired by Notion. This has +understandably caused a lot of frustration in the privacy community as many +people were initially quite excited about Skiff. Several other privacy outlets +– including [2]Michael Bazzell, [3]Privacy Guides, and even our own [4] +Surveillance Report – have all discussed our own frustrations, lessons learned, +and plans going forward. But really, this is nothing new. Two years ago (nearly +to the month), [5]CTemplar also suddenly shut down, and we saw nearly the same +scenario play out (with different reasons being given by the companies). So +this week, let’s take a moment to reflect back on the second email shutdown The +New Oil has survived and see what lessons we can take away for the next +inevitable disruption. + +Reminder: Beware the Little Guys + +In the above-linked CTemplar blog post, I wrote that “in the privacy space, we +are very skeptical of new services.” Since then, I’ve seen a shift away from +that. I’m not a fan. On the one hand, I’ve [6]written in the past about how no +service or tool is perfect and how we should always be striving for better +services that improve upon those shortcomings. In the CTemplar post, I also +mentioned the value of supporting the little guy and how every major +organization was once a “little guy.” However, I think that the privacy +community has taken this mentality too far. Not a week goes by that I don’t see +some new forum post, email, or [7]Surveillance Report question about some new +service I’ve never heard of before. It’s great that so many new people are +recognizing the room for improvement and stepping up to the challenge, and that +so many privacy enthusiasts stand ready to support these efforts. But in the +CTemplar post, I also touched on the fact that starting a new service is really +hard and riddled with uncertainty. It could be a Big Tech or government [8] +honeypot. Even if it’s not and the creators are genuine, it’s incredibly easy +to accidentally screw up implementation and allow for bugs and vulnerabilities +(if it happens to the big, well-funded giants on a regular basis, why would the +small, cash-strapped startups be any safer?). And of course, any new company in +any industry must compete, and that’s never a sure thing no matter how much +money you throw at something or else there’d be no such thing as “box-office +bombs” and venture capitalists would have a far higher [9]success rate. + +I know that advice is contradictory, but life is complicated, contradictory, +and messy. Still, two things can be real – like how new services should be both +supported but also treated cautiously. It’s okay to donate to a new service you +believe in that you think is doing interesting things, but you probably +shouldn’t immediately move everything over to be your primary service. +Relationships have some pretty consistent rules and characteristics across the +board, whether it’s with a potential romantic partner or a corporation. One +such rule is to go slow. You wouldn’t propose marriage on the first date, so +why on earth would you move all your most sensitive data into a brand new +service you just discovered that’s less than two years old and just launched +their first stable release six months ago and you can’t find any expert reviews +of it? Explore, support, but temper your excitement. Wait to see what the +experts say and if the service really is here to stand the test of time. + +Reminder: Control Your Data + +This is a topic I clearly need to discuss more: the tech space in general – but +especially the privacy space – is rife with ephemeral projects, whether because +they get sold, abandoned, or forced out of business. The single best way to +defend against this is to control your data, and the best way to do that – I +think – is to think in “standards.” The internet was never Netscape, Explorer, +Firefox, or Chrome (or apps, for that matter). It was always HTTP, TCP/IP, the +OSI model, and other such standards. These have been improved upon over time +(such as HTTPS and DoH/DoT), but the core standards have never changed. And +they're open! Accessing [10]The New Oil today is no different than accessing +Myspace in 2003 or the [11]CERN website in 1991, except it’s probably a lot +faster, easier, and better-looking (no offense, Proton/CERN alumni). + +If you don’t know what any of that stuff means, don’t worry about it. Here’s +the point: try to think about how to reduce your data to a standard – +preferably an open one – and then preserve that. For the record, I don’t mean a +literal web standard like the ones above, but I do mean the same ideas and +principles. Bear with me and I’ll come back to that. Since this post was +inspired by Skiff (and built off my CTemplar post), let’s take email for +example. Like it or not, email isn’t going away any time soon. Nearly all +websites require email to sign up for an account, for example, and lately +there's been a big push for services to forgo a password logon entirely and +instead email you a link every time you sign in. (Not a fan.) However, email is +an interoperable standard. Whether you use Proton, Tuta, Mailbox, or Gmail, +that login link is going to get sent to you. So regardless of whether you’re +wanting to check out a new provider or simply improve your own data +sovereignty, the question to ask here is “how can I think of email as a +'standard' to ensure that I retain control of my email no matter what?” The +most extreme option here is to self-host your own email server, but that’s +generally not recommended unless you’re an expert – there’s too many +opportunities for things to go wrong and suddenly your emails will be blocked +(possibly both sending and receiving) and you may not have any idea for a long +while. Instead, the next-best option is to control the email address, because +then you always control where the emails go. You’re not bound to a specific +provider, which means you can migrate for any reason – shutdown, censorship, +better options, etc. The good news is that this is incredibly easy to +accomplish. You simply buy your own domain name from any reputable registrar +for a few bucks a year, and most email providers have instructions on how to +set it up. Then, if you decide you want to use a different provider, you just +look up their instructions instead. + +Now, of course, experienced readers will go “email isn’t a standard, Nate.” And +you’re 100% right. As I said, I don’t mean to think in literal standards like +HTTP or TCP/IP. What I do mean is think in terms of “universal” and +“interoperable” – like a standard. As I said earlier, email is universal. +Proton, Tuta, Gmail, Yahoo, every email provider is built on the exact same +standards that make email function, such as SMTP, RFC 5322, and MX DNS records. +Of course, Proton & Tuta offer different protections and technical features +than Gmail and Yahoo (and even each other) but the core product is identical: +an email is an email and will be delivered to or sent from anywhere (not +including restrictions such as company or government censorship). As such, you +can think of an email the same way you think of any standard: how can I ensure +that I always receive my emails, send emails, and have my emails? As I said, +the first two are easily accomplished via custom domains: if you ever have +issues or find a better provider, simply migrate over with a few clicks and +some help from the provider and you’re golden. The last one can be accomplished +by exporting your emails, a feature that going forward I will consider a +non-negotiable requirement to be listed on The New Oil because of situations +exactly like this. Most providers also let you import emails, allowing you to +transfer as if nothing ever happened. Backing up your emails via exporting on a +regular basis and owning a custom domain essentially untethers you from any one +given provider for email, making you independent, resilient, and in control of +your own data. + +Practical Application + +This thought process can be applied to nearly anything. “How can I save this +file in a format that’s compatible with other word processors or operating +systems?” “How can I save my backups in a format that’s recoverable and usable? +” “What would I do if this messenger shuts down tomorrow?” Not to victim blame, +but perhaps the biggest failing with the Skiff fiasco – and CTemplar before it +– was not asking these kinds of questions in advance and planning ahead. One +should always have an exit strategy and backup plan in place, even with the +most trusted and long-standing services, and one should always look for +opportunities to reduce their dependence on these platforms as much as +possible. (Note: I would like to recognize that some people are truly living +paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford to pay for a custom domain or even a +premium email aliasing service. This is valid, and I still encourage you to ask +these questions and come up with solutions that are within your means, even if +they’re less than ideal.) + +It is, of course, worth noting that there’s only so much you can do. You can’t +literally own your own domain registrar, and even if you could you couldn’t own +the organization who makes the kinds of decisions that affect your specific +domain. Therefore you can never 100% be certain of your domain name. But even +as an everyday individual, you can rest assured that it would take a lot to get +your domain name revoked or taken away, and for most of us that’s simply not +something to even worry about. Likewise, for a lot of apps, you can export your +data but it may only be readable by that same app. It’s important to be aware +of these limitations and ask if you’re comfortable with them. I am a [12]Qubes +user, and I don’t expect that to change any time soon. My backups from Qubes +can only be read by another Qubes device, and for me that’s okay. The purpose +of these backups is to have them as literal backups – to be able to reload them +on another Qubes device in the event of theft, loss, or damage of my Qubes +laptop. On the other hand, I want my emails to be portable so that I can open +them with another provider (or at very least, another program) so that I don’t +lose all my past correspondence if I ever have to migrate services. These are +two very different use cases that warrant consideration. + +Whatever services you’re using today, there’s a near 100% chance you won’t be +using most of them in 10 years. Whether they shut down or whether you simply +migrate to something that better suits your needs, the software you’re using +will almost certainly change in the future. The question is if you’ll be ready +when that happens. Everyone who was depending on Skiff directly must now +scramble to migrate and pray that they didn’t overlook anything when the dust +settles. Don’t be caught in that situation when the service you depend on sheds +this mortal coil and joins the choir invisible. If you’re lucky, you’ll decide +that the time is right to move on to another project and have all the time you +want to make the switch. We can’t always be so lucky. The best time to plant a +tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is today. I’ll end with what I said +when CTemplar shut down: + + Controlling your data is important and powerful. It makes you independent, + it makes you resilient, and it makes your life simpler by being prepared + for when things change – and in tech, things are always changing. Part of + threat modeling is planning for what could go wrong and then putting + systems in place to mitigate it if it happens. Maybe you weren’t affected + by this CTemplar situation. That doesn’t mean you won’t be affected by the + next one. Be sure to review the products and services you use and plan + ahead. There’s always room to improve. 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Check it out! + + [head] + [hfs_head] ┌──────────────┐ + │ HEADLINES │ + │ 4/11 - │ + [Saturday, 7/25/98] Anybody else see │ Jimmie's │ + Third Eye Blind, Our Lady Peace and │ Chicken │ + Eve 6 at Merriweather-Post │ Shack? │ + yesterday? It was great! Not the │ 4/3 - │ + HFStival or anything, but still │ Tickets │ + really cool. Eve 6 performed first. │ TOMORROW │ + Their half-hour set included that │ 3/30 - The │ + "Inside Out" song. So cool. Our Lady │ BIG │ + Peace was also really good. │ announcement │ + └──────────────┘ + I was really impressed by Third Eye + Blind. They performed practically [stars] + every song on their album, including + such hits as "Semi-Charmed Life", The Site + "Graduate", and "Jumper". I really - [2]News + wanted to see Third Eye Blind - [3]The Bands + because I missed them at the 1997 - [4]Submit + HFStival. News + - [5]Contact Me + If you were at the concert, or + you've heard about any other cool Links + upcoming concerts, [11]drop me a - [6]HFS.com + line! - [7]HFStival + Rumor + [Sunday, 6/21/98] I just recieved Source + word that MTV has some video clips - [8] + of the HFStival on their page. The HFStival.com + clips are available in both + RealVideo and QuickTime formats. Which HFStival + Just looking at these things brings artist was the + back memories. Great stuff. You can best? + find the clips [12]here. + [thanks Eddie] [9][ ] + [10][Submit] + [Sunday, 6/14/98] Hey! It's been a + while since I updated the page, but [hfs98] + (believe it or not), there hasn't + been a whole lot of HFStival news [stars] + going around. Those pictures I took + and was going to put online, they THE BANDS + suck! Nothing you couldn't see + better at HFS.com anyway. The B-52s + The Mighty + And as a final testament to just how Mighty Bosstones + damn cool the HFStival was, the Green Day + Tibetan Freedom Concert, the only Everclear + other big music festival in the Scott Weiland + area, was CANCELED yesterday! Or Wyclef Jean + delayed anyway. It will commence Harvey Danger + today, but not without everybody Fuel + knowing which festival REALLY kicked Save Ferris + ass. Geez, I don't think anyone Semisonic + would have cared if someone got Fastball + struck by lightning during GREEN Marcy Playground + DAY's set, you? Barenaked Ladies + Tuscadero + [Tuesday, 5/19/98] There's a little Crystal Method + article on the festival over on Soul Coughing + Rolling Stone. You can check it out Foo Fighters + [13]here. [thanks Eric] Agents of Good + Roots + [Sunday, 5/17/98] Well folks, it's Cherry Poppin' + all over. The HFStival, which took Daddies + place yesterday, was AWESOME. Sure, God Lives + the temperatures were in the 90s Underwater + throughout the day, and nobody left + without a sunburn, but it was okay, + because we could quench our thirst + with $3 Cokes! Yeah, the prices were + a little rediculous, but the music + was great. + + The best performer, in my opinion, + was Green Day. While they aren't my + favorite radio band, they really + know how to work the crowd. At one + point, they pulled a guy out of the + audience and let him play a song on + the guitar with the band. They also + burned a drum set, and sang some + Maryln Manson. I really enjoyed the + morning outer stage bands, like + Fuel, Harvey Danger, and Fastball. + Wyclef Jean (say "john", dammit!) + was great, and so was Everclear, who + had the entire place singing along + to a couple of their songs. Scott + Weiland was different, but in a good + way. Foo Fighters were great, and + then, right before Green Day came + on, they showed "The Spirit of + Christmas", the original South Park + cartoon, on those two huge + television screens. Now maybe next + year they can look into putting a + roof onto RFK? + + I took some pictures, and I'll try + to have them online in the next + couple of days. + + [14]Click here for Past News + + [15][bottomtop][bottom] + + + +References: + +[1] https://members.tripod.com/hfs99 +[2] https://hfs98.tripod.com/~hfs98/ +[3] https://hfs98.tripod.com/bands.html +[4] https://hfs98.tripod.com/news.html +[5] mailto:eisinger@worldnet.att.net +[6] http://www.whfs.com/ +[7] http://members.aol.com/gregw99058 +[8] http://hfstival.home.ml.org/ +[11] mailto:eisinger@worldnet.att.net +[12] http://www.mtv.com/news/gallery/h/hfstivalfeature98.html +[13] http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/news/text/newsarticle.asp?afl=rsn&NewsID=4356&ArtistID=2458&origin=news +[14] https://hfs98.tripod.com/index2.html +[15] https://hfs98.tripod.com/#top diff --git a/static/archive/hfs99-tripod-com-v7f3u9.txt b/static/archive/hfs99-tripod-com-v7f3u9.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b8f7dc --- /dev/null +++ b/static/archive/hfs99-tripod-com-v7f3u9.txt @@ -0,0 +1,334 @@ + [1]GO CHECK OUT MY NEW PAGE!! HFS2G, BABY!! + +[banner1] [banner2] +The Site Thursday, September 30 I think we can sum up the + - [2]News HFStival Fall Edition with one word: ROWDY. From the + - [3]The Bands violence and ticket-tearing that went down before + - [4]Submit the gates even opened, to the early mosh pits (in +News one of which my friend got a nasty black eye), to + - [5]Contact Me Limp Bizkit's hell-raising set, this HFStival was, + in my humble opinion, the craziest EVER. I actually +Links fell down in the mosh pit during Bizkit's set. It + - [6]HFS.com was seriously the scariest thing that's ever + - [7]Official happened to me. No joke. +HFStival + Page It was great to have the festival back at RFK. + PSInet was nice, but taking the metro is sooo +Who was da best convenient, or at least it was in the morning... +act at the Fall Coming back was a different story entirely. There +Edition? were some great acts. A few of my favorites were +[8][ ] Fuel, Long Beach Dub Allstars, surprise guests Run + [9][Submit] DMC, Sev (Fairfax County. Aww yeah.), Jimmie's + Chicken Shack (who had a much better set than in the + [hfs99] spring), and of course Limp Bizkit. Words cannot + fully describe the spectacle that was Limp's set. + Fireballs! Foul language! Exposed breasts! And + 100,000 flying plastic bottles! It was AMAZING. I + came home after their set and slept for FOURTEEN + hours. + + Another year, another TWO great HFStivals. I'll see + yall in the spring! HFStival 2000, baby! + + Friday, August 27 A friend of mind pointed me to a + bit o' HFStival news on the [10]SEV WEBSITE. It + seems that there will be not one, not two, but THREE + stages at the upcoming HFStival. There will be the + traditional inner stage, for the bigger acts, and + the outer stage, for the lesser-known ones, but this + festival will see the addition of a stage for local + acts. You can check out the [11]bands page for my + breakdown of the acts and their respective stages. + Just my guesses, but its the best I can do at this + point. And oh yeah, tickets tomorrow, 10:00am, + Ticketmaster, $25 each, cash only. + + Wednesday, August 25 Outer stage! Outer stage! Party + time! Excellent! Just discovered the lineup for the + HFStival Outer Stage, the home of local music at the + festival. Here we go: Good Charlotte, Underfoot, + Laughing Colors, Mary Prankster, Colouring Lesson, + Modern Yesterday, Live Alien Broadcast, and the + Wakeing Hours. Sounds good to me. And in other news, + appearing at the Trancemissions Tent will be: + Thievrey Corporation, DieselBoy, DJ Touche of the + Wiseguys, John Tab, Feelgood, Lovegrove, Scott + Henry, and Lieven. + + In other news, tickets for the 1999 HFStival: Fall + Edition go on sale this saturday at 10:00. Be there, + or... don't be at the HFStival. + + Tuesday, August 24 I was just checking the official + HFStival page, and it seems that 6 more bands have + been quietly added to the line-up. These new bands + are HFStival veteran Sev, Staind, Jact, Bis, + Splittsville, and Uncle Ho (yeah, you read that + right). That brings our grand total to 16 bands, + with reportedly more on the way. Also, the + Trancemissions tent will be returning to this latest + HFStival, so all you dance fans can have something + to look forward to. + + [12]And everybody wish my sister a happy birthday! + + Thursday, August 19 I wuz listening to HFS last + night, and I heard about three more bands headed for + the fall festival... Fuel, Filter, and Bush! This + brings our grand total up to 10 bands, with more on + the way. Exciting stuff. + + Wednesday, August 18 HFStival '99 -- FALL EDITION, + BABY! That's right, folks, for the first time ever, + the year of 99, the year of HFS, will host not one + but TWO HFStivals! This second HFStival will take + place on Saturday, September 25, at RFK STADIUM, + unlike the earlier HFStival. Tickets go on sale on + Saturday, August 28, at 10:00AM, and are available + through TicketMaster Outlets, TicketMaster + PhoneCharge, and, in an interesting twist, through + [13]TicketMaster Online. + + And now on to what's really important, the bands. + HFStival Fall '99 will featured such acts as Limp + Bizkit, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Everclear, the + Chemical Brothers, Buckcherry, 311, and the Long + Beach Dub Allstars (basically Sublime without Brad + Nowell). Sounds awesome, although this list seems + short to me, and there is always a possibility that + other bands will be announced later. + + Expect a new look for this page, as well as more + information as it becomes available. Two HFStivals + in one year! Who woulda thought... + + Sunday, May 30 80,000 people crammed together like + sardines on a scorchingly hot day, listening to + music that was far too loud and doing things that + are illegal in most states? Yeah, I'd say that + pretty much sums it up. This year's HFStival kicked + ass! + + The Chili Peppers were good, playing some classic + songs as well as new material, but I think we all + know who owned this year's festival: The Offspring. + They had the whole stadium going crazy. I'd put + their performance right up there with Green Day as + one of the all-time HFStival best. I didn't get out + to the side stage very much, but I hear Sev was + really good. If you've got any HFStival memories, + please, [14]send em my way. + + I think the most exciting thing all day was an + announcement on the Jumbotron screen over the + stage... a second HFStival! The message said + something like, "Only once a century does it happen + twice a year: May 29 and September 25." I was like, + oh my god! More info as I hear it. + + Saturday, May 29 Hell yeah, folks. The festival is + here. I hear it's gonna be a scorching 91 degrees + today, and it'll feel more like 130 inside the + stadium. It's gonna be freakin' insane. 70,000 or + more people dancing, yelling, smoking, and having an + all around hell of a good time. It's BS that we + can't bring in water, but there should be enough to + go around. I hear about a booth they are going to + set up that sprays people with cool, soothing, + life-giving mist. That's where you'll find me :) If + you have any last minute questions, send them my + way, and I'll be back with my HFStival wrap-up after + I recover (36 hours of sleep, minimum). I hope you + all have a great time, and I'll be seein' ya'll at + the 1999 HFStival, baby! + + Wednesday, May 19 Well, the HFStival is only 10 + short days away! Aww man, it's gonna rock your + world. + + If I had only one piece of advice to offer you, + fellow HFStivalgoer, sunscreen would be it. Put some + on before you leave. Put some on when you get to the + stadium. Put some on after every band you see. If + you think you have too much sunscreen on, put on + some more. I promise you'll still get a tan, and + this way you might not get burned too bad. Also, + bring enough money for drinks. Water is hard to + find, and a drink'll run about $3. I know it's + expensive, but you won't care after you've been + standing in the heat for five or six hours. + + I'll be back with more helpful advice as we get + closer to the festival. Some of my ideas may not be + the greatest, but trust me on the sunscreen :P + + Thursday, April 28 Tickets this saturday! They go on + sale this saturday at 9am through MOST TicketMaster + outlets and through TicketMaster PhoneCharge. There + are a few locations that won't be selling HFStival + tickets, and I'd advise you to check [15]here to see + if you're local ticket outlet is one of them. + + My advice to all of you is to go to where ever it is + you plan to buy tickets on friday night and see + what's up. Talk to the ticket sellers and mall + security and see what their plan is, and try to get + your name on any list, official or unofficial, that + you can find. Remember: you can only buy tickets + with cash. Tickets are $25 plus a service charge of + less than $5 per ticket. Four tickets per person + limit. Good luck to everyone, and just try to be + civil about it. + + Wednesday, April 21 Sorry for the lack of updates. + I've been feeling a little bit under the weather, + and I needed to get my beauty sleep. Anyway, we've + got the complete band list (aside from any surprise + bands) and all the ticket info. Tickets will go on + sale on Saturday, May 1 at 9am, available at + TicketMaster outlets, through TicketMaster + PhoneCharge, and at many other places, including RFK + Stadium (I'd call there first, though) and Mailboxes + Etc. Like last year, tickets will cost $25 with a + $4-5 service charge. + + And now, what you've all been waiting for: the + bands! They've got some great acts lined up this + year. Headlining the festival will be the Red Hot + Chili Peppers. Other major bands include the + Offspring, Live, Sugar Ray, Goo Goo Dolls, + Silverchair, Blink 182, and the Mighty Mighty + Bosstones. The other main stage performers will be + Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Orgy, Lit, and Sev, for a + total of 12 bands. + + On the outer stage, the more popular bands playing + are 2 Skinee J's, Citizen King, and Fountains of + Wayne. Also, we'll be hearing Buck Cherry, the + Freestylers, the Living End, Ozomatli, and Beth + Orton, the only female performer at this year's + HFStival. + + Expect some surprise announcements from HFS, this + being the 10th HFStival and whatnot, and listen to + win tickets. They've already started giving them + away. Good luck, and I think this year's festival is + going to be a blast! + + Sunday, April 18 Official HFStival announcements + coming on monday! We'll finally learn about the + bands and when we can finally get tickets. I'll + listen to as much as I can, but I'd appreciate it if + you'd tell me about any of the bands you hear. + + Also, we have our first confirmed band: SEV. This + local act won the Big Break dealie and now they get + to open the main stage. Way to go guys. + + Thursday, April 15 Just got an email announcing the + new offical HFStival page. Now, it's still under + construction, and some of the links don't work, but + it's a good sign of things to come. You can find it + [16]here. Keep the rumors coming folks! + + Monday, April 12 Big update today. It turns out that + the rumors I heard earlier were from a Rolling Stone + article (which can be found [17]here). Now, I've + been told that the author of this article tried the + same stunt (leaking HFStival bands before the + official announcements) last year, and half of his + article turned out to be wrong, so don't have too + much faith in anything you hear from non-HFS + sources. + + On a more positive note, I've heard some great + things about Raven Stadium (actually called "PSInet + Stadium"), where the 1999 HFStival will be held. One + reader described it as "nothing less than A FRIGGIN' + PALACE with a football field in the middle." I've + never been to the stadium, being a Redskins fan + myself (hold your laughter until the end of the + presentation). I hear it has great audio and video + systems, as well as 100,000 parking spaces, so + parking won't be a problem. Also, Raven Stadium is + larger, allowing HFS to sell approx. 