Peter Gfader

Google to pay $68 million over allegations its voice assistant eavesdropped on users Class-action lawsuit alleged that Google's voice assistant illegally recorded and shared private conversations with advertisers.

Don't Be Evil.

www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Yes. Totally. Social media posts included

Sturgeon's law - Wikipedia

Opinion: Sturgeon's law needs an adaptation in the age of AI.

"ninety percent of everything is crap"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeo...

The words, the pixels, the sound waves aren't the art. The art is in the experience of the artist and the audience, together.

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We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise.

/fin

Why did I not know this Tool before today?

phishyurl.com

Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Artificial Intelligence has too much hype. In this podcast, linguist Emily M. Bender and sociologist Alex Hanna break down the AI hype, separate fact from fiction, and science from bloviation. They're...

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 fans! We're moving our livestream to Friday. In the meantime, @emilymbender.bsky.social and I are soooo close to a major download milestone! Share and subscribe to the pod and your AI skeptical friends.

www.buzzsprout.com/2126417

When Bugs Become an Organizational Smell + Problem - Example nr 1 What is a bug? What is a high-priority bug? What’s a low-priority bug? "Is this really a bug—or just a feature?" Or perhaps a misunderstanding?"Ah... the requirements were wrong!" This and similar con...

When Bugs Become an Organizational Smell

Example nr 1

beyond-agility.com/when-bugs-be...

#orgSmell

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Was gerade in Frankreich passiert, ist unbeschreiblich

Am 11.8.25 hat sich die Klimatologie dramatisch verändert

81 Rekorde gebrochen, davon 51 absolute Rekorde, mit Temperaturen von fast 43°C

Besonders krass: Diese Hitzewelle wird voraussichtlich noch mindestens eine Woche andauern. #Klimakrise

Switzerland is fake.

Donald „grab them by the pussy“
Trump ist nicht katholisch, zum 3. Mal verheiratet, wg. Betrugs 34fach vorbestraft und wg. sexuellen Missbrauchs zivilrechtlich verurteilt.
Der Vatikan hat kein Parlament und der Papst ist absolut regierender Monarch auf Lebenszeit.
Offenbar Trumps Traum.

Peace deals: 0

Trade deals: 0

Interesting moment. VSCode Roo Code in architect mode wants to switch to code :)
Human architect tend to avoid that ;)

YouTube video by It Will Never Work in Theory Prem Devanbu: Leveraging the bimodality of software.

Not a good statement about LLM generated code: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ43...

It's great to have again such a nice bunch of people and lots of discussions. #SoftwareCraftersZurich

Vibe code them and then iterate on those that make you happy

Vladimir Khorikov describes these pillars of a good test in his book “Unit Testing Principles, Practices and Patterns”:

- Protection against regressions
- Resistance to refactoring
- Fast feedback
- Maintainability

Quite similar to your list. Unless the 1st point.

#SCZ #software #crafters

Full House @ SCZ meetup with @ursenzler.bsky.social @patbaumgartner.com

YouTube video by VICE News 24 Things Nobody Does Better Than Trump (According To Trump)

youtu.be/YA631bMT9g8?...

Vibe coding :)

Looking forward to your book!!!

Highlight for me as a trainer, from the highlights of my students.

#SoftwareEngineering #Agile #Scrum

Feedback Frustrations with Microsoft Teams 😩 In this video, I share my experience with the Microsoft Teams feedback form, which has been quite frustrating. I find it hard to type my feedback because the text field loses focus, making it nearly i...

MS Teams -> Even the feedback form to complain about a bad product is bad.

www.loom.com/share/cd1df8...

Home Welcome to the Home of Scrum!™

Looking forward to Monday:
Attending the online course "Applying Professional Scrum for Software Development" by scrum.org instructed by @peitor.bsky.social
Hope I will learn a lot for the future of my professional career.

I've just spent 1hour of coding and 2hours of infrastructure struggles with Azure Functions + Azure Devops (git) Integration.

Where was AI helpful?
Take a guess

Amazon Prime streamer screen showing description for Dog Day Afternoon “a man takes mistakes at a bank in Brooklyn. Unfortunately I do not have enough information to summarize further within the provided guidelines.”

Oh damn Prime actually published their failed chatgpt prompt in the description

YouTube video by Simon Sinek You Are More Like Grammy-Winner Jacob Collier Than You Think | A Bit of Optimism Podcast

"everybody has the moments of inspiration what everybody IS NOT DOING is capturing them"

youtu.be/22XTudPdOP8?...

#noteTaking #superPower