Again, @molly0xfff nails it:
"Faced with the choice between the more communal, cooperative choice and the self-serving, every-man-for-himself choice destined to end in a bank run, it should be no surprise which option [the venture capitalists] picked. As the Titanic sank, they were the ones pushing people out of the lifeboats."
https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/the-venture-capitalists-dilemma
when I was 15 years old, I got a summer job at the first ISP launched in the far north of canada. i worked in the hardware servicing and deployment area, and did tech support with clients over the phone
for weeks I was enamoured with a massive #VisualBasic box that sat on the shelf. it had to weigh 10+ lbs, and was loaded with manuals. no one seemed to care, so I borrowed a few of the manuals and started reading them over lunch.
my boss must have noticed, and asked me if I was interested in learning how to program. for the next two months he spent weeknights teaching me how to code after the staff went home.
i spent the entire summer of 1995 building a photo library/database tool just for kicks. after that, a visual TCP/IP based chat program called Smalltima Online. 😅
that summer gave me the conceptual foundation for building user-driven experiences a decade later. thank you jeff🙏
i picked up this chonker a couple of years ago just for the memories. 🥰
RT @genmon
I made an AI clock for my bookshelves! It composes a new poem every minute using ChatGPT and mysteriously has this enthusiastic vibe which I am totally into https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp44-AMNyd9/
If the publishers win the lawsuit against our library, researchers lose 📡 Renee DiResta (@Noupside) of the Stanford Internet Observatory explains why the Internet Archive is crucial for her research team in this age of "information glut" #researchers #EmpoweringLibraries
I rarely post about Musk & #Twitter, but I am currently writing a dissertation related to the spread of misinformation.
This is not true. ⬇️
Oh, man. This comic — from 1993 — could NOT be more relevant today. As usual, Bill Watterson hits it out of the park.
21 June NOTE: See https://climatejustice.social/@breadandcircuses/110581911324622091
This is almost certainly reassuring.
Asteroid feared to hit Earth in 2046 will almost certainly miss, NASA says | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/asteroid-feared-to-hit-earth-in-2046-will-almost-certainly-miss
vignesh C: Inside logical replication in PostgreSQL: How it works https://www.postgresql.fastware.com/blog/inside-logical-replication-in-postgresql
#postgres #postgresql
🔥 CVE-2023-23397 - Microsoft Outlook Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2023-23397 🔥 < exploitation BEFORE the email is viewed in the Preview Pane < https://msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2023/03/microsoft-mitigates-outlook-elevation-of-privilege-vulnerability/ < Microsoft Threat Intelligence assesses that a Russia-based threat actor used the exploit in targeted attacks