10,000 more + tickets. There's a light rail system in Baltimore + that stops right outside the stadium that could be + used by festival-goers (is that a word?). Overall, I + feel that the choice to move the HFStival was + probably a good one and won't be a major + inconvenience for fans in Washington. + + Still haven't heard much about ticket sales. One + source told me that tickets will go on sale this + saturday, april 17, but that seems a little too soon + to me, considering that they haven't announced + anything yet. + + Sunday, April 11 Hey folks! Wasn't sure if I was + gonna do this again this year, but I got an email + with a whole bunch of HFStival info (thanks Dave), + and I felt like I had to post all this stuff. So + here I am, back again this year, bringing you all + the info as I hear it. + + The 1999 HFStival will take place on May 29, 1999. + If you hadn't heard yet, the '99 HFStival will NOT + take place at RFK as it has in the past, but rather + at Raven Stadium in Baltimore. This raises some + questions in my mind, but I'll reserve judgement + until I hear more info. I guess I'm not taking metro + this year. + + This year, I've got a TON of info about the bands, + unlike last year, when I didn't hear much until they + were officially announced. Here's what we've got so + far: + + Keeping in mind that this is all just rumors at this + point, my source tells me that the Red Hot Chili + Peppers and the Offspring could play the festival, + as well as the Goo Goo Dolls, Sugar Ray, the Mighty + Mighty Bosstones, Lit ("My Own Worst Enemy"), Orgy, + Blink 182, and four others. The Chili Peppers and + Blink will preview material from their forthcoming + albums, called "Californication" and "Enema of the + State," respectively. And those are just the main + stage bands. + + On the outer stage, slated artists include Fountains + of Wayne, Beth Orton and Zebrahead. Other + possibilities are Citizen King, Marvelous 3, Puya, + and Buckcherry. The winner of the HFS Big Break will + also get a spot. The three finalists are Sev, the + Martians, and Sampson. The finals will be on April + 15th at Bohagers in Baltimore. + + "In all, twenty bands are expected to play this + year's HFStival -- twelve on the main stage and + eight on the second stage." -Dave (my source) + + Like always, I love your input. If you've got some + info or thoughts on improving the site, email me. + Lets hope this year's HFStival turns out to be as + cool as the festivals from years past. + +[banner4] + +References: + +[1] http://hfs2g.tripod.com/ +[2] https://hfs99.tripod.com/~hfs99/ +[3] javascript:bands() +[4] javascript:submit() +[5] mailto:HFSdavid@hotmail.com +[6] http://www.whfs.com/ +[7] http://www.whfs.com/festival/1999fall/ +[10] http://www.24sev.com/ +[11] javascript:bands() +[12] mailto:fishbulb100w@hotmail.com?subject=Happy_Birthday!! +[13] http://www.ticketmaster.com/ +[14] mailto:HFSdavid@hotmail.com +[15] http://www.whfs.com/festival/1999/festnews.htm +[16] http://www.whfs.com/festival/1999/festmain.htm +[17] http://www.rollingstone.com/sections/news/text/newsarticle.asp?afl=mnew&NewsID=7551&ArtistID=80origin=news diff --git a/static/archive/jamesshelley-com-iaarz3.txt b/static/archive/jamesshelley-com-iaarz3.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7570443 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/archive/jamesshelley-com-iaarz3.txt @@ -0,0 +1,137 @@ +What’s the fun in writing on the internet anymore? + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +You are reading some words on the internet. + +Think about all the things you could do with these words. + +You could copy and paste this article into ChatGPT and say, “Please rewrite and +paraphrase this blog post in such a way as to keep its main points and +observations, but substantively reconfigure the text to make the original +version undetectable.” And then, just like that, you have content for your own +blog. So easy. + +Or you could just copy the contents of this page and paste it into a site like +plagiarism-remover.com so you could, as advertised, “Easily Convert Your +Plagiarism article Into Plagiarism Free article.” Or you could use Spinbot. Or +Jasper. Or QuillBot. Or Paraphraser. And so on. + +You can now spin up [1]new, “original” articles faster and easier than even +reading the originals. This is a dizzying and dumbfounding new reality, when +you stop and think about it: automated plagiarism is now more efficient than +reading itself. + +All the same, if you want to skip the whole paraphrase/spin step, you could +instead [2]copy and paste this article verbatim into a newsletter served up +behind a paywall. This strategy drastically reduces the odds that it will be +recognized as plagiarism on the open web. And, hey, why not make a few extra +bucks? (Perhaps ironically, turbo-charged content spinning is so pervasive that +[3]evermore sites require user logins just to access content. This seems +vicious: repurposing content engenders the proliferation of walled gardens and +walled gardens, in turn, engenders the proliferation of repurposed content.) + +In summary, it feels like the fate of words on the internet is to be +paraphrased. Emerging tools like [4]Perplexity.ai respond to quiries with +fulsome answers that do not require users to even click off the site. In other +words, search itself is becoming the delivery of paraphrase and summary. Waning +are the days of sifting through “search results” to find a specific source. +Henceforth, digital words are little more than raw data to be crunched, +processed, and served up by third-party intermediaries. + +The “moral rights” of the author. Copyright. Attribution. We have grown to +assume these concepts as givens, but they are rapidly sliding into practical +irrelevance in the age of AI and paywalls. To put any thoughtful labour into +crafting words online today is to watch them get sucked up, repurposed, and +often monetized by someone else. It feels a bit like a digital wasteland; +overrun with pirates, replete with armies of robots regurgitating everything +into a gooey cocktail of digital sludge. + +It is interesting to speculate about the future. It seems like people might +eventually grow skeptical about investing their personal creativity in such a +space, right? Will anyone bother writing on the internet when they know their +words will be pilfered and junkified? What happens to the craft of writing +itself when our de facto global platform for sharing text no longer reinforces +or recognizes the role or rights of authorship? + +To ponder this question, we can look back. In some ways, today’s internet +evermore reminds of the world I encountered back in classical studies. There +are bits of papyrus and parchment are flying around everywhere. Some texts +claim attribution, some are anonymous, and a lot are pseudonymous—and you can’t +tease any of this apart with any certainty. There are competing manuscripts, +copies of copies, and significant “versioning issues” everywhere you look. +Ultimately, the credence and authority you give to any specific text typically +reflects the trust your community bestows on it. The only words that survive +are the ones that get copied. This all sounds strangely familiar, yes? + +If you were lucky and wealthy enough to write in antiquity, your scribbles went +out into the world to completely unknown ends. Authorship, accompanied by +newfangled attributions of moral and legal entitlements, is not yet a refined +concept. Once you “release” the words, you categorically relinquish control of +them. And you are fully aware that the more clever and helpful your words are +to others, the more likely it is that future readers will attribute your words +to someone else. + +Sic semper erat, et sic semper erit. The better your words, the more likely it +is that somebody will poach them. Somebody will probably “paraphrase” your work +beyond detection. Somebody will “republish” it as their “original.” Somebody +else will train their large language model on your text and serve it up without +citations or footnotes. To write on today’s internet and assume universal +respect for your “moral rights of authorship” is an act of grand delusion. + +You might as well write anonymous papyrus fragments. + +And this is the point. + +None of this really matters. + +Whether papyrus or the internet, humans doggedly write for influence, status, +wealth, conviction, and pleasure. But the so-called sanctity of “authorship” is +only a very recent idea. These “rights” of authorship are only true if they are +enforced. They are a kind of fiction that only make sense in occasional times, +places, and cultures. For the next chapter of the human experiment, I wonder if +“authorship” will again recede into the background, as it often seems to do in +times of disruptive changes in communication technology. + +But the banishment of the author doesn’t mean writing ends. Writers still write +even when “authorship” functionally means nothing. And what they write still +influences their world, with or without the universe dutifully paying homage to +their bylines. In the long arcs of history, what is written typically goes on +to mean much more than who wrote it. The future, like today, is built on ideas, +not on the people who had them, because people die but ideas never stop +evolving. + +And the future needs ideas—not auto-generated “summaries” of old ones. + +So, what’s the fun of writing on the internet anymore? Well, if your aim is to +be respected as an author, there’s probably not much fun to be had here at all. +Don’t write online for fame and glory. Oblivion, obscurity and exploitation are +all but guaranteed. Write here because ideas matter, not authorship. Write here +because the more robots, pirates, and single-minded trolls swallow up +cyberspace, the more we need independent writing in order to think new thoughts +in the future — even if your words are getting dished up and plated by an +algorithm. + +Those who write — those who add ideas instead of paraphrasing and regurgitating +them — inform the lexicology and mental corpus of how we think in the future. +Indeed, the point isn’t “being an author,” but contributing one’s perspective, +even if one’s personal identity is silenced, erased, and anonymized along the +way. + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +This post on [5]jamesshelley.com is copyright © 2024 by [6]James Shelley +Released under a [7]Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license + +Friday, February 16, 2024 + + +References: + +[1] https://slate.com/technology/2023/01/chat-gpt-openai-jasper-hugging-face-plagiarism-big-technology.html +[2] https://jamesshelley.com/blog/on-being-plagiarized.html +[3] https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/02/six-months-in-journalist-owned-tech-publication-404-media-is-profitable/ +[4] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/google-search-results-ET4ll7tdT6axzwgifCC3Gw?s=c +[5] https://jamesshelley.com/ +[6] https://jamesshelley.com/ +[7] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 diff --git a/static/archive/jasonmurray-org-ch0tvb.txt b/static/archive/jasonmurray-org-ch0tvb.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4d8d811 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/archive/jasonmurray-org-ch0tvb.txt @@ -0,0 +1,116 @@ +[1]Jason Murray +[2]About [3]Blog [4]Now [5]Resume [6]Contact +[7][8][9][10][11] + + • [13]About + • [14]Blog + • [15]Now + • [16]Resume + • [17]Contact + +Nov 1, 2021 + +Enable Full Text RSS Feeds in Hugo + +By default, [18]Hugo summarizes each article when generating the RSS feed. Not +ideal if your the type of person who prefers to read the full content directly +in an RSS reader. This post will show you how to enable full text RSS feeds in +Hugo. + +Here’s an example of a long article summarized in [19]Inoreader: + +[20]Image of Summarized article from RSS feed in Inoreader + +Here’s the same article after enabling full content RSS feeds: + +[21]Image of + +Configuration Details[22] + +Create the following directory structure in the root of your Hugo site: + +mkdir layouts/_default + +Output Example: + +jemurray@phalanges:~/Documents/www-personal/current/jasonmurray.org $ mkdir layouts/_default + +Then copy the following file into the layouts/_default directory. It’s is an +updated version of the default [23]RSS template with the appropriate +modifications to generate full text RSS feeds: + +wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xJasonMurray/jasonmurray.org/main/layouts/_default/rss.xml -O layouts/_default/rss.xml + +Output Example: + +jemurray@phalanges:~/Documents/www-personal/current/jasonmurray.org $ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xJasonMurray/jasonmurray.org/main/layouts/_default/rss.xml -O layouts/_default/rss.xml +--2021-11-01 19:23:12-- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/0xJasonMurray/jasonmurray.org/main/layouts/_default/rss.xml +Resolving raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.110.133, 185.199.108.133, 185.199.109.133, ... +Connecting to raw.githubusercontent.com (raw.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.110.133|:443... connected. +HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK +Length: 1959 (1.9K) [text/plain] +Saving to: ‘layouts/_default/rss.xml’ + +layouts/_default/rss.xml 100%[=========================================================================================================================================>] 1.91K --.-KB/s in 0s + +2021-11-01 19:23:12 (8.94 MB/s) - ‘layouts/_default/rss.xml’ saved [1959/1959] + +For those curious, here’s the diff between the original and the modified +version of the rss.xml file: + +jemurray@phalanges:~ $ diff rss.xml Documents/www-personal/current/jasonmurray.org/layouts/_default/rss.xml +35c35 +< {{ .Summary | html }} +--- +> {{ .Content | html }} + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +[24]hugo[25]rss + +207 Words + +2021-11-01 19:21 -0500 + +[26] Newer +Configure Client Wireguard VPN Server on Linux [27] Older +Preparing to ThreatHunt: Installing and Configuring Sysmon on Windows 10 + +© 2024 [28]Jason Murray · [29]CC BY-NC 4.0 + +Made with [30]Hugo · Theme [31]Hermit · [32] + + +References: + +[1] https://jasonmurray.org/ +[2] https://jasonmurray.org/pages/about/ +[3] https://jasonmurray.org/posts/ +[4] https://jasonmurray.org/now/ +[5] https://jasonmurray.org/pages/resume +[6] https://jasonmurray.org/pages/contact +[7] mailto:jemurray@zweck.net +[8] http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?search=0x6E8A4FCDF2F9138C&fingerprint=on&op=index +[9] https://github.com/0xJasonMurray/ +[10] https://twitter.com/0xJasonMurray/ +[11] https://www.linkedin.com/in/jemurray/ +[13] https://jasonmurray.org/pages/about/ +[14] https://jasonmurray.org/posts/ +[15] https://jasonmurray.org/now/ +[16] https://jasonmurray.org/pages/resume +[17] https://jasonmurray.org/pages/contact +[18] https://gohugo.io/ +[19] https://www.inoreader.com/ +[20] https://jasonmurray.org/images/2021-11-01-19-39-24.png +[21] https://jasonmurray.org/images/2021-11-01-20-21-17.png +[22] https://jasonmurray.org/posts/2021/rssfulltexthugo/#configuration-details +[23] https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gohugoio/hugo/master/tpl/tplimpl/embedded/templates/_default/rss.xml +[24] https://jasonmurray.org/tags/hugo +[25] https://jasonmurray.org/tags/rss +[26] https://jasonmurray.org/posts/2021/wireguardlinux/ +[27] https://jasonmurray.org/posts/2021/sysmon-on-windows10/ +[28] https://jasonmurray.org/ +[29] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ +[30] https://gohugo.io/ +[31] https://github.com/Track3/hermit +[32] https://jasonmurray.org/posts/index.xml diff --git a/static/archive/jenson-org-arxfgm.txt b/static/archive/jenson-org-arxfgm.