This is for my own memory as much as it is for anyone else. These are things I've seen recently (like the past 18 hours) that I thought were worthy of note.
Cloudflare released a new RPC system called Cap'n Web. I understand some of the underlying principles that governed its creation but some folks are pretty fucking excited about it. That said, fuck Javascript.
Apple released a new version of macOS called Tahoe. It has no new features, takes away some that people actually use (LaunchPad), and seems to have enraged a lot of people who do things like critique the alignment of pixels as if that were a perfectly normal thing to become furious about. I installed it on my rapidly aging M1 Max and shrugged my shoulders a bunch. UI just isn't important to me and I despised LaunchPad so I guess congratulations on releasing something entirely for the sake of saying that you've released something new. Logic Pro still functions normally (okay, so it fucking screams especially with 32G of RAM) and that is the predominant reason that I own that particular machine. Meh.
Furi Labs is working on the FLXs which is yet another Linux smart phone. The specs for the model they tested weren't eye popping by any means but the fact they're including physical and discreet kill switches for microphone, camera, and network. I am too weirdly paranoid about my phone's dependability to even consider this but I really, really like the idea of having those kill switches because software is software and you should never trust it. Are you listening OnePlus? K-I-L-L S-W-I-T-C-H-E-S.
TernFS is now free software. It's a Linux filesystem built to deal with exabytes (!!) of immutable files. The link is the general overview of what it does and why. Maybe something good will emerge from all of this speculative investment in AI and machine learning once the bubble pops. You and I are likely never going to need a file system to manage oceans of data that cannot be updated but, you know, just in case. I'm also curious what other folks will hack this into going forward.
Well, fuck. I suppose it was only a matter of time before an owner with tall stacks of grifter money (that's my newest designation for tech bros, by the way) would allow AI software to manage a game. The fans reactions were hilariously spot on:
But the use of AI struck a nerve for Oakland fans, who see companies like OpenAI – which powered Distillery’s baseball AI – as enterprises that prioritize “winning” the AI race over shipping products that have been properly tested for safety. For many fans, the AI experiment felt like a betrayal, similar to the kind of corporate greed that pushed three professional sports franchises out of Oakland in five years.