Professor Montenegro’s policy on AI （LLM） usage in her classes may be for her students, but it includes valuable context for all of us thinking about adopting ChatGPT and other tools. Recommended reading: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1t4Qjpu5aqjh0TyQfTm8I_-UfrV4vWnBF4ENwyud3aGQ/pub
https://mastodon.themarkup.org/@themarkup/113245430287843730

What are your best resources for learning about the Matter / Thread stack used in smart home systems? #smarthome

Can you take Sam Altman’s essay and replace “AI” with agriculture or projectile weapons and have it basically be just as applicable? Like something an LLM would write?

Sonos gives us a cautionary lesson for technical leaders: ignoring tech debt and deciding to do a big bang rewrite can take a company from seeming success to a complete loss of customer trust, $200m revenue miss, 25% decline in market cap, and a series of layoffs. Everyone loses. https://hachyderm.io/@mweagle/113192004366530188

Some concrete advice for newsrooms on how to avoid “sanewashing”
https://www.poynter.org/ethics-trust/2024/sanewashing-meaning-donald-trump-journalists/

Naturally, Google Photos stores timestamp metadata in UTC with time zone offset. As one would expect.

But when they export your thousands of pictures via Google Takeout, they neglect to convert the timestamp back to local time in the exported file EXIF. Unbelievable that this passed the most basic QA.😡