”The people and companies selling ‘AI’ technologies routinely use language that portrays their systems as human-like […]. #Anthropomorphizing language influences how people perceive a system on multiple levels.”
“We argue that we should aim for higher #linguistic accuracy in our descriptions of ‘AI’ systems. In #scientific and #journalistic writing, in public debate, and in everyday use.”

In distributed computing, a conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) is a data structure that is replicated across multiple computers in a network, with the following features:

The application can update any replica independently, concurrently and without coordinating with other replicas.
An algorithm (itself part of the data type) automatically resolves any inconsistencies that might occur.
Although replicas may have different state at any particular point in time, they are guaranteed to eventually converge.

The CRDT concept was formally defined in 2011 by Marc Shapiro, Nuno Preguiça, Carlos Baquero and Marek Zawirski. Development was initially motivated by collaborative text editing and mobile computing. CRDTs have also been used in online chat systems, online gambling, and in the SoundCloud audio distribution platform. The NoSQL distributed databases Redis, Riak and Cosmos DB have CRDT data types.

Ich kann Ihnen jedenfalls aufrichtig versichern: Wenn ich groß bin, möcht ich gern ein bisserl wie Sie sein.

Da müssen Sie gar nicht so viel dran arbeiten. Da müssen Sie nur einen gewissen Charakter haben, und auch politisch eine klare Stellung beziehen, bei all der Scheiße, die Sie umgibt. Das ist gar nicht leicht, weil es umgibt uns sehr viel Scheiße, inzwischen. Leider. Das hätt ich auch nie gedacht, dass ich das noch einmal erleben muss. Aber der Witz ist der, man muss nur hellwach sein und ein bisschen klar schauen.

HTML has been gobbling up swathes of what used to be JavaScript’s remit. This page lists a bunch of dynamic functionality that we can now achieve with just HTML.

My third post about typography in sci-fi has been gestating for a while now. Indeed, it’s been slowly taking shape – you might say it’s been forming itself inside of me – for really quite some time.

I’m delighted to say that it is now ready to burst forth from my allegorical chest, and to spatter allegorical typographic blood all over your allegorical faces. Welcome to Typeset In The Future: The Alien Edition.

The opening credits for Alien are nothing short of a typographic masterpiece.

Let me start by saying, I vehemently hate AI as it is. It is blight upon our planet. In so many ways.

Because of the "popularity" of AI with managers and CEOs who are, actually looking to replace all of us with a series of if/then statements, AI and LLMS have become the big tech fad these days. This has resulted in a series of repercussions for everyone else:

The AI software/LLMs require massive amounts of extremely powerful hardware, because by design, AI is horribly inefficient. So this has resulted in a "Datacenter Boom" across the planet. Datacenters are essentially just warehouses stuffed with computers. Think of Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS, Oracle Cloud, your Preferred hosting provider/cloud provider, Private datacenters for large companies, etc.

As you might imagine, the desire to stand up more datacenters has resulted in more hardware being bought up by the big tech conglomerates. Famously, Sam Altman of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT bought out 40% of the world's RAM production about a year ago. There are three major RAM manufacturers on the planet: Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix. Just kidding there's only really two now because Micron has decided that they are no longer selling to the general market and have exclusively gone to AI datacenter sales only. On top of all that, global RAM production capacity has been bought out through 2028. This of course has predictably caused the price of RAM to fucktuple.

The GNOME Shell Extension - Quake Terminal enhances your desktop by providing a drop-down interface, inspired by classic Quake games, that can instantly launch your preferred terminal emulator over any workspace.