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Solving an interesting problem with Sender Policy Framework records (technology.blog.gov.uk)

I wrote this for my (previous) employer. I thought you might find it interesting. SPF is a complex beast.

Threads is All The Worst Parts of Twitter And Instagram in One Very Bad App (www.vice.com)

Consider Joining the UK Foundation Model Taskforce (thezvi.substack.com)

A few months ago, Ian Hogarth wrote the Financial Times Op-Ed headlined “We must slow down the race to God-like AI.”...

Digital Forensics Market | Trends, Segmentation, Key Players 2023-2032 (www.marketresearchfuture.com)

Market Overview:...

"AI" Is Not a Problem and Is a Good Thing, but Is Being Abused by the Actual Problem

“AI” can’t replace people in any way. The most it could possibly do is assist a person in performing a task because it is a tool which does not actually have intelligence or awareness. This may be a debate but I am firmly on the side of punting Wilson the volleyball and cautioning people not to anthropomorphize a program...

Twitter Blue accounts fuel Ukraine War misinformation (www.bbc.com)

Several Twitter accounts with paid Blue subscriptions have promoted false and misleading claims related to the Ukraine war. These include posts alleging that weapons sent to Ukraine were used in French riots, that Ukraine runs “baby factories” harvesting children’s organs, and that Ukraine accidentally launched the missile...

SpaceX Satellites Are Ruining Observations With "Unintended" Radiation (futurism.com)

A new study published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics suggests the satellites are emitting “unintended” radiation from the electronics onboard the satellites....

Threads, Mastodon, and the Loneliness of Social Media (www.admdnewsletter.com)

Email is the oldest Federated service.

I was struggling to wrap my head around how federated social media works until I realized that email has basically been doing the same thing for 30 years. Different email servers are like instances of a federated network. You can send emails to people from within a single server or you can send emails to people on any other mail...

It's September, Forever (www.vice.com)

The 'Eternal September' was a 1993 backlash against unwanted internet users. It never ended.

SQL JOINs (domesticatedbrain.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/953942...

Wefwef for Lemmy feels exactly like Apollo. (wefwef.app)

I’m not sure if you’ve tried this PWA called Wefwef but it feels like a fully featured Apollo client for Lemmy already. You just go to the site and add it to your home screen. No beta to sign up for. No TestFlight link. Just add the PWA....

What would be the long-term impact on the internet and society if Google were to completely fail? (lemmy.ca)

iPhone app for browsing Lemmy?

Are we just stuck with browsers for the time being? I mean it works but fuck I miss Apollo already.

Supercomputer makes calculations in blink of an eye that take rivals 47 years (www.telegraph.co.uk)

Is it akin to the revolutionary code-breaking system from Digital Fortress called TRANSLTR?...

Bevy 0.11 is out! (bevyengine.org)

Types of software (domesticatedbrain.com)

cross-posted from: lemm.ee/post/929291...

AI is a "tragedy of the commons." We’ve got solutions for that. (www.vox.com)

"Arms race" is the wrong mental model for AI. Here’s a better one.

Creative Good: Why customers don’t want chat bots (creativegood.com)

The author argues that customers do not actually want chat bots for customer service, contrary to what companies claim. Chat bots can only handle simple, routine queries, but for complicated issues customers want to speak to a human representative. Companies are pushing chat bots to reduce costs and increase profits, without...