Daily Shaarli

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December 25, 2023

Substack says it will not remove or demonetize Nazi content - The Verge
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Another platform failing at proper moderation...

More than calculators: Why large language models threaten learning, teaching, and education | by Amy J. Ko | Bits and Behavior | Dec, 2023 | Medium

When underfunded schools systems preaching obedience and conformity meet something like large language models, this tips over the balance enough that no proper learning can really happen anymore. Time to reform our school systems?

Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon | Scientific Reports

Despite understandable limitations, this studies has a few interesting findings on how communities can more easily switch platforms (in this case from Twitter to Mastodon). At least one is a bit counter-intuitive.

You don't need analytics on your blog

Definitely true... never had use for more than the server logs for understanding the traffic on my blog. No need to invade the privacy of people through their browser.

Using Qt for Mobile in 2023 | Cameron Gaertner | Software Developer

The experience is still not great on iOS and Android. This is in part due to the platforms design though, this still make Qt a great fit when you control the platform like for Plasma Mobile. For less friendly platforms this still limits the use to cases where you already have quite some Qt code. Still the same situation than a few years ago.