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Troy Hunt
• Troy Hunt
This will be the title of the blog post: "Court Injunctions are the Thoughts and Prayers of Data Breach Response". It's got a nice ring to it, and it resonates so much with the response to other disasters where the term is offered as a platitude
The many, many, many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade
Extraordinary piece of writing by Jamie Birch who spent over a year putting together this comprehensive reference to JavaScript runtimes. It covers everything from Node.js, Deno, Electron, AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers and Bun all the way to much smaller projects idea like dukluv and txiki.js.Via Hacker News
Tags: javascript, nodejs, deno
Abort Retry Fail
• Bradford Morgan White
The Rise and Rise of Peripheral ICs
.add_note(message: str) method to the BaseException class, which means you can add one or more extra notes to any Python exception and they'll be displayed in the stacktrace!
Here's PEP 678 – Enriching Exceptions with Notes by Zac Hatfield-Dodds proposing the new feature back in 2021.
Via Lobste.rs
Enough AI copilots! We need AI HUDs
Geoffrey Litt compares Copilots - AI assistants that you engage in dialog with and work with you to complete a task - with HUDs, Head-Up Displays, which enhance your working environment in less intrusive ways.He uses spellcheck as an obvious example, providing underlines for incorrectly spelt words, and then suggests his AI-implemented custom debugging UI as a more ambitious implementation of that pattern.
Plenty of people have expressed interest in LLM-backed interfaces that go beyond chat or editor autocomplete. I think HUDs offer a really interesting way to frame one approach to that design challenge.
Tags: design, design-patterns, ai, generative-ai, llms, geoffrey-litt
Geoffrey Litt
• Geoffrey Litt
In my opinion, one of the best critiques of modern AI design comes from a 1992 talk by the researcher Mark Weiser where he ranted against “copilot” as a metaphor for AI.
This was 33 years ago, but it’s still incredibly relevant for anyone designing...
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
The recent delisting of over 17,000 games from the independent platform Itch.io wasn’t a content moderation decision made by the platform itself. It was an act of financial coercion. Instigated by an Australian activist group and carried out by payment processors like Mastercard, it sets a dangerous precedent for all creative fields online.
The stated goal of the campaign was to combat media that glorifies sexual violence. An aim that sounds laudable, making it difficult to argue against in public. But like calls to age-gate social media, such goals can act as a Trojan horse. A socially acceptable pretext for gaining more information and control over people. And the outcome here reveals a profound and damaging overreach.
Krebs on Security
• BrianKrebs
KrebsOnSecurity recently heard from a reader whose boss's email account got phished and was used to trick one of the company's customers into sending a large payment to scammers. An investigation into the attacker's infrastructure points to a long-running Nigerian cybercrime group that is actively targeting established companies in the transportation and aviation industries.
The short version For decades, governments and organizations could run services based on servers we actually owned. These days, we’ve allowed the IT world to convince us no computing is possible outside of US-style clouds, for which we have no European equivalents. And because of this conviction, we are now moving our most precious data and most critical services to US controlled servers. Yet most of European government software still runs on locally owned systems.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
• Cory Doctorow
Adam's write up is delightful, incorporating pedantry, data nerdery, a trip to the Internet Archive, some excellent bar recommendations in New York and London and hints at elicit rum smuggling to help make the final cocktail, the IBA Tiki, using two different Havana Club rums that are illegal in the USA thanks to import restrictions.
Via Andy Baio
Tags: cocktails
Tom Renner on My place to put things
• Tom Renner
Instagram Reel: Veo 3 paid preview
@googlefordevs on Instagram published this reel featuring Christina Warren with prompting tips for the new Veo 3 paid preview (mp4 copy here).
(Christine checked first if I minded them using that concept. I did not!)
Tags: google, ai, generative-ai, gemini, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, text-to-video
