weekly reel January 28, 2024
Hola, and music with Giardini di Mirò.
Punk... Not Diet! by Giardini di Mirò (bandcamp.com)
News
Real Eng: The questionable engineering of the Boeing 737 Max, via HN.
Compound pejoratives on Reddit, from buttface to wankpuffin, via nelson.
SMBC: Flesh, Consciousness, War.
Software
Second Wind: 13 times people leaked military documents on War Thunder forums.
Jblow: Game devs are drowning in complicated proprietary systems, and Primeagen reacts.
Games
RPS: Piracy & games preservation.
AI
0xide & friends: Open-source LLMs with Simon Willison, stellar interview.
Google Research: Lumière, a text-to-video and image-to-video diffusion model for video generation.
Wired: Most top news sites block AI bots. Right-wing media welcomes them.
404 Media: YouTube deletes 1000 videos of celebrity AI scam ads.
Jakob Nielsen - The articulation barrier: Prompt-driven AI UX hurts usability, via Simon Willison & HN.
jwz: “Driverless” cars always have a driver.
Shitty tech ℹ️
The Verge: Apple’s new browser rules are “as painful as possible” for Firefox, says Mozilla. HN1, HN2. Also, DF: Apple’s Plans for the DMA in the European Union