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7bfeaf --- /dev/null +++ b/static/archive/jenson-org-arxfgm.txt @@ -0,0 +1,294 @@ +[1]Skip to content + +[2] Scott Jenson + +Exploring the world beyond mobile + +Menu + + • [4]Articles + • [5]Most Popular + • [6]Talks + • [7]About + +August 30, 2021 + + • [8]Article + • [9]Most Popular + +The future needs files + +For many mobile users, files are like dinosaurs, a holdover from the bygone +desktop era. Sure, they “work” but, they’re mostly there because, you know, +ancient history. I’ve discussed this issue for the last 2 years and I usually +get some version of “get over it grandpa”. + +I’m not here to tell you exactly what should happen, but more what you should +want. For me, it’s a travesty that people don’t understand why files are so +powerful and more importantly, how they need to evolve for mobile. I want all +OSs, including mobile ones, to properly support real files as they are amazing, +inspiring, and possibly the future of how we build our digital future. + +Note: I’m using iOS as an example throughout this post but Android (and others) +are doing nearly the same thing. Please don’t mistake this as some type of +attack on Apple, this applies to everyone. + +I’m not a luddite + +I can understand your skepticism. Am I the dinosaur, overly attached to the +past? In my defense, I was on the Apple Newton team in the 90s (even working on +an unreleased “Newton Phone” concept) and also managed Google’s Mobile UX team +from 2005-2009, I was there when all hell broke loose and saw firsthand how +mobile changed everything. Mobile is clearly a juggernaut far bigger than +desktop. But too many assume a market win means a perfect product. It’s never +that simple. Mobile won for a variety of reasons, but throwing away files +wasn’t one of them. + +Misconception #1: Mobile already has files! + +Whenever I broach this topic on Twitter I always get some smart aleck posting a +screenshot of the Apple Files app. Sigh… Yes, there is a Files app, Bravo… But +it’s so poorly integrated into the experience that it creates confusion and +extra work. Let’s back up a bit. + +In 2007, the iPhone was a radical simplification over the desktop. There were +no windows, no menu bar, and there weren’t even visible scroll bars! The iPhone +was primarily a content consumption device. This was a brilliant insight. It +didn’t rule out content creation, it just made it an edge case. The iPhone was +first and foremost focused on browsing and scrolling. In fact, it’s maniacal +focus on scrolling introduced “flicking”, which allowed a super fast scroll to +the bottom of lists. (there’s a whole blog post I could write just on the +difference between the Newton and iPhone scrolling behaviors) + +But the iPhone didn’t stop there, it radically simplified other parts of the +UI, the most notable was removing the file system entirely. Remember, this was +a consumption device, so files weren’t strictly necessary. You had file-like +things, but they were locked up inside the apps themselves. The Notes app is a +good example. + + • [Notes1] + • [Notes2] + +And to be honest, if you have just a few notes, this isn’t bad. The problem is +that if you have lots of notes, or want to do anything interesting with these +notes (e.g. get comments on them, post to blog, or import previous work) you’re +out of luck. My issue with that initial 2007 iPhone was that while it was well +intentioned it took things too far. Instead of hiding files away, it killed +them off entirely. + +But things have improved since then right? There is a Files app after all. +Notes can import from Files! + +Well, not quite. Let’s just look at the most recent (2021) version of the iOS +Notes app. It’s significantly different from the original 2007 version, with +lots more functionality, but below is a screenshot of me trying to save a note +to Dropbox. + +[Notes-2021-Export-700x527]Notes 2021 + +Notice something? There is no “Save to Files” option! Even more confusing, +Notes has its own parallel folders that don’t show up in the Files app. And if +you feel like being a smarty-pants and say “Scott, look, those are iCloud +folders!” Not so fast there buckeroo. Here’s my iCloud drive: + +[YI4kG_di0flii3q8LURZVnypQ2KggBwOQG_IPFqmrn3y22V0VlYfwSdKg]Web iCloud + +Those Notes folders are nowhere to be seen. They are ONLY visible in the Notes +app or the iCloud Notes app! A tight little ecosystem you can’t escape from. + +To further confuse things, when I took a screenshot of the Notes app and tried +to save this to the Files app, that actually was possible! The Mac prided +itself on “learn once, use everywhere.” That’s clearly not the case for iOS +apps. + +[Screenshot-savejpg-700x525]Screenshots support Files app + +Side Note: You actually can use Files from Notes but it’s hidden. Instead of +“Save to Files” you have to chose “Send a copy” menu item that will export a +version into Files. So while it’s Notes does indeed support the Files app, it’s +unlike others and clearly only focuses in the Import/Export use case. + +This odd-man-out approach for Notes shows an underappreciated challenge for any +paradigm shift. iOS started off without files so when Apple suddenly added a +Files app a decade later, it’s not surprising that most apps didn’t immediately +start to use it uniformly. + +Of course, things may improve over time but it’s been years with little change. +I worry things are intellectually calcifying, or in Notes case, bifurcating. +Part of my motivation in writing this post is to get us fired up about the +value of files so it we appreciate this is happening. + +Misconception #2: Sharing is all I need + +The power of files comes from them being powerful nouns. They are temporary +holding blocks that are used as a form of exchange between applications. A +range of apps can edit a single file in a single location. On mobile, the +primary way to really use files is to “Share” between apps. This demotes files +from a powerful abstract noun into a lackluster narrow verb. + + For example, I can import a text file into the Notes app but it’s really +nothing more than a glorified copy/paste, not an editing of an object in place. +This makes a cloud storage service like DropBox nearly useless as I’m not +editing “the thing” but a copy of the thing. I need to save it back out to +Dropbox if I want anyone else to see my changes. That’s vastly underutilizing +the power of the abstraction that comes from files. + +By sharing a file into an app you’re effectively making a copy. If I’d like to +make a few changes to a photo before posting it, each app I use makes an +internal copy of that photo. In order to pass the new photo to another app, I +have to export it out, so I get not only a copy of the photo in each app I use, +but it’s result needs to be copied out yet again to a service like Dropbox so +that I can share it back into the next app. + +Of course, people don’t do this type of flow often but that’s because mobile is +mostly about consumption not creation. If we want mobile to expand and grow it +needs to handle the flows “knowledge workers” do routinely. Part of my +frustration in talking about this issue is that people are so trapped within +the present. Just because no one needs something today somehow justifies our +pain forever. If we’re talking about the future, we need to talk about new +tools and new workflows. The current model of files on mobile is drastically +restricting this. + +Misconception #3: But I can share with iPhone users! + +Yes, you can “Share” notes with other iOS users but that’s a very [10] +Procrustean Bed you’re making. You have to ask “at what cost”? Are you really +willing to bet your creative productivity to a single app from a single +company? Remember, this approach prevents your notes even from being used by +other iOS apps as well! + +The most powerful aspect of files is that they liberate your data. Any app can +see it and do something useful to it. DropBox (et. al.) were able to seamlessly +merge with desktop usage as it required zero changes to your workflow. Files +were just magically synced to the cloud, unlocking not only multiple computers +working on the same file but multiple device types. + +The current mobile model does indeed sync your data but through the wrapper of +apps which forms a restrictive shield around your data. It’s so much more +powerful to sync your data through files. + +Misconception #4: Files are just blobs of data + +Files are mistakenly conceived as only content, something holding your notes, +spreadsheet data, or a photo. But files also have metadata, information about +the information. The obvious examples are the file name, creation and +modification date. The only one of these that is really used much on mobile is +modification date as when you use the ‘file picker’ on mobile, it usually +defaults to ‘most recent’ files. This actually does work well, if you’re trying +to include something you’ve just created. Unfortunately, it just doesn’t scale +much beyond that use case. + +A more subtle example of metadata is the folder a file is in. This allows you +to group files from different apps, into a single place. If I’m planning a +wedding, it’s very helpful to have all wedding things together. This is data +first vs app first organization. This was extended when the Mac created the +“Desktop”, a temporary holding place for files. People needed folders for +longer term storage but it was also powerful to have a temporary ‘working area’ +for recent files. The original Mac even had a [11]“Put away” command that would +return a file from the Desktop back into its original folder location (sadly +removed in OS X). This small bit of history shows how adding a tiny amount of +metadata can have a significant positive impact on a user’s workflow. + +[Put-Away-700x525]Mac OS9 Put away command + +The same applies to previews or content indexes (e.g. Spotlight on the Mac) +This allows the Finder to display your files in more helpful ways and even +allows you to quickly find things based on their content. This metadata is +hugely powerful and not always available on mobile. + +But it’s helpful to remember that this metadata only went so far. Using “just +files” started to break down with apps like iPhoto and iTunes, which tried to +have it both ways. Both used the file system to store the many large files +needed but they also required an app to add additional metadata to group and +sort the content. This created a schism, splitting the metadata between two +different masters. This meant you couldn’t just ‘reach into’ your iTunes +folders with the Finder to rearrange things (or convert the files from WAV to +MP3) without causing serious app confusion. In some cases, if you did this the +music would simply disappear from iTunes. + +2002 iTunes 2.0.4 CD on OS9 - Take 2 | AppleToTheCore.me + +There were attempts to fix this. BeOS allowed arbitrary data to be added to +files and this was reflected it’s Tracker (file browser) app. This allowed +iPhoto-like ‘apps’ to exist entirely within Tracker. [12]WinFS from Microsoft +carried this even further with a more robust metadata mechanism. Both were +valiant attempts but most people have no idea either existed and have ended up, +like Dvorak keyboards, to be considered a mostly ignored branch of computer +history. This is too bad as we’ve already seen that things like Mac Spotlight +are incredibly helpful. I strongly feel that we should be looking harder at +bringing back metadata systems like WinFS/BeOS. But not for me, for the AI. + +Our AI Future + +My goal isn’t to talk about “fixing mobile”. Mobile will, eventually, get +there. Too many people think “Mobile is the Future” but we are so far past +that. Mobile is the present. We need to actually be thinking about the future +that is coming and what we are going to need. + +Mobile started off as a consumption device. That brilliant simplification +unlocked an explosion of basic consumption tasks. But if we want to move +everyone over to phones and tablets, we clearly have a long ways to go. Yes, +there are small niches of people, like writers that are using their iPad for +creation. But that isn’t a very high bar, [13]extremely simple devices have +existed for this for a long time. Besides, how many companies have successfully +migrated their entire company to tablets? I’m sure a few exist but it’s not +exactly an avalanche is it? + +I’m talking about moving from consumption to creation and not just for today’s +tasks, but for the tools we are just starting to use. I’m referring to Machine +Learning systems. These are the type of agents that can run through the data on +my phone making inferences, corrections, and suggestions that make my life +easier and more productive. Things like: + + • Cleaning up my contacts (and searching for additional info on them) + • Tagging my photos with text inside them + • Proofreading my writing + • Indexing and linking “statistically significant” words in audio/video files + • Creating semantic