A screenshot of Amap in China showing traffic light countdowns.
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> Always fascinated with traffic light countdown in Amap in China. Turns out it is implemented by crowdsourcing motion data. Had thought they had integration with city govs (which they do but with just a small number of cities). What is Google doing with maps [...]?
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As I said elsewhere
I am basically radicalized about this. We fight now for personal computing and personal agency or we lose another decade to closed clouds
We push now for an open internet and open models. Nobody is going to hand it to us because they’re nice
The front page of Kladderadatsch on 14 May 1916, showing an English capitalist in front of “John Bul… & Sons” sign looking through the window at two large flags being waved: Liberty for Ireland and Kut El Amara
Celebrating Saint Patrick's Day in Ireland on the 17th followed by 18 March Çanakkale Victory in Turkey.
Kladderadatsch, 14 May 1916
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2006 internet: RSS feeds, forums, communities of hobby blogs, where people post about interior design, fashion, and music for free
2026 internet: sponsored content, paid partnership, buy my merch, try my supplements, invest in my crypto, click link in bio to unlock the secrets of life for $30
having used claude extensively for the past couple of months, i think there is still a lot of value to understanding your code and steering it intentionally. the amount of incidental complexity claude accumulates otherwise (which mostly results in bugs that it can't ever fix reliably) is staggering.
love how we killed the old, frail anti-nuke ayatollah just to have him replaced with his young, healthy son who wants nukes and who just had his father, mother, wife, and child murdered on the same day by his mortal enemy. surely this will bring peace to the region
I've been using a #HarmonyOS device for the past few days and it's def. made me re-evaluate my relationship with Android app emulation
Satellite images from NASA Worldview on March 5 reveal the extent of the blackout in Cuba. A failure at the most important power plant, combined with the US blockade on fuel shipments in the country has left nearly 70% of the island's inhabitants without power.
the success of the user-created For You feed while the official Discover feed flops is actually a pretty major win for Bluesky — it literally is the embodiment of their goal to decentralize feed generation and give users more control/autonomy
Want to discover great posts beyond who you already follow? The For You feed, built by @spacecowboy17.bsky.social, is a personalized algorithmic feed based on your likes. It's one of our favorites for finding cool conversations across the network.
Try it here: bsky.app/profile/spac...
New UK immigration rules mean I now need an ETA :(. Also, apparently it is weirdly difficult to acquire without using the official app. So much for digital sovereignty :/. I was annoyed enough to write an unhinged blog post about it: www.heltweg.org/posts/you-w...
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
We should legislate identity portability for email addresses.
We have it for phone numbers, where the technical challenge was much greater. We should have it for email, too.
Photo of Brewster Kahle speaking.
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this is what sixteen thousand tokens a second looks like by the way
I worked on a few fairly prominent efforts in open source (Istio, OpenAPI), but I think of all of them, it’s gRPC that I think has the coolest story. Pull up a chair and set for a spell (any inaccuracies in what follows are 100% my fault for having a bad memory!).
saw a reddit comment on the lenghth of modern dev cycles earlier that stuck with me:
"The PS2 had three Grand Theft Autos, GTA5 had three Playstations"
Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras.
This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.
Is it possible that Anthropic wants regulation because they know they can handle compliance and others can’t, so regulation would give them an edge over their competitors? Especially over small to medium sized labs, non-profits, and non-US companies?
I am getting the distinct impression that there are now _two_ failure modes in hiring developers:
1) devs that reject AI as useful and refuse to touch it
2) devs that have zero caution, refinement, or introspection in how they use it and are dying to charge your org 10k a day to build Gastown 2.
#OtD 15 Feb 2003 huge protests occurred around the world against war on Iraq, including 1.5 million on the streets of London: the biggest demonstration in UK history. But the war began regardless, teaching many that passive protest alone is not enough stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8665...
Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.
We noticed.
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#OtD 13 Feb 1991 during the Gulf war the US air force bombed the Al-Amariyah civilian bomb shelter, killing 408 people, many of whom were boiled alive. US officials falsely claimed the shelter was a military command post. More info, sources and map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/7742...
The competition has billions of dollars, billions of users and deep political connections.
Quit the crabs-in-a-barrel mentality if you care about all of our collective work meaning something in this lifetime.
#OtD 9 Feb 2007 Alejandro Finisterre, anarchist poet and inventor of the Spanish table football (foosball) died in Zamora, Spain. He invented the game following injury during the Spanish Civil War so injured children could still play football workingclasshistory.com/2018/07/29/s...
Be gentle with each other so we can be dangerous together 💛
