jessamyn
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Comment · 2 months ago
I drive a 2009 car with 110K miles on it and a Garmin GPS which has never heard of the internet, I am right there with you.
Comment · 2 months ago
Thanks for suggesting more mainstream alt-browsers. This article isn't about avoiding all AI everywhere so much as it is for people who want to turn the intrusive AI off in the things they are already using. There are even more things that could be in this including Windows registry editing, Linux, and all the great FOSS options but it's mostly not for that. I do have an older iPhone and I agree, it's sort of great to have legacy Siri.
Comment · 2 months ago
Which Linux phone do you prefer?
Comment · 2 months ago
It's creative commons licensed, go nuts! (or send me updates and I'll do it)
Comment · 2 months ago
Thank you, I've added this suggestion for Chrome/Firefox
Comment · 2 months ago
Thank you, I've added these browser suggestions.
Comment · 2 months ago
Hello -- this is mine! There's a short URL: https://NoToAI.org If people have suggestions I'll add them.
Comment · 7 months ago
I can't confirm it, but I think a few of the scenes from Halt and Catch Fire come from Soul of a New Machine.
Comment · 7 months ago
My dad was Tom West from Soul of a New Machine. Tracy Kidder lived at our house on weekends in the late 1970s while he was working on this book. He and my dad remained friends for the rest of his life, going out on boats, drinking a lot, talking about big ideas. Tom and Tracy and (Richard) Todd were the guys, when I was a girl. I wasn't as in touch with Tracy but I'd see him at events sometimes, I had a Tracy Kidder website up before he had his own website. He came to my father's memorial service in 2011, talked about the doors that book had opened up, how his life was changed by being able to tell that story as he's been able to tell so many people's stories since then. "I know the book was good for me," he said, "but I was never quite sure if it was good for Tom."
My favorite little bit of content about SOANM, and Tracy, is attached to this 2013 blog post.
https://tispaquin.blogspot.com/2010/12/1982-interview-with-t...
It's a 1983 report from The Computer Museum (Inside "The Soul of a New Machine" Tracy Kidder and Tom West) which contains the partial transcript of an event that Tracy and Tom did together, that I don't think they did again. When Tracy was asked what he was up to and if he was sick of computers, he said
"I'm digging out from under. I'm writing some articles about atmospheric research. To be honest, I'm a little tired of my book. I put it on my shelf and won't read it again for years. I think I know what's wrong with it. In some sense, writing a book is like building a computer. There are rewards but one of the main ones is that Sisyphean one that if you do one you get to do another. So, I have an opportunity now to write a better one." And he did, he wrote so many books that were, if not better, at least just as good.
Comment · 2 years ago
Getting stronger and better every day Evan; best wishes for the speediest recovery possible.
Comment · 2 years ago
In the United States local drug store Rite Aid got in some serious trouble for using AI facial recognition. Looking at some of the Federal Trade Commission's complaints against them can give you some creepy insight into how the technology supposedly works and how few checks for accuracy or oversight there are in place.
https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2023/12/...
Comment · 2 years ago
We stay on top of keeping MetaFilter's gopher server working.
gopher://gopher.metafilter.com
Comment · 2 years ago
I believe part of the issue is that the other John Does may be people in other countries (according to the lawsuit) which may add to the issues with identifying and/or charging them.
Comment · 2 years ago
Thank you so much for this. I'm pretty Wiki-literate and was having a hard time understanding this from their initial pages.
Comment · 2 years ago
The tool posts the pictures to Wikimedia Commons, logging in there is required for file upload (hello I'm Jessamyn the Community Manager at the Flickr Foundation - please try this tool out and let us know what you think). It was created in partnership with the Wikimedia Foundation.
Project page on Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Flickypedia Feedback collection here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons_talk:Flickypedia
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