links between all of my work + +These are just baby, brainstorm-ish ideas. We know this will evolve to be so +much more nuanced and impactful. Relegating these services to the OS is a safer +option, certainly from the security point of view, but that creates an +innovation chokepoint. If we’ve learned anything from our history, we need to +have more open systems to create an opportunity to try out many many different +services. Not just a few more but orders of magnitude more, which is far more +than any OS can provide. If we’re happy with Dropbox, we should have no +problems with 3rd party ML systems scouring our data, especially if we have +folders as a mechanism to gate access. + +This isn’t some feeble political statement to liberate my data from a company. +I want files to liberate my data from my own apps and create an ML explosion of +activity! Files are at some level a hack, I get that, there are limits but they +are an extremely useful and flexible hack. Like the QWERTY keyboard, they are +“good enough” for most tasks. Files encapsulate a ‘chunk’ of your work and +allow that chunk to be seen, moved, acted on, and accessed by multiple people +and more importantly external 3rd party processes. It is a fever dream to think +mobile is adequate today. It isn’t adequate and we desperately need the power +of files to unlock the future on mobile. + +Special thanks to Gordon Brander whose musings on his new app [14]Subconscious +revived this 2 year old idea into this blog post. If you’re not reading Gordon, +you’re missing out. + +Retrieved March 4, 2024 at 4:09 pm (website time). + +Available at: jenson.org/?p=1011 + +Scott Jenson (@scottjenson@social.coop) + + +References: + +[1] https://jenson.org/files/#content +[2] https://jenson.org/ +[4] https://jenson.org/category/article/ +[5] https://jenson.org/category/popular/ +[6] https://jenson.org/talks/ +[7] https://jenson.org/about-scott/ +[8] https://jenson.org/category/article/ +[9] https://jenson.org/category/popular/ +[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes +[11] https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mac_OS_9/wdtjgTMbi4kC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=mac+desktop+%22put+away%22&pg=PA35&printsec=frontcover +[12] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS +[13] https://getfreewrite.com/ +[14] https://subconscious.substack.com/ diff --git a/static/archive/locusmag-com-lrcibx.txt b/static/archive/locusmag-com-lrcibx.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d31955 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/archive/locusmag-com-lrcibx.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1616 @@ +[Topper-ali] +[2]Locus Online + +[3]Locus Online + +The Magazine of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Field + +[4][Transparen] +[5]Subscribe! +[6] + + • [7]All Posts + • [8]News + □ [9]Awards + □ [10]Announcements + □ [11]Publishing + □ [12]New Titles & Bestsellers + □ [13]Conventions + □ [14]Obituaries + • [15]Reviews + □ [16]Books + □ [17]Short Fiction + □ [18]Films + □ [19]Index to Reviews + • [20]Features + □ [21]Interviews + ☆ [22]Index to Interviews + □ [23]Spotlights + □ [24]Commentary + ☆ [25]Cory Doctorow + ☆ [26]Kameron Hurley + ☆ [27]Roundtable + ☆ [28]SF Crossing the Gulf + • [29]Subscribe + • [30]Advertise + • [31]Donate + • [32]About + □ [33]Submission Guidelines + □ [34]Contact Us + □ [35]Volunteer/Internships + □ [36]Staff + □ [37]History of Locus Magazine + ☆ [38]Charles N. 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Every business plan has the word “AI” in it, even if +the business itself has no AI in it. Even as two major, terrifying wars rage +around the world, every newspaper has an above-the-fold AI headline and half +the stories on Google News as I write this are about AI. I’ve had to make rule +for my events: The first person to mention AI owes everyone else a drink. + +It’s a bubble. + +Tech bubbles come in two varieties: The ones that leave something behind, and +the ones that leave nothing behind. Sometimes, it can be hard to guess what +kind of bubble you’re living through until it pops and you find out the hard +way. + +When the dotcom bubble burst, it left a lot behind. Walking through San +Francisco’s Mission District one day in 2001, I happened upon a startup founder +who was standing on the sidewalk, selling off a fleet of factory-wrapped +Steelcase Leap chairs ($50 each!) and a dozen racks of servers with as much of +his customers’ data as I wanted ($250 per server or $1000 for a rack). +Companies that were locked into sky-high commercial leases scram­bled to sublet +their spaces at bargain-basement prices. Craigslist was glutted with foosball +tables and Razor scooters, and failed dotcom T-shirts were up for the taking, +by the crateful. + +But the most important residue after the bubble popped was the mil­lions of +young people who’d been lured into dropping out of university in order to take +dotcom jobs where they got all-expenses paid crash courses in HTML, Perl, and +Python. This army of technologists was unique in that they were drawn from all +sorts of backgrounds – art-school dropouts, hu­manities dropouts, dropouts from +earth science and bioscience programs and other disciplines that had +historically been consumers of technology, not producers of it. + +This created a weird and often wonderful dynamic in the Bay Area, a brief +respite between the go-go days of Bubble 1.0 and Bubble 2.0, a time when the +cost of living plummeted in the Bay Area, as did the cost of office space, as +did the cost of servers. People started making technology because it served a +need, or because it delighted them, or both. Technologists briefly operated +without the goad of VCs’ growth-at-all-costs spurs. + +The bubble was terrible. VCs and scammers scooped up billions from pension +funds and other institutional investors and wasted it on obviously doomed +startups. But after all that “irrational exuberance” burned away, the ashes +proved a fertile ground for new growth. + +Contrast that bubble with, say, cryptocurrency/NFTs, or the complex financial +derivatives that led up to the 2008 financial crisis. These crises left behind +very little reusable residue. The expensively retrained physicists whom the +finance sector taught to generate wildly defective risk-hedging algorithms were +not able to apply that knowledge to create successor algo­rithms that were +useful. The fraud of the cryptocurrency bubble was far more pervasive than the +fraud in the dotcom bubble, so much so that without the fraud, there’s almost +nothing left. A few programmers were trained in Rust, a very secure programming +language that is broadly applicable elsewhere. But otherwise, the residue from +crypto is a lot of bad digital art and worse Austrian economics. + +AI is a bubble, and it’s full of fraud, but that doesn’t automatically mean +there’ll be nothing of value left behind when the bubble bursts. World­Com was +a gigantic fraud and it kicked off a fiber-optic bubble, but when WorldCom +cratered, it left behind a lot of fiber that’s either in use today or waiting +to be lit up. On balance, the world would have been better off without the +WorldCom fraud, but at least something could be salvaged from the wreckage. + +That’s unlike, say, the Enron scam or the Uber scam, both of which left the +world worse off than they found it in every way. Uber burned $31 billion in +investor cash, mostly from the Saudi royal family, to create the illusion of a +viable business. Not only did that fraud end up screwing over the retail +investors who made the Saudis and the other early investors a pile of money +after the company’s IPO – but it also destroyed the legitimate taxi business +and convinced cities all over the world to starve their transit systems of +investment because Uber seemed so much cheaper. Uber continues to hemorrhage +money, resorting to cheap accounting tricks to make it seem like they’re +finally turning it around, even as they double the price of rides and halve +driver pay (and still lose money on every ride). The market can remain +irrational longer than any of us can stay solvent, but when Uber runs out of +suckers, it will go the way of other pump-and-dumps like WeWork. + +What kind of bubble is AI? + +Like Uber, the massive investor subsidies for AI have produced a sugar high of +temporarily satisfied users. Fooling around feeding prompts to an image +genera­tor or a large language model can be fun, and playful communities have +sprung up around these subsidized, free-to-use tools (less savory communities +have also come together to produce nonconsensual pornography, fraud materials, +and hoaxes). + +The largest of these models are incredibly expensive. They’re expensive to +make, with billions spent acquir­ing training data, labelling it, and running +it through massive computing arrays to turn it into models. + +Even more important, these models are expensive to run. Even if a bankrupt AI +company’s model and servers could be acquired for pennies on the dollar, even +if the new owners could be shorn of any overhanging legal liability from +looming copyright cases, even if the eye-watering salaries commanded by AI +engineers collapsed, the electricity bill for each query – to power the servers +and their chillers – would still make running these giant models very +expensive. + +Do the potential paying customers for these large models add up to enough money +to keep the servers on? That’s the 13 trillion dollar question, and the answer +is the difference between WorldCom and Enron, or dotcoms and cryptocurrency. + +Though I don’t have a certain answer to this question, I am skeptical. AI +decision support is potentially valuable to practitioners. Accountants might +value an AI tool’s ability to draft a tax return. Radiologists might value the +AI’s guess about whether an X-ray suggests a cancerous mass. But with AIs’ +tendency to “hallucinate” and confabulate, there’s an increasing recognition +that these AI judgments require a “human in the loop” to carefully review their +judgments. + +In other words, an AI-supported radiologist should spend exactly the same +amount of time considering your X-ray, and then see if the AI agrees with their +judgment, and, if not, they should take a closer look. AI should make radiology +more expensive, in order to make it more accurate. + +But that’s not the AI business model. AI pitchmen are explicit on this score: +The purpose of AI, the source of its value, is its capacity to increase +productivity, which is to say, it should allow workers to do more, which will +allow their bosses to fire some of them, or get each one to do more work in the +same time, or both. The entire investor case for AI is “companies will buy our +products so they can do more with less.” It’s not “business custom­ers will buy +our products so their products will cost more to make, but will be of higher +quality.” + +AI companies are implicitly betting that their customers will buy AI for highly +consequential automation, fire workers, and cause physical, mental and economic +harm to their own customers as a result, somehow escaping liability for these +harms. Early indicators are that this bet won’t pay off. Cruise, the +“self-driving car” startup that was just forced to pull its cars off the +streets of San Francisco, pays 1.5 staffers to supervise every car on the road. +In other words, their AI replaces a single low-waged driver with 1.5 more +expensive remote supervisors – and their cars still kill people. + +If Cruise is a bellwether for the future of the AI regulatory environment, then +the pool of AI applications shrinks to a puddle. There just aren’t that many +customers for a product that makes their own high-stakes projects bet­ter, but +more expensive. There are many low-stakes applications – say, selling kids +access to a cheap subscription that generates pictures of their RPG characters +in action – but they don’t pay much. The universe of low-stakes, high-dollar +applications for AI is so small that I can’t think of anything that belongs in +it. + +Add up all the money that users with low-stakes/fault-tolerant applications are +willing to pay; combine it with all the money that risk-tolerant, high-stakes +users are willing to spend; add in all the money that high-stakes users who are +willing to make their products more expen­sive in order to keep them running +are willing to spend. If that all sums up to less than it takes to keep the +servers running, to acquire, clean and label new data, and to process it into +new models, then that’s it for the commercial Big AI sector. + +Just take one step back and look at the hype through this lens. All the big, +exciting uses for AI are either low-dollar (helping kids cheat on their +homework, generating stock art for bottom-feeding publications) or high-stakes +and fault-intolerant (self-driving cars, radiology, hiring, etc.). + +Every bubble pops eventually. When this one goes, what will be left behind? + +Well, there will be little models – Hugging Face, Llama, etc – that run on +commodity hardware. The people who are learning to “prompt engineer” these “toy +models” have gotten far more out of them than even their makers imagined +possible. They will continue to eke out new marginal gains from these little +models, possibly enough to satisfy most of those low-stakes, low-dollar +ap­plications. But these little models were spun out of big models, and without +stupid bubble money and/or a viable business case, those big models won’t +survive the bubble and be available to make more capable little models. + +There are some promising avenues, like “feder­ated learning,” that +hypothetically combine a lot of commodity consumer hardware to replicate some +of the features of those big, capital-intensive models from the bubble’s +beneficiaries. It may be that – as with the interregnum after the dotcom bust – +AI practitioners will use their all-expenses-paid education in PyTorch and +TensorFlow (AI’s answer to Perl and Python) to push the limits on federated +learning and small-scale AI models to new places, driven by playfulness, +scientific curiosity, and a desire to solve real problems. + +There will also be a lot more people who un­derstand statistical analysis at +scale and how to wrangle large amounts of data. There will be a lot of people +who know PyTorch and TensorFlow, too – both of these are “open source” +projects, but are effectively controlled by Meta and Google, respectively. +Perhaps they’ll be wrestled away from their corporate owners, forked and made +more broadly applicable, after those corporate behemoths move on from their +money-losing Big AI bets. + +Our policymakers are putting a lot of energy into thinking about what they’ll +do if the AI bubble doesn’t pop – wrangling about “AI ethics” and “AI safety.” +But – as with all the previous tech bubbles – very few people are talking about +what we’ll be able to salvage when the bubble is over. + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +Cory Doctorow is the author of Walkaway, Little Brother, and Information +Doesn’t Want to Be Free (among many others); he is the co-owner of Boing Boing, +a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a visiting +professor of Computer Science at the Open University and an MIT Media Lab +Research Affiliate. + +━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ + +All opinions expressed by commentators are solely their own and do not reflect +the opinions of Locus. + +[INS::INS] + +This article and more like it in the [64]December and January 2023 issue of +Locus. + +[65]Locus Magazine, Science Fiction FantasyWhile you are here, please take a +moment to support Locus with a one-time or recurring donation. 