Interesting Links for the Week of Monday, September 23, 2024

AI

Udemy uses opt-out windows, the first of which lasted three weeks and just ended, that its creators must use to prevent their videos from being used to train AI (Jason Koebler/404 Media) - Jason Koebler / 404 Media: Udemy uses opt-out… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

People are “blatantly stealing my work,” AI artist complains - Controversial competition winner still hopes to… (Creative Bloq - joe.foley@futurenet.com (Joe Foley))

OpenAI released its advanced voice mode to more people. Here’s how to get it. - OpenAI is broadening access to Advanced Voice… (MIT Technology Review - James O’Donnell)

art

So you want to make pixel art for an Apple II - Comments (deater.net - Hacker News)

design

Apple’s Smart Home Display: Redefining Design, AI, and Everyday Convenience Powered by homeOS - Apple’s Smart Home Display: Redefining Design,… (Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News - Vincent Nguyen)

Remember the flying pyramid? The crazy yacht just may come to fruition - Jonathan Schwinge very well might be one of the… (New Atlas - Joe Salas)

development

4 Tips for Software Testing with Playwright - My software development team is currently using… (Marginal REVOLUTION - Danielle Wisen)

Why is F# code so robust and reliable? - Comments (The NuGet Blog - Hacker News)

How Sonos Botched an App and Infuriated Its Customers - Ignoring “tech debt,” disregarding employee… (Bloomberg.com - Dave Lee)

AWS claims its cloud faces competition from on-premises IT - Comments (theregister.com - Hacker News)

fun

Duolingo, best known as a language learning app, now makes a piano - Duolingo just announced a portable piano. Yes, we… ( - Lawrence Bonk)

general

My Recommendations for a Test Automation Strategy - I’ve been helping a JasperFx Software client with… (The Shade Tree Developer - The Shade Tree Developer)

This guy found the secret to dominating any field - This guy found the secret to dominating any… (X (formerly Twitter) - Hosun)

REPL for Dart: supporting 3rd party packages, hot reload, and full grammar - Comments (GitHub - Hacker News)

Steve Jobs Swore the 10-Minute Rule Made Him Smarter. He Was Right - Comments (Inc.com - Hacker News)

ASUS Zenbook S 14 Ceraluminum Laptop Review: Elegance You Can Feel, Power You Can Touch - ASUS Zenbook S 14 Ceraluminum Laptop Review:… (Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News - Satsuki Then)

How 12,000 Tonnes of Dumped Orange Peel Grew in a Desert - Comments (ScienceAlert - Hacker News)

California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the Phone-Free Schools Act, which will require schools to restrict cellphone use during school hours by July 1, 2026 (New York Times) - New York Times: California Governor Gavin… (Techmeme - Techmeme)

inspiration

Beauty and Hot Dogs - Every Thursday afternoon throughout June, July,… (The Reformed Journal Blog - Trey Tirpak)

TWBW: Where do you see yourself in 5 million years? Seriously… - We’re in a series exploring 5 biblical truths… (jordanraynor.com - Jordan Raynor)

jobs

Culture is Purpose Not Place - The big news in remote working this month was the… (Gapingvoid - Cierra Martin)

leadership

Leading When You Aren’t the Leader - As a leader, it can be hard to take a step back… (Marginal REVOLUTION - Jacob Williams)

security

NIST to forbid requirement of specific passwords character composition - Comments (Mastodon - Hacker News)

Software developers targeted by malware hidden in Python packages - Comments (TechRadar - Hacker News)

tech

The 10 Best Tech Gadgets Of August 2024 - The 10 Best Tech Gadgets Of August 2024August… (Yanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News - Srishti Mitra)

Apple’s rumored smart display may arrive in 2025 running new homeOS - Apple is planning to debut a new operating system… (Engadget - Cheyenne MacDonald)

thinking

Spaced repetition is more than memorization – it’s also generalization - Comments (Justin Skycak - Hacker News)

Role of Deliberate Practice in the Development of Creativity - Comments ( - Hacker News)

How the brain processes the number zero - How the brain processes the number zero: - (from… (missouri.edu - Universität Bonn)

Another Reason Why You Should Sleep on It Before Making an Important Decision - Comments (Duke Today - Hacker News)

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