fahrenheit 451

1984 by George Orwell.

Read the book, and read it to the hurtful ending.
Forget the movie.

How long do you keep your backups?

Yes, I have that exernal HDD lying around somewhere near the PC, and it was at least 4 or 5 times that I backed up a lot of files on it.

I think I keep it for more than 10 years now.

We always used to tell the tale of that broken TV set, where your door bell rings right in the next second, and the Am*zon delivery guy already brings a new one.

But now the guy doesn’t even need to ring the bell anymore…

Hug your kids

…while you still can.

GPS doesn’t handle leap seconds. Currently devices have to subtract ~18 seconds

Very interesting info, thanks!!

They seem to not mind being sued

Oh, I didn’t mean it because of money, but the court could specifically order them to not use such clauses in T&Cs anymore.

(And then, in case of disrespecting court orders, that would hurt them financially so much that they’d think more than twice)

Meta can use web scrapers to crawl and collect content from websites “associated with” business accounts on its platforms, according to its new commercial terms of use.

Not valid here (means, it does not really give them that permission), and they could get sued if they used such t&c here.

What will happen to things like GPS that depend heavily on time, but cannot easily be reprogrammed in all devices that use it?

But their “front facing” LLM is ultra stupid. Can’t become any kind of famous.

I am sure that it is strategic: show the huge difference to all paying customers.

What skeleton parts (I tried to say, what body parts, but it didn’t work) does a skeleton use for kissing?

And, does it rattle?

I am much more concerned about the Getty bankrupcy, because that was a major player in their market.

Character.ai have probably just played your typical startup game and lost it.

I read some popular-science paper

The mice that I was thinking about have been researched by the famous Douglas Adams, and they were by far the most intelligent beings on this planet, as long as they stayed here.

See no problem in acceptance here.

Mice? Super intelligent ones?

And now he says we’re going to call AI ‘superintelligence’. You can’t make it smarter than people just by calling it smarter than people.”

I actually laughed out loud. 😄

models not ok’d by the administration.

Like alcohol, homemade liquor… 😉

Somebody learns the term “single point of failure” now…

open-weight models that are almost as good as Anthropic’s exist. As more people figure this out, I think it’s going to get worse not better

Does anybody believe that the investors do not know it?

When?

Would love to see someone jailed for that

Kinda hard to read even for an experienced IT pro.

But some great insights.