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For radiology, the BEST + review would indeed be the more expensive mix of human plus AI (and some + places are now doing this and charging a surcharge for use of AI). However + there is at least some studies that suggest AI is not better at reading + mammograms than a human radiologist. So the best, most expensive option is + human + AI, the 2nd best and cheapest is AI, and the worst and 2nd most + expensive is human (only). If the business model for AI + human doesn’t + fly, I can see AI only working fine. + + On automated vehicles, Cruise is a good example of what can go wrong, but + Waymo is having significantly better results. I think the jury is still out + on that one. + + On LLM, I agree with you. I do ask two questions (and it’s an ask, I’m + ignorant in this area): 1) are the newly emerging small models fully + derivatives from the massive models, or might that continue even if the + massive models are a bubble? 2) There are a lot of applications where + training is done on massive data sets and hardware, but the resulting + trained models can then run at far lower cost, on MUCH smaller machines. Is + this also a possible continued path if LLM’s are a bubble that burst? + + [89]Reply + • [c3c3135a] + Dymitr + December 19, 2023 at 3:33 pm + [90]Permalink + + Curious that author does not dwell more on the fact, that use cases like + GitHub copilot will actually make any programming faster and easier, also + lower the entry threshold for new workforce which will be most likely very + positive. + + [91]Reply + □ [1b19293b] + PiRX + December 28, 2023 at 12:49 am + [92]Permalink + + As a programmer with some experience under my belt – copilot doesn’t + make “real” (outside demos) programming much faster, it gives maybe a + few percent gain. A lot of that could also be gained just by improving + libraries and frameworks used to reduce repetitive and/or boilerplate + code. + + [93]Reply + ☆ [e222c1b0] + khlorghaal + December 31, 2023 at 3:51 am + [94]Permalink + + Utility for biolerplate and glue is EXTREMELY useful, since those + are the demoralizing activities humans dont want to concern + ourselves with, that take significant time. + Its also a substitute for reading a full manual when you only want + to use a singular feature of something for a specific purpose. + + [95]Reply + ○ [9eb71600] + Curt J. Sampson + January 16, 2024 at 7:53 pm + [96]Permalink + + But we already have _much_ better techniques for getting rid of + boilerplate code: better languages, better libraries, + refactorings, and so on. + + Keep in mind that a lot more time is spent _reading_ code than + writing it; you can’t modify existing code unless you can read + it and be sure what it does and what the effects of your + changes will be. So generating more boilerplate code might fix + a few problems in the very short term (over a few weeks, or + often even just days), but creates a larger problem (often + referred to as “technical debt”) over the long term. + + I have tried using ChatGPT to give me hints on how to write + code, but I’ve inevitably found that, while it’s been useful + for giving me (almost invariably incorrect) rough draughts in + languages I’m less familiar with, it works only because I’m + already a good programmer in many other languages, and so I can + fairly easily edit that draught into useful and correct code. + + [97]Reply + □ [2528bf2e] + Mike + December 30, 2023 at 12:22 pm + [98]Permalink + + I’m not finding Copilot to be that useful. It makes lots of wrong + suggestions, too. + + [99]Reply + • [e32f7298] + Tuna + December 19, 2023 at 3:42 pm + [100]Permalink + + AI will probably prove to be a bad solution (at least for now) for a lot of + the domains where it’s being attempted, for the simple reason that a lot of + the output is bullshit. + + But there is a lot of money in products and services where “it’s bullshit” + isn’t a show-stopper. Mostly entertainment, but there is a lot of money in + that. I recently participated in a D&D campaign where the DM made very + liberal use of AI, both for text/running encounters, and for image + generation. The AI clearly wasn’t yet good enough to do the whole thing on + it’s own, but it was much better and more useful than expected, and clearly + reduced the workload on the DM a lot, while also greatly improving + immersion. + + What I’m saying is that in a couple of years the experience of videogaming + will change a lot, and this will probably produce enough revenue to keep + the bubble going, at least for a while. + + [101]Reply + □ [d4cec217] + Vera + February 26, 2024 at 3:28 am + [102]Permalink + + They want, so bad, for it to replace the GM too but that is such a + complicated job that I suspect they might find self driving cars + easier. Those GM emulators are fun for a bit but rapidly get repetitive + or just lose the thread and they are terrible at knitting together an + overarching narrative out of pieces and chaos like a good human GM can + do. + + [103]Reply + • [d4d10da0] + Eli Langer + December 19, 2023 at 5:51 pm + [104]Permalink + + Cory Doctorow’s piece on AI as a bubble provides a nuanced perspective on + the current AI landscape. + + He argues convincingly that AI is in a bubble phase, akin to previous tech + bubbles, where hype and investment overshadow practical utility and + sustainable business models. Doctorow draws parallels with the dotcom + bubble, where despite the burst, valuable skills and infrastructure + remained. + + He points out the distinct lack of tangible, beneficial remnants from other + bubbles, like cryptocurrency/NFTs and the 2008 financial crisis + derivatives. + + Validating Doctorow’s Opinions: + + 1. AI Overhype: Doctorow’s assertion that AI is overhyped and likened to a + bubble seems valid. The ubiquity of AI in business plans, news headlines, + and advertising, regardless of their actual AI integration, mirrors the + classic signs of a technology bubble. + + 2. Historical Bubble Analysis: His analysis of different bubbles, like the + dotcom and cryptocurrency bubbles, and their aftermaths is insightful. The + contrast between bubbles that leave behind valuable assets, skills, or + infrastructure (dotcom) and those that don’t (cryptocurrency/NFTs) is a + valuable framework to assess the potential impact of the current AI bubble. + + 3. Skepticism About AI’s Business Model: Doctorow’s skepticism about the AI + business model’s sustainability and its potential to deliver value is + grounded. He highlights the mismatch between the promise of increased + productivity and the real need for human oversight in AI applications, + which raises questions about the long-term viability of these technologies. + + Countering Doctorow’s Opinions: + 1. Underestimating AI’s Potential: While Doctorow rightly points out the + overhype and potential for fraud in AI, he might underestimate the + technology’s transformative potential. AI’s capacity for data analysis, + pattern recognition, and decision support can revolutionize fields like + healthcare, finance, and more, beyond just being a productivity tool. + + 2. Broad Generalization of AI: Doctorow’s argument, at times, seems to + broadly generalize AI technologies, not fully acknowledging the diversity + within the field. Not all AI applications are equivalent; some, like + machine learning models in healthcare and environmental sciences, show + substantial promise and utility. + + 3. Overlooking Positive Use Cases: His focus on the negative aspects, while + crucial, might overshadow the positive, real-world applications of AI that + are already making an impact. For instance, AI’s role in medical + diagnostics, climate modeling, and even creative arts, though in their + nascent stages, demonstrate a constructive trajectory. + + In conclusion, Doctorow’s opinions on the AI bubble are largely + well-founded, especially his critique of the overhyped nature of AI and the + parallels with historical tech bubbles. However, his perspective might + benefit from a more nuanced acknowledgment of the positive, transformative + potential of AI in various sectors. + + [105]Reply + □ [e77ea68c] + Jonathan + December 22, 2023 at 8:17 am + [106]Permalink + + Thanks, ChatGPT, that was a good summary of what I just read. + + [107]Reply + ☆ [d4d10da0] + Eli Langer + December 22, 2023 at 8:39 am + [108]Permalink + + Dang, you got me. + + [109]Reply + ○ [8260abb9] + Sebastian + December 25, 2023 at 2:23 am + [110]Permalink + + Even in the countering points it suggests no low stakes high + value use cases and only doubles down on the point of medical + use cases, which the author already covered. This barren + absence of use cases that are more than making a complete + amateur, 1 rudimentary subject in any knowledge area better, is + exactly the point of what is making this a bubble. + + [111]Reply + ■ [3431255b] + Matt + January 6, 2024 at 2:28 am + [112]Permalink + + Exactly. It was a regurgitation of the same talking points + we’ve all been hearing for months now… with the word + “nuanced” thrown in. I guess ChatGPT interpreted that Cory + was coming across a little too direct? lol + + ○ [cc121394] + Ormond Otvos + January 7, 2024 at 7:28 pm + [113]Permalink + + It was obvious, as are many comments. + AI requires editing to remove the bland exposition of all + points of view. + Be great for writing a paper on the morality of intersex + dysphoria treatment. + + [114]Reply + □ [dfdaf90f] + Anatoly + December 22, 2023 at 9:51 am + [115]Permalink + + Did you submit this to your English 101 class? + + [116]Reply + • [4f9ace9e] + Alvin Starr + December 19, 2023 at 7:34 pm + [117]Permalink + + I lived through the 2000 tech bubble burst. + I noticed that it started about 97-98. + At times it seemed that if you stuck “on the internet” with anything on a + napkin in a bar you could get financed. + I have a feeling that AI will go that way where lots of businesses go bust + and lots of investors lose their shirts but the world will be forever + changed but not the way people pre-bubble thought. + + If you could not copyright anything generated by AI what would that do to + those who want to create and own content. + There would not be much point in using AI to create that blockbuster movie + script if you could not claim you own it. + + [118]Reply + • [ede98f50] + Ian Holmes + December 20, 2023 at 8:15 am + [119]Permalink + + This is a nice comparison to previous bubbles. However, it leaves out the + thing this bubble was driven by, other bubbles less so: a vast accumulating + body of academic research in neural network architectures, deep learning + theory, and domain-specific applications. There is a LOT that will be left + when the bubble pops. In some ways this can be compared to the development + of web based technology that accompanied the dotcom boom, but it is much + more substantial. Consider for example AlphaFold, the solution to a 50 year + fundamental problem in protein bioinformatics. That’s a whole lot more than + just some CSS and JavaScript frameworks and the Model-View-Controller + paradigm. + + [120]Reply + □ [07d0ed93] + Amy + December 23, 2023 at 2:36 pm + [121]Permalink + + Yes, and AlphaFold is not based on generative AI. AI was everywhere + before November 2022, and it’s not going anywhere. GenAI and LLMs are + the bubble. + + [122]Reply + • [b41d7825] + Maub Nesor + December 22, 2023 at 3:34 pm + [123]Permalink + + Interesting article, but very static analysis in a very dynamic field. The + hardware cost issues will most likely be address by some combination of + Moore’s Law and Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), so that + is a short term hardware issue. + + The software also has a lot of room for optimization. Particularly with + zero weights. It may also turn out that the saying about Neural Nets, that + they are the technology of the future and always will be, is true. Who + creates a system that mucking large with no instrumentation? That’s eng101. + + As for accuracy, they need to start training with a None Of The Above + (NOTA) category. We used to use it all the time in the days before NNs when + simple feature vectors and convolution filters were used. Once a calc falls + below a confidence level, it gets flagged. So with the radio example, the + AI picks off all the easy ones. The ones that are obviously clean or + cancerous. The hard ones get flagged for a second look. Using multiple AIs + and voting is also an effective approach. But what ever they do they must + instrument the mucking things. It has to be able to explain why it made + this choice. IDing every spot on the X-ray and labeling it, is a start. + + The current products are absurdly bad. Ask it anything it doesn’t already + know, and it looses it’s mind. Even things it should know, are not immune. + Again, Eng101, before you do anything with it, ask it questions you already + know the answers to. Don’t even trust the fact check. I’ve seen cases where + the model was right and the fact check got it wrong. You just can’t make + this spit up. + + As always, just my $0.02 worth. It may all just be an AI hallucination. + + [124]Reply + • [013e47ac] + Justin + December 22, 2023 at 4:02 pm + [125]Permalink + + Doctorow is being pretty reductive here – LLMs (specifically the + transformer algo) are being used for so many interesting things I can’t + imagine we’re going to run out of giant data sets ripe for mining for + meaningful discoveries any time soon. That’s the real application of + transformer AI – making sense of enormous amounts of data. + + For instance – protein folding – Deepmind’s Alphafold basically + short-cutted the human race in that area by about 20 years. Same thing for + material science – they used the same technique to discover a couple of + hundred thousand different material compositions that we’re working with + now to find the useful ones. + + Then of course there’s DNA interaction, all of the medical records in the + world, deep space scan research, etc…. there’s sooooo much data out there + just waiting to be devoured by an LLM there’s got to be a crapload of money + on the table. + + [126]Reply + • [f2d06772] + Ephemerality + December 23, 2023 at 2:20 am + [127]Permalink + + I’m not sure AI is a bubble, but mainly because I’m hopeful that by + learning from AI and machine learning we can learn about human + intelligence. New research of AI discovering a new class of antibiotics ( + [128]https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ + new-class-of-antibiotics-discovered-using-ai/) or helping to control + nuclear fusion ([129]https://www.wired.com/story/deepmind-ai-nuclear-fusion + /) to the point where ignition has now been achieved multiple times makes + me think AI or at least some version of it is here to stay. + + [130]Reply + • [de743c9c] + Davide + December 23, 2023 at 6:45 am + [131]Permalink + + I don’t think the whole article is correctly set. There’s a lot of talk + about AI but it’s misleading since we should talk about Generative AI which + has gotten mainstream this year, while AI as a general technology has + already in use for decades. Talking about GenAI, there’s certainly a lot of + hype around it but it is a great assistive tool to enhance several fields + of human work, even if we are still in early stages. A lot of improvement + could and should be made but it is a promising direction and I don’t see + the reason to criticize too early, but I agree on reasoning and discuss + about it. + + [132]Reply + • [37108fa8] + JB + December 23, 2023 at 7:13 am + [133]Permalink + + Whoever says ‘bubble’ first after this comment buys the comment section + drinks. + + [134]Reply + • [7311ebb8] + [135]Jeff Hecht + December 23, 2023 at 8:23 am + [136]Permalink + + Good analysis. I was deeply immersed in the fiber-optic portion of the + dot.com bubble, and the fundamental problem there were that the technology + got a decade or more ahead of the demand for bandwidth. That, in turn, was + powered by Worldcom’s claim that internet traffic was doubling every three + months — which may have been true for one company for quarter around 1995, + but was not sustained. No carriers were willing to release data on actual + transmission growth because they all considered it proprietary, so the + hustlers made up numbers, and the market wanted to believe. + + I remember worrying about the actually fiber capacity and demand back + around 1999, and thinking thinking this irrational exuberance could not + sustain itself, but the dot-com crash didn’t spread to fiber until late in + 2000. What happened was that nobody looked down. It was like the laws of + cartoon physics; Wyle E Coyote’s legs kept churning after he ran beyond the + edge of the cliff and the law of gravity did not take hold until he looked + down. And when the market did look down and see how far they were above the + ground, the market dropped like a rock, and big tech stocks dropped to + pennies on the dollar. + + [137]Reply + • [e10c8a21] + Bob + December 23, 2023 at 11:32 am + [138]Permalink + + I think the large scale AI providers trying to corner the AI market is + definitely a bubble and the large scale AI can solve it fantasy is + currently a fantasy. However even they are making an immediate and + fundamental changes. All of our developers are absolutely dependent on AI + for bug checking and finding incremental solutions much faster as they + provided the creativity to what they are building. + + As someone who specifically works adjacent to Radiologists working in AI + and Deep Learning they have been working on imaging specific AI since long + before the current bubble. It is about carefully training rigorous models + on controlled data sets to improve accuracy and efficiency. They presume + multiple layers of QA and project better overall outcomes. Dealing with PHI + absolutely limits how and what kind of third parties are involved. Having + dedicated experts working on refining specific closed AI systems is + required to avoid poisoning. + + My point being that AI is more than just the current bubble and those more + focused incremental change areas will have long term impact. The current AI + hype and fraud you discuss will also have negative long term impacts but + that is no different than any other corporate fraud bubble. + + [139]Reply + • [ed66d318] + Mark + December 24, 2023 at 12:40 pm + [140]Permalink + + The answer I suspect is that there will be a limited capacity regardless of + cost effectiveness so only the most profitable will even be supportable. + National Security seems to be the most likely beneficiary with the NSA, FBI + and DoD using it for things like threat analysis, early warnings, missile + targeting, radar enhancement, etc. Places where the scope can be defined + sufficiently that accuracy and reliability are substantial. The other place + I would guess is agriculture as rising chemical costs drive farmers to need + tools to identify soil conditions, plant health, weed growth and water + needs in real time. Another set of data than can be relatively simply built + and operated. + + Replacing US workers writ large is going to take AGI and that’s not even + conceptually related to these LLM programs. + + [141]Reply + • [ff29b880] + ape + December 24, 2023 at 6:07 pm + [142]Permalink + + Over 20 years ago, I was told that the AI embedded in speech recognition + software would replace human court stenographers and closed captioners “any + day now.” + I’m still waiting. + + [143]Reply + □ [c2364a84] + dude + December 29, 2023 at 7:34 am + [144]Permalink + + This one example proves technology improvement never happens. + + [145]Reply + ☆ [ede5d74f] + [146]ViennaMike + December 29, 2023 at 2:23 pm + [147]Permalink + + Sarcasm don’t? Because we may not have those particular + applications doesn’t mean that AI hasn’t improved voice recognition + by multiple orders of magnitude, leading to new applications, + including smart speakers, automated translation that is good enough + for many use cases, and more. + + [148]Reply + ☆ [ff29b880] + ape + December 29, 2023 at 2:25 pm + [149]Permalink + + That’s not quite the logical leap I would make, but you do you. + Court reporters being replaced by technology just happens to be my + personal litmus test for whether or not I start taking recent + claims about AI seriously. + Keep in mind that court reporters in many venues make 6-figure + salaries. + + [150]Reply + ○ [ede5d74f] + [151]ViennaMike + December 29, 2023 at 2:35 pm + [152]Permalink + + There’s a huge difference between “technology never improves” + and “AI is currently over hyped.” The first is demonstrably + false, including for AI. The latter is hard to disagree with, + and I certainly wouldn’t. + + AI’s abilities has grown by multiple orders of magnitude and is + now routinely used in many new applications AND, at the same + time, it is greatly over hyped. + + [153]Reply + • [1dc6eb0a] + terrymac + December 24, 2023 at 6:36 pm + [154]Permalink + + Are we investing more in AI than its potential worth? I would agree that + many of today’s firms will go bust, especially those who think that an AI + version of Petsmart will dominate the world. + + But I wonder: NVIDIA became a trillion-dollar firm, but it wasn’t entirely + hype-based. They have been “eating their own dogfood” by using stacks of + their hardware to speed up the design and validation of subsequent versions + of their chippery. A particularly notable example is the development of + CuLitho, which accelerated computational lithography forty-fold. I can cite + many other instances where AI has already led to vast improvements in + productivity. + + Today’s chatty LLMs are rife with problems, but they’re not the Omega of + the process, but the leading edge. Many other approaches are designed to be + truthful and transparent and useful; from my survey of arxiv preprints, a + great deal of substantial improvements are in the wind. + + [155]Reply + • [9cfe0d38] + Hadoom + December 25, 2023 at 9:23 am + [156]Permalink + + The author conflates overinvestment bubbles with other types of crises / + bubbles such as accounting fraud (Enron), or debt crisis (2008 / 2009). + This apples and pears comparison makes that part of the analysis invalid. + + Overinvestment bubbles usually leave behind the assets that were + overinvested in. The first / most famous case was the US railways in the + 1800’s. The fiber optic overinvestment mentioned is another great example. + One could argue that all government infrastructure programs are in some + ways like that, not justified by economic calculations within the normal + time horizons but accretive over the long term nevertheless. + + So in that way of course something will be left behind. + + A useful part of the analysis is the 2×2 on monetizability (!) vs tolerance + to errors. I agree the venn diagram is narrow. The supporters of the AI + case usually point to the rate of improvement and to the fact that we + barely started exploring the use cases. + + AI seems to work for well bounded problems and less well for open problems. + + If AI drops the cost of coding software by an order of magnitude it will + have already paid for itself. + + [157]Reply + • [3878c71d] + Adam + December 28, 2023 at 6:25 pm + [158]Permalink + + You people imagining that LLMs will make “coding” easier or faster + (laughably “drop the cost of coding software by an order of magnitude”!) + probably don’t have much experience in software development. Writing the + code is a very small part. Putting it together, testing it, maintaining it, + enhancing it and above all finding and fixing bugs takes far longer. Right + now LLMs are best at creating bugs – what they write always looks plausible + but usually isn’t 100% right. LLMs don’t just take the best and most + expert-reviewed code as their learning, they take ALL the code. Garbage in, + garbage out. I hope my competitors rely on “AI” code, I really do. + + [159]Reply + □ [ede5d74f] + [160]ViennaMike + December 29, 2023 at 2:30 pm + [161]Permalink + + I’ve been playing around with ChatGPT to aid in writing and debugging + software and I agree 100% with your assessment of the current state of + the art. + + The question is can and will this change? Personally I think it’s an + open question. + + [162]Reply + □ [e222c1b0] + khlorghaal + December 31, 2023 at 4:00 am + [163]Permalink + + 6 months ago artists were mocking midjourney for not being able to draw + hands. + the state of the art ones draw hands quite well. + + [164]Reply + • [ff66ca8c] + EPL + December 30, 2023 at 12:30 pm + [165]Permalink + + Personally, I expect at least benefits in communicating to and from + automated systems. + + But, setting everything else aside, let’s remember the energy cost of + generative AI. The next few years are critical for our energy transition + and the planet needs the help from all of us. I think we need to hold cloud + services accountable to transition to fully renewable energy, with an extra + emphasis in not negatively impacting other services and industries + transitions to renewables on our (shared in most cases) grid. + + [166]Reply + • [4223749f] + [167]RM + January 8, 2024 at 4:55 pm + [168]Permalink + + The way programmers are talking about this right now reminds me of various + earlier fads that ended up leaving massive amounts of cleanup and + administrative work for decades in their wake. I have absolutely no + programming skills myself so I can’t comment further on that. + + I think both sides of this argument have clear, ulterior motives, but + basically only Doctorow, his comrades in arms, and maybe one or two of the + pro “AI” set are being honest about what they are. Doctorow’s is, while + technically no less ulterior, in the end really much better served by + honesty. if he gets this wrong, for example, it will be much more lucrative + for him to market his work, as having been improved by learning from the + failure than if he simply asserts to have always been right. That kind of + stuff might fly in certain political circles online, but they aren’t the + ones he has clear incentives to work. while other ulterior motives on + display in the comment thread, like desiring prolonged control of a budget, + actually would be quite threatened from having been demonstrated wrong. It + is hardly a coincidence that these are exactly the people claiming that the + bubble tech in question is actually intelligent in some meaningful way such + that calling it AI isn’t a lie. + + Now we are talking political linguistics, which is more of my wheelhouse. + while the article does also use the buzzword AI, the truth of that name