Author: Fitz Thiar
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WordPress Needs Better Export Support
I love WordPress, but getting my data out of WordPress.com isn’t as “easy” as promised. On a Premium plan I can’t export my data in useful way, and that lock-in worries me. Here’s why true data portability matters and why WordPress.com needs to do better .
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The Problem With AI Is You! Moron!
I’m so sick of these AI fluff pieces showing up on the sites of supposedly reputable news organizations that feel like little more than paid advertising. Take this piece from The Guardian as a prime example. Yet another evacuation of verbal diarrhea to declare that AI isn’t the problem: you are, we are, I am! We are simply too stupid to understand it! “Some people hand everything over to the machine and stop thinking. Others won’t touch it at all. But there’s a third group. They learn to work with AI critically, treat it like a bright, enthusiastic intern that…
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Categories: Technology
Data Centers In Space? I Can’t Even Stream YouTube In The Bathroom
I’ve seen a plethora of “5-minute experts” pontificating on “Data Centers In SPAAAAAAAACCE Space”, touting it as the solution to AI’s power and cooling needs. Notably, the idea has gained considerable credibility since it was vomited up by the World’s Richest Idiot, Elon Musk. Perhaps this was an attempt to shift the narrative away from the shitshow that is Tesla, his begging to party with Epstein, and that none of his promises with regards to technology, or Mars colonization, ever bear fruit. Clearly, his ketamine induced halucinations genius, or Groks, doesn’t extend to basic thermodynamics as my favourite science educator…
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It’s Being Done To Us – The Problem With “AI”
It occurred to me that, despite its absolute laundry list of flaws and impossible claims, the major perceptual problem with “AI” is that it’s being hoisted upon us by a handful of tech bros, instead of regular people being part of the process. When you have a handful of narcissistic, clearly biased and self-interested, possibly delusional people force their product upon the masses with little regard for the negative environmental, societal, and economic impact, the only outcome can be masses of negative sentiment. If (and I say this using every grain of salt imaginable) AI lives up to even 5%…
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OpenAI Adding Ads Is An Admission Of Failure
“Today, we’re beginning to test ads in ChatGPT in the U.S. The test will be for logged-in adult users on the Free and Go subscription tiers. Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and Education tiers will not have ads. Ads do not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you, and we keep your conversations with ChatGPT private from advertisers.” Let me rephrase that for you, Sam and co: “We’re bleeding money. We lose money across the board. Nobody is really using our product. We’re introducing ads in a desperate attempt to generate some revenue to offset a tiny portion of our massive debt…
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Podcast Loudness Levels Are Still Crap
-16 LUFS for podcast (stereo) audio has been the standard for longer than I can remember. By exporting your audio at this level, you help ensure that your listener isn’t suddenly forced to either raise their volume to hear your podcast properly or panic grab for the volume button before their eardrums start to bleed. I sometimes feel like podcasters, even established ones who should know better, think that their show exists in a vacuum. The listeners shown in your stats dashboard listen to your show and your show alone, so fuck them, and fuck the larger podcast community. I’ll…
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Let Me Fix That Response To The CMA, Google
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) Google has proposed changes to how Google Search works in order to promote a “fairer deal” for consumers and businesses in a market that is absolutely dominated by Google. To be clear, these are proposals, not laws, and are only at the consultation phase. Google Search accounts for more than 90% of all general search queries in the UK – with millions of people relying on it as a key gateway to the internet. More than 200,000 firms in the UK collectively spent more than £10 billion on Google’s search advertising last year.…
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Changing Colours
I’ve done a bit of an overhaul on the site today and settled on a bit of branding. I wasn’t happy with the previous colour scheme or logo, so I spent the morning brainstorming colours / fonts / iconography based on what I want this site to represent. Gone are the dark, moody colours, and the “rubber ducky” inspired scheme has arrived. For those of you who are curious (and why wouldn’t you be?), here are the colours and fonts that I have used in this design so far: Colours: Fonts: I’m guessing some of you talented designers are pulling…
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Your Domain. YOURS.
I really can’t stress this enough, but I feel the need to say this: nobody should control your domain name except you. I’ve spent the past two days attempting to track down and restore the ownership of a domain for a client whose online store has been offline for the past 4 days. All because the people who developed their site registered the domain, never transferred it to the client, and let it lapse. Yes, the client should have known better, but in all fairness, they were taken for a ride by scammers (that’s another post for another day). Consider…
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