If you have never heard of Kagi’s Small Web, read my post from the 10th of May.

The current tiny selection of links:

❶ Unattributed.cc: Tech Sucks! Victim in Denial!

❷ Théo: My problem with dates on the web (I strongly disagree.) On the same blog: On techno-solutionism; My phone is a noisy place.

❸ Jo’s Blog (Johanna-Mathilda Langenhan from Erfurt): Style Guide (Rather funny.) From the same blog: Why I don’t use AI; A computer that’s just a keyboard, no screen (Raspberry Pi 400).

❹ A collection of short stories about the unexplained, the unusual and the unexpected from The Independent Web Almanac (currently 23).

❺ A Shitty First Draft: Not AI Written. (Linking to How Claude marks AI-generated content.)

❻ Jeff Johnson: Spicy tale of an App Store fraud. Follow-up: App Store allows developers to spam the submission and review process. Also about Apple: Apple should be ashamed of its hostile App Store rating system; No, you curate the App Store; and Mac App Store: What’s in a name again?

I’m actually glad to learn that Apple’s walled garden is full of scams. I’m sick of all propaganda regarding the pretended “safety” of such restrictive app stores (Google Play Store, I’m looking at you!). macOS App Management protection is still a joke. But, wait! Even Apple’s ergonomics are bad! (Who would have thought of that? Apple’s products are perfect!) macOS Files & Folders System Settings Confusing UI. As for the quality of Apple’s software, have this: The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard revisited. On the same blog, The obligatory AI post, in which he stands by an earlier statement of his: “The public debates whether AI will eventually become as intelligent as humans, or even super-intelligent, when I think the relevant question is whether humans will eventually become as dumb as AI, or even super-dumb, as in Idiocracy. I fear that none of this will end well, except for the computer and LLM vendors.”

❼ Irving Wladawsky-Berger: What I’ve Learned from Collaborating with My AI Editor (that is, ChatGPT).

❽ moth place: The Garfield Game That Never Was (for the Atari 2600). That tard didn’t provide any link, so I had to search for it.

On Fandom: “Garfield was an unfinished video game prototype developed for the Atari 2600, based on the Garfield franchise. The game was never officially released due to the videogame crash of 1983, which resulted in the cancellation of many other games that were being produced by Atari, including a Garfield game for the Atari 5200.” Here’s a description of it. On YouTube: a longplay (10:51) with no commentary; a shorter (4:37) play. The game can be downloaded from Atarimania.

❾ Julia Wise: Rule-following helps you not act like a psychopath.

❿ Neurofrontiers: Do you know who you are? What is identity and what determines its evolution?

⓫ Dana Blankenhorn: Imminent Disaster for AI: Why Predictions Keep It at Bay (“The trouble is that a bubble’s collapse is like the Spanish Inquisition. Its chief element is surprise. If everyone expects it, then it can’t really happen.”) Also: The Oligarchs of Impunity.