is to quit publishing original works of fiction or news or research on line. Publish descriptions of the content and paywall the rest. Restore paper and ink publishing and watermark the hard copies with whitespace "signatures" so you might trace the sources of parties that scan works just to be vacuumed up into some LLM. Sounds kinda luddite but we have painted ourselves into a technological corner...from which a low tech escape will leave the AI's few options for stealing content.

On my current iPhone, when I hit the 3-dot menu for a voice memo, "run pythonista" is one of the options. Hard only if you can't program.

Thank heavens they are dwarfs. We have too many trolls already.

Open source will never overcome closed mind.

orielly certificate expired in the last day...so says chrome So cannot open page to log into my OReilly account. Probably means my "forever" updates for the library of e-books are also history.

Stock prices for mutual funds based on porn providers took and unexplained dive today...

if people knew the number of times I have deleted the app...and then got the itch and reinstalled.

we had to invent e-mail before we could have flame wars. There are lots of communication modes which neither culture nor innate behavior are adapted to use responsibly. We keep digging up more. The anonymity factor of some social media make intense vitriol too easy to deliver...and so it gets delivered. As long as we keep handing out asbestos clothing, our weaknesses will have us tossing Molotov cocktails and brandishing flame throwers. And once used to that sort of behavior, it spills over. Also, talking just gets easier and faster but listening seems to be intractably difficult for most of us.

AI is a tool. I would bet AI that can be used by lethal robots can also be used to make drones smart enough to locate people lost at sea or in the woods. I could use a shovel to kill someone...do we ban shovels?

I mourn O'Reilly getting Amazoned out out the ebook market...but I always and promptly downloaded the PDF versions. So I lost nothing. The premise of much of this market for media content is "we will make the stuff so cheaply they will buy our peculiar restrictions". No consumer should think a format or a vendor is a "forever" proposition. And "owning" a music library because you can always stream the track you want? Fugiddaboudit.

If it cannot be jammed, as conventional GPS can, then not Putin.

Not that I count much on the wisdom of markets but I am curious about the relative timing of today's jump in BTC and the news of that ruling. A Bloomberg article dated today, on bitcoins risks did not mention this.

remember how Y2K was supposed to crash all civilization because bad code in the bowels of all infrastructure and control systems could not deal with the rollover from 1999 to 2000? That didn't happen much. I am still here. How is it that a 1 second error brings down a server?

The [cr]Appstore is going to do a pretty good QA job on the user interface. The backends can bite you in less obvious ways but crapware is crap because you think the answers it gives or the bills it sends stink:the dumb get dumped. Software that truly and immediately effects human safety and comes with no liability disclaimers is mighty hard to find. Who is going to use Swift for stuff that is sold/unleashed through outlets other than the Appstore? Let in the clowns.

I went to sleep when STDLIB and Posix would have done most of what I imagine containers will do. I wake up and Containers are here. Really, now; what is new here? VMness?