@MWeeksDev

I talk about dev productivity & lifestyle engineering | 10 years in web | 16 yrs programming. Podcast Host https://xitter.cf/t.co/kfiy843lOJ

 Toronto, Ontario
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German media regulator says Google's AI Overviews subject to German media law reuters.com/legal/government…

German media regulator says Google's AI Overviews subject to German media law

Germany's media regulator said on Tuesday that Google's AI Overviews and Perplexity AI are subject to the country's media laws, stepping ​up scrutiny of AI-generated content after a German court...

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"The Commission for Licensing and Supervision, ZAK, which represents Germany's 14 state media authorities, said AI-generated news summaries and chatbot responses constitute content created by the providers themselves rather than merely displaying third-party material."
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I think this, above all else, is true and should be used to introduce reasonable legislation. This should also apply to algorithmically curated feeds, but this example of clearly incorrect AI summaries of actual news content and search results is much clearer.
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I was foolish to think that this was the bottom of the UX slop barrel... Today I learned that my Google Pixel randomly interrupts calls with an auto-response when I decline a call instead of going to my voicemail. It's a weird middle finger to anyone calling when I can't answer.
Matthew Weeks@MWeeksDev16 Apr 2024
I will never understand how some UX decisions get made. I'm on a call, waiting on hold. Android offers "call assist". All I expect it to do is listen to the call and let me know when someone picks up so I don't have to listen the automated hold recording every minute. Instead, it answers the call itself with a robot voice and gets it hung up on every single time. How was the leap made from "assist" to "replace yourself on a call with what sounds like a robodialer"?
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After my phone broke, I was forced to upgrade from Samsung S24 to Pixel 10 Plus. I love the camera and the 128 GB storage. The rest? Not so much.
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After it reset and I logged back in, I got a marketing page for AI features I already had — then a prompt to restart for an update. Chose "now." Nothing happened. Because the update had already completed. 🙃
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This is already more bugs than I remember dealing with on Android since the S4 era. Somehow the Google version of Android feels worse than Samsung's. Not the upgrade I was hoping for. You can really tell that Google was serious about going all in on AI.
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Recently learned about Judith Herman's work and found it to be really predictive of recovery from alcohol addiction and complex trauma. Funny thing that inspired me to read this was getting a puppy. Nothing speedruns grief like raising a living animal. neurodiversecounseling.com/c…

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman (Book) — Neurodiverse Counseling Services

Judith Herman's book, "Trauma and Recovery, " was my introductory text on trauma. It was profound and groundbreaking for its time (first published in 1993) due to several key factors. Firstly, it...

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My Notion is a disaster. I want to go back to it, but I can't bring myself to clean it up manually. And I don't want to just nuke it. There's stuff in there I actually care about. Budgets, podcast and blog post ideas, recipes, project notes...
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So I'm wondering: is there a way to use AI to quickly sort a messy Notion database into logical groups?
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Love this idea. I just hope it doesn't get abused. But less generic articles written by AI would make for much better information searching. SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search | Kagi Blog blog.kagi.com/slopstop

Introducing SlopStop: Community-driven AI slop detection in Kagi Search

Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms We made it our mission to prevent the web from becoming useless and a harmful space. That’s why today, Kagi Search introduces the...

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Thoughts on my recent digital detox. Not sure if I'm a fan of this image formatting thing anymore tbh.
Screenshot essay titled 'Use technology. Don't let it use you'. The text discusses the author's experience at a digital detox retreat called Camp Reset. As a software engineer, the author reflects on their dependency on technology, including social media and productivity apps, and the challenge of taking a break from devices. They describe the initial discomfort of disconnecting but ultimately embrace the creativity and joy that comes from it. The author acknowledges the usefulness of some apps while promoting mindfulness in tech use. The essay encourages others to consider a break from compulsive tech habits to improve their quality of life.

ALT Screenshot essay titled 'Use technology. Don't let it use you'. The text discusses the author's experience at a digital detox retreat called Camp Reset. As a software engineer, the author reflects on their dependency on technology, including social media and productivity apps, and the challenge of taking a break from devices. They describe the initial discomfort of disconnecting but ultimately embrace the creativity and joy that comes from it. The author acknowledges the usefulness of some apps while promoting mindfulness in tech use. The essay encourages others to consider a break from compulsive tech habits to improve their quality of life.

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Here's a link to it on Medium, in case anyone wants to read it on a proper blog platform. (friend link so it should be accessible). medium.com/@matthewweeks/use…

Use Technology. Don’t let it use you.

My takeaways on my technology use after taking a four day digital detox.

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This is what I wish Google looked like. What are your current favourite non-ad-pocalypse / -AI-ified search engines you are using these days? I miss the days when I could search for a topic and find a decently written, well-linked, and relevant article that actually worked.
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Hey @mattpocockuk it's been a while since I did your Total Typescript course, but there was a plugin you used for inspecting types that I really loved, and I can't seem to recall it or find it. You'd type // ^? and it would print out the type of an object or the value of a type
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