🔗 AI ‘Friend’ Company Spent $1.8 Million and Most of Its Funds on Domain Name

“It’s real! Premium domains are expensive, but it’s worth it,” Schiffman told me in an email after I reached out to ask if it was true. […] “People just don’t get consumer, I view this as saving money. Much less money needs to be spent on marketing, it’s a one time thing,” Schiffmann said.

Is the marketing in the domain name, or in the word of mouth about how much they spent on the domain name? Well, I guess they got me to talk about it. 😀

🔗 Never Tweet Your Heroes

I wonder if M.G. Siegler had anyone in mind when he wrote this.

🔗 Major Windows BSOD issue hits banks, airlines, and TV broadcasters

Oof! I feel bad for all those Window sys-admins who’s weekend has just been ruined.

🔗 Marquee Element Tester

Test your browsers compatability of the Marquee element. No spoilers about whether it worked in mine. 😀

Via Scripting Notes.

🔗 On the origins of DS_store

An interesting tale on how .DS_Store — a regular in Git ignore files everywhere — got its name.

Via @Burk within the Hemispheric Views Discord.

🔗 txt.fyi

Thank you to the anonymous person who runs this. Something happened which left me ropeable, and I needed a place to scream into the void. I did it there. It’s now lost to the either, along with (most) of my anger. Hopefully time will fix what’s left.

🔗 Adding Github-Style Markdown Alerts to Eleventy

GitHub has alerts (aka callouts) Markdown support where the syntax looks like [Obsidian’s.]

So apparently, if we were using Github instead of Gitlab, I could’ve had it all. 😏

🔗 How the “Nutbush” became Australia’s unofficial national dance

It’s amusing to grow up thinking everyone did this up until a few years ago, when someone from overseas told me they never learnt this dance. Anyway, this is totally a thing. Last wedding I attended, we absolutely did the Nutbush. 😄

🔗 Finish your projects

If there’s ever an article I should print out and staple to my forehead, it’s this one.

🔗 Slack users horrified to discover messages used for AI training

I’d like to avoid jumping on the “I have everything AI” bandwagon, but I agree that Slacks use of private message data to train their LLM is a pretty significant breach of trust. A lot of sensative data runs through their system, and although they may be hosting it, it’s not theirs to do as they please. Maybe they think it’s within their right, what with their EULAs and everything, but if I were a paying customer — of enterprise software, if you remember — I’d make bloody sure that data is the customer and the customer’s own.

It’ll be interesting to see how this will affect me personally. We use Slack at work and I know management is very sensative about IP (and given the domain, I can understand). Maybe I’ll finally get to try Teams out.