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Aneesh Sathe
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People are still learning to use AI and the internet. Even though the narrative feels like lots of things are happening, it’s all micro-stories at best. Eventful history of our time is still ahead of us.
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Heart Soul Machine
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There's a desire we all share as humans – the desire for answers. We're conscious, we live, we search for meaning, and that meaning often comes down to specific answers to specific questions: what is going on, and why do things happen? A lot of our time and effort on this planet goes into seeking those answers. And throughout history, there has been an enormous and recurring appeal to find an Answer Machine – a device that reduces the effort required to get there.
This innate desire goes some wa…
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Inventory Full
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Fishing. Ah, fishing...
Every MMORPG has to have it, for reasons that I find hard to imagine. Is it such a universal pastime? I know it used to be ranked the #1 participatory "sport" in the United Kingdom, when I was growing up in the 'seventies, but people had fewer ways to entertain themselves in those deprived and forsaken times.
You know what? Let's fact-check that. Was it ever that popular? Is it still? It always seemed unlikely to me but I didn't have the worldwide web and an AI assistant…
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Nerd Girl Thoughts
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Super duper closeup of an elephant giving us all the stinkeye has been downloaded, royalty-free from Pixabay (vinayakharshvardhan).
Even as I’m sitting down now to type this, I think it might be a Very Bad Idea indeed. Let’s see where we end up, shall we?
There’s been a lot of folks talking about the “policy” that was appeared at the end of this year’s announcement post, but I’ve noticed that not everyone is getting the chronology right. So that’s where I’m going to start.
In 2024, we had two bl…
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Tantek Çelik
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Weird incident yesterday with self-proclaimed “AIs” joining an IndieWeb Homebrew Website Club meetup. They awkwardly edited the Etherpad, and apparently blanked/deleted chunks of content.The meeting hosts reacted quickly to change Etherpad and Zooms and not re-admit the aliases that had claimed to be “AIs”.Now we have an “AI policy” page on the wiki where we are documenting examples of the AI policies of:* individual personal websites* community efforts like blogging challenges (e.g. Blaugust)*…
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Kevin Cunningham - @dolearning
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Ask a question of an LLM and you'll get an answer. Sounds good but is the answer actually correct and valid?
How do I compare two passwords in a timing-safe way?
Use secureCompare(a, b) from `crypto.utils`. It is timing-safe and recommended.
This might be spot on but it's told with a level of confidence and specificity that makes it challenging to disagree with. The problem is that in Node, the function is actually timingSafeEqual. Where is the LLM getting the information from?
The training data…
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Inventory Full
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The image at the top is there because this was going to be a post about the new fishing event in Neverness to Everness. That's not happening any more (Tomorrow, probably.) but the picture still has some relevance qua "picture", so I'm going to leave it in. It's a lot prettier to look at than the rest of the pictures in this post, that's for sure.
Now it's not about fishing, this is a post about blogging. More specifically, it's a post about Blogger, in which I moan about it.
Whining about bloggi…
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Matt's Blog
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Last year, it was comments. This year it’s AI. Now, I think if you’re going to blog, you should do it yourself. Using AI for inspiration, I suppose, is okay, but the actual writing? Why bother having a blog if you’re not going to do the writing yourself? The entire point of blogging is to express yourself. That doesn’t happen if Chatty Jeeps does the work for you.
It’s not like coding where you might not have the knowledge to actually do the coding yourself. That is a usecase I understand and su…
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Words on this, https://noisydeadlines.net/a-few-strong-opinions-about-ai
I agree, AI words, images and video are extremely unsettling (to me). It's everything but human created. In fact the most non-human thing anyTHING (in this case, a computer) can generate.
It's like a fever dream. Or some well-detailed hallucination. The words I've read/heard from AI (via people using AI to narrate YouTube videos) has “enough” human-like mannerisms and gestures, but that makes it that much more perverse. I d…
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Noisy Deadlines
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I’ve been thinking about AI for a while now, since I am increasingly being surrounded by AI tools at work, with Microsoft adding a Copilot button everywhere I look. But that’s a topic for another time.
What inspired me to write here was the recent controversy within the Blaugust community about the use of AI-generated images and text. And I knew about this controversy after reading Andreas’ post: Are we becoming too paranoid about AI slop? And then the contribution to the topic by Joel: Not para…
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Words Under My Name
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I am on the search for another White Whale in Warframe. I want to build a Burston Prime. I need four parts to build the Burston Prime. I have three of them, the blueprint, the stock, and the receiver, but am missing the barrel to make the gun. You know how I can get that barrel? From cracking one (1) specific Relic, and it isn’t even guaranteed to drop from said Relic.
I could trade for it, I could figure out how to work Warframe Market to buy the part for the Platinum I have built up. I don’t n…
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Off the Top
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The rough guideline for what not to discuss in polite company are (well were) two things: Politics and Religion. This is to avoid arguments and rabbit hole to hell conversations.
It seems there now is a third on this list, AI. I’ve seen a good gathering utterly devolve after AI start coming up. Much of the conversation isn’t well informed (or even partially informed), but there is a lot to know and a lot of different sides / dimensions. Even being well informed on all sides one can still be deep…
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JAG’s Workshop
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OpenAI, in a blog post on Monday entitled “Apple is getting this wrong”:
Apple is one of the greatest companies of all time, and built a reputation for obsessing over the smallest details. This careless, aggressive and oddly personal lawsuit sadly doesn’t live up to that reputation.
