Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one

Happy Friday the 13th

All third party Twitter apps stopped working yesterday 🫠

Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists https://go.nature.com/3Gyu2Fr

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@kevlin @cwebber described ChatGPT as Mansplaining As A Service, and honestly I can’t think of a better description. A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures at an instant with unflagging confidence in it’s own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or awareness even of the level of expertise of it’s audience.

Discourse 3.0 has arrived, with integrated chat. This is the magical third version, a major milestone! As always, 100% open source and free! 🎉 https://blog.discourse.org/2023/01/discourse-3-0-is-here/

Something you'll see on social media is young people post "look what I made" and some layperson or novice will rip into them about how easy and basic it was, then an industry professional will say it's better than most of their coworkers and they'd get hired on the spot as at least an intern.

Commenters online are miserable bores.

Nuclear explosión gender reveal party

Powered by @OpenAI? Absolutely No.

Local-only and fully open source? YES. ✅

So @cue announced that Apple has now raked in more than $130 Billion in rent seeking AppStore profits. Other than Swift / iOS, Apple did not need to write a single line of code. 😤 https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/01/apple-celebrates-a-groundbreaking-year-in-entertainment/

Prediction: Clippy comes back in the form of an AI chat assistant and we all forget Cortana ever existed

The entire world has a stake in the success of Brazil’s democracy. Together, we must reject any effort to overturn or disrupt the will of the Brazilian people and affirm the peaceful transfer of power as a cornerstone of democracy.

After the FTX collapse the Eye of Sauron is now on Binance. The US Attorney’s Office is sending subpoenas to investment firms asking for records of communications with Binance looking for dirt to indict CZ with.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/01/07/binance-subpoenas-crypto-trading/

The 4.9.y kernel is finally end-of-life, it is gone from the tracking board.