Category: Links of Interest
Matt Birchler – AI Hype is Like Chatbot hype from 2016
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There is so much to agree with in Matt’s post. Tech hypes so much that will “revolutionize” our lives and lots of it fails to bring these innovations. How do we always forget the broken promises and blindly trust the new thing tech is hyping?
How Will AI Change Note-Taking?
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AI will solve the need to organize your notes!!! But will it really? Crypto was supposed to solve banking and make it modern. Instead it’s crashed a bunch and rich people got in early then cashed out and got richer. Ride hailing was supposed to revolutionize personal transportation. Instead they used data to drive down
Repurposing a ThinkPad 701C with Framework
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I love this repurposing of an old computer with new brains from Framework. Before I purchased my 13″ Framework I tried to get an older ThinkPad, but after numerous shipping issues, I never got any of them. I love my Framework laptop. I love that even though I missed out on their latest upgrades by
The Richest School Can’t Afford to Pay Workers Properly
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This story from Vice about Harvard shows the sad state of affairs across the working world in North America. Harvard is doing the “great service” for it’s student workers of showing them resources to help them pay for things, like food. They want to be congratulated for this, while we look the other way as
Canadian Government Sinks More Money into Propping Up Fossil Fuels and Planes
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Sigh…so it appears that the current federal budget has money earmarked for “making improvements to air travel”. They have $1.8 billion dollars devoted to this nebulous “improvement” campaign, specifically to improve security screening. Most of us know that the pain we go through at airport security is useless. It does almost nothing to keep flying
Control Sonos from Fedora
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For a while now I’ve controlled my Sonos system via AirPlay from any one of my Apple devices. But with a Fedora Framework laptop in my house, I needed to find a new way to send audio to the speakers without needing AirPlay. Unfortunately, Sonos doesn’t make an official Linux app, but open source to
PKM Weekly March 26 2023 – Issue 062
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Welcome to the PKM weekly newsletter. My goal is to round up good resources in the PKM space so you don’t have to. This issue was sponsored by Reflect.app. Reflect is a note-taking app that mirrors the way your brain works through networked notes. It has a GPT-4 AI assistant that lets you save your
Excellent Look at why TikTok Bans are Economic not Privacy Related
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From Paris Marx Since the dawn of the internet era, the United States has been pushing the line that every company needed to allow unfettered access to the web, or else they were violating the rights of their citizens. Any country that dared limit access to the web was chastised for their supposedly authoritarian actions.
Security Recommendations from the NSA
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This is a great set of security recommendations from the NSA. Some of them are going to be hard for non-technical users, like having 3 different wireless networks. One for you, one for guests, one for IoT devices. Overall, if you can do a number of these recommendations, you’ll be in better shape than most
The Impending US Ban on TikTok has little to do with Privacy
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Casey Newton from Platformer on what appears to be the impending banning of TikTok in the US. But I’m deeply uncomfortable about the implications of governments making one-off decisions to eliminate social apps on national security grounds, while at the same time taking a pass on national privacy legislation and other regulations that would take
