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British gov't aims to kill off Companies House’s Bobby Tables problem

thestack.technology

Unfortunately, the current Companies House name rules – while covering copy-cats and offensive language – do not cover attempts to poison data inputs.

This is a problem, because dozens of websites, databases and other processors pull in details from Companies House – and not all of them are good at sanitising their data inputs, which can be poisoned simply with a name.

The DOOM Effect

sharewareheroes.com

Free chapter from the eBook Shareware Heroes. Plus the website is amazing.

Could Ice Cream Possibly Be Good For You?

theatlantic.com

Could the idea that ice cream is metabolically protective be true? It would be pretty bonkers. Still, there are at least a few points in its favor. For one, ice cream’s glycemic index, a measure of how rapidly a food boosts blood sugar, is lower than that of brown rice. “There’s this perception that ice cream is unhealthy, but it’s got fat, it’s got protein, it’s got vitamins. It’s better for you than bread,” Mozaffarian said. “Given how horrible the American diet is, it’s very possible that if somebody eats ice cream and eats less starch … it could actually protect against diabetes.”

The Dark Forest and the Cozy Web

maggieappleton.com

Replacing my best friends with an LLM trained on 500,000 group chat messages

izzy.co

Like I said, it [the group chat] is a sacred construct. A lifeline to your best friends, an outlet for the thoughts and questions and breadcrumbs of internet humor that you just can’t send to anyone else. A constant companion, antagonist, distraction, delight.

So of course, I decided to replace mine with AI.

Tape Cassette Inserts

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ASCII art by chatbot

aiweirdness.com

Big Tech's big downgrade

businessinsider.com

In Silicon Valley, the user’s experience has become subordinate to the company’s stock price. Google, Amazon, Meta, and other tech companies have monetized confusion, constantly testing how much they can interfere with and manipulate users. And instead of trying to meaningfully innovate and improve the useful services they provide, these companies have instead chased short-term fads or attempted to totally overhaul their businesses in a desperate attempt to win the favor of Wall Street investors.

3dfx's Unreleased Voodoo5 6000 Quad-GPU Card

youtube.com

This review looks at the unreleased 3dfx Voodoo 5 6000 video card — except it was hand-made by an enthusiast who specializes in retro hardware resurrections. It’s a quad-GPU monster that competed with the likes of NVIDIA back in the day. This piece looks at the history of 3dfx, spanning the late 90s to early 2000s, and tells the story of the company’s rapid, fiery rise and collapse.

Re-Sohko Transform Box

opensohko.com