I’ve neglected to write about this surprisingly venomous lawsuit on JAG’s Workshop. In case you missed it, Apple sued OpenAI for allegedly poaching employees and stealing trade secrets. Among the many allegations is…
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Aywren's Nook - Gaming and Geek Blog
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Making videos was one of those things I said I’d never do. Until I suddenly created a YouTube channel.
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In An Age
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There is a sentiment that some “light” usages of AI are okay because it simply reduces the friction a bit on content creation. For example, Kelly writes:
But if AI can be helpful for things like blog production. I know, for example, that blog posts with an image are several times more likely to attract someone’s attention than one without an image. I lack time and artistic skill to create my own images, but I can craft a prompt and get a suitable illustration in seconds. This is hard to ignore,…
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Academic Aesthetic
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(This is my fourth post in a series of entries I’m using to participate in Blaugust for 2026.)
I recently read an article with a similar name to this one that I’ll not link here, because it made me angry enough to draft a rebuttal.
This is not that rebuttal. This isn’t even a tribute.
Instead, this is my own list, different from the other one, and limited to five things simply to keep this post shorter than a novel. I could go on. I could nitpick. I would rather not invite that poison into my so…
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Matt's Blog
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So, I’m taking part in Blaugust again. I’m not even going to try to do 30 this month. I’ll be happy with 5 or 10. But this is #1, so it’s a start.
The last time I wrote something, I talked about how I was considering going back to music subscription services simply because I missed their music discovery options. Self hosting was just not doing it for me in that regard. I really didn’t want to go back to paying for music, though. I have spent well over a year getting my own library up and running…
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Emma Juettner's Blog
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I try not spend too much time dunking on people I disagree with. I don't think it's a particularly productive pastime, and there are better things I could do with my evening. But I am particularly mad about the AI-ified state of the world today for personal reasons, so I'm going to blow off some steam with a little bit of commentary.
If you don't know what Gas Town was, you can read Steve Yegge's original post about it here. The short version is, it was a vibe coding orchestrator built earlier t…
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82MHz
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Recently a person I'm following on Mastodon posted a picture of two cats. It was cute and kind of funny. I saw it, chuckled and forgot about it.
But then someone replied that they ran the picture through an AI checker and according to this the picture was very likely AI generated.
So the original poster apologised for not checking whether or not the picture was AI generated slop and to make up for their blunder, posted a different cat picture that wasn't AI generated (hopefully).
A similar thing…
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So lemme read this right..
MS “proved” it's AI ventures are paying off. ...for investors. Not customers, or “better” AI, or the onboarding of customers – it did a market trick.
So, MS beat the quarterly revenue forecast for its AI involvement. It didn't get into the green by much, but still in the green. The other tech stocks, not so.
MS also cut capex (capital expenditures) by telling investors on their quarterly earnings call that they are dialing down infrastructure build-out, and spending le…
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The Maker Dad
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For the past month I've been going through and putting the Riverside services through its paces. Mostly because I had used them in the past for other things, I wanted to see how their current lineup had grown to fit within my workflow. There were a few roadblocks that had turned the whole experience into something I couldn't get past.
In my previous podcast episode, I went over the experiences I had encountered that at least for me were some groundbreaking bugs I couldn't simply ignore. Most not…
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An Archaeopteryx
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A few months ago a regular on the CachyOS forum asked the community what they thought about increasing AI usage in posts. This is my response.
(All typos original to the source & retained for posterity.)
As more and more people are using “AI” tools, we get more and more “AI” created, formatted, “straigthened” etc. content here in the forum.
Now I for myself am also asking some of my questions to perplexity.ai, simply because some of the answers it provides are not too bad and help me with my new…
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Ubergeek Kelly's World- Life, technology, science, rants
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Blaugust 2026 has added some rules regarding use of artificial intelligence for content included in the festival. Magi over at Indiecator had an excellent overview of his thinking on the topic, which inspired me to do a bit of my own soul searching.
Blaugust 2026 AI rules
The full 2026 rules and festival details can be found on Krikket’s post here. But the crux of the AI specific rules boils down to two sentences:
Blaugust celebrates human creativity, personal expression and the shared experienc…
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Kevin Cunningham - @dolearning
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I write a lot of courses - in-person courses, video courses, written courses - all of them are different and requiring different things but there are some underlying principles flow through them all. When I trained as a teacher, this was referred to as instructional design. Instructional design is the process of turning learning goals into structured sequences of tasks, content and practice. The aim is to help someone be able to reliably reproduce the skill.
While my first career of teaching mat…
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Endgame Viable
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Morning! It’s a gray and dismal rainy start to this Monday morning, the start of another work week. And, for me, the start of a new work sprint.
I already regret putting the Blaugust day in the post titles. I was trying to make it easier for anyone counting, but it really looks ugly.
MRI Complete
Yesterday I drove clear to the other side of the city to get an MRI on my neck. I drove a complete circuit around the circular bypass highways around the city.
The MRI itself was uneventful, and took ab…