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The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness - Schneier on Security
The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness - Schneier on Security
The profit motive externalizes the risk of building these complex networks of dependencies.
Imagine a house where the drywall, flooring, fireplace, and light fixtures are all made by companies that need continuous access and whose failures would cause the house to collapse. You’d never set foot in such a structure, yet that’s how software systems are built.
We have built a society based on complex technology that we’re utterly dependent on, with no reliable way to manage that technology.
#schneier#blag#software#capitalism
·schneier.com·
The CrowdStrike Outage and Market-Driven Brittleness - Schneier on Security
Why We Need Fiction
Why We Need Fiction
A lot more of my inspiration is from fiction, and it triggers the asking of questions
#blag#books
·paragraph.xyz·
Why We Need Fiction
The AI summer — Benedict Evans
The AI summer — Benedict Evans
I'm pretty sure it's still a bubble. Really like his framing around technology, not product
an LLM by itself is not a product - it’s a technology that can enable a tool or a feature, and it needs to be unbundled or rebundled into new framings, UX and tools to be become useful
LLMs look like they work, and they look generalised, and they look like a product - the science of them delivers a chatbot and a chatbot looks like a product. You type something in and you get magic back! But the magic might not be useful, in that form, and it might be wrong. It looks like product, but it isn’t.
LLMs look like better databases, and they look like search, but, as we’ve seen since, they’re ‘wrong’ enough, and the ‘wrong’ is hard enough to manage, that you can’t just give the user a raw prompt and a raw output
#benedictevans#artificialintelligence#business
·ben-evans.com·
The AI summer — Benedict Evans
2024 Winners | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
2024 Winners | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Some great terrible ones this year
That sweltering Friday evening she not so much walked but slithered into my shabby strip mall P.I. office, showing off all her curves, and I knew then I was in for a weekend of trouble because Dave’s Reptile Emporium next door, from which the ball python had escaped, was closed until Monday.
#writing#parody#via:kottke
·bulwer-lytton.com·
2024 Winners | The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
Is this the slow decline of the Apple “cult”?
Is this the slow decline of the Apple “cult”?
It is a bit sad as a long time MacAddict
Part of this is that Apple is no longer the underdog, they’re the biggest fish in the sea. It’s simply not as fun to root for the most successful consumer company of all time than to root for the upstart that’s trying to disrupt the big guys.
#blag#apple#via:macstories
·birchtree.me·
Is this the slow decline of the Apple “cult”?
Tech has no answers for you
Tech has no answers for you
Everything I read about Silicon Valley’s support of Trump comes down to this: These are people who believe in spending massive amounts of public money to enrich themselves while they make shitty tunnels under Las Vegas or drop off scooters on city sidewalks or chase self-driving cars, so firmly believing that these are total solutions ready to solve all problems right now, in complete ignorance of any existing systems or mechanism or solutions that exist.
#blag#bigtech
·json.blog·
Tech has no answers for you