Several of the major social media platforms - Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn, Twitter - have effectively declared war on linking to things and I absolutely hate it
"Link in my bio" / "Link in thread" / "Link in first comment"... or increasingly no link at all, just an unsourced screenshot of a page
Here's a brilliant neologism: "slop", for text generated entirely by LLMs and published, unwanted, on the Internet
> Watching in real time as "slop" becomes a term of art. the way that "spam" became the term for unwanted emails, "slop" is going in the dictionary as the term for unwanted AI generated content
I'm considering building a feature for a SaaS app that lets you "invite" a customer support person to be able to see your private data in order to help you debug an issue - where everything they look at is logged in an audit log that's visible to you and you also get to see when they "resign" from their temporary access
Is this a common feature? Has anyone seen good implementations of this kind of pattern before?
I gave a 50 minute talk at the Story Discovery at Scale data journalism conference at Stanford a few weeks ago. I've now turned the video into an extensive write-up with images, links and screenshots:
If I have a JSON API that's protected by "Authorization: Bearer XXX" API tokens, what are the arguments against sticking these headers on it? ``` Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * Access-Control-Allow-Methods: GET, POST Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization ``` I want users of my API to be able to access it via JavaScript from any host
The best argument I can think of is that it may encourage people to leak their private API token in publicly visible HTML documents, anything else?
I built a new tool: https://tools.simonwillison.net/ocr - it runs OCR against images and PDFs entirely in your browser (no file upload needed) using Tesseract.js and PDF.js
@inthehands@jenniferplusplus maybe the analogy here holds in that sometimes a spiritualist might give you life advice that turns out to be useful anyway?
"The Open in OpenAI means that everyone should benefit from the fruits of AI after its built, but it’s totally OK to not share the science (even though sharing everything is definitely the right strategy in the short and possibly medium term for recruitment purposes)." - Ilya Sutskever, in an email to Elon Musk
For those of us running our own Mastodon servers, any tips on how to deal with this flood of spam notifications? If I had a server admin I'd ask them, but I'm my own server admin!
Is there a mechanism for sharing blocklists I can subscribe to somehow?
I think GitHub may have the best URL design of any website I've ever seen - it's SO clean and intuitive, I must type in URLs to different things on GitHub dozens of times a day
Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data. https://datasette.io and many other #projects.