Software developer by day, insomniac by night.

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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Was listening to my go-to podcast during morning walkies with my dog. They brought up an example where some couple was using ShatGPT as a couple’s therapist, and what a great idea that was. Talking about how one of the podcasters has more of a friend like relationship to “their” GPT.

    I usually find this podcast quite entertaining, but this just got me depressed.

    ChatGPT is by the same company that stole Scarlett Johansson’s voice. The same vein of companies that thinks it’s perfectly okay to pirate 81 terabytes of books, despite definitely being able to afford paying the authors. I don’t see a reality where it’s ethical or indicative of good judgement to trust a product from any of these companies with information.



  • Completely unrelated segue, but your comment reminded me of this one vet appointment I had with my dog.

    He was in for having his teeth cleaned, and came out with his claws trimmed. They managed to cut into his quick on five claws. I don’t even know how they managed to do that, I don’t do that and I don’t have the advantage of him being sedated when I clip them. Then they had the absolute gall to charge me for trimming his claws.

    To top it all off; I had an appointment booked with the groomer next-door a couple of days after that so their “service” was unwarranted and unwelcome.


  • I definitely get it. I remember reading Mozilla’s blasé attitude towards them years ago, with them justifying not supporting PWAs because no one uses them, and thinking that obviously no one will use them if you don’t make Firefox a good alternative for using them!

    The customer my company works towards have chosen to move a lot of their operations to PWAs because they’re so versatile and can be easily integrated to all the systems they need to run them on. We target phones, tablets, heavy machinery, and desktops.

    Originally when the iPhone launched the entire idea was to not have apps, but use PWAs. That was maybe a bit early since PWAs weren’t that mature yet, but with modern web platform technologies you can do a lot with PWAs, so I think if that sort of concept was launched today it’d do better.