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Top Bubble

I said no and Apple said yes (David Bushell)
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The nice thing about keeping a blog is that I can say at precisely 9:51am, Wednesday 5th February 2025, I discovered that macOS 15.3 had enabled a feature that was phoning home every 15 minutes with personal data. And that I said “no” and turned it off. […]

Fresh Bubbles

First time in a Briefing. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

Culture

  1. Educational Tubers (draft.red)
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    I like long reads and deep dive educational videos. I wanted to list the youtubers that provide value in my life. I’ve never been a short video person, it…

Life

  1. Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local ci... (Josh Withers Blog)
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    Treat your body like a data centre. Consume as much water and literature as possible. Upset local city councils with your existence. – @chrismartin

Nature

  1. Birding in Brooklyn, Sydney (Emma Goto)
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    A lunch outing to Brooklyn, Sydney. To be honest I had never heard of this place before, but it wins the distinction of being the "northernmost suburb of…

  2. Dog-guided cameras and weasels (Stephen Bodio)
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    For the second part of the study, the researchers relied on detection dogs. They placed cameras where the dogs alerted to possible weasel presence, resulting…

  3. New bird bath. New veggie garden. (shojiwax.com)
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    Two simple things we have done to prepare for the (potentially scorching) summer.

Tech

  1. Static Site Generators for Beginners (Brennan Kenneth Brown)
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    Written for a 32-bit Café thread asking where to even begin with static-site generators. I go over the free resources I'd learn first (and why hand-rolled HTML…

  2. The Internet Used to Have Places (Dead Parrot BBS)
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    The older Internet felt more like a collection of places because communities had addresses, customs, memory, and edges.

  3. I'm sick of Claudisms, and what will happen next in AI-boosted software development (Kristian Polso)
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    It has been 5 months since my last post about AI use in software development and whether I wanted to continue programming. Like all aspects of AI recently, the…

  4. Are LLMs still surprisingly bad at some simple tasks? (Terence Eden)
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    Last year I ran an experiment to test the ability of modern LLMs to correctly answer a relatively straightforward question. Every single one of them got it…

  5. Muse Already Lied About What It Reads. Guess Why Amazon Doesn't Trust It Either. (ByteHaven - Where I ramble about bytes)
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    Two Muse stories dropped days apart, and read together they tell you everything. One is a journalist catching Meta's new AI agent lying to his face about what…

  6. Waiting for the bubble to burst (The Artist’s Notebook)
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    Over on my ‘about me’ page, many years ago, back in the teenage years of this millennium, I wrote: My artwork has sold to collectors across the world,…

  7. re: for the last time im not downloading your stupid app (candyether.space)
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    source: sourceive been wanting to make this kind of post for a bit but of course a larger blogger got to it first...anywayswhile i do agree with forced…

  8. AI is antithetical to learning (jola.dev)
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    LLM agents can write a lot of code for you very fast, but they also take away opportunities to learn and grow.

Still Bubbling

Already featured in a Briefing before. Two or more votes in the last 24 hours.

  1. Your Second Brain Won’t Do the Work (Korin)
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  2. I will not be Notified (thega.me.uk)
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  3. 6th deployment. 10 km(6 miles) walks again. (Uncertainty)
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  4. Re: AI is not “just a tool” (Michael Harley)
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  5. Do you use :visited on links? (Kev Quirk)
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  6. internet safety for kids / a love letter to the internet (ava's blog)
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Tiny Bubbles

Fresh posts with exactly one vote in the last 24 hours.