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October 2018

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The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work | Technology | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/06/artificial-intelligence-ai-humans-bots-tech-companies
It’s hard to build a service powered by artificial intelligence. So hard, in fact, that some startups have worked out it’s cheaper and easier to get humans to behave like robots than it is to get machines to behave like humans. via Pocket
#favorites #ifttt #imported:pinboard #pocket
archive.org #27957

My Serverless Adventure - Blazing Edge

https://blazingedge.io/blog/my-serverless-adventure
After several React Native posts, now it’s time for me to reflect on the experience I had building Serverless application, differences with building standard APIs with IaaS/PaaS with Express/Koa and utilizing FaaS service model. via Pocket
archive.org #27956

All you ever wanted to know about the colors of the commodore 64

http://unusedino.de/ec64/technical/misc/vic656x/colors/
The whole issue of VIC-II color-emulation is so mis-guiding and irritating, because every c64-emulator uses different palettes and these have been created by using cheap frame-grabbers/digitizers with strange color-behaviour or by moving around some rgb-sliders until it looks quite right. Many people have forgotten how the colors on a real C64 look, because they use emulators for a long time.
#art #c64 #commodore64 #imported:pinboard #retro #vic
archive.org #31246

All you ever wanted to know about the colors of the commodore 64

http://unusedino.de/ec64/technical/misc/vic656x/colors
The whole issue of VIC-II color-emulation is so mis-guiding and irritating, because every c64-emulator uses different palettes and these have been created by using cheap frame-grabbers/digitizers with strange color-behaviour or by moving around some rgb-sliders until it looks quite right. Many people have forgotten how the colors on a real C64 look, because they use emulators for a long time.
#art #c64 #commodore64 #retro #vic
archive.org #27955

What's a senior engineer's job? - Julia Evans

https://jvns.ca/blog/senior-engineer/
most (all?) of the senior engineers I know take on a significant amount of helping-other-people work in addition to their individual programming work. The challenge I see me/my coworkers struggling with today isn’t so much “what?? I have to TALK TO PEOPLE?? UNBELIEVABLE.” and more “wait, how do I balance all of this leadership work with my individual contributions / programming work in a way that’s sustainable for me? How much of what kind of work should I be doing?“
#career #development #engineering #imported:pinboard #senior #work
archive.org #31248

What's a senior engineer's job? - Julia Evans

https://jvns.ca/blog/senior-engineer
most (all?) of the senior engineers I know take on a significant amount of helping-other-people work in addition to their individual programming work. The challenge I see me/my coworkers struggling with today isn’t so much “what?? I have to TALK TO PEOPLE?? UNBELIEVABLE.” and more “wait, how do I balance all of this leadership work with my individual contributions / programming work in a way that’s sustainable for me? How much of what kind of work should I be doing?“
#career #development #engineering #senior #work
archive.org #27936

The Facebook Hack Is an Internet-Wide Failure | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-hack-single-sign-on-data-exposed/
On Friday, Facebook announced that hackers had leveraged three separate bugs to collect 50 million users’ so-called access tokens, which are the equivalent of digital keys to a Facebook account. With those tokens, hackers can take full control of users’ Facebook accounts, but because of Single Sign-On, they can also access any other website that those 50 million users log into with Facebook.
#facebook #imported:pinboard #oops #security
archive.org #31250

The Facebook Hack Is an Internet-Wide Failure | WIRED

https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-hack-single-sign-on-data-exposed
On Friday, Facebook announced that hackers had leveraged three separate bugs to collect 50 million users’ so-called access tokens, which are the equivalent of digital keys to a Facebook account. With those tokens, hackers can take full control of users’ Facebook accounts, but because of Single Sign-On, they can also access any other website that those 50 million users log into with Facebook.
#facebook #oops #security
archive.org #27923