Matej Ľach ✅ @MatejLach@social.matej-lach.me

I trained a neural net to invent new horror movie titles, based on a list of 78k movies from IMDB
(illustrations are from #BigGAN)
http://aiweirdness.com/post/179211399427/neural-horror-picture-show

wait for it

“WebKit Feature Focus 2018-2019 – WebKit”

This kind of transparency is unusual from an Apple-involved project and is very much appreciated. https://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitFeatureFocus2018-2019

Cost to an OEM of licensing Tutanota's Android client: €0.

Cost to an OEM of licensing Protonmail's Android cilent: €0.

Cost to an OEM of licensing FastMail's Android client: €0.

Cost to an OEM of licensing Firefox: €0.

Cost to an OEM of licensing F-Droid: €0.

Any questions?

Should we break up big tech? Not if you ask economists who take money from them
https://www.fastcompany.com/90253465/should-we-break-up-the-tech-giants-not-if-you-ask-the-economists-who-take-money-from-them

(submitted by ocdtrekkie)

I accidentally hit a picture in the Google Captcha thing that wasn't of a crosswalk, but it still let me through.

sooooo to anyone who gets hit by a self-driving car while walking in a crosswalk, sorry that's on me.

Two days after repair guy Louis Rossmann helped show how Apple tells their customer to buy a new computer if even as little a pin on a connector is bent, Apple told US customs to impound 1000 USD worth of his spare parts as 'counterfeit'.

Rossmann was not amused.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVL65qwBGnw

normal country

THATS WEIRD https://www.npr.org/2018/10/19/657897279/after-ice-raid-a-shortage-of-welders-in-tigertown-texas

can we take a moment to talk about phrasing

A lot of science fiction is actually invariance fiction. Showing by construction that some aspect of human nature could plausibly remain immutable even under very different conditions.

don't open that email!!! it hasn't been scanned and cleaned yet!
*snifs email all over*
*does email a few licks* :P
there, you can open now :3

..even though the libdems had the power to stop all of that. Without them there would have been no tory government.

Therefor by 2015 the libdem polling numbers skydived and the tories formed a government by themselves, and promptly started a referendum on Brexit.

Currently, there is another coalition government in the UK between the DUP and the tories. The DUP has a lot fewer MPs than the libdems had between 2010-2015 but they get their will through...

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/19/facebook-hires-nick-clegg-as-head-of-global-affairs

Wow.

If you don't know, Clegg was the leader of the UK libdem party and was in a coalition govt with the tories between 2010-2015.

Before the 2010 elections there was a brief Cleggmania, as he seemed to be a good alternative compared to the two other major uk parties.

So when he got into government, the libdems just folded like wet papertowels. On most subjects they just let the tories do whatever they wanted...

Technological progress is defined by an increasing openness of systems whether it be knowledge, tools or services. Anything that does not increase openness is not technological progress, it is technological confinement.

@MatejLach
This is excellent news.

When Nick Clegg was in charge of the LibDems he oversaw the worst ever election result (GE 2015) when the party was reduced to 8 MPs.

Here's hoping he can achieve something similar at #Facebook.

This is one of nastiest thing I ever saw

It involves an hard disk drive and a Macintosh

https://twitter.com/gewt/status/1053138959998509057?s=21

I think my least favourite thing is that things can fail in creative ways in PHP. Like if you mistype a function name or a namespace, then it's not really a critical error and might accidentally work. 🤦‍♂️