ReHacked vol. 322: The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design, Owls in Towels and more
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Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites #internet #search #bigcorp #longread
Broken Google's promises and shift from "By people, for people" towards "AI-first".
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Why DeepSeek is cheap at scale but expensive to run locally | sean goedecke #ai #longread
Some models (like DeepSeek’s) that are mixture-of-experts with many layers thus require large batch sizes and high latency, otherwise throughput drops off a cliff. That’s why it’s commonly said that you can’t easily run DeepSeek for personal use: because with a single user running one inference at a time, it runs at very low efficiency/throughput
The fact that OpenAI and Anthropic’s models are quick to respond suggests that either:
- Their models have a more efficient architecture (non-MoE, fewer layers), or
- OpenAI/Anthropic have some very clever tricks for serving inference, or
they’re paying through the nose for way more GPUs than they strictly need
LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks #copyrights #internet
Free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.
Controversial 'lost' Jerry Lewis film discovered in Sweden after 53 years | The National #art #culture #cinema #history
One of cinema's most sought-after lost films has been discovered after having been kept secretly in the collection of a Swedish actor for 45 years.
Comedian Jerry Lewis's controversial holocaust film The Day the Clown Cried, shot in 1972 but never released, was thought to not exist in finished form.
But Hans Crispin, star of the beloved 1980s Swedish TV series Angne & Svullo, claims he stole a complete workprint of the film from the archives of its production studio in 1980 – and has been screening it for guests in his apartment ever since.
“I have the only copy,” Crispin told Swedish state news broadcaster SVT. “I stole it from Europafilm in 1980 and copied it to VHS in the attic where we copied other films at night.
“I've kept the copy in my bank vault,” Crispin added.
Putting an untrusted layer of chatbot AI between you and the internet is an obvious disaster waiting to happen - macwright.com #ai #internet
You ask OpenAI for a product recommendation, and it recommends a product that they’re associated with, or one that a company is paying them to promote. Or maybe some company detects OpenAI’s web scraper and delivers customized content to win the recommendation. You just don’t know.
This is obviously going to happen. Google promoted its own products in search. Amazon recommends its own products, eagerly ripping off the branding and terms used by other companies. Microsoft promotes its own AI, Copilot, when you use Microsoft’s search engine, Bing, to search for Google’s AI, Gemini. This kind of stuff is not illegal enough to attract enforcement in the US and it’s obviously good for business, so companies do it with gusto, even when it’s totally obvious to everyone.
Paying attention to attention | Seth's Blog #productivity
The act of focusing on what we focus on pays enormous dividends.
'30-Second Rule' can help awkward people feel charismatic - Upworthy #communication #lifehack
What is the 30-second rule?
New York Times bestselling author and founder of the Maxwell Institute, John C. Maxwell, had a rule whenever he started a conversation: “Within the first 30 seconds of a conversation, say something encouraging to a person.” This can work in any social or professional situation.
Owls in Towels Warning: cuteness inside!
Wildlife rehabilitators often wrap owls in fabric so they can be weighed, treated, and fed. If not, the owls get in a flap.
The result? Loads of pictures of #owlsintowels
The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen | Cybercultural #web #design #history
The 3 Musketeers
Early in his new career as a web designer, Zeldman was heavily influenced by David Siegel, who had published a book in 1996 entitled Creating Killer Web Sites: The Art of Third-Generation Site Design. This was before CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) or Flash, so the book advocated for “hacks” to HTML in order to make websites more visually appealing. The primary hacks were using invisible tables and single-pixel GIFs to help control layout. The book had a chapter entitled “A PDF Primer,” but did not mention CSS (as the final spec hadn’t yet been released). The second edition, published in 1997, replaced the PDF primer with a new chapter: “A CSS Primer.” That’s how fast web design was changing at this time.
Colombia’s Robot.com is quietly building a global robotics empire - Rest of World #technology #economy
- Robot.com, a Colombian robotics company, is leading the burgeoning robots industry in Latin America.
- The industry faces high production costs, limited investor confidence, and minimal public investment in the region.
- Some founders are seeking out international customers before establishing their local footprint.
Earlier this year, a boxy, knee-high robot rolled past a handful of students at the University of California, Berkeley, campus, loaded with plush toy doughnuts and Yeti mugs. Moving at about three miles per hour, it paused at intersections, blinked its LED kawaii eyes, and beeped politely before continuing on its way.
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