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Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead. It’s already getting hard to build an affordable PC, and the exit of the longstanding provider of consumer memory is going to make that even more challenging theverge.com/news/837594/cru…
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
I wrote a comic about AI art theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
Because in any negotiation, you have no power at all if you're unwilling to walk away from the table.
If you have no deal-breaker, then you'll take whatever is offered, even if it's 37 cents per audiobook sale, which is, according to my calculations, what I would actually get.
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
No one is coming to help authors. We have to help ourselves.
And that means being willing to walk away from the table. Even if we miss out on 65-80% of the market.
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
How is it allowed that:
- Audible has 65% market share in the US for audibooks
- It offers 20% royalty share to authors if audibooks are sold non-exclusive (so, outside Audible as well). So for a $10 audiobook: Amazon takes $8, publisher gets $2!
80% take rate!!
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
It's not harmless. It's not "just an innocent thing" to be fooled by AI. You NEED to be able to discern and differentiate reality. You NEED to know how the world works on a basic level.
Because fooling you with baby animals and flowers is just the start of something much worse.
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
The European Council has taken a proposal to force mandatory scanning of all photos and videos sent through private messengers (including encrypted messengers like Signal) and they’ve rebranded it as “upload moderation.” The implication is that it’s voluntary when it’s not.
The European Council may reach a final negotiating position on the proposed regulation this week.
Leaked document suggests users of E2EE messaging services could opt-out of "upload moderation" by not being able to send images or URLs.
therecord.media/european-cou…
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
"i have 10 years experience building stable, reliable, maintainable software systems"
the software systems:
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
Hold on... you're saying the head of security at rabbit made a random alt, joined your discord, and posted an ip grabber?
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
Pavel Durov, the CEO of Telegram, has recently been making a big conspiracy push to promote Telegram as more secure than Signal. This is like promoting ketchup as better for your car than synthetic motor oil. Telegram isn’t a secure messenger, full stop. That’s a choice Durov made.
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
Liebe Faschisten, wir gehen nicht "für die Ampel" auf die Straße, wir laufen GEGEN DIE AFD!
Als Demokraten können wir Regierungen mögen oder nicht, aber euer Schwarz-Weißes Weltbild und eurer Hass hat nie Platz in Deutschland! #wirsindmehr #AfDgehoertnichtzuDeutschland
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
Photorealistic photo of a hardcore Twitter employee frantically dramatically manically presenting an extremely complicated complex whiteboard architecture diagram of Twitter on a giant whiteboard inside a meeting room in Twitter headquarter
Patrick Westerhoff retweeted
Since it's feeling particularly relevant for some reason right now, here's my Mastodon explainer targeted at internet users of a certain age
Mastodon is just blogs and Google Reader, skinned to look like Twitter
simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/8…
I was really slow to add my Mastodon account to my Twitter profile despite having one for years.
So in case you want to follow me in the Fediverse: mastodon.xyz/@poke
Over the years, people have been repeatedly looking at the first tweet ever made. But it's going to be so much more interesting to know what the last tweet ever was when this all goes down.
