Seen in the Plus! Edition of Langalist, a service called ScrappyGoo:
ScrappyGoo lets you search Google News and generate a unique RSS feed of your results. This persistent news search delivery is offered as a free service.
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Microsoft Releases Windows Server 2003 To Manufacturing. Hmm, I think I’ll have to keep an eye on how this works out for early adopters, if I can find any. 🙂 If nothing else, it would be nice to grab a demo copy of this and see how it works for myself. I’ll have to settle…
From Scripting News, Dave’s followup to a post about suddenly getting 1000’s of copies of the same message: “Postscript: I hadn’t opened any of the emails, I just did, and saw that he’s marching through all four-letter combinations of email addresses at one of the domains I own. I turned off email forwarding, hopefully that…
Quote from this article about the broadband market: “We’re still finding that most broadband customers are attracted by speed and other practical benefits,” he said. “It’s not viewed as a content-driven medium yet.” I have broadband so I can upload pictures, download freeware and share stuff quicker. Buying content isn’t even on my radar, how…
I completely agree with what Andy had to say about Firebird being renamed, again, to Firefox and the new release. I actually went through 4-5 posts in my aggregator that talked about Firefox 0.8 being released before I saw Andy’s post and realized that was actually Firebird’s new name! Follow these topics: Uncategorized
Bluesky is developing an open protocol, and Mastodon uses an open protocol (ActivityPub). The idea seems to be that we can create a social media platform without a walled garden where users don’t own the data, which is also completely protected from someone grabbing that public data to build an AI model.Â
That’s not going to happen. We are all going to have to make a choice.Â
Once again, I’m left with this question: Why are so many Bluesky users pro-AI yet so opposed to using their public posts to train it? Where do they think the data has been coming from?Â
It’s 10AM and between putting in 4 hours yesterday and two so far today, all of the major issues left over from my vacation have been dealt with. My boss’ hard drive has been replaced and the software installations finished (except for the accounting package, she has always done that one herself) , the receptionist’s…