looking like shit feeling like nothing 🤝 meta's WorldGen www.meta.com/en-gb/blog/w...

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really looking forward to reading lots of sentences like this for the next fucking week

Episode 9 techblows.net/9 is the first of a 2-parter on Shazam! The massive data analytics platform that occasionally tells you the names of songs. Find out how Shazam turns all your most beloved music into ones and zeroes #technology #music #iphone #podcast #technologyblows

Subscribers: beware! Today's episode ("Shazam (Part 1)") is missing a bit of sound at around 49:35. I'll fix it and reupload presently 🙏🙏💚

Are we not even making the AIs watch the movies anymore

if all the people who thought this way disappeared the world would be unequivocally better in every way

It looks like you're trying to listen to a podcast. Would you like some help with that? On episode 8, find out why Microsoft ditched the idea of Clippy ever shutting the fuck up techblows.net/8 #technology #microsoft #msoffice #podcast

It's extremely funny that RFC 2964, the IETF's Best Current Practice on the use of cookies, lists exactly 2 things you shouldn't do with cookies, and they are literally the 2 most common things we do with cookies #security #networking #browsers

Why did we give up on "402 Payment Required"? Having it in the response code means you can do the whole financial transaction in one HTTP request. Isn't this better in many ways than all this bullshit with the goddamn cookies?

You know what I hate? These fuckin things I just tie a few bags to the loop on the leash. Pros: (1) You can see how many bags you have (2) There's nothing for the bags to roll up and get stuck in(3) You never accidentally pull out 2 bags and have to try to shove the second bag back in the tiny hole

Technology Blows: Episode 7: Washing Machines. techblows.net/7 Learn: - What fluid the ancient Romans used instead of detergent - What your washing machine's onboard computer is for - Why washing machines have gotten so much more efficient in the last half century #technology #smarthome #podcast

ancient roman water politics… makes you think #technology #classics #water

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Tools to make coding faster: 57,348 Societal problems that can be resolved by writing more code: 0

please inject this video directly into my veins. perfection

This week, we wrap up our 2-parter on Jira! (Part 1: techblows.net/5; Part 2: techblows.net/6) Hear about: - The Atlassian founders' matching $100M houses - How Jira turns its own failures into more sales - Jira's special way of alienating us from our creativity and initiative

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Early humans crafted the same tools for hundreds of thousands of years, offering an unprecedented glimpse of a continuous tradition that may push back the origins of technology.

Tech companies have plenty of bad ideas they say will improve transportation — but the car remains a menace. @brooklynspoke.bsky.social and @sgoodyear.bsky.social join @parismarx.com to discuss the many ways cars harm society and why that must change. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/301_...

The Amazing World Of Tomorrow

In the last 30 years, digital technology ran out of ways to make people's lives substantively better. Now it's just a market where we can trade our old problems for newer problems at a terrible exchange rate

For research, I'm spending a week with this image staring at me from my 2nd monitor and it's day 2 and I'm already feeling distinctly uneasy. Oh no

Not now, sweetie. Daddy's writing 301 words in the Slack knowledge base feedback widget

FYI this is what you do when your business is great and you are very liquid and creditworthy

Episode 5 is out! ==> techblows.net/5 <== This 2-part episode is about Jira: the bloated tick gorging itself on the software industry #softwaredevelopment #projectmanagement #jira #atlassian #podcast #productivity #saas

Couldn't be more hype for the #NewLuddism conf in NYC on Friday!! #ButlerianJihad

NEW: Common Crawl, the massive archiver of the web, has gotten cozy with AI companies and is providing paywalled articles for training data. They’re also lying to publishers who have asked for material to be removed. “The robots are people too,” CC’s exec director told us when we asked about this.

Why did Einstein never sext on Halloween? Because he rejected spooky action at a distance

This is from my medical provider's website. "If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising" Bitch you are a hospital, have some self respect

I've… seen things you people wouldn't be interested in

The Register is reporting that OpenAI lost $11 billion in the last quarter. This company is a shambling monstrosity, financial insanity as a direct result with the markets’ obsession with growth. www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/m...

Is the world ready for an Internet-connected mattress that roasts you whenever AWS goes down, and also sometimes pisses itself? WE DECIDE! On this ep, learn about: - The Bourbons: France's sleepiest monarchs - What kind of animal Peter Thiel sleeps inside - The $5000 AI-powered bed that saved DOGE

At the end of The Conjuring they should've knocked down the haunted house and built an Amazon fulfillment center there. No ghost would ever haunt one of those

just saw this on reddit… this is the elevator panel in someone's apartment building

1600 words into the Wikipedia page on "Bed" and I'm finally getting to the good shit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed

Hey, it's really cool to see when folks adapt Tedium pieces and build on them. This is a pretty new podcast and ended up covering the battery tester saga I wrote about a few years back. Give it a listen!

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

ROY BATTY: …I rode on the back decks of a blinker and watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments... they'll be gone. CHATGPT: That’s a powerful story 🎯 Thank you for sharing with me! It really spoke to your passion for space! 🚀

i mean, the bus definitely will stop there

Tea, the women’s safety app which went viral earlier this year before facing multiple data breaches, has been removed from the Apple App Store. 🔗 www.404media.co/women-dating...

1996! Back when "agent" meant "Clippy." www.jaronlanier.com/agentalien.h...

NEW EPISODE! Remember those little tester strips they used to have on batteries? Ever wondered what happened to them? ==> techblows.net/3 <==

If you need AWS to make your bed not curl up and smoke like an overcooked shrimp, you might actually have a Dumb House

i'm listening… #azure

Just accidentally pressed ⌘-T and learned that OS X calculator has a "Paper Tape" function. Technology can be good sometimes!

Me: tries to make a spreadsheet Google Sheets: Use Gemini!! Me: okay… Me: (asks Gemini to do the simplest possible spreadsheet task) Google Sheets: (20 seconds later) erkk… uhghh… pfblffpt

Am I the only one who intentionally still browses the web without ad blockers? I just don't want to let myself forget what these bastards did to my sweet friend, the Internet