Published my analysis on the WordPress situation, removing the previous paywall. A corproate conflict between two, billion-dollar companies. The WordPress community is being dragged into this. The conflict fits into a trend of open source being more challenging to monetize.
LLMs can’t reason — they just crib reasoning-like steps from their training data pivot-to-ai.com/2024/10/13/l...
Researchers at Apple have come out with a new paper showing that large language models can’t reason — they’re just pattern-matching machines. [arXiv, PDF] This shouldn’t be news to anyone here. We …
Ed25519 in the Web Cryptography API is nearly there, just some last interop bits to figure out, and get the default flipped on Chrome. I began the push to add it to the web more than 3yrs ago at Protocol Labs, funded @igalia.bsky.social to implement, and I've been doing it pro-bono for almost 2yrs.
whenever I read stuff like this I imagine a single tear running down Alan Kay's face as he holds a dynabook prototype
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Just realised that it's been 10 years since my "database inside-out" talk (www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9h...atproto.com/articles/atp...
AT Protocol is the tech developed at Bluesky for open social networking. In this article we're going to explore AT Proto from the perspective of distributed backend engineering.
"There’s no need for anyone with an .io domain to panic..." *.github.io is the CNAME for everything that lives on github pages. No pressure, at all. Nothing to see here, please move on 🙃
Bloggers / newsletter writers take note: in the new Mastodon 4.3 release, if you go to settings > verification, you can now turn on "Author attribution". So when someone posts a link to Cybercultural, I think they now see my Mastodon profile alongside the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
"We can unionize as tech workers, and journalists, and artists, and creators, and push back against the companies that are warping the things that we love, and regain some of that power to build the things that should exist — not just the things that are profitable."
