OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us
OpenAI given a taste of the medicine it has prescribed for content creators, and remarkably dislikes how it tastes....
Pandora was encouraged to jailbreak iPhones by Apple
More indications that no company has morals, and any argument made by a profit-seeking enterprise attempting to claim moral high ground are disingenuous at best....
2024 Year in Biking
How I managed to eke out some miles on my bikes in the past year....
Location Tracking Enforcement Action by the FTC
The FTC banned a few companies from using or selling data associated with military sites, churches, labor unions, and other sensitive locations....
A New Home for Sharing Links
A new way to manage and share links I find interesting across the internet....
They're Called 'Podcasts'
What is a podcast? Explore the history of the term and it’s rise to popularity on - surprise! - the Vergecast podcast....
Redbox's Bankruptcy Attracts Home Tinkerers
Redbox rental machines are being picked up by rando home tinkerers because the company Redbox is in bankruptcy and has abandoned these machines all across the country....
Hot keys on macOS Sequoia
Latest macOS release blocks registering global hotkeys which use only the Shift or Option keys in the name of security....
Libraries are Bad Now?
From the decision in Hachette v. Internet Archive (opinion pdf, h/t TechDirt) published the other week: To be sure, expanding access to knowledge would, in a general sense, benefit the public. “But [a]ny copyright infringer may claim to benefit the public by increasing public access to the copyrighted work.” Harper & Row, 471 U.S. at 569. That does not alone render the infringement lawful. Indeed, the Copyright Act and its empowering constitutional authority reflect a considered judgment that “the Progress of Science and useful Arts” is best promoted by laws that protect authors’ original works and permit authors to set the terms of engagement, at least for a limited time. See Sony, 464 U.S. at 429. Doing so benefits the public “by providing rewards for authorship.” Google Books, 804 F.3d at 212. This monopolistic power is a feature, not a bug, of the Copyright Act. ...
Understanding The Basics of Things
John Gruber at Daring Fireball: But I’m also sure their exist other users who don’t quite know what a web browser is, don’t know that the browser they’re currently using — and perhaps have been using for over a decade — is named “Safari”, and won’t know how to undo a mistake they might make on this browser choice screen. Emphasis mine. Larger points being made by this article aside1, the idea that there exist “users who don’t quite know what a web browser is” baffled me. Good user interface design does not hide the concept of a “web browser” from the user. ...
