My stock portfolio is deep in the red, and tariffs by the Trump admin might be the cause. Could an LLM have been used to calculate them? It made me rethink how LLMs shape decisions, from big global-economy-wrecking ones to everyday decisions.
A screenshot of PayPal's terms of service. Big wall of legalese text, which I will be pasting in below. You don't need to read it, here's the important part: "The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop." Here's the whole paragraph: We are updating our Privacy Statement to explain how, starting early Summer 2025, we will share information to help improve your shopping experience and make it more personalized for you. The key update to the Privacy Statement explains how we will share information with merchants to personalize your shopping experience and recommend our services to you. Personal information we disclose includes, for example, products, preferences, sizes, and styles we think you’ll like. Information gathered about you after the effective date of our updated Privacy Statement, November 27, 2024, will be shared with participating stores where you shop, unless you live in California, North Dakota, or Vermont. For PayPal customers in California, North Dakota, or Vermont, we’ll only share your information with those merchants if you tell us to do so. No matter where you live, you’ll always be able to exercise your right to opt out of this data sharing by updating your preference settings in your account under “Data and Privacy.”
In 2025 (less than 30 days away), PayPal will start selling your transaction history for targeted advertising.
I very highly recommend logging into your account and going to Settings > Data & Privacy > Personalized Shopping.
If you're reading this, turn that off RIGHT NOW before you forget.
Hey, I’m Sam 👋
I create visual and interactive guides to programming concepts. Here’s some of my work:
- samwho.dev/load-balancing
- samwho.dev/memory-alloc...
- encore.dev/blog/queueing
I also gave a talk about my work that you can watch here: www.youtube.com/live/Y3t4a8W....
hi i'm leo 👋
i make computers do things that are (i hope) worth doing, for fun and profit. i like devtools, actors, fp, and types
i photograph people on the streets
i stream to help keep the burnout at bay, now making a game with my siiblings, or playing music
and i write about it
Who is this crazy person following you?
If you are a developer using #Java, #PHP, #Ruby, #Elixir, #typescript, #javascript, #node, #scala, #kotlin you may have asked yourself:Why does he have starter packs for every known programming language.
I would like to explain. I am not crazy. I am concerned.
Black and white photo of a light skinned toddler with curly hair, reaching as far as she can over a white tiled counter toward a shorthaired tabby cat. The cat has an alarmed look, safe but clearly aware of the little hand grasping for it.
This cat knew exactly how far it needed to sit. Negative from my collection, no additional info.
I’m thinking about writing a book about climate change and the food system. Mainly focused on solutions, taking a global view, and busting a few myths.
What would make it most useful?
big day ahead, going to watch “Hackers (1996)” on laserdisc
doing it right now :P arewemlsyet.com
hello folks 👋 until I figure out what to build next, i'm open to consulting in the space of tech leadership, coaching/boosting your dev teams, etc
reposts appreciated
Repetition
Repetition Side Step
love her
fediverse
“Repetition Side Step”
“I just believe in me”
“A day in the life”
“I Want to Hold Your Hand”
“And I Love Her”
When somebody preached a sermon on a decentralized social network, you may ask, “‘true believer’ in CRDTs? Any practical CRDT ideas?”
To avoid using hypocrisy, I suggest a new word “hypodex”. hypo+dex, a hypodermic decentralization.
It sounds like a hypocrisy dex. 🥲
I guess that they don’t have practical CRDT ideas with AWS well-architected framework. Scaling a decentralized infrastructure (multi-cloud, hybrid-cloud, edge network, a lock-in AWS infra) is difficult to engage. @pfrazee 😂
https://github.com/pfrazee/crdt_notes
Users get access to ATProtocol servers using ATP API and http.
Access for the following items.
✔️ APIs for ATProto and Bluesky.
✔️ Validation and complete typescript types.
✔️ Session management.
✔️ A RichText library.
github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/t...
github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/t...
github.com/bluesky-social/indigo/bl...
github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/t...
github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/t...
The bluesky team declared that it could be described as a hybrid federated network with p2p characteristics and focusing on self-authenticating identities and data.
* Basically, bsky is hosted on AWS, providing Personal Data Server (PDS) Service. *
bsky.social is on AWS. Laymen’s terms blueskyweb.xyz/blog/5-5-2023-federation...
Problems on Chunkiness and Performance occurred on bluesky, hashbase, Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) , even with substack and a great number of dweb.
Matthew @arathorn.net
Paul Frazee @pfrazee.com
Dominic Tarr @dominictarr
@Arthur Brock
Jay @jay.bsky.social
@andreessen horowitz
So am I. I was wondering if many of the infra owners saddled with some infectious p2p-cause at Camp Navarro.
blog.archive.org/2022/08/02/dweb-camp-202...
It seems like they hadn’t solved “p2p tweets.” 🥲
paulfrazee.medium.com/the-anti-parler-principl...
There is a discord server for Bluesky/ATProto developers. Maybe developers working on the same AT Protocol Implementations are willing to share invite codes with others.
I just move to bsky from twitter. And also cohost😂.
boost a caution against undue clubhouse-like-mill.