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A big dive into questioning artificial intelligence and an interview with Avi from Scarf, who aims to help open source developers gain insights into their usage.

Questioning artificial intelligence

It’s another AI-heavy issue, but this time I want to highlight some content that questions the technology and attitudes to it in some nuanced ways. I start with how AI creators and users are “hallucinating” its potential, wonder if it’s as smart as it looks, and look at the discussions around how to block AI using your content.

AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are →

Inside the...

Let’s start with some fun

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Farrago 2 soundboard for Mac arrives with 50 new features including Shortcuts and Stream Deck integration →

Rogue Amoeba is releasing a major update to Farrago, the great soundboard app for Mac. Farrago 2.0 includes 50 new features ranging from fun emoji art to well-designed Stream Deck interactivity.

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Microsoft is busy rewriting core Windows code in memory-safe Rust →

Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in the Rust programming...

KubeCon, back to business

Ahead of the event I arranged some interviews with companies that piqued my interest and don’t all fit under the headings in my write up that you can read here - https://chinchillasqueaks.substack.com/p/9c266812-78f0-4985-a719-2b745ff7053c

SLIM.AI

I previously covered the slim toolkit from Slim.ai and in the interview I am joined by Nnenna Ndukwe, developer advocate at the company, to discuss their new vulnerability scanning and hardening features.

MINIO

Another company I covered previously, I speak with Daniel Valdivia, MinIO’s Kubernetes expert to cover how their S3 compatible API helps users streamline object storage.

INCIDENT.IO

I speak with Christopher...

Podcast version

Find the podcast version of this newsletter, including my interview with Bertrand of Canonical on the Substack podcast page or wherever you find your podcasts.

Tech

A mixed bag this issue covering everything from the slow death of Russia’s tech scene, a visual history of Android, GPT-4 in role-play games in role-play games in classified comment leaks. Erm, yes, you read that right.

How Russia killed its tech industry →

Seven days after the invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Belugin packed up his and his family’s belongings, canceled the lease on his apartment in Moscow, withdrew his kids from...

It's time for open-source users to open their wallets →

It was around the year 1999 and I was attending my first Linux convention at the Research Triangle where Red Hat was headquartered. I was, needless to say, excited.

Internet Arcade →

The Internet Arcade is a web-based library of arcade (coin-operated) video games from the 1970s through to the 1990s, emulated in JSMAME, part of the JSMESS software package.

MS-DOS Meets ChatGPT →

ChatGPT has to be one of the hottest buzz words right now. It seems to constantly be in the news as well as gaining more attention...

Hello everyone welcome to my regular ramble through geeky subjects from tech, to history, games, writing, language, and more.

This issue is a little light on links, but I have a great interview with Marshall Jung of Tabnine you can hear in the voiceover section of this newsletter or wherever you find your podcasts. We spoke about the company’s take on AI coding assistants and how they’ve been doing things differently from some time.

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That aside I look at some of the best content...

Welcome

Hello everyone welcome to my regular ramble through geeky subjects from tech, to history, games, writing, language, and more.

This issue is a little light on links, but I have a great interview with Josh Koenig of Pantheon you can hear in the voiceover section of this newsletter or wherever you find your podcasts. I remember Pantheon from my Drupal days. And we spoke a lot about the past, present and future of content delivering what where they came from what they have been doing and what they're about to do with the proliferation of new ways of managing...

Podcast version

Find the podcast version of this newsletter, including my interview with Daniel on the Substack podcast page or wherever you find your podcasts.

From me…

Read more about my experiments with managing the macOS home folder with version control.

Storytelling Collective Flash February

Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fiction, read them on Medium.

Using AI to generate music with Magenta and Ableton Live

How did I find creating music with AI?

Tech

What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? →

That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads...

From me…

Migrating a website from…

Read more about my journey overhauling my old old website, and my progress so far.

Storytelling Collective Flash February

Every day I am writing 500 words of flash fiction, read them on Medium.

In bots we trust

My new show with my friend Killian where we look at generative AI, because, well, everyone else is!

Tech

Fake Pictures of People of Color Won’t Fix AI Bias →

Armed with a belief in technology’s generative potential, a growing faction of researchers and companies aims to solve the problem of bias in AI by creating...

Updates from me…

Alternative browsers for macOS

I was interested in diving into the many new browsers emerging right now, especially for macOS.

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Flash fiction February 2023

This daily writing challenge is back, read my entries on Medium, pretty much every day.

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Tech

Try Astro 2.0 Today →

Astro 2.0 is available on npm today. Upgrade an existing project by running npm i astro@latest or start a new Astro project right in your browser by visiting astro.new. Looking...

OGL 1.1/1.2/1.3/😱

Wizards of the Coast goes into firefighting mode to stop the exodus of D&D fans.

An Update on the Open Game License (OGL) →

When we initially conceived of revising the OGL, it was with three major goals in mind. First, we wanted the ability to prevent the use of D&D content from being included in hateful and discriminatory products.

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Wizards of the Coast Breaks Its Silence on Dungeons and Dragons' Open Game License →

Wizards of the Coast, the Hasbro subsidiary...

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Hey everyone!

So, I am quite late with this newsletter and podcast as I was travelling blah blah. But also Twitter owns the service I was using for newsletters (Revue), which meant I needed to look for a replacement. I looked at a few but settled on where all the cool kids were… Substack. Then I noticed they also support podcasts, so migrated my podcast too. I wanted to give a good window of time to ensure everything had migrated, and now finally here we are!

Substack offers a lot of cool new features and options that I am only...

Hello all! Lots of lovely AI and machine learning links for you this issue as I am working on a new show! Also Twitter, Mozilla, and that internet thing? It's dead.

I'm back after two weeks of conferences. I interview speakers from Build Stuff in Lithuania, report back from other events, dig into the history of JavaScript frameworks, and hang out with Lana Moore… Or not.

Hey all 👋

Kin Lane is back on the show. Also a week of announcements from companies that begin with "A", the speed behind Tech's sails starts to slow (and is that good or bad?) and life… Life not as we know it Jim.

xxx Chinch

This was my third invitation to attend in Lviv, Ukraine. But this was the first time, and indeed a first for me overall, that the conference happened during a war and in what was effectively a warzone.

Read my blog post for full context - https://hackernoon.com/it-arena-2022-ukrainian-tech-braves-the-war



And daily diaries starts at about 26:00

In this episode I round up the latest geeky news that has caught my attention including the Ethereum merge, looking forward to macOS Ventura, AI images already getting banned in image stores, a history of ARM, and much more!

In this episode I speak with Dotan Horowits from Logz.io about Observability and OpenTelemetry. Also features how much GPT-3 truly knows about you, the life of clippy and why you should always have an air of scepticism in what you read.

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In this episode I speak with the authors of Tiny CSS projects, Michael Gearon and Martine Dowden. I also look at Apple's new repair program, the saviour of Moore's law, and more!

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