This was a short work week for me since we went to Florida for a long weekend. It’s been a while since I’ve experienced the joy of air travel. It was an excellent reminder of why I prefer the train.
In other news, I made some minor updates to this blogroll history page. I had noticed some weirdness in the graph recently, which has now been fixed. The data is sort of interesting, to me anyway, even if the visualization is less than stunning. The data gets a little more interesting after May 2024 when I started curating my blog roll more actively and one can clearly see the sites I’ve followed forever, and those that I only followed for a short time.
The original version of this was one of my first vibecoding attempts a couple years ago, and it shows. I think I did all of this in Chat GPT (copy & paste, no Copilot). The script is absolutely impossible to follow, and very brittle. Perhaps I’ll clean it up one day. While I was at it, I migrated the whole mess over to Codeberg.
Links
- Make Your Ceiling Disappear With ADS-B and Short-Throw Projector
This is amazing! I really like that it uses a radio receiver to get the plane’s positions in real time. - Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked via Simon Willison’s Weblog
Inconceivable! - The Pope vs. Silicon Valley
- My Partner’s Dependence on Chatbots Is Becoming a Problem. How Do I Tell Him?
Just had a discussion about this with an associate recently. They said they were getting markedly worse at being able to start things (emails, documentation, designs, etc.) now that they’ve been using generative AI so much. I think we all stand to lose a valuable part of ourselves with these tools if we aren’t careful. - AI didn’t break the web. The dotcons did – AI just turned up the volume via Beto Dealmeida
“The #openweb was built around the idea that people communicate with people. The current AI boom increasingly promotes a future where people communicate with machines that imitate people. That should concern us.“