Notices by Michael Kranz (mkranz@hachyderm.io)

@thomasfuchs I have a stakeholder at work who recently contacted a firm who is using a “no code” platform to build some interactive content and all I can think of is how we’re now locked into a proprietary service that will be difficult to maintain in the long term smh. Not “AI,” but the same kind of ridiculous magic bean stuff

@thomasfuchs so, if I’m reading this correctly, you have to enable disabling Copilot by simply using a tool that’s only available on Windows Pro. If you want it back, you just have disable disabling it. Seems intuitive, lmao

@thomasfuchs it's almost like there's an infrastructural benefit to decentralization or something

Minutes after the IDF fired on Palestinians trying to get to food aid, Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir again called for the end of humanitarian aid to #Gaza and characterized the IOF soldiers who fired on a hungry crowd trying to get bags of flour as "heroic fighters" https://aje.io/gs2k6y?update=2740481 #FreePalestine

@thomasfuchs I'm convinced that the core functionality of the internet of things is to provide a botnet platform and all the appliance-related features are just a side effect. A ten-year cert? Wild

@thomasfuchs I hope you feel better swiftly, but this is an adorable knock-on effect

@thomasfuchs oh, no doubt. I think, in the years since he coined it, though, many have taken it to be some kind of force of nature that results in technological progress happening, as you put it, linearly or geometrically, when we that wouldn’t have necessarily happened (for a time, at least) for transistors without the self-fulfilling prophecy. I don’t think any of that is what Moore intended, though

@thomasfuchs isn’t there also evidence that Moore’s Law may be so predictable simply because of the expectations *it* puts on the industry and consumers rather than because of any “natural” feature of transistors or innovation. Not sure how that artifice would be transferable to anything with real limitations (even wrt transistors, as we’re now seeing)