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In other words, vendors are competing on the quality, characteristics, and sometimes ideological slant of their models.

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This is so much bad, I don’t know where to start. — crank.report

Continuously executing against the obvious plan gets you much further than you’d think.

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We are charging our commercial customers for our Copilots, and if their use creates legal issues, we should make this our problem rather than our customers’ problem.

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My hope is that most of the money will go directly to newsrooms, and to the sorts of shared infrastructure that every newsroom needs. I also hope that this shared infrastructure will be open sourced as much as possible, so that any public interest organization can take advantage — thereby increasing the impact of these donations.

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The lack of official data creates an impossible choice of invisibility or putting ourselves in life-threatening scenarios.

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This marks one of the country’s largest mass arrests in recent years targeting homosexuality.

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As I’ve written before, I would like to see a kind of tech union for newsrooms that would provide technical advice and commodity technology under an open source license, and then represent newsrooms in technical forums like the W3C.

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If I ask Midjourney for an image in the style of a particular artist, some people consider this obvious and outright theft, but if you chat to the specialists at Christie’s or Sotheby’s, or wander the galleries of lower Manhattan or Mayfair, most people there will not only disagree but be perplexed by the premise - if you make an image ‘in the style of’ Cindy Sherman, you haven’t stolen from her and no-one who values Cindy Sherman will consider your work a substitute (except in the Richard Prince sense).

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The goal of those documents is to provide an implementation path for adding fediverse capabilities to Gitlab.

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Python practitioners can now marry scripts and rich visualizations with the widespread accessibility of Excel, enabling an uninterrupted workflow and making your work easier to share with colleagues who primarily use Excel.

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My RSS reader is a place of joy, never of stress. I’ve tried to boil down the principles that makes it so…

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…we want to help journalists share data with each other and with the public without needing to configure and run Datasette on their own hosting provider.

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This document updates some OSPF terminology to be in line with inclusive language used in the industry. The IETF has designated “Guidance for NIST Staff on Using Inclusive Language in Documentary Standards” by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for its inclusive language guidelines. It is intended that all future OSPF documents use this revised terminology even when they reference the RFCs updated by this document.

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There is much to say about the summer of Taylor that is pertinent to technology and the Internet: start with the desire for communal in-person experiences driven not only by the pandemic, but also the general fracturing of culture inherent in a media landscape where personalized content delivered directly to your personal device is the norm.

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Reading is a place. The more you skip, the more it becomes browsing. And browsing is not a place. You want to be in the place.

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“I don’t feel any satisfaction,” Clinton responded. “I feel great, just great profound sadness that we have a former president who has been indicted for so many charges that went right to the heart of whether or not our democracy would survive.”

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This tool is a collection of macros that work with Microsoft Word to export Word comments into a pre-formatted Excel spreadsheet, which is used to disposition comments during a document review and serves as an official record of the disposition of each comment.

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It is an invitation to do your own experiments and explorations and learn about the protocol in this way. And once you have some practical experience with the protocol, trying to read the Spec is probably not as daunting anymore.

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A curated list of modern Generative Artificial Intelligence projects and services.

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