is + really outside the scope of the piece. This is less appreciably the case + for certain arguments in the comments, which speak of it as currently + measurable and significant intelligence we should not hasten to distrust. + That only raises more questions for me. + + [169]Reply + □ [4223749f] + [170]RM + January 8, 2024 at 5:00 pm + [171]Permalink + + Case in point: after a relatively painless transcription with apple + speech to text, the compulsory “AI” rewrite forced me to intervene in + every sentence multiple times to fix errors added after I had visually + checked the transcription and still missed several. While I don’t get + Perl, I have never made grammatical or stylistic errors like those in + my life. I am a disabled person currently being coerced to manually + enter text, at slight but real cost to my mental and physical health- + if it were literally any more difficult I wouldn’t have bothered- to + clean up after “AI” from this little upstart called APPLE COMPUTERS. + + And this is supposed to get BETTER after the bubble pops? + + [172]Reply + • [9588b9c1] + Nishan Stepak + January 12, 2024 at 2:43 pm + [173]Permalink + + The point of AI in this article like most of what is being written misses + the boat completely. Where AI will make a difference is incredible fast, + automated scientific discovery. Google is already developing hundreds of + new materials using AI, accelerating protein folding, and advancing fusion. + Apparently Deepmind has an algorithm to stabilize fusion. Microsoft just + made a bet with Helion energy with a power purchasing agreement for fusion + energy eight years from now. There is a prediction, that in the next 10 + years, there will be 50 to 100 years of scientific progress in automated + research done by AI. A lot of what is in the news misses the boat + completely. The bubble will pop and we will find ourselves with a whole lot + of new scientific breakthroughs in energy and materials. + + [174]Reply + • [37a0695f] + Andrew Dabrowski + January 28, 2024 at 6:32 pm + [175]Permalink + + This reminds me of Michael Kinsley’s confident prediction in the early + 1980s that the AIDS kerfuffle would blow over when people got bored with + it. But diseases don’t go away due to boredom. + + But with medical development and safe sex, AIDS did weaken as a menace over + the years. But AI won’t weaken, it will just get stronger. + + [176]Reply + • [d3c8efce] + Glen + February 1, 2024 at 4:51 pm + [177]Permalink + + Many people seem to be missing the point. + It’s not whether these algorithms work or not, or are even fit to purpose + in some cases. That’s not really what defines a bubble. Bubbles are built + on useful stuff, like the 2008 housing bubble. Houses are good, far better + than living in a tent. The bubble was on people throwing more money at the + houses and loans paying for those houses than those things would ever be + worth. + These kinds of algorithms have been used for many years already for all + kinds of useful stuff. Scanning handwritten text into usable text in a + computer. Or speech recognition. Good stuff that takes horrible drudge work + from humans. + A bubble is when the current investment fad is tossing money into something + where there’s no clear return on investment, and instead of backing off + when concerns are expressed, doubling down and throwing more money at it. + And when too much money is flying around the scammers and grifters start + showing up to skim a little (or a lot) of that money for themselves. + For many people, to admit the initial investment, or the obvious scam, + they’ve just thrown millions of dollars into might be an error is more + difficult than throwing more money at it and ignoring, or attacking, any + criticism of the thing. + What Cory is saying here, and what many other critics of so called AI are + saying, is the cost of running LLMs is far in excess of what anyone will + pay for them, and there’s a limit to their capabilities that means you + still need experienced professionals to do complex and difficult jobs. That + even if Waymo figured out how to get their self-driving cars to be + monitored by .75 humans and don’t kill anyone they’d still be losing money + and go out of business eventually; the investors will lose their shirts + while the VC’s and founders and scammers will come out of it all with bags + full of money. + I can’t tell if the article is saying there will be useful stuff left over + when the bubble pops or not. Personaly, I think the AI mania has already + caused too much destruction. The greenhouse gases barfed out to build and + power the server farms alone is too high a cost. + + [178]Reply + □ [37a0695f] + Andrew Dabrowski + February 2, 2024 at 9:45 am + [179]Permalink + + The technology will improve enormously and prices will come down + correspondingly. AI is guaranteed to make some people fortunes. Of + course you’re correct that it will also probably ruin many more. + + [180]Reply + □ [9eb71600] + Curt J. 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It’s not a question of if, but when +Twitter will collapse. By the way: one day, Medium will follow. So will +Instagram, YouTube, and TikTok. Or Mastodon. + +Many people are now desperately waiting for their Twitter archives, hoping that +they’ll arrive before all their content is lost for good. For those who were +using Twitter primarily for ephemeral chatter, all this isn’t that tragic. But +for others, all their posts, conversations, and connections on the social +network were a significant part of their online identity. They are about to +lose a place on the Web into which they put a huge amount of time, attention, +and energy. + +Especially if you are a designer, an artist, a photographer, a writer, a +blogger, a creator of any kind, owning your work is as important as ever. +Social media platforms might be great for distributing your content and +creating a network of like-minded people around you. But they will always be +ephemeral, transient, and impermanent – not the best place to preserve your +thoughts, words, and brushstrokes. + +In the search for a permanent home on the web, more and more people are now +rediscovering the personal website as a place to share and document their +thoughts and publish their work. [11]I’ve written at length before about why +this is such a good idea: Your personal website is a place that provides +immense creative freedom and control. It’s a place to write, create, and share +whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission. It is also +the perfect place to explore and try new things, like different types of posts, +different styles, and new web technologies. It is [12]your playground, your +platform, your personal corner on the Web. + +That’s why it warms my heart to read articles like [13]Bring back personal +blogging by Monique Judge on a site like The Verge or to add my site to +projects like [14]Bring Back Blogging by Ash Huang and Ryan Putnam, who +encourage us all to get into the habit and publish at least three blog posts +until the end of January. Oh, and if that’s important to you, as Chris Coyier +notes, [15]There Can Be Money in Blogging, too. + +So how about we make 2023 the year of the personal website? The year in which +we launch our first site or redesign our old one, publish a little more often, +and add RSS and [16]Webmentions to our websites so that we can write posts back +and forth. The year we make our sites [17]more fussy, more quirky, and [18]more +personal. The year we document what we improved, share what we learned, and +help each other getting started. 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So for now, here’s a +collection of articles that to some degree answer the question “Why have a +personal website?” with “Because it’s fun, and the internet used to be fun.” + +If you’ve written something that feels like it belongs here—especially if your +voice is one that’s frequently underrepresented—I’d be interested to read it! +Holler at me via email (kwon at fastmail.com), or on Mastodon ([1] +mastodon.social/@rjkwon). + + Article Author Date Date added + published ↓ +[2]Blogs Are Dead. Long Live Blogs! [3]Gersande La 2023-03-26 2024-03-03 + Flèche +[4]Surfing the Old Web [5]Juan Villela 2023-01-11 2024-03-03 +[6]Why Personal Blogging Still Rules [7]Mike Grindle 2023-04-12 2024-03-03 +[8]L'informatique, c'était mieux avant [9]Richard Dern 2022-01-21 2024-03-03 +(Computing was better before) +[10]shite: static sites from shell [11]Aditya Athalye 2022-03-08 2024-03-03 +[12]Desktops.zip - Some thoughts on [13]Simone 2023-08-14 2024-03-03 +websites that look like desktops Marzulli +[14]Reviving Ye Olde Personal Home [15]Dominik Rabiej 2019-06-30 2024-03-03 +Page +[16]Digital Homes and Neighborhoods [17]Jake Weber 2023-05-23 2024-03-03 +[18]Game of Content [19]Deep H. Dave 2021-03-09 2024-03-03 +[20]The Internet Changed My Life [21]Maxime 2022-01-19 2024-03-03 + Chevalier-Boisvert +[22]Social Websites [23]Matt Stein 2024-02-06 2024-03-03 +[24]The Web is Fantastic [25]Robb Knight 2023-12-28 2024-03-03 +[26]Into the Personal Website-Verse [27]Matthias Ott 2019-05-12 2024-03-03 +[28]Splitting the Web [29]Ploum 2023-08-01 2024-03-03 +[30]Do You Remember the Internet [31]dear talula 2022-02-19 2024-03-03 +Before Social Media? +[32]Blog Bookmark Rot [33]Skelly 2024-02-17 2024-03-03 +[34]Let Us Build a New Web [35]Brad Enslen 2018-09-13 2024-03-03 +[36]Where have all the websites gone? [37]Jason 2024-01-08 2024-03-03 + Velazquez +[38]Ruminating on Walled Gardens [39]Brandon 2024-02-16 2024-03-03 +[40]My website is a shifting house [41]Laurel +next to a river of knowledge. What Schwulst 2018-05-21 2024-02-11 +could yours be? +[42]Rediscovering the Old Internet [43]Noisy 2023-09-07 2024-02-11 +Vibe Deadlines +[44]Click around, find out [45]John Hoare 2024-01-21 2024-02-11 +[46]The Bullshit Web [47]Nick Heer 2018-11-30 2024-02-11 +[48]The old internet [49]Rebecca Toh 2020-01-16 2024-02-11 +[50]Computers: An Invocation for Soft [51]Katherine Yang 2023-09-01 2024-02-11 +Tech +[52]i really love the (hipster) [53]Judah 2023-02-02 2024-02-11 +internet +[54]Poor man's web [55]Serge Zaitsev 2021-04-27 2024-02-11 +[56]The web is yours [57]James G 2024-01-06 2024-02-11 +[58]Refuge in blogs and the IndieWeb [59]Robert Kingett 2023-10-17 2024-02-11 +[60]I Love the Web [61]fLaMEd 2021-04-06 2024-02-11 +[62]a personal manifesto [63]Simone 2023-04-20 2024-01-04 + Silvestroni +[64]Everyone Should Blog, And That [65]Alexandra 2023-12-30 2024-01-04 +Includes You +[66]My website as a home [67]Nico Chilla 2023-11-13 2024-01-04 +[68]The Web Revival [69]Melon 2023-11-10 2024-01-04 +[70]Make your own independent website [71]Victoria Drake 2021-01-16 2024-01-04 +[72]Why the Indie Web movement is so [73]Dan Gillmor 2014-04-25 2024-01-04 +important +[74]It’s Time to Get Personal [75]Laura Kalbag 2019-12-09 2024-01-04 +[76]Please for the love of Blarg, [77]Jay Springett 2019-12-14 2024-01-04 +Start a Blog + [79]Spencer Chang +[78]Taking an Internet Walk [80]Kristoffer -- 2023-11-12 + Tjalve +[81]tiny internets [82]Spencer Chang -- 2023-11-12 +[83]You Should Have a Website [84]Mark Murphy -- 2023-11-12 +[85]Notes on the small web [86]Felix 2022-09-10 2023-10-24 + Pleşoianu +[87]The Quiet Web [88]Brian 2021-02-12 2023-10-24 + Koberlein +[89]Rediscovering the Old Internet [90] 2023-09-07 2023-10-24 +Vibe noisydeadlines.net +[91]Soft tech [92]Helena -- 2023-10-24 + Jaramillo +[93]How to fix the internet [94]Katie 2023-10-17 2023-10-19 + Notopoulos +[95]Social Internet Is Dead. Get Over [96]Om Malik 2023-10-15 2023-10-18 +It. +[97]Build your own website! [98]Devastatia del 2023-07-09 2023-10-16 + Gato +[99]The Importance of Personal [100]Hayden White 2023-08-29 2023-10-16 +Websites +[101]why the web? [102]Justin Hall -- 2023-09-30 +[103]Exploring the Personal Web [104] 2023-05-06 2023-09-30 + foreverliketh.is +[105]Why you should have a blog (and [106]Leticia 2020-06-21 2023-09-30 +write in it) Portella +[107]My 20th anniversary of blogging! [108]Tracy Durnell 2023-09-23 2023-09-30 +[109]Bix's story of his internet [110]Bix Frankonis 2020-02-24 2023-09-18 +[111]About me (localghost) [112]Sophie Koonin -- 2023-09-12 +[113]At home on the internet [114]Johnny -- 2023-09-12 + Rodgers +[115]How I experience web today [116]Li Guangyi -- 2023-09-12 +[117]About this website [118]Zinzy Waleson -- 2023-09-12 + Geene +[119]How the Blog Broke the Web [120]Amy Hoy -- 2023-09-12 +[121]I miss the internet. [122]Joan 2023-07-07 2023-09-12 + Westenberg +[123]Every person on the planet should [124]Amin 2023-07-06 2023-09-12 +have their own website Eftegarie +[125]Eight years of blogging [126]Paweł Grzybek 2023-03-11 2023-09-12 +[127]Blogging is alive and well [128]Colin Devroe 2023-01-11 2023-09-12 +[129]The Year of the Personal Website [130]Matthias Ott 2023-01-06 2023-09-12 +[131]Bring back personal blogging [132]Monique Judge 2022-12-31 2023-09-12 +[133]Passionless Web [134]Manuel 2022-08-16 2023-09-12 + Moreale +[135]Building a Digital Homestead, Bit [136]Tom Critchlow 2022-03-08 2023-09-12 +by Brick +[137]Early Web Design Helped a [138]Nika Simovich +Generation Express Themselves Online. Fisher 2022-03-08 2023-09-12 +How Do We Capture That Feeling Again? +[139]The Joys and Sorrows of [140]"Cheapskate" 2022-03-06 2023-09-12 +Maintaining a Personal Website +[141]On building a home on the web [142]Daniël van 2022-02-25 2023-09-12 + der Winden +[143]How Websites Die [144]Wesley 2022-02-21 2023-09-12 + Aptekar-Cassels +[145]“Tom had us all doing front-end [146]Kate M. +web development”: a nostalgic (re) Miltner 2021-10-07 2023-09-12 +imagining of Myspace [147]Ysabel + Gerrard +[148]Why Personal Websites are [149]Chuck Carroll 2021-03-25 2023-09-12 +Important +[150]The Value of a Personal Site [151]Marc 2021-03-15 2023-09-12 +[152]The small web is beautiful [153]Ben Hoyt 2021-03-01 2023-09-12 +[154]envisioning my homepage as an [155]Winnie Lim 2020-11-22 2023-09-12 +online therapeutic space +[156]Hunting the Nearly-Invisible [157]"Cheapskate" 2020-08-27 2023-09-12 +Personal Website +[158]What is the Small Web? 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